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ODN Item of the Week: Dark Elegies

Founded in Akron in 1968, the Ohio Ballet began nationally touring in 1974 and continued to imbue both the city of Akron and the region with the magic of dance until 2006 when they closed. Heinz Poll and Tom Skelton formed the dance company from Poll’s students at the University of Akron, but it grew […]

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ODN Item of the Week: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity

Founded at Cornell University in 1906 with a Kent State University chapter taking shape in 1958, Alpha Phi Alpha is the first African American focused intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity. Its founders are known as the Seven Jewels, and its aims are “Manly Deeds, Scholarship, and Love For All Mankind”. The fraternity has been open to men of […]

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ODN Item of the Week: The Norwester

This week’s item is the February 1920 issue of the Norwester, a community magazine for the Upper Arlington, Grandview Heights, and Marble Cliff neighborhoods, just north and west of downtown Columbus. From the UA Archives site: “Read about Upper Arlington’s residents and daily life during our community’s founding. The Norwester magazine was published monthly from […]

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