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Scope and Contents The Human Affairs Program applied for and received a $20,000 from O.E.O via the Cortland County Community Action program for the year January 1975 to January 1976. The grant was officially entitled the “Energy Crisis Education and Development Project.” As part of this project, the HAP staff, Jim Schmidt, Jinx Dowd and Dan Leahy, conducted energy education workshops in multiple counties throughout New York State. |Contains workshop planning questionnaires, workshop agendas multiple guides and...

Scope and Contents Includes Dan's notes on a discussion with staff member Lin Farley to create a “Women's History Film” that would explore the rich history of the region and emphasize the role of “ordinary women” in making history; notes on possible source materials, funding sources, staffing, time table, etc. December 1974: five page memo to new hires, memos about how to set up a separate tax exempt institute. June, 1975: formation letter of Working Women United and Working Women United Institute in response...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection:

Collection contains organization files, correspondence, and the files of Daniel Leahy and Virginia Jinx Dowd.

Scope and Contents In the fall of 1974, the HAP program's Jim Schmidt began organizing a conference to bring together groups concerned with utilities, energy and the environment.|November 8-9, 1974 in Ithaca, New York: conference agenda, list of participants, research on public versus private power companies, HAP brochure “Break Through the Blackboard", planning questionnaires, speech outlines, press releases. Out of this conference came the PPC with the HAP staff acting in support. Steering Committee meeting...

Scope and Contents Formed in January, 1976, in response to Cornell's termination of the HAP program as of June, 1976. The UCRI was intended to continue the support work for the Peoples Power Coalition, the Labor Action Coalition and the various municipal power campaigns stimulated by the April, 1976, “Municipal Power for New York State” conference organized by UCRI's Jim Schmidt, Jinx Dowd and Dan Leahy. |Contains all the organizational development documents through February, 1977, and extensive research on...

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Jinx Dowd of UCRI led the organization of a Civil Disobedience training and a “Power Line Strategy Weekend” February 4-6, 1977 in Holland Patent, New York. This folder contains planning documents for the weekend, a press history compiled by Jinx Dowd (October 12, 1975 to January 2, 1977), background on PASNY's proposed 765 KV power line from Quebec to New York City, conference registration lists, organizational statements in relationship to the power line.

Scope and Contents In January 1976, six months before HAP was to be terminated, Dan Leahy and Jinx Dowd proposed this Institute (CRTI) to fulfill the University's obligation for public service and its mandate as a land grant college under the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1865.| This folder contains Leahy and Dowd's effort to secure endorsements from community and labor organizations, New York State Assembly members and State Senators, from the Board of Regents, Board of Trustees, etc. Also contains proposals,...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection:

Collection contains organization files, correspondence, and the files of Daniel Leahy and Virginia Jinx Dowd.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection:

Collection contains organization files, correspondence, and the files of Daniel Leahy and Virginia Jinx Dowd.