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| Title |
Gordon, Joseph Tulloch
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| Author |
Finley, Judith Reid, 1936-
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| Type of Resource |
mixed material
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| Digital Origin |
reformatted digital
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| Date Created |
1996-04-01
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| Date Digitized |
2010-05-21
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| Rights Statement |
Portions of this interview may only be used for educational or scholarly purposes. All rights in the manuscript and recording, including the right to publish, are reserved to the Colorado College Tutt Library. PERMISSION TO PUBLISH IN ANY FORMAT MUST BE REQUESTED from Special Collections, Colorado College Tutt Library.
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| Description |
Born in St. Louis in 1930, Professor Gordon received his B.A. from St. Louis in 1955, a second B.A. from DePaul University in 1958, his M.A. from Colorado University in 1960 and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1967. A specialist in American literature, Professor Gordon came to Colorado College as assistant professor of English in 1964. He was promoted to associate professor in 1970 and to full professor in 1977. In 1970, he became both the creator and director of Colorado College's Southwest Studies Program, a position that he held most of the time until his retirement in 1994. One of his chief accomplishments was the establishment of the Colorado College Baca Campus in 1987. Joe Gordon was also an avid tennis player, skier and fly fisherman.
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| Note (admin) |
Digitized from the original Special Collections Audio tape R79. This interview is part of a larger collection totaling 89 individuals. Interview transcripts converted to PDF/A from Microsoft Word. Other file materials, biographical data sheets, indexes, legal releases scanned from originals and converted to text searchable PDF/A using Fujitsu 4150 scanner and Scandallpro software version 1.5. Scanned at 400 dpi. Photos scanned at 500 dpi and saved as jpeg. There are 131 preservation wave files (44.1 kHz, 16-bit) and 131 delivery mp3 files (128 kbps) in the set. Each file represents up to an hour of material, equivalent to one side of a reel-to-reel tape or both sides of a cassette tape. The 262 files are now located on both of two hard drives in Special Collections, the master drive (A1) formatted for Mac and a backup drive (B1) formatted for PC. (.wav preservation masters created by Tom Sanny using Final Cut Pro. Analog tapes digitized as QuickTime 44k16b .mov files. Dead air edited out and sound levels adjusted ; .wav files exported using FCP QuickTime Conversion tool ; .mp3 files created from .wav files using Switch.) All files are monaural.
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| Subject (topic) |
Oral history
Universities and colleges
Faculty
English
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| Subject (corporate name) |
Colorado College
Colorado College. Dept. of English
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| Subject (personal name) |
Gordon, Joseph T.
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| Subject (time) |
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
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| Subject (geographic) |
Colorado
Colorado Springs (Colo.)
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| Subject (form) |
Personal narratives
Audio recording
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| Publisher |
Colorado College
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| Place of Publication |
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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| Language |
eng
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| Series Title |
Colorado College Oral History Collection
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| Handle |
http://hdl.handle.net/10176/coccc:3052
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