PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
October 9, 2003
University of Maryland Archivist
Inducted into University’s M Club
Anne Turkos, University Archivist and Associate Curator of Archives & Manuscripts at the University of Maryland, College Park, was inducted into the University of Maryland’s M Club as an honorary member on Friday, October 3 at the group’s annual dinner.
The M Club, composed of all athletic letterwinners at the university, is one of the oldest such organizations in the United States, having been founded in 1923. The M Club, whose motto is “Athletes Helping Athletes,” primarily raises money for scholarships and awards for student-athletes and for the modernization and expansion of athletic facilities on campus. The club also provides networking opportunities and organizes social and academic gatherings to bring together current and former UM athletes.
Turkos, a long-time active advocate for preserving and publicizing the University of Maryland’s athletic heritage, was inducted for fostering the strong linkage between the University Archives and sports throughout the history of the campus. The Archives contain a vast quantity of materials relating to athletics, including photographs and slides; media guides; game day programs; newsclippings; audio and videotape; film; game statistics; press releases; correspondence; minutes of the Athletic Council; ceremonial footballs; examples of uniforms over the years; and many other sports-related memorabilia items.
The club hosts an annual dinner at which it recognizes new inductees into the Athletic Hall of Fame, the winner of the Distinguished Citizen of the Year Award, and new honorary members of the M Club. New Hall of Fame members this year were Chris Stauffer (track), Tom Young (basketball), Rosalind Taylor Sheppard (track), Ray Altman (lacrosse), Chris Weller (basketball), and Norman “Boomer” Esiason (football)..
Before coming to the University of Maryland in 1985, Turkos spent four years as a field archivist at the Baltimore City Archives and Records Center (BCARC). Her primary responsibilities at the BCARC included identifying permanent records to be transferred to the center and creating records retention schedules for all the materials she surveyed in administrative offices throughout Baltimore City.
Turkos received a B.A. in English from Dickinson College
in 1977 and completed her graduate studies at Case Western Reserve University,
receiving master’s degrees in history and library science in 1980.
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