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Herbert Vandersall and Neva Godin Vandersall Oral History
No full textHerbert Vandersall was one of the earliest faculty members at the American University in Cairo, teaching science courses as well as performing various administrative roles from 1920 to 1964. Vandersall outlines AUC’s administration in the university’s early years, with its limited scale and the establishment of new units and procedures (as Vandersall did in his role as first Registrar), and he describes leading figures like President Charles Watson, Deans Robert S. McClenahan and Russell Galt, and Extension Division Director Wendell Cleland, including their vision, accomplishments and conflicts; relations with American missionaries in Egypt is mentioned as well. The role of U.S.-based staff and the Board of Trustees, relations between the faculty and board, and the contributions of particular trustees are discussed; the coded telegraph communication with those in the U.S. is mentioned. Units like the Extension Division (including its program of public events at Ewart Hall), the School of Oriental Studies (its Arabic teaching program, and Arabists on its faculty), and Faculty of Education (director Amir Boktor, the Journal of Modern Education) are also described. Vandersall speaks about the faculty, including their backgrounds and how Egyptian (including some alumni who got graduate degrees in the U.S.) and short-term American faculty were recruited, and covers figures like William Eddy (who went on to lead the U.S. Office for Strategic Services, predecessor to the CIA) and later Dean Worth Howard, discussing the pair’s role in developing English language study at AUC. Vandersall, who taught physics and mathematics, recounts his own efforts, with others, in establishing the science program and laboratory facilities, and shares teaching anecdotes. A view of AUC students is provided, in the classroom and beyond, as Vandersall tells of student academic and personal habits and discipline (including the role of the zabit or gatekeeper and the prohibition on on-campus political demonstrations like one pro-Saad Zaghloul episode in the 1920s); he also mentions their participation in physical education, which AUC introduced to Egypt. The coming of female students to AUC is addressed, including advocacy by Vandersall and others in the face of resistance to co-education by some AUC administrators. AUC’s campus and its surrounding neighborhood are described, including funding for and construction of new buildings like Ewart Hall and the Hill House hostel (with which he had significant involvement such as supervising the European architects and contractors; he recounts opposing its later conversion to a library); he also mentions the suburban campus farm property. He offers a view of the changing political context of AUC’s presence in Egypt, from its legal status under British rule, to the climate of the pro-independence movement, relations with the Egyptian government, and administrator and faculty expressions of support for Palestinians (like a 1948 joint letter to US President Truman). Vandersall expresses regret about what he calls diminished commitment by later AUC personnel, and that due to AUC’s foreign, missionary roots it was never fully accepted in Egypt, especially by Muslims, despite a focus on character building rather than proselytizing. Neva Vandersall, like other faculty wives in university’s early years, played a visible role in the community. She and her husband speak of AUC’s dining room and student hostel residence halls, and aspects of the social life of the AUC community. She also gives an account of two health clinics supported by volunteer AUC faculty and wives, one for children's’ eye health in the Sayeda Zeinab district and another for farmers near the pyramids
Neva Vandersall Oral History
No full textNeva Vandersall lived in Egypt from 1923 to 1961, the wife of science and mathematics professor Herbert “Van” Vandersall, who was the longest serving (1920-1961) of the American University at (in) Cairo’s first generation of faculty members. Neva Vandersall recounts how they met, her husband’s joining AUC in 1920 as the university opened, and their delaying marriage until he was appointed as a permanent faculty member in 1923. She recalls that after his year of graduate study in Chicago they married and moved to Cairo and started a family, having a baby son and daughter in the mid-1920s. Neva describes the residential arrangements for their family (like other AUC families), in an apartment in a building near the university and later in the School of
Oriental Studies Building on campus. She discusses aspects of raising her children in Cairo, like the orphaned Armenian girl they hired as a live-in nursemaid, their schooling, and AUC families with children spending time together. Social life and recreation are covered, from teas and formal dinners to desert field trips to summers spent in beach huts. She also tells of the baby health clinic in a poor neighborhood where she and others connected with AUC volunteered.
Neva Vandersall describes the AUC campus and offers a sketch of its student body in the 1920s, including their elite social background, students’ participation in athletics, and the enrollment AUC’s first female student, with comments on how coeducation resulted in the social interaction of young men and women which was uncommon in Egypt. Neva gives an account of her family’s experience of World War Two, including her son’s difficulty finding ship passage back to Egypt from a Boy Scout trip in Europe, their furlough in the United States from 1942 to 1944 and Van’s work for a period with the Manhattan Project in Chicago, their return to Cairo and then evacuation with other university personnel and families to Khartoum, Sudan in the summer of
1944, and the Vandersalls’ subsequent route back to the U.S. by air via Nigeria and South America. Their last years at the university are also recalled, from the diminished missionary aspect of AUC, the government’s restrictions on missionary work and the number of AUC
American faculty members, and Van’s retirement from AUC. She outlines her family’s life in the United States, Van’s teaching at a college in North Carolina, and the couple ultimately settling in Maryland. Finally, she tells about their participation in the life of the Christian Community Presbyterian Church in Bowie, Maryland, whose 25th Anniversary was the occasion for the oral history. There is no audio available for this interview
Letter from Herbert Nicholson to Michi Weglyn, October 30, 1980
No full textA letter from Herbert Nicholson to Michi Weglyn about his experiences working with other religious figures in the Manzanar incarceration camp.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Letter from Herbert Babbitt to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from Herbert Babbitt to Carl T. Hayden about grazing cattle in the park boundaries
Harry Herbert Tobies Collection 2008
No full textThe collection contains essays by Harry Herbert Tobies pertaining to the history of East Prussia, particularly
Königsberg, and the Jewish community there. The essays are entitled : "Die Preussen ein baltischer Stamm;"
"Das Verhältnis zwischen Juden und Katholiken; "Israelitische Begräbnisplätze in Königsberg;" and
"Kurt Eisner : Jude oder Nichtjude." Also included is information on books published by Tobies.Harry Herbert Tobies was born on January 28, 1928, in Königsberg (Kaliningrad). Since 1954, he is an architect and
author living in Munich.Processed for digitizatio
A History and Bibliography of George Herbert Editions
No full textA descriptive bibliography of the numerous editions together with their later issues of George Herbert's writings. The list includes separate sections of both relevant manuscripts and also ghost editions. Selections are not included in the bibliography, but the more significant ones are noted in the accompanying essay on the history of George Herbert publications. The essay traces the trends which influence both publishers and their readership over the years 1612-1993, and though the focus is on George Herbert materials, the discussion is applicable to any study of publishing history. It argues that the nineteenth-century revival of interest in Herbert at its most prominent in the Victorian period was primarily a result of a devotionalism which favoured traditional ways. Yet, it is hard to separate this devotionalism from the
bourgeoning antiquarianism of the period. Similarly, those at the head of the
revival of interest in Herbert were literary people: S. T. Coleridge, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, John Keble and the Tractarians, The Pre-Raphaelites, George
Macdonald, and A. B. Grosart. As a result the revival represented a
remarkably comprehensive interest in Herbert's works. By way of contrast, in
the twentieth century the scholarly interest in Herbert appears to have
detached itself from a devotional involvement, and as the century draws to a
close this approach fostered eagerly by the universities brings with it the idea
that Herbert's poetry is inaccessible without an expert's instruction. Thus, at a
time when there is an extraordinary flowering of books about George Herbert,
we are beginning to see the return of Herbert to obscurity, an obscurity in practice which exceeds that which he suffered in the eighteenth century. The essay also considers the variety of ornamentation employed in Herbert editions, particularly the treatments of the shape poems "The Altar" and "Easter Wings", but also the use of plates and illustrations within the text. The bibliography itself includes details of trade bindings, original prices, numbers printed, and printers' and publishers' full addresses wherever possible. There are a number of uses for this bibliography beyond its immediate purpose. Anyone interested in the history of a printing or publishing house
should find helpful data, for instance. Bibliographers who are faced with undated issues or editions of a certain author may find a parallel item in this list which has an assigned date. It is hoped, too, that other bibliographers who are investigating Herbert publications will find this a source of data. The most important purpose of the bibliography, though, is to fill a present gap in Herbert studies, namely the need for a study of the publishing history of Herbert's writings.ThesisDoctor of Philosophy (PhD
Arthrodesis in distal interphalangeal joints with Herbert screw
No full textProcesos degenerativos, inflamatorios y traumáticos alteran la estabilidad articular interfalángica, afectando significativamente la función de la mano por dolor, deformidad e inestabilidad. La artrodesis es un tratamiento exitoso, que provee disminución del dolor con aumento de la estabilidad digital. La artrodesis de articulaciones interfalángicas con tornillos de Herbert ha demostrado ser más estable que otros métodos de fijación con una tasa menor de complicaciones y una rehabilitación rápida. Es interés de los autores demostrar las ventajas que ofrece esta técnica. Objetivos: Describir la evolución clínica en pacientes sometidos a artrodesis interfalángica distal con tornillo de Herbert, midiendo tiempo de consolidación y complicaciones, y comparando los resultados con la literatura mundial. Metodos y materiales: estudio retrospectivo observacional tipo serie de casos en siete pacientes con ocho artrodesis intervenidos por el autor principal con uso de tornillo de Herbert en dos instituciones de Bogotá, evaluando como variables el tiempo de consolidación, el tiempo de seguimiento y la presentación de complicaciones. Resultados: el promedio de consolidación fue de 12 semanas (rango 10-24 semanas) con un seguimiento de 8.7 meses (5-12 meses). Hubo dos complicaciones: un retardo de consolidación (11,11%) y una lesión de lecho ungueal por protrusión de la cabeza de tornillo de Herbert (11,11%) Conclusiones: los resultados muestran similitud a los citados en la literatura mundial, con buen resultado en el tiempo de consolidación con una técnica quirúrgica sencilla y una baja tasa de complicaciones, por lo que se recomienda su uso en nuestro medio. / Abstract. Degenerative, inflammatory and traumatic process alters the interphalangeal stability, affecting the hand function by pain, deformity and instability. The arthrodesis is a successful treatment; decrease the pain with digital joint stability. The distal interphalangeal arthrodesis with Herbert screw had demonstrated more stable than other methods with complications low rate and a quick rehabilitation. The authors emphasize in the advantages of this technique. Objectives: to describe the clinical evolution of patients with Herbert screw distal interphalangeal arthrodesis, to measure fusion time and complications, and to compare the outcomes with the world literature. Methods and materials: retrospective and observational study type series of cases in seven patients with eight arthrodesis operated by the principal author in two clinics of Bogota, to measure time of fusion, time of follow-up and complications. Results: The average time of fusion was 12 weeks (10-24 weeks) with average follow-up of 8.7 months (5-12 months). Two complications were presented: retard of fusion (11, 11%) and nail deformity for head screw protrusion (11, 11%). Conclusions: the outcomes are similar with the results in the world literature, with good outcome in the fusion time, the surgical technique is simple and the complications are low, because we recommended it in our environment.Otr
1980, Robert Lawrence Balzer, wine expert and author of "Wines of California" and Herbert Cerwin
No full textPhotograph of Robert Lawrence Balzer (sitting), wine expert and author of " Wines of California", Herbert Cerwin, and an unidentified woman, Hotel Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 198
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