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Ereck Plancher And Tragedy, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It has been about two weeks now since the news came that Ereck Plancher, a University of Central Florida football player, had collapsed and died following a grueling conditioning workout leading up to spring football practice. He was nineteen years old and an honor student in high school. He was just starting his second year at UCF. Having graduated from high school one semester ahead of schedule, he enrolled at UCF early hoping to establish himself academically with a 4.0 GPA before starting football.

Wendell (Mayner) Norman

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Funeral Program for Wendell (Mayner) Norman on March 30, 2008 at Mt. Zion #1 Missionary Baptist Church

On Their Best Behavior: Good Magazine On Contemporary China

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

The cover story for the May/June issue of Good Magazine, just hitting newsstands, is “Don’t Be Scared of China.” Living up to their moniker as “media for people who give a damn,” Good’s China issue encourages readers to learn more about China and embrace, not hate, in features like the tongue-in-cheek play on tabloid Us Weekly’s “Stars…They’re Just Like Us” photo spread that declares “They’re Just Like Us…They Like Hip Hop” and “They’re Just Like Us…They Go To Vegas.”

Though this approach at cultural exchange is well-intentioned, it continues a particularly egocentric understanding of China as a recipient of American …

Lewisburg United Methodist Church - Lewisburg, Kentucky (Mss 94), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 94. Quarterly conference records of Lewisburg, Kentucky Methodist Episcopal, South Circuit, which includes churches in Logan and Muhlenberg Counties, 1885-1941. Relates to Beechland Methodist Church, Concord Methodist Church, Kennerly’s Chapel Methodist Church, Lewisburg United Methodist Church, Sand Spring Methodist Church, and Union Grove Methodist Church. Includes additional data about churches in the conference; church roll books, 1875-1949; and Woman's Missionary Society minutes, 1883-1968.

James Miles On Media Coverage Of Tibet

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

James Miles of The Economist was in Tibet when the riots and protests started on March 14. China’s strict limitations on foreign journalists entering Tibet in the following days made Miles one of the few journalists who saw the riots firsthand. With all the attention being now paid to how the international media are covering the events in Tibet, we thought it would be interesting to find out how Miles felt about the questions he got upon returning from the field. Here’s how he answered us via email.

China Beat: Is there any question that you’ve been asked a lot …

Mr. James Lester Youmans

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Mrs. Piccola "Dollbaby" Byrd Parrish Mccoy

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William Brewton Jr.

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Tibet 5: In The Third Week

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

With the crisis in Tibet entering its third week, we continue to sweep the web in search of interesting and/or informative pieces to bring to the attention of our readers. This fifth installment in the series is heavily devoted to retrospective works, which go back in time, either to detail what took place in Tibet in the past or explore historical analogies useful for thinking through the contemporary situation. Still, since the story continues to unfold and take surprising turns, we also include links to pieces that track very recent developments, both on the ground and in the debate over …

Permission Form, Lynnita Brown

MacLennon, Murdo

Murdo Alexander MacLennan

Highlands Ranch, CO

Korean War Veteran of the United States Marine Corps

"I was very down after Dutch was hit and Albring was killed. They were the first serious casualties in our group since landing at Inchon. This was the first time I was personally affected and made very aware of how vulnerable we all were. We had been in other firefights north of Seoul with North Koreans but had not suffered any serious injuries. The fact that the Chinese were now our enemy seemed to hit everyone that the situation had definitely changed and there was …

Joanne G. Mincey

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Deacon Ezekiel Baker

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Mary Wilkerson Burrison

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Interview No. 1624, J. Halbert Gambrell

Combined Interviews

In this interview, J. Halbert (“Hal”) Gambrell shares his memories of his colorful family, early El Paso, and his military experiences during both World War II and the Korean War. Born in El Paso in 1920, Gambrell entered this world in the family home due to his physician father’s decision to avoid local hospitals overflowing with Spanish Influenza patients. His father had recently returned from service in France during World War I; earlier he had served under General Jack “Black” Pershing during the latter’s 1916 punitive expedition into Mexico in Pershing’s ill-fated attempt to capture Pancho Villa. Gambrell continues to …

The Taelspin On Tibet: The Chinese Response To Foreign Media Coverage Of The 3.14 Unrest

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Foreign media coverage of the demonstrations and riots in Lhasa, Qinghai,Sichuan, and Gansu two weeks ago has sparked a significant backlash here in China. State media continues to release increasingly shrill diatribes against Western media bias as Chinese netizens take to the internet with their own protests sparked by a general perception that coverage of the riots was purposely warped and skewed by anti-China forces in the West. (For a sampling in English, check out the back and forth on this forum hosted by that bastion of journalistic integrity and objectivity: The China Daily.) There’s a whole website devoted to …

Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 53, March 27, 2008, Grand Valley State University

Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Clark Family Papers (Sc 1619), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1619. Clark family correspondence, chiefly 1864-1865 letters from Confederate soldier Philip G. Clark, serving with the 28th Virginia Infantry, to his wife, Sarah, and children, near Roanoke, Virginia, commenting on the hardships faced by the troops and his desire to return home. Also, 1867 letter to Sarah Clark from her brother, George A. Mullen.

Pickett, Mary C. (Sc 1622), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1622. Letter, 5 April 1885, from Mary C. Pickett, a student at Georgetown Female Seminary, Georgetown, Kentucky to her grandmother Anne E. Bailey, Stanford, Kentucky, commenting about her examinations, her clothes and her school uniform.

Brown, Murray L., 1894-1980 (Sc 1607), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1607. Brown's military service induction order, 18 May 1918, and copy of an undated newspaper article related to a baseball game in which Brown played. Includes correspondence of Brown's former law partner relating to the items.

Bryan, Fannie Morton, 1870-1965 (Mss 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 83. Diaries, 1889-1895, correspondence, 1885-1955, photographs, and related items of Fannie Morton Bryan, a Russellville debutante and school teacher. Includes Logan Female College records, 1860-1869, and Russellville Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1863-1889.

Trail Blazer - Volume 82, Number 8, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State Trail Blazer published on March 27, 2008.

Interview No. 1633, Frank W. Gorman Jr.

Combined Interviews

Frank W. Gorman, Jr. was born in El Paso on June 20, 1924. His parents were Frank Gorman and Eloise Knotts. His father was from Chattanooga, TN, and his mother was from Lucas, TX, but had been raised in Mexico. He describes his grandfather’s mining work in Durango and Guanajuato during the Mexican Revolution. Mr. Gorman’s father was a Lieutenant during WWI, and met Eloise in El Paso when he came to start a supply company. Mr. Gorman attended El Paso High School and then served in the Navy, but the war ended before he could be sent overseas. After …

The Grizzly, March 27, 2008, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Roger Lee, Terry Kelley, Jill Alspach, Ashley Mccomeskey, Serena Mithboakar, Jeremiah Long, Kristin O'Brassill, Juliane Katz, Ryan Tole, Alex Ernst, Kelsey Threatte, Anthony George, Matt Short, Jason Davis, Ashley Drogalis, Danielle Langdon

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Escape Velocity Dance Troupe Gets "Fully Loaded" • Habitat for Humanity: Community Service with a Tan • Ways to Prepare for Fall Housing and Room Selection • Religion on Campus: Hillel, MSA, IV and More! • Herpes Hindrance: Part One • Fox and Hound Pub and Grill: Which One are You? • Ursinus Sororities Participate in Community Service • Scientific Look at the "Truth is Beauty" Equation • Quick Glance at Upcoming CAB and RHA Events • Myrin's Edible Books Festival: Battle of the Most Literate Foods • Opinions: Pledge to Darfur; Vice Presidential Possibilities: Let's Start the Speculation • …

Tibet Reading 4

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

The coverage and dialogue about the situation in Tibet has continued over the past days, evolving largely (in great part due to foreign media’s lack of access to Tibet and neighboring provinces where unrest has occurred) into a discussion on China’s media clampdown and the way the Tibet riots and subsequent protests are being read in China and abroad. Here are some of the apropos things we’ve been reading in recent days.

1. On Danwei.org, an intriguing short piece on YouTube videos, which asks if this might be “the world’s first international user generated propaganda war?”

2. When the crisis …

Covington, William Slaughter, 1897-1985 (Sc 1616), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1616. Copy of August 1939 letter from Bowling Green native William S. Covington to his mother Lena (Kennedy) Nye, [Bowling Green, Kentucky] describing the difficulties he encountered in Europe just prior to the outbreak of World War II; letter, 30 June 1979, from Covington, Lake Forest, Illinois to Jane Morningstar [Bowling Green, Kentucky] commenting on the 1939 letter.

Covington, William Slaughter, 1897-1985 (Sc 1618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1618. Letters from Bowling Green native William Slaughter Covington, Lake Forest, Illinois, regarding acquisition of a copy of "Bowling Green: A Pictorial History" by Nancy D. Baird, Carol Crowe-Carraco, and Michael L. Morse. The letters relate his observations about Bowling Green history. Includes a copy of Covington's obituary from the (Bowling Green, Ky.) Park City Daily News, 3 December 1985.

Houchin, Roy Franklin, Ii, B. 1954 (Sc 1602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1602. Typescripts of interviews conducted by Roy Franklin Houchin, II with: Joe Richardson regarding early aviation and the aerospace industry, Douglas Campbell regarding his World War I aerial combat experience, and Bob Ford regarding World War I military uniforms. Includes Houchin family information.

Murdo Maclennan Initial Inquiry, Lynnita Brown, Murdo Maclennan

MacLennon, Murdo

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Interview No. 1637, Louis B. Mckee

Combined Interviews

Louis B. McKee is the son of Robert E. McKee, founder of the R. E. McKee General Contractors in El Paso, TX; he was born in El Paso in 1933; and graduated from Austin High School; he explains why he went to University of New Mexico, and studied civil engineering; he mentions completing Navy ROTC, being a Marine Corps Officer a few years; he recounts his family, working for the family’s construction company; he reveals why he later quit the company, disagreed with the direction of new non-family leadership that didn’t have the experience; he mentions the company was moved …

Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 52, March 24, 2008, Grand Valley State University

Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.