Scope and Contents This collection is comprised of material related to the career of George L. Geckle, a professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Geckle was instrumental in organizing the highly successful Spring WritersSeries at USC, in which participated well-regarded and popular authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, Nora Ephron, and John Gardner. Material related to the Spring Writers Series is included in this collection, as well as correspondence, material regarding James Dickey, and the Telly...

Scope and Contents This collection contains manuscripts of Oakman’s innovative research as part of his dissertation and the creation of the Computer Science department at the University of South Carolina as well as manuscripts of Oakman’s books and computer programs, documents related to his frequent participation in international and national conferences, grant administration and teaching. Of particular interest are the various computer storage media within the collection. Beginning with early computing on...