A Chronology of Staff Activity since the last Hall of Records Commission Meeting:
August 15, 2011: Dr.
Papenfuse and Archives staff met for the final group meeting of the
summer interns.
August 29 -November 28, 2011: Dr.
Papenfuse teaching the Legal History Seminar: Baltimore in the
Civil War Era at the University of Maryland School of Law.
August
31, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse and members of the Research staff
hosted a meeting of the Study of the Legacy of Slavery Advisory Board
and a meeting of the Commission to Coordinate the Study,
Commemoration & Impact of Slavery's History & Legacy in
Maryland.
September 8, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse
participated in a teleonference with the Historic St. Mary's City
Research Committee.
September 9, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse
and Tim Baker met with Dean Barbara Contrum and Steve Anderso,
regarding scanning project.
September 13, 2011: Dr.
Papenfuse and Appraisal staff traveled to the Prince George's County
Circuit Court warehouse to assess flood damage and provide
appraisal and conservation support.
September 23, 2011:
Dr. Papenfuse, Sasha Lourie and Mimi Calver conducted a tour of the
State House and presented a lecture in the Old Senate Chamber to
members of the National Society of the Washington Family Descendants
on Washington in Annapolis.
September 30, 2011: Dr.
Papenfuse led a discussion on Primary Sources as part of a program of
the Teaching American History initiative Roots of a Nation -
a Chesapeake Journey, on Hometown History at the CV Starr
Center for the Study of the American Experience, Washington
College.
October 1, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse, Maya Davis
and Rachel Frazier presented a lecture on Former Maryland Slaves
and the Treaty of Ghent at the Fifteenth National War of 1812
Symposium, The Civil War of 1812: War and Disquiet and the New
Nation.
October 4, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse participated
in a meeting of the Governor's Consulting Committee on the National
Register Meeting, hosted at the Maryland State Archives.
October
5, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse, Sasha Lourie, and Elaine Rice
Bachmann received a loan of Battle of Fort McHenry from
Stiles Colwill, Doreen Bolger and Douglass Mann on behalf of Governor
O'Malley.
October 12, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse, Tim Baker
and Christine Alvey hosted a collaborative meeting regarding
government information in the electronic era.
October 19,
2011: Dr. Papenfuse co-hosted, with the Johns Hopkins
University Press, a gathering for Jane McWilliams's book.
October
24, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse, Maya Davis and Rachel Frazier
presented a lecture on Former Maryland Slaves and the Treaty of
Ghent to the War of 1812 Anne Arundel County Workshop, held at
the Maryland State Archives.
October 25, 2011: Dr.
Papenfuse, Elaine Rice Bachmann and Mimi Calver presented a lecture
in the Old Senate Chamber on George Washington's resignation speech
to members of the Chief Executives Organization.
October 26,
2011: Dr. Papenfuse participated in a Publications Committee
meeting at the Maryland Historical Society.
October 27,
2011: Dr. Papenfuse and Sasha Lourie participated in a tour
of the State House Dome with Orlando Ridout, Marcia Miller, Earl
Kelly, and a photographer from the Capital.
October
29, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse received the Historian Honors award
from the Baltimore City Historical Society for his writings and for
his efforts to revive the Baltimore City Archives
November 3
- December 15, 2011: Dr. Papenfuse teaching the Johns Hopkins
University course Following the North Star: History and Stories of
Slaves Escaping from Bondage in Maryland.
November 4, 2011:
Dr. Papenfuse attended the MLA Advisory Board Meeting at Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore.
November 10, 2011: Dr.
Papenfuse, Chris Haley and Owen Lourie attended the opening of the
Civil Rights Exhibit at Morgan State University.
June 15, 2011: Sasha Lourie provided a curator's
tour of Government House and the State House Caucus Room for the
American Silver Guild.
June 15, 2011: Vicki Lee
and Carrie Brady co-taught an Intergovernmental Preparedness for
Essential Records (IPER) course, Records Emergency Planning
and Response, with John Harding in Centreville.
June 15,
2011: Cecelia Smith attended the Structured Interview
Workshop at the Baltimore City Community College.
June 16,
2011: Cecelia Smith attended Managing Medical Absences
training at the Department of Budget & Management in
Baltimore.
June 17, 2011: Maria Day and Carrie Brady
attended the George Peabody Library Conservation Center for Art
& Historic Artifacts conference, Out of the Ordinary:
Preserving Paper-Based Ephemera.
June 17, 2011: Kathryn
Baringer and James Watson met with Trish Trikeriotis, Baltimore City
Circuit Court, regarding court proceedings archiving.
June
18, 2011: Maya Davis attended the Sixth Annual Juneteenth
Seminar, by the African American Historical and Genealogical
Society.
June 20, 2011: Summer interns attended
Baltimore and War of 1812, a Summer Seminar presented by
Ranger Scott Sheads of Fort McHenry National Park.
June 21,
2011: Teresa Fawley and Cecelia Smith attended a meeting of
the Agency Personnel Management Group at the Maryland Department of
Transportation.
June 22, 2011: James Watson attended
the Land Records Seminar at the Maryland Department of Planning,
hosted by ESRI.
June 22, 2011: Tim Baker and
Christine Alvey met by teleconference with Steve Anderson, Law
Library, and Doug McElrath, regarding the Fall Summit meeting
agenda.
June 22, 2011: Nassir Rezvan and Teresa
Fawley attended a meeting of the Department of Budget and Management,
regarding budget overviews.
June 23-27, 2011: Dan
Ramirez attended the Spectrum Leadership Institute and American
Library Association's Annual 2011 Conference, New Orleans.
June
23, 2011: Maria Day and Sasha Lourie attended the Four Rivers
Heritage Area Networking Picnic at the Charles Carroll House,
Annapolis.
June 23, 2011: Cecelia Smith and Chris
Stewart attended the Equal Employment Opportunity Symposium at the
Department of Housing and Community Development.
June
24, 2011: Elaine Rice Bachmann and Mimi Calver met with David
Sympson, President General of the Sons of the American
Revolution regarding fundraising efforts for the display of
Washington's Resignation speech.
June 25, 2011:
Chris Haley presented a lecture at the Kunte-Kinte - Alex Haley
Foundation event concerning Family Genealogy
June
27, 2011: Nancy Bramucci Sheads participated in the
Howard County Teaching American History Summer Institute, at the
University of Maryland Baltimore County.
June 27, 2011:
Maya Davis led the viewing and post-screening discussion of an
African American history film by Legacy of Slavery Staff and summer
interns.
June 28, 2011: Maria Day and
Rachel Frazier conducted a tour of the Archives and provided
education program for the Next Step Program.
June 28, 2011:
Vicki Lee attended the Guild of Book Workers Officers meeting at the
Folger Shakespeare Library.
June 28, 2011: James
Watson met with the Baltimore County Circuit Court to discuss
scanning microfilm and aperture cards.
June 29, 2011:
Sasha Lourie and Stephanie Bray conducted a tour of the State House
for Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor and 13 guests.
June 30,
2011: Chris Haley met with Aimee Poisson, Annapolis Maritime
Museum, regarding the Blacks in Annapolis website and maritime
photographs pertaining to Annapolis.
July 6, 2011:
Cecelia Smith and Teresa Fawley attended the Judiciary Education
Conference Center, regarding leave bank form revision training.
July
8, 2011: Kathryn Baringer met with John Pirro and Dick
Ihrie, regarding Department of Budget Management and Diversity of
Information Technology record retention and disposal
July
11, 2011: Summer interns attended Nineteenth Century
Baltimore: A City of Immigrants, presented by Professor Wayne R.
Schaumburg, sponsored by the Maryland Humanities Council.
July
13, 2011: Sarah Patterson taught a class, Essential
Records, to the Allegany County Department of Public Safety with
Tom Wellman, Department of General Services.
July 14-16,
2011: Tim Baker attended the Council of State Archivists
Business Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.
July 18, 2011:
Tim Baker, Kevin Swanson, and Wei Yang met with a delegation from
Anhui Province, including Governor Wang, regarding storage and access
to Maryland land records.
July 19, 2011: Tim Baker
attended the National Digital Stewardship Alliance meeting in
Washington DC.
July 19, 2011: Teresa Fawley and
Cecelia Smith attended a meeting of the Agency Personnel Management
Group at the Department of Housing and Community Development.
July
19, 2011: Rob Schoeberlein attended the Maryland Historical
Society Library Committee Meeting.
July
19, 2011: Chris Haley presented on Discussing
Sensitive History In and Out of the Classroom as part of a program of
the Teaching American History initiative Roots of a Nation -
a Chesapeake Journey, on Hometown History at the CV Starr Center
for the Study of the American Experience, Washington College
July
20, 2011: Tim Baker attended the National Digital Stewardship
Alliance meeting, and an evening meeting of the Content Working
Group, in Washington DC.
July 20, 2011: Carrie Brady
taught a class, Records Emergency Planning and Response, to
the Allegany County Department of Public Safety.
July 20,
2011: Teresa Fawley attended training on managing medical
absences, at the Department of Budget and Management.
July
21, 2011: Tim Baker attended the National Digital Stewardship
Alliance meeting at Washington DC.
July 22, 2011: Chris
Kintzel showed the portrait of James E. Ray Jr. [MSA SC 1545-1050] to
a descendent.
July 25, 2011: Maria Day met with Dr.
Bunnemeyer regarding donation of photographs.
July 26, 2011:
Tim Baker met with Wendy Napier and Bart Thomas at the Department
of General Services, regarding land acquisition.
July 26,
2011: Joyce Phelps and James Watson met with the Maryland
Transportation Authority to discuss records retention, transfer, and
scanning issues.
July 27, 2011: David Armenti
presented on slavery in Maryland to forty-five teachers at the
Reginald F. Lewis Museum.
July 29, 2011: Rob
Schoeberlein delivered the keynote speech on Riots To Relief
& Beyond - Baltimore Unionist Women & the Civil War at
the Society of Women in the Civil War Conference.
July 29,
2011: Chris Haley attended the EEO Complaint Assistance
Pilot Program (ECAPP) meeting, at the Maryland Insurance
Administration.
August 4, 2011: Maria Day met with
Barry McKown, Sons of the American Revolution, regarding donations.
August 5, 2011: Sasha Lourie met with Dr. Henry
Miller, Historic St. Mary's City, to examine two portraits of
Leonard Calvert on display in the State House.
August
6, 2011: Stephanie Bray and Justin Gore provided a tour
of the State House for members of the North American Vexillology
Association.
August 8, 2011: Nancy Bramucci Sheads
presented Bring Out Your Dead! Cemeteries Tombstones, and
Historical Research in Nineteenth Century Maryland to the summer interns.
August 10, 2011:
Carrie Brady, Maria Day, and Tony Roberts taught an IPER course,
Essential Records, to the Maryland Emergency Management
Agency.
August 11, 2011: Elaine Rice Bachmann attended a
meeting of the Maryland Commission on Public Art.
August
16, 2011: Maria Day met with Burt Kummerow and Bobby Neall,
Maryland Historical Society, and John and Betty Colhoun, regarding
the Cheston-Galloway Papers.
August 16, 2011: Maria
Day met with Silas Hurry regarding Historic St. Mary's City
records.
August 16, 2011: Stephanie Bray attended a
meeting of the Four Rivers Heritage Area Education Committee.
August
16, 2011: Teresa Fawley and Cecelia Smith attended a meeting
of the Agency Personnel Management Group at the Maryland Department
of Transportation.
August 16, 2011: Tim Baker, Wei
Yang, and James Watson attended a meeting of the Maryland State
Geographic Information Committee's Technical Committee, regarding
archiving GIS data.
August 17, 2011: Maria Day
met with Barry McKown to received donation of Duvall Society
volumes.
August 17, 2011: Chris Haley attended an
IPER course, Essential Records, the Maryland Emergency
Management Agency, in preparation for teaching IPER courses.
August
18, 2011: Tim Baker, Rob Schoeberlein, and James Watson
hosted a meeting of the Historic Map Committee.
August 18,
2011:
Tim Baker and James Watson met with Lamere Hennessee,
regarding (1) Maryland Geological Survey
project to develop finding aid for Archives' early air photos, (2)
Agenda for next MGS Data Preservation Advisory Panel meeting, and (3)
options for MGS re: long-term storage of large digital data sets
via UMBC site.
August 19, 2011: Maria Day met with
Chuck Cochran, WBAL photographer, regarding photography of Marvin
Mandel photos.
August 19, 2011: Tim Baker
participated in a teleconference regarding electronic state
records.
August 23, 2011: Vicki Lee attended the
Guild of Book Workers Officers meeting at the Folger Shakespeare
Library.
September 7, 2011: Joyce Phelps and Carrie
Brady visited Carroll County Courthouse to appraise
records.
September 8, 2011: Rob Schoeberlein
attended the celebration of Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth in an
American City, at the Langsdale Library, University of
Baltimore.
September 8, 2011: Kathryn Baringer
participated in a teleconference with the Town of St. Michaels,
regarding record management.
September 12, 2011:
Chris Haley, Rachel Frazier, and David Armenti met with Patricia
Anderson, Dustin Meeker, and Kristin Schenning at the Maryland
Historical Society, regarding outreach, Maryland Colonization Society
film, and Department of Education grant requirements.
September
12, 2011: Rob Schoeberlein attended the Maryland Historical
Society Library Committee Meeting.
September 12, 2011:
Richard Richardson met in the Search Room with Carroll County
Historical Society volunteers, regarding processing Carroll County
Probate Records.
September 12, 2011: Stephanie
Baringer attended the Four Rivers Heritage Area Stakeholder Briefing,
Annapolis.
September 13, 2011: Michael McCormick
attended a meeting of the Chesapeake Chapter, Maryland Society of
Surveyors.
September 14, 2011: Maria Day taught an
IPER course, Essential Records, at the Prince George's
County Office of Homeland Security.
September 14, 2011:
Cecelia Smith attended the Maryland Charity Campaign Training
at the State Center, Baltimore.
September 14, 2011:
Stephanie Baringer attended a Maryland Day planning meeting at the
Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Conference and Visitors
Bureau.
September 14, 2011: Richard Richardson
and Michael McCormick met with Sister Betty Ann McNeil, Archivist at
the Daughters of Charity, for a tour of the Archives' storage
shelving.
September 15, 2011: Cecelia Smith and
Teresa Fawley attended the Statewide Personnel Townhall Meeting at
the Department of Budget and Management.
September 15, 2011:
Michael McCormick, Dan Ramirez, and Chris Schini provided a tour of
the Archives for twenty-eight students from the Judiciary's
Court Professional Certificate Program.
September 15-16:
Chris Kintzel represented Chief Judge Bell and Dr. Papenfuse
at the State and Federal Court Historical Societies' meeting
held in conjunction with the AASLH Annual Meeting.
September
16, 2011: Rachel Frazier and Krystal Appiah attended the Fall
Washington Early American Seminar at the University of Maryland
College Park.
September 20, 2011: Maria Day met
with Glenn Campbell, Historic Annapolis Foundation, regarding
donation of an 18th-century record.
September 20, 2011:
Dottie Zimmerman attended a workshop on new program guidelines and
changes from ARI to PHH for fleet maintenance and repair services.
September 20, 2011:
Teresa Fawley and Cecelia Smith attended a meeting of the Agency
Personnel Management Group at the Department of Housing and Community
Development.
September 21-22, 2011: Cecelia Smith
attended the 18th Annual Mid-Atlantic Americans with Disabilities Act
Update.
September 21, 2011: Vicki Lee and Carrie
Brady attended IPER training at the Fire Services Building.
September
22, 2011: Sasha Lourie provided a tour of the furnishings in
Government Hosue to Katherine Crosby, Jenkins Baer Associates,
and Mendy O'Malley.
September 22, 2011: Maria Day
and Carrie Brady presented on disaster planning to the Montgomery
County Register of Wills.
September 22, 2011: James
W. met with the Town St. Michaels about records retention issues and
potential scanning projects.
September 23-24, 2011:
Jenn Cruickshank attended Revealing Lost
Content: Low-Tech Digital Forensics for the Bench Conservator, Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies, Mt. Carroll,
Illinois.
September 23, 2011: Krystal Appiah
attended the Paul Laurence Dunbar High School to attend the 2011 Back
to School with the HistoryMakers.
September 26-27,
2011: Tim Baker and Wei Yang attended a meeting of at the
Library of Congress, regarding Designing Storage Architecture for
Digital Collections.
September 26-28, 2011: Cecelia
Smith attended Mental Health First Aid Training, at the Maryland
Military Department, 5th Regiment Armory, Baltimore.
September
27, 2011: Carrie Brady reviewed the University of Maryland
Archives, College Park.
September 28, 2011:
Nassir Resvan attended the Minority Business Enterprise Liaisons
Meeting.
September 28, 2011: Teresa Fawley attended
the SPS Liaison Meeting at the Department of Budget and
Management.
September 30, 2011: Chris Haley
presented on Discussing Sensitive History In and Oot of the
Classroom as part of a program of the Teaching American History
initiative Roots of a Nation - a Chesapeake Journey, on
Hometown History at the CV Starr Center for the Study of the American
Experience, Washington College.
October 3, 2011: Elaine
Rice Bachmann and Mimi Calver provided a curator's tour of State House and
Government House to Hope Cooke.
October 3, 2011:
James Watson met with the Anne Arundel Circuit Court, regarding
Criminal Department use of PaperVision.
October 4, 2011:
Tim Baker and Kathryn Baringer participated in a meeting regarding
the Montgomery County Electronic Records Management System.
October
4, 2011: Rob Schoeberlein attended NARA Security training and
library walkthrough at the Maryland Historical Society.
October
4, 2011: Elaine Rice Bachmann, Sasha Lourie and Chris Kintzel met
with Jim Abbott and Travers Nelson from Evergreen House and
Johns Hopkins University regarding the installation of mist fire
suppression in the State House.
October 4, 2011:
Dottie Zimmerman attended PHH InterActive Training in
Annapolis.
October 5, 2011: James Watson meet with
Mr. Robert Duckworth at the Anne Arundel Circuit Court regarding the
planned electronic case management system.
October 6, 2011:
Tim Baker, Kevin Swanson, Kathryn Baringer, and Carrie Brady visited
the Prince George's County Courthouse, regarding inventory and
protocols.
October 7, 2011: Elaine Rice Bachmann met with
Mark Croatti, Adjunct Professor, U.S. Naval Academy; John Cohen,
Mayor of Annapolis; and members of the Mayor's staff regarding a
proposed Continental Congress center in Annapolis.
October
8, 2011: Rob Schoeberlein presented to the Homewood
Retirement Community on family history resources available at
the Baltimore City Archives.
October 11, 2011: James
Watson, Allison Rein, and James Watson met with the Towson University
Library to discuss scanning of student newspapers.
October
12-14, 2011: Chris Kintzel participated in a collections
management activity at Fells Point Preservation Society, organized
by the Mid Atlantic Association of Museums' "White Gloves
Gang."
October 13, 2011: James Watson, Carrie
Brady, and Christian Skipper conducted an image review of AA
Papervision with Anne Arundel Circuit Court staff.
October
14, 2011: David Armenti presented on the history of slavery
in Maryland at the Baltimore City College High School, for the
12th-grade, African American history class.
October 12,
2011: Teresa Fawley attended Mental HeaJack Holmes,
410-516-6928 lth First Aid Training at the Department of
Transportation Headquarters.
October 17-19, 2011:
Reggie Shorter attended training at the CommVault Administration in
Washington DC.
October 18, 2011: Kathryn Baringer
and Christian Skipper met with the Garrett Park Archives to discuss
their archival concerns.
October 19, 2011: Rachel
Frazier and Tanner Sparks attended the National Parks Service
Underground Railroad Gathering at the Great Falls National Park.
Rachel presented on the War of 1812, Tanner on USCT pension files
from Eastern Shore soldiers.
October 19, 2011:
Stephanie Smith attended the Archive-It Partner Meeting in Lexington,
Kentucky.
October 20, 2011: Maria Day and Allison
Rein met with Kevin Hemstock, Editor of the Kent County News,
in Chestertown, regarding newspaper scanning.
October 20-21,
2011: Tim Baker attended the Digital Archiving Best Practices
Exchange 2011 in Lexington, Kentucky.
October 23, 2011:
Maya Davis was interviewed by Barbara Tagger, regarding the Harriet
Tubman Byways Project.
October 24, 2011: Chris
Haley, David Armenti, Tanner Sparks, and Krystal Appiah installed the
traveling exhibit, Flee! Stories of Flight from Maryland in Black
and White, at the Banneker-Douglass Museum.
October 26,
2011: Tim Baker presented at the Maryland
Association of Counties' Annual Administrators and Attorneys
Conference, regarding: best practices for records retention and
preservation.
October 26, 2011: Chris Haley attended
the Carroll's Hundred Fall Conference: Saving Sacred Ground at
Carroll's Hundred, hosted by Johns Hopkins University.
October
26, 2011: Carrie Brady and Christian Skipper visited the Kent
County Courthouse and Register of Wills to inventory records for
transfer.
October 27, 2011: Chris Haley and David
Armenti installed the traveling exhibit, Flee! Stories of Flight
from Maryland in Black and White, at the Maryland Historical
Society.
October 27-28, 2011: Sasha Lourie attended
an advisory board meeting of the Museum of Early Southern
Decorative Arts.
October 28, 2011: Rob Schoeberlein
participated in the panel discussion on Baltimore's Civil War
Women, and presented on Secessionist Women and the
Southern Relief Fair of 1866. Southern Historical Association's
77th Annual Meeting.
October 28, 2011: Wei Yang
attended the Daly Technology Showcase and Seminars at the BWI Airport
Marriott.
October 29, 2011: Vicki Lee attended the
Havre de Grace War of 1812 Community History Day, St. Patricks Parish
Hall.
October 31, 2011: Cecelia Smith attended the
Retirement Coordinator Fall Training at the Department of
Agriculture.
November 1, 2011: Chris Haley and
Rachel Frazier presented at the Maryland Abolition Reception at the
Banneker-Douglas Museum, featuring a reception for the Maryland State
Archives' traveling exhibit, Flee! Stories of Flight from
Maryland in Black and White.
November 1, 2011: Maya
Davis participated in the "Market Place of Ideas," for the
War of 1812 program, at Oxon Cove Park, Oxon Hill.
November
2, 2011: Maya Davis attended the "Chesapeake Campaign"
talks and tours, for the War of 1812 program, Oxon Cove Park, Oxon
Hill, to
November 2, 2011: Sasha Lourie
provided a curator's tour to the Antiques Club of Austin,
Texas.
November 2, 2011: Kathryn Baringer met with
the Prince George's County Board of Education to discuss their
Records Management Policy.
November 2, 2011: David
Armenti and Tanner Sparks attended the Lunch and Learn Lecture on
Samuel Green, featuring speaker Rick Blondo, at the Reginald F
Lewis Museum.
November 2-3, 2011: Maria Day attended
the Conference on the History and Preservation of Maps, at
Philadelphia.
November 3, 2011: Maya
Davis presented on Slavery and the War of 1812 in
Maryland, with a focus on Prince George's County, for the War of 1812
program.
November 4, 2011: Chris Kintzel attended an
insurance workshop organized by the Maryland Department of the
Treasury.
November 4, 2011: Christian Skipper
and James Watson reviewed the Montgomery County Archives
review.
November 4, 2011: Maya Davis participated in
talks and tours in Greenbelt, regarding the Defense of Baltimore, for
the War of 1812 program
November 8, 2011: Kathryn
Baringer and Christian Skipper made a records management presentation
at the Chevy Chase Village Hall.
November 9, 2011:
Tim Baker, Elaine Rice Bachmann, Sasha Lourie, and Archives staff
participated in a meeting of the Artistic Property
Commission.
November 9, 2011: David Armenti
participated in the Somerset County Historical Society Teacher's
Workshop with Maryland Historical Society. Done Dustin Meeker of the
Maryland Historical Society.
(For Courses taught and lectures given by the State Archivist see resolution of 4/19/2000)