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UPCOMING EVENTS

NOVEMBER 13 NewYork,NY

Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark Suspense Writing:

It's All in the Family The Metropolitan Club

Alice McDermott

DECEMBER 5 Washington D.C. Alice McDermott

Fiction as Parable ICC Auditorium

Georgetown University

DECEMBER 10 Washington D.C. 2002 Holiday Party

Georgetown University Riggs Library

IN THIS ISSUE

My Name is Red ................. ..... 2 Builders of Monuments .......... 3

Gift of Wine ....... ...................... 3

The Phenomenon of Teilhard .... .. ... ...................... 4

The Library Goes Wireless ..... 4

In Memoriam ....... ................... 4

Infrequently Asked Questions .................. ..... .. .. ..... 5

Riggs in the 1930s ....... ........... 5

From the Vault ............ ........... 6

Exhibits .. .... .... ..... .... ..... ........ .. . 6

Visions in Copper and Wood .. 7

WRLC ...................................... 7

A Note of Appreciation ..... ... ... 8

GOCard and Photocopying ..... 8

What If! Want to Contribute? .................. ... .... 8

N E w 5 L E T T E R

FALL 2002-NEWSLETTER 65

THE JESUITS, PRO AND CON

ONE OF THE RECENT SUCCESS STORIES IN THE RARE BOOK MARKET IS

the surge in the value of books relating to the Society of Jesus. When John Mellin

was working in London around 1960, the same books that command impressive prices

today were available for little indeed, perfect matches for a Jesuit-educated but not overly

wealthy new collector. This July Mr. Mellin, at the urging of his son Dan (C'74),

generously presented the library with more than 60 volumes, including some very rare

titles, in honor of Father Walter J. Burghardt, S. J.

One the rarest is the anonymous Effigies et nomina quorundam e societate Iesu qui

pro fide vel pietate sun iter facti ab anno 1549 ad annum 1607 (Rome, 1608), a very early if

not the first Jesuit martyrology. A

poignant reminder of the Spanish

settlement of Florida in the 16th century is

the large number of Jesuits who died for

the faith there, the first being Pedro

Martinez, S.J., killed and "thrown into the

sea" on September 24, 1566. But Mr. Mellin

also collected items which portrayed the

Jesuits in a less flattering light, and one of

these, the Arcana societatis Iesu publico

bono vulgata cum appendicibus utilissimis

(No place, 1635), ranks among the black

tulips of anti-Jesuit literature.

Closer to home, the collection

includes a far from pretty, but complete

and usable, copy of one of the rarities of

18th century Catholic Americana, Patrick

Smyth's The Present State of the Catholic

Mission, Conducted by the Ex-Jesuits in

North-America (Dublin, 1788), a scathing

attack on the Jesuit reliance on farms for

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their support and on their principal spokesman, John Carroll, in particular. In passing,

Smyth (an Irish priest) provides a great deal of information about the Catholic settlers

around Frederick, Maryland, in the course of a long interview with their priest, the

German ex-Jesuit James Frambach. ,.,

T he Georgetown University

Library Associates Newsletter

is issued four times a year. It

is distributed to all Library

Associates, members of the

Association of Research

Libraries (ARL), members of

the Georgetown University

Board of Directors, Board of

Regents, Board of Governors,

and selected others.

Chair of the Library

Advisory Council

David J. Walsh (C '58)

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Editor

Stephanie Hughes

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From the University Librarian My NAME IS RED

This September I had the opportunity to join all our entering freshmen in reading Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red. Thanks to a grant from the Watson Foundation,* the University sponsored the First Year Student Academic Workshop in which all freshmen

participated, and I was invited to lead one ofthe group discussions on the book.

Orhan Pamuk, award-winning fiction writer from Istanbul and an artist in his own right, was on campus to take part in the workshop. His complex and absorbing book about

BENiM

murder, intrigue, love, jealousies, philosophy, culture and religion is set in the world of 16th­century Turkish miniaturist painters and

illustrators for the Ottoman court. Pam uk's dense and detailed writing offers evocative "word paintings" and "parables," which serve as a guide to the Eastern and Islamic ideals in art and culture. Written entirely in the first person, each chapter is narrated by a different character, including even a

dog and a tree.

Mter a good discussion with "my" students, during which we explored what each of us took away from the novel, we convened in Gaston Hall to hear the author himself discuss how and why he wrote My Name is Red. Georgetown students, ever gifted,

asked Pamuk impressive questions, one of which made the author wish that he had incorporated the

student's idea in his book.

Orhan Pamuk, trained in Western art techniques, wanted specifically to write a fictional chronicle of the lives of the incredible artists and their genuine pursuit of truth through Eastern art. But Pam uk told his audience that he, raised in a secular family, didn't know much about Islamic art and miniaturist artists. He therefore spent many months in careful and thorough research, using the resources of art museums and libraries. The resulting richness of the book is testament to the role that libraries play even in fiction. Pamuk's own persistence in pursuit of the truth that would enable him to write fiction renewed my appreciation for libraries as both curators of cultural heritage and as inspiration for the creation of new knowledge.

A student should be able to sate her curiosity about any topic of My Name is Red-or indeed of any subject, just as Pamuk did-by exploring our library's many materials, in a variety of formats. Georgetown's library will continue to collect broadly and deeply, so that

future creators may be enlightened and encouraged in creativity. Collecting is, and will remain, an important element of our mission. You can view the archive of Or han Pamuk's first session talk at http://webcast.georgetown.edU/. t..

Artemis G. Kirk University Librarian

*In memory of Kathleen Watson Adams (1917-1997) and Arthur Harvey Adams (1916-1999),

parents of Kathy Adams Baczko (SLL '68) and Judith Adams Halter (CAS '80).

BUILDERS OF MONUMENTS

"Happy are the dead and their biographers who have left materials for the building of their monument." Thus observed Alexander Tremaine Wright to William John Carlton. Happily too, the Wright portion of their 1909-1915 correspondence has survived

to be donated to Special Collections by Nicholas B. Scheetz C'74. Wright's letters reveal that they shared a grand passion - the history and bibliography of shorthand. The

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correspondence gives a glimpse into the small English fraternity of researchers active in the field at the beginning of the century . Throughout the letters, references are made to significant figures in shorthand's history,

among them Jeremiah Rich, William Addy, Julius Ensign Rockwell, Christian Johnen, John Willis and Lawrence Steel; auctions are

discussed, publications commented on, and even researches detailed.

Years later, William John Carlton (1886-

1960) gained renown for his extensive collection of some 15,000 works in shorthand,

which rivaled in breadth and depth the New York Public Library's collection and that of the Stenographisches Landesamt in Dresden. A long article in the Times Literary Supplement describes its generous donation to the University of London in 1960. Carlton was also a noted Dickensian. His research and writings,

particularly on Charles Dickens' youth and early career as a shorthand reporter in the courts of London, illuminate the least

known phases of that author's life. Both Carlton's Charles Dickens, Shorthand Writer: The Prentice Days of a Master Craftsman (1926) and Links with Dickens in the Isle of Man (1958) are found in the library's famed Ziegler-Dickens Collection. Moreover, the correspondence is a happy complement to the large collection of shorthand books

formed by the late Adolph Gerstenzang, donated to Special Collections by his nephew, Doug Gersten. ja,

P AMUK SPEAKS AT GEORGETOWN

"A novel is something like a food, or a dish, that I can say that I cooked it; I put in some

onions, some tomatoes, some olive oil, this or that. And I can tell you what my intentions

were when I was cooking this dish, but I cannot tell you how it tastes. I can tell you how I

want you to taste it and enjoy it. These are my intentions; these are the things that I made

the book with. But the enjoyment, the real taste of the book, is something else."

-author Orhan Pamuk, speaking at the First Year Academic Workshop

in Gaston Hall on September 14

"WINE IS SUNLIGHT,

HELD TOGETHER By WATER."

- GAll LEO GAll LEI

T he Library would like to

thank Robert M. Wagner F'48 for his generous donation of 40 cases of Georgetown University Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon to the Library Associates program.

The wine was delivered to us through the good offices of Billy Thomassen, son of Mr. Wagner's Georgetown classmate George Thomassen F'48, in time to be enjoyed at the first of this year's Library Associates events.

Mr. Wagner says he "did this because of Paul Anthony 8'64," who approached him on the subject at the John Carroll A wards Weekend in Paris in April, 2002, and because "reading is the key to knowledge, and knowledge is the key to success."

From his own reading list, Mr. Wagner highly recommends James Carroll's newest book, Constantine's Sword: The Church and The Jews: A History. Mr. Carroll, who attended Georgetown in the 19605, is a columnist for the Boston Globe and won the National Book Award in 1996 for his book An American Requiem.

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IN MEMORIAM

T he Library has lost a good friend in Library Advisory Council member Joseph Suss en, C'49, who passed away last month after a short illness. He is survived by his wife Betty Ann, his son Joseph Sussen, III and his daughters Mary Patricia Carroll, Kathleen Thompson and Sarah Sussen.

Joe served on various boards at Georgetown in addition to the Library's. In 1989 he received the John Carroll A ward, which is the highest award given to a volunteer. He also received the Alumni Association Presidential Citation A ward, which was presented to him in 1996.

"Joe will be greatly missed," said Sue Martin, former University Librarian. "He always had a smile, and usually a joke or two for those around him. His love of Georgetown translated into an active and constant effort to help the University, and particularly the Library. Wherever Joe and Betty were, there was fun and laughter, but also a seriousness of purpose."

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THE PHENOMENON OF TEILHARD

The Schmitz-Moorman Teilhard Collection, containing numerous photocopies of correspondence and manuscripts by the Jesuit philosopher and paleontologist, Pierre

Teilhard de Chardin, was recently cataloged in Special Collections. A gift from scholar Nicole

Schmitz-Moorman, it was painstakingly formed over many years by her and her late .

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By the entrance to the Ming Tombs. Left: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin S.J.,

Right: Henri Breuil

husband, Dr. Karl Schmitz-Moorman, editors of the monumental ten-volume edition of Teilhard's

scientific work. The files open up new areas of inquiry and cover almost the entirety of his life. Documents date from 1912 when Teilhard completed his theological examinations and

continue through his move to Paris and studies under the renowned prehistorian Abbe Henri Breuil, the creative decisive years of World War I, his explorations and discoveries in China in the 1930's, and finally to his death in New York

City in 1955. Much of Teilhard's widely dispersed correspondence was recovered and copied by the Schmitz-Moormans, and the

collection is a wonderful addition to the extensive holdings in Special Collections of this remarkable man, priest and scientist.

Among the library's other related collections are the Lucile Swan Papers, the Pierre Leroy S.J. Papers, the Lukas-Teilhard de Chardin Collection, the Granger-Teilhard Collections, the Teilhard Houdin Collection and the Leroy-Warre Collection. ,.,

THE LIBRARY GOES WIRELESS

The University's new wireless network is up and running throughout the Lauinger

Library and the Blommer Science Library, 302 Reiss. A supplement to the wired network, the system allows laptop users with the appropriate hardware and software to go online without "plugging in."

The wireless network transmits data through the air in radio waves and eliminates the need for cables and data jacks. "The advantage is that online resources now can be used anywhere in the libraries. There is no need to relocate or find a free computer to check a call number in GEORGE, collaborate with colleagues in a group study

room, or do intensive individual research in a carrel," said Mark Jacobs, AUL for Access and Public Services.

As you take advantage of our new technology, keep in mind that the wireless system is a shared resource; the more it's being used, the slower it will be. It is not

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meant for data-intensive operations (like uploading large files or streaming video). Also,

there is a possibility that someone could intercept information as it passes over the wireless network. Always use applications that provide encryption while transferring sensitive data. Go to http://www.georgetown.eduluislwirelesslfor detailed instructions on using the new wireless network. ,.,

INFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS from the desk of the University Archivist

~ What did early students have to bring with them to campus?

According to our first prospectus, printed in 1798, "Every boarder upon his entrance into the College is to bring with him six shirts, six pair of stockings, six pocket-handkerchiefs,

four cravats, four towels, one hat, and three pairs of shoes- all quite new." Also "the uniform for the season in which he comes consisting in a complete suit for Sundays and another for week days, a silver tumbler and spoon, two knives and forks, a matrass (sic) and a pillow, two pair of sheets and two pillow-cases, three blankets and a counterpane or rug. These items will be furnished by the College, on demand, and paying immediately their amount in advance."

~ Which was the first campus building to be named after someone who was not a Jesuit?

Newly-ordained Jesuits' first blessing in front of Dahlgren Chapel, ca. 1925

That would be Dahlgren Chapel, the ninth building on campus, dedicated in 1893. Elizabeth Drexel and John Vinton Dahlgren (A.B.

1889, LL.B. 1891) had originally proposed that a small mortuary chapel be built as a memorial to their infant son, Joseph Drexel Dahlgren, who died in 189l. However, then Georgetown

President J. Havens Richards, S.J. had a grander vision, suggesting a

larger chapel capable of serving the whole university community which the Dahlgrens agreed to fund. In addition to being the first

building named after a non-Jesuit, the Chapel was also the first to be funded exclusively by outside gifts.

~ When and why were Blue and Gray adopted as Georgetown's colors?

In 1876, the Georgetown College Boat Club (the original crew team) was founded and one of its first actions was to appoint a Committee on Colors. Georgetown did not have any colors at the time and it was felt that they were needed so supporters on shore could identify the team during races. The Committee, desiring colors to both

honor Georgetown students and alumni who had fought in the Civil

War and to express "the feeling of unity that exists between the Northern and Southern boys of the College," recommended the adoption

of Blue and Gray. The young ladies

Georgetown boat crew, circa 1881

from the neighboring Visitation Academy immediately sewed a half blue, half gray banner, bearing the inscription Ocior Euro ("Swifter than the Wind"), and presented it to the College. The banner, now lost, was prominently displayed at commencements and other school events and its colors quickly became part of our tradition. ;.,

RIGGS

IN THE 19305

P eter J. King C'42 sent us these memories of working in Riggs Library:

The 1930s were lean years for Georgetown and for the library.

I worked in the Riggs Library from 1938 to 1942. Library operations were vastly different from those today, as was Riggs' appearance from the wonderful restoration it has enjoyed.

The staff consisted of a Librarian and three or four part-time students. The Librarian also served as an English instructor. The students earned 35 cents an hour in a New Oeal student program.

I'm not sure the Library had any acquisition budget. I can't recall any new books or any periodical subscriptions.

The Library was sparsely used. We students manned a circulation desk for infrequent customers, did a little shelving and tidying up and typed Library of Congress cards.*

* Editor's Note: Preprinted catalog cards from the Library of Congress to which a library would add its own call numbers, subject headings, etc.

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EXHIBITS

• Leon Robbin Gallery Facing the Music: Portraits of 20th Century American Composers November-February

Eduard Fuchs, Die Frau in der Karikatur, 1907.

On display in the Gunlocke Room.

• Gunlocke Room German Publishers' Bindings 1.81.0-1.920 August -December

The Society for the Propagation of the Faith

Calendar, 1948. Illustration by

J(ohn) Watson Davis. Springfield, Massachusetts;

1948.

• Fairchild Gallery Religious Drawings by John Watson Davis October-December

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FROM THE VAULT

In September, an important part of the Georgetown University Art Collection truly did

emerge "From The Vault," as three presidential portraits were added to the reception

room outside of Riggs Library.

Readers may be familiar with

this area, known either as the "Blue

Room" (from its decor) or the

"Presidents' Gallery" (from the

paintings)-the holiday party, and

other receptions, have been held

there for many years. Following

recent decorative renovations, the

portraits of W. Coleman Nevils, S.J.;

Lawrence C. Gorman, S.J.; and

Hunter Guthrie, S.J., joined those

already on view of Gerard J.

Campbell, S.J.; Robert J. Henle,

S.J.; and Timothy S. Healy, S.J.

Signs for the portraits will be added

in the near future.

Facilities specialists George Hammer and Michael Hickman put Gerard J. Campbell S .J. in place,

with W. Coleman Nevils, S.J. next.

The portrait of Father Nevils (1878-1955; served 1928-35) was painted by

Madame Ferdinand Veverka, wife of the Minister of Czechoslovakia. Madame Veverka

Timothy S. Healy, S.J. by Alfred Leslie oil on canvas, 1990, 60 3 /4 " x 54 3/4 "

studied with the well-known Czech

artist Vojzeck Hymais; her painting of

Father Nevils was reported by The

Hoya to be "a superb work in

delineation and character" when it was

displayed at a University luncheon

honoring her husband in 1932.

Father Gorman (1898-1952;

served 1942-49) was painted by

Boleslaw Jan Czedekowski (1885-

1969), a Polish artist whose other

distinguished subjects include the

painting of General George S. Patton,

Jr., in the National Portrait Gallery.

Margaret Lewis, who

completed the mural of John Carroll

on the intermediate landing of the

north stairs in Healy Hall, painted the

portrait of Father Guthrie (1901-74;

served 1949-52). We are especially

pleased to display this work. Missing for nearly two decades after a senior-prank theft,

Hunter Guthrie, S.J was defaced by a vandal; a professional restoration and cleaning last

year left the painting in excellent condition and ready to be admired.

Father Campbell (b. 1919; served 1964-69) had his portrait done by Vienna native

Greta Kempton (1903-91). A New York artist who was a friend of several Georgetown

presidents, Kempton painted President Truman's official portrait, and was praised by the

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precursor to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in

1967 as the "world's greatest living portrait artist." The

Art Collection has several other Kempton paintings in

addition to Gerard J. Campbell, S.J.

Noted Washington portraitist Robert Bruce Williams (b.1930) painted Father Henle (1909-2000;

served 1969-1976). Williams has painted many

government officials, dignitaries, and celebrities.

View of the west wall of the Presidents' Gallery,

showing (from left) the portraits of Henle, Gorman, and Guthrie.

His work has been honored by the New York Art Students League.

Father Healy (1923-92; served 1976-89) was captured on canvas by Alfred Leslie (b. 1927), an internationally renowned, New York portraitist whose work was described in

a Hirshhorn Museum exhibit as "marked by a passionate belief in the importance of

recording things seen in the grand and ambitious context of old-master painting and by

recent abstract art."

The Georgetown University Art Collection is proud that these fine depictions of six

University leaders from the last century can now be shown together in one of the most

prestigious rooms on campus. In the future, we hope to hang more of the presidential

portraits from the Vault, if restoration funds can be made available. ,.,

VISIONS IN COPPER AND WOOD

Two Nudes, 1947, wood engraving, 30 x 22.5 em., numbered 11125

This summer the exhibit in the Fairchild

Gallery featured Visions in Copper and Wood, a selection of works by Charles Quest

(1904-1993). Quest, a successful artist and

fine art instructor, worked in a diverse array

of media including mosaic, stained glass,

mural painting and sculpture, but is perhaps

best known as a printmaker.

In 1990 Georgetown University

Library's Special Collections Division

became the grateful recipient of a large body

of Quest's work, including prints, drawings,

paintings, sculpture and stained glass, as

well as his archive of correspondence and

professional memorabilia. These extensive

holdings, including some 260 of his fine

prints from which the exhibition was

mounted, provide a rich opportunity for

further study.

The exhibition can be virtually viewed at http://www.library.georgetown.edul dept/speccolllguac/quest_ 02. ,.,

GEORGETOWN JOINS THE WRLC

G eorgetown University has joined the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC), a regional organization that allows member institutions to share library resources across university bounds.

As a WRLC member, Georgetown teams up with American University, The Catholic University of America, Gallaudet University, George Mason University, The George Washington University, Marymount University, and the University of the District of Columbia.

WRLC membership will include the following library services:

t/ Access to a shared or virtual combined catalog of library holdings

t/ Reciprocal access and borrowing privileges for students and faculty (excluding law and medical libraries)

t/ Off-site storage

t/ Inter-campus delivery service for borrowed items

t/ Information technology services

t/ Support and training opportunities

t/ Use of the WRLC Digital Collections Production Center

, In making a painting,

I am putting the figure on stage. I am not trying to tell

the viewer that this is a real person. I purposely use

a hyperdramatic form. I create a stage, and I stand

the person on it. ,

-Alfred Leslie in a 1991 interview

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: WHAT IF : I I WOULD LIKE I I TO CONTRIBUTE? I I I W e'll try to make it I easy! If you have books, I manuscripts, prints or I other items the library I might be able to use, I contact Marty Barringer,

I head of Special Collections, at

: (202)687-7475, or

I Betty Smith, head of the Gifts unit, at

II (202)687-7458. If you are considering a

I contribution in the form I of cash, appreciated

I securities, or a bequest I or planned gift, please I call Mar}i Bayers, Library I Director of Qevelopment I at (202)687-5666, or I the Library Associates'

I Coordinator at I (202)687-7446. You can

I also give a gift to the I Library on-line at I Georgetown's Third I Century Campaign I website: http:// I www.georgetown.edu/ I oaur /index.html.

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NOTE OF APPRECIATION

We thank all those friends of the library who have donated books, manuscripts, or other

library materials in recent months. Among them are:

• A. Grima Johnson Rare books, chiefly offrench historical interest

• Martha Lamphere Papers of FBI agent and spycatcher Robert J. Lamphere

• John A. Mellin A small collection of rare Jesuit and anti­Jesuit books

• John C. Hirsh A collection of books and journals, chiefly of literary interest

• Edward W. and Judith L. Hutchinson Further papers of the Ord family, with much on California history

• Paul F. Betz Rare books and letters, chiefly of literary interest

GOCARD AND PHOTOCOPYING

Edward Otha Cresap Ord II, 1883.

Associates who use the Library's copiers are reminded that old copy cards are being phased out, replaced by the new GOCard. Guest GOCards can be purchased from the

vending machines located in Lauinger Library on the third floor and in the Gelardin New Media Center located on the first floor. The closest GOCard vending machine to the Blommer Science Library is located in the Leavey Center.

One photocopier on each floor also has a card reader for the former Library copy card enabling you to use up any value you may have on these old cards. ,.,

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