One hundred fifty years ago, on 22 April 1863, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) held its first meeting. The founding of the academy was but one of an impressive array of federal actions that would prepare the United States of America for a bright future. During the dark days of 1862 and 1863, mired in a bloody and intense Civil War, Congress passed, and President Lincoln signed, the Morrill Act, creating a system of Land Grant Colleges. The Act greatly enhanced access to higher education for Americans and promoted scientific and technical research in the coming generations. In the same period, Congress authorized the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, and President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Only a few months later, President Lincoln and Congress took another major step to advance the young nation by creating NAS, a bold way to elevate American science and to incorporate science into the U.S. future. This was a remarkable set of government actions during very tough times.
Summary: NCVHS 60th anniversary symposium -- Toward an enhanced information capacities for health: An NCVHS concept paper (June 2010) -- The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Sixty years of making a difference: A history. ; Appendices: NCVHS members, staff, liaisons, retirees, subcommittees, workgroups (as of May 10, 2010) -- NCVHS Chairs and Executive Secretaries, 1949-2010 [and] NCVHS Executive Secretaries, 1949-present -- Charter: National Commitee on Vital and Health Statistics [and] NCVHS 60-year timeline. ; National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. ; "February 2011." ; Title from screen viewed 8 June 2011. ; Also available in print. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Includes bibliographical references.
On cover: Supplement to the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. March, 1916, to July, 1921 ; "Being an index to all publications of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences from March, 1916, up to and including July, 1921, and supplementing the twenty-fifth anniversary index published as a supplement to the March, 1916, issue of the Annals." ; Mode of access: Internet.
Remarks at COL's Board of Governors Reception, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 13 June 2013 by Professor Asha Kanwar, President & Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth of Learning // Thank you for joining us for our 25th anniversary celebrations. Twenty five years ago the Commonwealth Heads of Government met here in Vancouver and decided to establish an organization that would use distance learning and technologies to promote education and training in Member States and to strengthen Commonwealth cooperation. Today we can say that COL has fulfilled that vision and become a well-respected organization that helps governments and institutions to expand the scale, efficiency and quality of learning that leads to development.
A program for the Free Niagara Anniversary dinner of 1935. 1935 was the Fiftieth Anniversary of the State Reservation at Niagara (Niagara Falls State Park, NY).
"March, 1916"--Cover ; Index covers July 1890-Jan. 1916 ; "Supplement to The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science"--Cover ; Mode of access: Internet.
Lyrics for "Fiftieth Anniversary Song", copyrighted 1968. Sang at the Rochester Convention in 1969 in which women dressed up in 1920s era garb and celebrated the 19th Amendment and the early women who made it possible. Words and music by Frances Morlan Folger.
Between 1600 and 1700, sudden, profound, and multifarious changes occurred in philosophy, science, medicine, politics, and society. In an extremely convulsed century, these profound and convergent upheavals produced the equivalent of a cultural big bang, which opened a new domain of knowledge acquisition based on population thinking and group comparisons. In 1662, when John Graunt applied—for the first time—the new approach to the analysis of causes of death in London, he gave epidemiology a singular date of birth. This was exactly 350 years ago.
The M. H. Ross Papers contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2001-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125. The campaign materials consist of items from the 1940 and 1948 political campaigns in which Ross participated. These items include campaign cards, posters, speech transcripts, news clippings, rally materials, letters to voters, and fliers. Organizing and arbitration materials covers labor organizing events from "Operation Dixie" in Georgia, the furniture workers in North Carolina, and the Mine-Mill workers in the Western United States. Organizing materials include fliers, correspondence, news articles, radio transcripts, and some related photos. Arbitration files consist of agreements, decisions, and agreement booklets. The social and political research files cover a wide time period (1930's to the late 1970's/early 1980's). The topics include mainly the Ku Klux Klan, racism, Communism, Red Scare, red baiting, United States history, and literature. These files consist mostly of news and journal articles. Ross interacted with coal miners while doing work for the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) and while working at the Fairmont Clinic in West Virginia. Included in these related files are books, news articles, journals, UMWA reports, and coal miner oral histories conducted by Ross. Tying in to all of the activities Ross participated in during his life were his research and manuscript files. He wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles on history and labor. Later, as he worked for the UMWA and at the Fairmont Clinic, he wrote more in-depth articles about coal miners, their lifestyle, and medical problems they faced (while the Southern Labor Archives has many of Ross's coal mining and lifestyle articles, it does not have any of his medical articles). Along with these articles are the research files Ross collected to write them, which consist of notes, books, and newspaper and journal articles. In additional to his professional career, Ross was adamant about documenting his and his wife's family history in the oral history format. Of particular interest are the recordings of his interviews with his wife's family - they were workers, musicians, and singers of labor and folk songs. Finally, in this collection are a number of photographs and slides, which include images of organizing, coal mining (from the late 19th through 20th centuries), and Appalachia. Of note is a small photo album from the 1930s which contains images from the Summer School for Workers, and more labor organizing. A few audio items are available as well, such as Ross political speeches and an oral history in which Ross was interviewed by his daughter, Jane Ross Davis in 1986. All photographic and audio-visual materials are at the end of their respective series. ; Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Columbia University School of Public Health. He worked for the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund from 1957 to 1958, where he represented the union in expenditure of health care for mining workers. By 1958, Ross began plans for what would become the Fairmont Clinic, a prepaid group practice in Fairmont, West Virginia, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. From 1958 until 1978, Ross served as administrator of the Fairmont Clinic. As a result of this work, Ross began researching coal mining, especially coal mining lifestyle, heritage and history of coal mining and disasters. He would interview over one hundred miners (coal miners). Eventually, Ross began writing a manuscript about the history of coal mining. Working for the Rural Practice Program of the University of North Carolina from 1980 until 1987, Ross taught in the medical school. M. H. Ross died on January 31, 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ; Digitization of the M. H. Ross Papers was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Prof. Vladimir I. Chikatunov was born on September 8, 1940 in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan (then Tajik SSR, USSR). His parents originated from Ukraine. His father, Eli (Ilya) was a military doctor, perished near Kharkov in 1943, and, unfortunately, almost nothing else is known about him. His mother Rachel (1904–2000), was born in Kremenchug, graduated from the Kharkov Medical Institute, and was sent to serve as a pediatrician in Tajikistan, were she remained for nearly all her life. Vladimir's grandparents and most of his relatives remained in Ukraine and were killed in the Holocaust. Since his early childhood Vladimir developed a strong interest in nature and natural history. As a youngster he participated in the work of the Young Naturalists' Station in Dushanbe (1952–1958), acquiring skills that got proved to be very instrumental to him in the future. Vladimir studied zoology at the Tajik State University, Dushanbe (1959–1967). He obtained his PhD in 1967 from the Tajik University and the Zoological Institute, St Petersburg, Russia (then USSR), under supervision of Prof. I.K. Lopatin, a famous zoologist and entomologist. Vladimir's PhD thesis combined two of his main passions, zoology and mountaineering, and was on the Composition and ecology of insects of the Alpine part of the Gissar Range. Vladimir received his DSc degree in 1981 from the Institute of Zoology, Kiev, Ukraine, by submitting a thesis on the Coleoptera of the mountain regions of Central Asia. Since 1967, Vladimir worked in his alma mater as a lecturer, then as a senior lecturer and associate professor (1970), full professor (1982), Head of the Department of Zoology (1980–1992), and Rector and Vice-Rector (1987–1991). He devoted his time to research and teaching zoology, entomology, biogeography, ecology, microevolution, phenetics and evolution theory, supervising PhD and MSc students, both local and from abroad. In 1992, Vladimir and his family left Tajikistan and arrived in Israel, where he became employed as Curator of Coleoptera ...
The Revista Brasileira de Música (Brazilian Journal of Music) celebrates its 80th anniversary, and consolidates its editorial policy of internationalization and democratization of access to knowledge. This volume celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Revista Brasileira de Música consists of articles that contribute to the understanding of the historical, political and institutional context in which this jornal was created, as well as the trajectory of its main editor, Luiz Heitor Correa de Azevedo.
This article is a brief foreword to the ten-year anniversary issue of Arctic Review on Law and Politics with background about the journal written by the dean of the Faculty of Law at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, the journal's sponsor.
50th Anniversary Free Niagara Dinner Menu and Program. Guests or speakers included: Robert Moses, Herbert H. Lehman, Governor of New York; Mitchell F. Hepburn, Lithgow Osborne, N. Franklin Maddever. This was also a ceremony for the dedication of the Grand Island Bridges.
President Daniel T. Oliver, Dr. Jack Borsting, and the Naval Postgraduate School Board of Advisors (BOA) celebrate the group's 40th anniversary with a ceremonial cake on April 17. The board, established in May 1967 by Secretary of the Navy Paul Nitze, held its first meeting September 14-15 that year. In forming the board, Nitze noted, "in the Navy of today, we need.superior technical, analytical and managerials skills." Nitze's goal was to impanel distinguished civilian educators, military officers, business and professional leaders who could advise NPS leadership and the Navy secretary on the effectiveness of the service's advanced education programs.
