The purpose of the project was to arrange and catalog the holdings of the archive of the International Horn Society at Bracken Library in Muncie, Indiana. This project required: (1) the devising and implementing of a logical system of arrangement consistent with accepted archival practice, (2) the filing of the holdings in archival boxes, and (3) the compilation of a guide composed of annotated container lists, for use as a finding aid.The guide is divided into six parts: (1) Introduction, (II) Brief History of the Society, (III) Scope and Content Note, (IV) Container Lists, (V) Suggestions for Further Research, and Appendices. The Appendices include two lists useful as an index, and a partial list of contents of the Max Pottag Collection.The International Horn Society was founded in 1970 to foster interest in the French horn, and the archive of the Society was established in 1976. The bulk of the present holdings was collected by Robert Marsh during the academic year 1977-1978, and dates from 1969 through 1977. Among the types of materials found in the archive are correspondence, photographs, tape recordings and phonograph records. Source material on many of the world's most eminent hornists is found in this archive.

This thesis has included (1) a course of study in English, (2) a presentation of departmental policies and procedures peculiar to Delta High School, and (3) a survey of departmental problems and their resolutions. All have emerged as a result of school consolidation in 1967 (Delaware County: Royerton, DeSoto, Eaton, and Albany) Included in the work is a compilation of results which have required hundreds of hours of "unseen labor."The decisions, ideas, suggestions, plans, and projects described in the thesis are representative of the entire English Department at Delta High School.The total program and curriculum guide have been set up to meet the needs of the school at the present time and yet viewed and planned s o that the move into the new physical plant will not be a sudden, disrupting change, but rather a smooth transition.

Though much research is available on student persistence and attrition, few studies asked students to describe their experiences and motivational factors that influenced them to stay enrolled. This study at Ball State University helped researchers to understand these factors so that they could better work with matriculating freshmen and reduce freshmen drop-out. Qualitative research methodology resulted in data being gathered via personal interviews with students who were identified as matriculating freshmen living in the university residence halls during fall and spring of the 2004-2005 academic year. A semi-structured interview guide was created and modified. Data were collected in March, April, and May of 2005. The researcher analyzed the data by identifying thematic connections among the data according to guidelines presented by Seidman (1998).The researcher concluded that the goal of a powerful job and the recognition by parents and families motivated students to attend college and graduate. Students believed their motivations were internal, but based on their responses, the motivations were external to them. A better career and parental recognition were forms of external motivations. The factors at Ball State University that encouraged students to stay enrolled varied from individual involvement to characteristics of the institution. Programs like Orientation and Freshman Connections did not seem to have much of an impact on students' adjustment. / Department of Educational Leadership

This thesis has investigated the local Indianapolis television news viewing habits of the residents of Muncie, Indiana. The thesis also explored similarities between Muncie TV news viewing habits and those of the rest of central Indiana.The study used a random telephone survey method to gather data. Past area viewing trends recorded by the Arbitron Company of Chicago were also used for informal comparisons of Muncie and central Indiana viewing preferences of Indianapolis TV newscasts.Demographic analyses of TV news audiences of the Indianapolis commercial network television affiliates were conducted in order to help describe the participation of each station's Muncie audience.

This thesis has explained the history of Huddleston's, a small family business in Muncie, Indiana. Contained in the thesis are: a brief discussion of the importance of small business and the absence of historical scholarship on the subject; a chronological examination of Huddleston's as a business from 1956 to 1982; a brief history of the Huddleston family and the origins of the business; an historical review of Muncie, Indiana, as a business community and Huddleston's role; an explanation of the business' importance to the Huddleston family and to the Muncie community; an interpretation of the need for scholarly study of small business in America.

The major purpose of this study is to present a public biography of Joseph A. Goddard. Joseph Goddard (1840-1930) was a Muncie, Indiana wholesale grocer, business, civic, reform leader and philanthropist during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Goddard and his wife, Mary, were also responsible for establishing a Friends (Quaker) Meeting in the city of Muncie in 1876.Since the late 1940's and early 1950's, American historians have been concentrating on the efforts of ordinary citizens and their roles in building communities and various political, economic, and social movements. This dissertation is an account of one life who was instrumental in transforming Muncie from a rural, agriculturally based town into an urban industrial center. Goddard was like thousands of his fellow businessmen and entrepreneurs in the United States during that era. Most of these individuals were concerned with expandingutilize a portion of their wealth in order to better of others in their community.In order to better their communities, people of wealth sponsored such endeavors as public libraries, hospitals, their own economic base, yet they felt a responsibility to the livescharities, and reform movements. Goddard saw many opportunities to expand his own finiancial position following the gas boom of 1886. As Muncie grew, so did Goddard's supported various organizations and social movements that would make Muncie a better city. Goddard became the first president of the Citizen's industries to Muncie by offering such inducements as inexpensive natural gas. Goddard was also a firm supporter of education. He served on the Muncie School Board from 1886 to 1898, serving as secretary and president at various times. Mary and Joseph Goddard were also members of the Board of Trustees of Earlham College, a Quaker institution in Richmond, of their time and money to Earlham, an auditorium, Goddard Hall, was named in their honor. The Muncie Public Library also received numerous financial gifts from the Goddards. Following Mary's death in 1908, the Mary Hough Goddard Collection of Indiana Authors was created by funds donated by Joseph as a memorial to his wife's concern for education.In order to make Muncie an alcohol-free city, Joseph Goddard was an avid supporter of various temperance organizations. Goddard gave monetary gifts as well as served in a leadership capacity for such groups as the Anti-Saloon League, Personal Workers League, and the Dry League. In 1913 Goddard and other dedicated men to the cause of temperance wholesale grocerybusiness. Throughout Goddard's life, he Enterprise Company, a stock venture which sought to lure Indiana. Due to the fact that the Goddards gave generously formed the short-lived Citizen's Party as part of the "wet" vs. "dry" mayoral and city races of that year.Mary and Joseph Goddard were deeply committed Quakers. Not only did they found the Muncie Meeting, but both served various positions of leadership. Following Mary's death 1908, the Meeting renamed the meeting Friends Memorial Church in 1912 in honor of the many years of dedicated service and devotion which Mary had given to the young meeting. This was a fitting honor to the Goddard legacy. Joseph continued to serve the meeting and the Muncie community until his own by entertwining his life with the lives of others of his day, formed the nucleus of a modern Muncie. / Department of History

There is no abstract available for this dissertation.

The primary purpose of this study is to outline the institutional structure and to present an historical survey of international education and the Foreign Student Programs at Ball State University. An effort has also been made to relate the Ball State experience to international students on a national level. To make this information valuable in a readily usable form, an intensive study has been made of the history, development and expansion of the international student program at Ball State from 1945 through 1980.Major Points of the StudyChapter One reviews the history of international students in the United States from its beginning at Yale in 1784 through the year 1980. Also this chapter discusses the United States government's role in international education and exchange programs which began in the early 1900s and promoted foreign study to the point that the United States by the 1960s was educating more than a quarter of the world's international students.Chapter Two carefully examines the history of international students at Ball State University from its beginning in 1945 through 1980. Discussed are the program's year of origin, its development (1950-1965) and the expansion era (1965-1980). Especially emphasized are the roles of five International Student Program Directors and the contributions they made to both the program and the students.Chapter Three provides information about the population of overseas students at Ball State, the number of students enrolled, and the region and origin of countries from which they came. This chapter concludes with a section discussing the reasons why foreign students chose Ball State for study.Chapter Four studies the academic experiences of international students at Ball State detailing their academic status, number of undergraduate and graduate students, fields of study and number of degrees granted.Chapter Five reviews the status of foreign students after graduation. It provides information on the number of students who returned to their home countries, the number of students who continued their education and the students who remained permanently in the United States. Also this chapter discusses the value that American education and training had for Ball State international students. The chapter concludes with a section on Ball State contacts and relationship with its foreign alumni.

Thesis (D. Min.)--McCormick Theological Seminary, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references.

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