Business records, 1989, 2021, and undated

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Restrictions:: David B. Schock Business records are open for research.

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Summary

Creator:: Schock, David B.
Abstract:: The collection consists of Schock's recording business correspondence and the actual recordings, mostly of Mount Pleasant area businesses, organizations, people and schools.
Extent:: 9.5 cubic feet (in 14 boxes)
Language:: English
Authors:: Collection processed and finding aid created by Marian Matyn; E. Moran, Marian Matyn

Background

Scope and Content:

This collection consists of Schock’s recording business correspondence, documenting arrangements and ideas for recorded interviews, commercials, dance recitals, and musical recordings, mostly of Mount Pleasant people, businesses, schools, and organizations, and Central Michigan University faculty and students musical productions, 1991-1997, and undated. Included are paper business correspondence, notes, drafts of scripts, as well as informational materials about the businesses and organizations (1 cubic ft.), and the master and draft cassette recordings (in 6 cassette storage boxes). The Mary McGuire School cassettes document activities school teachers and students pursued after receiving a unique state grant. Hash marks in folder descriptions indicate illegible words written on the cassettes.

The David Schock 2021 addition, 1989, 2021, and undated, consists of various videos Schock contributed to with and without the help of Central Michigan University (CMU). Box 8 contains all health-related videos with majority focusing on HIV/AIDS awareness and a few focusing on various systems of the body. Box 9 includes education-related videos, such as a series titled Problem Solving Students, a series from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education videos, and other educational resources. Boxes 10 and 11 house videos filmed in collaboration with the Office of Highway Safety Planning (OHSP) that feature multiple public service announcements (PSAs) and Roll Call videos. Box 12 features raw footage of Schock’s documentary Road to Andersonville. Included with this are interviews for the documentary. Box 13 contains miscellaneous film that do not fit into a clear category. Some examples of this are VHS tapes about quail egg hatching, sculptures, and music.

Box 14 contains materials related to Justice Elizabeth Weaver. Schock helped write Justice Weaver’s book, a copy of which is separately cataloged in the Clarke. Also included are correspondence and interview release forms and Thelma South Schaibly’s 1994 publication of short stories to teach children morals and the meaning of life.

A few folder titles require further description, which we received from the Donor in April 2021. NGS is the abbreviation for the National Geographic Society. Schock created a video for them about geographic education with Mike Libbee of the CMU Geography Department. PDS is likely in collaboration with OHSP. The Hospice Experience documented hospice in Mount Pleasant. The Audition Crashes were stock footage of crashes for the OHSP projects, for example Life’s a Wreck, a film about physics concepts.

The addition is organized by topic, format, and chronological order.

Boxes 8-13 are each 1 cubic foot boxes and Box 14 is .5 cubic foot.

Researchers may also be interested in his personal papers collection, other recordings, and the papers of Elizabeth A. Weaver, which are separately housed and cataloged in the Clarke.

Copyright Note: Copyright is complicated for this collection. CMU holds the copyright for materials used in programs for the CMU Education Materials Center, including interviews from the early 1990s with young people infected with AIDS. The copyright for the Interfaith Ministries immigrant labor tapes, used for final appeals, is held by the Interfaith Ministries, Schock holds the copyright for the Road to Andersonville documentary material, regarding ceremonies held for Michigan Native Americans buried at Andersonville Prison in Andersonville, Georgia.

Permission/Release forms: The only interview permission/release form in the collection is for an interview with one of Elizabeth A. Weaver’s relatives (see Box 14).

Biographical / Historical:

Biography:

David B. Schock, Ph. D., earned a B.A. from Albion College (1971), a M.A. in journalism from Central Michigan University (CMU) (1973), and a Ph.D. in creative writing and literary criticism from International College (1984). He worked as a producer for WCMU-FM in 1973, and as managing editor of the Chippewa Hills Courier (Barryton, Michigan), 1974-1976; the Buyer’s Guide (Mount Pleasant, Michigan), 1981-1983, and the Morning Sun, also of Mount Pleasant, 1981-1983. Shock also worked as a feature reporter for WLNS-TV, Channel 6, Lansing. He taught in CMU’s Journalism Department, 1984, and the School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts, 1985-1991. Also while at CMU, he wrote newsletters for Media Relations, later UComm, 1983-1985, and served as editor of Centralight, 1983-1985. Also, Shock worked as executive producer and host of “Central Stage”, a weekly show featuring performances by CMU music faculty, which was broadcast on CMU Public Radio. From 1977-1978 and 1982-1986, he worked as an assistant editor of the University Bookman, a scholarly quarterly edited by Dr. Russell Kirk. Schock also co-owned a recording business, Michigan Historic Video Alliance in 1990 with William H. Mulligan and Kenneth A. Martineh, and owned Pen Ultimate, Ltd., 1991-1997, by himself. Both businesses were based in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. In 2010, in conjunction with Ron Primeau, professor in CMU’s English Department, Schock wrote, edited, directed, and served as producer of photography for a documentary on Herbert Woodward Martin called Jump back, honey: the poetry and performance of Herbert Woodward Martin. He plays the trumpet with a Mount Pleasant musical ensemble which has recorded music for public sale. In 2010 Schock lived in Grand Haven, Michigan, and was active in Mount Pleasant.

David B. Schock was married to Barbara Jo Stephenson (1950-1991). She was a writer and poet who taught in CMU’s Journalism Department, 1973, 1979-1983, and worked in the university’s Media Relations Office, 1976-1991. Her papers, focused on her research of Gerald Heard, a British philosopher of conservative thought, are available at the Clarke. For additional information about Jo Stephenson and her papers, please see the finding aid for her papers.

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