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Interview with Ted Simon
No full textTed Simon received his degree in 1942 in civil engineering. After his graduation, he worked at General Motors for four years before coming back to MSU to work as an assistant construction engineer. He was responsible for laying out campus water, sewer and electrical systems as well as future road plans. Simon developed a book of standards that provided guidelines to outside consultants to the type of building components MSU would accept as standard. In the mid 1950s he was named superintendent of building and utilities. Simon also developed co-generational power plants to control heat and electrical waste on the campus, and in 1965 the first steam-generated power plant was named after him. He retired in 1984. Topics/people covered in the interview include: Chester Allen; Ira Baccus; Berkey, McDonel, Wells, Wonders Hall; co-generational power plants; Henry Dicks; Henry Duckelberg; Emory Foster; John Hannah; Jenison Fieldhouse/Gymnasium; Ed Kenny; Harold Lawtner; Philip May; MSU campus in 1946; construction guidelines; development of power plants; enrollment/enrollment predictions in 1946; housing in 1946; T B Simon Power Plant; Natural Science, Union Building; steam-generated power plants; University Village; Roger Wilkinso
Interview with Ted Simon
No full textTed Simon received his degree in 1942 in civil engineering. After his graduation, he worked at General Motors for four years before coming back to MSU to work as an assistant construction engineer. He was responsible for laying out campus water, sewer and electrical systems as well as future road plans. Simon developed a book of standards that provided guidelines to outside consultants to the type of building components MSU would accept as standard. In the mid 1950s he was named superintendent of building and utilities. Simon also developed co-generational power plants to control heat and electrical waste on the campus, and in 1965 the first steam-generated power plant was named after him. He retired in 1984. Topics/people covered in the interview include: Chester Allen; Ira Baccus; Berkey, McDonel, Wells, Wonders Hall; co-generational power plants; Henry Dicks; Henry Duckelberg; Emory Foster; John Hannah; Jenison Fieldhouse/Gymnasium; Ed Kenny; Harold Lawtner; Philip May; MSU campus in 1946; construction guidelines; development of power plants; enrollment/enrollment predictions in 1946; housing in 1946; T B Simon Power Plant; Natural Science, Union Building; steam-generated power plants; University Village; Roger Wilkinso
Interview with Ted Simon
No full textTed Simon received his degree in 1942 in civil engineering. After his graduation, he worked at General Motors for four years before coming back to MSU to work as an assistant construction engineer. He was responsible for laying out campus water, sewer and electrical systems as well as future road plans. Simon developed a book of standards that provided guidelines to outside consultants to the type of building components MSU would accept as standard. In the mid 1950s he was named superintendent of building and utilities. Simon also developed co-generational power plants to control heat and electrical waste on the campus, and in 1965 the first steam-generated power plant was named after him. He retired in 1984. Topics/people covered in the interview include: Chester Allen; Ira Baccus; Berkey, McDonel, Wells, Wonders Hall; co-generational power plants; Henry Dicks; Henry Duckelberg; Emory Foster; John Hannah; Jenison Fieldhouse/Gymnasium; Ed Kenny; Harold Lawtner; Philip May; MSU campus in 1946; construction guidelines; development of power plants; enrollment/enrollment predictions in 1946; housing in 1946; T B Simon Power Plant; Natural Science, Union Building; steam-generated power plants; University Village; Roger Wilkinso
Interview with Ted Simon
No full textTed Simon received his degree in 1942 in civil engineering. After his graduation, he worked at General Motors for four years before coming back to MSU to work as an assistant construction engineer. He was responsible for laying out campus water, sewer and electrical systems as well as future road plans. Simon developed a book of standards that provided guidelines to outside consultants to the type of building components MSU would accept as standard. In the mid 1950s he was named superintendent of building and utilities. Simon also developed co-generational power plants to control heat and electrical waste on the campus, and in 1965 the first steam-generated power plant was named after him. He retired in 1984. Topics/people covered in the interview include: Chester Allen; Ira Baccus; Berkey, McDonel, Wells, Wonders Hall; co-generational power plants; Henry Dicks; Henry Duckelberg; Emory Foster; John Hannah; Jenison Fieldhouse/Gymnasium; Ed Kenny; Harold Lawtner; Philip May; MSU campus in 1946; construction guidelines; development of power plants; enrollment/enrollment predictions in 1946; housing in 1946; T B Simon Power Plant; Natural Science, Union Building; steam-generated power plants; University Village; Roger Wilkinso
Standing in his backyard Ted holds all that's left of his pet dog in a tray [picture] /
No full textPart of collection: Firestorm 2003.; Title supplied by photographer.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3124819. One day after the Australia Day fires in East Gippsland I photograph Cobungra resident Ted Cole. The fire swept up from the valley forcing Ted to hide under the floor of the half built house he's building by hand. For twenty minutes the fire raged at him from four directions and he thought more than once he would die. Hearing the dying barks of his dog, which he had placed in the shed for safety, Ted faced the heart breaking sight of his pet's disintegrated body, the bones being all that is left behind."--Simon O'Dwyer
The elegies of Ted Hughes
No full textThe purpose of this study is to make the case that Ted Hughes (1930-1998) is one of the pre-eminent elegists writing in English in the latter half of the twentieth century. Whilst his poetry has been widely criticised for its apparent preoccupation with violence and death, it is puzzling that the links these topics have in common with elegy have never been clearly verified. This might be because Hughes's elegies do not appear to bear the characteristics frequently associated with traditional poetic laments; however, as this study shows, closer scrutiny reveals not only many similarities, but also acts of resistance within the broader scope of elegy. Drawing on both established and contemporary critical debates surrounding Hughes and elegy, this study undertakes a comprehensive reading of the poet's major works from The Hawk in the Rain to Birthday Letters, whilst also paying attention to limited editions of his verse, including Recklings, Capriccio and Howls & Whispers. Posthumous publications, including the Collected Poems. Selected Translations and Letters of Ted Hughes, are accounted for. so that (alongside the chronological reading of the poems) Hughes's development as an elegist is fully realised. One of the aims of the thesis is to demonstrate that the poet's elegies are unified in presenting what I term the โactual'; that is to say, that Hughes does not fabricate sensations or forge experiences that purport to be beyond the realm of recognisable human endeavour. This I term his 'unfalsifying dreamโ. This is striking because quite often traditional elegies appear to present the opposite: a language which is เนmate and images which are close to beatifying the deceased, putting them at a remove from human experience and existence. 'The Hawk in the Rain' is used to illustrate Hughes's theoretical position, especially in the case of his earlier war elegies and the circumstances of Remains of Elmet and Moortown Diary. He is both the observational, seemingly dispassionate poet (the hawk), capable of a detaching himself from the experience he wishes to relay in his verse, and yet, he is also the wanderer 'in the rain, one who is immersed in the momentous instant of his own language and experience. Like his personas, Hughes is divided. He is complicit with many of elegy's practices and traditions, but he is also a reformer and renovator of elegy, writing invigorating verse which brings the realities of mortality closer to the reader. In doing so, he reaffirms the significance of life and how this life might be better lived in closer harmony to poetry and contemporary ecological urgencies. 'The Elegies of Ted Hughes' aims to prove that far from being just a 'poet of nature', Hughes has been an exemplary elegist in our own time
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