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Be Your Own Valentine Writing Workshop
Get PDFA workshop handout or other teaching material created by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Kansas Poet Laureate 2009-2013
Press Release: Can Poetry Save the World? 20 Poets Laureate Converge in Lawrence, Kansas To Find Out
Get PDFAssorted papers kept by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg during her time as Kansas Poet Laureate, 2009-2013
Writing Across Kansas: Starting & Sustaining Community Writing Circles
Get PDFAssorted papers kept by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg during her time as Kansas Poet Laureate, 2009-2013
Professor Franklin’s Unannotated Bibliography of Young Adult Literature, 2021—22
Get PDFA companion to Professor Franklin’s Annotated Bibliography of Young Adult Literature, 2021—22, this is a list of the 205 books alphabetized by author or editor’s last name.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/oer-english/1005/thumbnail.jp
Brady family collection, circa 1900-1975
Get PDFCorrespondence, clippings, recordings, programs, and photograph about Eva Jessye collected by Karen and Kenneth Brady.
Born in Coffeyville, Kansas, on January 20, 1895, Eva Alberta Jessye started her academic career in the public schools of Coffeyville and Iola, Kansas. At age 13 she attended Western University in Quindaro, Kansas. She graduated from Western University in 1914 and went on to Langston University in Oklahoma where she received a lifetime certificate in teaching.
Jessye taught in elementary schools in Taft, Haskell, and Muskogee, Oklahoma before she became a reporter and columnist for the Baltimore (Maryland) Afro-American in 1925. In 1926 she joined a choral group in New York called the Dixie Jubilee Singers. This group would eventually become the world-renowned Eva Jessye Choir. The choir performed spirituals, work songs, ballads, ragtime, jazz, and light opera in a variety of mediums, such as radio, film, and stage. They were regulars on the “Major Bowes Family Radio Hour” and the “General Motors Hour.” In 1927 the Dixie Jubilee Singers worked in Harry A. Pollard’s film, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The same year, Dr. Jessye compiled and published a critically acclaimed collection of songs titled My Spirituals. In 1929 King Vidor directed “Hallelujah”, the first musical motion picture with an all-Black cast. The film featured the Dixie Jubilee Singers with Jessye as choral director.
Dr. Jessye was appointed choral director for the New York production of the Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein opera, “Four Saints in Three Acts” in 1934. In 1935 Jessye was selected by George Gershwin to be choral director for the original production of his 1935 folk-opera, “Porgy and Bess.” For the next three decades, Jessye was associated with almost every Porgy & Bess production worldwide, earning the unofficial title of \u27curator and guardian of the score’.
Eva Jessye was also involved in humanitarian efforts. Her experiences as a black woman during the Jim Crow era influenced her involvement in the later Civil Rights movement. She collaborated with African-American notables Marian Anderson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Julia Davis, Eubie Blake, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Paul Robeson. In August 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. selected the Eva Jessye Choir as the official chorus of the historic March on Washington. The choir performed “We Shall Overcome” and “Freedom Is the Thing We’re Talking About.” Tom Mboya, founder of Kenya’s Independence Movement Council and president of the People’s Convention Party, later used the recordings of these songs during Kenya’s struggle for independence. During the 1960s Eva Jessye also appeared in the motion pictures Black Like Me and Slaves.
Dr. Jessye returned to academia in her later years. She established the Eva Jessye Afro-American Music Collection at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1974. She established the Eva Jessye Collection at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1977 and served as that University’s Artist-In-Residence from 1978 to 1981.
During her lifetime Jessye received honorary degrees from Wilberforce University, Allen University, and Southern University, including an honorary doctorate. She also received numerous citations from government, educational, and musical organizations. In 1981, Governor John Carlin of Kansas declared Dr. Eva Jessye to be Kansas Ambassador for the Arts.
Dr. Eva Jessye died on February 21, 1992 at the age of 97 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/1417/thumbnail.jp
Wide Open: Pea Ridge Battlefield
No full text2/3s of the photograph is dominated by blue sky and fluffy and thick clouds. The bottom 1/3 of the photograph is the open field of Pea Ridge Battlefield in Arkansas, with trees in the far fence line as well as a ridge rising in the background. In the bottom right corner, there is a path leading towards the trees and you can see snow to both sides of the path.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/openartexhibit/1012/thumbnail.jp
2023 Strategic Plan for The Meat Shed
Get PDFAt the end of June 2022, the author began the process of establishing client relations with a local business in Pittsburg, Kansas, The Meat Shed. One of the co-owners, Matt DeMoss, agreed to let his establishment be a client for a graduate project. After initial meetings. The Meat Shed was seeking to expand their brand identity to potential stakeholders of the Pittsburg community and the surrounding areas. This idea from the client sparked the interest of the author to create a strategic plan to assist in increasing awareness and engagement between stakeholders and the client. In this strategic plan the author outlines strategies, tactics, and research methods for The Meat Shed to use in their business marketing strategy. Intertwined in the strategic plan is a theoretical framework, Social Marketing Theory and Networking Theory, the author uses as a guide to create deliverables and conduct analysis about The Meat Shed organization and its stakeholders