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Committee On Issues Of Sexual Orientation (Ciso) Records . . . First Accession, December 2002, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur Dec 2002

Committee On Issues Of Sexual Orientation (Ciso) Records . . . First Accession, December 2002, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur

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The Committee on Issues of Sexual Orientation (CISO), an Advisory Committee to the President of the University of South Florida, first convened in September 1993. Later renamed the Committee on Issues of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (CISOGI), this advisory body regularly meets with USF executive staff, human resources personnel, and representatives from the diversity and equal opportunity offices. This university-wide body has consulted with groups about adding non-discriminatory clauses and partner benefits for all employees, regardless of sexual orientation. In addition, this committee supports leadership initiatives and opportunities for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered students at the University of …


Hapgood/Berry Photographic Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, William Hapgood, Sylvia Hazel Smith Berry Aug 2002

Hapgood/Berry Photographic Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, William Hapgood, Sylvia Hazel Smith Berry

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During the 1930s, William Hapgood and Sylvia Hazel Smith Berry spent their winters in St. Petersburg to get away from the snow and cold weather of New England. While wintering in Florida, they lived in a home in the 13th Street Heights neighborhood and participated in the many social and cultural activities available for seasonal residents. This collection of twenty photographs and four photographic postcards displays images of St. Petersburg taken during the winter and spring of 1933. Many popular sites are represented, including the “Million Dollar” Pier, Williams Park, and the 1933 Festival of States parade. These photographs were …


Wilder's Park Collection : A Finding Aid, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Henry Crossley Aug 2002

Wilder's Park Collection : A Finding Aid, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Henry Crossley

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During the late 1990s, Lee Irby—a graduate student in history at USF—wrote his master’s thesis on the migration of retirees to St. Petersburg. As part of his research, he interviewed Fred E. Wilder, a veteran of the Second World War who moved to southeastern St. Petersburg in 1953. Wilder had acquired four acres of land at the intersection of Sixth Street and Thirty-second Avenue (formerly Bayou Lake Avenue) South. By 1954, he opened Wilder’s Trailer Park, with offices located at 770-32nd Avenue South. During the next few years, Wilder’s Park became a magnet for retirees from other areas in search …


The Donald Saxer/United States Maritime Service Training Station (Usmsts), Bayboro Harbor, Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Donald Saxer, Apr 2002

The Donald Saxer/United States Maritime Service Training Station (Usmsts), Bayboro Harbor, Collection : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Donald Saxer,

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Donald Saxer, a cadet who trained at the United States Maritime Service Training Station at Bayboro Harbor in 1943 and later joined the staff, collected many of the items in the Saxer/USMSTS, Bayboro Harbor, Collection. Rising to the rank of Chief Petty Officer, Saxer became an important leader at Bayboro Harbor. After the station closed in 1950, Saxer remained as part of the staff that managed the facilities until the City of St. Petersburg took control of the site in the mid-1950s. He donated these materials in October 2001. Some items in this collection were originally gathered by H.F. Kuether, …


John C. Briggs Collection Of Ichthyology, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, John C. Briggs Mar 2002

John C. Briggs Collection Of Ichthyology, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, John C. Briggs

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John C. Briggs earned his Ph.D. in biology and natural science from Stanford University in 1952. For many years, he taught at the Department of Marine Science (now College of Marine Science) located on the physical campus of USF St. Petersburg. After entering phased retirement in the 1980s, he negotiated a purchase/partial donation of his extensive collection of works on ichthyology, natural science, botany, and biology to the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. The Briggs Collection offers a valuable research tool due to the breadth of the collection and its many unique and rare titles. Nearly all monographs are searchable through …


Religions United In Action For Community Papers : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives. Jan 2001

Religions United In Action For Community Papers : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives.

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Religions United in Action for Community (RUAC) was an interfaith ministerial group organized in 1969 to address social issues in St. Petersburg such as school desegregation, busing, health care, and community displacement resulting from the construction of Interstate 275. Other concerns included casino gambling, pornography, and the emerging Moral Majority movement. The papers were donated by Rabbi David Susskind, the first rabbi of the Congregation of Liberal Judaism in Orlando, and longtime rabbi at Temple Beth-El in St. Petersburg. This collection consists of five document boxes containing organizational records covering the years from 1969 through 1981. Materials occupy 2.25 linear …


Ernest Ayer Ponder Collection : A Finding Aid, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Ernest Ayer 1918-1998. Jan 2001

Ernest Ayer Ponder Collection : A Finding Aid, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Ernest Ayer 1918-1998.

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The Ernest Ayer Ponder Collection consists of 2 document boxes, 1 scrapbook, and 1 folder containing oversized material. His widow, Clara M. Ponder, donated the materials in August 2000.


David R. Carr Collection Of Political Ephemera : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Shawn Reynolds Dec 1997

David R. Carr Collection Of Political Ephemera : A Collection Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Shawn Reynolds

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David R. Carr, a professor of History at USF St. Petersburg from 1971 through 2009, donated this collection of political ephemera to the Poynter Library on 27 November 2007. The buttons focus primarily on Democratic Party candidates for the 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns.


Harrison W. Fox Real Estate Collection : A Finding Aid, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Candace S. Whitaker, Kathleen Arsenault Jun 1997

Harrison W. Fox Real Estate Collection : A Finding Aid, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., Candace S. Whitaker, Kathleen Arsenault

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In 1996, Dr. Raymond O. Arsenault donated the Harrison W. Fox Real Estate Collection to the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. The collection contains the personal papers of Harrison W. Fox, a prominent and successful third-generation real estate developer in post-World War II St. Petersburg. Mr. Fox was a very active member of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), and an officer in both the Homebuilder's Association of Greater St. Petersburg (of which he was a charter member and the Association's first secretary) and the St. Petersburg Builder's and Contractor's Association. The bulk of the collection consists of documents of …


J. M. "Sudsy" Tschiderer Student Publications Collection : A Finding Aid, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, J. M. (Sudsy) Tschiderer Feb 1996

J. M. "Sudsy" Tschiderer Student Publications Collection : A Finding Aid, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, J. M. (Sudsy) Tschiderer

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Since 1969, J. M. "Sudsy" Tschiderer has played a paramount role in the development of student leadership on campus. She served as a founding member of the Student Activities office and she worked in the Division of Student Affairs for nearly twenty-six years. With an avid interest in journalism, she established and contributed to a number of campus publications, including the Crow's Nest. Donated to the library in December 1995, the Tschiderer Student Publications Collection includes Sudsy Tschiderer's personal archival copies of student newspapers created at USF St. Petersburg.


American Civil Liberties Union, Pinellas County Chapter, Records : A Finding Aid Of The Raymond And Margaret Yazell Collection, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Raymond Yazell, Margaret Yazell Jan 1995

American Civil Liberties Union, Pinellas County Chapter, Records : A Finding Aid Of The Raymond And Margaret Yazell Collection, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Raymond Yazell, Margaret Yazell

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The Pinellas County American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Collection consists of the personal archives and research files of Raymond and Margaret Yazell. These materials were donated to the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library in 1995 by Dr. Raymond O. Arsenault, professor of History at USF St. Petersburg and president at the time of the Pinellas County ACLU chapter. Items in this collection fall under the Local and Regional History provenance of the USF St. Petersburg library’s Special Collections and Archives department. The 1995 guide represents the original accession; some supplemental materials have been received between 1995 and 2012 that are not …


Remembering 'D-Day' Collection [Finding Aid], Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, St. Petersburg Times (Firm) Aug 1994

Remembering 'D-Day' Collection [Finding Aid], Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, St. Petersburg Times (Firm)

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In April 1994, the St. Petersburg Times asked interested readers to submit their recollections of the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War Il. The Times compiled the submissions and published a special section in the May 25, 1994 paper to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day (June 6, 1944). The newspaper donated some of the letters, journal entries, and clippings used in the D-Day Remembered section to the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library in August 1994.


Kennedy Assassination Newspaper Collection : A Finding Aid, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Hugh W. Cunningham May 1994

Kennedy Assassination Newspaper Collection : A Finding Aid, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Hugh W. Cunningham

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Dr. Hugh W. Cunningham, a former professor of journalism at the University of Florida, donated 418 single issues of newspapers describing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. These papers represent a broad geographic diversity of newspapers from 45 states and serve as an excellent primary source for a "slice-of-life" analysis. Newspapers fall into distinct series, based upon their date of publication. The first series includes titles from Friday, 22 November 1963, the second from Saturday, 23 November 1963, the third from Sunday, 24 November 1963, and the fourth from Monday, 25 November 1963.


Nixon Resignation Newspaper Collection : A Finding Aid, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Hugh W. Cunningham Apr 1994

Nixon Resignation Newspaper Collection : A Finding Aid, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Hugh W. Cunningham

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Hugh W. Cunningham, a former professor of journalism at the University of Florida, donated 49 individual newspaper issues. They represent a broad geographic diversity of newspapers from 22 states and the District of Columbia on Friday, 9 August 1974. This collection serves as an excellent primary source for a "slice-of-life" analysis of how journalists reported Nixon’s resignation.


Niela M. Eliason "City In Transition" Collection [Finding Aid], Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Niela M. Eliason Dec 1993

Niela M. Eliason "City In Transition" Collection [Finding Aid], Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Niela M. Eliason

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In November 1993, Niela M. Eliason, a free-lance writer and St. Petersburg resident, permitted the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library to copy the contents of two scrapbooks in her possession. The “City in Transition” series documented the social and cultural history of St. Petersburg through the voices of civic leaders and common citizens alike. As stated in the first column, these essays examined "a changing community--the people, the buildings, the activities, the attitudes and reactions, the progress and deterioration." This collection contains photocopies of her 123 City in Transition articles, as well as photographs from the St. Petersburg area. Her writings …


Usf St. Petersburg Underground Newspaper Collection : A Researcher's Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Mary A. Grigsby, Nov 1993

Usf St. Petersburg Underground Newspaper Collection : A Researcher's Guide, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, Mary A. Grigsby,

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In the fall of 1992, Mary E. Allcorn-Grigsby, Director of the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, negotiated a gift of underground newspapers and alternative press publications from the University of Missouri, Columbia. This collection occupies 36 archival storage boxes comprising approximately 45 cubic feet and includes 2,712 single issues, with some duplicate copies, representing over 70 titles. All issues fall within the inclusive dates from 1965 to 1978, with the bulk of the material representing the period from 1968 to 1972. The titles represented in the USF St. Petersburg Underground Newspaper Collection offer a broad editorial and geographical diversity. Numerous papers …


Remembering Pearl Harbor : A Researcher's Guide To The Collection, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, St. Petersburg Times (Firm) Dec 1992

Remembering Pearl Harbor : A Researcher's Guide To The Collection, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Special Collections And University Archives., James Anthony Schnur, St. Petersburg Times (Firm)

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In mid-1991 the St. Petersburg Times asked interested readers to submit their reminiscences of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and America's official entry into World War II. On December 4, 1991, the Times published a commemorative section which included many of these submissions. Three days later, Americans somberly observed the fiftieth anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After publishing this special section, the Times donated this collection to Nelson Poynter Memorial Library for present and future scholarship.