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Sir Brian Windeyer in interview with Sir Gordon Wolstenholme
No full textSir Brian Windeyer was professor of radiology (therapeutic) from 1942 to 1969, and dean from 1954 to 1967, at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He also served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine of London University from 1964 to 1968, and then vice-chancellor of the University from 1969 to 1972. Sir Brian begins the interview by discussing his Australian family background, education at Sydney Church of England Grammar School, and medical studies at the University of Sydney, where he was also a keen sportsman, rowing in the college crew and playing rugby in the university team. Sir Brian then talks of interviewing prospective medical students when he was dean at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, and of how the admission policy did not rely solely on examination results. The interview moves to the period when he was dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of London and the discussions that took place about possible mergers of the medical schools within the University. The interview then returns to his early career and Sir Brian talks of the two-year period as an assistant at the Fondation Curie, Paris, after leaving the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, where he worked in house jobs and as a radium registrar, after qualifying in 1927. He speaks of meeting Marie Curie at the Fondation Curie, and training under the direction of Claudius Regaud, one of the pioneers of radiotherapy. The interview then progresses to Sir Brian's distinguished career in radiotherapy at the Middlesex Hospital. In 1931 he was appointed radium officer at the Middlesex Hospital and he became the medical officer in charge of the Meyerstein Institute of Radiotherapy, which was created in 1936. During the war he was director of the emergency medical service radiotherapy department at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex, and after the war he became director of the Meyerstein Institute and of the radiotherapy department at Mount Vernon Hospital. He was made the first professor of radiology (therapeutic) at the Middlesex Hospital in 1942. In the interview Sir Brian discusses with Sir Gordon Wolstenholme some aspects of radiotherapy during the early years of its development in the UK. There follows some discussion of radiological protection and mention is made of Sir Brian's chairmanship of the Radiological Protection Board
Gordon, Brian Huntly, TX2079
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/388231Surname: GORDON. Given Name(s) or Initials: BRIAN HUNTLY. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: TX2079. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 18621.211001
Item: [2016.0049.20524] "Gordon, Brian Huntly, TX2079
Caroline Gordon Collection
No full textArrangement Description
EXTENT
Linear Feet: 2 linear feet
Number of Containers: 2 boxes
Series 1: Writings, 31 files
Series 2: Lectures, 19 files
Series 3: Courses, 10 files
Series 4: Book Reviews, 5 files
Series 5: About Caroline Gordon,8 files
Series 6: Correspondence, 18 files
Series 7: Books, 5 books
Series 8: Media: 9 digital files, 9 cassettes, 2 reelsCOLLECTION DETAILS
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BIOGRAPHICAL / Historical Note: Twentieth-century novelist Caroline Gordon was born into the Kentucky line of the extensive Meriwether family in 1895. Exploration of the family's past and its evolution is a major theme of her fiction. She grew up at Merry Mont in Todd County, near Clarksville where she received her early education. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bethany College in 1916. Her father is the idealized subject of Gordon's second novel, Alec Maury, Sportsman (1934), and the central character in her much-anthologized story, "Old Red." Gordon taught briefly; then, as a journalist, she became one of the first reviewers to comment favorably on a new Nashville-based magazine of poetry, The Fugitive. During the summer of 1924, Robert Penn Warren, a Todd County neighbor, introduced her to Allen Tate. Within a year they were married and living in New York City, where their daughter, Nancy Meriwether was born. With Tate, she began a period of life abroad, devoted to writing and sustained by various fellowships granted to one or the other. In London, Gordon was secretary to the influential British writer Ford Madox. In 1930 the Tates returned to the United States and settled in Clarksville in a house provided by Tate's brother Ben and called "Benfolly." Both Tates were exceptionally hospitable to friends and encouraging to younger writers. Both were prolific correspondents, generous with constructive criticism. (Gordon eventually became mentor to several writers, most notably Flannery O'Connor). Although she had to wrest time for her writing from domestic and social obligations, the eight Benfolly years were especially productive for Gordon, who published four novels and several stories before 1937. The first novel was Penhally (1931), followed by Alec Maury, Sportsman (1934), None Shall Look Back (1937), and The Garden of Adonis (1937), studies of the southern family during the Civil War and Great Depression. Academic appointments of the 1940s took the Tates throughout the Southeast and to Princeton, where they established a home near their daughter, who married psychiatrist Percy Wood in 1944. During this time Gordon published her fifth novel, Green Centuries (1941). Her second related group of novels, The Woman on the Porch (1944), which deals with a troubled marriage, The Strange Children (1951), based on life at Benfolly, and The Malefactors (1956), is informed by her conversion to Roman Catholicism. She and her husband wrote The House of Fiction (1950), which was followed by Gordon's How to Read a Novel in 1957. Gordon lived in Princeton until 1973, teaching, and writing: The Glory of Hera (1972). An appointment in the creative writing program drew her to the University of Dallas (Gordon was 77 years old when she proposed the new creative writing program at UD). When her health began to fail in 1978, she moved to San Cristobal de las Casas in Chapas, Mexico, with her daughter and family. She died there on April 11, 1981.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION Caroline Gordon (1895-1981) was an American author. This collection consists of manuscripts of Gordon's work, including novels, lectures, and poetry during her time at the University of Dallas. It also includes correspondence with authors and family members, writings of others, and photographs.
Lectures and Commentary available here: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2548University of Dalla
Imagem e Corpo: Representações do Mundo Antigo
No full textA61A-9C1A-F155 | Brian Gordon Lutalo Kibuukainfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Oral History Interview with Brian Ehrlich, Vice President for Enrollment
No full textIn an interview with Gordon Patterson on July 17, 2025, Brian Ehrlich, Vice President for Enrollment at Florida Institute of Technology, chronicles his extensive career in higher education and provides a comprehensive overview of the university\u27s evolution, particularly in online and off-campus education
WORKS OF BRIAN BOYD
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/70334Publications by or about Brian Boyd while he was Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council. "There is corruption...and then there is CORRUPTION! An expose of turning a blind eye to corporate bribery, fraud and greed in Australia", compilation and commentary by Brian Boyd, Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, June 2014. Gordon McCaskie, 'Brian Boyd: a trade unionist", LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012, Germany. 'Lessons for the 21st century: The Builders Labourers Federation 'Never Powerless'", May 2012. two plackards: 'Victoria Says Bust the Budget June 2014' and No Silencing Act" authorised by Brian Boyd, VTHC, 2014. Three rally posters: Our Community Counts: March for a Fair Australia, 1pm Sunday 6th July 2014 Queen Victoria Gardens.95963
Series: [2015.0048] "WORKS OF BRIAN BOYD
Let them eat caviar
No full textLet them eat caviarGeorge Abell and Evelyn Gordon. Illustrated by Brian Brow
Interview of Gordon Fountain by Brian Shoemaker
No full textPaul Siple, pp. 2, 27
Isaac “Ike” Schlossback, temporary skipper of the Bear, pp. 2, 21-22
Charles Lindbergh, aviator, p. 2
Amory “Bud” Waite, member of team that rescued Byrd after his second expedition, p. 11
Pete Demas, member of team that rescued Byrd after his second expedition, pp. 7, 11
Robert English, Captain of the Bear, pp. 4, 18-19
Finn Ronne, leader of the 1947-48 expedition, pp. 22, 27
Admiral Richard E. Byrd, pp. 6, 9-12, 15
Sir George Hubert Wilkins, pp. 22, 25
Lincoln Ellsworth, pp. 22-23Gordon Fountain, as a seaman on the Bear of Oakland, sailed to Antarctica on the Byrd’s Second Expedition to Antarctica. At the time of this interview, he was a member of the Board of Governors of the American Polar Society. Fountain’s interest in Antarctica started as a child. He read about the Josephine Ford and Byrd’s North Pole flight, and followed avidly the trans-Atlantic competition between Charles Lindbergh and Byrd for the Orteig prize. In 1932, when the Bear was brought to the Boston Navy Yard for repairs, Fountain, a local youth, volunteered to help rehabilitate the ship. The temporary skipper was Ike Schlossback. In September 1933, the Bear sailed for Antarctica, but the young Fountain was left behind. But several members of the crew departed along the way, and Fountain joined the ship in New Zealand working for a shilling a month. In Dunedin, New Zealand, the mast was replaced, 50 tons of coal were stowed on the deck, and the ship, alternately burning coal or using its sails to conserve coal, sailed south. During storms it was hard to keep much of the coal from washing overboard. This voyage of the Bear was described as a “pick-up” cruise since Admiral Byrd had been in Antarctica for some time, and was preparing to come home.
The Bear coasted along the Admiralty Range, McMurdo Sound, Discovery Inlet, and stopped at Little America and the Bay of Whales. Because of the ice pack they could not reach the mainland, and so the ship was tied up to the bay ice that often broke loose. One task was to help dig out the Ford Tri-Motor plane that was frozen in the ice. The Tri-Motor and other planes, and other pieces of heavy equipment, were loaded aboard the Jacob Ruppert that was standing by. As this happened it was necessary to use telephone poles as barriers to keep the ship from banging into the edge of the ice pack. Another plane, the Fairchild, was recovered, but it needed substantial repairs.
Fountain met Admiral Byrd several times on the shelf ice as preparations continued to depart for home. He recalls the impressive physical strength of Byrd, diminished somewhat as a result of the Admiral’s exposure to carbon monoxide, and subsequent serious illness, that had occurred while he had over wintered alone for several months. Bud Waite and Pete Demas had rescued him. Two other prominent explorers were in Antarctica at about the same time, Lincoln Ellsworth and Sir Hubert Wilkins. Among the items loaded on board the Bear for the trip home were a collection of penguins, only six of which survived the trip back, and several of the sled dogs. One female dog had six pups on the way home; these were given out to various crew members. When the loading was complete, the ship departed for Dunedin, New Zealand, but first there was a stop at Discovery Inlet to catch a few more penguins. The trip back proved uneventful; they encountered very little pack ice. There were a couple of hard storms that caused a severe roll of the ship.
Fountain recalled several incidents from the initial trip south from New Zealand. They had three men and a mate to a watch. Sometimes the crews from two watches would be required to adjust the sails, and occasionally all hands, including the cook, needed to be on deck. Wheel watch lasted an hour and twenty minutes. One memory concerned John Murphy, the boatswain, who made coffee by running boiler steam through the water until it was hot enough to drink. It was quick, but tasted of boiler chemicals. Another memory concerned supplies from shelves being tossed onto the men’s bunks during storms. The Skipper of the Bear was Robert English, a regular navy man who was “seconded” to the expedition, and who later became both an Admiral and President of the American Polar Society.
Once repairs were completed at Dunedin, the Bear set out on the forty-day trip to the Panama Canal. En-route, it met up with the Ruppert at Easter Island where a load of coal was transferred to the Bear. While there, the natives of Easter Island traded carved aku-aku’s for used clothing, tobacco, and hats. More coal was taken on board in Panama, so much so that coal dust covered much of the ship. Once Admiral Byrd was invited to come from the Ruppert to the Bear for dinner, but when he saw coal dust in the mashed potatoes he refused to stay. After a stop at Quantico, the ship returned home to Boston. Ike Schlossback returned on the Ruppert, but he would make other trips to Antarctica, including the third Byrd Expedition of 1939, and the Finn Ronne Expedition of 1947-1948. The crews of the two ships were invited to Washington to meet President Roosevelt. After meeting the President, the ship returned to Boston where Mayor Curley, just before he went to jail, entertained them.
Fountain got to know Finn Ronne quite well. He described Ronne as a “hard-nosed Norwegian” who “when he said jump, he expected people to jump.” It was Ronne who recommended Fountain for membership in the American Polar Society. Another friend was Louise Boyd. The American Polar Society was organized about this time.
Major Themes
Voyage of the Bear, 1936-37, to retrieve Admiral Byrd and his party from Antarctica
Challenges at sea and on shore in a difficult natural environment
Brief recollections of Admiral Byrd
Remembrances of several other prominent Antarctic explorersFunded by a grant from the National Science Foundation
Statement of Gordon Hirabayashi
No full textStatement by Gordon Hirabayashi about his refusal to register for forced removal to an incarceration camp. He writes: "This order for the mass evacuation of all persons of Japanese descent denies them the right to live."The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case Ex parte Mitsuye Endo (1944), in which the United States Supreme court unanimously ruled that the federal government could not indefinitely detain United States citizens who were loyal to the government. Files include documents related to the Gordon Hirabayashi Supreme Court case Hirabayashi v. United States
Portrait of Gordon Scholes [picture] /
No full textCopyright transferred to the National Library of Australia.; Title from accession record.; "Sketch for portrait painting"--acquisitions file.; Inscriptions: "Gordon Scholes"--l.l. corner.; Condition: good
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