Coconut masquerade postcard

Roberta Uno was the founder and long time artistic director of the New WORLD Theater at UMass Amherst, a theater in residence dedicated to the production of works by playwrights of color.

Established by Uno in 1993, the Asian American Women Playwrights Scripts Collection contains manuscripts of plays, but also production histories, reviews, and articles, along with biographies and audio and videotaped interviews with playwrights. Among the individuals represented are Brenda Wong Aoki, Jeannie Barroga, Marina Feleo Gonzales, Jessica Hagedorn, Velina Hasu Houston, Genny Lim, le thi diem thuy, Ling-Ai Li, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, Nobuko Miyamoto, Bina Sharif, and Diana Son.

Washington based photojournalist John Spragens, Jr. lived in Asia for more than seven years. He spent a total of three years in Vietnam between 1966 and 1974, and traveled in several other countries in Southeast Asia., including Cambodia.

Spragens’ photographs document Cambodia under the rule of the Communist-Vietnamese dominated government that came to power in January 1979, after the defeat of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge by the Vietnamese army.

The archives of UMass Amherst contain tens of thousands of formal and informal photographic images of the campus community from its founding in the 1860s to the present. The collections have been organized into over twenty discrete series. Digitized version of approximately 13,000 of images are available online.

Martha Bevis

An important figure in building a network of antifluoridation activists, Martha Bevis was born in North Carolina in 1927 and lived most of her adult life in Houston, Texas. She worked on the staff of Senator Lyndon Johnson beginning in the early 1950s, remaining with him through his period as Vice President. Always energetic, she was involved in a number of political and civic organizations, including those promoting natural childbirth and breastfeeding, but from the mid-1970s, she was especially associated with the antifluoridation movement. A founder of the Safe Water Foundation of Texas, she became a key litigant in a case seeking to block fluoridation of the water supply in Houston, and although the court ruled in 1980 that fluoride was harmful, it permitted the city council to proceed with fluoridation. From that point forward, she played a key role regionally and nationally as an organizer, researcher, propagandist, and funding source for the antifluoridation movement. Bevis died in Houston on April 22, 2007.

This massive archive stems from Martha Bevis’s role as a connector and mediator of information for the antifluoridation movement. Beginning in the 1970s, Bevis gathered, copied, and distributed huge quantities of information on the health effects of fluoride, legal strategies and cases opposing fluoridation of public water supplies, and the antifluoridation movement generally. Bevis maintained a regular correspondence with other activists and antifluoride organizations and played an important role in gathering and preserving the papers of other activists.

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O

OAPA

see Office of Academic Planning and Assessment (OAPA) RG-4/3/6

Obituaries, Biographies (Alumni)

RG-50/00/2

see also Health Services–Obituaries (Student) RG-30/15

Occasional Papers Series (International Area Studies)

see Asian Studies Program and Committee RG-25/A8/00

Latin American Studies Program and Committee RG-25/L4/00

Near Eastern Studies Program and Committee RG-25/N4/00

Soviet & East European Studies Program and Committee RG-25/S75/00

Western European Studies Program and Committee RG-25/W3/00

Occupational Education, Center for (School of Education)

RG-13/3/17/2

Ocean Engineering Program

RG-25/O2

OCHO

see Off Campus Housing Office (OCHO) RG-45/18

OCIS

see Office of Computing & Information Systems (OCIS) (1988- ) RG-6/5/1

Off Campus Housing Office (OCHO)

RG-45/18

Office for Cooperative Education

see Cooperative Education, Office for RG-11/31/1

Office of Academic Planning and Assessment (OAPA)

RG-4/3/6

Office of Budgeting and Institutional Studies (OBIS)

RG-4/3/2

see also V.C. for A. and F. RG-35/1 (records held in RG-4/2-3)

Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) RG-4/3/3.

Office of Computing and Information Systems (OCIS) (1988- )

RG-6/5/1

Office of Economic Development (OED)

RG-4/15

see also Office of Industrial Relations and Regional Development (1987- ) RG-4/10

Office of Grant and Contract Administration

RG-4/4

Office of Human Relations

see Human Relations, Office of RG-4/6

Office of Industrial Relations and Regional Development (1987- )

RG-4/10

see also Office of Economic Development (OED) RG-4/15

Office of Information Technologies (OIT)

see Office of Computing and Information Systems (OCIS) (1988- ) RG-6/5/1

Office of Internships

see Internships, Office of (University Internship Program) RG-11/6

Office of Institutional Research (OIR)

RG-4/3/5

see also Office of Institutional Research and Planning (OIRP) RG-4/3/4.

Office of Institutional Research and Planning (OIRP)

RG-4/3/4

see also Executive V.C. and Provost RG-6/1 (records held in RG-4/3/4)

Associate V.C. for Academic Affairs RG-30/1 (records held in RG-4/3/4)

Office of Institutional Studies (OIS) (1960-1969)

RG-4/3/1

Office of Planning and Budget (OPB)

RG-4/3/3

see also Budget Office RG-35/20

Budget Documents RG-4/2

Office of Institution Research and Planning (OIRP) RG-4/3/4

Office of Public Information (OPI)

RG-5/3

see also Vice Chancellor for University Relations and Development RG-39/1

Office of Residential Resource Management (1976- )

RG-30/21/1

see also Residential Academic Programs RG-35/14

Housing Administration RG-32/12

Office of Solid Waste Management (OSWM)

RG-36/10

see also Residential Recycling Program RG- 45/40/R6

Office of Space Management (OSM)

RG-4/14

Office of Teaching Evaluation and Improvement

see Institutional Resources and Improvement, Center for (1973) RG-6/18

Office of the Learning Disabilities Coordinator

see Counseling and Academic Development Center (CADC) (1987) RG-11/8

Office to Coordinate Energy Research and Education

RG-10/5

Official University Committees (Faculty and Staff)

RG-40/2

Official University Faculty/Staff Committees, Other

RG-40/2/A6-Z9

Officials of the University (Photographs)

RG-110

OIP

see Office of Institutional Research (OIP) RG-4/3/5

OIRP

see

Office of Institutional Research and Planning (OIRP) RG-4/3/4

OIT (Office of Information Technologies)

see Office of Computing and Information Systems RG-6/5/1

Older Students

see Counseling Assistance for Older Students (CAOS) RG-45/40/C4

Olericulture Department

see Plant and Soil Sciences RG-25/P4

Olmsted Drive (Physical Plant) (1939)

RG-36/50/O6

Omega Psi Phi (1985- )

RG-45/90/O6

Ombuds Office (1969- )

RG-4/8

see also Ombudsman (Faculty Senate, 1968- ) RG-40/2/A3

Ombudsman Selection Committee (1975-1976) RG-40/2/O4

Multicultural Conflict Resolution Team (1993- ) RG-4/8/1

Ombudsman Committee (Faculty Senate, 1968-1979)

RG-40/2/A3

see also Ombuds Office (1969- ) RG-4/8

Ombudsman Selection (Official University Committee) (1975-1976)

RG-40/2/O4

see also Ombudsman (Faculty Senate, 1968-1974) RG-40/2/A3

Omicron Delta Epsilon

RG-45/60/O4

Omicron Nu (Honor Society)

RG-45/60/O4.5

On Campus Alumni Group (1986-1989)

RG-40/3/O5

On the Other Hand

see Academic Affairs Committee (Student Senate) RG-45/7/A2

125th Anniversary

see Anniversary, 125th (1988) RG-1/8

see also University History Project (125th Anniversary, 1987-1988) RG-1/208

125th Anniversary Slide Show, UMass (1988)

see UMass 125th Anniversary Slide Show (1988) RG-187/1

OPB

see Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) RG-4/3/3

Operations Council

RG-30/1/2

Operetta Guild (Films and Videotapes)

RG-186/3

Operetta Guild/Music Theatre Guild

RG-25/M9.4

see also Theatre (Photographs) RG-140/1

Music (Photographs) RG-140/2

Operetta Guild (Films and Videotapes) RG-186/3

Oral History (1974-1982)

RG-1/207

see also Oral Histories (selected) available online (Five College Archives Digital Access Project)

History Department RG-25/H5

Oratory, Student

see Speaking Contests, Student Oratory RG-25/C7.3

Orchard Hill (Residential Buildings)

RG-36/102/O7

Orchestra (Music and Dance Department)

RG-25/M9.3

Organization Charts (Issued by President’s Office)

RG-3/00/1

Organization Charts of the University

see Bibliography, Organization Charts RG-1/00/1

see also Operating Budget Summary, 1974-1975, etc. RG-3/4/2

OBIS- Facts & Figures 1967, Factbook-1977 RG-4/2

Standard Practice Instruction, 1954, p.2 RG-3/4/1

Proposed Spring 1970, Mass. Gazette, 5/8/1970, P.B. RG-4/1

Business Manager, 9/1/1967- RG-35/3

Annual Reports, bound vols. 1972-73-75-76 RG-1/00/2

Organizational charts issued by President’s Office RG-3/00/1

Organization of the Research Mission, ad hoc Committee (1998- )

RG-40/2/O7

Organizational and Community Development, Center for (COCD)

see Center for Organizational and Community Development (COCD) RG-13/4/3/3

see also Citizen Involvement Training Project (CITP) RG-7/9

Organizations Not Appointed by an Official Unit of the University, Faculty and Staff Committees

see Faculty and Staff Committees and Organizations not appointed by an official unit of the University RG-40/3

Organizations, Student (Photographs)

see Student Organizations (Photographs) RG-140

OSM

see Office of Space Management RG-4/14

OSWM

see Office of Solid Waste Management (OSWM) RG-36/10

Other Voice, The (1980-1984)

RG-30/26/O8

Out Front (Student Publication) (1975-1977)

RG-45/00/O9

Outing Club (1940- )

RG-45/40/O9.5

Outlook

RG-15/12

Outreach (1986-1988)

RG-3/8

Outreach Mobile Unit

RG-30/13

Outreach Programs, Center for (1972-1981)

RG-6/4/8

Outreach, University, Vice Provost for

see Vice Chancellor for University Outreach RG-16/1

Outreach, Vice Chancellor for University

see Vice Chancellor for University Outreach (2000- ) RG-16/1

Overseas Programs & Exchanges, Committee on

see Committee on Overseas Programs & Exchanges (COPE) RG-40/2/C5

Oversize Materials

RG-177 thru RG-184

Oversize Photos

RG-175

Oxford, UMass Summer School at

see English Department–Oxford, UMass Summer School at RG-25/E3/3

A writer, educator, and activist for human rights and social justice, Ward Morehouse was a prominent critic of corporate power and globalization. Raised in a family of progressive political economists and academics in Wisconsin, Morehouse began his research in international political economy while a student at Yale (BA 1950, MA 1953) and embarked on a standard academic career path. After teaching political science at New York University for a time, he became director of international education at the Center for International and Comparative Studies in 1963, building a particularly strong program in India. However in 1976, conservative opposition to his political views led Morehouse to leave for a new post as president of the Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA), a human rights organization he had helped found twenty years before. Throughout, he remained an activist at heart. Galvanized by the 1984 industrial disaster in Bhopal, India, he organized the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal, and went on to form or work with many other organizations seeking to resist corporate power and build democracy, including the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD) and the Permanent People’s Tribunal, operating the radical Apex Press. Morehouse died in June 2012 at the age of 83.

The Morehouse collection is a massive archive documenting six decades of research, writing, and activism. A prolific writer and editor, Morehouse left a deep record of his activities, his research and writing on corporate power, and the full breadth of his commitments in labor relations, alternative economics, “people’s law,” and peace.

John D. Strong

John D. Strong was a professor of Physics and Astronomy from 1967 to 1975 and served as the head of the laboratory of astrophysics and physical meteorology. Strong, one of the world’s foremost optical scientists, was known for being the first to detect water vapor in the atmosphere of Venus and for developing a number of innovations in optical devices, ranging from improved telescope mirrors to anti-reflective coatings for optical elements and diffraction gratings. Born in Riverdale, Kansas in 1905, Strong received degrees from the University of Kansas (BA 1926) and the University of Michigan (M.S., 1928, Ph.D., 1930). After twelve years at CalTech and wartime research at Harvard on infrared systems, Strong became professor and director of the Astrophysical and Physical Meteorology Laboratories at Johns Hopkins University in 1946, where, among many other projects, he conducted research on balloon astronomy for the Office of Naval Research (ONR). Strong published hundreds of papers throughout his career and was author of Procedures of Experimental Physics, a standard physics textbook for many years. Strong served as president of the American Optical Association in 1959 and patented numerous inventions for optics in spectroscopy as well as golf (see US Patent no. 3720467). Strong passed away in 1992.

The Strong Papers contain forty years of research notebooks in experimental physics (1930-1970) centered on Strong’s years at Johns Hopkins (1946-1967), along with correspondence, printed publications by Strong for the ONR, and manuscripts for several textbooks (though lacking material on Procedures of Experimental Physics). Strong’s balloon work is documented by diagrams in his lab books and photographs of the Stratolab at John’s Hopkins, and an oral history of his life was made by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in 1985, a transcript of which is included in the collection.

The collection consists of photographs of the town of Enfield and its inhabitants from ca. 1916 until the late 1930s, just before the town was flooded in the making of the Quabbin Reservoir.

Photographs from the 1930s and 1940s featuring both major government officials such as Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler, and lower ranking officials such as regional party leaders. Photographs of German soldiers with their various weapons, some possibly fighting, are also depicted. Includes film stills from the Allied invasion of Normandy and German Communist refugees in the Soviet Union.

The collection contains five photographs of envelopes bearing the Greenwich postmark, 1826, 1829, 1831, and two unidentified. It also includes three photographs of W. Walker’s store and post office in Greenwich Village, showing the sign of the last owner, S.R. King, before the town was flooded for the Quabbin Reservoir in 1938.