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Patricia Novak Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2010A005

Scope and Contents

Patricia J. Novak was the pianist for the EKU Women's Gymnastics team while she was a graduate student at Eastern. She played for the floor exercises during practices and meets. Ms. Novak also wrote most of the music she played and her compositions are part of the collection. She also served as the unofficial team photographer and the collection includes several hundred photographs that she took of the team during practice and competitions. This collection contains team scrapbooks, news clippings, scorecards and information about the disbanding of the program. Also included in the scrapbooks are some EKU theater programs as one of the gymnasts also performed in several plays.

Dates

  • Creation: 1977 - 1983
  • Acquisition: 09/17/2010

Creator

Full Extent

0.57 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Source of Acquisition

Novak, Patricia J.

Method of Acquisition

donation

Related Materials

The EKU Women's Gymnastics Records has additional materials about the program at Eastern.

Other Descriptive Information

Photographs were initially numbered with the accession number; however, a decision was made to change to collection number. The database was changed, but the numbers written on the images were not changed.

Title
Patricia Novak Papers
Status
Completed
Author
Cherrelle Harris and Jackie Couture
Date
12/2010
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
eng

Repository Details

Part of the Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives Repository

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