Four New Electronic Finding Aids/Research Guides

Special Collections & Archives recently created four new Electronic Finding Aids/Research Guides (EADs). Electronic Finding Aids/Research Guides are Internet browseable sources of information on collections in SC&A's holdings.

• C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection EAD:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/gmu/vivadoc.pl?file=vifgm00053.xml

Mann (1908-1977) was in integral part of the creation of GMU. He served as the Chairman of George Mason College's first Board of Control. He sponsored bills constituting George Mason College as a branch of the University of Virginia and later elevating it to a four year division of the University with the right to grant degrees and offer graduate program. He served on the GMU Board of Visitors from 1975 to 1977.

• Martha V. Pennino Collection EAD:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/gmu/vivadoc.pl?file=vifgm00060.xml

Martha Pennino (1918-2004) was called the Mother of Fairfax for her long service to the county. She was one of the longest-serving members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, spending 24 years on the board. She was first elected in November 1967, representing what was then the Centreville District. Pennino served as vice-chairman for 17 years.

• Leonid Ozernoy Collection EAD:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/gmu/vivadoc.pl?file=vifgm00054.xml

Leonid M. Ozernoy (1939-2002) taught in the School of Computational Sciences and Informatices at GMU from 1993 to 2002. Born in Moscow, Ozernoy was one of the former Soviet Union's "refusniks" and came to the United States in 1986. He worked at Boston University and Harvard University before coming to the Washington, D.C., area in the early 1990s to join NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland as a consultant. At George Mason, he taught courses in computational sciences and physics, most recently Colloquium on Computational Sciences and Informatics, Astrophysics, and Modern Astronomy.

• John Dockery Collection EAD:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/gmu/vivadoc.pl?file=vifgm00050.xml

John Dockery served on the Reston Community Association planning and Zoning Committee from the 1970s to the late 1990s. The collection contains materials relating to the Planning and Zoning Committee of the Reston Community Association. Maps, planning documents, memoranda, correspondence, legal documents, are in the collection.

All of SC&A’s EADs can be accessed at:

http://www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/eadfndgaids.html

Notable Researchers:

• Last week, Peter Gough, a researcher from Utah, examined10 cubic feet of materials from the Federal Theater Project Collection, including listening to three oral histories. Gough is writing a book pertaining to the end of the Federal Theater Project and plans on visiting SC&A again this summer. More information about the Federal Theater Project Collection is available at: http://www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/federal.html

• Recently, Ann White, a doctoral candidate from Northwestern University, visited SC&A, examining approximately 50 cubic feet from the Federal Theater Project Collection. White looked at a variety of material over the course of four days, including 25 oral history transcripts and Theater of the Thirties videotapes. She plans on returning in late June to conduct more research.

Online Collections Addition:

SC&A is pleased to announce a new addition to our online collections: Life at Bailey’s Crossroads 1961-1964, found at:
http://www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/mason_history1.pdf The beautifully designed booklet combines photographs and text by Richard Sparks, who is a free-lance photographer and artist. Mr. Sparks attended George Mason College at its first location at Bailey's Crossroads from 1961 until 1964. Sparks later returned to George Mason College/University, where he received his M.S. in biology in 1973.