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Abstract
Pegeen Fitzgerald (c. 1911-1989) and her husband Edward, hosted a live "husband-and-wife at home" radio show from their New York apartment for over 40 years. The Fitzgeralds’ unscripted conversation covered a variety of topics: book reviews, what came in that day's mail, current events, and the activities of friends. Sometimes the couple even bickered on the air. The show, which first aired in 1937, ended with the death of Edward in 1982. Fitzgerald continued on WOR for another year before...
Dates:
1938-1988 and undated; Majority of material found within 1960-1984
Abstract
Australian-born Cyril Scott Fletcher (1904-1991) was a noncommercial, educational television pioneer. He came to educational and instructional broadcasting via Encyclopedia Britannica Films, where he oversaw the creation of films and filmstrips for the classroom. In 1951, Fletcher became president of the Fund for Adult Education, a part of the Ford Foundation. For the next ten years, Fletcher helped establish the first thirty noncommercial television stations in the United States....
Dates:
1926-1991 and undated; Majority of material found within 1944-1971
Abstract
Roland Flint (1934-2001), poet and professor, was born on a small potato farm in Park River, North Dakota. Flint learned about hardship at an early age when his family lost its farm during the Great Depression. After a failed first attempt at college, Flint enrolled in the Marines and served in post-war Korea. It was during his military service that he decided to give college a second chance, and, when he returned to the United States, he enrolled at the University of North Dakota where he...
Dates:
1930-2003; Majority of material found within 1960-1999
Collection
0222-SCPA-FRINGE
Abstract
The "Follow the Fringe Project" collection documents the course twice offered by UMD’s iSchool during the summers of 2013 and 2014. Conceived and taught by Professor Mary Edsall Choquette (b. 1955-d. 2015), the INST 729F course, as she described it, "introduces students to the fundamentals of documentation and preservation of, and access to performance activity information. It specifically focuses on documentation and preservation of movement phenomena performed at the Edinburgh Festival...
Dates:
2013-2014; Majority of material found within 2013-2014
Abstract
The Footlight Club at the University of Maryland was formally established in 1927 to attract students interested in drama and theater. The club represents a reorganization of the Mask and Bauble Club, organized in the spring of 1926. Footlight put on multiple shows each school year, presenting a mix of comedy and drama. In the 1940s, the club renamed itself University Theatre. This collection consists of one photograph of the group during their winter 1935-1936 comedic production of Paul...
Dates:
1935-1936
Content Description
This collection consists of Betacam-format video tapes of local news reports by reporter Sam Ford from WJLA-TV between 1990 and 2005, primarily in the 1990s. WJLA-TV is a local Washington, DC-based television news broadcasting station affiliated with ABC.
Dates:
circa 1989-2005
Abstract
Jennie M. Forehand was a member of the Maryland Senate from 1995-2007, a Democrat representing Montgomery County's seventeenth district. Prior to that, she was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1978-1994. She is a founding member of the National State Legislative Advisory Board on Women and Bioethics. Her papers include documentation pertaining to bills that she supported in areas such as genetics and bio technology, education, health care, transportation, and women's...
Dates:
1972-2008; Majority of material found within 1990-2008
Abstract
The D. McLean Forman papers contain diaries, correspondence, financial reports, maps, and photographs dating from 1868-1872.
Dates:
1868-1872
Abstract
Henry Chandlee Forman was an architect, educator and practitioner in the field of Historic Preservation. Over the course of his career he worked as an archaeologist for the National Park Service and as an art professor at both Wesleyan College and Agnes Scott College in Georgia. After his retirement he spent the remainder of his life researching and writing about historic structures in the Tidewater region of Maryland and Virginia. His papers, which cover the period 1919 to 1989, consist of...
Dates:
1919-1989; Majority of material found within 1935-1979
Abstract
Jerome Forrest was an economist, trade negotiator and an Army intelligence officer in the Far East during World War II. He attended the University of Maryland as a graduate student for a brief period in spring 1951. The Jerome Forrest papers, which cover the period from 1945 to 1995, include correspondence between Forrest and former University of Maryland history professor Dr. Gordon W. Prange as well as accounts of interrogations of former members of the Japanese army concerning the Battle...
Dates:
1945-1995; Majority of material found within 1948-1952
