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0436-SCPA-STARCHER
Abstract
E. Thomas Starcher was best known for his teachings in the University of Maryland's Speech department from 1949 through 1984, as well as for being the originator and director of UMD's Drama Wing from 1954 to 1984. The E. Thomas Starcher collection on the UMD Drama Wing consists of one bound book including newspaper and magazine photograph clippings of theater performances, speech department students, drama students, and some photos of Starcher. Most of the photographs are credited to...
Dates:
1954-1981
Abstract
Earle H. "Bud" Gillis, Jr. (1919-2003) began his broadcasting career in the early 1940s as a radio announcer at WDAN, Danville, Illinois, and at WGBF, Evansville, Indiana. After military service, he worked as a staff announcer for WHKC in Columbus, Ohio, from 1946 to 1943. He then moved to television as a program manager at WLWC (later WCMH) in Columbus from 1953 to 1962.Then, from August 1962 to March 1970, Gillis was the executive secretary for the Ohio Educational Television...
Dates:
1961-1967; Majority of material found within 1961-1967
Abstract
Dr. Earl A. Slocum was born near Concord, Michigan and became the first male student to graduate from Albion College with a public school music certificate. After receiving his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan, Slocum took a position as director of bands at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra. He remained at the University until his retirement in 1967. Dr. Slocum was elected to the American Bandmasters...
Dates:
1875-1990; Majority of material found within circa 1919-1990
Abstract
Earl Wild (1915-2010) was one of the great virtuoso pianists of the 20th Century, in addition to being a composer of original compositions and a prolific transcriber of works by other composers which he arranged for solo piano. He was best-known for his all-Chopin and all-Liszt concerts and his piano transcriptions of Rachmaninoff and Gershwin pieces. Wild also was active as a teacher and adjudicator. The collection consists of correspondence, programs, reviews, articles, flyers, recordings,...
Dates:
1924-2010; Majority of material found within 1972-1995
Abstract
The Early Printed and Manuscript Leaf collection consists of printed and illuminated manuscript leaves from Europe dated from the 12th -16th centuries. The collection includes 70 whole and partial leaves, representing a variety of styles and techniques that serve as a sampling of early print and manuscript book history.
Dates:
Mid-12th century - early 16th century
Abstract
Albert James Ebel (1913-1998), a Nebraska broadcasting pioneer, was vice president and general manager of KOLN/KGIN-TV from 1954 to 1985 and significantly broadened the station's reach. Previously, Ebel worked as the chief engineer for station WILL at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana from 1937 to 1946. There, he designed the station's first FM transmitter. Ebel taught as an assistant professor of Engineering and did work for a variety of stations – WMBD (Peoria), WDZ...
Dates:
1941-1991; Majority of material found within 1991
Abstract
The bulk of the Edmondson-Jacobs Family papers consists of correspondence between Emma Edmondson Jacobs and her brother, William V. E. Jacobs, her mother, and her sisters. Emma Edmondson Jacobs lived in various locations throughout Maryland, including New Market, Easton, and Church Creek. Also included is a diary belonging to Emma Edmondson Jacob's mother, Emma V. E. Jacobs, dated 1854, and describing her life and how her beau asked her father for her hand in marriage. Other items in the...
Dates:
1836-1954
Abstract
Edmund Cykler (1903-1988) was a musicologist and music educator who helped found the International Society for Music Education (ISME). The Cykler Collection of International Music Education Resources consists of 299 books, periodicals, and scores from many countries and in 15 different languages.
Dates:
1921-1987; Majority of material found within 1960-1978
Abstract
Edmund Ferdinand Ball (1905-2000) was a noted philanthropist. His membership in the National Council of the Humanities led to serving as a member of the Eastern Indiana Educational Television Board. From 1970 to 1973, he served as a public member of the Executive Board of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB). In 1973, Ball was designated lay representative to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) for WIPB-TV, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.That...
Dates:
1969-1983; Majority of material found within 1970-1979
Abstract
The College of Education traces its origins to the Division of Vocational Education, established in 1918. This unit officially became the College of Education in 1921. The records of the college are organized into a single series: Deans' Office Files. The correspondence, minutes, statistics, and curriculum materials in the collection document the expansion of the college's size and scope, and its change in focus from education for agriculture and home economics to the theory and art of...
Dates:
1940-2020
