MS-004: Papers of Frank H. Kramer, Class of 1914

The Frank H. Kramer Collection is arranged into six Series. I. Personal Information; II. Organizations, Committees & Events; III. Education Department; IV. Oriental Art; V. Scrapbooks and VI. Miscellaneous. Of special note to researchers are the photo album of campus life in the nineteen-teens, scrapbook of commencement activities between 1939 and 1948 and correspondence from soldiers in camp during WWI. Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/findingaidsall/1003/thumbnail.jp

Book Review

Review of: SHELDON KRIMSKY & ALONZO PLOUGH, ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS: COMMUNICATING Risks AS A SOCIAL PROCESS. (Auburn House 1988) [333 pp.] Acknowledgements, bibliographies, case chronologies, figures, foreword, glossaries of acronyms, index, notes. LC: 88-14467; ISBN: 0-8659-187-8. [$18,95 paper. 88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881.

Internet Media in Technological Risk Amplification: Plutonium on Board the Cassini-Huygens Spacecraft

The author discusses how the Cassini controversy demonstrates the power of the Internet, particularly listservs and Usenet groups, and how this resource offers political activists an opportunity to affect the agendas of risk management policy decision-makers

MS-017: Mervin R. Hamsher Papers

The Hamsher collection is divided into three series. Series I consists of personal correspondence between 1875 - 1969, from his father, Oliver C., sister, Elsie and brother Merle, his classmates from college and his classmate\u27s children. It is the largest series in the collection. Series II consists of speeches, writings and papers Hamsher wrote while a student at Gettysburg College between 1902 and 1904. Series III is the smallest series, consisting of two folders of mostly miscellaneous, pamphlets, newsletters and church bulletins related to the Lutheran Church. Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/findingaidsall/1016/thumbnail.jp

MS-013: Karl Friedrich May Collection

Considered to be the most successful German author of all time with more than 100 million copies of his 70 plus adventure novels translated in over 30 different languages and sold world-wide. This collection does not include any manuscripts or personal papers of May and is thought to have been separated previously from the Major General Charles Willoughby Collection (MS - 024.) The 2-volume typescript English translation of May\u27s In the Desert was most likely done by Willoughby. Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/findingaidsall/1012/thumbnail.jp

Public Accountability for Private Action

Sharing what we're doing and learning has long been a priority at Wallace, and the past several years have seen a growing number of foundations also taking steps to "open their doors and windows." Some aspects are easy to report on: program initiatives, the purpose of individual grants to specific organizations, a foundation's overall financial health. Less easy to measure, and more difficult to discuss publicly, are the results of a foundation's work. What progress have we made toward our ambitious social change goals? How do we know? How can we talk about what didn't work? These are the issues that we and other foundations are wrestling with

Opening Pandora\u27s Box: The Status of the Diplomatic Bag in International Relations

This Note argues that article 27 [of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations] provides for the absolute inviolability of the diplomatic bag. Part I discusses the history of the Vienna Convention and its provisions concerning the diplomatic bag. Part II sets forth instances of abuse of the diplomatic bag, proposed remedies, and the arguments in favor of such remedies. Part III suggests that the proper construction of article 27 of the Vienna Convention is that the diplomatic bag is absolutely inviolable and, thus, immune from nonintrusive examinations. This Note concludes that the status of the bag should be reconsidered in order to enable governments to curb its abuses

Exploring the Importance of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of HSPA9 in DNA of Sarcoma Patients

The aim of this project was to identify genetic variants that may influence the risk and progression of sarcoma through targeted genotyping of HSPA9 gene. It is important to look at genetic variants in DNA samples because if a variant is determined to be more likely than another, a screening for the particular variant can be done to identify a patient’s risk of sarcoma. The study population was sarcoma patients from the International Sarcoma Kindred Study. These patients had no mutations in p53 or MDM2. Genotyping data from the HapMap project (hapmap.org) for HSPA9 was used to identify the polymorphisms needed to tag the entire region. In order to genotype the DNA sample, KASP reagents (KBioSciences, UK) were used. KASP uses a two-set PCR process. Allele specific primers are used to preferentially amplify each allele of a given SNP. The specific genetic variations of HSPA9 in sarcoma patient DNA samples with no mutations in p53 or MDM2 amplification are not more or less likely to occur than in DNA samples with the mutation or amplification. If continued research can show that MDM2 is not amplified, but activated through other mechanisms such as the interaction between polymorphisms of mitochondrial genes, p53, or MDM2, we can propose anti-MDM2 therapies to the patients with these polymorphisms

How Are We Doing? One Foundation's Efforts to Gauge its Effectiveness

Provides an overview of the path the Wallace Foundation staff followed in an effort to develop a tool for measuring their own organizational effectiveness. Includes lessons learned