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Caroliniana Columns - Spring 2013 University Libraries--University of South Carolina University of South Carolina Scholar Commons University South Caroliniana Society Newsletter - South Caroliniana Library Columns Spring 2013 Caroliniana Columns - Spring 2013 University Libraries--University of South Carolina Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/columns Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation University of South Carolina, "University of South Carolina Libraries - Caroliniana Columns, Issue 33, Spring 2013". http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/columns/33/ This Newsletter is brought to you by the South Caroliniana Library at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in University South Caroliniana Society Newsletter - Columns by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. University South Caroliniana Society Newsletter Spring 2013 Report from the Director by Henry G. Fulmer Saturday, April 6, was bright and sunny, dramatically different from the rain squalls that had punctuated the week just days before, and by midday, as some 132 members and friends gathered for the seventy-seventh annual meeting of the University South Caroliniana Society, the University of South Carolina’s historic Horseshoe was teaming with springtime picnickers, sun bathers, and those enjoying a pick-up game of frisbee. Continued on page 2 Shown, left to right are South Caroliniana Library staff members Fritz Hamer, Ann Troyer, Edward Blessing, Beth Bilderback, Harold Newfield, Linda Stewart, Graham Duncan, John Heiting, Brian Cuthrell, Henry Fulmer, Donald Turner, Elizabeth West, and Lorrey Stewart. Not present when the picture was taken were Craig Keeney and Andrea L’Hommedieu. “A Few Words about Allen Stokes as He Retires as Director of the South Caroliniana Library” by Orville Vernon Burton It’s bittersweet to say goodbye to Dr. Allen Place and Time Stokes. He has worked with the collections Historians of the American South are of the South Caroliniana Library since 1967, concerned with place and time, and Stokes when he must have been very advanced for a helped make the South Caroliniana Library toddler! a very special place for historians of the Historian Allen Stokes has admirably served American South; it is almost a holy or sacred his state and its history extremely well. In place. And the retirement of Allen Stokes 1972, Stokes succeeded the legendary Clara is monumental not only to the history of the Mae Jacobs as Manuscripts Librarian and South Caroliniana, but to the history of South eleven years later became the Director of the Carolina, and to historians of the American Caroliniana Caroliniana South Caroliniana Library. South. Continued on page 4 COLUMNS Report from the Director Continued from page 1 The staff of the South Caroliniana Library had been hard at work for days in advance, planning and arranging exhibits of new materials and making sure that the building had that spit polish look we try to guarantee when welcoming our guests. ANNUAL MEETING Those who attended the meeting received the 104-page annual report of gifts and acquisitions by purchases. The South Caroliniana Library, with the support of the University South Caroliniana Society, has had another productive year through the generosity of your direct gifts and dues contributions. Endowed funds, such as those listed in the report, make it Henry Fulmer, left and Dr. Allen Stokes, right, welcomed possible for us to accomplish goals otherwise unattainable. Dr. Edna Greene Medford to the Annual Meeting to present her Members who were unable to attend the annual meeting address, “The Emancipation Proclamation and Its Meaning to African Americans.” received a copy of the annual report by mail. The South Caroliniana Library is pleased to provide address. Dr. Medford specializes in nineteenth-century support to three scholars who will be conducting research at African-American history and has published numerous the library during the year. The research opportunities for articles and book chapters on African Americans, especially these scholars are made possible through the Lewis P. Jones during the Civil War era. Among her publications are the co- Research Fellowship, the William Gilmore Simms Visiting authored The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views and Research Professorship, and the Ellison Durant Smith The Price of Freedom: Slavery and the Civil War, Volumes Research Award. I and II. She serves on the boards of the Abraham Lincoln Following the reception at the South Caroliniana Library, Institute, the Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation, and the staff members and guests assembled at the Capstone Campus Ulysses S. Grant Association, and in 2009 was a special Room for the luncheon and business session. Among the bicentennial recipient of the Order of Lincoln, an award given business items addressed by President Ken Childs was by the state of Illinois, for her scholarship on the President. the election of Mr. David W. Dangerfield and Dr. William The year 2013 is the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation McAlhany Davis as Councilors, succeeding Mr. Tom Moore Proclamation, and the topic of Dr. Medford’s talk was “The Craig, Jr., and Mr. William Cain, Jr. Mr. Dangerfield is a Emancipation Proclamation and Its Meaning to African Ph.D. candidate in Southern history at the University of South Americans.” The complete text of the address will appear in Carolina. Dr. Davis is a retired Spartanburg physician. next year’s edition of the Society’s annual report. “THE EmaNCIPATION PROCLamaTION AND ITS JOHN ABBOT WATERCOLORS IN MEANING TO AFRICAN AMERICANS” HONOR OF ALLEN STOKES Dr. Edna Greene Medford, Professor of History and Longtime South Caroliniana Library director Allen Stokes departmental chair at Howard University, delivered the was honored with a fitting tribute by distinguished American COLUMNS Shown with the Library’s new Abbot watercolors are, left to right, Henry Fulmer, Tom McNally, Lynn Robertson, Allen Stokes and Ken Childs 2 historian Dr. Orville Vernon Burton, whose remarks are country, and the strength of that bond is reflected in the reprinted elsewhere in this issue. On behalf of the University heartfelt appreciation of several generations of scholars South Caroliniana Society, with generous support from Dean whose research has been made possible by the depth of our Tom McNally and University Libraries, a gift of two original collections. On behalf of those researchers, thank you for your ornithological watercolors by naturalist John Abbot was stewardship and generosity. presented to the South Caroliniana Library in Dr. Stokes’ honor and in appreciation for his forty years of distinguished CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE service to the library and to the University of South Carolina. Upon my appointment as Director of the South Caroliniana The Allen Stokes Manuscript Development Fund at Library at the start of 2013, one of the challenges I set before the South Caroliniana Library is among those funds that myself and in turn have extended to the Society’s Executive provide additional support for the Library. This endowment Council is that of growing the membership of our support recognizes the major role Dr. Stokes has played in collecting base. The current membership of the Society stands at 1,415. and promoting the history of South Carolina by providing You, the members, are our most vital source of outreach for the Library’s Manuscripts Division. Acknowledging that for increasing and strengthening our membership. Your there is no cause dearer to Allen’s heart, some members of the nominations of friends and associates who share our passion Society have inquired about honoring Allen as he retires with for collecting and preserving the records of our state’s history a contribution to the fund bearing his name. A fund brochure help us maintain our ability to collect and preserve important and pledge card are being made available to the Society materials for scholarly research. Memberships do more than membership for their convenience in contributing. Gifts will preserve the Society’s health for future generations. Your dues be designated solely for the purpose of acquisitions for and and contributions provide a critical resource that enables us preservation of the manuscript collection. to acquire vital materials of lasting South Carolina interest. Dean Tom McNally, Society President Ken Childs, and Please join me in helping to ensure the future vitality of the staff of the South Caroliniana Library deeply appreciate this distinguished organization by acting today to pass along the support that the membership of the University South the names of those who share the common interests that Caroliniana Society has extended to the South Caroliniana bind us together in the joint mission of the South Caroliniana Library for many years. The Society and its special Library and the University South Caroliniana Society. relationship with the Library are virtually unique in the Report from the President by Kenneth L. Childs We are embarking on an exciting new era in the University South Caroliniana Society. As most of our members are aware, Allen H. Stokes, Jr., longtime Director of the South Caroliniana Library, announced his retirement last year, and Henry G. Fulmer was named Director of the Library, effective January 2, 2013. Mr. Fulmer, the fifth person to serve as Director of the South Caroliniana Library, established in 1940, has thirty years of years of experience with the Library and is very knowledgeable about the Library’s collections, as well as many of the people who support the Library. The Caroliniana Society has a solid record of hosting outstanding historians at its annual luncheon meeting, which in the last five years have included Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University; Dr. John M. McCardell, Jr., President Emeritus of Middlebury College and Vice Chancellor of The University of the South; Harold Holzer, an internationally recognized Abraham Lincoln scholar who works with the Metropolitan Museum in New York City; Dr. William A. Link, noted American historian Arthur Link’s son, who is currently Richard J.
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