Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Today, we continued trying to locate living relatives of Thaddeus "Tad" R. Shideler. The Social Security Death Index indicated that a Tad Shideler had died in June 1966 in Winston-Salem in Forsyth county in North Carolina. The Social Security Death Index gave a slightly different birth date than the registrar's records, but we thought it was likely to be the same person.

We then searched the white pages of North Carolina online and located one person named Shideler in the state. We sent him an email with some of the information we had on Tad Shideler and asked him whether he was related to this athlete.

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We also received and worked on filling a request for some images by Will Counts. This request was a little unusual in that it included some images the requester already had which he or she thought might have been taken by Will Counts. Since the requester wasn't sure, they asked us whether we could determine whether or not they were Counts images.

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Another interesting request we dealt with was related to the renovation of the Forest Quad residence hall. The hall was originally built in 1966, and the university is hoping to have images of other significant events at the university during that year on the walls of the building. We looked through the 1966 and 1967 yearbooks and alumni magazines to find such events and milestones. Some of the things we suggested included other university buildings which were constructed and performers and politicians who visited campus during that year.