The American Political Items Collectors Collection (APIC) contains donations of scholarly material that relates to national political campaigns as well as American history dating from 1895 to 1982. This collection is comprised of presidential campaigning materials that stem from bumper stickers to voting ballots.

American Public Transportation Association Collection  The American Public Transportation Association Collection contains subject-arranged materials pertaining particularly to the American Public Transit Association.  Also included are materials from both the American Transit Association (ATA) and the Institute for Rapid Transit (IRT).  Types of materials in the collection include:  memoranda, correspondence, reports, legislative information, industry-related information (such as brochures and technical reports), and membership information.  The total volume of the collection is 90 cubic feet or 145 linear feet. Collection Web page 

The Arena Stage Collection Arena Stage was an early leader in the resident theater movement. One of the first not-for-profit theaters in the United States as well as a pioneer of the regional theater movement the Arena Stage was the first regional theater to transfer a production to Broadway, the first invited by the U.S. State Department to tour behind the Iron Curtain and the first to receive a Tony Award.

Co-founded in 1950 by Edward Mangum a teacher from the George Washington University, and Zelda Fichandler one of his students, Arena Stage was opened in Washington D.C. to fill the void left by the closing of the National Theater in 1948. Deriving it's name from the idea of "theater in the round," Arena Stage became one of the first resident theaters in the United States, beginning with a company of only eight actors. Today, Arena performs to over 250,000 patrons during a September to June season and employs nearly 200 theater professionals and craftpersons, who are responsible for all the costumes and scenery seen on stage. Many now- famous actors took part in Arena Stage productions during the early part of their careers. Some of them include Robert Prosky, Morgan Freeman, Dianne Weist, James Earl Jones, Kevin Kline, Christopher Guest, Yeardly Smith and Samuel L. Jackson.

Donated to George Mason University in fall of 2000, the Arena Stage Collection contains materials spanning the theater's 50 year history including production notebooks, photographs, playbills, scrapbooks, scripts and handwritten correspondence and other production materials. Below are the links to series within the Arena Stage Collection.

Guide to the Oliver Atkins White House Photographs Oliver F. Atkins (1917-1977) was born February 18, 1917 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. He earned a BA in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1938, and accepted a position with the Birmingham Post as a staff photographer.Within two years he became chief photographer for the Scripps Howard-owned paper. In 1940, he joined the Washington Daily News where he remained until 1942 and the outbreak of World War II. During the war, he served as a correspondent and photographer for the American Red Cross covering the African campaign, the invasions of Sicily, southern Italy, southern France, and Germany. After the war, Atkins joined the staff of the Saturday Evening Post. As the Washington correspondent for the Post, he photographed many important leaders of the United States and the world. Among them were Harry S Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Winston Churchill, Gamel Nasser, Nikita Kruschev, Josip B. Tito, and Jawaharlal Nehru. He was the Post's Far East correspondent in 1951, and also enjoyed a personal and working relationship with the magazine's famous illustrator, Norman Rockwell. In 1969, Atkins became the personal photographer of President Richard M. Nixon and chief White House photographer. Of his many images of Nixon, the series documenting the meeting of December 18, 1970 with Elvis Presley is the most famous and the most requested. After Nixon's resignation in 1974, Atkins became vice president of Curtis Publishing Company of Indianapolis and remained there until his death in 1977. Ollie Atkins' awards include the White House News Photographers' Association Grand Award, the Graflex All American Photo Contest Portrait Award, and the National Press Photographers' Association Personalities Award. Books by Ollie Atkins include Camera on Assignment (co-written with Charles Baptie, 1957), and The White House Years: Triumph and Tragedy (1977). He also contributed to William Safire's Eye on Nixon (1972). The Oliver Atkins Nixon White House Photographs contains black-and-white and color photographs of President Richard M. Nixon, the Nixon family, staff, and vistors to the White House. The collection documents his trips abroad, campaign activities. Collection Web page

Charles Baptie Photograph Collection  Charles Baptie, photographer, printer, and publisher was born in Munhall, PA. Early in his career he became photographer and public relations agent for Capital Airlines. His camera recorded the life of the airline for many years. When Capital Airlines merged with United Airlines, Baptie left the company and formed his own business, Charles Baptie Studios, Inc. Since that time, he photographically illustrated more than fifty books and other publications. As a photo-journalist Baptie covered feature stories for leading magazines and Sunday supplements. During this point in his career he met and photographed many of the world's leaders and notables. Research materials in the Baptie Collection include: color prints and negatives of Gunston Hall, the home of George Mason; color transparencies from the Encyclopedia of United States History; color transparencies and prints from the Great Houses of Washington, D.C.; black & white negatives of the Washington metropolitan area taken in the 1950s and 1960s; and photographs of George Mason University. The total volume of the collection is 7.6 cubic feet or 10.4 linear feet. Collection Web page

Jean Louis Barrault Collection Born in France in 1910, Barrault was an esteemed and innovative fixture in French theatre and film for five decades from the 1930s to 1980s.Contains photographs documenting Barrault and Renuad's career in the theatre in France between 1947 and 1979.

John C. Becher Collection  The John C. Becher Collection in Special Collections & Archives (SC and A), George Mason University, contains entertainment materials written by and for the United States military during and immediately following World War II. SC and A acquired the collection in 1979 through a donation made by Harold Arburg, Director of Arts and Humanities, U.S. Office of Education. The collection is arranged by material type and entertainment themes. The six cubic feet (nine linear feet) cover the years 1940 through 1953.  Most of the items in the Becher Collection are Soldier Shows, entertainments written to amuse overseas troops and to boost morale. Produced by the Army Special Services Division, the scripts were written by professional and amateur playwrights. Many were created by military personnel attending the Special Services School in Lexington, Virginia (1943-1946). The collection also includes: newspaper and magazine clippings, war humor, poems, blackouts, quizzes, crafts manuals, original songs, song parodies, sheet music, flyers, pamphlets, theatrical manuals and guides, lesson plans and lectures, production ideas, and comedy routines. There are also several military-issued Pocket Guides to foreign lands, including guides to Burma, Germany, Greece, West Africa, Italy, and Great Britain.  Collection Web page

Guide to the Robert Breen Collection The Robert Breen Theatre Collection is a primary source from which one may research the early beginnings of government support for the performing arts and the people responsible for them. It details the work of Robert Breen, the driving force behind the reformation of ANTA in 1946 and a staunch supporter of its eventual successor, the National Endowment for the Arts. The Robert Breen Theatre Collection aids in the gaining of a better understanding of the early operations of ANTA. Collection Web page

Covering the years1933-1980, it consists of working papers, correspondence, drafts, news clippings, scripts, photographs and other theatrical materials which document Breen's career with ANTA from 1944 to1952. The Collection also reflects Breen's personal interests such as television, film, and political causes.

A Guide to the Broadside Photograph Collection  Broadside, George Mason University's official student newspaper, began its life as The Gunston Ledger in 1963.  Today, it is a modern newspaper produced bi-weekly, generated via computer, and is published in a large folded newspaper format.  The Broadside Photograph Collection contains over two thousand photographs taken between 1975 and 1997.  Ninety-nine percent of the photographs were taken by Broadside staff members while the remaining images comprise official publicity photos of individuals or organizations.  The total volume of the collection is 2.5 cubic feet or 3.75 linear feet. Collection Web page

A Guide to the John W. Burton Collection  John W. Burton lead a distinguished career in Australian politics before turing to academics in the mid-1950's.  It was at that time, Burton published his first book on foreign policy titled The Alternative.  In 1963, he moved to England to teach at the International Relations Program at University College, London, where the Centre for the Analysis of Conflict was originally set up.  Since then, Burton has published many books on the subject of diplomacy and conflict resolution.  Burton was eventually persuaded to join George Mason University to help in the development of a new Centre for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, now known as the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR).  The John W. Burton Collection contains materials including correspondence, working papers, notes, newsclippings, and scholarly publications.  The total volume of the collection is 6 cubic feet or 9 linear feet. Collection Web page

Guide to the Thomas Deen Papers Thomas Blackburn Deen (1928- ), a graduate of the University of Kentucky, began his career as a highway traffic engineer. Early in his career, Deen pioneered in the development and application of methods for analyzing urban transportation problems and designing urban transit systems. These computer-based analytical methods were used to evaluate and select the lines that today make up the Washington, D.C. area Metrorail system. Deen served as Director of Planning for the National Capital Transportation Agency from 1960 to 1964, and Executive Director of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) from 1980 to 1994. At the TRB, Deen supervised policy studies on critical national transportation issues, such as the 55 mile per hour speed limit, school bus safety, air passenger service and safety since deregulation, and high-speed rail. He was responsible for all of TRB's activities including its sponsorship of some 260 technical committees and panels, research retrieval systems, inhouse research, and state-sponsored cooperative research programs. The Thomas Blackburn Deen Papers contain transportation-related materials collected between 1980 and 1994 while Mr. Deen was head of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). Types of materials include conference and committee meeting materials, TRB research information, speeches and personal correspondence. The materials cover a wide variety of topics such as highway construction, safety, international transportation concerns, and funding for highways. Organizations represented by materials in the papers include the Federal Highway Administration, the Department of Transportation, and the Permanent International Association of Road Congresses. Collection Web page

Dr. Sam di Bonaventura (1921-1998) was a professor of music at George Mason from 1975 until in 1998. Known around campus simply as "Dr. Sam," di Bonaventura taught music history, music theory, and private violin lessons until he retired in spring 1998. Di Bonaventura studied music at Juilliard, Yale, Harvard, and Peabody Conservatory. He studied composition with musical giants including Robert Ward, Vincent Persichetti, Paul Hindemith, Walter Piston, and Benjamin Lees. He was a professional violinist and composed a number of original works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, vocal and choral media. The di Bonaventura Collection consists of notebooks containing related research notes, scholarly papers, concert programs, musical scores and sheet music arranged alphabetically by subject. The collection comprises 121 containers. 121 cubic feet or 181.5 linear feet. Collection Web page

Guide to the Noman M. Cole, Jr. Collection Noman M. Cole, Jr. (1934-1997) was a leading figure in the area of environmental quality in the Northern Virginia area and elsewhere. Mr. Cole served in a variety of state and local assignments pertaining to pollution control. He was technical and policy adviser to Governors John Dalton and Linwood Holton on energy and water pollution abatement. The government of Fairfax County and civic groups received guidance from him as well. Mr. Cole also was the principal author of the 1971 Occoquan Watershed Policy, which prompted creation of a sewage authority there as well as of a world-class treatment plant.

Mr. Cole's expertise also extended to global issues. He was a nuclear engineer who was a leader in the inspection and rectification of problems involving the reactor after the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania. He served on the Ukrainian international jury reviewing proposals to stabilize Chernobyl Unit No. 4 after the disaster there. Mr. Cole assisted the Russian government in defueling its nuclear-powered submarines.

Later in his life, and most importantly for the Northern Virginia region, he developed a number of plants and proceses to aid in the reclamation of water from the upper Occoquan and consequentially, the lower Potomac watersheds. His engineering expertise and unmitigated success in this area led grateful water treatment officials to name a plant in Lorton, Virginia in his name.

John Dockery Collection John Dockery served on the Reston Community Association planning and Zoning Committee from the 1970s to the late 1990s. Contains materials relating to the Planning and Zoning Committee of the Reston Community Association. Maps, planning documents, memoranda, correspondence, legal documents and other related material. 11 containers, 3.6 cubic feet (5.4 linear feet).

Federal Theatre Project Playscript and Radioscript Collection  The Federal Theatre Project was a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which provided employment for large numbers of artists, writers, and performers during the Great Depression (1929-1939). The Federal Theatre began in 1935 and, until its end in 1939, flourished as the first and only federally sponsored and subsidized theater program in the United States. Directed by Hallie Flanagan (1880-1969), it was a way for theatrical professionals to gain employment during the Depression. Jobs were provided for many people, including actors, playwrights, scene designers, scene builders, seamstresses, lighting experts, ushers, box-office men, and stagehands. This collection contains over 200 copied playscripts and radioscripts, written and performed in the 1930s for the Federal Theatre Project. Also included is a collection of 62 copied Federal Theatre programs, handbills given to the audience at the beginning of a production. There is also a copy of The Flexible Stage, a book by Emmet Lavery about the history of the Federal Theatre Project. And there are the works of several noted authors in the collection, including Upton Sinclair, Orson Welles, Sinclair Lewis, Arthur Arent, and Langston Hughes.  Collection Web page

Federal Theatre Project Photographs (negatives) FTP's repertoire of plays was vast including revivals of the classics and new and experimental works like the Living Newspaper. A photographic unit was set up to document the productions and ensure a graphic record of the FTP. The photographers who made up the unit worked in every major city and on each major production. Project photographers recorded not only the actual theater productions themselves they captured on film the reheasals the audience the behind the scenes work of the stage crew and the equipment used to produce FTP plays. Because of its size, this collection is divided into three parts: Finding Aid to Part I, Finding Aid to Part II, Finding Aid to Part III. Collection Web page

Guide to the Joseph Lyman Fisher Papers, Part One: Academic Career/Government Appointments Joseph Lyman Fisher (1914-1992), economist, educator, author, and congressman, was born in Salesville, Rhode Island on January 11, 1914. After earning his undergraduate degree at Bowdoin College, Fisher went on to graduate work at the London School of Economics, Harvard University, and George Washington University. In 1942 he married the former Margaret Saunders Winslow. Fisher`s career, spanning over fifty years, included planner for the National Resources Planning Board; economist for the United States Department of State; executive officer and economist for the Council of Economic Advisors; professor; president of Resources for the Future; a member of the United States House of Representatives (1974-1981); Virginia Secretary of Human Resources; special assistant to the president of George Mason University; and president of the National Academy of Public Administration. In addition, Fisher was deeply involved in community activities, having been chairman of the Arlington County Board; chairman of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA); president and chairman of the Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments (COG); and moderator and chairman of the board of the Unitarian Universalist Association. He also wrote several books, including World Prospects for Natural Resources (1964) and Resources in America's Future (1963). Papers relate to Fisher`s career as an economist, educator, and U.S. Congressman. The materials cover the years 1962-1991 and include: lectures and comments on conservation and natural resources; scrapbooks; pamphlets; appointment books; and correspondence. Collection contains 30 boxes, 27 cubic feet (40 linear feet). Collection Web page

Guide to the Jospeh Lyman Fisher Papers, Part Two: U.S. Congressman (1974-1981)
Papers relate to Fisher`s career as a U.S. Congressman in the House of Representatives. The materials cover the years 1974-1981 and include: correspondence, speeches, press releases, reports, newsclippings, issue papers, testimony, statements, questionnarires, background publications, guidelines, charts, and legislation. Collection contains 48 Boxes, 16 cubic feet (24 linear feet).

A Guide to the GMU Presidents' Papers  The GMU Presidents' Papers contain materials originating in or directed to the GMU Office of the President and used in the University's business.  Types of materials include memoranda, correspondence, studies, reports, speeches, meeting minutes, and calendars.  Topics in institutions to which these materials pertain include the University of Virginia (as GMU's parent institution), the Northern Virginia Center, University planning with regard to GMU's Physical Plant and Academic Programs, the State Council for Higher Education, and relations with Virginia government officials.  The total volume of the collection is 19.3 cubic feet or 29 linear feet.

Arthur Herman Collection Arthur Herman is an historian and author. He received his doctorate in history at Johns Hopkins University. He is the coordinator of the Western Heritage Program at the Smithsonian Institution, and was an associate professor of history at George Mason University . He has been a contributor to books, including Research Guide to European Historical Biography and to periodicals, such as European Legacy, Journal of Modern History, Sixteenth Century Journal, Journal of History of Ideas, and Cahiers du Dix-Septieme. He is also a consulting historical editor for Time-Life Books. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Elizabeth. Books he has authored include: How the Scots Invented the Modern World : The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It, Crown Publishing Corp (New York, NY) 2001. Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator, Free Press (New York, NY), 2000. The Idea of Decline in Western History, Free Press (New York, NY), 1997. Collection contains research and manuscript materials used by Dr. Herman to produce JOSEPH MCCARTHY: REEXAMINING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF AMERICA'S MOST HATED SENATOR and THE IDEA OF DECLINE IN WESTERN HISTORY. Types of materials in the collection include: newspaper clippings, research notes, subject files, correspondence, and manuscript copies of chapters and end notes.

Guide to the Clarence E. Larson Collection: Pioneers of Science and Technology  Chemist Clarence E. Larson (1909-1999) was born in Cloquet, Minnesota. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Chemistry and completed his Ph.D.work at the University of California at Berkeley. Larson was one of the talented American scientists working on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Later he served as a director at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, and an executive at Union Carbide. Dr Larson was a recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Society for the Advancement of Science. He was also a member of the American Nuclear Society, the American Institute of Chemists, the American Chemical Society, and the Cosmos Club.  Collection comprises 49 VHS-type cassettes totalling 1.3 cubic feet (1.95 linear feet).  Cassettes feature interviews conducted with famous scientists and figures in the history of technology of the twentieth century by Clarence E. Larson.  Collection Web page

Michael La Vean Collection of Revolutionary, Breton, and Early-Empire French Documents Michael La Vean is an entrepreneur and medical device patent holder who studied Business Administration at George Mason University. He spent seven years in Rennes, France, and collects books and documents, especially those relevant to politics and the history of women in eighteenth and nineteenth century France.

The La Vean Collection contains 268 documents and books from the period between 1751 and 1851. It includes copies of legislation by the French constitutional monarchy and the evolving Republic; administrative correspondence and official records from Morbihan; a few London newspapers mentioning France; ten books, notably a 1797 edition of Three Memorials on French Affairs by Sir Edmund Burke; and other materials.The majority of the documents come from the years between the creation of the French National Assembly in 1789 and the beginning of the Empire in 1805. Total volume of the collection is 7 containers, 2 cubic feet or 3 linear feet. Collection Web page

League of Women Voters of the Fairfax Area Collection  The League of Women Voters (LWV) was founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt, a leader in the women's suffragist movement. Its purpose is to encourage citizens to participate actively in government by supporting the party of their choice. While the LWV is a nonpartisan organization, and therefore does not support individual candidates, it does take a position on issues of a national, state, and local scale selected by the membership. Such issues of the past included support for a minimum wage, child labor laws, and equal opportunity for women in government. The League of Women Voters of the Fairfax Area (LWVFA) was granted full league status in 1948. However, the LWVFA of the present day was established in 1964 after the town of Fairfax became a city in 1961 and thus a separate governmental jurisdiction from the County of Fairfax. The League of Women Voters of the Fairfax Area Collection contains materials from the LWVFA's history including studies, information on political issues, meeting minutes, newsletters, correspondence, and photographs. The total volume of the collection is ten cubic feet or fifteen linear feet.  A Collection Web page

Guide to the Edwin M. Lynch Collection The Vietnamese Conflict Protest Collection donated to George Mason University by Edwin Lynch provides information on the discontent and disillusionment which came to exist among some segments of the American people as a result of U.S. military intervention in Southeast Asia. The Collection covers the period of time ranging from 1965-1975, with the bulk of the material from the years 1967-1971.

The Collection consists of a variety of materials relating to the Vietnamese Conflict including: pamphlets, booklets, correspondence, posters, reprint articles, newspaper clippings, various anti-war publications, and the minutes of meetings of several anti-war groups. These items are arranged by subject heading in alphabetical order, and the material within the individual files is arranged in chronological order. Much of the information contained in the Collection relates to the activities of various groups that were formed to protest the U.S involvement in Vietnam, groups representing such disparate segments of the population as the clergy and business executives. While this information manages to give us a good view of the anti-war movement in the United States as both a local and a national phenomenon, the collection is particularly valuable for the information it provides on the work of local groups: i.e., those based in and concerned with the Washington D.C. area, including Northern Virginia. Collection Web page

A Guide to the C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection  C. Harrison Mann, Jr. sponsored a resolution calling for a study of educational needs for Virginia, and was instrumental in recommending the development of a college system in Northern Virginia.  In addition to serving as the Chairman of George Mason College's first Board of Control, Mann was responsible for creating an educational financial assistance program for Virginia college students, and was instrumental in sponsoring legislation allowing local governments to form regional boards to acquire and transfer land and buildings for educational use.  The C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Collection contains personal papers and a handwritten draft of his history of GMU.  Total volume of the collection is 51.6 cubic feet or 77.4 linear feet. Collection Web page

Jean Marburg Collection Jean Marburg served as a member of the Executive Board of the League of Women Voters of the Fairfax Area from 1979-1984. Materials relate to the daily operations and special projects of the League of Women Voters of the Fairfax Area (LWVFA) during the priod 1979-1985. Materials are representative of LWVFA's focus on many community, social, environmental, and political issues such as nuclear energy, hunger, defense, international development and trade to mention a few. Types of materials include reports, correspondence, printed materials, and notes. Collection comprises 23 containers totalling 7.5 cubic feet (11 linear feet). Collection Web page

A Guide to the William McFarlane Papers  The William McFarlane Papers reflect the papers collected and original research done by Dr. McFarlane on the early history of George Mason University.  Dr. McFarlane was an educator and administrator and had worked in higher education for nearly three decades when he retired from George Mason University in 1986.  The collection comprises correspondence, newsclippings, reports, meeting minutes, speeches, and audiotape interviews, covering the years 1979-1977. The total volume of the collection is 4.5 cubic feet or 6.75 linear feet. Collection Web page

William Mertz Transportation Collection William Lee Mertz (1920-1993), a former Federal Highway Administration Associate Administrator, played a leading role in planning and developing the Interstate system of highways in the United States. Mertz started his career as a highway engineer with the Bureau of Public Roads in the Department of Commerce. As a field engineer, Mertz worked on many interesting and important transportation projects. He took part in the 1955 Road Test in Ottawa, Illinois, where the basic designs for Interstate pavements were developed. Mertz was assigned in 1956 to the Bureau of Standards to develop standards for computer software for use in highway engineering applications. During the 1960s he worked with such groups as the National Capital Transit Agency in Washington, D.C. and the Tri-State Transportation Commission in New York. He also served as an administrator in the planning of the Interstate Highway System, including the Washington Beltway, I-95 in Maryland, and the Washington Metrorail System. In 1969 Mertz returned to the Federal Highway Administration as Chief of the Urban Planning Division and developed transportation planning studies in all 213 metropolitan areas of the nation. After he left the Federal Highway Administration, Mertz took it upon himself to assemble documents and materials that were important in the development of the Interstate system, and, more generally, to the development of highways and urban transportation policy. With his characteristic energy, he compiled a substantial archive of valuable materials for research. After his passing in 1994, his family generously donated these materials to Special Collections & Archives at George Mason University to form the foundation of the William L. Mertz Collection.

The Collection contains transportation related materials collected over a forty-five year period. Types of materials include scholarly journal articles dealing with transportation topics, summaries of congressional acts relating to transportation, official reports and studies of transportation agencies, summaries of speeches given by transportation officials, and personal correspondence among transportation officials. The material covers a wide variety of topics, such as The Federal Highway Acts, bridges, buses, the environment, transportation in cities, commuting, and trucking. Organizations represented by materials in the collection include the Federal Highway Administration,the Department of Transportation, the Tri-State Transportation Commission, and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. Collection comprises 53 containers. Total volume of the collection is 30.5 cubic feet or 45.75 linear feet. Collection Web page

Emilie F. Miller Papers  Emilie F. Miller is a local activist and former politician from Northern Virginia. She was the first woman senator to represent the Fairfax area. In 1987 She ran against incumbent John W. Russell. Narrowly defeating Russell by 180 votes, Miller set off on an ambitious and successful freshman term. She was the first woman elected to the Senate from Northern Virginia. She was the only freshman to receive four committee assignments. Dominating Miller's 1990 and 1991 sessions was the nationally known Virginia Military Institute (VMI) controversy. Miller objected to VMI's refusal to admit women, calling it sexist and unconstitutional, especially since the school was publicly funded. The Emile F. Miller Papers comprise thirty cubic feet, and contain materials pertaining to her service in the Virginia State Legislature. Included in the collection are campaign material, subject files, bills and resolutions, correspondence, committee information, constituent files, and information on the VMI controversy.  Collection Web page

Guide to the Harold Morowitz Collection  Dr. Harold J. Morowitz is a biophysicist and Robinson Professor in Biology and Natural Philosophy at George Mason University. Born in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on December 4, 1927, Morowitz earned his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1951. From 1951-1953 he was a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards. Morowitz was on the staff of the National Heart Institute from 1953-1955 before joining the faculty of Yale University in 1955. At Yale, Morowitz was associate professor of biophysics (1960-1968), professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry (1968-1988), and master of Pierson College (1981-1986). He joined the faculty of George Mason University in 1988 as a Robinson Professor. Since 1993, Morowitz has directed the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study. Dr. Morowitz has authored and coauthored several books: Life and the Physical Sciences (with Waterman), 1964; Theoretical and Mathematical Biology, 1965; Energy Flow in Biology, 1968; Entropy for Biologists (with Lucille Morowitz), 1970; Life on the Planet Earth,1974; Ego Niches,1977; Foundations of Bioenergetics, 1978; The Wine of Life, 1979; Mayonnaise and the Origins of Life, 1985; Cosmic Joy and Local Pain, 1987; The Thermodynamics of Pizza, 1991; Beginnings of Cellular Life (with James Trefil), 1992; The Facts of Life, 1992; and Entropy and the Magic Flute, 1993. The Morowitz Manuscript Collection includes the following: Energy Flow in Biological Systems: draft copy of the book, including chapter and appendix notes, calculations for mathematical operations, and correspondence between the author and his editor. The Beginnings of Cellular Life: draft copy of the work, including the index and notes. The Facts of Life: draft copy of the book, with the "author's copy," and the original artwork for the illustrations. Archival materials (i.e., working papers, correspondence, etc.) pertaining to his academic career, and original poetry written by Morowitz. Collection Web page

Guide to the Netherton Collection  Nan and Ross Netherton have been Northern Virginia residents since 1951. Historians of Northern Virginia, they have produced several books about the region's history together.Research materials related to publications by the Nethertons on Virginia regional history, particularly Fairfax County in Virginia: A Pictorial History; and Arlington County, Virginia: A Pictorial History. Types include newspaper and magazine clippings, pamphlets, photographs, and other graphic illustrations. Total volume of the collection is 3.3 cubic feet.

Northern Virginia Images Collection  The Northern Virginia Images Collection in Special Collections & Archives, George Mason University Libraries, consists of nearly 400 images on various historical subjects in a variety of formats, including wood engravings, steel engravings, lithographs, chromolithographs, maps, and manuscripts. Most of the images are over fifty-years-old and many date from the Civil War. And most depict battles and maps of the Civil War. The maps include the cities of Arlington and Alexandria and the counties of Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William.  Most of the Civil War images are from three periodicals: The Illustrated London News, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, and Harper's Weekly. They are primarily wood engravings, several of which are hand colored. Though wood engraving was invented as an illustrative technique in the 1790s, it was the later appearance of the mass illustrated newspaper that took advantage of the technique to appeal to a wide readership. 

A Guide to the Northern Virginia Oral History Collection  The Northern Virginia Oral History Collection contains 96 taped interviews of Northern Virginia residents.  Transcripts or abstracts accompany most of the recordings.  Topics such as agriculture, development, education, health, politics, transportation, and religion, with respect to Northern Virginia in the 19th and 20th centuries, are discussed.  The total volume of the collection is 1 cubic foot or 1.5 linear feet. 

Guide to the Leonid M. Ozernoy Collection Leonid M. Ozernoy (1939-2002) taught in the School of Computational Sciences and Informatices at GMU from 1993 to 2002. Born in Moscow, Ozernoy was one of the former Soviet Union's refusniks and came to the United States in 1986. He worked at Boston University and Harvard University before coming to the Washington, D.C., area in the early 1990s to join NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland as a consultant. At George Mason, he taught courses in computational sciences and physics, most recently Colloquium on Computational Sciences and Informatics, Astrophysics, and Modern Astronomy.

Ozernoy's recent research involved the dynamics and structure of interplanetary dust, the physics of nonthermal processes in active galaxies and quasars, the dynamics of compact stellar systems, astrophysics of black holes, the formation of galaxies and large-scale structures in the universe, and observational cosmology. Ozernoy's honors included election as Fellow of the American Physical Society and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in London. He also received the National Research Council-NASA Research Associateship Award in 1991.

Guide to the Plan for Alternative General Education (PAGE) Collection In 1983, George Mason University established the Plan for Alternative General Education (PAGE). It was a program that provided entering freshmen an alternative way to fulfill the general education requirements of the university. It was an interdisciplinary, forty-five credit, two-year curriculum, which integrated knowledge from various academic disciplines.

At its peak PAGE enrolled 250 new students each year and aimed to provide a sense of community and unity among students and faculty that was seen to be missing at large state academic institutions. In the spring of 1997, the College of Arts and Sciences and the George Mason University Faculty Senate voted to convert PAGE into an honors program. And on May 15, 1998, the last PAGE class graduated, ending its existence.

PAGE's fifteen-year existence was innovative and forward- thinking for its time. Its innovative spirit could be seen in its approach to course design and in methods of teaching, which included a interdisciplinary approach to teaching.PAGE was recognized for its success in providing an creative approach to higher education when, in 1986, it received the G. Theodore Mitau Award for Innovation and Change in Higher Education from the Association of American State Colleges and Universities. Collection Web page

Guide to the Martha V. Pennino Collection Born in Roanoke, Va., Martha Pennino (1918-2004) was called the Mother of Fairfax for her long service to the county. She was one of the longest-serving members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, spending 24 years on the board. She was first elected in November 1967, representing what was then the Centreville District. She served as vice chairman for a total of 17 years.

In 1985, Pennino won the Tom Bradley Regional Leadership Award. In giving her this honor, the National Association of Regional Councils cited her efforts in developing the first energy policy for a metropolitan area, the first area car pool program, and a fair share housing program. In 1986, Washingtonian magazine named her Washingtonian of the Year. Prior to joining the board, Pennino was elected to three terms on the Vienna Town Council, serving as vice mayor during one of those terms. Additionally, Pennino took a leadership role in developing the planned community of Reston, as well as embracing low-cost housing adjacent to her office. Collection Web page

Guide to the Arthur Peterson Collection Arthur Peterson played character and supporting roles on stage, television, and feature films. On television, fans of the series Soap (1977-1981), a spoof on soap operas, may remember Peterson as the Major. Born in North Dakota, Peterson first obtained a degree in theater from the University of Minnesota before becoming a professional actor with the Federal Theater Project. Peterson made his media debut in 1936 with a regular role on the radio serial The Guiding Light. During WWII, Peterson fought within General Patton's third regiment. Upon his discharge, Peterson appeared in the ABC network's first situation comedy, That's O'Toole. Peterson's stage work included appearances in such plays as Inherit the Wind. His film credits include Return to Peyton Place (1961), Born Wild (1968), the television movie Rollercoaster (1977), and Just Pals (1982). Peterson spent 1981 to 1991 touring the country with his wife in a Pasadena Playhouse production of The Gin Game. When the play's long run ended, Peterson retired from acting. He passed away on October 31, 1996.Collection contains materials relating to Peterson's long acting career. Types of materials include scripts to his television, film, and stage roles, correspondence, photographs, and props used by Peterson. Date range of materials is from the early 1940s to the late 1980s. Collection comprises 33 containers 12 cubic feet (18 linear feet). Collection Web page

A Guide to the Planned Community Archives  Planned Community Archives, Inc. (PCA), is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to improving the quality of community development in the United States.  PCA seeks to use its archival, research, publishing, and instructional resources to maintain the historical records of community development projects of educational value, to prepare and disseminate information and analyses drawn from these records, and to design and participate in interdisciplinary courses on the graduate and undergraduate level on community development.  The records are arranged according to the agency or individual who created them (if known) and by chronology.  The 375 linear feet of material cover the years 1961-2000 and include correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, newsletters, newspapers, publicity, maps, architectural drawings, slides, videotapes, and photographs. Collection Web page

A Guide to Porgy and Bess:  A Contemporary Collection of Posters from the 1950s  Porgy and Bess, one of the greatest of all American folk dramas, was produced by The Theatre Guild at the Alvin Theatre in New York City in 1927.  The opera was taken directly from a book by Dubose Heyward titled Porgy, with lyrics and music by Ira and George Gershwin.  Robert Breen, executive secretary for the American National Theater and Academy (ANTA), arranged the first international production of Porgy and Bess.  It toured twenty-nine countries in four years.  The Porgy and Bess Collection contains 60 posters from this international tour during the 1950s. 

Robert Prosky Papers 1909-2007 Consists of documents spanning Prosky's career in theatre, film, and television. Materials include playbills, photographs, scripts, reviews, fan letters, scrapbooks, and audiovisual.

Guide to The Evelyn L. Pugh Collection   Professor Pugh (1930-1987) was a faculty member in the Department of History at George Mason University from 1965 to 1987 specializing in the study of John Stuart Mill and women's rights. Materials in the collection support the study of Mill and women's rights. They include the following: manuscript copy of "John Stuart Mill and Half the Human Race" by Evelyn L. Pugh; Pugh's master's thesis entitled: "The Socialist Party in the Election of 1932" (1959); her dissertation "John Stuart Mill in America: The Early Impact, 1843-1873" (1966); scholarly publications by Pugh; course syllabi and course materials; bibliographic lists and bibliographic and note card files. Total volume of collection is seven cubic feet or nine linear feet.

Guide to The Ruth Preston Rose Collection  Ruth Preston Rose is an historian specializing in Northern Virginia. Ms. Rose is the author of several published articles and co-author of several books with Nan Netherton on Virginia. She has been President of the Arlington Historical Society and President and member of the Board of Directors of Northern Virginia Association for History. She has also served as a docent at the National Archives, Arlington House, Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home and Ball-Sellers House. She holds a Master of Arts from George Mason University and makes her home in Arlington, Virginia. Collection contains individual issues of local history newsletters, such as the Fireside Sentinel and Alexandria Chronicle; and newspaper and magazine article clippings related to the history of various Northern Virginia institutions.  Collection Web page

A Guide to the Robert C. Schnitzer Collection  Robert C. Schnitzer is a former actor, producer, educator, and theater administrator.  As a young actor in New York City, Schnitzer appeared in or stage managed the Brothers Karamazov, Hamlet, An Enemy of the People, Richelieu, Henry V, Richard III, Caponsacchi, Macbeth, and Cyrano de Bergerac.  From 1936-1939, Schnitzer was Delaware's State Director and Deputy National Directory of the WPA's Federal Theatre Project.  Schnitzer later joined the American National Theater and Academy (ANTA) as general manager for the Experimental Theater in New York.  Included in the Robert C. Schnitzer Collection are subject files, correspondence, memoranda about ANTA overseas productions, photographs of the ANTA theater troupe in Europe and other ANTA personnel, newspaper clippings, working papers and other materials regarding Schnitzer's work with the University of Michigan, Professional theatre Program.  The total volume of the collection is 4.5 cubic feet or 6.75 linear feet. Collection Web page

Clarence A. Steele Papers  Clarence A. Steele was the chairman of the Exploratory Committee and Advisory Council to the Northern Virginia University Center (NVUC). The Center was established in September 1949 as an adult education extension of the University of Virginia (UVa) at Charlottesville. The Advisory Council, with Clarence A. Steele at the helm, faced many challenges during the early years of its existence. The problems associated with growth, the evaluation of educational needs in Northern Virginia, and the search for a new location for a University branch occupied much time and required considerable investment. This collection contains papers and material owned by Clarence A. Steele relating to the Advisory Council to the Northern Virginia University Center. Included are minutes of meetings, letters, newspapers, and miscellaneous documents. Collection Web page

Francis C. Steinbauer Papers Francis Steinbauer was a key participant in the development of Reston through the first twenty years of its growth as a major new community in Northern Virginia. In 1964 he joined Palindrome Corporation (later Reston VA, Inc), headed by founder Robert E Simon as Design Engineer responsible for the creation and governmental approval of site and construction plans for residential and commercial building lots, and for Reston streets, parking areas, underground utilities, lakes, dams, public facilities and amenities such as swimming pools, tennis courts, and playgrounds. When Gulf Oil Corp. took over the development of Reston in 1967, it created Gulf Reston Inc. as the entity to accomplish that task. Gulf Reston undertook the full range of development activities including major rezoning, land development and building of housing for sale, apartments, office buildings and retail centers. It also owned, leased and managed most of the projects that it built.In 1978, Gulf Oil sold its interest in the remaining 3,700 acres of undeveloped land in Reston to Reston Land Corporation a subsidiary of Mobil Oil Corporation. Its business strategy was to focus more on strategic land planning, zoning and construction of land infrastructure and amenities rather than on building offices and residences as was necessary in the earlier Reston years. Actual building construction was left to builder/developers to whom prepared building sites were sold. Mr. Steinbauer was retained by Mobil as Executive Vice President and General Manager, and in 1981 he was promoted to President of Reston Land Corporation. In 1983 Mr. Steinbauer was promoted to President of Mobil land Development Corporation Eastern Division. Headquartered in Reston, he provided senior management to regional development companies in Virginia (Reston and Colonial village in Arlington), Georgia (Windward and Brickton in north Atlanta), and South Florida (Sailfish Point and River Bridge in Palm Beach).Mr. Steinbauer resigned from Mobil Land Development Corporation in 1985. Collection contains materials pertaining to Reston history and development: photographs, sales information and manuals, master plans, reports, memoranda, and realia.Collection contains 3 boxes totalling 1 cubic foot or 1.5 linear feet. Collection Web page

James S. Trefil Collection Physicist and author James S. Trefil is known for his writing and his interest in teaching science to nonscientists. He is a Fellow of the APS and a former Guggenheim Fellow. His numerous books and articles include works written for general audiences. He co-authored The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (3rd ed., 2002) and in 1992 published The Facts of Life (Harold Morowitz, co-author). Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy, was co-authored with Robert Hazen in 1991, and in 1995 they published The Sciences: An Integrated Approach. Dr. Trefil's A Scientist in the City appeared in 1994. Are We Unique: A Scientist Explores the Complexity of the Human Brain appeared in 1997. The National Geographic Society published his book Other Worlds: The Solar System and Beyond in 1999. He was the general editor of The Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (2002) and co-author of Good Seeing, a scientific history of the Carnegia Institution. His most recent book is The Laws of Nature (2002). He is a regular contributor to Smithsonian Magazine and was previously University Professor and Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia. In 2000 American Institute of Physics chose him to receive the Andrew W. Gemant Award, presented for outstanding and sustained contributions in bridging the gap between science and society. Collection contains materials pertaining to the research and career of Dr. Trefil. Types of materials include correspondence, research notes, notes from courses both taken and taught, book manuscripts, and information pertianing to conferences he attended. 31.7 Cubic feet. Collection Web page

Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) Collection VIVA is a consortium organized in 1994 to provide, in an equitable, cooperative and cost effective manner, enhanced access to library and information resources for Commonwealth of Virginia non-profit academic libraries serving the higher education community. VIVA facilitates its member libraries cooperative purchase of electronic databases and sharing of other resources such as their valuable print collections. The 39 State-assisted academic colleges and universities in Virginia are charter members of VIVA by legislative action. These include the 6 public doctoral institutions; 9 comprehensive institutions; and 24 community colleges and two-year branch campuses. In addition, the private non-profit institutions of higher education comprising the Virginia Independent College and University Library Association (VICULA) have participated as charter members from the inception of VIVA. The Library of Virginia, as a State library agency with educational and research mission, also participates as a member of VIVA. The VIVA Collection contains documents of the development and operations of the VIVA consortium from its founding onward. Boxes 1 through 3 contain agendas, minutes, and supporting documents from VIVA Steering Committee meetings from July 1994 through June 2002. Collection Web page

Guide to The Clark E. Warburton Collection  Born in Shady Grove, New York on January 27, 1896, Clark E. Warburton (1896-1976) taught at several colleges and universities in the United States and India before joining the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) in 1934. He eventually became Chief of the Banking and Business Section of the Division of Research and Statistics. He retained that post until his retirement in 1965. Throughout his career, Warburton was well known for his support of the theory that monetary forces are the key cause of economic disturbances. He made numerous contributions to economics scholarship and practices during his long career. The collection consists of correspondence dating from the 1920s - 1970s, published and unpublished Warburton manuscripts (such as Warburton's unpublished history of monetary disequilibrium), printed matter, and subject files. Collection Web page

A Guide to the John N. Warfield Collection  John N. Warfield published books on computers and complexity reflecting his development of two sciences and a management system.  Understanding complexity, Warfield discovered, depended on a theory of thought about thought merged with empirical evidence of human behavioral pathologies and the application of design concepts in groups.  The John N. Warfield Collection contains materials from Dr. Warfield's long and distinguished career including papers authored and co-authored by Warfield, presentations, video and audio tapes, and correspondence.  The total volume of the collection is 68 cubic feet or 102 linear feet.  Collection Web page

Guide to Works Progress Administration (WPA) Oral Histories  This compilation describes oral interviews with persons who were associated in the 1930s with various Works Progress Administration WPA) projects. These include the Federal Art Project, Federal Music Project, and Federal Writers Project. The interviews in the WPA Oral Histories Collection were conducted from between 1961 and 1984. The majority of the interviews were done in the 1970s and 1980s by Drs. Lorraine Brown and John O'Connor as part of the Institute for the Federal Theatre Project. Collection contains 326 oral histories. 6 cubic feet of transcripts. 18 linear feet of cassette tapes.