Black Rap, Volume 3 no. 1 (October 1970)
South Africa, Angola, Palestine, General Motors, Black Panther Party
This first still tabloid scaled issue of the third volume of Black Rap, from October 1970, continues the anti-establishment, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist policy and content of the secdond volume, that took this focus at the outset of 1970 with the assassination in Chicago of Fred Hampton and other efforts to control aggressive Black leaders who were disenchanted with non-violence after Dr. King's death. Though this was a new academic year and a new semester, this continues the rhetroical approach of volume two. But though the topics are global, the audience appears to be largely local, with reprints from other periodicals of major figures like Huey Newton, Jean Genet, DuBois, etc.
There also is an announcement on p. 9 of a meeting to consider a new black quarterly to be published by black students from Lake Forest College and Northwestern University, Evanston.
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<p>Black Rap, Volume 2 no. 1 (Febraury 1970)</p>
Underground Newspapers
The beginning of this new volume, after a hiatus of almost a year (March 1969 to February 1970), of Black Rap, published by Lake Forest College African-American students (Black Students for Black Action), is printed in a new format, offset in a tablid size (8 pp.), vs. the letter-sze ditto reproduction of v. 1. This reflects a new public persona for the journal, moving away from the more artistic (poetry, art, essays) and campus-focused volume 1 content toward a more political, outwardly focused editorial policy, the editorial staff is much the same. More explanation for the change would be the Chciago political context of African-American views on campus, with the Chicago Eioght trial beginning in September of 1969, with Bobby Seale's removal from the trial in November, and then the verdict and sentencing of the five convicted defendants in Febraury 1970. Seale was removed from the trial for his contempt of the court, but ultimately he was released from prison in 1971 and charges were dropped. In Chicago also the Black Panthers, more aggressive than the previous, Dr. King led, Civil Rights antiviolent movement, included Seale and also Fred Hampton (1948-1969). On December 4, 1969 Hampton wazs killed, apparently executed by police in a raid on his apartment, after having complained publicly about States Attorney Ed Hanrahan's war on gangs being excuse to make war on African-American youth. But in February of 1970, the African-American students of Lake Forest College, close to Chicago's Chicago Eight/Seven the trial and assassination by police of Fred Hampton, would have felt alienated and perhaps threatened. There is a reference to firearms, contending they are widely held by whites, at the end of the last page. (When this writer arrived on campus in September of 1972 some lakefront elite members of the community were in fear of invasion of their Lake Forest homes by carloads of Chicago African-Americans, Black Panthers.)
<p>Black Students for Black Action</p>
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Black Rap, Volume 1 no. 4 (January 1969)
Underground newspapers, Black Students for Black Action
The fourth issue of Black Rap published in January of 1969, after the holiday break. It included articles that explore the concept of Black awareness and what it holds for future generations. As well as questioning the place and role of Black students attending Lake Forest College. These pieces are accompanied by several others, and then preceded by student poetry and other short writings.
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Black Rap, Volume 1 no. 2 (1968)
Underground periodicals, Black Students for Black Action, House of Soul
This is the second issue of Black Rap, and like the first issue it begins with a clear statement of editorial policy--its service to the campus African-american student community and its friends. This issue states that it represents the campus group Black Students for Black Action (BSBA) and contributor Carl B. Maultsby discusses conflict within this community, in its living space or "purpose unit" as it was termed in the period, in roberts Hall: the House of Soul.
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Munson Paddock Locomotive Photographs Collection, as listed in 1997, by Glenn Guerra and Ray Burmaster
<p>Burmaster, Ray</p>
<p>Guerra, Glenn</p>
1850-1920
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Heartland development/subdivision, Grayslake, Illinois: newspaper clippings from the Wood Institute for Local and Regional Studies files, mid 1970s
This was a 2,300 acre development plan, to be made up of many smaller units, that was proposed and approved for annexation to Grayslake in 1974, with consideration going on for parts of the plan later, 1976, and subsequently. Sometiomes the newspaper is identified as the News-Sun, with most of the stories in early 1974. The clippings were collected by the College's Wood Institute for Local and Regional Studies.
<p>Davis, Boots</p>
<p>Soulak, Joe</p>
<p>Weatherwax, Doug</p>
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<em>Student's Handbook of Lake Forest University, 1906-07</em>, and Diary of Ora R. Whitmore (Williams), '07
<p>College students--United States--Conduct of life</p>
<p>Diaries, letters, and memoirs</p>
<p>This <em>Student Handbook</em> for 1906-07 includes daily schedule/diary pages, and this copy was filled in with appointments and notes of activities by Ora R. Whitmore (Williams) '07, from Logansport, Indiana. The book was produced for the final academic year of the presidency of the Rev. Dr. Richard Harlan (1901-06). This is the earliest year for which the Lake Forest College Archives has a complete student handbook, or book of campus regulations and aids for academic, social, and other success. Though the book is published by the YMCA of Lake Forest College (see below), it is a handbook for the University, which in addition to the College included Lake Forest Academy (boys/young men) and Ferry Hall (girls/young women), both adjacent preparatory schools then. </p>
<p>Ora R. Whitmore pursued graduate study at the University of California and married Durward S. Williams--who was deceased at the time of the publication of the <em>General Register of Lake Forest College, 1865-1931 </em>(p. 61): http://www.archive.org/stream/generalregistero1931lake#page/186/mode/2up/search/whitmore<em>. </em>According to this same source, at the time of publication she was a teacher in the Shanghai Adventist School, and a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Her address then was 25 Ningkuo Rd., Shanghai, China. </p>
<p>Harlan, Richard D.</p>
<p>Whitmore, Ora R. (Wiliams)</p>
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Japanese Garden, Middle Campus, Lake Forest College, 1959 and Subsequent
Gardens, Japanese
<p>The Japanese garden on Middle Campus was created in 1959, designed by John G. Anderson, the College's Building and Grounds superintendent and Director of Physical Plant Planning (<em>Lake Forest College Bulletin</em>, June 1959 [v. 39, no. 6], 2 and 4). This diminutive or room-scaled garden adjacent to the 1893 steam plant/Buildings and Grounds offices referenced seven of thirteen defining elements of such Japanese landscape spaces, as laid out on a Bowdoin College web page: http:www.learn.bowdoin.edu/japanesegardens/elements/inro/index.html : architecture, lantern, path, pond, sand and pebbles, shrubs and flowers, and stones and trees. In addition there was, for the space, a notable maiden sculpture, perhaps half of full-size.</p>
<p>This garden appeared right at the moment of a major shift in the College, from the administrations of Presidents Moore (1919-1942) and Johnson (1942-1959), as president and former economics professor (1924-1942) Dr. Ernest Johnson had just died that spring. Acting President (Business Manager) John Howard was presiding for 1959-60, and the faculty was updating programs and undertaking a national search for a new post-McCarthy-era president to fit an institution morphing from a denominational Christian college identity (back) to a liberal arts college one.</p>
<p>This also preceded immediately a building program in the early 1960s, under president William Graham Cole (1960-69) as an expanded student body led to new facilities. The Archives subject photo file also has under campus plans an October 1959 "Campus Plan Study..." dated October 1959. This plan eschewed the rectangular ideas of 1938 and 1947 plans to pick up on some informal forms from a Marshall Johnson plan of 1948. This would have been carried out by the architects Perkins & Will under planning head Anderson, as well. Both the 1962 Johnson Science Center, the first newly-constructed academic building since the 1908 completion of Carnegie Hall, and the 1964-65 Donnelley Library building, with "temporary" (to 1981) classroom space, included Japanese architectural and garden references in their design. For Johnson the Japanese transparency betwen the structure and the garden or landscape is seen in the link between pavilions A and B especially, with an open walkway on the first floor, with a large boulder to highlight the tie, and the floor to ceiling windows on the second level. The rock garden setting for the entry to McCormick Auditorium on the lower level of pavilion B is still present and the pebbled band around the circular Johnson C (Chicago Programs) remained until the 2000s. This Japanese influence was also notable in the Donnelley structure and landscape before its 2002-04 renovation and expansion. The basic mass was a tea house on steroids, with a bridge over a pebble stream (northeast corner), stylized lanterns on the walkways to the entrance (east), and horizontal evergreens at the four corners to catch snow. Again a pebble band, recreating a stream bed, went around the building, replaced to avoid flooding in 2004. </p>
<p>The 1959 garden can be described as a template for these new buildings, plus the faculty and student housing on Rosemary (now Rosemary House) and South Campus, 1961-65. The garden space was across the path from North to Middle Campus from the Physical Plant office, with stockade fencing on the north and west sides to protect if from wind, with the west wall of the structure across the path as a wind break from the east. The space then was only "open" to the sunny southern exposure. The east and south sides had stone curbing, according to the attached photographs, with a tall traditional gate way into the space following a pebble and stepping-stone path north past a rock with a lantern resting on it to the pond. The eastern, or campus pathway, side also had a low (ca. 18-24") protective horizontal fence post barrier to the walkway. </p>
<p>The Photos:</p>
<p>1. Looking south southwest from the campus pathway, this view shows the traditional-form lantern on a rough-hewn rock, the pathside barrier fence, the south-facing traditional gate, and the pebble path with stepping stones; June 1960. Milton A. Merner, photographer. </p>
<p>2. Japanese garden from the south southeast with Acting President John R. Howard (b. 1922), left, and College board chair Carrol Sudler, right, apparently June 1959 (Commencement?). The newly appointed president from Williams College, William Graham Cole (1960-69; d. 2011 age 93), was the speaker; Mr. Howard accepted the presidency of Lewis & Clark College, Oregon (1960-81). One the two women was Ruth Bahlert, according to a note on the rear of he photo. Milton A. Merner was the photographer. </p>
<p>3. View from the south into the garden through the traditional gate, and showing the pond toward the northwest corner, with Sandra Davis (Worth) gazing at it, September 1962. There are established perennials, vines, and small trees and shrubs, as well. Creative Photography is credited for the image, at 334 East Westminster, Lake Forest. </p>
<p>4. The traditionally dressed maiden sculpture (pressed stone?), at the northwest corner of the 1959 Japanese garden, Middle Campus. With pine tree branches behind, in front of the stockade fencing. The undated photograph is by Thomas H. Livermore. </p>
<p>5. This early (or late?) 1959 view of the Japanese garden from the south southeast, with a woman student, may precede the establishment of the perennial plantings, though the pond, sculpture and bare deciduous shrubs are shown. Also notable at this stage is a spotlight for night viewing by passers-by, apparently, to the right of the base of the sculpture. </p>
<p>Merner, Milton A.</p>
<p>Creative Photography (Lake Forest, Ill.) </p>
<p>Livermore, Thomas H. </p>
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President William Howard Taft, 1909-13, and Golf
<p>Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930</p>
<p>Wilson, Calvin D. (Calvin Dill), b. 1857</p>
<p>Birch, Reginald Bathurst, 1856-1943</p>
<p>This is one of forty-four small exhibits/canvases on U.S. presidents commissioned by the Theater Dept. in connection with its April 2012 production of a play on that subject: https://www.lakeforest.edu/live/events/472086-44-plays-for-44-presidents.</p>
<p>The College's Archivist and Librarian for Special Collections Arthur H. Miller undertook this assignment, for President Taft of the forty-four and with an open-ended charge to create something relevant, from his perspective of the College library's holdings. He was assisted in the production by Khamani Hagood '14.</p>
<p>The exhibit item on President Taft is from an article about Presidents' activities out of doors published in the <em>Century</em> v. 77, 712 written by Calvin Dill Wilson and the illustration reproduced from it is by notable illustrator ("Little Lord Fauntleroy" in 1886) Reginald B. Birch. </p>
<p>The illustration shows the rotund President Taft preparing a golf shot, and the article discusses Taft's outdoors activities in contrast to those of the small, athletic Roosevelt who preceded him in the presidency. </p>
<p>Miller, Arthur H.</p>
<p>Hagood, Khamani</p>
Wilson, Calvin Dill with Reginald B. Birch, illus. "Our Presidents OUt of Doors," <em>Century</em> 77 (Nov. 1908-April 1909), 712.
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<p>David Mattoon is shown here with the David Plowden 1960 photograph of a Canadian steam locomotive he won at the 2012 Railroad Photography Conference, April 14.</p>
<p>Plowden, David</p>
<p>Mattoon, David Wesley</p>
<p>David Wesley Mattoon, Lake Forest College Class of 1976, and Special Collections Railroad Collection volunteer, won this framed image of a steam locomotive by David Plowden. It is one of those published in Plowden's 2011 book, <em>Requiem for Steam</em> (W. W. Norton).Also attached here is a photo from the Center for Railroad Photography and Art's website sowing Plowden signing copies of <em>Requiem for Steam</em>. </p>
<p>Mattoon's Plowden print was raffled off on Saturday, April 14, 2012, at the 10th annual "Conversations about Photography" Conference of the Center for Railroad Photography and Art, Lake Forest College. Over 140 photographers, publishers and collectors attended from across the U.S. and Europe.</p>
<p>The photograph was a gift of the photographer, David Plowden, parent of Karen Plowden, a recent graduate of the College. The raffle benefited the Center's programs at its headquarters in Madison, WI, and here at its archive in Special Collections, Donnelley and Lee Library.</p>
<p>For more about Mattoon, see: http://www.lakeforest.edu/library/archives/DavidMattoonCV.php</p>
<p>For more about David Plowden, see: http://davidplowden.com/</p>
<p>For more about <em>Requiem for</em> <em>Steam</em>, see<em> </em>http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Requiem-for-Steam/</p>
<p>For more about tthe Center for Railroad Photography and Art, see: http://www.railphoto-art.org/</p>
<p>For more about the April 113-15, 2012 ten annual Conversations about Photography Conference of the Center and the photo won by Mattoon,, see: http://www.railphoto-art.org/conference/</p>
<p>For more about the railroad related collections in Special Collections, Donnelley and Lee Library, Lake Forest College, see: http://www.lakeforest.edu/library/archives/railroad/</p>
<p>Miller, Arthur H.</p>
<p>Koshollek, Hank</p>
<p>Plowden, David</p>
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