James Farmer’s Former Students
Oct 31st, 2007 by dengel
For this project, I’m collaborating with Chris as we contact Farmer’s former students. We’ve typed some of his students’ names, year of college in which they were when enrolled in his class, and whether it was the Fall or Spring semester of each particular year. We emailed Cynthia Snyder, Director of Alumni Relations at UMW, and she has agreed to provide us with the name of five to ten email addresses and/or contacts of people from the list each week. With this information, we will hopefully we able to contact many of Farmer’s former students and get feedback on how his lectures effected them while at Mary Washington College and beyond.
2 Responses to “James Farmer’s Former Students”
This sounds like a very difficult, but interesting project so far. I don’t know if you’ve already thought about this, but I think it would be a good idea to ask James Farmer’s former students about what else we should research and put on the site. Good luck with your project.
I like the idea of the project but I think that in this description you should talk about what you are actually trying to do with this information. I know that you are trying to get feedback from the students about the lectures but maybe you can also use these sources to find out other things about James Farmer like if he had an impact on any of the students outside of the class, and maybe if any of the students came to him with advice, with problems, or even just to discuss modern topics at the time with him. All of this information and asking questions like this can get you a lot of feedback about what Farmer was like in the class room.