Gordon sent Patterson an enclosed information packet about the SROP program and application. On the routing slip, Gordon's note mentions "that we want especially to encourage young men to apply to SROP" and that funds can support the continuation of existing projects.
This letter appears to concern Southern's potential involvement with a research project of Patterson's regarding the history of NANM (National Association of Negro Musicians).
Riecker, president of the Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation, notifies Patterson of his successful application for $40,000 of grant funding for the School of Music Afro-American Music Collection Symposium, which was being planned for 1992.
Willis Patterson received a carbon copy of this letter, which is a response to Toppin's report on her SROP students and notification that she has accepted an appointment as an assistant professor at East Carolina University. A copy of Toppin's original note dated July 31, 1990 is enclosed.
Authorship inferred from other SROP materials in the folder. Perry's research proposal concerns a continuation of a radio series project she was writing and producing with Willis Patterson.
Two drafts of the outline for Jones' presentation are included, with varying degrees of handwritten annotations on both. Title ideas listed include: "The Art Music of Black Americans" and "The Present and Future Implications of Black Art Music."
This proposal is not signed or dated, but it describes Patterson's project, and the writing of a description of this publication project was elsewhere listed as an assignment for Alicia Hunter's 1987 SROP work.
The author of this proposal is not named on the document, nor is it dated, but the research it describes aligns with other documentation of Angela Jones' 1987 SROP work. The proposal concerns the collection, cataloguing, and performance of music of Black Americans dating from 1930–1985.
Lewis writes a positive report about the Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP), including the news that five student research contracts were awarded to School of Music faculty. Enclosed is a letter of appreciation from James S. Jackson.
The tentative schedule for Heth's visit, including class visits, meetings over meals with the U. of M. Native American Students Organization and the Music, Drama (sic) & Theatre Minority Students, concerts, and a public lecture.
A note from representatives of the Program for Educational Opportunity thanking Patterson for attending a luncheon with Reginald Wilson, Director of the Minority Concerns Office of the American Council on Education, and apologizing for a miscommunication about its location.
Patterson writes to Interim President Fleming, Vice-President Johnson, Associate Vice-President Swain, Provost Duderstady, Vice-Provost Moody, Dean Boylan, and Dean John D'Arms to report about the expenditures for the April 3, 1988 MLK Memoriam Concert, and to request that funds be made available for the concert to become an annual event. The budget sheet for the 1988 concert is enclosed.
This memorandum mostly concerns ways to use minority alums and state legislature requests to increase minority student recruitment and retention at the School of Music, or, "our efforts to locate quality black students who might be attracted to come here."
A note of thanks for a recent performance of Hailstork's piece "American Guernica" by Reynolds and his "outstanding ensemble" from the School of Music Band program. The letter appears to have been forwarded to Willis Patterson by Reynolds based on the handwritten note added at the bottom.
