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Our very own Stephen Catlett discusses Greensboro’s Overseas Replacement/Basic Training Center 10 (ORD/BTC-10) army base from World War II in a story on WFMY News 2 Wednesday night. Stephen authored this booklet as part of an exhibit at the Greensboro Historical Museum in 1994, and is something of an authority on the subject of the base. In the story, he and reporter Lechelle Yates visit some of the last remnants of the base in East Greensboro.

ORD/BTC-10 features prominently in the just-released Textiles, Teachers, and Troops project and several images from the digital collection were used in the WFMY story.

Our very own Stephen Catlett discusses Greensboro’s Overseas Replacement/Basic Training Center 10 (ORD/BTC-10) army base from World War II in a story on WFMY News 2 Wednesday night. Stephen authored this booklet as part of an exhibit at the Greensboro Historical Museum in 1994, and is something of an authority on the subject of the base. In the story, he and reporter Lechelle Yates visit some of the last remnants of the base in East Greensboro.

ORD/BTC-10 features prominently in the just-released Textiles, Teachers, and Troops project and several images from the digital collection were used in the WFMY story.

Special thanks. Music on this track is from an ““Eighteen year-old South Carolina folk singer (as well as Café Society darling and WNYC favorite) Susan Reed performs in American Music Festival’s program no. 94, accompanied by her Irish harp and of course her zither.”

The Managing Government Records Directive (OMB M12-18) charges the National Archives and Records Administration to lead the efforts to modernize records management in the Federal Government.

The Directive focuses on two main goals:

• agencies will require electronic recordkeeping by managing all their email in an accessible electronic format by the end of 2016 and managing all their permanent records as electronic records by the end of 2019.
• agencies must demonstrate compliance with all records management laws and regulations.

I talked about the importance of the Directive in a post when it was issued in 2012. Since then, we passed several milestones. Agencies have identified Senior Agency Officials to lead records management in their programs and I have met with them to discuss the challenge and collaborate on solutions. And they have reported on their progress.

Staff members Meg Phillips, Don Rosen, and Chief Records Officer Paul Wester mingle with vendors at “The Managing Government Records Directive: A Grand Challenge for Industry” event in September 2013.

In September, we hosted a successful industry day for the Federal information management community and vendors with automated electronic records management solutions and services. It was an opportunity to meet and discuss the solutions and tools needed to meet the goals of the Directive.

We followed industry day with a request for information, asking vendors to describe … [ Read all ]

Few writers begin their appearance at The Herald Tribune’s prestigious Books and Authors Luncheon series by doing a striptease, but Gypsy Rose Lee feels it is expected of her. In this 1957 segment, the famous American burlesque entertainer talks about her just-published memoirs, reminiscing in particular about her early days in show business, when she was second banana to her sister June and even more overshadowed by the imposing figure of “Mother.”

To generate interest in a series of talent shows benefiting the 1957 March of Dimes, Eleanor Roosevelt tried her hand as an amateur disc jockey on WNYC. In this excerpt, Mrs. Roosevelt takes requests from her studio audience, and finds out just ‘what the kids are listening to these days.’

Bella Abzug was a lawyer, a member of congress, a social activist and leader of the Women’s Movement. In 1971, Abzug, along with Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan, founded the National Women’s Political Caucus. During the 1972 fight to keep her Manhattan congressional district, Abzug sits down with reporter Eleanor Fischer.

Listen to a first-hand account of the colorful milieu surrounding Andy Warhol and the 1960s New York ‘underground.’  Factory denizen and Superstar, Ultra Violet, speaks with Ruth Bowman in this 1968 interview on WNYC’s Views on Art.

Activist, journalist, and author Jane Jacobs was well known for her opposition to Robert Moses and his plans to re-shape New York’s urban landscape. Jacobs was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have passed directly through Washington Square Park and in 1968 she was arrested for inciting a crowd at a public hearing on the project.

In 1957, right after her first victory at Wimbledon, WNYC aired this official reception for tennis star Althea Gibson.  Gibson won 11 grand slam tournaments during her career, was the first black athlete of either gender to break into the international tennis world, and many have called her one of the greatest tennis players of all time.  At this reception, Mayor Robert F. Wagner awards her with a special medal of honor from the city of New York.

Though a working artist for the span of some 80 years, Hedda Sterne may be best known for simply being in a photograph featuring some of the brightest stars of the Abstract Expressionist movement in America. In this interview with Views on Art host Ruth Bowman we gain some insight into the artist behind the photograph, midway through a long and successful career.

Largely forgotten today, Fannie Hurst was for many years one of the most highly paid and widely read novelists of her time. Anatomy of Me is Hurst’s just-published autobiography, which she discusses at this 1958 Books and Authors Luncheon.

Few writers begin their appearance at The Herald Tribune’s prestigious Books and Authors Luncheon series by doing a striptease, but Gypsy Rose Lee feels it is expected of her.  

After taking off her gloves, hat, and earrings she stops, there being no “row of bald men” for her to look out over. Squinting, refusing to wear glasses, confiding she has “40-year-old eyes and a 20-year-old body,” she talks about her just-published memoirs, reminiscing in particular about her early days in show business, when she was second banana to her sister June and even more overshadowed by the imposing figure of “Mother.”

On assignment for Reader’s Digest, Burnett was charged with reporting on the conditions of the East German refugees, who were “coming over at that time at about 2,000 a night.” Amidst a quiet week, she describes the night of August 13 when the foundations for the Berlin wall were laid. She describes standing among Berliners at the Brandenburg Gate, who were so shocked they had not yet found their voices to protest.

At a time when wartime journalism was almost exclusively the territory of men, photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, blazed a trail as an award winning war correspondent, setting herself apart from other journalists with her ability to gain access to rebel groups, including those in Hungary, Cuba and South Vietnam. Her awards include the National Press Photographers Association’s 1963 “Photograph of the Year” award and the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association Distinguished Service Award.

In March, 1972, reporter Eleanor Fischer interviewed Congresswoman Bella Abzug as she was fighting to hold on to her Congressional district in Manhattan encompassing, in part, the Battery, the Lower East Side, Little Italy, Chinatown, Greenwich Village and Chelsea.

Listen to a first-hand account of the colorful milieu surrounding Andy Warhol and the 1960s New York ‘underground’ from Factory denizen and Superstar, Ultra Violet in this Views on Art interview with Ruth Bowman.

Jane Jacobs, in this 1962 appearance at a Books and Authors Luncheon, explains her current role as a community leader in the fight against what she views as the excesses and excrescences of the arrogant Modernist redesign of city neighborhoods.

Official reception for tennis star Althea Gibson after her ticket-tape parade, right after her first victory at Wimbledon.