MAY 4 COLLECTION -- Box 71
Prepared by Kate Amer, May 5, 1991
1 manuscript box, legal size, .5 cubic ft., 11th floor
Art Kieffer donated his materials to the Kent State University Archives on 22 May 1990 (U90/42).
Mr. Kieffer received his Bachelor of Science and his Master of Arts degrees from Ohio University in 1985 and 1987 respectively. He then moved to Kent State University to pursue his PhD in Geography. As a teaching fellow in Geography, he received the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award from the Graduate Student Senate in 1990. On the twentieth anniversary of the Kent State shootings, a memorial service was held to commemorate the occasion. Mr. Keiffer offered one extra credit point to his students if they would attend the memorial service and write a brief report on their experience. This collection contains 87 responses from that class. The collection also contains a brief explanation of the assignment by Mr. Kieffer and a poem written by him at the memorial service.
Mr. Kieffer felt that "It is important to make students aware of their place in time and space" and so he encouraged his students to attend the ceremony and to give some thought about the experience and not just report on the events. Mr. Kieffer firmly believes in "the hands on experience" method of teaching. It is Mr. Kieffer's hope that the students will become "more aware of an issue they will have to deal with as Kent State Alumni."
There are 88 folders in the collection. Folder 1 contains the letter of introduction from Mr. Kieffer and a signed copy of the poem he composed at the ceremony. The student responses are arranged alphabetically in folders 2 through 88.
This collection will be of value to researchers examining student responses to the Kent State shootings from a perspective far removed from the actual event. Most of these students were not even born at the time of the shootings.
Mr. Kieffer has donated to the Kent State University Archives his property and literary rights to this collection.
1 -- Correspondence, Kieffer to Nancy Birk, Kent State Archives, explaining the class project; and poem written by Kieffer at memorial: 4 May 1990
2 -- Student report: Accord, Marcus
3 -- Student report: Addessi, Michael
4 -- Student report: Aladin, Ayati
5 -- Student report: Allen, Tammi
6 -- Student report: Ashby, Pat
7 -- Student report: Ashin, Brian
8 -- Student report: Beckler, Steve
9 -- Student report: Beraducci, Matt
10 -- Student report: Beyer, Brenda
11 -- Student report: Beckel, Kimberly
12 -- Student report: Boggs, John
13 -- Student report: Bomgardner, Jeffrey
14 -- Student report: Briggs, Richard
15 -- Student report: Brown, Ron
16 -- Student report: Brown, Ronald E.
17 -- Student report: Bunett, Mark
18 -- Student report: Cheels, Adam
19 -- Student report: Clement, Chad
20 -- Student report: Culver, Andrea
21 -- Student report: Danna, Bob
22 -- Student report: Dannles, Debbi
23 -- Student report: Davis, Mike
24 -- Student report: Dawnard, Trey
25 -- Student report: Dearth, Wes
26 -- Student report: Dejacimo
27 -- Student report: Dies, Judy
28 -- Student report: Dieter, Steven
29 -- Student report: Drouhard, Rebecca
30 -- Student report: Droufan, Grey
31 -- Student report: Fiaeko, Kelly
32 -- Student report: Finley, Jenny
33 -- Student report: Garcha, Omar
34 -- Student report: Gleske, Steve
35 -- Student report: Graham, Elaine
36 -- Student report: Greenawalt, Ross
37 -- Student report: Hahn, Tami
38 -- Student report: Hawk, Dan
39 -- Student report: Hendrix, Brad
40 -- Student report: Hon, David
41 -- Student report: Hopton, Alice
42 -- Student report: Jorgenson, Jeff
43 -- Student report: Knally, Scott
44 -- Student report: Lans, Susan
45 -- Student report: Linkoski, Scott
46 -- Student report: Maslanka, Sandra
47 -- Student report: McGinty, Rege
48 -- Student report: McMillen, Heather
49 -- Student report: Metyk, Robert
50 -- Student report: Njorage, Jorge
51 -- Student report: Papiska, Matt
52 -- Student report: Paskal, Stephanie
53 -- Student report: Philips, Patricia
54 -- Student report: Phipps, Randy
55 -- Student report: Pivetz, Chuck
56 -- Student report: Potoczak, Lori
57 -- Student report: Pugh, Tonya
58 -- Student report: Quade, Arthur
59 -- Student report: Rambler, Chris
60 -- Student report: Reich, David
61 -- Student report: Reiser, Eric
62 -- Student report: Rennes, Brady
63 -- Student report: Rinter, Cynthia
64 -- Student report: Robinson, Corey
65 -- Student report: Ryan, Colleen
66 -- Student report: Schantz, Ann
67 -- Student report: Schiberg, Dianne
68 -- Student report: Schneikert, Jane
69 -- Student report: Sersain, David
70 -- Student report: Shryock, Gary
71 -- Student report: Speicher, Steve
72 -- Student report: Stack, Russell
73 -- Student report: Steffy, Eric
74 -- Student report: Stironek, Laura
75 -- Student report: Swally
76 -- Student report: Swift, Shaunna
77 -- Student report: Toplovitch, Kari
78 -- Student report: Tsia I Lo
79 -- Student report: Wallace, Danielle
80 -- Student report: Walters, Mary Jo
81 -- Student report: Walton, Harold
82 -- Student report: Ward, Amy
83 -- Student report: Weiss, Beth
84 -- Student report: Wills, Michelle
85 -- Student report: Wilson, Richard
86 -- Student report: Wright, Gloria
87 -- Student report: Zampino, Deana
88 -- Student report: Zawrotuk, Rich