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Scope and Contents From the Series: The Drama Records series includes playbills / programs, photographs, and video recordings of dramatic theater performances and classes featuring Nightingale students. Group portraits of Canterbury Club are in Student Life / "Clubs" series. Because it is difficult to ascertain whether a dramatic production is presented by a club, alumnae association, or Interschool, most drama records and photographs are found in this series, although those with an identified entity may be included in that...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Drama Records series includes playbills / programs, photographs, and video recordings of dramatic theater performances and classes featuring Nightingale students. Group portraits of Canterbury Club are in Student Life / "Clubs" series. Because it is difficult to ascertain whether a dramatic production is presented by a club, alumnae association, or Interschool, most drama records and photographs are found in this series, although those with an identified entity may be included in that...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Drama Records series includes playbills / programs, photographs, and video recordings of dramatic theater performances and classes featuring Nightingale students. Group portraits of Canterbury Club are in Student Life / "Clubs" series. Because it is difficult to ascertain whether a dramatic production is presented by a club, alumnae association, or Interschool, most drama records and photographs are found in this series, although those with an identified entity may be included in that...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes series includes meeting notices and minutes of regular, annual, and special meetings of the Nightingale-Bamford School Board of Trustees and Miss Nightingale's School, its predecessor. Meeting minutes through 1977 are compiled into seven bound volumes chronologically, although some may also be available loosely. These compilations may additionally contain records related to Board meetings and school governance, such as agreements, charters, and bylaws....

Scope and Contents From https://www.defiantrequiem.org/film/description/ (accessed Feb. 28, 2022):Defiant Requiem, a feature-length documentary film, highlights the most dramatic example of intellectual and artistic courage in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp during World War II: the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant, young Czech conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. He demonstrated moral leadership under the most brutal circumstances, determined to...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists mainly of photographs and programs. with some sound recordings and video recordings associated with Morning Meetings (and its predecessor, Prayers), assemblies, assembly speakers and performances, and other guest speakers hosted by the school. Speakers appearing in this series' photographs include actors and filmmakers, authors, writers, media commentators, activists, psychiatrists and psychologists, and politicians. Some notable speakers include civil rights activists...

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: In 1984, based on a determination that Nightingale's archives were inadequate in revealing the school's history, Head of School Joan McMenamin and the Alumnae Association initiated an oral history project. Alumna Marea Adams '74 conducted interviews of former faculty and staff, heads of school, trustees, parents, and alumnae (some interviewees represent more than one of these roles). This project continued through 1986. Some oral histories pre-date the project; there are also several oral...

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: In 1984, based on a determination that Nightingale's archives were inadequate in revealing the school's history, Head of School Joan McMenamin and the Alumnae Association initiated an oral history project. Alumna Marea Adams '74 conducted interviews of former faculty and staff, heads of school, trustees, parents, and alumnae (some interviewees represent more than one of these roles). This project continued through 1986. Some oral histories pre-date the project; there are also several oral...