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Madison Price Family History
No full textMadison L. Price authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Fall 2019 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
UA12/2/16 Spirit Masters Class of 2016-2017
No full textWKU Spirit Masters\u27 booklet with photos and brief biographies of members. Beck, Kapri Bonzo, Madison Bunnell, Matthew Bush, Johnny Carter, Michaela DeLozier, Hayden Devore, Sherah Ellis, Cathryn Fields, Sierra Gaiko, Katherine Guelde, Molli Hall, Katherine aka KJ Harshbarger, Dalton Hillenmeyer, Daniel Jones, Haley Layne, Devin Linder, Ellen Lord, Haley Marcum, Sam Mize, Mallory Murray, Chelsea Pride, Emily Ravishankar, Nikil Reynolds, Logan Shelton, LaRosa Smith, Kyle Starks, Destiny Suggs, Sarah Thompson, Ali Vaughn, Mallory Webb, Jordan Wilson, McKenzi
UA12/2/16 Spirit Masters Class of 2017-2018
No full textWKU Spirit Masters\u27 booklet with photos and brief biographies of members. Bernard, Hailee Bonzo, Madison Botts, Makayle Bush, Johnny Carter, Michaela Childress, Nicole Deaton, Thomas Ellis, Cathryn Gadd, Steven Gaiko, Kathrine Guelde, Molli Harshbarger, Dalton Hopper, Benjamin Jones, Haley Kuhl, Carson Latham, Jeremy Lord, Haley Mize, Mallory Murray, Chelsea Pinilla, Juan Pride, Emily Ravishankar, Nikil Reynolds, Logan Sadrinia, Yasmine Shelton, LaRosa Smith, Kyle Smith, Sally Starks, Destiny Suggs, Sarah Wilson, McKenzi
The Federalist, on the new Constitution, written in 1788.
No full textNew ed.: the numbers written by Mr. Madison corrected by himself
The Family History of Madison P. Rexwinkle
No full textMadison Rexwinkle authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550 Your Family in History offered online in Spring 2019 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
Robert Madison Interview, 11 June 2013
No full textRobert Madison was born in Cleveland. However, his family moved to Selma, Alabama, when he was six months old Their because his father could not find employment in his area of study due to his being African American. Madison eventually returned to Cleveland and attended East Tech High School where he developed his interest in architecture. When he graduated from East Tech, he moved to Washington, DC, to attend Howard University. After three years he joined the ROTC and went to fight in Italy during World War II. He returned to Cleveland and again wanted to pursue his passion for architecture. He went to Western Reserve University, where he faced many obstacles and tests. Western Reserve professors who did not want to teach Madison excused him from some classes that were ordinarily required. He ran into multiple cases where his race limited his opportunity, but excelled in spite of the hardships. He earned a masters degree from Harvard, and received the Fulbright scholarship to study architecture in France. He moved to Cleveland Heights one year after he came home from France, and ran into many issues with the neighbors, for he refused to be “bought out” by them
Robert P. Madison Interview, 11 June 2013
No full textRobert Madison was originally born in Cleveland. However, his family moved to Selma, Alabama, when he was only six months old. Their reason for leaving the city was because his father could not find employment in his area of study because he was Colored. Madison eventually made it back to Cleveland to attend East Tech High School where he would be allowed to study/concentrate on Architecture. When he graduated from East Tech, he moved to D.C. (again) to attend Howard University. Three years into studying at Howard, he joined ROTC and went to fight in Italy during World War II. He returned to Cleveland, and again wanted to pursue his passion for architecture. He went to Western Reserve University, where he faced many obstacles and tests. Western Reserve passed, or, better, excused Madison from many classes which were ordinarily required. He ran into multiple cases where his race limited his opportunity, but excelled in spite of the hardships. He earned a masters degree from Harvard, and received the Fulbright scholarship to study architecture in France. He moved to Cleveland Heights one year after he came home from France, and ran into many issues with the neighbors, for he refused to be “bought out” by them
Gift inscription in Minions of the Moon: a little book of song and story
No full textThis edition includes a gift inscription possibly penned by the author, Madison Julius Cawein, "Frank on Valentines Day, 1914. M.J." Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914).Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914
Poetical Works of James Madison Bell
No full textThis volume of poetry includes a bigraphical sketch of the author, James Madison Bell (1826-1902), by Bishop Benjamin William Arnett (1838-1906). According to Arnett, Bell was an African-American poet, orator, and political activist. He was an Ohio native who lived in Canada and San Francisco before settling with his family in Toledo in 1865
Mark Madison speaks with Amy Vedder, author, conservation biologist with The Wilderness Society
No full textWhen Bill Weber and Amy Vedder arrived in Rwanda to study mountain gorillas with Dian Fossey, the gorilla population was teetering toward extinction. Poaching was rampant, but it was loss of habitat that most endangered the gorillas. Weber and Vedder realized that the gorillas were doomed unless something was done to save their forest home. Over Fossey's objections, they helped found the Mountain Gorilla Project, which would inform Rwandans about the gorillas and the importance of conservation, while at the same time establishing an ecotourism project -- one of the first anywhere in a rainforest -- to bring desperately needed revenue to Rwanda. Vedder’s book, In the Kingdom of Gorillas, introduces readers to entire families of gorillas, from powerful silverback patriarchs to helpless newborn infants. Vedder take us with them as they slog through the rain-soaked mountain forests, observing the gorillas at rest and at play. An expert in conservation and ecology, Dr. Vedder is Senior Vice President for Conservation at The Wilderness Society (TWS) in Washington, DC. She has worked for more than 30 years in dedication to wildlife and wildland conservation, applying ecological and social science to save biologically rich and threatened places. Amy Vedder is widely known for her pioneering studies of mountain gorillas in Rwanda during the late 1970s and as co-founder, with her husband Dr. Bill Weber, of the Mountain Gorilla Project. She is the author of several books, including In the Kingdom of Gorillas, which she wrote with Bill Weber, and is the subject of a biography written for middle school students titled, Gorilla Mountain.MARK MADISON: Hi. Mark Madison, and today is April 7th, 2011, and I'm at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and I have with me two folks that help conserve gorillas, mountain gorillas, in the wild in Africa. Very fortunate to have with us today Dirck Byler, who works for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for the Africa portion of our Great Ape Conservation Fund, and Dr. Amy Vedder, who works for the Wilderness Society as a Senior Vice President, and she is an expert on mountain gorillas, who recently reissued her book "In the Kingdom of Gorillas".
So, Dirck and Amy, welcome to NCTC. It's a pleasure to have you.
AMY VEDDER: Thank you.
MARK MADISON: And I think I'll start out with Dirck. Dirck, what does the Great Ape Conservation Fund do?
DIRCK BYLER: We fund projects all throughout Africa and Asia that focus on the different species of great apes... gorillas, bonobos, chimpanzees and orangutans, and also the lesser ape species of gibbons. We provide funding for applied research, for law enforcement, for work on infectious disease, community conservation/education, anything, really, that helps with conserving apes in the wild.
MARK MADISON: Great. Is there a recent project you've funded that you would like to describe in more detail that you thought worked out really well?
DIRCK BYLER: Well, we've got some great ongoing funding in West Africa, in particular in the Ivory Coast, which has been in the news recently, so I'll bring that one up.
One of the things we found over the years is in conflict areas sometimes conservation gets neglected because it's difficult to work in many of these places, but we've got a great project in Tai National Park in southwest Côte d’Ivoire that is keeping the park intact even during this time of crisis in the country. So they're doing a great job of protecting chimpanzees and making sure that the park stays intact during a civil crisis.
MARK MADISON: Great.
Well, Amy, you're reissuing your book "In the Kingdom of Gorillas" that you wrote with your husband Bill Weber. Tell us a little about the book.
AMY VEDDER: Well, the book was a labor of love and sort of a slice of our lives, and it started back with our first early career work going out and studying mountain gorillas and studying their conservation problems and issues and trying to get some conservation efforts going. But we've been really fortunate to be able to follow that story over more than 30 years and actually see the results of not just the launch that we were involved with but so much work with so many people who have made it a real success story.
MARK MADISON: Well, speaking of success stories, Dirck told me one of his projects that worked well. What did you and Bill do to help preserve gorillas that you thought worked well?
AMY VEDDER: Well, we were very interested in making sure, one, that the gorillas could be fully protected, but, two, that that protection would be something people locally cared about and the nation would be engaged in, and we worked mostly in Rwanda, which was considered the third poorest country in the world and the most highly densely populated country in Africa at the time. So you get that combination of huge human poverty in the midst of something biologically without value, priceless, and it's a real challenge. And so we felt that one of the most important things that we did was helping to set up what became known as an ecotourism project and getting people in to see gorillas from outside the country, paying good money to do so, and, therefore, producing local, and especially national, benefits in the process, and it has turned the country around to be strong, strong, strong supporters and implementers of conservation, and the gorillas have done well because of that.
MARK MADISON: Well, how are the gorillas doing in Rwanda?
AMY VEDDER: Surprisingly, the population actually spills over the border into Congo and Uganda, but that biggest of the two world's populations of gorillas, mountain gorillas, went from about 450 animals, so the biggest in the world was tiny to begin with, down to about 275, and a bit lower, and now over the last couple decades, despite war and genocide and all sorts of challenges, again, poverty, the population is back up to 480 we found out just a month or two ago. So, back above the original estimate. It's just incredibly exciting and wonderful to know.
MARK MADISON: That's great. Let me ask you one final question, Amy. You mentioned you've been working with this group of mountain gorillas for over 30 years. What's the biggest change you've seen in that period since when you started working with the gorillas up to the present?
AMY VEDDER: Well, the biggest change for them is that they're living in a more peaceful area, there are more gorillas, and the sizes of the families are bigger. So those people who are doing science now are studying families that are two or three or four times as big as they used to be. So all the social interactions that are really fascinating have changed given big sizes.
But I want to turn back to Dirck, too, and say the kind of work that the Great Ape Fund does is helping to ensure that gorillas like this or primates in other parts of the world or elephants and other species funds, they make a huge difference in protecting
these wild, wonderful creatures of this world. So thank you, Dirck!
MARK MADISON: That's a good segue. Dirck, if people listening to this Podcast wanted to learn more about international affairs work, protecting rhinos, elephants, great apes and so on, where might they look?
DIRCK BYLER: Well, you can look on our web site at www.fws.gov/international and you can choose your species from there.
MARK MADISON: Great. And, Amy, if they wanted to learn more about what you're doing now with the Wilderness Society, where should folks go?
AMY VEDDER: Yeah, now my work is here in the U.S., and I love it. We save the most special, wildest places in this country. And it's easy. It's wilderness.org.
MARK MADISON: I like the simplicity of that. And thank you, Amy. Thank you, Dirck, very much for doing this Podcast with us. And thank you for taking the time to listen. And if you would like to see other Podcasts that we've done with conservation biologists, you can find us at training.fws.gov or you can look under "National Conservation Training Center" on iTunes University. Thank you very much
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