VOLUME XVI, NO. 1 FALL 2015

treasured maps

It is an annual ritual for many of us. We go through our closets, attics and basements, clearing out things we no longer wear or use. Garments may be out of style or don’t fit quite right. Items squirreled away on back shelves may no longer have the utility they once did. We discard, donate or recycle.

That is not so different from the exercise college librarians regularly go through. We look at our book collection with an eye to what no longer fits the curriculum. What hasn’t circulated in a decade? What has information so dated as to no longer be useful?

Out go those forgotten multiple copies of a text once on reserve for a course last taught in the 1980s. A 2005 computer book seems like a dinosaur in today’s technology. Our health sciences major had a physical education focus for decades. Shelves of books on sports training, exercise and treating athletic injuries are good candidates for withdrawal.

I found myself weeding out scores of books related to library science in the late 20th century. No one needs a book on managing microfilm collections, recording on 8-track tape or teaching students to use the card catalog.

But these are the low hanging fruit. Often the decision to keep or withdraw is more complex. Assessment is more of an art than a science. While it is helpful to have discard criteria like number of times checked-out or a book’s availability at a neighboring institution, a librarian’s knowledge of the discipline is key.

When assessing we ask ourselves: Is the book a classic? Should every good undergraduate library

have this book regardless of its circulation statistics? Is it a key work in a particular discipline? Is it a candidate for the rare books collection? Assess-ment isn’t just about what we purge, it is also about what we keep.

I considered discarding a shelf’s worth of career guidance books from the 1930s until a closer look revealed that many contained advice for the out-of-work head of household during the Great Depression. Some offered strong opinions on what was proper work for a woman or warned that women in the workforce would destroy the family structure. These books quickly took on a new identity as excellent primary source material for students studying American history, gender roles or the social effects of unemployment. I kept many of them and our catalogers added extra subject headings so they could be discovered more readily.

Like those nice clothes in our closet that are just too tight, we try to give many books a second life. Some are sold on campus or to a book buyer. Those too worn or “out of style” are offered to the art department before calling in the recycle truck. You never know if a student sculpture might arise from a pile of old books.

Giving new life to donated items is also what this issue is about. You’ll read how our conservators revitalize tattered books into their original gran-deur. Digitization allows all types of materials to be shared around the world. Classes now study on-line maps last used by 18th century sailors. Photo albums or scrapbooks untouched for decades give students a glimpse of cultural history. Long lost remembrances are compiled, published, and most importantly, shared.

FROM THE DEAN ROBIN WAGNER

ON THE COVER One of the rare 19th century case maps given to the library. See story, on page 8.

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L IBRARYNEWS

Each semester, first-year students join librarians for their own mini book group. Those who register in advance get a free copy of the selected title; this fall it was Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee.

“We invite faculty to co-facilitate each discussion,” explains Research and Instruction Director Kerri Odess-Harnish. “Their expertise is invaluable in providing context for the various themes or topics raised by the book. It’s also a great opportunity for first-year students to interact with faculty outside of the classroom. Initially, students may be quiet, but that doesn’t last long. We are never short on con-versation!”

Last year Alexandria J. Andrioli ’18 joined the group for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. “I had my own thoughts and opinions after completing the book, but hearing other people’s ideas made me analyze the book through multiple perspectives,” she says. “It was a great experience to meet with new people and talk about a good book!”

FIRST-YEAR BOOK GROUP

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This semester the Browsing Room looks like an aviary with playful puffins and other winged visitors nesting amongst the books. Artist Peter Morgan’s exhibit “Avian Flew!” combines two of his lifelong passions—birds and art. His sculpture and paintings illustrate a variety of American birds.

Morgan, who lives in Fairfield, PA but exhibits nationally, also gave a Friends-sponsored lecture about his work. While he crafts many fanciful creatures and themes, birds are a favorite. When not in his studio, Morgan can often be found with binoculars in hand seeking new subjects to transform into the likes of “Steve the Red Winged Blackbird” or “Beatrice the Belted King Fisher.”

He advises everyone to “take a look at the sheer variety of birds in your environment. They add color, sound, and life to our world. Without them, both life and art would be diminished.”

AVIAN FLEW!

FAVORITE BOOK OF ALUMNILIBRARY AWARDS

One of the most requested items in Special Collections is now available for viewing online. Surprisingly, it is not a rare artifact, but something that is a priceless memory for alumni from the classes of 1947 to 1969. It is a plain, two-volume book of bound typed pages from a required first-year course in contemporary civilization.

Developed at President Henry W.A. Hanson’s request, the yearlong course introduced students to “contemporary social problems through the major concepts, ideals, hopes and motivations of western culture since the Middle Ages.” Professors of history, philosophy and religion developed a corresponding textbook first published in 1955 as An Introduction to Contemporary Civilization and Its Problems. A second edition, retitled Ideas and Institutions of Western Man, is the one online. It is from the Gary T. Hawbaker ’66 Collection and includes his notes in the marginalia. You can find it at: http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/contemporary.

Do you have a favorite memory connected to this popular course? If so, drop us a line at: FOML@gettysburg.edu.

Recently the library has been recognized nationally with several awards. We were one of 42 institutions chosen by the Council of Independent Colleges for a grant to participate in a Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and Research. We can now implement Shared Shelf, a digital management service that allows online images to be seen in extraordinary detail. We have started with our map collection, which has already been used for a class on the Atlantic World.

We also received funding for the “Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success” program, part of an Association of College and Research Libraries initiative. We are assessing the impact of our internship programs on future career success and will share those results at a national conference next year.

And kudos to Assistant Dean of the Library Janelle Wertzberger for being named a “2015 IR All Star” by Digital Commons, the open access institutional software company. She was selected “because of her great success building a thriving repository on her small liberal arts campus. The Cupola has become a space for Gettysburg to showcase exemplary student content.”

ADAMS COUNTY HISTORY ONLINEThe entire 20-year run of Adams County History is now freely available for viewing online via The Cupola, the College’s open access repository. The annual journal of the Adams County Historical Society (ACHS) includes articles, many written by faculty and students, which cover local history, the Battle of Gettysburg and some College history. To access The Cupola, go to the library’s homepage at www.gettysburg.edu/library and select The Cupola from the top tab bar. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the ACHS. Learn more at www.achs-pa.org.

L IBRARY NEWS

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“I lived a Civil War buff’s dream,” reflected the Civil War Institute’s 2015 Brian C. Pohanka Intern Steven Semmel ’16 about his summer in Special Collections. He served as the library’s resident Civil War expert, working with visiting teachers from the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and educating library staff about life as a Union soldier.

Semmel’s core responsibility was working with the documents and artifacts of Hoadley George Hosford, 44th New York. He organized and transcribed Hosford’s diaries, which describe his enlistment and include passages about the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and

Cold Harbor. He traced the soldier’s career path from Zouave to Sharpshooter to recruiter.

His work culminated in curating a small exhibit about Hosford; he made the images and transcriptions of the diaries available online in the Civil War Era Collection of GettDigital. Drawing on his double major in computer science and history, Semmel began an interactive virtual exhibit of Hosford’s march from Albany, NY to southern Virginia. He also cataloged the Civil War Vertical File Manuscripts collection—a process that will increase discoverability of a diverse and little-known set of primary sources.

This was the second year that the library participated in this internship program, established in 2011 by the John J. Pohanka Family Foundation.

Meanwhile, before his first class had even begun, Andrew Dalton ’19 was curating an exhibit for Musselman Library. The exhibit is on Gettysburg’s Katalysine Spring, which gained fame in the late 1860s for its “medicinal waters” leading to the building of a bottling company and resort hotel [featured in the Spring 2013 issue].

Dalton became fascinated with the Spring’s history when he was 12 and began finding artifacts from this long-gone venture while exploring near his home, a little over a mile from the campus. This would eventually lead him to publish a book at age 16, Beyond the Run: The Emanuel Harmon Farm at Gettysburg.

Diane Werley Smith ’73 Intern, Avery Fox ’16, and Pohanka Intern, Steven Semmel ’16, show off some of Semmel’s living history kit.

STUDENTS HELP MAKE HISTORY PUBLIC

STUDENT EXHIBIT EXEMPLIFIES LIBERAL ARTSArtifacts, rare books and artwork from Special Collections were the focal point of a recent Schmucker Art Gallery exhibition “Pray for the People Who Feed You” – Voices of Pauper Children in the Industrial Age. Rebecca Duffy ‘16 curated this special exhibit, drawing upon her research at the Workhouse Museum in Nottingham-shire, England and visits to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City.

Duffy exposed the plight of Pennsylvania’s forgotten children through historical artifacts like the ledger from the Adams County Almshouse and reports on the operations of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ homes following the Civil War. She featured Minna Citron’s painting Grist for the Mill (1934), the child labor photographs of Lewis W. Hine, and the lithograph Salvation Army Social Campaign unfolded from the pages of William Booth’s book In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890).

In a gallery talk, Duffy confessed that it was not until she read a section in Dickens’ Oliver Twist that the show came together for her. The impoverished Oliver asked for help, but instead was instructed to “pray for the people who feed you.” Duffy reflect-ed on that passage, “The children of this era and circumstance had no voice—the pieces in the exhibit had to speak for them. The depiction of an uncomfortable past helps us ad-dress our uncomfortable present—a present that needs our attention.”

Duffy actually planned this exhibit while in Nicaragua last summer as a Center for Public Service fellow. She also coordinates the El Centro after school program in Gettysburg.

This exhibit was the culmination of Duffy’s liberal arts experience, notes Associate Director of the Civil War Institute, Jill Titus. “Becca has truly embraced all of the opportunities that a Gettysburg education can offer, and found a wealth of creative ways to bring her diverse interests together. Through study abroad, research fellowships and summer internships, she’s blended her academic study of history and art history with her interest in museum studies and her passion for social justice. This exhibit reflects the journey she’s undertaken over the past few years, and will serve as a stepping stone to the next phase of that journey.”

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Lester Stuart Witherow, class of 1914, was having a terrible start to his junior year. He was earning mostly Cs with a D in English and a failing grade in physics. This could be attributed to his abysmal attendance record of 20 missed classes. His report card also indicates many absences from church services and chapel.

His grade card, signed by the Registrar, Clyde B. Stover, was sent home to his parents with an explanation of the grading system on the reverse side. Lucky for Witherow he got another chance in physics—an “E” meant “failed but entitled to another examination.” Sixty-four units were necessary for gradu-ation and a full-time student like Witherow was expected to earn at least 15 credits each year.

Special Collections has a small but fascinating collection of 19th and early 20th century report cards. Viewed together they offer a snapshot of the curriculum, faculty and extra-curricular expectations on campus at a particular time. They also serve as a record of changes in the academic program over the years. For example, junior Thomas Blauvelt’s 1858 grade report lists courses in intellectual and moral science, Latin, Greek and German language and literature, mathematics, chemistry, natural philosophy, anatomy and physiology—a very different set of requirements compared to Lester Witherow’s.

Report cards also offer information such as length of terms and costs to attend. For instance, Blauvelt’s

grade report lists tuition at $20 for the winter session and $14 for the summer. Boarding and lodging from $1.62 ½ to $2.00 per week and two five-week vacations.

It seems fitting that retired Gettysburg College Registrar (and current archives assistant) Ron Couchman, has taken on the report cards as a

special project. He has been sifting through Special Collections files and pulling these report cards together into a collection of their own. He expects others may be in scrapbooks, most of them dating from the 1920s and beyond. He also noted that we have the grade books of some early professors dating back to Henry L. Baugher’s from the 1850s and Philip Bickle’s from 1879-1884.

Couchman also tries to find out what happened to these

report card recipients and includes that information with the grade report. As it turns out, Witherow had better success later in life! He completed the medical program at the University of Pennsylvania and practiced medicine in Harrisburg, PA.

And what about the grades of current students? “Not available,” explains College Archivist Amy Lucadamo. “Anything graded is closed to researchers because of privacy laws, but because these early report cards were donated by alumni and because all are deceased, they are available for anyone hoping to get a flavor of the curriculum in the past two centuries.”

REPORT CARDS REVEAL MORE THAN GRADES

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How did you start collecting folded maps?I became interested in these types of maps while living in Britain; I loved history and maps, but was not in a financial position to collect antiquarian maps.

I noticed, however, that no one wanted folded maps. The map collectors hated them because they had been ’cut and folded’ destroying, in their minds, the integrity of the original paper creation; book-sellers did not like them because they were not ’books.’ But I thought these maps were terrific pieces from the past.

They tended to be acquired in large estate sales by book dealers who would purchase Victorian or Edwardian libraries of thousands of books at a time and mixed in would be a handful of these maps. I began to look for, and find them one and two at a time, searching in the basements, shelves and attics of book dealers (all this before the Internet and eBay). Over time, I built a large and inexpensive collection. Now, of course, these maps have become popular and valuable; I could not afford my own collection!

Were these maps popular at a particular time and place? Maps have been backed on linen for centuries, generally for use in libraries, and by governments and schools; but they exploded in this category in the 19th century when the European nations became wealthy enough for the public to buy them directly. Cartographic technology emerged that facilitated large-scale production, and public interest in the world grew exponentially during the period of exploration and colonization and the emergence of maritime empires.

These maps appeared all over Europe but Britain was the epicenter as the biggest explorer, colonizer and imperial power of the time and with a strong tradition in mapmaking and cartography. It was also home to the Royal Geographic Society, the largest producer and consumer of these types of maps.

How were they used and by whom? These types of maps literally covered all possible cartographic subjects, although most focused on continents, nations or large cities. Of major interest were those illustrating newly explored and seemingly exotic areas of the globe such as Africa and India. That interest heightened as European nations colonized, fought colonial wars and ruled these areas heretofore little known or understood in Western Europe.

Left-Taylor describes the Stanford map of the world as, “a gem of map making and a statement of Britain’s power and reach. It is considered to be one of the 19th century’s finest cartographic creations.” 9

Recently, former U.S. Ambassador Lawrence “Larry” Taylor donated his large collection of 19th century linen-backed folding maps (also called case maps) to the library. These have been digitized and will soon be available for online viewing. Here, Taylor describes how he acquired this collection and the history of these maps.

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Because the linen backing secured the otherwise fragile paper map and because the maps were folded into small cases or covers, they often were taken overseas by travelers or colonists and then unfolded and placed on walls of homes, schools or government offices in the colonies.

Smaller folded maps were kept at home in Europe where families used them to try to understand international events and they were common place at clubs to help members follow wars and treaties overseas. These maps were not only about geography, but also about politics, power and culture.

Why did you decide to donate them to Special Collections?

I had seen Special Collections’ wonderful collection of maps several years ago. I love the idea of students using maps as primary resources and want my maps to enrich the resource base of the College in ways that can directly benefit students and faculty now and in the future. I had also worked with Special Collections when I facilitated the gifting of Civil War items to the College from a UAE leadership program we were hosting on campus, so I had confidence in the library.

Taylor offers this scholarly tip:

“When examining 19th century

maps, it is always useful to ask

what is NOT on the map and why;

it is usually as educational and

interesting as what is on

the map.”

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By Michael J. Birkner ’72Professor of History

Gettysburg College is fortunate in its small but growing collection of Dwight D. Eisenhower correspondence, ranging chronologically from 1918 (when he responded to an invitation to dine with College President William A. Granville) to 1968, when he was serving on Gettysburg’s Board of Trustees.

A particularly fascinating piece is the draft letter Eisenhower wrote on June 19, 1959 in response to the Senate’s rejection of his nominee for Secretary of Commerce. Eisenhower greatly admired Lewis Strauss, his Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1958 Eisenhower made him Secretary of Commerce by means of a recess appointment and later sent his name to the Senate for final confirmation. Over the years, Strauss had rubbed powerful senators the wrong way and one of them, Clinton Anderson, made defeating his confirmation a mission. Two prominent senators—John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson—ultimately sided with Anderson and cast what proved to be decisive votes against

RESEARCH REFLECTIONSEISENHOWER ’S CORRESPONDENCE

confirmation. It was the first time a presidential cabinet appointment had failed in the Senate since 1925. Eisenhower was furious.

He took the trouble to write privately to each senator who had voted to confirm Strauss and the sentiments expressed by the president make the document special. An added element lies in Ike’s fingerprints on the document—he heavily edited it, adding in conclusion a handwritten paragraph highlighting “the courage, wisdom and spirit of fairness you demonstrated in the vote on the confirmation of Lewis Strauss. I am grateful.”

Evidence indicates that Eisenhower sent this rough draft to Strauss as a testament to his feelings. The original of this remarkable document is available in Special Collections for students and scholars to study and interpret.

Excerpt from Thirty Treasures, Thirty Years: Stories from the Musselman Library Collection. Copies available at the College Bookstore.

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To honor the 125th anniversary of Dwight Eisenhower’s birth, Musselman Library has produced Encounters with Eisenhower, an original volume containing personal reminiscences of the beloved president. Co-edited by Professor of History Michael J. Birkner and Archives Assistant Devin McKinney, the book draws on written testimonials, oral histories and unpublished anecdotes from dozens who had contact with “Ike,” from ordinary citizens to trusted aides.

Richly illustrated with photos and artifacts spanning WWII, the presidential years and retirement, Encounters highlights Ike’s Gettysburg ties. “I was unaware how deep his roots were here,” says McKinney. “It’s fascinating to see this legendary man in the context of a place we experience every day.”

Encounters was largely funded by a grant from the Eisenhower Society. The library thanks the Society for its generous support of this and other Eisenhower projects.

Eisenhower in Focus is a main floor photographic exhibit of Dwight D. Eisenhower throughout his life as a public figure. These black and white pictures show him during WWII, as a presidential candidate, during his two terms as president, and as a retired general, living on his Gettysburg farm. The exhibit was funded by a grant from the Eisenhower Society and can be seen through June 2016.

The images are the work of local, military and international photographers and were selected from prints housed in Special Collections and College Archives. A complimentary exhibition, We All Liked Ike, featuring artifacts and documents from our collections and the Adams County Historical Society, is on display in Special Collections through December 2015.

MUSSELMAN LIKES IKE

EISENHOWER IN FOCUS

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HAMMANN HONORED

RARE DOCUMENT ON HOLOCAUST

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Thanks to Friends donations the library was able to purchase a rare government document issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland entitled The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland. This 16-page original edition is the first published documentation of the Holocaust in the English language dating from December 10, 1942. Addressed to the United Nations it concerns the mass extermination of Jews in the Polish territories occupied by Germany. Jan Karski, a Polish resistance fighter, was smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto disguised as a Ukrainian camp guard, and reported his observations:

The actual process of deportation was carried out with appalling brutality. At the appointed hour on each day the German police cordoned off a block of houses selected for clearance, entered the back yard and fired their guns at random as a signal for all to leave their homes and assemble in the yard. Anyone attempting to escape or to hide was killed on the spot. No attempt was made by the Germans to keep families together. Wives were torn from their husbands and children from their parents. Those who appeared frail or infirm were carried straight to the Jewish cemetery to be killed and buried there. On the average 50-100 people were disposed of in this way daily. After the contingent was assembled, the people were packed forcibly into cattle trucks to the number of 120 in each truck which had room for 40. The trucks were then locked and sealed. The Jews were suffocating for lack of air…and were dispatched to three localities—Tremblinka, Belzec and Sobibor, to what the reports describe as “Extermination camps.” The very method of transport was deliberately calculated to cause the largest possible number of casualties among the condemned Jews.

The library hosted a reception during Homecoming to celebrate Professor of Religion Emeritus, Louis Hammann ’51 and launch a new endowment established in his honor by Stephen J. Nelson ’69 and his wife Janet Cooper Nelson. Proceeds of this fund will purchase library books in religion and philosophy.

In addition to those gathered, absent alumni also sent their reminiscences:

“My employment has allowed me the privilege of working in 59 countries around the world. The complexity of cultural, political and religious differences would never have been possible to comprehend and navigate without the very early guidance of my most influential teacher, Dr. Lou Hammann.” – Jim Shannon ’74

“Reading the Old Testament in Lou Hamman’s Bible class not only added breadth and depth to my liberal education but taught me to look beyond the words to the context and the myriad of interpretations.” – Gail Shea Nardi ’64

“Whenever anyone asks me about the best course that I ever took at Gettysburg College, without hesitation I tell them it was ’Religions from the Center to the Fringe’ with Dr. Lou Hammann. I was a non-believing business administration major who dreaded having to take a religion course. I was lucky enough to get into this course and to have one of the most dynamic professors teaching a subject that opened up my mind and put me at ease about my own beliefs or lack of them… I was blessed.” – Peter Carlson ’80

To donate to this fund select the GIVING link on the library’s homepage www.gettysburg.edu/library.

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The newest addition to GettDigital, “The Beauty of the Book—Bindings from Special Collections,” shows you can judge a book by its cover. This sam-pling of notable book bindings highlights rare books as artifacts and demonstrates the history of the craft. In addition to images, each entry describes features such as the cover, fore-edge, spine and “binder’s tickets,” which identify the bookbinder.

These examples (65 so far) from the College’s collection, selected by our conservator, Mary Wootton, and Rachel Hammer ’15, illustrate a range of bindings from the 1500s to early 1900s. Many covers were selected for their beautiful artwork, gilt stamping, elaborate embossing or simply because they are original to how the first reader of the book would have seen them. Some are bound in dyed cloth, vellum or leather. Even the ends of the pages are often decorated with marbling, gold leaf, or hand-painted scenes.

Several classes in 17th and 18th century English and drama already have used this collection and a special presentation of the project drew a full house of campus attendees this fall.

Hammer, who was instrumental in digitizing this project, worked in Special Collections and was also the first Diane Werley Smith ’73 Summer Intern in 2012. After graduation she stayed on to help complete The Beauty of the Book project and has now accepted a position at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.

GETTDIGITAL THE BEAUTY OF THE BOOK

To view this collection, select the GettDigital Collections tab on the library’s home page, www.gettysburg.edu/library.

“My time in Special Collections taught me skills that have given me a head start into the field I want to pursue. I never thought when I got the job my freshman year, it would mean as much to me as it has. I can’t be thankful enough for my experience, the people I’ve worked with and the opportunities it’s given me.”

FOCUS ON PHILANTHROPY KIMBERLY RAE CONNOR ’79

The word “disembark” implies the arrival at one’s destination. But for Kimberly Rae Connor ’79, seeing artist Glenn Ligon’s exhibit “To Disembark” in 1993 was the start of a journey, one that ultimately led to her giving nine of his slave narrative lithographs to Special Collections.

Ligon juxtaposes works from history, visual arts, literature, as well as personal experiences, to explore race, language, sexuality and identity. In the process of exploring his identity, he helped Connor find hers.

Connor says that her early interest in interdisciplinary studies, combined with being a white female writing on racial topics and multiethnic authors, positioned her as an outsider and led to an “erratic career path.” Encountering Ligon’s work

made her realize that, “being on the margins provides an important perspective that those in the center often miss.”

With the encouragement of her Gettysburg College mentor, the late philosophy professor Norman Richardson, she earned a Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. There she describes being “drawn to the new discourses of literary interpretation” and by 1993, she was writing a book about the slave narrative tradition.

“By coincidence, I attended a conference in Washington, D.C. when the Hirshhorn Museum was exhibiting Ligon’s installation, which included the slave narrative lithographs,” she recalls. “I was astonished by how his art engaged the themes of the literary tradition I was exploring. His contribution added a neglected visual aspect that also directly referenced the literary tradition from which it emerged, not just the original slave narratives but contemporary works by writers like Gwendolyn Brooks and James Baldwin. He was smart and his work had a point; he both mirrored and illuminated American life.”

She says this encounter “profoundly changed the book I was writing by expanding my notion of ’text’ to include image and sound to create an overall vision of African American reality after slavery.” She ended up including Ligon’s introspective art, along with the works of a performance artist and a musician in her book Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition (2000).

She contacted Ligon, who she found “unfailingly gracious and generous.” Eventually she purchased the nine lithographs. But over the years, as Ligon’s art acquired more value, Connor realized she could not care for, or display, the works properly. “Donating them may seem a considerate act, but the College did me a favor by ensuring that they would be curated, cared for, and used to serve educational purposes.”

In 2014, the prints were featured on campus in an exhibit called “Narratives.” Says Connor, “I appreciate the symbolic resonance of the College holding the works of an African American artist whose comment on slavery directly references the inspiring abolitionist history of Gettysburg.”

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GIFTS TO MUSSELMAN L IBRARY JULY 1, 2014- JUNE 30, 2015

FOCUS ON PHILANTHROPY KIMBERLY RAE CONNOR ’79

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GIFTS TO MUSSELMAN L IBRARY JULY 1, 2014- JUNE 30, 2015

$5000 or moreFourjay FoundationBarbara A. Holley ’54 Jean S. LeGros ’73C. Edward MaharayStephen J. ’69 & Janet C. Nelson Linda Fortenbaugh Thompson

$1000 to $4999Christine A. BeneckeJoseph A. ’75 & Susan Abercrombie Biernat ’77 Gabor S. & Elizabeth L. Boritt ’88 G. Ronald Couchman ’63 Michael J. ’69 & Nancy Allen HoborNorman S. ’68 & Suzanne Knestrick Kennedy ’70 The Dwight D. Eisenhower SocietyJames S. ’63 & Susan A. VinsonJacob M. ’52 & Genevieve Koontz YinglingChristopher J. Zappe

$500 to $999Pamela J. Bennett ’65Michael J. Birkner ’72 & Robin WagnerSarah Blumig ’10 Kimberly Bowers Connor ’79 Martin H. ’62 & Colleen Sholly Cronlund ’62 Karen D. DrickamerRobert C. ’97 & Heidi Holthaus Gillis ’97 Bruce D. Gottschall ’75 Richard T. ’82 & Carolyn Albert Harris ’85 Owen M. & Nancy Johnson James H. Madison ’66 Stephen E. & Brenda Salvaggio Riffee ’80John E. Rogers, Jr. ’65 Richard V. & Kay L. TarrLynda Herman Thomas ’72 Keith R. Vail ’65Eric L. ’65 & Gail Larson Van Gilder ’65 Steven J. ’78 & Nancy DiBlasi Wennberg ’78 William C. Wright ’61

$250 to $499Laurie A. Baty ’76 Deane G. ’57 & Thelma Ernst Bornheimer ’57 Jay P. ’51 & Mary W. BrownLeo C. & Carolyn Kuhn Byron ’62 A. Ralph & Shirlee CavaliereA. Bruce Chamberlin ’86Ruthe Fortenbaugh Craley ’50

Donald L. ’89 & Julie Dufresne Deardorff ’90 Susan Niblette Donahue ’71 Claudia Roeder Dovman ’64 Jere E. ’65 & Angela Gravino Estes ’64 Gary T. Hawbaker ’66 James N. Heston ’70 Charles A. ’72 & Rosemary Lynch Michaud ’72 Jerry E. ’63 & Eileen SpinelliJanet C. Stavropoulos ’67Philip Warman

$100 to $249Elizabeth Lott Bair ‘50 Carol Dunlap Billings ‘63 Kathy Shiffer Brown ‘69 Joseph J. Chronowski ‘05 Susan Clark Mary Ann Shearer Craver ‘55 William P. Deptula ‘90 John D. & Susan S. DonnellyKristin D. DriscollFrederick A. Foltz ‘59 Amy Dilworth Gabel ‘85 Frederick R. GaenslenMichael & Kathryn L. GelnerH. DeForest HardingeFred W. Hopkins, Jr. ‘56Vincent A. & Palma ImbroRobert C. & Judith Williams Kip ‘68 Todd W. ‘03 & Whitney Tuttle Klacik ‘04 Lex O. & Dorothy A. McMillanDouglas O. Michael Richard M. & Kathleen MullinNancy MullinEdward B. Myers ‘73Victor A. MyersMargaret Ribler Oeller ‘75Mary M. OrrPeter J. & Eleanor B. PellaAlan R. & Catherine Q. PerryCarrie M. Pirmann ‘99Linda J. PopeJohn F. Probst ‘53 Susan M. Quinn ‘84George T. Ragno ‘77 William E. RavenscroftJohn L. Renjilian ‘64Cynthia Middleton Repsher ‘61GailAnn Rickert

J. Edward ‘77 & Janet Morgan Riggs ‘77Ronald A. P. ‘64 & Kathryn Rock Matthew J. ‘08 & Heather Niles Salter ‘08 Charles M. SaltzmanFrancis P. Saponaro, III ‘89 Ellen M. Schneider ‘63 Jean Pugh Shipman ‘79 Robert H. ‘55 & Frieda Vierling Stark ‘54Robert H. Stark, Jr. ‘78Bruce R. ‘71 & Betsy A. StefanyHarry C. Stokes & Lisa R. Portmess ‘72Lawrence P. & Lynda E. TaylorGary B. Thompson ‘69 Wayne L. TrottaSuzanne Pelton Walker ‘60 Jeffrey C. Webster & Nancy MullinG. Edward ‘67 & Victoria A. WhetstoneClayton R. Wilcox ‘67 Eric M. & Miranda E. WisorJohn B. Zinn, Jr. ‘41 Sander W. Zulauf ‘68

$50 to $99Kip K. Bard ‘72; Robert ‘58 & Esther Barkley; Karen Kevra Beacher ‘67; James Becraft; Howard J. Belger; James M. & Rosanna S. Clouse; Margaret Blanchard Curtis ‘52; Daniel R. & Sunni C. DeNicola; Chelsea Bucklin Fairley ‘10; William F. Ferguson ‘65; Alan & Dorothy Fleckner; David E. Flesner; William Lee ‘65 & Nancy Gant Forester ‘64; Gettysburg Friends Meeting; Robert N. Harcourt ‘58; Jo Ann Mathias Hare; John B. Horner; Willis M. Hubbard; Richard A. & Robyn L. Jacobs; Emily Koons; Anne Labora; Elizabeth R. Lambert; Gregory L. ‘77 & Lynne Herring Landrey ‘77; Kenneth E. Link; Nancy C. Locher; Leslie S. March; Terrence McArdle; Arthur W. & Dagmar McCardle; Lisa S. McNamee; David H. Moore; Joan Estoppey Nagy ‘69; Glenn S. ‘54 & Constance Scullin Pannell ‘56; Khwaja S. & Rokh-sana Rahman; James C. & Susan R. Roach; Fred J. & Laura L. Robinson; Theodore C. Schlack ‘50; Caro-line S. Smith; Paul A. & Sarah E. Stokely; Michael J. Strong; Susan H. Swope; Tara R. Wink ‘07; Paul S. & Dana Hudson Witt ‘73; Judith L. Zerbe ‘62

Funds & Endowments

Edward J. Baskerville Fund (Fiction, Browsing Room)Hugh E. Barry ’72; Christine Benecke; Stanley J. ’14 & Anne Hanley Casillo ’79; Kathryn A. Cooke; Donald ’89 & Julie Dufresne Deardorff ’90; Jere ’65 & Angela Gravino Estes ’64; Edward B. Myers ’73; Terence C. O’Neill ’78; Stephen E. & Brenda Salvaggio Riffee ’80; Jerry ’63 & Eileen Spinelli; Robert H. Stark, Jr. ’78; Janet C. Stavropoulos ’67; Richard V. & Kay L. Tarr; Lynda Herman Thomas ’72; Robert J. Waldman ’70; Stephen ’78 & Nancy DiBlasi Wennberg ’78

Joseph Biernat, Jr. ’75 Fund (Environmental Studies)Joseph ’75 & Susan Abercrombie Biernat ’77

Thomas Cooper Fund (American History & Literature)Victor A. Myers

Karen D. Drickamer Fund (Special Collections)Leo C. & Carolyn Kuhn Byron ’62; G. Ronald Couchman ’63; Karen D. Drickamer; H. DeForest Hardinge; Barbara A. Holley ’54; Norman S. ’68 & Suzanne Kennedy ’70; Victor A. Myers; John L. Renjilian ’64; Jerry ’63 & Eileen Spinelli; William C. Wright ’61

Mike ’69 & Nancy Hobor Fund (Chinese History & Culture)Michael ’69 & Nancy Allen Hobor

Robert ’44 & Esther Kenyon Fortenbaugh ’46 InternshipElizabeth Lott Bair ’50; Leo & Carolyn Kuhn Byron ’62; Ruthe Fortenbaugh Craley ’50; Donald ’89 & Julie Dufresne Deardorff ’90; William Deptula ’90; George ’52 & Jo Ann Mathias Hare ’53; Joan Nagy ’69; John Renjilian ’64; Andrew Royer ’09; Charles Saltzman; Caroline Smith; Linda Thompson

Barbara A. Holley ’54 InternshipBarbara A. Holley ’54; Glenn ’54 & Constance Scullin Pannell ’56; Linda J. Pope; John L. Renjilian ’64; Philip Warman

Robert Franklin Holley Preservation FundBarbara A. Holley ’54; Victor A. Myers

Sotaro Ishii ’78 Fund (Japan, Japanese language) A. Bruce Chamberlin ’86; Margaret Blanchard Curtis ’52

Janet ’39 & George Maharay Fund (American History) C. Edward Maharay

Kenneth & Mary Newbould Fund (Oral History)Timothy W. Calabrese ’03; Jerry ’63 & Eileen Spinelli

Stephen ’69 & Janet Nelson Endowment in honor of Prof. Lou Hammann ’51 (Philosophy & Religion)Stephen ’69 & Janet Nelson; Lisa Portmess ’72; Harry Stokes

Robert C. “Bob” Nordvall Fund (Italian Language & Culture) Michael Birkner ’72 & Robin Wagner; A. Ralph & Shirlee Cavaliere; David Flesner; Frederick A. Foltz; Joseph J. Grzybowski; Jean S. LeGros ’73; Arthur W. McCardle; Lex & Dorothy McMillan; Mary M. Orr; Peter & Eleanor Pella; Alan & Catherine Perry; George T. Ragno ’77; James & Susan Roach; Fred J. & Laura L. Robinson; Francis P. Saponaro, III ’89; Janet C, Stavropoulos ’67; John B. Zinn ’41Diane Werley Smith ’73 Library InternshipJohn Renjilian ’64; J. Edward ’77 & Janet Morgan Riggs ’77

Book Conservation FundChristine Benecke; Pamela J. Bennett ’65; Gary T. Hawbaker ’66; Lawrence & Lynda Taylor; Keith R. Vail ’65; James S. ’63 & Susan A. Vinson; Priscilla Fausold Weir ’52

Yingling Special Collections EndowmentJacob ’52 & Genevieve Koontz Yingling

Gifts from Authors of their WorksTheresa Arndt; George DuBois; Suzanne Youngblood

Honor with Books(Honoree listed first with donor after)Norman Forness • Joseph Tucker ’03 Lena Fortenbaugh • Ruthe Craley ’50 Edwin D. Freed ’43 • Michael Birkner ’72 Bob Kallin • Ashlyn Sowell & Kevin WilsonBruce Mahon ’54 • Sandy & Tom Wadsworth Jorge Perez-Rico • Musselman Library StaffBill Railing • G. Ronald Couchman Douglas Reese • Leslie S. March Alex T. Rowland • Michael Birkner ’72Conrad Wojciechowski • Ralph & Shirlee Cavaliere

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES GIFTS

Anonymous1981 “Christ Chapel” and “Pennsylvania Hall” prints by John Sullivan, donated in honor of the Roulette family.

Dorothy AikinCopy of John M. Kelso’s Civil War transcript of his service in the 112th PA Regiment.

Marie Beran Additions to the James A. Beran Civil War Artifact Collection including ammunition, buttons, belt plates, canteen and tintypes.

Michael Birkner ’72Dwight D. Eisenhower-related items; 1973 presidential ephemera; oral history transcripts. Jay Brown ’5120th century sheet music.

Jennifer Bryant ’82Signed proof and published copies of her book, The Right Word, Roget and his Thesaurus.

Robert Eastlack ’70Collection of over 200 books by Horatio Alger; assorted magazines from 1863 to 1910.

Susan Harper ’76Over 1,350 items representing three literary collections compiled by Robert Harper: F. Scott Fitzgerald [see story in Spring 2015 issue], James Gould Cozzens and Arthur Train.

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Gary Hawbaker ’66 Diary of Henry Louis Baugher during his 1867 trav-els in Europe. Henry was the son of Henry Lewis Baugher, second president of Pennsylvania College.

Richard HurdAdditions to the Fritz Draper Hurd ’16 collection of WWI and College memorabilia including his personal daily journals from 1913-1914; souvenir bullet [see photo on right].

Geoffrey Jackson ’91An 1860 chromolithograph print by J. Bien of Audubon’s Carolina Parrot [see Spring 2015 newsletter].

Leo Jarboe Ephemera related to the World War II ship, the USS Callaghan.

Christopher Matthaei ’01Late 19th to early 20th century atlas maps of Pennsylvania.

Dian Murray 20th century Chinese and Japanese artifacts includ-ing painted seashells from a game of concentra-tion; Mao pins; Red Guard cap; spirit money; art prints; poster from the International Conference on Globalization and Media in Asia at Notre Dame signed by actress/producer, Michelle Yeoh.

Janet L. Norcross Material collected by Congressman James Quigley on the restoration of the Gettysburg Battlefield.

Jane Hauser Patrono Memorabilia related to Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower from 1964 to 1981 including photos, booklets, programs, flyers and correspondence with her parents, John and Helen Hauser; other political ephemera.

Jerry Ponsiglione ’63Civil War-related items including photos and reunion medal.

Douglas Price Paper ephemera related to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

John Rogers, Jr. ’65 1922 photograph of D.H. Lawrence in Chapala, Mexico and related correspondence; Adlai Steven-son commemorative postage stamp and signed letter to Rogers.

Gerald E. Royals ’52 Photos of himself from the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

Margaret Satterly German World War II helmet.

Angelo Scarlato 1913 dance card, US Marine Corps Training Corps Ball at Gettysburg; Fascist Joveni cap from the Italian Delegation of University Students’ visit to Gettysburg in 1934.

Melvin Schissler Items belonging to his son, Jeffrey M. Schissler ’71: Tiffany kangaroo pin; belt buckle engraved from actress Shirley MacLaine to Jeff (with signed note); Cartier paperweight from 1981 Copperfield: A New Musical.

Theodore Schlack, ’50Civil War artifacts including: rifle; percussion caps, knapsack, belt; and 75th Reunion (Battle of Gettysburg) items.

Lisa ’89 and Andrew Schroeder6 signed photos by artist Sally Gall.

Charles Scott Papers from the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylva-nia, 2010-2014.

William Wright ’611883 letter from Robert Todd Lincoln, U.S. Secretary of War, to Charles Reinewald and Edgar Irving Brenner regarding a flag purchased by the students to be flown over Pennsylvania Hall; collection of College memorabilia from mid-1800s to early 1900s.

Gifts of College Memorabilia1964 Football Team; Adams County Historical Society; Kathleen Adams; Bruce R. Banes items of Roland M. Banes ’30; Dale Bentz ’39; Michael Birkner ’72; Thomas Boll ’74; Don Bowman items of Harry S. Bowman ’34; George Fennell ’66; Marcia McGuire Gooldy ’47; Luther Gotwald ’47; Alice Gregal ’67; Gary Hawbaker ’66; Barbara Holley ’54; Valerie Toombs Hamilton ’71; Sarah Wolfe Klos ’48; Ernest Kruse ’52; Phyllis E. Menchey; Ronald C. Miller ’54; Eugene F. Milone; Anna ’49 and George ’47 Motter; Paul Muchinsky ’69; Melvin Schissler items of Jeffrey M. Schissler ’71; William Tuceling ’70; Warwick Township Historical Commission; G.

Edward Whetstone, Jr. ’67 items of George Edward Whetstone, Sr. ’38; Francie Zimmerman ’69

Gifts of Books, Periodicals, CDs, DVDs and PhotographsMichael Birkner ’72; Gabor Boritt; Donald Cooney ’79; Robert Eastlack ’70; Edwin Freed ’43; Gail Furford; Lyle Hallowell; Robert Hicks, Mütter Museum; Leo Jarboe; Kurt Kaltreider ’65; Christine Kermaire; Barbara Maher ’56; John Maietta; Jerry Ponsiglione ’63; Janet Powers; Richard Ryder ’70; Carolyn Sautter; Allison Singley books of Emma Lou Fee; Philip Warman

BULLET HOLE

Bullets from the Civil War are not uncommon in Gettysburg, but the library recently was given a rare one—it contains a tiny Stanhope lens with three images of Antietam. The souvenir bullet belonged to Fritz Draper Hurd, class of 1916, and was probably purchased at the battlefield, which sold them into the early 1900s. A tiny drilled hole allows one to look through the lens and view a pin-head sized microphotograph.

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Robin Wagner, Dean of the Library Sunni DeNicola, Newsletter Editor

RESEARCH HELP DESK: DIFFERENT NAME, SAME GREAT SERVICE! We have renamed our Reference Desk to Research Help Desk to better reflect the kind of assistance librarians now provide. The days of a librarian answering quick, fact-based questions have been replaced with using Google. Instead, librarians are responding to more complex research questions such as those that require helping students delve deeper into the literature on a particular topic, search digitized newspapers from the 18th century, or retrieve sets of economic data. For even tougher questions, students can schedule one-on-one appointments.

The Research Help Desk is also staffed with Peer Research Mentors (PRMs) who have received intensive training. Since not all students may be comfortable approaching a librarian, PRMs provide yet another level of personalized service.

The desk, by any name, stays busy. This photo, taken on a recent evening, shows Librarian Mallory Jallas (left) and PRM Miranda Bubenheim ’18 (far right) working with students.