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A conductor and violinist, Minas Christian (1921-1989) served as the conductor and music director of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra in Evansville, Indiana from 1953 to 1979. During his tenure he helped create many of the orchestra’s programs and organizations, including county and Tri-State youth concerts, the Evansville Chorus, pop concerts, the Philharmonic Guild, and the orchestra’s first subscription series. In addition, he made guest appearances both as a conductor and as a...
Dates:
1947-1978; Majority of material found within 1953-1978
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Jack Minker was a professor at the University of Maryland in the Computer Science Department. Minker became a professor at the university in 1971, the first chairman of the department in 1974, and a professor emeritus in 1998. His collection is comprised of professional research, publications, grant proposals, and information on the Computer Science Department at Maryland. Subjects covered in his research and publications include artificial intelligence, deductive databases, logic...
Dates:
1951-2010; Majority of material found within 1960-1998
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Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was an author of novels, poems, and translations. However, she is most remembered for her circle of literary friends, which included T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Lady Ottoline Morrell. She published two novels, Lud-in-the-Mist and Counterplot, and a book of poetry, Moods and Tensions: Poems. She began, but never completed, a biography of seventeenth-century...
Dates:
1920-1960
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Charles W. Misner (1932- ) was a professor in the Physics Department at the University of Maryland from 1963 to 2000. Since his retirement, Misner has remained at Maryland as a professor emeritus and senior research scientist in physics. He was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000. The collection spans from 1960 to 1973 and primarily contains correspondence and two manuscript rough drafts for the 1973 textbook, ...
Dates:
1960 - October 7, 2005; Majority of material found within 1966-1971
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Richard Palmer Moe was born on November 27, 1936 in Duluth, Minnesota. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Williams College in 1959 and a law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1966. He began a career in politics as an administrative assistant to Minneapolis Mayor Arthur Naftalin (1961-1962) and then served as administrative assistant to Minnesota Lieutenant Governor A.M. Keith (1963-1967). In 1967, Moe became the finance director for the Minnesota...
Dates:
1861-2001; Majority of material found within 1968-1992
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Monitor was an NBC network radio program that aired live on weekends from 1955 to 1975. Originally, the program was broadcast nationwide for 40 hours from 8 am Saturday to midnight on Sunday. Monitor was soon shortened to 32 hours every weekend (excluding overnight programming) and remained at that length through 1961. The program's marathon-length was a sharp departure from the usual 15- and 30-minute network radio programming. With a...
Dates:
1955-2012; Majority of material found within 1955-1975
Collection
0085-LBR-RG95-002
Abstract
Vanni Buscemi Montana was an Italian immigrant who worked as a publicist for Local 89 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and the Italian American Labor Council, and as editor of Giustizia (ILGWU) and Sindacalismo Libero (AFL-CIO). This collection documents Montana's activities as an Italian-American labor leader and socialist with a keen interest in Italian labor and politics. Types of materials include correspondence,...
Dates:
1925-1991
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The Montgomery County Committee for Fair Representation was founded in 1960 as a local arm of the State Committee for Fair Representation. Its purpose was to bring about a change in the system of apportionment in the Maryland General Assembly. The Committee disbanded in 1968. Its records relate to reapportionment in Maryland, the 1962 Court of Appeals decision on reapportionment, and the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding reapportionment.
Dates:
1960-1968
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Elliott Waters Montroll (1916-1983) was an educator and scientist with a broad range of interests; his specialties lay in the fields of chemistry and physics. His teaching appointments included associations with many different universities, among them the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP). At UMCP he taught in the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, originally the Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Applied Mathematics, from 1957 to 1960, from 1961 to 1968, and again from...
Dates:
1936-1982; Majority of material found within 1972-1979
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Prize-winning poet and editor Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was born outside St. Louis, Missouri. Moore graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1909 and went on to teach at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for the next four years. She and her mother eventually settled in New York City in 1919 where she remained until her death. She published many volumes of poetry as well as reviews and essays and was a great friend of and benefactor to other poets. In addition to her...
Dates:
1929-1973; Majority of material found within 1973
