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Digital Memories: Garden of ParadiseApril 1997 Special Collections and Archives at the University of Idaho Library announces a new installment in the Webpage "Digital Memories." Digital Memories focuses on historic artifacts, documents, photographs, and books from the holdings of Special Collections and Archives. This is a changing showcase of highlights from our collections. The most recent addition to the series is "Garden of Paradise," the 1915 popular song that proved the basis for the University of Idaho's alma mater as well as the Idaho state song, as adopted by the legislature in 1931. The Special Collections Department of the University of Idaho Library includes those materials that, because of subject coverage, rarity, source, condition, or form, are best handled separately from the General Collection. The several "collections" housed in this department include the Day-Northwest Collection of Western Americana, Rare Books, Idaho Documents, Sir Walter Scott Collection, Ezra Pound Collection, Caxton Collection, University of Idaho Theses, Historical Maps, Historical Photograph Collection, and Personal Papers and University Archives. "Digital Memories" can be accessed through the URL <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>. Previous editions, on the Bannock Indian War, Frank B. Robinson and his mail-order religion, the 1921 Idaho Yell Squad, WWII married student housing, and the famous S-curve trestle snowslide, are also available. Also at this site is information about Special Collections and its holdings, archival and manuscript descriptions and inventories, and a comprehensive geographical guide to repositories of primary source materials. The latter now contains over 1900 entries from around the world.
+++ H. Robert Otness PapersMarch 1997 The University of Idaho Library announces the availability on the World Wide Web of inventories of newly processed gifts of personal papers. They include the personal and professional papers of psychology professor H. Robert Otness, his wife, the local historian, Lillian Otness, as well as the university student papers of brother-in-law Francis V. Nonini. They can be found at <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Manuscripts/>. H. Robert Otness was born in 1907 in Moscow, Idaho. He graduated from Moscow High School in 1926, and received his bachelor of science and master of science degrees from the University of Idaho in 1931 and 1932 respectively. In 1939 he received a docto r of clinical psychology degree from New York University. In 1943 he joined the U.S. Naval Reserve as a lieutenant and was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1945 he was transferred to the Naval Training Center at Farragut, Idaho, where his duties included screening combat personnel for re-entry into civilian life. Following his discharge in 1946 he joined the psychology department at Washington State College for one year before becoming director of research and training at the Rainier State School in Buckley, Washington. He returned to Moscow in 1950 and became an associate professor in the University of Idaho department of psychology where he remained until his retirement in 1971. During this time he was presented an Outstanding Faculty Member Award by the Associated Students (ASUI). In addition to his teaching duties he gave many addresses throughout the Northwest and organized several symposia dealing with mental retardation. Throughout his career he was an advocate for people with mental and physical disabilities. In 1973 he was the first recipient of the American Association on Mental Deficiency's Edgar A. Doll award. He married Lillian Woodworth on July 15, 1945. They had one son, Robert. H. Robert Otness died in Moscow on April 21, 1995. Lillian (Woodworth) Otness, a descendant of one of Moscow's founding families, was born in 1908. She graduated from Moscow High School in 1926. She graduated with highest honors in 1930 from the University of Idaho where she was a member of Delta Gamma Sorority. She was active in arts, sports, and was a member of the women's rifle team. Following graduation she worked at Klamath Union High School in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where she coached girls' basketball, baseball, volleyball, and tennis. In 1933 sh e moved to the southern branch of the University of Idaho (now Idaho State University) where she became director of women's athletics. She also taught a variety of dance classes. She earned her master of science in education from the UI in 1940, and a sec ond masters degree in English in 1961. She married H. Robert Otness at Farragut Naval Reserve Station on July 15, 1945; the couple had one son, Robert Jay. She frequently joined her husband in performing magic shows as Lingo in the team of Zingo and Lingo. She was also very active in the fi eld of historic preservation and wrote a book on local history titled "A Great Good Country: A Guide to Historic Moscow and Latah County, Idaho" (1983). Lillian Otness died in Moscow on July 22, 1994. The Otness papers span the years 1916 to 1995, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1950 to 1985. The papers include material relating to his teaching at the University of Idaho, his 1966 sabbatical, some items concerning his work with the U.S. Navy and the Washington State School at Buckley. Other material consists of newspaper and journal articles of professional interest. There is also a large collection of various educational tests, and finally there are tape recording of speeches and r adio programs. Material relating to his wife, Lillian, is also included as is correspondence and other material concerning his non-academic life. Francis V. Nonini was in 1907 in Bayhorse, Idaho. He attended public school in Mackay, graduating from Mackay High School in 1925. He then attended the University of Idaho where he majored in geology and botany. After graduating in 1930 he began teachi ng general science and botany in the Moscow High School. He later earned a masters degree in education. During the summers he worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the Plant and Pest Control Division. In 1947 he was appointed principal of Mosco w High School, a position he held until his retirement in 1962. He married Ruth Otness in 1934. The papers of Francis V. Nonini span the years 1926 to 1936 and consist mainly of classroom notes and papers. The historical manuscripts at the University of Idaho Library are supplemented by the 16,000 volumes of Idaho and Pacific Northwest history in the Day-Northwest Collection, the Idaho state documents collection of over 10,000 items, over 100,000 images in the Historical Photograph Collection, and other records of mining, lumbering, and insurance companies; banks, hospitals, and orphanages; personal papers of judges, doctors, lawyers, and journalists; and the University Archives. All are located in Special Collections and Archives which is open from Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, except university holidays. Summer hours may vary. +++ Rafe Gibbs PapersJuly 1997 The University of Idaho Library recently received 10 cubic feet of material from author, journalist, and retired university educator Rafe Gibbs. Included are typescripts of articles, copies of magazines which published his stories, books he authored, a nd reference material. Also included are historical photographs of Idaho and photographs of Gibbs and his family. These are in addition to previous materials donated by Mr. Gibbs. Raphael Sanford Gibbs was born on a homestead in Yakima, Washington on April 29, 1912, the son local grocer Sanford and Anna Gibbs. He attended the University of Idaho where he graduated with a degree in journalism in 1934. He married Elizabeth "B iddie" Ferne Egeland in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where they were both employed by the Milwaukee Journal, on October 3, 1940; they had five children. In addition to her duties as wife and mother, Biddie also served as Rafe's editor. He was director of sports publicity at the University of Idaho from 1934 to 1936. From 1936 to 1941 he was on the editorial staff of the Milwaukee Journal. He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces as administrative officer from 1941 to 1946, attaining the rank of colonel. In 1946 he returned to the University of Idaho where he was Director of Information and also taught courses in magazine writing. He retired from the University of Idaho in 1970. Gibbs sold his first story "The Gunmen of Painted Desert" for $35.00 at the age of 13. In a letter to the University library, his son Grayson wrote that after completing the story "He then went to a local drug store and studied all of th e western magazines. He thought the worst written was Action Stories so he sent it there because he believed his story was better than any in it and would have a greater chance of being sold - how right he was!" Since then he has written hundreds of stories which have appeared in such magazines as Saturday Evening Post, Ford Times, Lincoln and Mercury Times, Chrysler Events, United Mainliner, Popular Mechanics, Coronet, Your Life, American Mercury, Science Dig est, Zane Gray's Western Magazine, Cowboy Stories, and Sports Afield. He also wrote a history of the University of Idaho entitled Beacon for Mountain and Plain (Caxton, 1962); a history of Idaho, Beckoning the Bold (University Press of Idaho, 1976); and a history of the International University in Miami. He was also the author of the Idaho section in the International Encyclopedia. Rafe Gibbs lives with his wife and editor, Biddie, and writes in Sun City Center near Tampa, Florida. The historical manuscripts at the University of Idaho Library are supplemented by the 16,000 volumes of Idaho and Pacific Northwest history in the Day-Northwest Collection, the Idaho state documents collection of over 10,000 items, over 100,000 images in the Historical Photograph Collection, and other records of mining, lumbering, and insurance companies; banks, hospitals, and orphanages; personal papers of judges, doctors, lawyers, and journalists; and the University Archives. All are located in Speci al Collections and Archives which is open from Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, except university holidays. Summer hours may vary. +++ Digital Memories: Library GymnasiumJuly 1997 Special Collections and Archives at the University of Idaho Library announces a new installment in the Webpage "Digital Memories." Digital Memories focuses on historic artifacts, documents, photographs, and books from the holdings of Special Collections and Archives. This is a changing showcase of highlights from our collections. The most recent addition to the series is "Library Gymnasium," a photograph illustrating the support provided by athletics to academics. This circumstance was a result of the 1906 burning of the University's administration building and the subse quent temporary establishment of the library in the gymnasium. The Special Collections Department of the University of Idaho Library includes those materials that, because of subject coverage, rarity, source, condition, or form, are best handled separately from the General Collection. The several "collections" housed in this department include the Day-Northwest Collection of Western Americana, Rare Books, Idaho Documents, Sir Walter Scott Collection, Ezra Pound Collection, Caxton Collection, University of Idaho Theses, Historical Maps, Historical Photograph Collection, and Personal Papers and University Archives. "Digital Memories" can be accessed through the URL <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>. Previous editions, on the Bannock Indian War, Frank B. Robinson and his mail-order religion, the 1921 Idaho Yell Squad, WWII married student housing, and the famous S-curve trestle snowslide, are also available. Also at this site is information about Special Collections and its holdings, archival and manuscript descriptions and inventories, and a nearly comprehensive geographical guide to repositories of primary source materials. The latter now contains over 2000 entries from around the world.
+++ Digital Memories: Welcome to MinidokaNovember 1997 Special Collections and Archives at the University of Idaho Library announces a new installment in the Webpage "Digital Memories." Digital Memories focuses on historic artifacts, documents, photographs, and books from the holdings of Special Collections and Archives. This is a changing showcase of highlights from our collections. The most recent addition to the series is "Welcome to Minidoka," a letter from one World War II internee to another describing first impressions of the War Relocation Center at Hunt, Idaho. The Minidoka center eventually housed 9400 people, primarily U.S. citizens who happened to be of Japanese descent. The Special Collections Department of the University of Idaho Library includes those materials that, because of subject coverage, rarity, source, condition, or form, are best handled separately from the General Collection. The several "collections" housed in this department include the Day-Northwest Collection of Western Americana, Rare Books, Idaho Documents, Sir Walter Scott Collection, Ezra Pound Collection, Caxton Collection, University of Idaho Theses, Historical Maps, Historical Photograph Collection, and Personal Papers and University Archives. "Digital Memories" can be accessed through the URL <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>. Previous editions, on the Bannock Indian War, Frank B. Robinson and his mail-order religion, the 1921 Idaho Yell Squad, WWII married student housing, and the famous S-curve trestle snowslide, are also available. Also at this site is information about Special Collections and its holdings, archival and manuscript descriptions and inventories, and a nearly comprehensive geographical guide to repositories of primary source materials. The latter now contains over 2300 entries from around the world. +++ William Healy PapersDecember 1997 The University of Idaho Library announces the availability on the World Wide Web of inventories of newly processed gifts of personal papers. They include the case files and other papers of early-day Silver City, Idaho lawyer William Healy. They can be found at <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Manuscripts/>. William Healy was born near Windham, Iowa, on September 10, 1881, the son of Jeremiah and Mary Ann (Bradley) Healy. He attended the University of Iowa for six years, receiving his B.A. in 1906 and an LL.B. in 1908. He then moved to Idaho where he was admitted to the bar and became a partner in the Boise law firm of Smead, Elliott & Healy. He practiced law in Silver City, serving as prosecuting attorney of Owyhee County from 1911 to 1912, until he moved to Boise in 1914 where he continued his practice until 1934. He was active in Democratic politics, serving as Chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee of Owyhee County. He also represented that county in the lower house of the state legislature in 1913. He married Mary Hicks on June 18, 1914; they had two daughters. In 1917 he was appointed a member of the state board of education, serving until 1919. He was President of the Idaho State Bar Association from 1932 to 1933 and a member of the Idaho Constitutional Convention in 1933. From June 1937 until his death in 1962 he was a Judge of the 9th Judicial Circuit Court of Appeals. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Idaho in 1957. He died in San Mateo, California in 1962. The papers of William Healy span the years 1908 to 1913. Included in the case files are court documents, correspondence with clients, and also correspondence with his law partners in Boise who checked legal references and precedence for cases which he handled; there are also a few personal files most of which concern the Democratic party. They document a era when Silver City was a major mining center in Southwestern Idaho. The historical manuscripts at the University of Idaho Library are supplemented by the 16,000 volumes of Idaho and Pacific Northwest history in the Day-Northwest Collection, the Idaho state documents collection of over 10,000 items, over 100,000 images in the Historical Photograph Collection, and other records of mining, lumbering, and insurance companies; banks, hospitals, and orphanages; personal papers of judges, doctors, lawyers, and journalists; and the University Archives. All are located in Special Collections and Archives which is open from Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, except university holidays. Summer hours may vary. For more information about Special Collections at the University of Idaho Library see <http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>. +++ |
