This series contains records dating from 1931 to 1943. It includes files on Ed Bloch's high school and college related activities, correspondence, news clippings, poetry, essays, short stories, papers, and miscellaneous files.
This series focuses on Ed Bloch's military involvement during World War II, with material dating from 1942 to 1972. It includes files on World War II related activities, correspondence, news clippings, poetry, essays, short stories, papers, and miscellaneous files. Most of the material comes from the 1940s, with articles recalling Bloch's World War II experiences written in the 1970s and a book commemorating the 1996 reunion of the Special Officer Candidate School which Bloch attended.
This series is comprised of records dating from 1947 to 1950 when Ed Bloch taught biology in Istanbul, Turkey and was a foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor. It includes files on early Cold War related activities, correspondence, Turkish news clippings, articles written for The Christian Science Monitor, essays, short stories, and papers.
This series contains a scrapbook of news clippings from Guy George Gabrielsons early political career in New Jersey state government (1925-1940), materials related to his role as the chairman of the New Jersey Campaign Committee for U.S. presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, additional news clippings related to New Jersey Republican political activities, rules and resolutions of the Committee, and correspondence with private citizens and various New Jersey politicians. Topics include finances, elections and organizations.
This series includes addresses and statements from Guy George Gabrielson as Republican National Committee Chairman, committee reports, itineraries, committee meeting minutes, campaign materials, regional conference proceedings, official news releases, and printed pamphlets. Topics include the investigation into Gabrielsons ties to Carthage Hydrocol, Inc., state elections, member organizations, such as the Young Republicans, finances, and schools of politics.
The bulk of this series is a by-product of the exhaustive planning for the 1952 Republican National Convention that nominated General Dwight D. Eisenhower for president. It includes committee reports, correspondence with local businesses, candidate information, the official convention program and campaign materials. Topics include finance, hotels/housing, chaplains, doorkeepers and preparatory actions by various state committees.
Contains personal correspondence of early presidents and formal annual reports 1912-1914.
Contains the correspondence and administrative records of Abram Brubacher, including speeches and publications.
Series 1 contains material pertaining to Kastle's early works in the 1940s. There are many musical compositions for the piano as well as music for a ballet. There are also multiple sonatas, preludes and fugues in this series as well.
Series 2 contains compositions Kastle wrote based on poems, such as those written by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and A.E. Houseman. This also contains compositions for Mass, which was aired on Public Television in 1978.
Series 3 contains musical scores for many of Kastle's works. The series is broken down into subseries according to the six major instrumental compositions found in this collection. Each subseries usually contains a manuscript score, while some contain a published score. Subseries 3, Concerto No. 1, is the only subseries to contain Musicians' parts and tissues of parts.
This series documents the entire history of the Environmental Forum at the University at Albany, SUNY from 1969-1977. The Environmental Forum was a course in the Environmental Studies Program at the University at Albany. The purpose of the course was for students to examine the problems created by an overcrowded society in relation to the environment and man. The inter-disciplinary approach the Forum took allowed anyone to take the class, no matter their academic background. The design of the course sent students out into the community to do hands-on projects. Course handouts, in-class assignments, evaluations, and other material comprise the bulk of this series.
Protect Your Environment (PYE) was a club at the University at Albany, SUNY, that was an off-shoot of the Environmental Forum. The club was formed in 1969 based on an example from the Thomas School in Connecticut. The club promoted environmental awareness through activities such as teach-ins and Earth Day. In 1974, the club helped to convince Governor Malcolm Wilson to declare a week in April as Earth Week. A framed certificate of the declaration is in the series. This declaration, along with other material too large for standard archival boxes are in a separate flat box. A glass, pink pig head mounted to a wooden board is also part of the series, along with PYE handouts and flyers, the club's constitution, receipts, bills, and other material.
A large portion of this series is about the Environmental Studies Program at the University at Albany, SUNY. Faculty information, course and program proposals, changes in student registration procedures, and changes in class information can all be found in this series.
This series contains documents related to events in the Albany, New York region. It contains correspondence, photographs, negatives, promotional materials, press clippings, fliers and posters, poems, newsletters, and handwritten notes. Notable groups, institutions and individuals mentioned in this series include: Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, the Bread and Puppet Circus, the New York State Writers Institute, the Hudson Valley Writers Guild and the 10-year annual event Readings Against the End of the World (RAEW). Nattell was involved in the creation, promotion and coordination of most of these events. Oversized materials in this series include scrapbooks which hold assorted art and poems that were mailed in and displayed ca. 1980-1995. Also included are scrapbooks containing photographs of readers at the Readings Against the End of the World.
This series contains documents related to Nattell's personal, educational and occupational life. It contains a small number of poems by Nattell, photographs, correspondence, articles authored by Nattell, scholarly articles used during his education and newspaper clippings that are by, about, or mention him. Notable topics in this series include his research on the multiply-disabled and community support systems (CSS). Also included are Income Maintenance Training Evaluation forms and documents from the University at Albany's School of Social Welfare prepared by Nattell.
Nattell was a founding member of the political, economic and social activist groups CDANA/APEC. The group was originally called the Capital District Anti-Nuclear Alliance but at a meeting on January 18, 1982 changed the name to APEC to better reflect the organization's expanding areas of interest. This series contains many copies of the quarterly newsletter released by CDANA/APEC as well as the original publication galley proofs that were photocopied for the newsletter. Also included are newspaper clippings, article drafts, and galleys for tickets to events related to CDANA/APEC.
This series consists chiefly of minutes of the meetings of the ESFWC executive board (1939-1944, 1946-1964, 1968, 1970-1971, 1973-1976, 1979, 1982-1983, 1985-1986, 1988-1989) and annual convention (1939-1944, 1946-1964, 1970-1971, 1973-1976, 1980, 1982, 1983-1990). Between 1939-1944 and 1946-1964, the minutes were recorded in bound ledgers. From 1968 onward, they consist of loose manuscript or typescript materials. Information concerning the financial affairs of the organization is scattered throughout. From 1968 onward, routine correspondence that was discussed at meetings is also included; these materials, which were generated by the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs and other organizations, were inserted into the minutes by ESFWC officers and have thus been kept in place. The minutes detail the ESFWC's position on a broad array of social issues, including lynching (1943, 1947), discrimination in the armed forces, defense industries, and federal housing programs (1942-43, 1946), and the punitive attitude of some local officials who disbursed Aid to Families with Dependent Children benefits (1961). The minutes also document the EFSWC's support for the civil rights struggle that took place in the South during the 1950's and 1960's and its apparent dislike of the black-power movement (1973). In addition, the minutes chronicle the organization's interest in the Equal Rights Amendment (1944; 1970's), the work of Planned Parenthood (1947, 1950), the issue of abortion (1970; see also ESFWC Annual Convention Materials, 1975), and its decision to allow white women to become members (1963). Other topics discussed include education (1964, 1973; see also ESFWC Annual Convention Materials, 1975), peace (1930's, 1962), and the work of the United Nations (1950's).
This series consists of convention programs and souvenir journals (1944, 1955-1956, 1958, 1961, 1965-1966, 1968-1969, 1974, 1977-1978, 1984, 1986-1988, 1990-1991), fliers encouraging clubwomen to attend conventions, drafts of resolutions to be forwarded at conventions, and ephemera. Some of the programs detail meeting agendas and the results of officer elections; most of the souvenir journals consist largely of advertisements taken out by the group's members and supporters. The resolutions, which often concern broad public-policy initiatives, are of particular interest (1975).
Most of the materials in this series, which includes letters received by and copies of correspondence written by the president, concern routine organizational business. However, some of the letters shed light on the friendships that helped to sustain club women and the pleasures and frustrations of serving as an ESFWC officer.
The Executive Board Files contain the meeting minutes of the Board of Directors (1968, 1979-1985) and the Executive Committee (1984-1986) include correspondence with the NUL, personnel matters, and correspondence with Albany, New York Mayor Thomas Whalen III and NUL President John E. Jacob. They were maintained as a record of the activities of the Albany Urban League in its affiliation with the National Urban League and as a community based organization in the Capitol District. The Executive Director's Reports served as monthly overviews of the day-to-day operations of the Albany Urban League. The smallest of the series' the Executive Board Files are incomplete. The Urban League of Northeastern New York began in 1966 but gaps in the series leave the 1960s and 1970s largely undocumented. Executive Board Files produced after 1987 are in the possession of the Urban League of Northeastern New Yorke.
The Subject Files contain annual reports (1967, 1974-1978, 1982-1984, 1985, 1987-1988), annual dinner program (1975, 1978, 1982), general correspondence (1981-1987), and the annual meeting minutes (1970, 1975, 1980-1984). They were maintained as a record of the daily operations of the Urban League of Northeastern New York and provides an overview of the various programs with which the organization was involved. The documentation for this series is most complete in the years 1984-1987. Information recorded during the 1970s can also be found intermittently within the series. Missing from the series is a charter or any other material relating to the origins of the Albany Urban League. Also incomplete are records in the form of annual reports.
The series contains copies of the National Urban League publications such as the newsletter, "To Be Equal", the annual reports of the NUL and published reports commissioned by the NUL such as The State of Black America. The records maintained in this series are part of the ongoing correspondence between the national headquarters and its Albany area affiliate. Of the three series, this has the most depth in that the records are almost complete and in some instance they predate the Urban League of Northeastern New York.
Contains minutes of executive board meetings (1969, 1972-86) and correspondence relating to those meetings (1978-86). The Executive Board Files were maintained as a record of the activities of the organization as well a record of correspondence between the organization, its members, and the public. Although Council 82 began in 1968 the Executive Board Files do not begin until 1969. There is a gap of two years (1970-71) in the meeting minutes. Executive Board files produced after 1986 are In the possession of Council 82.
Contains annual conventions (1970-81), contract negotiations (1969-70), minutes of the Correction Policy Committee (1968-78), and minutes of meetings of local presidents' (1981, 1983-85). The subject files are a record of the activities of Council 82, the bulk of the series consisting of annual convention minutes, Correction Policy Committee correspondence and minutes, and correspondence with the Department of Correctional Services. Conspicuously absent from the files is documentation on the 1971 riot at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York. Similarly, there is little documentation pertaining to the strike of 1979 during which 6,400 corrections employees went on strike for 16 days.
Contains affidavits (1979-82), notices of hearing (1979-81), notices of determination (1981-82)), grievance arbitrations (1983-84). The Legal Files spanning only eight years, form the largest series. Most of the series is devoted to the Strike of 1979 during which 6,400 corrections employees went on strike for 16 days . Included In the 1979 Strike records are affidavits, notices of hearing, and notices of determination. In addition to strike information there are also grievance arbitrations and decisions relating to sex discrimination and disciplinary grievances.
Contains meeting minutes, background information sent to Executive Committee members, reports by ACUSNY's Commission on Non-Tax Supported Colleges and Universities, reports by the State Board of Regents, the State Education Department and the University of the State of New York, ACUSNY statements to the Governor and the Legislature, and addresses to the Association's members by prominent figures in the field of education. The series also includes correspondence with the Governor's Office, the Board of Regents, the Commissioner of Education, the Chancellors of the CUNY and SUNY systems, and university and college presidents. This series illustrates ACUSNY's continuous involvement in such issues as admissions policies, student financial aid, state aid to educational institutions and state labor legislation. It also documents the Association's position on specific issues, for example Universal Military Training and college deferment, 1952; sponsorship in athletics, 1951; subversion in education, 1953; the use of state bonds for college and university construction, 1955; educational institutions inter-institutional cooperation, 1956-1973; library reference and research resources, 1963-1965; Bundy aid to private education, 1965-1978; the Constitutional Convention, 1967; visiting students program, 1969-1970; ACUSNY's involvement in federal legislation, 1968, 1973; tuition assistance, 1980; relations among the sectors, 1983; migration patterns of students, 1985; public information activities, 1988; the teaching profession, 1988; creation of new ACUSNY bylaws, 1991.
The retreats were begun in 1971 at the suggestion of former SUNY Chancellor Boyer to foster a common bond between public and independent colleges and universities. Subsequent to 1985 the retreats came to be known as President's Retreats. The series contains executive committee resolutions, correspondence, and reports from the Board of Regents, the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities, the State Education Department, the American Council on Education. The contents focus upon particular issues in education: inter-institutional cooperation, 1971; political resolutions of education problems, 1972; student financial support, 1973; projecting college enrollments, 1974; the economics and politics of higher education management, 1975; what labor, government, and the community expect of higher education, 1976; resources for higher education, 1977; federal regulations, academic integrity, and public accountability, 1978; the state's stake in higher education, 1979; higher education and the New York economy, 1981; the role of the president in shaping the undergraduate curriculum, 1984; elevation of higher education among the state's priorities, 1986; connection of community service and college payment, 1989. The series also includes files on president's retreats.
Contains minutes, background information sent to members, correspondence, in particular to college and university presidents, membership lists, reports both by the Association's committees and by the University of ACUSNY the State of New York, and the State Education Department, and information concerning special meetings. Prominent topics include the State's need for a state university, 1947-1949; universal military training and manpower utilization, 1947-1949; planning for increased enrollment in 1954-1955 and the 1960s; state aid to private institutions, 1956-1960s; the Board of Regents Master Plan for Education, 1963; Constitutional Convention, 1967; Einstein-Schweitzer chairs, 1970s; improvement of the quality of student administrative services, 1981; perspectives of liberal education, 1984; women in higher education, 1987; reaching common interest in the public interest, 1989.