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Abstract
Sarah Virginia "Dinny" Forwood Pate Wetter (1919-2018) was a radio broadcast manager and executive. Wetter co-founded and served for many years as the chair and CEO of the Chesapeake Broadcasting Corporation, which managed stations WASA (AM) and WHDG (FM) in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Wetter was also a member of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) and served as the organization's national president from 1970 to 1971. AWRT was founded in 1951 to "advance the impact of women in...
Dates:
1944-2009 and Undated
Abstract
The WGAZ/WSBT Station Records contain information pertaining to the origins and early operations of radio station WGAZ/WSBT in South Bend, Indiana. WGAZ was Indiana's first commercial radio station, owned by the South Bend Tribune newspaper. WGAZ broadcast its first commercial radio program on July 3, 1922. The station was started and managed by Tribune staff member, Eugene Leuchtman. In 1925, the station's call letters were...
Dates:
1922-1973; Majority of material found within 1922-1955
Abstract
The papers of John T. Whalen (1898-1980) consist of fifty-five letters written by Whalen to his mother in Mt. Hebron, Maryland, between 1917 and 1918, when Whalen was in the U. S. Army during World War I. Whalen wrote from Fort Howard, Maryland; Locust Point, Maryland; Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C.; Sparrows Point, Maryland; and Fort Monroe, Virginia. The letters inquire about family matters and describe his life as a member of the Coast Artillery Corps and as a patient in the...
Dates:
1910; 1917-1919; Majority of material found within 1917-1919
Abstract
Carol Wharton (1907-1958) was a staff correspondent for the Baltimore Evening Sun and wrote articles on art and politics. The collection consists of her scrapbooks containing copies of her articles.
Dates:
1942-1958
Abstract
John T. Schilling and Sam Adair founded radio station WHB in Kansas City in 1922. WHB became affiliated with the Mutual Radio Network in 1936. The WHB Radio Scrapbooks span the years 1922-1953 with the bulk of the material dating from the 1930s and 1940s. The collection is comprised of scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, correspondence, advertisements and photographs relating to publicity for radio station WHB. One poster, "America's Newest Major Network Comes to Kansas City Over...
Dates:
1922-1953; Majority of material found within 1930s-1940s
Abstract
Charles Edward White (1901-1973) was a professor of chemistry at the University of Maryland from 1926 to 1969 and author of numerous articles and textbooks. The White papers cover the years 1925 to 1973 and consist primarily of personal, research, and teaching files including graduate and research notes, course materials, publications, equipment and supply catalogs, memorabilia, photographs, and lantern slides.
Dates:
1925-1973
Abstract
The Richard White Collection, which covers the period 1905 to 1920, includes correspondence between the Director of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, H. J. Patterson, and the Superintendent of the Ridgely Sub-station, Charles Opperman. The two men discuss administrative details concerning the setup of the farm as an experiment sub-station, including questions about how expenses will be handled and what repairs should be made to the existing structures. The correspondence also...
Dates:
1905-1920
Abstract
Edward Reed Whittemore, Jr. (1919-2012) was a poet and emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland, where he taught from 1967 to 1984. He served twice as the Poetry Consultant for the Library of Congress. The author of a major biography of William Carlos Williams, he also wrote numerous volumes of poems and essays. Whittemore's papers include correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, notes, galleys, proofs, scrapbooks, diaries, published materials, newspaper and magazine...
Dates:
circa 1913-1985; Majority of material found within 1965-1980
Collection
0441-SCPA-NAfME
Abstract
Dr. Wiley Lee Housewright (1913-2003) was president of the Music Educators National Association (MENC), now known as the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), from 1968 to 1970. The Housewright papers consist of administrative records related to Dr. Housewright's tenure as MENC President. The Housewright papers cover the period from 1968 to 1970.
Dates:
1968-1970
Abstract
William R. (Bill) Wilkins (1928- ) was born in Loveland, Colorado. His family moved to northern California during Wilkins's childhood, and Wilkins later attended Humboldt State College, graduating in 1951. Wilkins and his college sweetheart, Fern Stahl (born 1927), married in 1952. After graduation, Wilkins joined the Navy, for which he served until his retirement in 1974 at the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Wilkins's military career resulted in many moves for him, Fern, and their two...
Dates:
1956-2007 and undated; Majority of material found within 1970-1999