This series contains audio recordings of special events and everyday activities at the Downtown Community School and Camp Woodland. The Department digitized hundreds of reel-to-reel audio recordings to date.
The Downtown Community School audio recordings document guest speakers, student discussions and readings, school plays, intergroup conferences, lectures, staff meetings, musical performances, school trips, oral histories and other programs. Highlights of the subseries include recordings about race relations and the boycott that took place at the Lincoln School in Englewood, NJ in February 1963 and a visit to the school from Red Thunder Cloud, last Indigenous speaker of the Catawba language. Not all recordings are identified or dated.
This series includes materials on OCCA projects not involving Otsego Lake or s olid waste management, as well as subject files on various conservation issues. Topics of particular interest include the Cherry Valley sewer project, the Glimmerglass Opera Theater shed project, Otsego 2000s lawsuit against the Otsego County Planning Board, the Leatherstocking Creek Stream Corridor project, and the Wal-Mart distribution center near Sharon Springs, New York, as well as subject files on agriculture and water quality issues.
This series contains files on legislation of which Senator Ronald Stafford was a sponsor, co-sponsor or supporter. Files typically contain a final print of the bill and may contain drafts and previous versions, supporting material, and other material records to the bill. A majority of the files contain a copy of the final bill and a memorandum of support. Bills that faced public debate are in larger files, containing letters of support, letters of opposition, correspondence, and multiple drafts. A pattern can be seen within the legislation files pertaining to the issues Senator Stafford cared about. The same bill can be seen throughout multiple years, slightly changing in hopes to have it passed. The bill eventually stops appearing, signifying that it was either passed, or Senator Stafford decided not to pursue it again. The researcher should note that the full name of the bill is used as the file name from approximately 1974-1980. After that, the files are named in accordance with Stafford's naming scheme by the main theme or topic of the legislative bill. These themes and topics include the following: the Adirondack Park Agency, Fishing and Hunting Licenses, Environmental Issues, Retirement Membership and Services, and Higher Education. This series also contains legislative resolutions that Senator Stafford either introduced or supported. These were often to honor, memorialize, or congratulate people or events. Files are organized chronologically.
This series contains a wide variety of items pertaining to Senator Ronald Stafford. There are numerous folders on Senatorial voting records, the New York State Education System, and constituent grant applications. This series also contains materials related to the New York State Budget, as well as thank you letters Senator Stafford received during his time in office. Some of the material found in this series is housed in oversized boxes.
Contains speeches of Samuel Gould as president of Antioch College (1954-59), chancellor of University of California at Santa Barbara (1959-62), president of the Educational Broadcasting System (1962-64), chancellor of SUNY (1964-70), chancellor emeritus (1970), director at McKinsey and Company (1971), chairman of Commission on Non-Traditional Study (1971-72), president of Institute of Educational Development/Research and a number of addresses he gave as a private citizen. The main topics of the speeches were educational reform and university life. The speeches from Gould's tenure as president of Antioch College are bound together in one volume.
This series covers twenty-five subjects of interest to the Atlantic Chapter, most of which are divided into several secondary topics. The subjects are defined below.
This series contains records of Christmas is for the Archousai and other annual events, Boulé Foundation and Beta Psi charitable initiative documents, and anniversary celebrations. There are files related to individual archons and their acocmplishments, news clippings about archons and the Boulé, and documentation of sponsored events and happenings.
Tanya Melich was director of the Election Research Unit for ABC News during the 1964 Republican National Convention. As a result, she accumulated numerous papers regarding the presidential primaries in New Hampshire and California, as well as the Republican National Convention and inaugural celebration. The series includes voting reports and analysis, general information on the convention, schedules, biographical information of candidates and platforms, committee meeting notes, and news clippings. The series begins with the New Hampshire primary in March, continues with the California and later primaries, the Republican National Convention in July, and ends with the inauguration of 1965.
