Ithaca Festival records, 1962-1984.

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Ithaca Festival records, 1962-1984.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64074474

Records concerning the organization and development of the Festival include agendas and minutes of the Board of Trustees and the Executive; minutes and reports of various other committees; fund raising and public relations consultants' reports, the report on a space and accomodation program prepared by Fairchild and Dubois, Toronto architects, and a statement on the Festival by the Department of Speech and Drama at Cornell University; correspondence, memoranda, resolutions, financial statements, and rough notes; four versions of a promotional brochure outlining the purpose of the Festival, giving information on the major figures concerned and on the size and geographical distribution of the potential audience, projecting estimates of revenue and expenses for a typical season, and including a section by Alan Schneider entitled "The Idea of a Festival Theatre in Ithaca..." and a file of correspondence, minutes, and memoranda pertaining to the earlier organization; an incomplete run (1965-1966) of the newsletter "From the Wings," newspaper clippings, and other printed matter. Also, tapes and transcripts (1965-1971) of the Cornell University Oral History Program's Ithaca Festival Documentation Project conducted by Marian Hodges, Gould Colman, Katrina Morse, David Harry Watrous Smith, Edwina Devereux, and Edward Devereux, including interviews with Kit Boynton, Walter G. Bruska, Ralph N. Campbell, Marvin A. Carlson, William R. Carpenter, Joseph F. Daine, Edwina Devereux, Howard I. Dillingham, Leonard Edelstein, Henry Guerlac, Francine Herman, Mary W. John, Jean F. Lynch, Beatrice MacLeod, Steven Muller, Thomas Niederkorn, Norbert H. Schickel, Jr., William F. Schmidt, Alan Scneider, Randall E. Shew, John Summerskill, Charles Treman Jr., and Walter Wiggins, mainly concerning their interest in and support for the Ithaca Festival, but also referring to Summer-Ithaca, and an interview with J. Wesley Zeigler concerning his role as manageing director. Among the other persons represented in these records are David Ketchum, Robert Mueller, Leverett Saltonstall, Jr., and Alvin H. Reiss.

1.8 cubic ft., 29 tapes, 38 transcripts.

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Saltonstall, Leverett, 1892-1979

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Schneider, Alan, 1917-1984

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Niederkorn, Thomas.

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Cornell University. Dept. of Speech and Drama.

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McLeod, Beatrice

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Ketchum, David

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Mueller, Robert Kirk

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Summerskill, John.

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John, Mary W.

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Guerlac, Henry.

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Author. Born 1912; died 1985. From the description of Papers of Henry Guerlac, 1946. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77575497 Professor of History of Science, Cornell University. Henry Edward Guerlac (1910-1982) graduated from Cornell University in 1932, received a master's degree in biochemistry from Cornell in 1933, and a doctorate in European history from Harvard University in 1941. Before joining the Cornell faculty in 1946, he taught at Harvard, ...

Herman, Francine

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Schickel, Norbert H., Jr.

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Schmidt, William F., 1866-

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Muller, Steven, 1927-2013

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Zeigler, Joseph Wesley

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Devereux, Edward (Barrister)

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Carpenter, William R.

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Daino, Joseph F.

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Morse, Katrina.

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Ithaca Festival.

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The Ithaca Festival (previously Summer-Ithaca and the Ithaca Festival of the Classics) incorporated in 1964 as a center for the performing arts in Ithaca and Tompkins County, New York. From the description of Ithaca Festival records, 1962-1984. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074474 ...

Hodges, Marian.

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Bruska, Walter G.

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Campbell, Ralph N.

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Lynch, Jean F.

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Shew, Randall E.

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Devereux, Edwina,

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Smith, David Harry Watrous

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Wiggins, Walter E.

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Reiss, Alvin H.

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Edelstein, Leonard

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Dillingham, Howard I., 1904-1998

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Treman, Charles, Jr.

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Boynton, Kit.

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Fairfield and Dubois.

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Colman, Gould P. (Gould Patchin), 1926-

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Archivist, historian. Cornell University Class of 1951, Ph.D., 1962. From the description of Gould Colman papers, 1954-1996. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64072786 ...

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