Jimmy Purifoy in a Graduate Piano Recital

This is the program for the graduate recital of Jimmy Purifoy. This recital took place on May 10, 1977, in the Mabee Recital Hall

Red Rose

Red Rose follows the narrator’s innermost thoughts and feelings of abruptly being immersed into a culture very different from her own. While hiking with her brother, a second year environmental Peace Corps volunteer, to visit the home and garden of a Nicaraguan native, she reflects on the changes she sees in her brother and her inability to communicate in a foreign country. She struggles to overcome her feelings of linguistic isolation while still being fascinated by the culture around her. The piece ends on a lovely image of universal understanding

The Role of Band for Former Military-Connected Students When Transitioning Schools: A Phenomenological Study

The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to understand the role of wind band for former military-connected (MC) students that graduated Carn Schools (pseudonym) in the past five years who experienced a transition to a new school. The theories guiding this study were Gates’ music participation theory as it describes reasons and explanations of why people actively participate in music and Vygotsky’s social constructivist theory as it relates to learning in a social context. The central research question for this study was as follows: How do former MC children describe their experiences in wind band during a transition to a new school? Guiding questions included the following: How do the participants describe the role that wind band played on their stress levels during a transition? What were the participants’ expectations of wind band when they transferred schools? What are former MC students’ perceptions of wind band attributes (band size, band success), band director attributes (gender, ethnicity, years of teaching experience, years of working with MC children, teaching styles/attributes), student attributes (gender, years of band participation, instrument, ethnicity, number of transitions), and school attributes (school size, location) that affect transitioning to a new school? Participants were recruited from the researcher’s former students and included 11 former students and other recommended participants. Data collection included interviews, online discussion responses, and Chin and Rickard’s MUSE Questionnaire. Interviews were transcribed and data coded using Moustakas’s research methods to help determine emerging themes. This study found that many band participants choose to participate in band because of the social aspect, which also helped them during a transition to a new school, showing consistency with previous research. This study may contribute to available research by providing information to the Carn School System and parents and teachers of MC children to help MC children deal with stress during a PCS and transfer to a new school. Future research should include a broader pool of participants and also investigate the financial aspect of band participation

Jimmy Purifoy and Susan Clark in a Joint Senior Recital

This is the program for the joint senior recital of pianist Jimmy Purifoy and soprano Susan Clark. Pianist Lois Kirkpatrick assisted Clark. This recital took place on April 17, 1975, in the Mabee Fine Arts Center\u27s Recital Hall

Operational Concepts for Uninhabited Tactical Aircraft

This paper describes experiences with five remotely piloted flight research vehicle projects in the developmental flight test phase. These projects include the Pathfinder, Perseus B, Altus, and X-36 aircraft and the Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology (HiMAT). Each of these flight projects was flown at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. With the exception of the HiMAT, these projects are a part of the Flight Research Base Research and Technology (R&T) Program of the NASA Aeronautics and Space Transportation Technology Enterprise. Particularly with respect to operational interfaces between the ground-based pilot or operator, this paper draws from those experiences, then provides some rationale for extending the lessons learned during developmental flight research to the possible situations involved in the developmental flights proceeding deployed uninhabited tactical aircraft (UTA) operations. Two types of UTA control approaches are considered: autonomous and remotely piloted. In each of these cases, some level of human operator or pilot control blending is recommended. Additionally, "best practices" acquired over years of piloted aircraft experience are drawn from and presented as they apply to operational UTA

JLFT 002 Ossie B Purifoy 9-27-1996

Acc #: 328; JLFT 002 In this recording, Ossie B. Purifoy is interviewed by John Beebee about his memories of John LeFlore and the Civil Rights Movement in Mobile, Alabama. Mr. Purifoy shares that he was born in Andalusia, Alabama, and moved to Mobile to sell life insurance. He discusses meeting Mr. LeFlore, and becoming friends with him as they worked together on social issues over the years. Mr. Purifoy also shares some reflections on how John LeFlore navigated racism and race relations in Mobile, and the work they did together, particularly in the Non-Partisan Voters League. He also talks about the challenges they faced, and some of the violence and threats of violence that they had to confront. Mr. Purifoy offers contrasts between John LeFlore’s approach to activism and that of Dr. Martin Luther King, and describes some examples of LeFlore’s work such as Vivian Malone integrating the University of Alabama, the Birdie Mae Davis case to integrate Mobile public schools, and the Wiley Bolden case that changed the form of government in Mobile

Changes in the U.S. Domestic Group Tour Market

The group tour market is a market that is currently undergoing some fundamental changes. Many had predicted that this market would die out with the rise of technology, Internet and changes in consumer behaviour. This study aimed at investigating if group tour operators and Convention and Visitors Bureaus (CVBs) recognized changes in the group tour market and at examining ways that they sought to react to those changes. The study revealed that destinations who have acted upon consumer changes have become successful group tour destinations. Group tour operators also appear to be aware of the changes in the market and are implementing changes and approaches in their offerings as well. There were several trends that this study discovered. The first is that tour structures are changing such as flexible itineraries and hub and spoke tours. Second, group tour planners have specific information needs and CVBs and suppliers should accommodate those needs. Third, the path to group tour planners leads through consumers. Fourth, there is a focus on emerging markets such as student groups and soft adventure tours. Fifth, group tours expect special accommodations from suppliers such as group rates, motorcoach parking and behind the scenes tours. Finally, CVBs are a key player in the iv group tour market. While the results from this study provided important insights, there is still a need for more research regarding the group tour market and its new customers.Elkhart County Convention and Visitors Burea

Changes in the U.S. Domestic Group Tour Market

The group tour market is a market that is currently undergoing some fundamental changes. Many had predicted that this market would die out with the rise of technology, Internet and changes in consumer behaviour. This study aimed at investigating if group tour operators and Convention and Visitors Bureaus (CVBs) recognized changes in the group tour market and at examining ways that they sought to react to those changes. The study revealed that destinations who have acted upon consumer changes have become successful group tour destinations. Group tour operators also appear to be aware of the changes in the market and are implementing changes and approaches in their offerings as well. There were several trends that this study discovered. The first is that tour structures are changing such as flexible itineraries and hub and spoke tours. Second, group tour planners have specific information needs and CVBs and suppliers should accommodate those needs. Third, the path to group tour planners leads through consumers. Fourth, there is a focus on emerging markets such as student groups and soft adventure tours. Fifth, group tours expect special accommodations from suppliers such as group rates, motorcoach parking and behind the scenes tours. Finally, CVBs are a key player in the iv group tour market. While the results from this study provided important insights, there is still a need for more research regarding the group tour market and its new customers.Elkhart County Convention and Visitors Burea

Creative extraction: Black towns in white space

This article interrogates the “anomalous” case of Black-founded towns, so-called because of their relative absence from discourse on Black place, their unique struggles for self-determined development, and their externally ascribed narratives of absent or dysfunctional governance, frequently invoked to explain their lack of access to basic infrastructure. We propose illuminating some of these so-called anomalies through Charles Mills’ “racial contract,” which we argue structures space at a deeper level than traditional legal arrangements and allows us to look relationally at Black towns in “white space.” We also rely on Cedric Robinson’s “racial capitalism” to demonstrate how white space develops through extraction of value from places racialized as nonwhite. Through the case of Tamina, Texas, we argue that Black towns specifically, and Black places more generally, experience racially predatory governance and resource extraction, often by nearby white places, under the guise of following mundane rules of legal jurisdiction, standard economic planning, and development. To illustrate this, we focus on three overlapping mechanisms of “creative extraction” that reinforce white spatial, political, and economic power at the expense of Black places: theft, erosion, and exclusion. These mechanisms are tied to the environmental harms inflicted on Black towns, as some of the existential threats they face