Platts CAS history

For Lindgren’s melding of historian and preservationist, see http://nypost.com/2014/04/19/why-nyc-must-save-the-south-street-seaport/. It was held at the museum’s historic Bowne Printing Shop, which, in 1975, was restored and reopened by Mayor Abe Beame in a live broadcast on NBC’s Today show.

1989February, 1989, Platt acquires Nova engineering, a manufacturer of small drawn metal shells located in Waterbury, CT.

1990March, 1990, Platt acquires Waterbury Eyelet Stamping, manufacturer of lamp parts and small metal shells.

1998November, 1998 Platt acquires Manhattan American, a manufacturer of terrazzo floor divider strops located in Staley, NC.

2010September, 2010, Platt acquires Newmark Medical Components, which specializes in parts used in medical applications.

Jim Lindgren’s most recent book, “Preserving South Street Seaport” (NYU Press) was launched on April 21, 2014, at a wine-and-cheese reception sponsored by NYU Press and the South Street Seaport Museum.

BLOOMINGTON, IN—During its annual meeting in St Louis, the Organization of American Historians (OAH) announced that James D. Rice, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, has been selected to receive the 2015 Germany Residency at the University of Tübingen.

Published in 2019 as part of the West Virginia University Press series Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, edited by James M. Lang, Geeky Pedagogy is an evidence-based, multidisciplinary, pragmatic guide to the process of learning and relearning how to be an effective college teacher.

Chris recently co-curated the exhibition The Great Wonder: Violet Oakley and the Gothic Revival at Vassar (February 7-June 13, 2021) at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.