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Abstract
The Office of the President was established in 1859 with the appointment, by the Board of Trustees, of Benjamin Hallowell as the first president of the Maryland Agricultural College. The records document the tenure of eleven presidents of the Maryland Agricultural College, Maryland State College of Agriculture, and the University of Maryland system. They are comprised of correspondence; publications; reports; minutes; invitations; legislation; legal and financial records; photographs;...
Dates:
1868-1988; Majority of material found within 1910-1988
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This collection documents the administrative activities of the President's Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues between 1997 and 2011. The Commission was formed by President Kirwan in 1997 as the President's Commission for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues. In 2000 the Commission was renamed the President's Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues. The Commission is currently active and responsible for advising the president on policies and...
Dates:
1996-2003, 2011; Majority of material found within 1996-2003
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The President's Commission on Women's Issues is a successor to the Chancellor's Commission on Women's Affairs. The commission's records contain minutes, committee files, reports, publications, budgetary materials, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Issues addressed in the files include athletics, violence, minority relations, and the treatment of women faculty and undergraduates.
Dates:
1973-1999; Majority of material found within 1988-1990
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The Office of Legal Affairs, also known as the President's Legal Office, was established in 1972 as part of the Office of the President and provides "assistance in all fields of law encountered in the academic and business life of the University." Most files are restricted to the staff of that office. Preliminary inventories are available upon request.
Dates:
1969-2006; Majority of material found within 1985-1998
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Presley D. Holmes Jr. (1929-2016) was director of broadcasting at WOUB radio (Athens, OH) from 1962 to 1970. He also served the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, later joining the NAEB staff in Washington, D.C. as director of the educational television stations division. Homes was among those who advised the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on the Public Broadcasting Service structure and formation. He also worked for PBS as director of planning and research in 1973 and...
Dates:
1947-1984 and undated; Majority of material found within 1958-1977
Abstract
The Prestons were an upper-middle-class family in nineteenth-century Baltimore and Baltimore County, Maryland. William P. Preston, a lawyer who dabbled in state and local politics, his wife Margaret "Madge" Smith Preston, and their daughter May Preston McNeal recorded, through their correspondence, diaries, and other documents. The family lived on Pleasant Plains farm in Baltimore, and records show that they enslaved people on both the farm and the family residence. The papers include...
Dates:
1799-1916; Majority of material found within 1828-1894
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E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr. (1925-2016) was Katherine Anne Porter's lawyer and close friend from the mid-1960s until her death in 1980. He had a private practice in Washington, D.C. starting in 1955, and was a partner with the prominent firm of Hogan and Hartson since 1964. He is the author of Death and the Supreme Court. His papers include personal letters and business correspondence relating to Porter.
Dates:
1962-2010; Majority of material found within 1967-1980
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The Pride Alliance is an undergraduate student organization, formerly known as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Alliance. The alliance works to advocate for and support people of all non-normative sexualities and genders at the university, as well as to educate the community. The records mainly include meeting agendas and correspondence relating to event planning for the organization. Also included is budget information, campus resources and diversity-related articles....
Dates:
1997-2004; Majority of material found within 2000-2002
Abstract
Pride at Work, founded in 1994, is a non-profit organization that represents and advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) labor union members across the United States. Pride at Work is a constituency group of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), being officially recognized in 1997. The organization's records include correspondence on LGBTQ advocacy issues, subject files on gay rights issues in the workplace, files on...
Dates:
1994-2015
Abstract
Primannum is a University of Maryland honor society representing two first-year national societies, Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Eta Sigma. This collection contains thirteen scrapbooks, covering school years from 1997 through 2011, which contain photographs, programs, brochures, agendas for meetings, information on officers, budget reports, membership rolls, articles, and documentation of the society's business and social activities. Each scrapbook is bindered, with the majority of the...
Dates:
1997-2010
