Wilson | Young Archives & Special Collections

Written by Christine Ameduri

During the summer of 2019, a handful of dedicated volunteers and interns accomplished the huge job of processing and cataloging the large backlog of collections and materials in McDonogh’s Archives & Special Collections. Returning intern Peyton Barranco ’17; 乔 Radek ’20, a new intern; and volunteers Butch Maisel ’75 and his wife, 珍妮特, logged more than 100 hours, processing over 30 cubic feet, (43 linear feet) of archival records, military artifacts, and school publications.

Working in a tight space and sharing computers, the crew worked diligently, toggling between a variety of different projects on any given day. 珍妮特 and Peyton spent the majority of their time pre-processing archival records by removing hundreds of rusty paper clips and staples from the material before rehousing it in acid-free folders and creating box listings. They also processed a number of official School publications, including the McDonogh校友, McDonogh杂志，和 McDonogh School Handbook, which were added to the publications previously processed, such as 遗留 年鉴.

乔, 即将升学的大四学生, spent the majority of his time processing McDonogh student club records also known as RG06.4 .学生社团 & 组织. Archival records are arranged into record groups (RGs), based on their office or department of origin. He 排序 through material from a whopping 119 different student organizations, arranged it in accordance with accepted archival standards and best practices, 创建了一个 寻找帮助. The records of one of these student organizations, The Allan Debating Society, were significant enough to be processed separately and warranted its own 寻找帮助, which 乔 also prepared. The Allan Debating Society, 成立于1878年, 是最老的, continually active student organization at McDonogh.

虽然乔, 珍妮特, and Peyton busily processed collections in the “front of the house,“布奇·麦瑟尔, a military historian and Director of Boys’ Latin School Center for Military History, got down to business processing the Archives’ extensive collection of McDonogh’s military insignia. Similar to the previous summer when he processed the Archives’ large collection of school military uniforms, Butch had to move to the “back of the house” or the 中学 band room to have enough space to sort, 重新安置, and catalog this collection.

Thanks to the hard work of the volunteers and interns, these collections are now fully 访问ible and ready for patrons to use for research and study. 

Just four of the more than 20 trays of McDonogh School military insignia now properly identified, 排序, and 重新安置d for easy storage, 访问, 和研究.