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Mary Ellen Agnes Kelly (1926-2005) was a researcher, talent coordinator, and associate producer with the pioneering early morning television program Today on NBC between 1952 and 1958. She was also a special assignments reporter, crisscrossing the United States many times and covering stories from Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. This collection documents Kelly's professional and social activities and includes and accumulated photographs, print ephemera,...
Dates:
1946-1959
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The Kenneth F. Hoke-Witherspoon collection contains correspondence, articles, and scripts by and relating to the American playwright Kenneth F. Hoke-Witherspoon. Transferred to the University of Maryland from Johns Hopkins University, the materials in this collection cover the period 1988 to 1992. The collection has been separated into two series: Papers (including written correspondence and newspaper clippings) and scripts (published and unpublished).
Dates:
1988-1992; Majority of material found within 1988-1991
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A conductor and trumpet player, Kenneth G. Bloomquist (born 1931) was involved with numerous bands throughout his career. The bulk of his career was spent with the Michigan State University Band and Music program, of which he served as Director of Bands from 1978 until his retirement in 1993. During this time he also served as Director of the School of Music from 1978 to 1988. Bloomquist also served as an educator and clinician, working with many school music programs, summer camps, and...
Dates:
1949-2017; Majority of material found within 1970-1993
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Dr. Kenneth John Garry Jr. (1942-2015) had a long and distinguished career in public broadcasting. Dr. Garry taught numerous radio and television courses and filled a variety of positions including station manager, director of development and ascertainment for WSIU and WUSI FM/TV (both owned by Southern Illinois University). In 1996, he was appointed president and general manager of WCTE-TV in Cookeville, Tennessee. Garry retired in 2006. The collection documents the growth and early history...
Dates:
1970-1988 and undated; Majority of material found within 1973-1978
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A conductor and cornetist, Kenneth Slater (1917-2005) was involved with numerous bands throughout his career. He performed with the "The President's Own" United States Marine Band and the United States Army Field Band, where he was the cornet soloist for nearly a decade. Later he became the director of the Almas Temple Band (Washington, DC) and Hagerstown Municipal Band (Maryland). In addition, Slater was also a charter member of the Shrine Bandmasters, a Past President of the Pennsylvania...
Dates:
1859-2006; Majority of material found within 1940-1980
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Correspondence between Thomas Kensett to his Baltimore fiancee, Gertrude W. Brown, during their courtship. Topics include day-to-day life, ill health, dental work, a poem about the joys of smoking, and skin problems. Also included are documents pertaining to the couple's daughter, Gertrude Kensett Vanderhoef, including her 1906 will. A sister collection may be found at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore (MS 2854).
Dates:
1856-1908; Majority of material found within 1873-1879
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"Mona Kent'' was the pen name of Ramona Huesselmann (1909-1990), a prolific radio and TV script writer noted for having written every episode of the radio soap opera Portia Faces Life, from 1940 to 1951. Kent also created several other radio soap operas, contributed scripts to TV's early science fiction series Captain Video & His Video Rangers, and wrote innumerable stories, adaptations, and treatments for both radio and...
Dates:
1940-1988 and undated; Majority of material found within 1945-1954
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Frank J. Kerr (1918-2000) was a University of Maryland Professor Emeritus in the Department of Astronomy. He was among the first radio astronomers in the years following World War II and the first ot systematically study the echo of radio waves bounced off of the moon. He came to the University of Maryland as a researcher in 1966, and stayed on to become the Director of the Astronomy Program in the mid-1970s and was Provost of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Engineering Division...
Dates:
1945-2000
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Poet Walter Howard Kerr (1914-1994) was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He relocated to Washington, D.C., in 1931 to work for the Government Printing Office as a printer, a position which he held for over 35 years. Kerr's poetry has been widely anthologized and has been featured in publications such as Southern Poetry Review and Red Clay Reader. Kerr also served as an editor for several publications, including as co-editor of...
Dates:
circa 1925-1996; Majority of material found within 1990-1991
Abstract
This collection relates primarily to the affairs of the Kerr family of Catonsville, Maryland. Subjects include local society, politics, and business and church affairs in Baltimore.
Dates:
1915-1927
