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This collection documents the professional activities of preservationist and writer Margot Gayle from 1948 until her death in 2008. Gayle worked to preserve historic cast-iron structures, principally in New York City. She is best known for her leading role in establishing New York's SoHo Cast-Iron Historic District. Gayle founded and was active in numerous professional organizations, most notably the Friends of Cast Iron Architecture and the Victorian Society in America. Her publications...
Dates:
1948-2007; Majority of material found within 1970-1990
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Gays and Lesbians in Public Radio (GLIPR) was an organization formed in the mid-1980s in order to ensure adequate and appropriate representations of lesbians and gay men—their history, culture and concerns—in public radio programs, newsrooms and in the public radio professional community. Co-founded by Carol Pierson, Wesley Horner, Jeff Rogers, Linda Pompa, Sean Collins and others, GLIPR was incorporated in 1991, and created panel discussions and staged events at annual Public Radio...
Dates:
1989-1994
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Geary Henderson Larrick is an author, educator, composer, and performer of music. He holds degrees from Ohio State University, The Eastman School of Music, and the University of Colorado. Specializing in percussion, he is known as a prolific writer on the subject and has published many articles in an extensive array of publications.
Dates:
1956-2024, undated; Majority of material found within 1983-2020
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Esther P. Gelman was a member of the Montgomery County Council from 1974 to 1987, and its first female president. Gelman's papers reflect her political career and the issues with which she was particularly concerned, such as women's issues, human services, and the establishment of a Comprehensive Community Crisis Center in Montgomery County.
Dates:
1973-1986; Majority of material found within 1983-1986
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This record group consists of the minutes of the General Administrative Board, a group of University of Maryland faculty and administrators who worked with the University Senate in an administrative and/or advisory capacity. Topics discussed in the meetings of the Board include admission and registration policies and academic regulations.
Dates:
1936-1954
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These records consists of the minutes of the General Council, a group of top-level University of Maryland faculty and administrators who worked with the University Senate in an administrative and/or advisory capacity. Generally focused on routine campus operations, the minutes in this collection reveal the council's concern with student absences and delinquency in turning in work and the need to formulate relevant and consistent policies.
Dates:
1924
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George B. Bryan (1939-1996) was a professor of theatre at the University of Vermont. This collection came to the University of Maryland via a friend of Dr. Bryan's, Dr. Patti Gillespie of the UMD Theatre department. Dr. Bryan was also a former professional actor and the author of many journal articles and books dealing primarily with theatre history. The collection consists of correspondence, research materials, newspaper and magazine clippings, copies of publications, photographs, and an...
Dates:
1918-1995; Majority of material found within 1962-1970
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George C. Wilson (b. 1908 - d. 2001) was a music educator, band director, Director and Vice-President of the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan. In 1948, he was elected a member of American Bandmasters Association (ABA), where he served on the board of Directors (1963, 1966), as vice-president (1964), and president (1965), and in 1998 was elected as an honorary life member. The George C. Wilson papers include materials relating to Wilson’s tenure as the director at Interlochen,...
Dates:
1936-1982; Majority of material found within 1936-1982
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George E. Probst (1917-1986), a historian, broadcaster, and educator, taught history and social science at the University of Chicago and produced and directed the University of Chicago Round Table, a popular radio discussion series from 1944 to 1954. Probst also taught history at New York University.In 1950 Probst organized and was chairman of a committee that presented the case for assigning television channels for education to the Federal Communications...
Dates:
1970, 2007; Majority of material found within 1970
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George E. Geesey (1933- ) became the first manager of WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C. in 1961. He was the primary host of the Educational Radio Network's coverage of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. He became the Director of Operations (and Engineering) at National Public Radio in 1970. He was assigned to the Satellite Interconnection System Project Office (SISPO) as Radio Coordinator in 1976.This collection documents Geesey's career at National Public Radio,...
Dates:
1965-1980 and undated; Majority of material found within 1977-1981
