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The Junior Girls' Play was an annual play written and performed by women in the junior class at the University of Michigan. The collection includes musical scores, programs, and scripts of the various plays.

The Junior Girls' Play collection includes musical scores, programs, scripts, and sound recordings of the various plays produced by the girls of the junior class at the University of Michigan. The collection has been organized into the following series: Musical Scores, Programs, Scripts, and Sound Recordings.

Publications of the Michigan Union includes miscellaneous annual reports, brochures, constitutions, directories, histories, manuals, newsletters, organizational charts, programs, regulations, reprints, schedules of the Michigan Union; as well as musical scores and programs from the Michigan Union Opera, Mimes, and Musket productions.

Publications of the Michigan Union includes miscellaneous annual reports, brochures, constitutions, directories, histories, manuals, newsletters, organizational charts, programs, regulations, reprints, schedules of the Michigan Union; as well as musical scores and programs from the Michigan Union Opera, Mimes, and Musket productions. The Publications series is divided into two subseries: Unit Publications and Sub-Unit Publications

Willis C. Patterson, the first African American professor at the University of Michigan's School of Music, was an active faculty member from 1968 to 1999. He was a professor of voice and associate dean for academic affairs. Patterson directed the Men's Glee Club from 1969 and 1975 and spent summers as a faculty member at the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan. While maintaining an active concert career and fulfilling teaching duties, Patterson organized a Black American Music Symposium and compiled several works on African American composers. Patterson played an active role in securing funding and mentorship for students of color and disadvantaged students both at Michigan and in the Ann Arbor community. The collection includes some biographical material, but focuses mainly on his professional career, musical career, and collection of works by African American composers. It includes correspondence, research, photographs, clippings, publications, and topical files.

The Willis C. Patterson papers include some biographical material, but focuses mainly on his professional career, musical career, and collection of works by African American composers. The collection includes correspondence, publications and research material, photographic material, posters, student records, clippings, and topical files.