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Carlson Exhibit 4

Researcher’s Habits 5

Gilbert & Sullivan Exhibit 7

A year before Edward P. Jones won the2004 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The KnownWorld, with great prescience, the RiverCampus Libraries booked him as the NeillySeries presenter for Meliora Weekend. Somecredit must be given to NPR; it is from lis-tening to author interviews on MorningEdition that several Neilly Series speakershave come to Rochester, Jones being the lat-est.

A novel setin the antebel-lum South andfocusing on ablack slaveowner and hiscommunity,The KnownWorld has beenpraised for its“moral vision,which locatesthe strugglebetween goodand evil not in the vicissitudes of the dia-bolical slaveholding system of the AmericanSouth, but inside the consciousness of eachperson, black or white, slave or free, whoattempts to flourish within that soul-dead-ening system.” Jeffrey Lent, author of In theFall, wrote that Jones’ novel will transformand transport “to such a degree that when

you finally step out of The Known World,you’re shaken and turned around, neveragain to be the same. This novel is what lit-erature should be.” It is indeed an honorfor the River Campus Libraries to hostEdward Jones. The presentation is sched-uled for 5 p.m. in Hubbell Auditorium onOctober 8.

It is not unusual for rare book librariansto be asked: “What do you do with all thatold (unspoken—dusty) material?” OnOctober 9, in a lecture titled “Bring OutYour Dead: Rare Books, Collectors, andResearch,” Pablo Alvarez, curator of rarebooks, will illustrate how rare books open aunique window to the past and providevaluable material for research for studentsand professors. Alvarez will explain how, forcenturies, book collectors have played adecisive role inthe preserva-tion of our cul-tural heritageand how hold-ings in theDepartment ofRare Booksand SpecialCollections areliving evidenceof their dedica-tion. The lec-ture will in thePlutzik Library, Department of Rare Booksand Special Collections, Rush Rhees Library(2nd floor) at 11 a.m.

In a twist that brings “that old material”into the 21st century, Professor of EnglishMorris Eaves will discuss “William Blakeand the Digital Age.” Eaves is co-editor ofan innovative web site, The William BlakeArchive (www.blakearchive.org), which con-tains images and texts of the 18th-centuryBritish poet and artist. The site’s creatorsused new programming systems integratingcatalogs, databases, and scholarly tools thatcan be searched by image or text. Eaves will

demonstratesome of thesite’s key fea-tures and dis-cuss the rea-sons for theArchive, high-lights of its his-tory, and theimplications forthe future oflibraries in thedigital age. TheWilliam BlakeArchive is the first electronic publication tobe awarded the Modern LanguageAssociation Prize for a DistinguishedScholarly Edition. You can hear ProfessorEaves on October 9 in the Plutzik Library,Department of Rare Books and SpecialCollections, Rush Rhees Library (2nd floor)at 1 p.m.

If something more physically taxing isappealing, a unique tour will allow you todiscover highlights of the River CampusLibraries. This year’s theme is “Sex,Religion, Politics, and a Tower.” Specialexhibits will showcase weekend speakersand other library collections, and you canbrowse the Robbins collection for books onmedieval sexuality and the role of women inthe Middle Ages and Arthurian literature.Early Bibles and critical scholarship aboutthe Bible will be on view in Rare Books andSpecial Collections. Baby-boomers or politi-cal enthusiasts might also enjoy seeing theNixon-Kennedy debates in the MultimediaCenter. Do it all and you can view the spec-tacular Rochester autumn from Rush Rheestower (after a brisk walk up a couple offlights of stairs). Tours are being held onFriday, October 8 from 2–4 p.m. andSaturday, October 9 from noon–4 p.m.

As usual, Rush Rhees is replete withexhibits. For the full listing, see theCalendar of Events on page 8.

Edward P. Jones

Pablo Alvarez

Morris Eaves

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The River Campus Libraries will host the4th annual Neilly Series lectures beginningon September 23. As has become a pattern,a ripple of excitement threads its waythrough conversation when the new Neillyroster is announced. This year’s roster willnot leave the audience disappointed; itshould be eclectic enough for even the mostseasoned attendees. Certainly, the breadthof topics is broader, featuring a PulitzerPrize winner, a media personality, two jour-nalists, a semanticist, a mountain climber,an interesting bureaucrat, and a mechanicalengineer with pizzazz.

Members of the University and theRochester communities are sure to be inter-ested in the first presenter of the season,journalist and author David Owen. Owenwill discuss his new book Copies in Seconds:How a Lone Inventor and an UnknownCompany Created the Biggest CommunicationBreakthrough Since Guttenberg—ChesterCarlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine.

Owen tells ofCarlson’s deter-mination andperseverance ashe workedtoward perfect-ing his inven-tion that wouldrevolutionizehow officework and otherfunctions thatrequire papercopies would

be performed. Owen will be introduced byCatherine B. Carlson, chair of the Chesterand Dorris Carlson Charitable Trust.

On October 8, the Library will host thisyear’s winner of the National Book CriticsCircle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. EdwardP. Jones whose recently published novel,The Known World, recreates a little-knownsubculture within the antebellum South, a world where free black people are them-selves slave owners. Though The KnownWorld is his first novel, his short stories have appeared in Essence, The Paris Review,Ploughshares, and Callaloo. His first collec-tion of stories, Lost in the City (1992), wonthe PEN/Hemingway Award. Rochester CityCouncilmember-at-large Wade Norwood ’85will introduce Jones.

If you listen to NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’tTell Me! you are already familiar with the

Library’s Neilly Series Strikes GoldNovember 11featured speak-er. Roy BlountJr., prides him-self on the factthat he hasdone morethings formoney thanany otherhumorist-novelist-jour-nalist-dramatist-

lyricist-lecturer-reviewer-performer-versifier-cruciverbalist-sportswriter-screenwriter-anthologist-columnist-philologist of sortsthan he can think of offhand. His essays,articles, stories, verses and drawings haveappeared in 160 different periodicalsincluding The New Yorker and in 160 books,including The Best of Modern Humor and The Norton Book of Light Verse. No strangerto politics, Blount covered the l992Democratic and Republican conventionsand Presidential election night, commentinglive from a Barcalounger on ComedyCentral. Myra Gelband ’71, former senioreditor at Sports Illustrated, will introduceBlount.

January (27) seemed an appropriatemonth to have Stewart Weaver, Professorof British History, present “Because It WasThere: Mallory, Everest, and the 1920s.”Weaver, who has a book forthcoming on thehistory of Himalayan exploration andmountaineering, will focus on the enduring-

ly fascinatingand complexfigure ofGeorge LeighMallory. Hewill describethe place of theHimalayas inthe Britishimaginationand show pho-tographs andillustrationsfrom the 1920s

and his own recent travels in India andNepal. Weaver will be introduced byErnestine McHugh, Associate Professor ofAnthropology and Religion and author ofLove and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming toKnow Another Culture.

Rochester native Katherine Ashenburg,

author of The Mourner’s Dance: What We DoWhen People Die, will present on February24. Ashenburg has had an varied careerteaching at the University of BritishColumbia and at Katholieke Universiteit inThe Netherlands. She was a producer forCBC Radio and worked as the Arts andBooks Editor for The Globe and Mail. She isoften pub-lished in theSunday travelsection of TheNew York Timesand writes acolumn forToronto LifeMagazine.Ashenburg willexplore the cer-emonies ofmodernmourning inNorth America, which favor mourning thatis private and almost invisible. She will dis-cuss how grieving customs are integratedinto daily life and the value of ritual inrestoring selves and communities struck byloss. Bonnie Rubenstein, Associate Professorof Counseling and Human Developmentand a contributor to Prayers of Memory: AJournal About Grief and Loss, will make theintroduction.

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David Owen

Roy Blount, Jr.

Stewart Weaver

Katherine Ashenburg

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Kim J. Vicente’s latest book, The HumanFactor: Revolutionizing the Way People Livewith Technology (2003), explores how the

widening gapbetween peo-ple and tech-nology can bebridged. OnMarch 15,Vicente willdiscuss hisbook and someof his otherareas ofresearch. Hispresent inter-ests center on

the process of design; skill acquisition andexpertise; and methods for analyzing com-plex work systems in the development ofeffective computer-based tools. As foundingdirector of the Cognitive EngineeringLaboratory at the University of Toronto, healso researches human performance model-ing, and human factors in medicine, espe-cially anesthesiology. He is currentlyProfessor of Mechanical & IndustrialEngineering, Biomaterials & BiomedicalEngineering, Computer Science, andElectrical & Computer Engineering. Vicenteis one of two Canadians to serve on theCommittee for Human Factors of the USNational Research Council/NationalAcademy of Sciences. In 1999, he was cho-sen by TIME as one of 25 Canadians underthe age of 40 who is a “Leader for the 21stCentury who will shape Canada’s future.”Renato Perucchio, Associate Professor ofMechanical Engineering, who has similarinterests in the area of biomechanics, willintroduce Vicente.

On March 31, Paula Treichler, Professorin the College of Medicine and Gender &Women’s Studies at the University ofIllinois-Champaign,will present“Medicine,Culture andNarrativePower: AIDSon GeneralHospital.”Treichler willexplore com-munity andcultural

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September 23David Owen, Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an UnknownCompany Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Guttenberg—Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine. Hoyt Auditorium, 5 p.m.

October 8Edward P. Jones, The Known World. Hubbell Auditorium, 5 p.m.

November 11Roy Blount, Jr., journalist and media personality. Hoyt Auditorium, 5 p.m.

January 27Stewart Weaver, “Because It Was There: Mallory, Everest, and the 1920s.”Welles-Brown Room, 5 p.m.

February 24Katherine Ashenburg, The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die.Welles-Brown Room, 5 p.m.

March 15Kim J. Vicente, The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live withTechnology. Welles-Brown Room, 5 p.m.

March 31Paula Treichler, “Medicine, Culture and Narrative Power: AIDS on GeneralHospital.” Welles-Brown Room, 5 p.m.

April 21Charles “Chip” Groat, “US Geological Survey: 125 Years of Science forAmerica.” Welles-Brown Room, 5 p.m.

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responses to AIDS, including AIDS in Africa.Treichler is also Director of the Institute forCommunications Research and is associatedwith the Unit for Criticism and InterpretiveTheory. Her research includes AIDS; femi-nist theory and pedagogy; language andgender; language and medical discourse;medicine, the media, and communication;medical education; women in medicine;and women’s health. She received her PhDat Rochester in 1971 in Languages andLinguistics (psycholinguistics). Treichler willbe introduced by Nancy Chin, AssistantProfessor of Community and PreventiveMedicine.

The final Neilly Series speaker is Charles“Chip” Groat, Director of the US GeologicalSurvey, who will discuss “US GeologicalSurvey: 125 Years of Science for America”on April 21. Responding to our query aboutexactly what services the USGS performs,Groat will talk about how the USGS begansurveying the American west in the 1870s,but has evolved into a natural scienceagency involved in many societally relevantmatters about which the general public is

mostlyunaware. Theseinclude naturalhazards, waterresources,energy resourceassessments,biological sys-tems studies,and serving asthe nation’scivilian map-ping agency.For example, the USGS maintains nationaland global seismic networks that monitorearthquake activity and works with a varietyof agencies on earthquake preparedness.John Tarduno, Professor of Geophysics andChair of the Department of Earth andEnvironmental Sciences, will introduceGroat.

The Neilly Series is sponsored by theRiver Campus Libraries through the gen-erosity of the Andrew H. and Janet DaytonNeilly Endowment.

Kim Vicente

Paula Treichler

Chip Groat


Months in the planning, a permanentexhibit honoring Chester F. Carlson, inven-tor of xerography, will open September 23in the Carlson Science and EngineeringLibrary on the atrium level. Already in thelibrary’s possession is a copy of Carlson’sfirst copier (the original is in the Smithsonian)and many items from his laboratory. Photo-graphs of Chester F. Carlson through thevarious phases of his life, from youth tomiddle age, are being displayed.

Photographs in the exhibit are copies oforiginals that are part of a larger CarlsonArchive in the Department of Rare Books

Exhibit to Honor Carlsonand Special Collections. The images includefamily photographs as well as pictures fromCarlson’s professional life and his philan-thropic endeavors. The Department of RareBooks and Special Collections welcomedthe opportunity to have a role in the preser-vation of this remarkable visual biography ofone of the world’s great inventors. Carlson’simpact, along with that of Joseph C. Wilsonand Xerox, on the Rochester communitycannot be overstated. Neither can the revo-lution that the Xerox copier has had on theway in which business is done in virtuallyevery office in the world.

Ready For The Punch There are manyalumni whoremember withgreat fondnessDr. Robert F.Metzdorf.Metzdorf receivedhis Bachelor’sdegree fromRochester in1933 and wasthe first recipient

of a PhD in English from the University in1939. He was a founding member of theFriends of the Libraries and was the firstchair of the Trustees’ Library VisitingCommittee.

During the course of his career, heworked for the libraries at Rochester,Harvard, and Yale, and eventually became avice president and director at Parke-BernetGalleries in New York. From 1964 to 1975,he was a nationally recognized appraiser ofmanuscripts and books. At the time of hisdeath, family and friends established anendowed fund in his memory to supportthe purchase of 18th and 19th centuryEnglish and American books and manu-scripts for Rush Rhees Library.

In a 1947 interview with Campus, theinterviewer asked Metzdorf how he man-aged his time, noting that he participated innumerous campus and international organi-zations. He responded in his inimitable

fashion: “Half my time is spent in teachingfor the English Department, half for thework in the Treasure Room [the area whererare books were housed], and half as dormi-tory advisor!”

Though no literary significance is evident,Metzdorf’s recipe for Alumni Day Punchdoes include an interesting caveat for theunprepared: “Note: Have carriages ready forthe entire company: the recipe serves onedozen U. of R. alumni of the 1925-1935era.”

Alumni Day Punch24 oranges2 cups Curacao12 lemonsSugar to taste1/5 bottle of rumEqual amount of soda water1/5 bottle of whiskey1/5 bottle of brandy

In a large clean crock, squeeze orangesand lemons. Add the skins to the juice, andpour in brandy, whiskey, rum and Curacao.Cover with a cloth and let stand over night.Next day strain and let the strongest mantaste! It may need more brandy or rum.This is the base; add to it soda water in 50-50 proportion. Put in chilled punch bowl,pouring both ingredients over a large blockof ice. A gardenia may be frozen in the iceblock, but purists prefer a camellia.

Until Thomson West, a leading law publish-er, stepped in, the University Libraries had aproblem with the law—there was notenough of it. Though law texts existed inthe collections, what was lacking was adefinitive text that would allow studentsand faculty to reference important case law,gain a better understanding of the UnitedStates justice system, examine areas ofevolving law, and find citations for other pri-mary sources. What the Libraries were miss-ing was Corpus Juris Secundum, an encyclo-pedia that presents the most significantstatutory and case law in the US, publishedby Thomson West.

Thanks to the intervention of RobertHursh, Friends Executive Committee mem-ber and former Chair of West Publishing(Lawyers Cooperative Publishing), and JeanMaess, Vice President of Practice AreaMarketing and Development at ThomsonWest, the Libraries received a set of CorpusJuris Secundum, all 100 volumes, as a gift.This gift fills a void in the collections andprovides a critical resource for research. TheLibraries and the University community areextremely grateful to Thomson West for thisvaluable contribution.

Law-fullContribution

Robert Metzdorf

Chester F. Carlson with Dandy


The results from an unusual work-practicestudy of University of Rochester facultymembers show why not enough academicsare using DSpace, an open source electronicarchive of scholarship that was intended forpeople like themselves. “Faculty memberswant to do their work. They want to thinkabout it, read about it, write about it, get itout there,” said anthropologist Nancy FriedFoster. “If we can help them do that withdigital tools, most of them really don’t carehow those tools work.” Foster and a team oflibrarians, graphic designers, and computerscientists set out to learn how faculty in dif-ferent disciplines locate, store, and usearchives right now. She was keen to identifythe tools her subjects used, a hunt thattook her to the core of how anthropologistslearn about other cultures.

“Our approach was not to think we knewwhat the faculty needs,” Foster pointed out.“Our approach was to see what we couldlearn about faculty needs. That’s why it’suseful to have someone with my back-ground on this project.”

A $100,000 grant from the Institute ofMuseums and Library Services allowed theteam to evaluate how users can best accessDSpace and all of “grey literature,” the troveof e-theses, conference proceedings,datasets, audio files, technical reports, andother documents. Though DSpace or “digi-tal space” was launched worldwide in2002—with Rochester among the researchuniversities assisting in its development—ithas failed to attract the volume of docu-ments organizers know are out there.

Foster, digital initiatives manager DavidLindahl, and their team from the Universityof Rochester’s River Campus Libraries havedeveloped the prototype for an enhancedMy DSpace page that they believe willattract more faculty to DSpace. At a recentconference in Toronto, they previewed howfaculty members can use simple electronictools to personalize a Web page for theirown work.

“These professors are authors of academ-ic research—not librarians or programmersbuilding an institutional repository, which iswhat DSpace is meant to be,” said Foster.“In Rochester, as in other places, facultymembers were enormously uninterested inDSpace. It was meeting the goals of institu-tions, not users.”

Foster’s six months of interviews began

Habits of Researchers Revealingat the place where each of her 30 subjectsfrom the sciences, social sciences, andhumanities start their day. “This paper thatyou wrote, where did your central questioncome from?” she asked as she sat in theiroffices. “How did you start the paper?”

A survey of faculty couldn’t have pro-duced such in-depth results. “That’s whywork-practice studies will help us inventand build something,” Foster explained. “Itgave us a radical perspective that we could-n’t have gotten any other way.”

At the Participatory Design Conference2004 at the University of Toronto in lateJuly, Foster and Lindahl listed a number of

ways that Web-based services could supportthe work of scholars: “access to their ownwork from different computers; a truly safeplace for their data and documents; moreorder and less chaos in their personal cyber-space; easy online access to dissertations;the ability to share their own work inprogress; support for writing with otherauthors; and an easy way to share finishedwork.”

Foster’s firsthand accounts and video-tapes illustrated how professors search andsurvive in a digital world. “As we reviewedtapes, we found something to build on forour own library archives,” she said. Likeother users, professors are concerned andfrustrated when they lose documents, expe-

rience glitches when they share materials,and mix up documents when they look forthe latest edited version. When refined, MyDSpace will speak directly to faculty, intheir language, and to their preferences.(Any products or programs that the digitalinitiatives team at River Campus Librariesdevelops will be open source and free forthe taking, just like other code in DSpace.)

Her skill as an interviewer elicited impor-tant insights from her subjects. Fosterlearned of their intellectual passions forneutrinos, film, semantics, political partici-pation, and quantum computing. She alsoprovided them confidentiality, just as anyresearcher guarantees in a study. Duringeach interview, Foster had a list of fixedquestions and also allowed time for spon-taneity as she looked closely at the officeenvironment.

From the start, Foster structured herresearch as a very open inquiry that shecalled “extremely fine-grained, but notmeant to be comprehensive or statisticallysignificant.” Because her project crossed thedisciplines from visual and cultural studiesto political science and linguistics, she spot-ted significant differences in how facultymembers deal with Web-based informationand e-documents.

The ways of the academy are well-knownto Foster. She received a diploma in socialanthropology from Oxford University and adoctorate in applied anthropology fromColumbia University. As an applied anthro-pologist, she has conducted research onsocial identity among Guianan Amerindians,spending by Oxford undergraduates, atti-tudes toward schooling in the Tanga Islandsof Papua New Guinea, and numerous pro-jects on contemporary culture and organiza-tions in the United States. Her lifelonginterest in art—as a painter and a maker of constructions—was an asset for thevideotaping, still photography, and creativesessions among team members.

As for anecdotes from the study, there aredozens. One professor sends copies of hisdatabases to his sister in Cedar Rapids as abackup. Others worry about the mainte-nance of Web sites and their content whenfunding for a project expires.

Researchers are hard pressed to copewith all the paper in their offices, to saynothing of their digital clutter. Oneresearcher spent part of the interview

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Nancy Foster


On The Road AgainPortsmouth, New Hampshire in the springis lovely—warm enough to enjoy oceanbreezes but still in a quiet lull before thetourist season begins. BookMark’s editorwent there to pick up a very special giftthat required a rather large vehicle for itstransport. The gift, given by Morgan Sze,consisted of five modernistic paintings byhis late wife, Agnes C. Lin Sze ’43. As wellas donating the paintings, Mr. Sze estab-lished the Agnes C. Lin Sze Art PreservationFund to support art preservation in theRiver Campus Libraries. A scholarship fundfor female students was established concur-rently.

Mrs. Sze was born in Beijing, China, andgraduated from the University of Rochesterwith a Bachelor’s degree in Economics in1943. She subsequently received a Master’s

degree in Business from ColumbiaUniversity. Her husband remembers thatshe was always interested in painting. Shestudied painting at Queens College, NewYork University, and at the Art StudentsLeague. Her early works are realistic and figurative, the backgrounds to the figuresoften employ emotional coloring and antici-pate her later shift into abstractionism. Inher later abstract paintings, she said sheliked to apply “color, one stroke at a time”and, by intuition, discover what could hap-pen next. Perhaps most importantly, shefirmly believed that art was a celebration of life.

Agnes Sze’s affinity to the University wasaffirmed long ago—the Sze’s son Karl is a1975 graduate of the School of Medicineand Dentistry and grandson, Nicholas,

Senior Class Gift to LibraryThe 2004 Senior Class chose the Library’sEast Wing renovation project to be therecipient of their class gift. The seniorsraised almost $9,000 that will be applied toa named area in the renovated East Wing.The East Wing will be home to theTeaching and Learning Center, including theCollege Writing Center.

Plans call for the ground and first floorsof Rush Rhees Library to be remodeled soas to provide spaces to support new educa-tional technologies, group study, and facili-tated access to the library collections.

Over $5 million has been raised, but the2004 Senior Class gift is particularly impres-sive because it confirms the importance ofthe Library in the life of Rochester’s stu-dents. The Library would like to express itsmost heartfelt thank you to all the membersof the 2004 Senior Class and to remindthem that our doors are always open!

Agnes C. Lin Sze

graduated with a major in ElectricalEngineering in 2001.

The Sze paintings are hung in the Refer-ence area of Rush Rhees Library and in theManagement Library on the third floor.

This year marks the 125th Anniversary ofThomas Edison’s invention of the incandes-cent light bulb. The anniversary will passquietly, but 75 years ago Rush RheesLibrary marked the 50th Anniversary spec-tacularly.

In cooperation with the City of Rochesteras it observed Light Jubilee week, October14-21, 1929, the University of Rochesterilluminated Rush Rhees tower with a “per-manent battery of 168, 250-watt lamps in

An Illuminating Tidbit floodlight projectors, installed and connect-ed in time to join the national homage toMr. Edison...During that week thousands ofRochesterians were thrilled at the sight ofthe massive but graceful library tower, withits encircling stone pillars shown in relief,brilliantly illuminated and seeming to floatin the sky above the new campus.”

New campus? Indeed, in 1929, the RiverCampus was a work in progress. A RochesterReview article stated:

Ten of the eleven buildings, providedfor in the original plans, are in somevisible stage of construction. Eight ofthem are already enclosed, and fourof the eight are practically completed.There are the four academic buildingson the main quadrangle—Chemistry,Library Arts, Physics, and Geologyand Biology.

In the previous June, the scaffolding hadfinally been removed from Rush RheesLibrary, but sculptors were still engaged incarving the pediment on the exterior whilethe sculptor, who also worked on theLincoln Memorial, finished carving thestone heads above the two doors leadingfrom the main lobby to what is now theWelles-Brown Room and what was theRequired Reading Room.


searching her office for a runaway disserta-tion. “She never found it, but she did showus a clever workaround, using her comput-er, for finding the reference she needed,”said Foster. Small points like that are veryuseful as the design work continues.

Responding to users’ habits and needs isa critical component for drawing people to

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a library service or a site. “We’re really aim-ing for the 85 percent of faculty who don’thave other resources available and whodon’t want to know more than they have toknow about the intricacies of Web designand the challenges of storing work indefi-nitely,” said Foster.

More than Song and Dance

More than 200 selected pieces from a pri-vate Rochester collection dedicated to thetheatrical history of the comic operas of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan will open tothe public on Monday, October 4, in theRare Books and Special Collections Libraryat the University of Rochester. “Gilbert andSullivan: From London to America” featuresphotographs, programs, letters, and othermaterials from original productions thattraveled from London to New York andother major American cities in the late 19thcentury.

The exhibit is on loan from the collectionof Dr. Harold A. Kanthor, a Rochester pedia-trician who is a dedicated collector of thevaried artistic endeavors of both Gilbert,who wrote the words, and Sullivan, whocomposed the music, for such memorableoperas as The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore.“For me, their literary and musical wit isunique,” said Kanthor, “and their worktranscends the Victorian age, and has great

appeal even in the 21st century.”The new exhibition commemorates the

original London productions of each of theGilbert and Sullivan operas, which were cre-ated from 1871-1896, and their earliest rep-resentations in America. Kanthor selectedthe items for display, searching for the off-beat as well as the expected. Among themare drawings and autograph letters of bothGilbert and Sullivan, playbills, illustrations,souvenirs from original productions, andadvertising materials—from selling corsetsto toothpaste—that capitalized on the pop-ularity of Gilbert and Sullivan in America.

Kanthor, who is an alumnus of theUniversity’s School of Medicine andDentistry, was first intrigued by the worksof Gilbert and Sullivan when he saw a stu-dent performance of The Pirates of Penzanceat Brighton High School. He has been col-lecting Gilbert and Sullivan material for 25years, and continues to research and pur-chase items. In 1986, part of his collectionwas shown at the University to mark the150th anniversary of Gilbert’s birth.

“The occasion of this exhibit is especiallymeaningful for the library as it celebratesthe finalization of an agreement designatingthe Rare Books and Special CollectionsLibrary as the future home of the KanthorGilbert and Sullivan Collection,” saidRichard Peek, director of the Department ofRare Books, Special Collections, andPreservation.

Hours for the exhibit are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday; 9a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday; and 11 a.m. to3 p.m. Saturday. It is free and open to thepublic, and will continue through March15, 2005.

The Rare Books Library is located on thesecond floor of Rush Rhees Library on theUniversity’s River Campus. For more infor-mation, contact (585) 275-4477.

Ultimately, faculty members at everyinstitution will want to be part of a bigscholarly conversation. “If people putthings into DSpace and others find and usetheir work and then cite them, we will havesucceeded,” she said.

Souvenir program, Mikado. Berlin: Kroll’s Theater (1886-87).

Souvenir program, Patience. London: Savoy Theatre (1882).


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SEPTEMBER23 Neilly Series Lecture. David Owen will discuss his new book, Copies in Seconds: How a Lone Inventor and an Unknown

Company Created the Biggest Communication Breakthrough Since Gutenberg—Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine.Introduction by Catherine Carlson. Hoyt Auditorium, 5:00 p.m.

Exhibit. The Life of Chester F. Carlson. The Chester F. Carlson Science and Engineering Library Atrium.

OCTOBERExhibit. Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake: Living the Optical Life. Rare Books and Special Collections has acquired theKingslake Archive, a meticulously kept record of the Kingslakes’ lives. The exhibition includes records of Rudolf’s youthfuldevelopment through photographs and a detailed map of his travels. Friedlander Lobby, Rush Rhees Library. ThroughFebruary 1, 2005.

Exhibit. Gilbert and Sullivan: From London to America. Dr. Harold Kanthor’s collection focuses on original Gilbert andSullivan productions (1871-1896) in London, New York, and other major American cities. Rare Books and SpecialCollections. Through March 15, 2005.

8 Neilly Series Lecture. Edward P. Jones is a prolific writer whose recently published novel, The Known World, won aNational Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize. He has written short stories for Essence, The Paris Review,Ploughshares, and Callaloo. Introduction by Wade Norwood. Hubbell Auditorium, Hutchison Hall, 5 p.m.

9 Lecture. Bring Out Your Dead: Rare Books, Collectors, and Research. Pablo Alverez, curator of rare books, will illustratehow rare books open a unique window to the past and provide valuable material for research. Plutzik Library, Rush RheesLibrary, 2nd floor, 11 a.m.

9 Lecture. William Blake and the Digital Age. Professor of English Morris Eaves, co-editor of an innovative web site, TheWilliam Blake Archive, will demonstrate some of the site’s key features and discuss reasons for the Archive, highlights of itshistory, and implications for the future of libraries in the digital age. Plutzik Library, Rush Rhees Library, 2nd floor, 1 p.m.

24 Tea Talks. William Scott Green, Professor of Religion, Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Judaic Studies, and Dean of theCollege, will present “Our Future Is In Ruins.” His lecture will review the highlights of the University of Rochester’sarchaeological excavations in Italy and Israel. Welles-Brown Room, 2 p.m.

NOVEMBER11 Neilly Series Lecture. Roy Blount, Jr., a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me! and former staff writer and

editor at Sports Illustrated. Introduction by Myra Gelband. Hoyt Auditorium, 5 p.m.

21 Tea Talks. Grant Holcomb, Director of the Memorial Art Gallery, will present on a subject close to home—“From Rochesterto the Rhine: The Journey of Billy Pilgrim’,” the examination of the life of Rochester native, Edward J. Crone, Jr., a friend ofKurt Vonnegut’s. Welles-Brown Room, 2 p.m.

DECEMBER8 Friends’ Annual Holiday Reading. Welles-Brown Room, Reception, 5:30 p.m. Program, 6-7 p.m.

JANUARY 200516 Tea Talks. Alfred Clark, Jr., Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Mathematics, will discuss

“From Slide Rule to Laptop.” Welles-Brown Room, 2 p.m.

27 Neilly Series Lecture. Stewart Weaver, Professor of British History at the University of Rochester, will present “Because ItWas There: Mallory, Everest, and the 1920s.” Introduction by Ernestine McHugh. Welles-Brown Room, 5 p.m.

FEBRUARY6 Tea Talks. John H. Thomas, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences and of Astronomy, will discuss our Sun, its

structure, its magnetic field, the solar magnetic cycle, and the physics of sunspots, with emphasis on recent advances.Welles-Brown Room, 2 p.m.

24 Neilly Series Lecture. Katherine Ashenburg, author of The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die, will explorethe ceremonies of modern mourning in North America. Introduction by Bonnie Rubenstein. Welles-Brown Room, 5 p.m.

MARCH15 Neilly Series Lecture. Kim J. Vicente, author of The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology, will

discuss how to bridge the widening gap between people and technology. Introduction by Renato Perucchio. Welles-BrownRoom, 5 p.m.

20 Tea Talks. Kenneth Cauthen, the John Price Crozer Griffith Emeritus Professor of Theology at Colgate Rochester DivinitySchool, will discuss “I Don’t Care What the Bible Says: An Interpretation of Southern History.” Welles-Brown Room, 2p.m.

31 Neilly Series Lecture. Paula Treichler, Professor in the College of Medicine, the Gender & Women’s Studies Program,and the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois-Champaign, will present “Medicine, Culture,and Narrative Power: AIDS on General Hospital.” Introduction by Nancy Chin. Welles-Brown Room, 5 p.m.

APRIL21 Neilly Series Lecture. Charles “Chip” Groat, Director of the US Geological Survey, will discuss “US Geological Survey:

125 Years of Science for America.” Introduction by John Tardano. Welles-Brown Room, 5 p.m.

JUNE9 Friends’ 33rd Annual Dinner and Meeting. (Tentative Date) By Reservation.

The Kendrick FellowsJohn Barnard ’45Booth Ferris FoundationRaymond R. Borst ’33*Gladys Brooks FoundationChester and Dorris Carlson

Charitable TrustDorris Carlson*Culpeper FoundationRoger B. ’56 and Carolyn

Friedlander ’68NGleason FoundationJames S. ’68 and Janis GleasonJohn W. ’44 and E. Pauline ’48

HandyAlan ’60 and Carol ’60 HilfikerJewish Communal FundJohn M. ’44 and Barbara KeilVictor Markiewicz EstateSallie Melvin ’51Martin ’49 and Joan MessingerAndrew H. ’47 and Janet Dayton

NeillyW.C. Brian ’55 and Marguerite

PeoplesHelen Powers ’42*Carlton I. ’45 and Patricia PrinceWarren S. ’45 and Nancy

RichardsonRossell and Helen A. Robbins*Marjorie Robbins EstateSally Rohrdanz ’45Rochester Area Community

FoundationBrian and Joyce ThompsonWilliam Vaughn*Lyndon* and Mari O. Wells ’50

The Gilchrist SocietyMax A. Adler Charitable

FoundationMary Elizabeth Gillette Baker ’45Rise J. Z. Birnbaum ’74Alan L. and Nancy S. Cameros ’80Donald H. Chew, Jr. ’79 (MBA), ’83

(MAS), ’83 (PhD)James M. Cole ’44, ’46 (MD)Ronald F. and Susan W. DowAnne FarnhamRichard F. and Nancy D. FennoBrian S. ’63 and Margaret W.

Fleming ’64John E. Foster ’51 +Henry P. ’61 (MA) ’62 (MAS) ’68

(PhD) and Beverly B. FrenchRoger B. ’56 and Carolyn T.

Friedlander ’68NGale GroupMyra Gelband ’71 and David K.

Wilson Gleason FoundationCharles F. GrammLouis R. Guzzetta ’42John W. ’44 and E. Pauline Handy

’48J. Nelson ’55 and Joan D. Hoffman

’55Karl S. KabelacLewis A. Kaplan ’66James W. Mayer ’82Sallie Melvin’51Martin E. ’49 and Joan MessingerJP Morgan Chase BankNew York Council on the

HumanitiesDavid E. and Marjorie Lu Perlman

’63Rochester Chapter of the Sons of

the American Revolution+

Eric R. Rueckwald ’97 (MAS)Carl W. Schafer ’58Richard H. ’49 and Virginia N.

Skuse ’50Raymond R. Smith ’68E (PhD)Betty R. Strasenburgh ’52EStuart M. Stein ’75James M. and Natalie Stewart ’85

(MAS) +Morgan C. and Agnes C. Lin Sze

’43*Katherine Snow TaylorTamsin C. TaylorGabriel ’50 and Jeannette T. TiberioJohn J. WatersRandall B. Whitestone ’83Nathaniel ’55 and Helen WischReyton F. ’57 ’59 (MAS) and

Dorothy V. WojnowskiMichael J. Zinaman ’76

River CampusLibraries GiftsJuly 1, 2003 to June 30, 2004

$1,000 +AnonymousMax A. Adler Charitable FoundationMary Elizabeth Baker ’45Rise J. Z. Birnbaum ’74Alan L. and Nancy S. Cameros ’80Donald H. Chew, Jr. ’79S (MBA) ’83

(MAS) ’83 (PhD)James M. Cole ’44 ’46M (MD)Ronald F. and Susan W. DowAnne FarnhamRichard F. and Nancy D. FennoBrian S. Fleming ’63Roger B. ’56 and Carolyn T.

Friedlander ’68N


Myra Gelband ’71 and David K.Wilson

Gleason FoundationCharles F. GrammLouis R. Guzzetta ’42John W. ’44 and E. Pauline Handy

’48J. Nelson ’55 and Joan D. Hoffman

’55Karl S. KabelacLewis A. Kaplan ’66James W. Mayer ’82Sallie Melvin ’51Martin E. Messinger ’49New York Council On HumanitiesCarl W. Schafer ’58Raymond R. Smith ’68E (PhD)Stuart M. Stein ’75Morgan C. and Agnes C. Lin Sze

’43*Katherine S. TaylorTamsin C. TaylorGabriel ’50 and Jeannette T. TiberioJohn J. Waters Randall B. Whitestone ’83Nathaniel ’55 and Helen WischReyton F. ’57 ’59 (MAS) and

Dorothy V. WojnowskiMichael J. Zinaman ’76

$ 500 – 999Dorothea Elizabeth deZafra Atwell

’63Roger F. Brady ’61William H. Ceckler ’51Carlos A. ’44 and Helen M.

Chapman ’44Dr. Rowland HawkinsJohn M. ’44 and Barbara KeilAnn W. MacKenzie ’63

* Deceased+ Gifts-in-Kind

The Libraries’ most generoussupporters are recognized fortheir special contributionthrough the Gilchrist Societyand Kendrick Fellows.

The Kendrick Fellows arenamed for Asahel C. Kendrick, a member of the original facultyand the University’s first librari-an, serving from 1853-1869.Kendrick Fellows have demon-

Gifts to the River CampusLibraries 2003-2004The Gilchrist Society and Kendrick Fellows

strated exceptional generositythrough cumulative giving of$100,000 or more. Establishedin 1997, the Gilchrist Society isnamed for Donald B. Gilchristwho was the University LibraryDirector from 1919 to 1939.Gilchrist members gave gifts of$1,000 or more during the previous fiscal year.

The images thataccompany thissection are fromexhibits now ondisplay in theDepartment ofRare Books andSpecial Collections,Rush RheesLibrary.

George Eastman and Rush Rhees, 1931.


Paula A. Moss ’68Maria E. Rabar ’73Gordon Shillinglaw ’46 ’48S (MBA)Edith G. Stern ’68W (MAS)Gary Stockman ’83 and Jennifer

Anne Swift ’84Roy E. Williams ’47

$250 – 499Kenneth M. Cameron ’53Thomas L. Cassada ’81David A. Haller, Jr. ’48Michael HillWilliam H. Marshall, Jr. ’53 ’56M

(MD)Andrew H. ’47 and Janet Dayton

NeillyKaren Nicholson-Paine ’68Paul T. Rieger ’87 (MAS) ’95 (PhD)Karen R. Schermerhorn ’63Philip A. ’65 and Karen P. Selwyn

’67Robert L. ’39 and Anne W. Wells

Stephen W. Turner ’67Parker L. ’64 ’66S (MBA) and

Annette F. Weld ’76 (MAS) ’89(PhD)

Bruce C. Woolley ’69 (MAS) ’73(PhD)

Martin P. Zemel ’63 ’65W (MAS)and Laura L. Fulton

Svetlana Zhurkina

$1 – 99Albert W. Ahern ’76Ann D. Baird ’56Clark A. Barrett ’50 *Nicholas F. Borrelli ’60 (MAS) ’63

(PhD)Paul S. Brady ’53Willis E. Bridegam ’57EPaul J. Burgett ’68E ’72E (MAS)

’76E (PhD)Sarah CollinsMary-Beth A. Cooper ’00S (MBA)Edward Erickson Teresa Evans Peter R. Flass ’68Kathleen P. Ford ’63 (MAS)Francis GoldingLynda Garner Goldstein ’74Owen E. Harris ’72Celeste M. Hart ’80W (MAS) John J. HayesDavid S. HerpichGrant Holcomb Cherelyn Hughes Terrie Hughes William C. JohnsonJack A. and Anne KampmeierHarold ’66M (MD) and Ann R.

Kanthor Charlotte Kantz ’69David M. Kaplan ’68Kristyn KuhnPaul W. Lauf Susan J. Levinson Royce C. MacGillivrayDavid and Pamela ManciniDaniel and Michele McCortney Adrian C. and Joyce M. Melissinos

’66 (MAS) ’95 (PhD)Lynn C. Metzger ’75Daniel M. MeyersGerard MiddletonMary R. OrwenReid A. Paul ’91Charles I. Plosser Shirley E. Ricker ’73 ’77 (MAS) Carolyn Riley

Gretchen Roberts ’65W ’65Charlotte RoedererMark R. ’43 ’44 (MAS) and Janine

RosenzweigRichard R. Schneider ’68Arleen Somerville Robert L. and Mary L. SproullUnited Technologies CorporationCindi Jean C. Walsh ’82Timothy M. Welsh ’97Rowena Zemel ’59

Friends of theUniversity ofRochester LibrariesGiftsJuly 1, 2003 to June 30, 2004

$1,000 – 2,499Henry P. ’61 (MAS) ’62W (MAS)

’68W (PhD) and Beverly B.French

David E. and Marjorie Lu Perlman’63

Eric R. Rueckwald ’97 (MAS)Richard H. ’49 and Virginia N.

Skuse ’50

$500 – 999Sarah CollinsRobert D. and Charlene W. HurshJeffrey H. Marks ’78 and Jennifer S.

LarsonCharles and Barbara Reifler UnisonMari O. Wells ’50

$250 – 499Joseph P. BrennanThomas L. Cassada ’81Harry W. and Marion FulbrightChristopher H. ’57M (RES) and

Joanna B. Hodgman ’74 (MAS) Jack A. and Anne KampmeierLucretia W. McClureAdrian C. and Joyce M. Melissinos

’66 (MAS) ’95 (PhD)Daniel M. MeyersVerne H. Moore ’50Mary R. OrwenRobert W. ’39 and Roberta P. RuggBetty R. Strasenburgh ’52EKatherine S. Taylor

$100 – 249Najia AarimGerald AndolinaRichard N. and Patricia J. Aslin

Vivek G. BadamiGrizel BartonRuth H. BennettRobert L. BergThomas M. Bohrer ’85S (MBA) and

Mitzie Collins ’63EStephen and Violanda BurnsDavid J. ByrneElizabeth Chiapperi, Esq. ’81Helen T. ClarkEdward P. ’69S and Claire G. CurtisRobert A. DaitzLinda W. Davey ’53Roberta M. DavisRobert W. DotyRonald F. and Susan W. DowLois E. DrakeShirley G. Fien ’53Kathleen P. Murray Ford ’63 (MAS)Donald A. ’43 and Ruth K. Forsyth

’45 ’46 (MAS) *Roger B. ’56 and Carolyn T.

Friedlander ’68NDan M. GhiocelJames S. ’68S (MBA) and Janis F.

Hicks GleasonAmy GreenstadtDonald R. ’61M (RES) and Marjorie

Grinols Marian D. Griswold ’67 (MAS)Morris A. ’54E (MAS) ’73E (PhD)

and Elizabeth B. Haigh ’80 (PhD)Dean H. and Jeanne F. Harper ’65W

(MAS)Mary Haven HaydenScott HemenwayMartha HeynemanChristopher T. and Joan T. HoolihanKaren B. Howland ’65Richard W. and Susan C. HydeCameron C. Jameson ’49Margaret J. KaiserHarold ’66M (MD) and Ann R.

Kanthor Mbiya KapiambaRose-Marie B. KlipsteinRobert S. Knox ’58 (PhD)Leo R. and Charlotte K. LandhuisElliott I. Landsman and Deborah G.

Goldman-LandsmanPaul W. Lauf Paul A. Lester ’71James Longenbach and Joanna J.

ScottJohn and Barbara P. Lovenheim ’87

(MAS) ’90 (PhD)Tabitha G. Mapstone* Deceased

+ Gifts-in-Kind

Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake, 1976.

$100 – 249Stephen and Violanda BurnsStephen L. Collins ’70James R. Deane ’58Richard B. Eisenberg ’73Robert J. Fogelin ’55Elizabeth B. Haigh ’80 (PhD)Christopher H. ’57M (RES) and

Joanna B. Hodgman ’74 (MAS) Nancy S. Horie ’54Nancy M. Lowe ’59Peter M. and Beverly M. PankenMark M. ’62 and Patricia RochkindFrederick W. Rohrs ’55Neal and Pamela L. ShermanJennifer R. Steffy ’80


Thomas PrinsMichael RichmondShirley E. Ricker ’73 ’77 (MAS) Robert J. RiedelSally RocheChristopher RozziEdgar ’52 and Marci RummlerRichard and Hilda SatranGeorge SchillingerMary W. SchwertzSteven S. ’80M (RES) and Marjorie

B. SearlFrank ShuffeltonJoan L. SibleyNancy J. SleethJoseph SotileJames M. and Natalie Stewart ’85

(MAS)Carl A. Talbot ’51Elizabeth ThalerJohn W. ThomanEdward H. and Elizabeth W.

ThorndikePatricia G. TobinMartha WeissbergerDavid E. and Linda M. WhiteIrene WhiteMary E. YoungJohn P. Zambuto ’83 (MAS)Rowena Zemel ’59Robert A. ZieglerJames G. Zimmer ’60M (RES)

$1 – 49Jerald B.* and Dorothy F. Foland

’39Jean A. Shafer ’66W (MAS)Domenick White

Lea S. McChesneyGilbert G. McCurdyLionel W. McKenzieNeal A. ’54M (MD) and Ann

Kendrick McNabb ’51Eleanor A. McQuilkin *Linda E. MitchellEldridge MountMaria Rosa NachonElla B. NobleWilliam R. Nolan ’44 ’48 (MAS)Claude C. Noyes and Phyllis C.

AndrewsKatharine S. ParsonsTanya R. Plutzik ’69W (MAS)Charlton I. Prince ’45 *Cynthia M. RasmussenThomas S. RichardsMargaret RossPearl W. Rubin ’62W (MAS)Kathleen B. RuppertJohn SobraskeJulia F. SollenbergerH. Allen ’76 (PhD) and Suzanne M.

SpencerHarold W. StanleyGarth J. and Mona ThomasTimothy A. and Margaret Anne

Thomas ’98M (MAS)Fiona TolhurstGeorge and Ronna Yayoi Treier ’72

(MAS) ’79S (MAS)Letian WangParker L. ’64 ’66S (MBA) and

Annette F. Weld ’76 (MAS) ’89(PhD)

Anne S. WellsWest GroupCarolyn Reichard WilsonSergeant and Catharine J. WiseRobert B. and Mary Alice WolfRichard Woodward

The Xerox Foundation/XeroxCompany

William W. ’48 and Anne S. Young

$50 – 99James M. AlbrightHelen Jean AndersonJulian W. and Patricia AtwaterSuzanne S. Bell ’79James K. Branigan ’70Wilhelm BraunSharon D. BuzardCharles M. CarltonDiane J. CassMargaret M. Cassidy ’79 ’83W

(MAS)William A. ’72 and Marian K.

Chapman ’72Stacey Hsiang-Ju Chen ’00 (MAS)

’02 (PhD)Lawrence N. ’58 and Rita R.

ChessinL. Eleanora ChurchColleen P. Cox ’84William H. Cox, Jr.Ellen L. CronkRichard S.’84 and Karen E.

CrumminsRichard and Janet B. DrayPeter DzwonkoskiRobert W. EamesTeresa Evans James H. and Ann E. Finger ’68Donald C. Fisher ’45Donald FisherBeth B. Flory ’48 ’50 (MAS)Jean FranceJohn P. Frazer ’35 ’39M (MD)David FriedlanderHarry and Susan H. GivelberPeter G. ’46 ’49M (MD) and Vera

G. Gleason ’50

Andrea F. GoldenRoslyn B. Goldman’78 (MAS)Richard M. and Rita K. GollinNicholas M. GraverAgnes E. GriffithFrank S. and Diane H. GrossoGutenberg’s BooksThomas Hahn and Bette LondonEleanor HallRuth K. HamburgerThomas M. and Zena HampsonKenneth J. and Lucy B. HarperWilliam B. HauserPeter A. Henderson ’90S (MBA)Patricia A. HerminghouseRobert W. ’51 and Hannelore B.

Heyer ’52Arthur M. ’43 and Maureen

HoltzmanCecil HookKari Ellen Horowicz ’84Mary M. Huth ’81 (MAS)Loa J. Jewell ’60EThomas B. JonesEarl W. KageSusan A. Kaye ’60 ’63 (MAS) ’67

(PhD)Martha KellyDatta and Judith N. KharbasEdwin and Ellen KinnenRobert F. ’63M (RES) and Cornelia

F. KleinLanguage Intelligence, Ltd.Norman and Edith LankVictor Laties ’54 (PhD)John L. and Ramsay C. LawlessMary C. LeeneTeresa J. Leene ’52Nancy M. Martin ’65 ’94 (MAS)Charles W. and Carolyn H. MerriamWilliam L. and Joan B. Morgan ’74

’80 (MAS)Sylvia Moukous ’76Gwendolyn D. NelsonSam NelsonBeryl M. NesbitPeggy F. NevilleSuzanne J. O’Brien ’59Stephen T. O’ConnorJohn P. ’57M (MD) and Suzanne A.

OlsonWilliam R. OrtweinDorinda OutramDonald A. Parry ’51Gilman and Rebecca M. PerkinsMargaret Perry

Rush Rhees, Abraham Flexner, George Eastman, and Dr. George H. Whipple, 1926.

Chester F. Carlson and Joseph C.Wilson, 1948.

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