Theme!

Hi all,

I'd like to focus on campus life - specifically the original Cougar Den (used from 1942 through the 1950s). It was built in 60 days as a very rushed project due to the boom in enrolled students after WWII. It was the hangout spot for students and Bernie Kapner mentions it in both interviews. Because Kapner's statement is brief I'm hoping to find other interviewees who mention this. I did find a picture in the 1957 yearbook with a caption about a petition to ban Elvis Presley albums from the jukebox in the Cougar Den. Basically, the goal of my project is to chronicle the life/history of this favorite campus hangout.


Photographs needed: Cougar Den (not to be confused with the Cougar Den in the UC or the campus pub). Maybe some aerial photos showing the large number of students on campus. The original Cougar Den was inside the Recreation Building (but from what I understand most students called the entire building the Cougar Den).

Any suggestions/feedback is greatly appreciated! Still not completely sure about this idea :)

Thanks,
Mika

Theme!!

Hey everybody! As I said in class on Wednesday, I am planning to use some aspect of the GI experience. Both Welcome Wilson and Hon. Shearn Smith talk about it in their interviews. Mai mentioned someone talked about the controversy surrounding tearing down the final army building on campus--if you run across that, please let me know where!

I want to use pictures of the barrack buildings or the trailers used for housing, but haven't found any as of yet :-/

See you soon!

Stephanie

Photos

Morning all,

I spent the morning rummaging for photos based on the requests so far. Lori, I got the impression you're taking your own photos (cool idea, by the way), so I didn't do any searching for you. If I misunderstood, please let me know. I have some images for both Aimee and Katie. What I've done is create an account with a sharing site. I've created folders with your names and put what I found in them. Each also has an "info" text file which gives you the URL for any photos I found that were not in the Digital Library collection.

Here is the link to the site:
http://www.4shared.com/dir/1kwyLZT3/_online.html#dir=126190809

If there are any problems, questions, let me know.

Deanne

Theme

Hi all!

I'm going to focus on Alumni Philanthrophy/why they give.  I'll be using the three interviews I have done so far-- Howie Lorch, Nandita Berry, and Elizabeth Ghrist.  I think I'm actually going to go take some photos myself of various buildings/streets named after people to show the impact of Alumni Philanthropy on the University...and that will kind of be a photo montage somewhere in the video.  I have only found a couple of pictures of Howie Lorch and Elizabeth Ghrist in the digital library, but I need to watch their interviews again to nail down specifics in terms of looking for photos in the digital library.

Thanks,
Lori

Hi everyone,

Like I said in class today I'm really interested in looking at the 1968 UH v. UCLA basketball game at the Astrodome as a microcosm of the issue of race. I'm using the Barry Kapner and Howie Lorch interviews and currently have a bunch of good images from the 1968 yearbook of the game as well as images of some of the players and coaches. One image from the yearbook was also used as a Sports Illustrated cover in April 1968, too, so that's pretty neat. Any images of that game or the fans in the Astrodome would be great.

Thanks!
Katie

THEMES:

Hi guys,

I am going to focus on diversity, particularly Arab students at UH. I am looking for any historic photos of Arab students of groups of students showing diversity.

Thanks!

November 2nd class reminders

Hi all,

Aimee sent out an email asking that if you have videos that you haven't uploaded to dropbox (or even if you have) please bring to class today. I will be bringing my external hard drive where we will be transferring this videos to it for safe keeping.

We also discussed walking down to the Den for class time. I'm all for that.

Updated Schedule
 11/9 TBA class held rm520
11/16 TBA class held rm 520 (shortened so you can work on your videos)
12/7 Show videos. bring them on a flash drive that I can upload to the libraries YouTube channel to the UH Digital Library and into my external hard drive for preservation. Class held rm 520

See you at 2:30 in our regular classroom.
Michele