Atmospheric turbulence effects on aircraft noise propagation

The Brown and Clifford model for the apparent sound attenuation cuased by atmospheric turbulence was reviewed and extended. Calculations, based on the model, were made for the predicted sound attenuation for a tower-mounted loudspeaker-type sound source and for an airplane sound source. The important parameters in the model are identified and discussed. A model for sound fluctuations is also presented and a practical experimental program to validate the models described

Sawyer, Charles

Charles Sawyer was born and raised in Philadelphia in 1940. He describes the need to be closeted as a young man, dating women, entering the military, and being discharged on suspicion of being gay. This outed him to his family who were largely supportive. He fell in love with a young man for the first time at age 21; his then lover was 17. Once the boyfriend outed himself to his parents, the boyfriend was sent to a psychiatrist who, he reported, he had sex with. Sawyer talks about gay bars and police harassment in Philadelphia and describes early monogamous relationships. He met his life partner David in the early 1960s; they remained partners for more than 50 years. David was from Maine; Charles joined him in Gray, Maine around 1970. The two men were employed at the same furniture company for 38 years; their fellow workers knew they were a couple and supported them. In Maine, they occasionally went to gay bars in Portland though most of their friends in Gray and in Portland were heterosexual. Sawyer observes that gay bars in Maine, unlike Philadelphia were mixed gender (both men and women). Sawyer was raised Catholic but became an active member of the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Portland and volunteered with their soup kitchen. He discusses the early AIDS epidemic in Maine in the 1980s and early 1990s including fighting stigma (in this regard, he discusses Autumn Atunio and Terry Dannemiller). He volunteered with the AIDS Project and became Vice President of the People with AIDS Coalition (despite being HIV-negative himself). Sawyer observes that lesbians and straight women provided much of the support in those early years. Later, he worked with the marriage equality campaigns in Maine though he and his own partner decided against marriage for practical (economic) reasons. Citation Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries. For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1052/thumbnail.jp

Crewe, Dan

Description: Dan Crewe is an 84 year old gay man originally from New Jersey. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1957. Crewe was a member of the United States Air Force for four years, after which he moved to New York City and began a lucrative career in the music industry in production and publishing. He then moved to Los Angeles, California where he met his then wife, the musician Cindy (now Cyd) Bullens, and they had two daughters. The family eventually moved to Maine, where Crewe opened Gateway Mastering Studios and continued working in music. During this time, his 10 year old daughter was diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease. She passed away shortly after that. After her death, Crewe became very involved in local causes and philanthropy, and has been especially involved in supporting Breakwater School in Portland. The Jessie Bullens-Crewe Foundation, named in honor of his daughter, donated 21 acres to Breakwater school for youth education and supports the Maine Children\u27s Cancer Program. The Bob Crewe Foundation, named after his brother, supports both arts and music initiatives as well as organizations that benefit LGBTQ communities. Citation Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries. For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1044/thumbnail.jp

Investigation of ground reflection and impedance from flyover noise measurements

An extensive series of flyover noise tests was conducted for the primary purpose of studying meteorological effects on propagation of aircraft noise. The test airplane, a DC 9-10, flew several level-flight passes at various heights over a taxiway. Two microphone stations were located under the flight path. A total of 37 runs was selected for analysis and processed to obtain a consistant set of 1/3 octave band sound pressure levels at half-second intervals. The goal of the present study was to use the flyover noise data to deduce acoustical reflection coefficients and hence, acoustical impedances

Diamante, Robert

Robert Diamante is a photographer from an Italian America family from New Jersey. He also has a graduate degree in theology. At an early age, he began to doubt religious dogma. He came out as gay in 10th grade and stood up against homophobic taunting by successfully physically defending himself. He briefly had a girlfriend in high school who remains one of his best friends. He moved to NYC and attended Pratt University before transferring to the Portland School of Art (now MECA) where his interests in art and theology combined in a body of work based on Catholic iconography (those photos are now part of the Sampson Center LGBTQ collection). At the Portland School of Art he studied with Agnes Bushell and, through her, met gay author John Preston. Diamante did fact-finding on the Big Gay Book for Preston and photographed him for Flesh and the Word. Through Preston, he met and befriended porn star Scott O’Hara and became aware of and involved with the AIDS epidemic. In 1992 he began a charter member of the Gay Men’s Chorus in Portland, Maine (his photos of the Chorus are also donated to the collection). One of his early photo exhibitions was “Boyfriends/Girlfriends” with lesbian photographer Jen McDermott. After graduation, he started a photography business and stayed in Maine where he found other gay men who enjoyed such pleasures as camping and hunting. He also began traveling, first to India, Papua New Guinea, and Bali. He continued his studies at Bangor Theological Seminary where he received a graduate degree in 2010. Citation Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries. For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1060/thumbnail.jp

Mayo, Roger

Roger Mayo is a 69 year old gay cisgender man born raised in the mill town of Mexico, Maine. His parents operated a small business in town: Dorian’s Market. After a short marriage to a woman, Roger came out in Portland and moved to Ogunquit in the 1970s where he worked in a series of restaurants. In 1978, he moved to Portland where he worked in the Phoenix bar, lived at and worked in the Eastland Hotel, and worked in the Old Port. He describes anti-gay harassment including at the first Gay Pride March in Portland. Together with his then-partner Jim Neal, Roger opened one of Portland’s first explicitly gay-owned shops that carried gay-specific merchandise: Drop Me a Line. For 16 years, the store served as an unofficial queer community center hosting book signings and other events. He also helped produce the “Gay Guide to Maine,” a Pink Pages insert in Our Paper. He describes homophobic behavior by USM students and the instrumental role of Chris O’Connor in stopping it. In 1990, when the Maine Legislature once again failed to pass a gay Equal Rights Amendment, Roger Mayo agreed to be interviewed on Channel 6 TV in Drop Me a Line speaking as a gay man about the defeat. To support himself while running the store, Roger also worked for 22 years in the Portland Museum of Art and discusses the role of art in his life. Roger speaks about the early HIV/AIDS epidemic and the loss of 50 friends to the disease. He ends the interview talking about what he perceives as a disinterest among younger queers in the lives, history, and struggles of older gay people and a fracturing of the community into separate identity categories.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1098/thumbnail.jp

Prizer, Peter

Description: [1-2 paragraphs providing an introduction to interviewee] Peter Prizer, a 71 year old gay man, lived in Portland, Maine from the early 1970s through the late 1990s. He discusses growing up in Pennsylvania, going to a private boys’ school, and then to Penn State before moving to Maine. In Portland, he worked on the Portland Pier from 1971 to 1977. His first act of publicly coming out occurred at a panel event of local gay activists at Bowdoin College in the early 1970s. As a response to a homophobic comment by an audience member, he got up and joined the panelists on stage. Together with lesbian feminist organizers in Brunswick, including Wendy Ashley and Susan Breeding, he helped organize a picket of the Stowe House Restaurant (after they fired all their women servers and replaced them by men). He also helped organize a protest of the Freedom Train (1976 – bicentennial commemoration of the nation’s founding) in Portland. He was centrally involved with the Maine Gay Taskforce and helped produce their newsletter. The newsletter later became “Mainely Gay” which he worked on with Stan Fortuna among others. In 1977, along with Lois Reckitt and Susan Henderson, he worked on an outline for what would be the first gay rights bill submitted to the legislature in Maine. He also served as a lobbyist, together with Stephen Leo and Nan Stone, to try to secure passage of the bill after it was introduced by Gerald Talbot (D-Portland) and Larry Connolly (D-Portland). He describes the reactions of several legislators to the lobbying (including Olympia Snowe who was then a state representative from Auburn). The proposed law, one of the first in the country, was defeated – though it received significant support. He also discusses completing his degree (in Political Science) at USM, getting sober, working at Maine Medical Center Hospital, and moving to Bisbee, Arizona where he currently resides. Citation Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries. For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1048/thumbnail.jp

Moser, W. Jo

W. Jo Moser is a mother, photographer, political activist, and lesbian. She has experience working in childcare and is passionate about child welfare. Moser has a unique perspective as a lesbian parent being in a romantic long-term relationship with her partner of several decades. She sheds light on what living in San Francisco was like as a queer-identifying person in the 60s, 70s, and early-80s. There were experiences of social isolation she shared. This isolation was due to the fact that she did not always feel accepted in lesbian communities, but also felt that she had to prove herself to straight parents that had never met lesbian parents. Moser was involved in multiple political organizations, many of which were directly involved in the LGBTQ equal rights struggle. Throughout this involvement, she used photography as a tool to capture and express her activism. She has direct experience with lesbian discrimination, as she explains her terror surrounding being fired from her childcare position. At the time, people could be fired for being gay and working around children, as they were seen as unfit caretakers. She has had a life full of triumph and recreation, and goes into detail about the coming out process and lesbian motherhood. Citation Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries. For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1006/thumbnail.jp

McKenzie, Mike

Mike McKenzie was born in 1971 and grew up in Scarborough Maine raised by his single mother. Mike knew he was gay in 1988 while still in high school where he witnessed and faced homophobia. This resulted in dropping out of school at the age of 16. At 17, Mike joined the Coast Guard and served from 1990 to 1991. As a very masculine gay man, he was generally well accepted by those he served with who knew he was gay but faced homophobia from a newcomer who outed Mike; this resulted in a discharge from the Coast Guard. Back in Portland, Mike McKenzie did security at a gay night club known as Chaos until he was offered a position in 1993 to be a security contractor for Portland public schools. During that time, he volunteered to be the director of security for the Southern Maine Gay Pride committee. The interview also discussed dating in 2017, the effect of the Trump era on him, and how the AIDS epidemic affected his life. Citation Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries. For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1012/thumbnail.jp

Berger, Fred

Fred Berger was born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio. He went to college at University of Rochester and New York University in the 1960s. His older brother, who was part of the Israeli Olympic Team, died tragically in the attacks in Munich in 1972. Fred Berger moved to Portland, Maine in 1981 and played a central role in the gay community from 1981 to 1989 when he moved to Massachusetts to go to Social Work school. During the 8 years in Portland, he helped found the AIDS Project (with Frannie Peabody, Kristen Kramer, and Susan Cummings Lauren) and served as the first Board President. In 1982, he opened a bookstore on Pine St. called “Our Books” that became a defacto community center. After the murder of Charlie Howard, he became involved in the Maine Lesbian and Gay Political Alliance (MLGPA). In 1983, he started a newspaper “Our Paper” with a collective that included Diane Elze. He ran unsuccessfully for Portland City Council twice (1982 and 1986), paving the way for the eventual victory of Barb Wood. In 1983, he also founded a group to oppose an anti-pornography measure. He currently lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with his partner Ken (of 20 years) where he runs a support group for older gay men at the gay community center. He also lives part of the year in Wells, Maine. The Principle Investigator for this project is Dr. Wendy Chapkis, Professor of Sociology and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine. Professor Chapkis is also the Faculty Scholar for the Sampson Center’s LGBTQ+ Collection (from 2016 through 2018). The LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project integrates USM students into the process of community-based research; after being trained each fall, students serve as interviewers and transcribers of the oral histories. Citation Please cite as: Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer+ Collection, Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, University of Southern Maine Libraries. For more information about the Querying the Past: Maine LGBTQ Oral History Project, please contact Dr. Wendy Chapkis.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1003/thumbnail.jp