Ruby L. Terry was a former engineer and marketing executive for Bell Laboratories and the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, later Ameritech/SBC, and currently AT&T. She was responsible for generating $300 million in annual revenues from the engineering of large communication systems for such corporations as East Ohio Gas, Cleveland Clinic, Timken Company, and Goodyear Tire and Rubber. She also was assigned by her division engineer to design the first cable television system for cities in the northern and southern Ohio Bell service area. As an engineer in the late 1960s and early 1970s, she had to overcome many obstacles as both an African-American and as a woman.This oral history was conducted by Celeste Terry, daughter of Ruby Terry, at Western Reserve Historical Society on July 28, 2018.
This is a performance of La Piccola Italia Marcia, composed by Pietro Oddo, at The Feast of the Assumption in Cleveland's Little Italy on August 16, 2010, by the Italian Band of Cleveland. Oddo (1843-1916) served in a musical band regiment of the Italian military before arriving in Cleveland in 1901. He composed band music, including waltzes and marches, many of which became standards for Italian and Italian American musical organizations. "La Piccola Italia Marcia" dates to the 1910s; its 2010 performance by the Italian Band of Cleveland was likely the first time it was performed in public in nearly a hundred years.
Ruby L. Terry was a former engineer and marketing executive for Bell Laboratories and the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, later Ameritech/SBC, and currently AT&T. She was responsible for generating $300 million in annual revenues from the engineering of large communication systems for such corporations as East Ohio Gas, Cleveland Clinic, Timken Company, and Goodyear Tire and Rubber. She also was assigned by her division engineer to design the first cable television system for cities in the northern and southern Ohio Bell service area. As an engineer in the late 1960s and early 1970s, she had to overcome many obstacles as both an African-American and as a woman. This oral history was conducted by Celeste Terry, daughter of Ruby Terry, at Western Reserve Historical Society on July 28, 2018.
16mm black and white silent film, undated, showing an unknown wedding, Wilkins School of Cosmetology graduation at Phillis Wheatley Building, and church service at St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church.
16mm black and white silent film, undated, showing unidentified male singing group at WHK radio station, followed by footage of people picnicking at a park.
Produced by Lou Rosenblum and Mort Epstein in 1969 as a project of the Cleveland Council on Soviet Anti-Semitism with the support of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland. This film, with comments by Dr. Abraham J. Heschel and narration by Dorothy Silver, deals with historic and present day problems of Jews in the Soviet Union. Rabbi Heschel, regarded as one of the most significant thinkers of our time, was Professor of Ethics at the Jewish Theological Seminary of American and author of nearly two dozen books. Interwoven throughout the film along with Dr. Heschel's expert observations are scenes utilizing rare photographic and art material. The Soviet Jewish family that was created for use in the film consisted of members of Beth Israel-The West Temple. Ed Alt played the father; Alice Marks played the mother; Miriam Rosenblum played the daughter; and Robert Hoffman played the son.