welcome Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival participants and spectators!
Welcome Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival participants and spectators! Looking forward to a great week of musical celebration.
Here are more performers from the 1991 Festival: from the top Al Grey, Pete and Conte Candoli.
Performers from the 1991 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival
Jazz and Potatoes
Jay
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Just One More
Jazz has had a long history at the University of Idaho as next week we celebrate the 49th year of the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. Just a few years before the beginning of this epic event, the Student Union Ballroom, now the International Ballroom in the Bruce Pitman Center, was...
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King Spud
A 1960s basketball rivalry between the University of Idaho and Idaho State University sees the winning team of the annual series sporting a smiling, silver spud trophy, the “King Spud.”
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Happy Valentines Day and looking forward to the upcoming University of Idaho Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival
I Wish You Love by Caterina Valente and Stanley Black and His OrchestraHappy Valentines Day and looking forward to the upcoming University of Idaho Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, February 24 - 27 from UI Library Special Collections and International Jazz Collections!
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To the spud and beyond!
Historical Student Clubs
Active apparently only in 1975, the Idaho Star Trek Club had at least 13 members. With brief mentions of a possible local chapter of a fan club in the 1980s and 1990s, and online interest just recently, there might still be some Star Trek fans out there on the Palouse....
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So many clubs...
Historical Student Clubs
![Committee on Student Organizations [1]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/harvester/thumbs/studentorganizationscorrespondence_th.jpg)
Next week I will be wrapping up the #Student Clubs series, although today’s find did leave an opening for a continuance down the road.
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A Liberty Loving Society
Historical Student Clubs
The Websterian Society was a debate club open to any University of Idaho student in good standing. The society existed over 50 years, from just three years after the doors opened to the latest mention I could find was in 1949.
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