Dates

• Majority of material found within 1800 - 2015

Extent

3 boxes Linear Feet (A native of Clymer, Pennsylvania, John Busovicki was a professor in the Mathematics Department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) from 1969 to 2000. He has served in numerous civic organizations including the Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana County, the Indiana County Sports Hall of Fame, and the Indiana Coin Club. Above all else, he is an avid collector of regional history including postcards, photographs, books, and memorabilia from Clymer and Indiana County. He became known as the Indiana County historian after writing Indiana County (2003), part of the postcard history series published by Arcadia Publishing. John Busovicki was born in Clymer, Pennsylvania in Indiana County on December 10, 1939, and his parents were John F. Busovicki, Sr. (1908-1965) and Blanche Cernik Busovicki (1911-1982). He graduated from Clymer High School in 1957, and then he went to work for the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company in Ohio. He worked in the Rod and Wire Division making roof bolts for coal mines until 1961. He returned to Clymer and started to attend Indiana State College (ISC, later IUP). While commuting to college in Indiana, he worked the night shift for Magas Welding in Clymer as a mechanic. In 1962, he married Rose Ann Felichko, a 1959 graduate of Clymer High School. They have four children and live in Clymer. In 1965, John Busovicki graduated from ISC with a BSED, specializing in Secondary Mathematics. In 1965, he began teaching mathematics for the United School District in Armaugh, Pennsylvania. He taught Geometry, Trigonometry, and Advanced Mathematics, along with being the high school yearbook advisor for three years. In 1968, he was awarded a National Science Foundation Academic Year Institute grant from the University of Notre Dame, where he earned his MS in Mathematics in 1969. IUP appointed John Busovicki as a mathematics professor in 1969. After 31 years of teaching at IUP, he retired in 2000. The John Busovicki Collection includes an oral history interview, and archival materials including information related to the history of Clymer, Pennsylvania, and the history of coal mining in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Most of the collection has specific information about the employees from the Clearfield Bituminous Coal (CBC) Corporation, and Clymer Mine 1 and 2 from 1938 to 1956. There are also scanned photographs and newspaper articles about the Clymer Mine Disaster at Clymer Mine 1 in Sample Run on August 26, 1926. For more information about Clymer, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, there are several articles written by Eileen Mountjoy: Unveiling a marker recalls event that killed 44 at Clymer No. 1 (Clymer Mine Disaster – August 26, 1926); and Clymer Looking Back. For more information about the Clearfield Bituminous Coal (CBC) Corporation, go to Penn State University Libraries Collection 1493. CBC was first chartered as Clearfield Bituminous Coal Company in 1882 and it operated in central/western Pennsylvania until the 1950s. CBC moved their base of operations from Clearfield County to Indiana County in 1920. In 1942, the New York Central Railroad Company acquired the CBC mines and coal processing plants. About 132,000 tons of coal were mined by CBC in 1950, but that figure dropped to 67,000 tons in 1951. )

Language of Materials

English