{"id":25395,"date":"2014-09-23T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=25395"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:36:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T12:36:54","slug":"arbs-50-minutes-talk-for-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2014\/09\/arbs-50-minutes-talk-for-september\/","title":{"rendered":"ARB\u2019s "50 Minutes" Talk for September"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: \u00a0Kevin Grace<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Headstone<\/a>The Archives & Rare Books monthly talk returns on Wednesday, September 24, at 12:00 noon with a special presentation on UC\u2019s first female graduate.\u00a0 Like nearly every other institution of its kind, documenting the \u201cfirsts\u201d and the significant moments of our history lends context to our heritage, and, reveals some very interesting stories.\u00a0 And for this 50 Minutes <\/em>talk, we welcome back Greg Hand to campus and to Blegen Library.\u00a0 Greg made some very interesting 50 Minutes <\/em>talks in the past few years on Cincinnati\u2019s Federal Writer\u2019s project guide to the city; artist, poet, and mystic William Blake; and pioneering cartoonist Winsor McCay.\u00a0 Now he comes with another\u2026\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Drawing<\/a><\/p>\n

Winona Lee Hawthorne, daughter of a prominent Newport family, was the first woman to graduate from the University of Cincinnati (1878). She led an exciting life as she raised three daughters while following her husband, Col. William Langdon Buck, on military assignments in Indian Territory, Alaska and California. In researching her biography, the value of some less-common genealogical sources was revealed, among them neighborhood histories, college publications and the records of fraternal organizations and veterans associations.<\/p>\n

\"Winona<\/a><\/p>\n

Greg Hand recently retired as associate vice president for public relations at the University of Cincinnati. Before his employment by the University of Cincinnati, Hand was a reporter and editor for several weekly newspapers, including the Western Hills Press in Cincinnati. He is co-author, with Kevin Grace, of The University of Cincinnati<\/em>, a pictorial history of the university, and Bearcats! The Story of Basketball at the University of Cincinnati.\u00a0 <\/em>Greg is also the person who first documented and wrote about the history of the Bearcat mascot as well as the first Ph.D. awarded at the University of Cincinnati, to astronomer Herbert Couper Wilson in 1886.<\/p>\n

Please join us at noon on the 24th<\/sup> in the Archives & Rare Books Library, Room 814, Blegen Library.\u00a0 Bring your lunch and discover another aspect of UC\u2019s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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