SSU Alumnus. Former sound technician and coordinator of The Bean, a coffee house for SSU students, founded in 1974 as Rudolph's Bean. Publisher of a "Springfield Coops and Community News." Helped organize Creative Music Inc. in 1979, which sponsored jazz concerts.

Includes by-laws, minutes, newsletters, correspondence, and financial records for The Bean coffee house, 1974-1978, documenting its organization, activities, publicity and finances; SSU class material, 1974-1978, particularly concerning the Twentieth Century Homesteading Institute; incorporation certificate, correspondence, issues and financial records of "Springfield Coops and Community News," and newsletters and records of Springfield cooperatives such as the King Harvest Food Cooperative and Spoon River Cooperative, 1974-1976

Also publicity material, financial and organizational records of Creative Music, Inc., 1977-1980, regarding its sponsorship of jazz and other concerts. 80 reel-to-reel audio tapes, 1977-1981, of local blues, jazz and folk music events sponsored by Rudolph's Bean, the SSU Student Activities Committee, Creative Music, Inc. and Crow's Mill School. Musicians include Finnegan's Wake, Jim Brewer, Eddie Jefferson, Miss Jessie, Utah Phillips, Jean Redpath, and Sam Rivers. Includes copies of the locally-produced Buhoon Brothers comedy show featuring Koplo, Michael Sakolsky, Stu Kainante, Neil Shargel, Doug Kamholz and David Lasley.

Also correspondence, memoranda, newsletters and other material related to Koplo's student activities at SSU, 1973-78, relating to the Student Union and Student Senate, and the "Mini-Revolution" of 1975, regarding President Robert Spencer, John Keiser and the retention of Ron Ettinger on the faculty.