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Marriner S. Eccles, correspondence with Congressman Wilbur Mills
No full textLetter from 18 May 1955 to Correspondence of Marriner S. Eccles from Wilbur Mills, U.S. Representative from Arkansas, and a letter dated 21 May 1955 from Mr. Eccles. To Grover W. Ensley, staff director of the Joint Committee on Economic Report, regarding hearings on tax policy
Sanford R. "Sandy" Wilbur
No full textA brief oral history by Sandy Wilbur himself describing the start of his Fish and Wildlife Service career.
Mr. Wilbur provides a brief narrative about reporting to his first duty station.
Organization: FWS
Name:Sanford R. "Sandy" Wilbur
Years: 1960-1994
Program: Refuges
Keywords: Wildlife refuges, Biography, Employees (USFWS), History, Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, Merced National Wildlife Refuge, Minidoka National Wildlife RefugeREPORTING (ALMOST) TO OUR FIRST DUTY STATION
Sanford R. "Sandy" Wilbur
When I graduated from Humboldt State College in January 1963, I had already worked for Fish and Wildlife Service three summers in Refuges' student trainee program (one summer at Stillwater Refuge in Nevada, and two summers at Sacramento Refuge in California). The Service was hiring a lot of biologists in those days (those were the days!) and, if you were in the student trainee program, you were pretty much guaranteed a job at graduation. You didn't get to choose where that job would be, but you did have a job waiting for you.
As graduation neared, I had a number of phone conversations with Gib Bassett, our Region 1 personnel officer. Sally was very much pregnant with our first child, and I was able to get a two month delay reporting for duty. There had been various rumors about where we might be going, but Gib warned me not to do anything until I actually had my transfer papers in hand. The papers finally arrived, and I found I had been assigned to the Merced Refuge in central California.
As a student trainee, I was a career-conditional employee, and had some financial coverage for our move. Unfortunately, I was only covered from my last duty station (Sacramento Refuge) to the new one, a distance of a couple hundred miles. To save some of the money that we didn't really have, we decided to make the move from Humboldt to Merced in our '51 Ford sedan. We thought we could probably do it in two round-trips, paying only to have our (very limited) furniture moved by truck.
Even though Sally was eight months pregnant, we loaded up the car, and drove the 500 miles down the Redwood Highway and through the Bay Area to Merced. I had never been to refuge headquarters, but had worked six months for California Department of Fish and Game on their wildlife area at nearby Los Banos, so the territory was familiar. Another assignment in the Central Valley hadn't been our dream, but as we drove Sandy Mush Road, we saw the obligatory refuge coot, and felt like we were "home."
That feeling changed quickly as we entered the refuge office. Don White, the manager, was there by himself. (I don't think he had a clerk, at that time.) He asked, not particularly cordially, as I recall, who we were. I said, "I'm your new assistant manager." "I don't think so," he replied. "I better call Mac."
"Mac," Ken McDonald, was Region 1 refuge supervisor. He was pretty liked and respected, I think, but he liked to move his field folks around, sometimes on fairly short notice. We stood in the office, and listened to Don's half of the phone call to Portland. Mac was obviously doing most of the talking. When the call was over, Don turned to us, and said, "Mac says you're not coming here." He paused. "Mac also says that I'm not staying here."
We climbed in our still-loaded Ford, and drove back to the Redwoods. A month later, with a 9 day old baby boy, we were headed for Minidoka Refuge in southern Idaho. Don was also on his way north, to Bowdoin in Montana.
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NOTE: My FWS career ran from 1960 to 1994, beginning with Refuges (Regions 1 and 4), moving to Research (Patuxent field staff), then to Region 1 Endangered Species, and finally back to Region 1 Refuges. – Sandy Wilbur, 4367 S. E. 16th Street, Gresham, OR 97080. E-mail: [email protected]
Letter from Wilbur F. Armstrong to Thomas S. Armstrong
No full textWilbur decides he will not attend Ohio Wesleyan now that Dr. Thomson is gone. If he can get money to do so, he will stay at the Normal School. He encloses a circular for Thomas\u27s reference.https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/harvey-letters/1031/thumbnail.jp
Serological demonstration of an allogeneic Ia.7 antigen on the cell surface of SJL/J-derived reticulum cell sarcomas
No full textThe reticulum cell sarcomas (RCS) of SJL/J mice are of particular interest since they readily induce the proliferation of syngeneic T-lymphocytes. Previous cellular studies examined the antigens on the RCS which stimulated this response and suggested that the tumor expressed allogeneic I-region-associated (Ia) antigens normally associated with the E alpha:E beta molecular complex (S. M. Wilbur and B. J. Bonavida, Exp. Med., 153: 501-513, 1981). These particular Ia glycoproteins are not expressed on normal SJL/J cells due to a defect in the E alpha polypeptide synthetic pathway. However, the E beta subunit is synthesized normally by these animals but remains intracellular. The SJL/J-derived RCS may circumvent this defect in E alpha subunit biosynthesis. The aberrant synthesis of this polypeptide is thought to allow membrane presentation of an intact pseudoallogeneic Ia glycoprotein which utilized the normally dormant E beta s polypeptide. In the present study, two monoclonal antibodies directed against the Ia.7 specificity of the E alpha chain (13/18, 14-4-4S) were used to examine more directly the expression of this polypeptide on the tumor. Surprisingly, neither antibody was effective against the RCS in a direct complement-mediated cytolysis assay. Nevertheless, the tumor was found to specifically adsorb lytic activity of both the monoclonal antibodies. In addition, both a cold-cell competition assay and indirect immunofluorescence corroborated the data and indicated that the RCS does express detectable levels of the Ia.7 antigen. Normal spleen cells and lipopolysaccharide B-derived blasts from SJL/J mice were found in all experiments to be devoid of any specific reactivity with these monoclonal antibodies. In addition, continued in vivo passage of transplantable RCS was found to cause down-modulation of the Ia.7 specificities on these tumors. Newer RCS transplantable lines, however, expressed demonstrable levels of this alloantigen in both cellular and serological assays. The observed down-modulation could explain the difficulties encountered in defining this specificity on long-term transplantable RCS. In conclusion, the present serological study corroborates the early cell-binding data. An Ia.7 antigen is shown to be expressed on the RCS, yet this specificity could not be detected on normal SJL/J cells
Wilbur McCormack Application to Springfield College (1930)
No full textAn application for admission by Wilbur McCormack to the International YMCA College, now Springfield College. This four page document, written on June 25, 1930, provides basic information about his past and answers questions about sport, religion and YMCA association.Mr. McCormack was a member of the class of 1934 of the college. His major during his stay in Springfield College was Physical Education. Mr. McCormack, a former athlete, gymnast and wrestler was a noted dancer in the 1930s with Ted Shawn's "Denishawn Dancers", the first all-male dance troupe in the U.S. Mr. McCormack also taught in the Jacob’s Pillow School of Dance in the 1930’s. In May 1940, Ted Shawn dissolved his men dancers’ company. Afterwards, Wilbur McCormack joined the army where he made Captain. He was wounded in World War two and turned to choreography, creating the famed "Boxing Dance". Jacob’s Pillow School of Dance was the first dance school in the United States and it hosts the renowned Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. The school was founded by Ted Shawn. Ted Shawn taught at Springfield College during the 1932-33 school year, and a number of Springfield College students went on tour with Shawn in the first all male modern dance troupe. Ted Shawn (October 21, 1891 - January 9, 1972), originally Edwin Myers Shawn, was one of the first notable male pioneers of American modern dance. Along with creating Denishawn with former wife Ruth St. Denis, he also created the well-known, all-male company Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers
Wilbur McCormack's Letter to the Registrar (1949)
No full textA letter written by Wilbur McCormack to the International YMCA College, now Springfield College. Mr. McCormack was a member of the class of 1934 of the college. His major during his stay in Springfield College was Physical Education. Captain (U.S. Army) McCormack, addressed his letter to the Registrar of the college, in order to request his eligibility for a Bachelor of Science Degree from Springfield College.Mr. McCormack, a former athlete, gymnast and wrestler was a noted dancer in the 1930s with Ted Shawn's "Denishawn Dancers", the first all-male dance troupe in the U.S. Mr. McCormack also taught in the Jacob’s Pillow School of Dance in the 1930’s. In May 1940, Ted Shawn dissolved his men dancers’ company. Afterwards, Wilbur McCormack joined the army where he made Captain. He was wounded in World War two and turned to choreography, creating the famed "Boxing Dance". Jacob’s Pillow School of Dance was the first dance school in the United States and it hosts the renowned Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts. The school was founded by Ted Shawn. Ted Shawn taught at Springfield College during the 1932-33 school year, and a number of Springfield College students went on tour with Shawn in the first all male modern dance troupe. Ted Shawn (October 21, 1891 - January 9, 1972), originally Edwin Myers Shawn, was one of the first notable male pioneers of American modern dance. Along with creating Denishawn with former wife Ruth St. Denis, he also created the well-known, all-male company Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers
Wilbur S. Page (April 6, 1972)
No full textWilbur S. Page rode on the bus and went to the same school as Jessamyn West. He recalled when the Nixon boys would go swimming in Yorba Linda
Laura S. Haviland portrait
No full textEngraved portrait of Laura Smith Haviland (1808-1898). Haviland was an operator on the Underground Railroad, in Raisin (Adrian), Lenawee County, Michigan, because she believed it was her religious duty. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history
Hugh S. Fullerton portrait
No full textPhotographic reproduction of an engraved portrait depicting Rev. Hugh Stewart Fullerton (1805-1862), who was involved with the Underground Railroad in Ross County, Ohio. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history
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