Writing and Rhetoric 200

 

Dear Class,

 

Click in Sidebar in the box to the right.  There you can choose a catagory to which you can add information.  Just click on "Edit Page".

If you add some of the information you are putting in your notebook, the whole class and share what you've researched. 

 

--Linda and Spike (the Vampire) in Archives.

 

 

Finding Aid: Tommy the Traveler

 

 

Scope and Content

 

            Tommy Tongyai, better known as Tommy the Traveler, came to Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1969 as a traveling salesman.  He later proposed radical political action by the students against the local police.  He was arrested for inciting violence among the college students who wanted a peaceful movement.

            The contents include numerous newspaper accounts of the happenings while they were unfolding and after the fact as students were arrested and questioned following the encounters with the local police.  A film on Tommy the Traveler made soon after everything had happened records the happenings from the students involved.

 

 

 

Manuscript Collection

 

 

 

 

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Mss file

92 T61 n

Tommy the Traveler stirs tempest on College Campus.  Two articles from the Geneva Times about Tommy the Traveler.  (Detached from the National Observer July 13^th, 1970)

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Mss file

92 T61 s

Envelopes 1-4

Newspaper articles from Geneva Times & NY Times, related to Tommy the Traveler and R.O.T.C. from 1970-1975.  News on drug raids, student confrontation with police, student protests and fire-bombing of the R.O.T.C in Sherrill Hall.

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Mss file

92 T61 s

Envelopes a through f

Newspaper articles related to Tommy the Traveler and R.O.T.C from 1970-1975. [missing]

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Mss File

92T61 t

Police: tales of three cities: New York: Tommy the Traveler.  Detached from Time June 22, 1970)

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Mss file

92 T61 t a through f

Articles used in Randi Davenport’s class about Tommy the Traveler and student unrest in the 1970s.  List in book of lists and with articles in Envelope a.

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Mss file 378.70-71

13

See also oversize box #6

File related to indictment and trial of Thomas Tongyai, alias Tommy the Traveler etc.  Includes accounts of confrontation, security logs, correspondence and special Herald edition.  See also Herald, 5 March 1971.

 

 

 

Manuscript Collection [oversize]

 

 

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Mss File

92T61

Rosenbaum, Ron.  Run, Tommy, Run!  Many had him for a friend and he had them. P51-58, 136-139, 142-143.  (In Esquire July 1971)

 

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Mss file

 

92T61 c

 

Donner, Frank J.  The agent and provocateur as folk hero an article about Tommy the Traveler and HWS happenings in American Civil Liberties Union paper (In Civil Liberties Sept. 1971)

 

 

 

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Q

92 T61 r

Oversize box #8

Materials related to Tommy the Traveler, and R.O.T.C., mainly faculty files.  Regarding the removal of the ROTC from campus, the votes, discussion and arguments against it.

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Mss File 378.70 [MISSING]

6, 6

Hobart College.  Narcotics Raid.  Newspaper clipping about the raid and Tommy the Traveler.

 

Faculty Collection

 

 

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Fac file

 

Lydenberg [MISSING]

 

Lydenberg, John.  One college, the town and a catalytic agent [1971].  28 L (Unpublished article)

 

AV Collection

 

 

 

 

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Slide file 1

1970.7.13

1, 2

Slides from The National Observer, July 13, 1970, pgs 1 & 13.  About Tommy the Traveler in Geneva, NY.  Originals in Oversize Box #6.

 

 

 

Video CASS 12 & c. 2

Members of the class of 1970 and professor Joseph DiGangi conduct a panel discussion on Thomas Tongyai, police infiltration of campus activities, and the student demonstrations of the late 1960’s.

 

 

 

Geneva Videocassette CASS & c.2

            Weiss, Marc N.  Tommy the Traveler: The Revolutionary Was a Cop

 

 

 

Geneva Motion Picture 1

Weiss, Marc N.  Tommy the Traveler: The Revolutionary Was a Cop