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Need caption here Library Expansion— Revealed fter two years of construction to libraries and integrated information systems, renovate and expand its historic called the renovation “the culmination of a Mary Helen Cochran Library, dream.” Sweet Briar College celebrated the “I’m really pleased to see you here today,” completionA of the project on Friday. he said. “You’ve all, in small and large ways, Donors, alumnae, faculty, students and made this happen.” staff gathered in the Rowe Periodical Gallery He also took a moment to pay tribute to to dedicate the new and updated spaces. The former library supervisor Thelma Jordan, who ceremony also included the dedication of an died Oct. 24. outdoor sculpture that was designed by 2001 “[Her] sixty years of service to the library graduate Catherine Peek and commissioned by and the College embody the fun and joy we the College’s Friends of Art. have in helping Sweet Briar women learn,” Holding back tears, John Jaffe, director of he said. “This facility that we’re here to Jones went on to thank the major donors behind the $8.8 million renovation, including the late Margot Enright Aghnides ’45 (T. A. Divine Room), the late Sally Fishburn Crockett ’52 (Fishburn Classroom), Jane Piper Gleason ’74 (Browsing Room), Preston Haskell (Haskell Learning Studio), the late Elizabeth Cooke Bramham ’48 (Bramham Special Collections Room), Lawrence G. Nelson and family (Lawrence G. Nelson Seminar Room), Kitty Corbett Powell ’38 (Kitty Corbett Powell ’38 Reading Room), the late Sally Reahard ’30 (Reahard Learning Gallery), Josiah P. Rowe III and the late Anne Wilson Rowe ’57 (Rowe Periodical Gallery), and Barbara Smith Young ’71 (Jean Ruggles Smith Class of 1941 Technology Center). Above: John Jaffe thanked the many contributors for helping to make the library renovation a reality. He also recognized Jerry Monteith Below: C. Shelby Coffey III gave the audience a behind-the-scenes look at the news media. of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for donating a wooden bench located in the gallery. Monteith made celebrate today is going to be a standing the bench from the old Fletcher Oak monument to future generations of tree that fell nearly 10 years ago. learning … and I’m so glad you’re here After a brief introduction by to share in this dedication.” Boxwood Circle director Jacque Penny The Rev. Katharine B. Chase ’67 ’71, keynote speaker C. Shelby Coffey delivered the invocation, followed by III, vice chairman of the Newseum, words from former creative writing spoke about “the wild and changing professor Carrie Brown and Paul Rice, world of media.” chair of the board of directors, who Counting among his lifetime introduced interim president James F. accomplishments positions as editor of Jones Jr. the Los Angeles Times and U.S. News Jones said he was impressed with the and World Report, as well as president library’s business-as-usual operation of CNN Financial News and executive when he arrived on campus in August, vice president of ABC News, Coffey while final renovations were still going shared many anecdotes that illustrated on. prominent events and their coverage in “I think it was a much bigger the media across several decades. challenge than the rest of us who He said he couldn’t think of a better don’t run libraries could possibly place to talk about this topic than a imagine, and of the people we have to library. thank, we certainly want to thank all “Libraries do some of the same the staff here at the library,” he said. things newspapers and television news “How they pulled this off and kept do — that is, to try to make sense of the place running is a total mystery to the blooming, buzzing confusion of the me, but they did it and we owe them world,” he said. an enormous debt, as we owe a lot of donors.”

2 Photograph of Elizabeth Hunter’s Gift of Texasville & newest Larry McMurty Novel – The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel at the Library Dedication. L-R – Lisa Johnston, John Jaffe, Elizabeth “Bet” Hunter, Sarah Hunter ‘16 and Felisha Leffler ’16.

3 4 4 5 6 6 7 2014 Nicole Basbanes ’04 Book Collecting Contest Gum Wrappers and Clover: Books Filled with Character First Place Winner: Emma Kiely ’16

rowing up in my family means two things: good food and good books. My house has been filled with booksG for longer than I can remember: antique, brand-new, and dog-eared. We’ve got novels, memoirs, self-helps, instructional, children’s books, histories, classics, cookbooks, and coffee-table picture books. From a young age I was reading avidly and collecting my favorites in piles on my bedroom floor. It wasn’t long before my parents invested in a bookshelf for me. I soon developed a taste for antique books, of which my house has plenty. But I wanted my own. While antiquing with my family one summer, I came across a small, worn, and sepia-toned arithmetic book. It had been sitting on an old school desk, politely waiting for customers to gently stroke its cover. Curiosity got the best of me and I started to examine it. It was worn out at the edges, the pages ages old, and I gingerly flipped through it to find it filled with pencil marks, a four-leaf clover, and even a few loose homework papers. A girl named Alice was its owner in 1877. After a small amount of pleading it became mine. And from then on I had a hunger for old books that I still cannot satisfy. This collection is comprised of about

The purpose of this collection, I suppose, is to enjoy myself and indulge my curiosity of history and books.

8 With a house full of one hundred and ten books, most no a house full of antiques you start to younger than 1940, though none older understand how to take care of physical antiques you start to than 1824. Those that are younger history. I am looking into becoming understand how to take than 1940 were either given to me as an archivist not only for antique books gifts or left to me by my grandfather. but also for journals, pencil sketches, care of physical history. I In my collection I have books that and photographs, all that I collect and am looking into becoming are classics, like Gulliver’s Travels and try to preserve. I guess this collection is Oliver Twist, I have children’s books just a jumping-off point. For the future, an archivist not only like Peter Pan and the original title of though, I intend to focus more on for antique books but The Little Princess. I also have plays, books that are filled with the character matching volumes, and cookbooks. I of their previous owners. Most of my also for journals, pencil tend to focus my collection on books books have that now, but I find that sketches, and photographs, that were of personal importance to those are the books that I love the their first owner or ones that are unique most: the ones with names in scrawled all that I collect and in their title and content. I also try to pen, the ones with gum wrappers and try to preserve. I guess make sure that the books are in the best clovers stuck between pages. These condition possible. are the books that I think need to be this collection is just a All but one of the books I own are preserved first and foremost. They carry jumping-off point. intact (spine, cover, pages, etc. bound not only the history of their content, together) and I strive to take care of but also the history of the people who these books correctly and to the best of cared for them and learned from them. my ability. I have learned from them, and in caring The purpose of this collection, I for them I hope to ensure someone else suppose, is to enjoy myself and indulge does, too. my curiosity of history and books. With

BIBLIOGRAPHY top of the spine that is labeled “The Novels and Print. 1. Aesop’s Fables. Cleveland: World Syndicate, n.d. Letters of Jane Austen, Volume VIII. Emma Part This medium-sized, seventeen chaptered Print. II.” This volume finishes the novel. On the front children’s book has a cover in two shades of end page is the same type of bookplate that Part I 2. Alcott, Louisa May. Lulu’s Library. Vol. 2. Boston: green: one dark, one lighter. The cover, though has. On the opposite flyleaf is an inscription from Roberts Brothers, 1887. Print. a bit scuffed and stained, clearly portrays Peter my father that is not dated. There are also six sitting in a tree with a pan flute, dressed his 3. Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Philadelphia: color illustrations in this portion. It has the same usual get-up with the title around him. There is Porter & Coates, n.d. Print. importance to me as its matching sister. Both are a window hiding behind the tree. The binding This tan and black book contains 62 stories from in excellent condition. is coming off a bit, but is in the process of being the Arabian Nights. The cover and spine are 6. Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Ed. Reginald fixed, as it is only the fabric on the spine that is lightly carved with painted leaves and flowers. Brimley Johnson. Fifth ed. Vol. 1. London: J. M. splitting from the back cover. On the first flyleaf a The spine labels the book as “Illustrated,” yet Dent and, 1896. Print. young child has penciled in A-H of the alphabet the book only has one illustration just before This hand-sized volume is thin and cream colored and has circled all but the very small H. This the title page named “The Enchanted Horse.” with an engraved gold crest in the top left corner particular book is quite useful to me in terms of The flyleaf just before this illustration is torn but of the front cover with the title and volume in preservation, but it is also a story that I love and has the name and address, “Miss Edith Eberle, the middle, also in gold. The spine is gilded and was given to me as a gift, and so holds certain 311 Dinwiddie St.” on it. There is very little has the author’s name on it as well as the title value on its own. water stain or damage of any kind on the book, and volume. The bottom left of the front cover 9. Baten, Anderson M., comp. Slang From excepting the flyleaf. This book is important to has Jane Austen’s gilded signature, too. On the Shakespeare. N.p.: W.B. Conkey, 1931. Print. the collection because of its good condition and front end page is the same type of crest that the personalization in the cover, as well as its 10. Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Book was on the cover in pen that contains the name quirk of “illustration.” League of America, n.d. Print. Bertha L. Laudis, the same name that is penned 4. Austen, Jane. Emma. Vol. 1. Boston: Jefferson, 11. Brothers Grimm. Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Newark, on the opposite flyleaf with the date 1896. This NJ: Charles E. Graham &, Abt. 1880. Print. 1915. Print. book is the beginning to a larger collection of This large volume has a plain, red binding with 12. Collier, Robert. The Book of Life. Vol. 1. New Jane Austen’s novels in ten volumes. There is a York: Robert Collier, 1925. Print. Autographed a darkened yellow tag at the top of the spine frontispiece portrait of Austen at about fifteen 13. Craig, Asa H. New Common School Question Book. that is labeled “The Novels and Letters of Jane years old in black and white with the same New York: Hinds & Noble, 1893. Print. Austen, Volume VII. Emma Part I.” This volume signature from the front cover underneath. The goes up to Chapter 27. On the front end page is title page is quite ornate, with red and black 14. Craig, Chas. H., LL. D., ed. Craig’s Dictionary: a bookplate for the University Club Providence ink coloring it. There are four illustrations in A Pronouncing Dictionary of the English that says it was purchased in 1915. On the this volume, including the frontispiece. Also in Language. Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske, &, 1886. opposite flyleaf is an inscription from my mother this edition there is a page dedicated to a list of Print. dated May 22nd, 2009. There are six color Austen’s novels in chronological order of when 15. Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Boston: DeWolfe, illustrations throughout this portion of the novel. they were written and published. On the next Fiske, &, Abt 1888. Print. This book was given to me from my parents for twenty pages is biography of Jane Austen. This This volume, though stained by water and age, my sixteenth birthday, and because it’s also a bit set, in its age, ornament, and content, has great is intact and in pretty good condition. Its brown of my namesake, I love this novel and the version meaning to me as it was given as a gift and fits and black cover is embossed with flowers of my parents found for me. It’s a great addition to well into my collection. various sizes and two birds in flight in a circle my collection and quite important to me. 7. Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Ed. Reginald towards the middle left of the cover. The title 5. Austen, Jane. Emma. Vol. 2. Boston: Jefferson, Brimley Johnson. Fifth ed. Vol. 2. London: J. M. appears embossed on the spine with another bird 1915. Print. Dent and, 1896. Print. in a circle and a few more flowers. Penciled and This volume, like its matching sister, has a plain, 8. Barrie, James M. Peter Pan: The Story of Peter and penned on the flyleaf are the names, “Leroy. L,” red binding with a darkened yellow tag at the Wendy. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1911. and, “Leon and Leroy Smith” with the address,

9 “E Berkshire [N]H.” and the date, “Christmas Routledge and Sons, Limited, Abt 1895. Print. have been for class. It truly is the character of this 1888.” The frontispiece is an engraving with the 28. Maggie, the Fisherman’s Daughter and Other book that makes me love it so much. This boy phrase, “Liberal terms, Mr. Sowerberry, liberal Stories. New York: T.Y. Crowell, Abt. 1879. poured a lot of effort and time into this book, terms!” underneath it, while the title page is Print. and I’ve enjoyed reading tidbits from it. It fits inked in a small carving of Oliver looking at 29. Melendy, Mary Ries, M. D., Ph. D. Vivilore: The well into my collection. a gravestone. Fifty-three chapters of fragile, Pathway to Mental and Physical Perfection. N.p.: 41. Steele, J. Dorman, Ph. D. Fourteen Weeks in stiffened pages of small type portray this classic n.p., 1904. Print. Chemistry. New York: A. S. Barnes &, 1873. story. This particular book was given to me as a 30. Newbury, Herbert. May Bell; or Duty Before Print. Christmas gift. It is important to the collection Pleasure. Dover: D. Lothrop &, 1869. Print. 42. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. Ed. because of its condition and its personal 31. Osborne, Margherita O., ed. Andersen’s Fairy Charles Robert Gaston, Ph. D. New York: D. C. inscriptions. Tales. New York: Hampton, 1920. Print. Heath &, 1911. Print. 16. Douglas Wiggin, Kate. Rebecca of Sunnybrook 32. Rev. Dr. Edersheim. Sketches of Jewish Social Life 43. Strong Worthington, Elizabeth. How To Cook Farm. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and, 1903. in the Days of Christ. Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, Husbands. New York: Dodge, 1899. Print. Print. n.d. Print. This small novel is sturdy with a scuffed and 17. Doyle, A. Conan. The Complete Sherlock Holmes. 33. Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty. New York: J. H. water ringed cover. It looks like it’s been used as Garden City, NY: Garden City, 1938. Print. Sears &, n.d. Print. a coaster more than a few times. The cover is an 18. Fish, Daniel W., A. M. Robinson’s Progressive 34. Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare’s Romeo and off cream with the title in bold red. Underneath Practical Arithmetic. New York: Ivison, Juliet. Ed. William J. Rolfe. New York: Harper & that in the bottom right corner is a man lounging Blakeman, Taylor &, 1877. Print. Brothers, 1893. Print. in a rocking chair reading, cats at his feet. The spine has the title as well, but a thin flower creeps This soft, sepia-toned, black-spined book has an This small play is bound in a hard, unknown, up it in black. The frontispiece, a black and white ornate cover that spells out the title and the other red material with the title and editor embossed engraving of an embracing couple, is labeled with vital information a schoolbook would need. On in gold on the cover. The spine is embossed in the phrase, “—add a little sugar. —(see page the flyleaf is the name, “Alice F. Simmons,” and gold as well with the title, but with the letters 11.)” The pages are a bit water damaged but the date, “Sept. 17” 1885.” On the title page is facing the front cover. The flyleaf has the name, in good condition. The real reason this book is another date penciled in under the publisher’s “Gertrude P. Ward,” and the date, “October in my collection is because it is basically a novel names: 1883. There are notes scribbled in 1893,” written in pen at the top right corner. It about how women should treat men, and how margins and underneath important definitions. is one of my favorites from my collection because to manipulate them into treating women well. On the back flyleaf and end page there are it is a classic in terrific condition with a little bit For a novel of this time, this is pretty progressive equations that were tried over and over until they of character thrown in. It is pockmarked and and interesting. Obviously it has some things that were right. This book is very important to me, scuffed with pencil but I love it. as it was the book that started my collection. 19. were culturally true then but aren’t anymore. 35. Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Ed. Frederick Harbin, E. O. Phunology. Nashville: Cokesbury, Quite an entertaining read. The format is S. Boas, M.A. Boston: D. C. Heath &, 1908. 1923. Print. engaging. Learned a few good recipes. Fits well Print. 20. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. A Wonder Book for Girls into the collection as a quirky and historically 36. Sharp, William. Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. and Boys. Boston: Charles E. Brown &, n.d. informative read. London: Walster Scott, 1887. Print. Print. 44. Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels into Several 37. Sidney, Margaret. Five Little Peppers and How 21. Hepworth, George H. !!! New York: Harper & Remote Nations of the World. New York: Hurst They Grew. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, Brothers, 1881. Print. and, Abt. 1901. Print. 1909. Print. 22. Hodgson Burnett, Frances. Sara Crewe or What This large green book has a cover painted with 38. Sidney, Margaret. Five Little Peppers Grown Up. Happened at Miss Minchin’s. New York: Charles yellow, white, and black that portrays the scene Boston: D Lothrop, 1892. Print. Scribner’s Sons, 1889. Print. of Gulliver being tied down. The title is bolded 39. Spyri, Johanna. Heidi. Akron, Ohio: Saalfield, This novel, the first title for the book A Little in yellow and at the bottom right corner it says n.d. Print. Princess, is wide and thin. Its brown cover is “Illustrated.” The illustrations, of which there painted with a banner giving the title and a 40. Steele, J. Dorman, Ph. D., and J. W. P. Jenks, A. are five including the frontispiece, are brilliantly string of fruity plumage at the bottom center. M. A Popular Zoology. New York: A. S. Barnes &, colored paper inlays. The flyleaf has the name The flyleaf has the inscription, “Merry Christmas 1887. Print. “Ralph Welles Stratford Co[rue],” and the date, to Mart[ie] from Aunt Laura, Dec 25, 1890.” This schoolbook is dense and covered in a “Dec. 25th, 1906” in pen. The pages are in Also along the bottom of that page is a penciled purple-brown binding embossed with designs wonderful condition, though the cover is a bit inscription from my father dated 2010. This and a small circle containing a globe, a lamp, and roughed by age. What really makes this book a book is in wonderful condition for its age. This a stack of books. Also on the cover is embossed great addition to my collection is the fact that I was one of the first novels I read on my own as gold letters that are set in circles of leaves that have not been able to determine the exact age a kid and so has sentimental meaning as well as read out the title. On the spine is the same of the novel. On the flyleaf is a note in pencil historical meaning in its rarity. but with less embossing. On the front flyleaf written by the antique seller I bought it from that speculates the book was published before 23. Hodgson Burnett, Frances. The Secret Garden. is the name, “Ed Austin,” penciled twice in 1901. The inscription reads 1906, and there is New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1911. Print. large looping cursive. There are also two small drawings, one labeled “mandible,” and at the no copyright date. It has been a goal of mine The cover has a rose trellis around the edge top of the page, “Worm Family,” underlined and to continue searching for the real publication and the title in gold cursive underneath. The with a due date underneath. The book itself is in date of this book, as that adds to the ideas of frontispiece is a colored pasted illustration of good condition, filled with scientific illustrations preservation and its value. Mary and Dickon interacting, under which is the of animals and their parts. Stuck between the 45. The Swiss Family Robinson. Philadelphia: Porter phrase, “It seemed scarcely bearable to leave such last “Contents” page and the “Introduction” is & Coates, n.d. Print. delightfulness – Page 231.” There are five such a flattened, yellow gum-wrapper labeled “’Kis- illustrations throughout the book. This book is 46. Thackeray, W. M. Vanity Fair. Vol. 1. London: Me’ If You Wish.” There are pencil markings in quite important to me because of its value and Collins’ Clear-Type, Abt. 1848. Print. margins and due dates in corners, but the most meaning. This book is one of the first editions 47. Thackeray, W. M. Vanity Fair. Vol. 2. London: wonderful thing about this book is the ending ever published, and thus is worth quite a lot. Collins’ Clear-Type, Abt. 1848. Print. flyleaf and endpage. This boy, who wrote his It is also one of the first books I read by myself 48. Trusta, H. Little Mary. Boston: Phillips, Sampson name on both pages, also wrote lines of poetry, and bought for myself (not this edition but a and, 1854. Print. copied to memorize it looks like, on each. One Barnes and Nobel version.) It is essential to my 49. Westlake, J. Willis, A. M. How To Write Letter: reads, “Around her waist I put my arm,/It felt collection. A Manual of Correspondence. Philadelphia: as soft as cake./ Dear me, says she, what liberty/ Sower, Potts &, 1879. Print. 24. Kelly, Walter K. A Collection of the Proverbs of All you printer men do take,” which are lines from Nations. Andover: Warren F. Draper, 1869. Print. a poem called “Freedom of the Press.” I cannot 50. White, John Williams, Ph. D. , LL. D., Litt. D. 25. The Ladies’ Keepsake and Home Library. Vol. 3. find the true author of this poem, though I did The First Greek Book. Boston: Ginn and, 1896. New York: John S. Taylor, 1854. Print. find that it appeared in the Cambridge Democrat Print. 26. Lewis, Dio, A. M., M. D. The New Gymnastics Newspaper in February 1851. The other page for Men, Women and Children. New York: has a longer poem I’ve never been able to find Canfield, 1888. Print. anywhere else. It also is dotted with crossed out 27. Low, Lieutenant Charles R., ed. Captain Cook’s names, which look like a girl’s, drawings that are Three Voyages Round the World. London: George labeled in small pencil and other lists that must

10 2014 Nicole Basbanes ’04 Book Collecting Contest A Little More Graphic Second Place Winner: Autumn Miller

’m sure when most people are always played it safe. I got her approval don’t recall whether I had to wait to asked about what they read a lot before buying or looking at anything. read them or not, I do remember my as a child, most people respond My fondest memory involving mother being mighty fine angry I had with either Goosebumps by R.L. manga goes back to Christmas time, a found them. StineI of the Magic Tree House series by little over ten years ago. I was a young As I got older though, my mind Mary Pope Osborne. While I did read girl, just starting to get my feet wet in opened up, along with my wallet and both of these as a child, what really the land of anime and manga. The big my shelves soon filled up with many holds my attention was a little more series we were watching in my house different volumes. From Dragon Ball to graphic. Graphic novels to be precise, at the time was Dragon Ball, I was Ballad of a Shinigami, I’m quite proud manga as I’ve always referred to it as. in love with it. So needless to say, I on my variety of genres I own. I want Manga was an essential part of my wanted the manga desperately, to have a a varied collection of manga, much like childhood and let’s say I never grew handheld version of one of my favorite my novel collection, so I usually buy up. In fact, it’s only gotten bigger and shows. Well, probably a few days before what I classify as weird. The weirder I become an even greater part of my Christmas, I came upon a giant bag that feel something is, the better. Now, I do library. I started rather small, I only was tied tightly. Being the nosy little have standards for what I read, don’t bought what I knew (also what my kid I was, I proceeded to rip the bag get me wrong. I merely give everything mother knew) and never ventured past open. Being it was a clear bag, I could a fair chance to show its color and what I had heard of. Seeing how my make out the Dragon Ball logo and I personality. I’m constantly buying mother paid for what I picked out, I could vaguely see the covers. While I things based on cover and having

11 Manga doesn’t tend to so I’ve fallen in love with going on such used or new, I don’t discriminate. I fantastical journeys with the craziest of always feel a little adventurous when stick to reality so I’ve characters. The characters can literally buying new series. There’s always the fallen in love with going look like anything and have any number question of whether I’ll really enjoy it. of weird physical traits, everything is Whether it’s worth whatever I’m paying on such fantastical put on display for the reader. Where for it. Whether I’ll have to re arrange journeys with the craziest novels require the usage of the my book shelves once again when I’m imagination, manga gives everything done reading it. Whether I’ll be able of characters. it wants with just a few drawings! And to track down the rest of the series. you physically see how a charger can It’s quite a long list of questions I go flipped through a few pages. So far develop as the pages flow. It’s just such through every time. Yet, even with all though, I can say my judgments been a change from the novels I’ve read. And these questions I go through, I always pretty spot on. I’m always satisfied with there always seems to be just enough end up with something new to bring my purchase and shall promptly read it, room for one more volume at home. home. no matter where I am. From fantasy to romance to action, I’ve read so much manga but I never What really keeps my attention I feel I have it all. But when is enough get tired of it. Maybe it’s the child in with manga is how crazy each story is. ever enough? I’m always on the lookout me but I can tell that manga will never Manga doesn’t tend to stick to reality for new manga to buy, whether it is leave my life. It’s only going to get

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I bought the first one on a whim and fell in love 14).Ōba, Tsugumi, Takeshi Obata, and Pookie Rolf. 5).Hatori, Bisco, Gary Leach, and Kenichiro Yagi. instantly. Unfortunately, after four volumes, the Death Note Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Media, Ouran High School Host Club Vol. 1.San series was cancelled. It depresses me because it 2005. Print. Francisco, CA: Viz Media, LLC, 2005. Print. was a unique twist on the classic Wizard of Oz This work is an introduction to a darker story. It took me a long time to find out it was 6).Himaruya, Hidekaz, Monica Seya, and Clint side of humanity, Gods of death with killer cancelled so I have a lot of memories of searching Bickham. Hetalia: Axis Powers Vol.1. Hamburg: notebooks. Then a notebook ends up in the for the fifth volume. This was the first series I fell Tokyopop, 2010. Print. hands of a human, who decides to play god. in love with that had an untimely end. Picture every stereotype you can, from accents It is very interesting psychological manga. 22).Takahashi, Rumiko, Gerard Jones, and Matt to personality traits to physical traits. Now put Makes you wonder how you would react in the Thorn. Ranma 1/2 Vol. 1. San Francisco, CA: these together and you have the cast of Hetalia. main characters position. Is killing criminals to Viz Communications, 2003. Print. Each country isliterally personified and they do make the world peaceful acceptable? Does the some of the dumbest things imaginable. This end justify the means? Just a few of the many 23).Takahashi, Yashichiro. Shakugan No Shana. San isn’t a serious series, it’s pure goofy and crazy. questions that arise when reading this, something Francisco, CA: VIZ Media, 2006. Print. There isn’t a defined plot but unlike Black Jack, that really makes you think about how society is, 24).Takaya, Natsuki, Kelly Sue. DeConnick, Jake it follows a four-panel style for each story. This a major mind game. Twists and turns all within Forbes, Alethea Nibley, and Athena Nibley. Fruits is the second series I’ve experienced however a few pages. Situations flip within one frame and Basket: Vol. 1. Los Angeles, CA: Tokyopop, that has been cancelled. It was tragic to have this people dying everywhere. It can get pretty heavy 2004. Print. series end, I love simple mindless humor and this handed and intense but it’s a thrill ride. Good High school drama, I know thee well. This is fulfilled that desire to a T. and evil get a whole new light in this dark manga. another early series for me, probably my second 7).Hirano, Kohta, and Duane Johnson. Hellsing Vol. 15).Obana, Miho, and Sarah Dyer. Kodocha Sana’s or third one. Yes it revolves around high school 1. Milwaukie, OR: Dark HorseManga, 2003. Stage. Los Angeles, CA: TOKYOPOP, 2002. drama, but there’s a twist thrown in that makes it Print. Print. amazingly funny. A family curse that turns people 8).Izumi, Asuka, KSkeHasegawa, and Sheldon I originally fell in love with the anime that into the animals of the Chinese zodiac, how Drzka. Ballad of a Shinigami Vol. 1. La Jolla, CA: followed this series. So as soon as I learned there much funnier can you get? Throw in a few cross WildStorm Productions, 2009. Print. was a manga to it, I hunted it down. I managed dressers and a secret that goes deeper than the curse and teenage drama can’t get much worse. 9).Kiyuduki, Satoko, Satsuki Yamashita, and Alexis to track them down rather quickly, and cheaply. This is one of the few series where I collected Ekerman. Shoulderacoffin, Kuro Volume 1. New The series had been out of print for several years each volume new so I feel a twinge of pride

12 bigger and bigger, until I need to buy more shelves! There are still so many series I need to complete, so many I want to buy, so many I want to re read and enjoy over and over again! I have a multitude of lists that have various I’ve read so much manga but I never get tired of it. manga titles written down. Whenever I’m in a bookstore I always pick up Maybe it’s the child in me but I can tell that manga something new or at least something will never leave my life. I haven’t flipped through before. My main goal with my collection is to improve it and also, to share with people. If people are looking for something, I either want to have it or at least have heard of it. This may be a little ambitious but that’s my goal!

thinking back on it. hearts and fluff. Black Butler is pretty dark and characters aren’t dull either, each has a trait that 25).Tezuka, Osamu, and Kate Robinson. Black Jack can be morbid at times, but I love it for that defines and really sells the character. Also, each Volume 13. New York: Vertical, 2011. Print. exact reason! It’s hard now days to find a manga has their problems, they’re not perfect in any that breaks away from the true love and teenage way but they find ways to keep going through A medical drama at its finest. Another one of my drama dilemma. Black Butler revolves around whatever life (or the artist) throws at them! A infamous buy on the spot series but it’s probably a young boy selling his soul to a demon to get great reminder to people to keep going in life, one of my favorite. I had never read a series revenge! I fell in love with the darker side of this even if the world might end! about crazy medical situations or an unlicensed series. doctor who is a genius with a scalpel. Nor have I 28).Ubukata, Tō, Kiriko Yumeji, and Ikoi Hiroe. Le come to find another series in even the remotely 27).Toriyama, Akira, and Gerard Jones. Dragon Ball Chevalier D’Eon Vol. 1. New York: Del Rey, same ballpark. It focuses on one character, Black Vol. 1. San Francisco: Viz Communications, 2007. Print. Jack but there isn’t a straight plot. Each volume 2003. Print. 29).Yoshida, Sunao, Kiyo Kyūjo, Beni Axia. Conrad, has multiple stories, each unrelated to the next. This is the series that got me started. I received and Christine Boylan. Trinity Blood Volume 1. It’s a very unique approach to manga I have the first few volumes for Christmas in elementary Los Angeles, CA: Tokyopop, 2006. Print. rarely seen. school and this sparked my desire for more. 30).Yoshimoto, Ray, and Jamie S. Rich. CLAMP 26).Toboso, Yana, and Tomo Kimura. Black Butler The art is really simple but each character is School Detectives Vol. 1. Los Angeles: Vol. 1. New York: Yen, 2010. Print. given some kind of defining element that makes Tokyopop, 2003. Print. them easy to identify. From crazy spiky hair to Not all manga is cute and happy, which is good. a mysterious third eye, each character has some The genre may get pretty dull with noting but defining visual element that is remarkable. The

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14 Thelma Banks Jordan he Sweet Briar College be sorely missed but forever fondly Library and community lost remembered. its longest-serving employee in October of 2014. Ms. Another student who had worked for ThelmaT Banks Jordan worked at the Ms. Jordan added : Ms. Jordan was the heart of the college for 60 years and she was the Sweet Briar Library. I’ve never met Interlibrary Loan Supervisor. anyone so dedicated to her work. She mentored Sweet Briar College Unless it was snowing, and then students in ways to borrow books she’d be the first person on 29 North and articles from many university and at the sight of the first snowflake. But most importantly, she treated college libraries all over the country. her coworkers and students like family. She was always in high spirits, One student said about Ms. Jordan: making everyone laugh with her feisty I remember first meeting Miss Jordan personality and her witty one-liners. as a freshman and being immediately She was also the first to lend an ear, working with other organizations struck by her natural and effortless a shoulder, a helping hand, or a few in the church. She was a kind ability to brighten a room with her words of encouragement in a moment kind and joyous laugh and her soft of need. She was an amazing woman, and gentle woman who enjoyed but powerful smile. Miss Jordan’s and will be greatly missed as she has working, reading her Bible, and compassion, warmth and generosity touched the lives of so many. The nurturing her flowers. She took filled the library with such happiness library will never be the same without care of many flowers and plants in and often helped brighten a student’s her, but we will always remember the Mary Helen Cochran library not-so-great day. I remember many her and the difference she has made times walking into the library stressed, to those who were lucky enough to some growing to enormous tired and worn out, but just one of know her.Thelma was a member heights. Miss Jordan’s “hellos” (which was of St. Peter’s Baptist Church in Ms. Jordan will be missed and always accompanied by a smile and a Clifford, Virginia where she was a remembered at Sweet Briar College for lively laugh) had an immense power many years. at lifting the weight of my worries. faithful member since childhood. I’m certain that I’m not the only She was an active member and student who was touched by Miss over the years served in many ways Jordan’s kindness, a kindness that will including singing in the choir and

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14 15 The Friends of the Mary Helen Cochran Library 2013-2014 Dick Wills – Chairman Katie Vaughan ’06 – Vice Chairman John Ashbrook – Treasurer John G. Jaffe – Secretary Board Members Ex-Officio Members (College Administrators) Courtney Cunningham ’10 Bonnie Marsh Roscoe (Skipper) Fitts Sarah Murdock Moore ’59 Friends Adelaide Hapala Anne Richards ’84 of the Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb ’59 Harold Swisher Mary Helen John Marsh Cochran President Jo Ellen Parker Library Dean Amy Jensen-Marshall Donna Whitehouse – Director of Donor Relations and Sweet Briar College Prospect Management Sweet Briar, VA 24595 Louise Swiecki Zingaro ’80 – Vice-President & Chief of Staff www.cochran.sbc.edu Ex-Officio Members (Past Friends of the Library Chairmen) Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb ’59 [email protected] Stephen Mirabella Ann Morrison Reams ’42 Jane Nelson ’66 Nancy Pesek Rasenberger ’51 Laura Radford Goley ’52 Jean Love Albert ’46 Peggy Jones Wyllie ’45 Caroline Y. Casey Lindemann ’49 McVea Scholars: Lydia Ethridge ’15 Amy Kvien ’16 Anna Bates ’17 Rebekah Fields ’17 Holly Rueger ’17 Gazette Editor Joe Malloy