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UMUC - European Division - Mason G Daly - Citation for Stephen Meltzer - August 27 1966 - Munich
No full textEurope;Hoffmann, RosemaryDr. Mason G. Daly Director European Division University of Maryland
Munich 27 August 1966
CITATION for STEPHEN MELTZER
This statement must be read to this august assemblage - in this ancient Bavarian capital - on this massive military kaserne astride this mediaeval crossroad to the Tegernsee. It must be read because it takes the form of a fairly cryptic citation, and citations are too dignified and too dramatic and often too droll to be left to the chance choice of words.
It is a great relief to know that Stephen J. Meltzer is not to become a Ph.D. drop-out. A Ph.D. drop-out is more tragic than a junior-high drop-out -for a man this age is too old to learn a useful trade, is too clogged with cholesterol to start a new life, is too encumbered with legitimate offspring to escape responsibility, is too tormented by success to be fulfilled short of those ultimate letters on the signature block -Ph.D. LBJ and the Great Society have set up all sorts of retrieval systems for drop-outs in our complex and confusing society, but we do not yet have an LBJ Salvage Corps for Ph.D. drop-outs, and this man is too old and too realistic to sit around waiting for one.
This man can lay claim to calm good judgment, we know that; thus we know this decision about the Ph.D. can only be right. After all, this man can claim to know the difference between a unit and an agency - and he's one of the few in the world who does.
This man can claim to know the difference between one kind of APO and another, and it's a lucky man who sees that difference at once.
This man can claim to know the difference between a quarterly report and a window box, we suppose because he and some of the educational carpenters present have hammered out some of each.
This man can claim to have tried nobly to define "on-duty education" for those in high places in the command , and if there has been a temporary set-back, he knows full well that the semantic mazes of on-and off-duty education will soon have troops streaming back into the halls of GED at all hours of the day and night because we all know, all too well, that all men in uniform are really on-duty 25 hours a day, 367 days a year, and we can have all the time left over to educate them.
This man can claim he knows the re al difference between a district supervisor and a GED coordinator, and that's because Bill Brenner told him.
This man can claim to have tried to keep USAFI-Europe from slipping into another camp, but he watched with the rest of us as USAFI, making up letter-heads for others, lost its own letter-head. But it has a new building, it still has Larry Gates, and it enjoyed throughout its recent metaphysical changes, warm regard and continued requirement s of this man and his agency.
This man can claim to have taken less TDY than his predecessor, Warren Winstead, but then, who can't?
This man can claim to have foster-fathered a fine graduate program (which was fathered with a certain amount of trumpetting for a first-born by that same predecessor), can claim to have quietly fathered a second graduate program with the steadied calm of veteran paternalism, and he can claim to have patiently nurtured that everlasting academic agony in your midst - that 17 year old Maryland just passing out of puberty. But he hasn't fathered or fostered or nurtured anything until he broods and gives birth to that NYU dissertation.
This man can claim to be escaping the stigma of home-steading, but then Russel the Wise is escaping that too by just normal retirement.
This man can claim (and rightly) to have been a calming, steadying influence in all circumstances surrounding GED. Why, even the Maryland director (and this will surprise everyone here) has raised his voice and has been unnecessarily histrionic in the presence of this man. But this man just gritted that pipe stem tighter and remained absolutely coherent and calm, and soon even that Marylander returned to coherence and calm. If only we all could so firmly grip a good pipe stem we might better weather these crises we so often share. Yet, this man must somewhere, sometimes perturb, he must surely release a head of steam in some setting. No doubt Florrie could fill us in on that. We do know that she escaped him for some reason two nights of ever y week up there in Heidelberg because she regularly attended Maryland classes. That gave her six full hours reprieve from this man per week and we can only presume she needed that. But before we congratulate Florrie too much for her escape and her scholarship, we probably should know whether or not this man takes that pipe to bed.
This man can claim to be returning to a wonderful world of stable living, a world where you dare to predict even a month ahead the country, the city, even the house you will live in. And he's heard so many reassuring things about other returnees such as Larry Snell's $70,000 pad with 5 bedrooms and six baths and garden wall to garden wall swimming pools teeming with chlorine and dead leaves.
And so this man has led us through an astonishing period of reorganization and window boxes, led us with a calm demeanor and a steady intellect, and a firm grip on his pipe.
After Egbert the Elder, and Warren the Wonder, we had Stephen the Steady. And now, in another of our interregna, we fall back again -with confidence -on the experience and judgment of George, the Ringer, the longest stand-in in GED history. We wish him God speed good window boxes, and brand new, better definitions of on-and off duty education.
And now to Steve and Florrie Meltzer the Marylanders in Heidelberg want to be remembered - along with Heidelberg - by this fairly schmaltzy mug which shows the old Neckar city. It will be, you may be sure , appropriately engraved and sent to you as soon as you send us the address of your new splitlevel pad in the Great Society
Service-oriented models for audiovisual content storage
No full textWhat are the important topics to understand if involved with storage services to hold digital audiovisual content? This report takes a look at how content is created and moves into and out of storage; the storage service value networks and architectures found now and expected in the future; what sort of data transfer is expected to and from an audiovisual archive; what transfer protocols to use; and a summary of security and interface issues
Captain Stephen J. Daly, U.S. Army
No full textThis is a portrait of Captain Stephen J. Daly, U.S. Army, taken while he was serving at Fort Hamilton, New York. He is wearing his summer service uniform and smiling at the camera
Captain Stephen J. Daly, U.S. Army
No full textThis is a portrait of Captain Stephen J. Daly, U.S. Army, taken while he was serving at Fort Hamilton, New York. He is wearing his summer service uniform and smiling at the camera
While the bowl goes round we'll all be jolly fellows [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voice (solo and satb chorus)ads on back cover for John J. Daly stock352-3Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
070, Item 053Words by George Cooper. Music by Stephen C. Foster
While the bowl goes round we'll all be jolly fellows [first line of chorus]
No full textstrophic with choruspiano and voice (solo and satb chorus)ads on back cover for John J. Daly stock352-3Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
070, Item 053Words by George Cooper. Music by Stephen C. Foster
National museums and the mobilization of history : commemorative exhibitions of Anglo-Irish conflicts in Ireland and Northern Ireland (1921-2006)
Get PDFExamining Board: Professor Stephen Smith, European University Institute (Supervisor) Professor Laura LeeDowns, European University Institute Professor Mary Daly, University College Dublin (External Supervisor) Professor Simon Knell, University of LeicesterDefence date: 14 September 2012PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digital archive of EUI PhD thesesThrough the study of commemorative exhibitions arranged at the National Museum of Ireland (Ireland) and at the Ulster Museum (Northern Ireland), this thesis compares the changing representations of three historical conflicts (the 1690 Battle of the Boyne, the 1798 Rebellion, and the 1916 Easter Rising). Beginning with Partition and ending with new permanent military exhibitions in the twenty-first century, the research explores the ways in which the changing representations of these conflicts staged by the two museums have correlated with broader processes of mobilization of history designed to fit the needs of the present. In doing so, the complex relationships between museums and national identity are explored in the two parts of the island. The dissertation reveals how, at first, the two national museums participated in the construction of opposed official narratives, based on Nationalist and Unionist interpretations of the past in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It demonstrates how these initial interpretations of the three conflicts were gradually reassessed in response to changes in Anglo-Irish relations, especially in connection with the Northern Irish conflict and the politics of reconciliation. But the dissertation also explores how the new remit attributed to the two national museums has been shaped by the demands of cultural tourism, marketing strategy, and the new links with audiences, in a way that has served to detach the representations of the three conflicts from the political relations between the island of Ireland and Britain in the narrow sense. The dissertation explores the role of state actors, but is equally concerned with role played by curators, historians, educationalists, community relations personnel, tourism promoters, and audiences in advancing a more ‘bottom up’ view of the relationships between past and present. It ends by showing how the limited rapprochement of historical narratives that has taken place in recent decades results, in part, from the increasing need of the museums to attend to their audiences (international tourists in Dublin, community groups in Belfast), as well as from wider shifts in the relations between the governments in Belfast, Dublin and London
Zircon texture and chemical composition as a guide to magmatic processes and mixing in a granitic environment and coeval volcanic system
No full textThis study documents the chemical and textural responses of zircon in the Elba igneous complex, with particular reference to the 7- to 7.8-Ma-old Monte Capanne pluton in relation to its coeval volcanic counterpart (Capraia), using BSE imaging and quantitative electron microprobe analyses. The Monte Capanne pluton displays multiple field and geochemical evidence for magma mixing. The samples we have investigated (including monzogranitic, mafic enclave and dyke samples) display similar zircon textures and are associated with an extremely large range of trace and minor element (Hf, Y, HREE, Th, U) compositions, which contrast with relatively simple textures and zoning patterns in zircons from a Capraia dacite. We have used a relatively simple textural classification (patchy zoning, homogenous cores, oscillatory zoning and unzoned zircon) as the basis for discussing the chemical composition and chemical variation within zircons from the Monte Capanne pluton. Based on these data and other works (Dini et al. 2004 in Lithos 78:101–118, 2004) , it is inferred that mixing between metaluminous and peraluminous melts occurred early in the evolution of the Monte Capanne magma chamber. In particular, mixing was responsible for the development of the patchy-zoning texture in the zircon cores, which was associated with reactions between other accessory phases (including monazite, apatite, allanite), which we infer to have significantly affected the Th distribution in zircon. Zircons from the MC pluton displaying “homogeneous cores” have chemical affinities with zircons in the coeval Capraia volcanic system, consistent with the participation of a Capraia-like mantle end-member during mixing. Further zircon growth in the MC pluton produced the oscillatory zoning texture, which records both long-term (crystal fractionation) and transient (recharge with both silicic and mafic magmas) events in a hybrid magma chamber. It is inferred that Hf and the Th/U ratio cannot be used alone to infer magmatic processes due to their dependency on temperature, nor are they a diagnostic feature of xenocrystic grains. This study shows that zircon chemistry coupled with detailed textural analysis can provide a powerful tool to elucidate the complex evolution of a magma system
AC-6-U.S. Naval Planes Flying in Formation, Langley Field, VA/Thank-You Card from Stephen Tury to the Hungarian Defense Council.
No full textThis postcard, which depicts U.S. Naval planes flying in formation, was sent to the Hungarian Defense Council by Private Stephen Tury. The Council was organized in New Brunswick by leaders of local Hungarian churches and societies. During the Second World War it sent supplies, such as the carton of cigarettes Tury is thanking it for, to members of the military of Hungarian descent from the New Brunswick area
Author Stephen Flynn Discusses Resiliency
Get PDFCenter for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESOn September 25, Author Stephen E. Flynn stopped by the Center’s National Capital Region campus to speak with CHDS Master’s degree students about his latest book, answer questions and discuss..
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