The Kent State Museum houses an impressive collection of historic fashion, costume, and other art collected and gifted by by partners of Jerry Silverman, Inc, Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman in 1982. Their generous gift included 5000 pieces of fashion accessories and decorative art as well as a 5,000 volume reference library. Since starting, the museum now has added over 20,000 objects to its collection.

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Kent State University Athletics

By Cara Gilgenbach & Theresa Walton, 2008. 128 pages, illus. index Arcadia Publishing The author's trace the history of sports at Kent during the school's first century of growth from its founding in 1910 as a teacher's training college into a major public university including a number of outstanding athletes, teams and coaches. Photos with captions.

Kent State University

In 1910 the State of Ohio was prepared to authorize the funds to create two new normal, or teacher-training, schools in Northern Ohio.