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Broadcast Tape 13.  (Originally Van Camp Master #10)

Date:  ca. 1981

Duration:  00:36:13

Reporter: Rosemarie Van Camp.

Four human interest reports and public information segments.

Originally produced on ¾” u-matic.  Reformatted to Betacam SP in 2003 and MPEG-2 in 2005.

 

Tape contents

Segment 1

Title:  [Yellow Ribbon Day]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration:  00:23:06

File name: NPA1301

Two thousand faculty, students, and staff attended a special celebration, which took place on the Plaza of the Americas (January 22, 1981) forty-eight hours after word was received that the fifty-two hostages had been released from Iran.  Dr. Michael Gannon, John Nattress, Dr. Stephen Saxon,  Dr. David Chalmers, and Eric Miller were among the participants.

Segment 2

Title:  [Gift from the Pounds]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration:  00:02:01

File name: NPA1302

Annie Cannon Pound and her son Addison Pound Jr. present the gift of the four acres and a dozen buildings of the former site of Baird Hardware on South Main Street in Gainesville to the University of Florida Foundation.  The proceeds of $617,000 will be used to fund two scholarships at the University of Florida.

 

Segment 3

Title:  [Gift to the Judaica Library]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration:  00:01:55

File name: NPA1303

Sam and Jack Price (sons of Rae and Isser Price) gave a $400,000 endowment to the University of Florida in honor of their parents.  Because of their gift the University of Florida now owns the largest library of Judaica in the southeast – the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica.

Segment 4

Title:  [Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica]

Date:  ca. 1981

Reported by:  Rosemarie Van Camp

Duration:  00:09:51

File name: NPA1304

A longer version of Segment 3 which includes extended interviews and some interviews with scholars.  Robert Singerman, curator of the collection, appears in both segments.

 

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