Scope and content Recordings of the panel presentations: Tape 1. Tom Holloway, Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Cornell, moderator; invocation by John Gutenberger, then Mayor of Ithaca; Tom Walker, University of Ohio, on Nicaragua; Tommie Sue Montgomery, journalist, on El Salvador. Tape 2: Montgomery continues; Walter LaFeber, Cornell Dept. of History, on U.S. foreign policy in Central America. Tape 3: Colonel Larry Tracy presents the Reagan administration's point of view on Central America;...

Abstract

Included are photographs, maps, brochures, booklets, programs, broadsides, invitations, historical outlines, and other printed items pertaining to subjects including local politics and government, urban renewal, religion, civic and social events and organizations, musical and dramatic productions, transportation, educational institutions, and geology of the region.

Scope and content

A chronology of the actions of the Ithaca, New York Board of Education from 1950-May 1962; and a list of Board members from 1950-1962, prepared by William W. Cutler, III in 1966. Also, a list of building projects undertaken by the Board from 1958-1965. All of these items are typewritten.

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Newspaper clippings, photographs, letters, chronology, petition, memoranda, minutes, and drawing relating to Route 327 and the controversy surrounding the widening of the road. Includes several articles and editorials from the Ithaca Journal. The chronology was compiled by Peggy (Marguerite J.) Pack. Correspondents include Assemblyman Gary A. Lee, resident Boyd Pack, engineer R.W. Strain, and David Powers of the Town of Ithaca Zoning Board of Appeals.