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to effectively preserve, maintain, retrieve and store government records in an archival environment while supporting a records management program. This program will ensure the proper preservation of the county records under the laws of Ohio, within a conservative budget framework for the taxpayers.
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Helen Willis was the daughter of Allie Dustin and Frank B. Willis. This 1927 picture is from the Ohio Northern University yearbook. Willis was part of the ONU faculty from 1926-1929. Her education centered around the arts as she completed her Bachelor of Music degree at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1919, was a gradate student at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (1920-1922), a student at Converse College (1923) and studied music and language in Spain in 1924. Relocating back to Delaware, Miss Willis lived on West Fountain Ave. In the 1960's, she often hosted a local Music Club at her home. Willis passed away in 1977 at the age of 81.
Flashback Friday takes us back to 1996 of past business' and where they formerly resided. Casual Kids is now home to Fresh Start Café & Bakery; Postal Business Pros is now the Station 303 Fire Station near Lexington Blvd and the former Heritage Foundation now is a State Farm Insurance Agency. These photos were on their ribbon cutting ceremonies done by the Ambassador's Committee by the Delaware Area Chamber of Commerce. Officers of 1996-1997 were Karen Kanitz, Scott Braumiller, Bill Haller, Herb Wolf, Mike Dickey, Barbara Walters and Rozella Miller. (Credit: Delaware Area Chamber of Commerce Chamber Newsletter Jan-Feb 1997)
Jackie Robinson made history when he stepped onto Ebbets Field on April 15, 1947. Robinson was not the first African American player in Major League Baseball, but his debut in 1947 broke a color barrier that had segregated the sport since the late 1800s. Robinson worked through insults, death threats, and other abuses to become an all-star player for the Dodgers.
Off the field, Robinson made history in other ways. In the 1960s, he and his family began organizing benefit concerts at their Connecticut home for civil rights organizations. In 1963, 42 jazz musicians—including Dave Brubeck, Billy Taylor, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, and Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley—performed in a concert in the Robinsons' backyard. Together, they collected $15,000 in contributions. The money was donated to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), which was then then engaged in the multi-month Birmingham campaign and in need of bail money for jailed student protesters. Later jazz concerts organized by the Robinsons benefited groups other organizations and causes. The yearly concert tradition continued under the auspices of the Jackie Robinson Foundation. #JazzAppreciationMonth
📷: Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center
Support of jazz programming is made possible by the LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation; The Argus Fund; Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, founding donor of the Smithsonian Jazz Endowment; David C. Frederick and Sophia Lynn; Goldman Sachs; and the John Hammond Performance Series Endowment Fund.
