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Webb, Charles, Ponella, Philip, Bernstein, Leonard, Shanahan, James
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In episode 61, we speak with IU Jacob School of Music Dean Emeritus Charles Webb and Philip Ponella, the Wennerstrom Philips Music Library Director and director of Music Information Technology Services, about the great composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. In 2009, the Bernstein family awarded the Jacobs School of Music with the contents of one of his composing studios. That studio is now on tour as part of the global celebration "Leonard Bernstein at 100."
In 2016, Betty Williams received the Champions of Equal Opportunity Award from the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities. Betty received the award for her leadership in promoting voting rights, serving on committees addressing disability issues, organizing self-advocate groups, and training across the country. Betty got her start in the early 1990s when she joined her local advocacy group. In 2014, Betty was appointed to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.
In addition to discussing her work on the national level, Betty shares stories about her work in Indiana. She was involved in changing the name of the MRDD commission to the DD commission. Betty reflects on her advocacy work with Darcus Nims. “She was like my friend, my mentor, my trainer,” explains Betty. Together, they helped incorporate Self-Advocacy of Indiana. They traveled the state training people on the importance of self-advocacy. Betty understands there is still work to be do, which is why she wants to be a part of self-advocacy until she retires. Betty says, “I am going to retire like normal people. You know, I am. I have that plan. But even then I might do something around self-advocacy, you know?” Betty Louise Williams was born in 1959 and died in 2018. She was interviewed in 2016.
“I wish I had recorded all the stories that we heard during those interviews,” stated Bettye Dunham on interviewing Muscatatuck State Hospital and Training Center residents for jobs at the Jennings Training Center in the 1970s. She talked to residents about life at the institution, their work experience, and what dreams they had for the future. Bettye found the residents wanted to work because they wanted to contribute to their own well-being and it gave them something meaningful to do. In this clip, she shares a few stories from those interviews. Bettye was interviewed in 2013.
An exciting development for audio and video repositories is the emerging IIIF standard for time-based media. Join us to understand what IIIF is and why the Avalon project is collaborating with the IIIF-AV community. We will also discuss how we see the future of these two important open source projects and their contribution to a rich media viewing experience.
In episode 67, Through the Gates producers Abbie Gipson and Emily Miles look into Indiana University campus ghost stories and discuss their findings. Be sure to listen to this in conjunction with episode 65, where we talk to IU alum Kat Klockow about her book Haunted Hoosier Halls and other paranormal phenomena (Through-the-gates-at-iu – Ep-65-the-haunted-history-of-indiana-university-with-kat-klockow).
Bryan Moss’ photojournalism career took him to 13 newspapers in nine states and led to two staff Pulitzer Prizes during four decades.
Raised in Corydon, Indiana, Moss studied journalism and science writing at Indiana University and was a member of the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. He met his wife, Mary Jo (Davis), BA’73, in the darkroom at Ernie Pyle Hall.
Moss graduated from IU in 1966. He and Mary Jo both became photojournalists, which made it difficult for the couple to stay in one place for long. Most newspapers at the time had rules prohibiting married couples from working together. Throughout their careers, they took turns freelancing and working full-time at newspapers.
After college, Moss worked as staff photographer at The Paper in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the Sunday Courier & Press in Evansville, The Herald-Telephone in Bloomington and the Evening News in Buffalo, New York.
He became staff photographer and later night picture editor at the Courier-Journal and Times in Louisville. There, he was one of eight staff photographers, including Melissa Farlow, BA’74, who contributed to the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photographic coverage of a controversial court-mandated public school busing program intended to achieve integration.
Farlow, a 2012 IU School of Journalism Distinguished Alumni Award honoree, said of Moss, “When I came to the Louisville newspapers, Bryan was already on the staff — a fabulous staff, as good as you can get, and I would say Bryan Moss was a lot of the reason. He had the highest ethical standards and a good work ethic. He’s a soft-spoken, gentle person, but determined, a force in creating a creative climate.”
Moss worked next as director of photography for the Tallahassee Democrat before a brief career move into computer programming.
He returned to photojournalism as director of photography at the Rocky Mountain News, then moved to the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News. At The Mercury News, Moss oversaw the remodeling of the darkroom to allow for color printing and set up the paper’s first electronic picture desk operation.
Moss contributed to his second Pulitzer Prize at The Mercury News as director of photography. The paper won for its coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that struck California’s Bay area.
He returned to the San Francisco Chronicle as photography coach for a year before moving back to Indiana. He and Mary Jo founded the White Cloud Workshop, the first one-on-one, non-shooting workshop for photojournalists.
When the Evansville Courier & Press approached Moss about becoming director of photography, he proposed that he and Mary Jo share the job. The paper’s management agreed. Finally, their shared passion for photojournalism helped their careers, rather than creating roadblocks.
Moss went on to work at the St. Louis Post Dispatch and The Cincinnati Post before creating The Kentucky Post online, a new concept for newspaper websites that focused on rich storytelling of prep sports.
Moss has been named Indiana Photographer of the year twice. He is author of the book PHOTOSYNTHESIS — A Simple Guide to the Magic of Photography.
He now runs a website called Life in Corydon, a site that tells the story of the community of his hometown of Corydon through photography. It highlights photographs of ordinary people doing ordinary things, a philosophy of photojournalism he has espoused over his 50-year career.
When Byron Smith was in sixth grade, his mother got a call from his teacher. She said, "Byron is out there on the monkey bars and he's sitting on the top bar and he's not hanging on with his hands." “My mom said, ‘Let him alone. Yes, he may fall. Yes, he may get hurt but as long as he's not being irreverent or grandstanding or behaving poorly, if he's just out there with the guys, shooting marbles in the gravel or climbing the monkey bars, let him go.' That was pretty much the attitude that my family had… do as much of everything with everybody as I could.” Byron recounts how he had attended public school for kindergarten and half of first grade in Bloomington, Indiana, before losing his sight due to eye disease.
In 1951 "Bikey" entered the Indiana State School for the Blind. He learned Braille while attending grades 1 through 5 at the residential school in Indianapolis. With concerted advocacy from his parents and many others, he was permitted to re-enter public school in Bloomington for the 6th grade, the first blind pupil to transfer from the state school. Byron attended University Junior High and High Schools and graduated Indiana University with a degree in radio and television. He shares some stories about how he got into the field of radio. He worked at the University for over 37 years as a reporter, editor, and radio producer.
Byron was active as a member and chairperson of the City of Bloomington’s Council for Community Accessibility and was co-founder of the Handicapped Improvisational Theater, later known as Diversity Theatre. Byron also talks about the work he did with his wife Patsy in audio description. Byron K. Smith was interviewed in 2013. A life-long Bloomington, Indiana resident, he died in 2016.
"She kept finding out that blind students were attending regular public schools in all of the surrounding states and she couldn't figure out why weren't doing that in Indiana," recalls Byron Smith of his mother. Having recently lost his vision due to due to congenital glaucoma, seven-year-old "Bikey" entered the Indiana State School for the Blind in 1951. Five years later, and after intensive advocacy on the part of his parents and community members, he returned to his home town of Bloomington to attend Rogers Elementary School. In this 2013 interview excerpt, Byron Smith describes how he became the first pupil to be transferred from the state school to a public elementary school. He also talks about the essential tutoring assistance he received from Indiana University's Delta Gamma sorority as both a high school and college student.
"Lights Out!" at the Indiana State School for The Blind didn't deter Byron Smith from his love of reading. He entered the Indianapolis school as a seven-year-old in 1951. He had recently lost his vision due to due to congenital glaucoma. In this 2013 interview excerpt Byron describes what it was like to attend the school and live in the dormitory during the week. In 1956 he transferred back to a public school in Bloomington, Indiana where his family lived.
The maker movement, a subculture affiliated with a do-it-yourself ethos and, more recently, a passion for digital technologies, has been growing over the last two decades and is making its way onto the university campus . Digital humanities (DH) centers in particular have taken up the maker ethos, incorporating digital technologies such as 3D printers and microcomputers into their spaces. While recent literature acknowledges both the lack of female presence in makerspaces and a desire for more diversity in the digital humanities, no study of making has yet employed a feminist approach to understanding why and how these issues arise in the first place. The Centering Gender Project aims to do just this, by employing Wajcman’s (2004) theory of TechnoFeminism in an examination of public and academic examples of making. Martin's talk will showcase preliminary findings from her first on-site visits to makerspaces, and challenge the audience to think through ways their learning spaces could diversify their population.
"I don't know about you, Congressman, but it's important for me to know how to put my pants on every morning to keep my job here," was how John Dickerson paraphrased Congressman John Brademas in a memorable moment. The Congressman from South Bend, Indiana was one of the prime sponsors of historic legislation mandating special education. This video focuses on the role The Arc has played in educating legislative officials about disability issues, a compilation of interview excerpts from John Dickerson and Kim Dodson. John was Executive Director of The Arc of Indiana when he was interviewed in 2013. Kim Dodson had succeeded him in that position when she was interviewed in 2017.
"I fell through the cracks bad," describes Karen Ricci of her school experience in the '70s and '80s. Karen discusses her challenges in school, such as teachers not having the training to adapt curriculum. Despite the challenges, Karen did go to college where she faced a new set of challenges. Karen lives in southern Indiana, but has advocated for better services in Kentucky. Karen would like to to use her voice and voting power to make a difference in Indiana.
Kathy Christoff and Bill Gilkey talk about the changes they have seen in Indiana mental health services since the 1960s. They discuss the development of mental health centers, improvements in medications, and the success of employment programs. Kathy, an administrator with the community-based behavioral health care provider Centerstone, was interviewed in 2014. Bill, a retired psychologist, was interviewed in 2013.
