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Abstract
The University Senate is the successor to the College Park Senate, which was active from Fall 1993 to March 2000; the name change to University Senate took effect on March 6, 2000. Similar in function to its predecessor, the University Senate is comprised of elected representatives of the administration, faculty, staff, and students. This governing body serves to address the needs and concerns of the University of Maryland, College Park, campus community. The University Senate (2000 -...
Dates:
2000 - Present
Abstract
University Theater is the University of Maryland's student performance group, established in the 1950s as a sucessor to the Footlight Club. The collection documents the group's shows, plays, and musicals through event files, publicity materials, programs, invitations, brochures, posters, newspaper clippings, and scripts. Three scrapbooks from the Footlight Club era (1935-1950) and two scrapbooks for University Theater (1954-1959) are also included. One item of note is a 1920 photograph of...
Dates:
1920-1997; Majority of material found within 1935-1980
Abstract
Urban Information Interpreters, Inc. was a College Park, Maryland-based non-profit that sought to make public records and other information more accessible to people living in urban poverty. Mary Lee Bundy, one of the officers of the organization, was also a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, College of Information Services. This collection consists primarily of legal and financial documents relating to the company's formation and tax status, as well as minutes of...
Dates:
1971-1981; Majority of material found within 1971-1981
Abstract
The U.S. Latina/o Studies (USLT) Program at the University of Maryland is a multi-disciplinary program in the Department of American Studies that provides students with the opportunity to critically study and engage with the histories, communities and experiences of Latina/os.
Dates:
2008-2009, and undated
Abstract
Robert Vambery (1907-1998) was born in Hungary and educated in Germany. He was the artistic director for the Theater an Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin and in this capacity was involved in the first production of Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera. While in Berlin, Vambery met his future wife, Clara Erdelyi (1909-1993), whom he would marry in 1948. Vambery left Germany in 1933 and came to the United States in 1938, where he taught in the Drama Department at Columbia...
Dates:
1929-1998; Majority of material found within 1930-1980
Abstract
Murray Vandiver (1845-1916) represented Harford County in the Maryland House of Delegates during four non-consecutive terms (1876-1877, 1878-1879, 1880-1881, and 1892-1893). In 1885-1886, he was elected Mayor of Havre de Grace. In 1893 he was appointed by President Grover Cleveland as the federal government’s Collector of Internal Revenue for Maryland, the District of Columbia, Delaware, and Virginia's Eastern Shore. Vandiver was a longtime leader in the Democratic Party, serving as chair of...
Dates:
1873-1916; Majority of material found within 1893-1915
Abstract
Vanett Lawler (1902-1972) was an administrator in the field of music education both in the United States and abroad. Her work for the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) (later the National Association for Music Education (NAfME)), Pan American Union, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and International Society for Music Education helped create new legislation favorable to the arts, encourage and publish research pertaining to music education, and promote...
Dates:
1927-1975 and undated; Majority of material found within 1944-1968
Abstract
Vanett Lawler (1902-1972) was an administrator in the field of music education both in the United States and abroad. Her work for the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) (later known as the National Association for Music Education (NAfME)), Pan American Union, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and International Society for Music Education helped create new legislation favorable to the arts, encourage and publish research pertaining to music education,...
Dates:
1885-1988; Majority of material found within 1945-1968
Abstract
Organized in 1884, the Vansville Farmers Club sponsored the first farmers' institutes in Maryland. Consisting largely of minutes of meetings, the collection includes information about farm inspections, animal and crop diseases, and the promotion of agricultural improvements.
Dates:
1898-1994
Abstract
An 1891 graduate of the Maryland Agricultural College, Fletcher Pearre Veitch (1868-1943) was a chemist and soil physicist for the college, the Agricultural Experiment Station, and the United States Department of Agriculture. The collection, consisting of correspondence, publications, proxy records, and speeches, documents Veitch's active involvement in the alumni affairs of the Maryland Agricultural College and the University of Maryland.
Dates:
1890-1938; Majority of material found within 1914-1920
