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Published Occasionally by the Friends of the Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 PUBLISHED OCCASIONALLY BY THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94720 No. 6l May 197s Dr. and Mrs. David Prescott Barrows, with their children, Anna, Ella, Tom, and Betty, at Manila, ig And it is the story of "along the way" that '111 Along the Way comprises this substantial transcript, a gift from her children in honor of Mrs. Hagar's You Have Fun!" seventy-fifth birthday. In her perceptive introduction to Ella Bar­ From a childhood spent for the most part rows Hagar's Continuing Memoirs: Family, in the Philippines where her father, David Community, University, Marion Sproul Prescott Barrows, served as General Super­ Goodin notes that the last sentence of this intendent of Education, Ella Barrows came interview, recently completed by Bancroft's to Berkeley in 1910, attended McKinley Regional Oral History Office, ends with the School and Berkeley High School, and en­ phrase: "all along the way you have fun!" tered the University with its Class of 1919. [1] Life in the small college town in those halcy­ Annual Meeting: June 1st Bancroft's Contemporary on days before the first World War is vividly recalled, and contrasted with the changes The twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of Poetry Collection brought about by the war and by her father's The Friends of The Bancroft Library will be appointment to the presidency of the Uni­ held in Wheeler Auditorium on Sunday IN THE SUMMER OF 1965 the University of versity in December, 1919. From her job as afternoon, June 1st, at 2:30 p.m. N. Scott California's Extension Division sponsored assistant to the personnel director of the Momaday, Professor of English at Stanford the Berkeley Poetry Conference, a two-week Weinstock-Lubin Company in Sacramento, University and author of the Pulitzer Prize- seminar featuring regularly-scheduled lec­ Ella Barrows was called home to assist her winning novel, House Made of Dawn, and tures and readings by well-known poets, in­ mother in the running of the President's of The Way to Rainy Mountain, will be the cluding Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Robert House, and it was here, in 1922, that she met speaker; his talk is entitled "The Native Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Joanne Kyger, her future husband, Gerald Hagar, on a blind Californian: Centennial Views of the Ameri­ Charles Olson, Gary Snyder, Jack Spicer, Lew date. can Indian." Following the meeting there Welch, and John Wieners. This Conference, Of her forty-year marriage, largely spent will be a reception in the Library's Gallery, a tape recording of which is in The Bancroft in the handsome home built for them on marking the opening of an exhibition relat­ Library, was significant in that it provided Stonewall Road by the young architect, Wil­ ing to the history of North American In­ an appropriate forum for a gathering of con­ liam W Wurster, Mrs. Hagar relates much dians, particularly those of California. temporary poets who had already acquired of her husband's activities and the growing- Professor Momaday will also contribute recognition; the lectures of Jack Spicer, who up of her three children. She modestly sees the preface to the annual Keepsake, a re­ died not long afterward, drew much atten­ herself as wife and mother, but the reader printing of two essays by the American tion because he discussed the poet in politics. gains the sense of a vital woman deeply in­ anthropologist, Stephen Powers: Californian The Conference also served to render local volved in community affairs, most notably Indian Characteristics and Centennial Mis­ tribute to the many poets representing the in the campus YWCA, on whose board she sion to the Indians of Western Nevada and San Francisco Bay area poetry movement, and served for forty-eight years. After Mr. Ha­ California. The volume will also include a stimulated keener interest in the growth of gar's appointment as a Regent in 1951, Ella review of Powers' observations by Robert E the University Library's ongoing poetry col­ Barrows Hagar was again drawn into the Heizer, Professor of Anthropology at Berke­ lection which had been begun in 1964 by University's administrative circle, at a time ley, and will be mailed to the Friends within Allan Covici, a member of the Library's staff. of intense problems related to the Loyalty the next few weeks. "Novae Alhionis Rex" In response to the expressed concern of Oath controversy. But there were also happy mingo, and Cartagena form the upper border Professors Josephine Miles and Thomas times, often associated with the many promi­ Hondius Map of the map, while the lower border includes Parkinson of the Department of English, nent visitors who stopped at the Berkeley "Olinda in Phurnambuco," Cusco, Potosi, University Librarian Donald Coney decided campus, including Prince Philip, next to of the Americas "I[sla], La Mocha in Chili," "R. Ianeiro," to make the Rare Books Department (now whom Mrs. Hagar was seated at luncheon, and Mexico City. The side borders contain an integral part of The Bancroft Library) an and President Kennedy, to whom she said, As a memorial to Francis P Farquhar, Mr. ten vignettes of native Americans from vari­ official repository for materials in the field of "Have fun," as he prepared to address 90,000 and Mrs. Robert Power of Nut Tree have ous locations as well as European figures. Of contemporary poetry. Since the variety of people in Memorial Stadium. presented to the Library one of the eight special interest to Californians is the vignette forms in which contemporary poetry is issued She had been told by Mrs. Chester Nim- known extant copies of the first issue of here reproduced entitled "Novae Albionis ranges from mimeographed sheets of paper itz, the wife of another Regent, "You just Todocus Hondius' America Noviter Delin- Rex," apparently depicting the greeting by bound as booklets to hard-cover volumes accept everything you're asked to do." Mrs. eata, published in Amsterdam about 1624. the Coast Miwok Indian Chief of Sir Francis which are beautifully designed, illustrated, Hagar recalls that "I haven't accepted every­ Considered by many cartographic historians Drake when the latter landed on the coast and issued in limited editions, from broad­ thing but I've done what I could." What to be the most beautiful map of the Ameri­ in 1579. side sheets to phonograph discs and tapes of she has done since her husband's death in cas designed by Dutch engravers, the map Aside from its great historical significance readings, a guarded storage area was consid­ 1965 is a great deal, including quiet behind- measures eighteen by twenty-two and one- to cartographers and Californians, the map ered to be imperative. Too, much of the new the-scenes work on the Council of The half inches and is colored in tones of brown, is of interest to students of the history of poetry is distributed through non-commer­ Friends of The Bancroft Library and, as Vice yellow, green, and blue. It shows the entire printing, since it includes the names of the cial channels, and "underground" publica­ Chairman, publicly officiating at the dedica­ Western Hemisphere excepting the then- two rival Dutch map-makers, Hondius and tions are likely to disappear before they can tion ceremony for the remodeled Library in unknown parts of North America, as well Jan Jansson, the latter as publisher in this be collected through normal procedure. 1973. On that occasion President Hitch as much of the Atlantic Ocean with portions case. Hondius' map is a welcome addi­ Mr. Coney also, in 1967, appointed the prefaced his remarks by saying to Mrs. Ha­ of Europe and Africa; two insets include the tion to the Library's growing Map and Atlas prominent San Francisco poet Robert Dun­ gar: "Having you introduce me is a real North Pole and Greenland, and the South Collection, and it will be included in the can to the post of poetry consultant to the treat." And for the people who will come Pole. exhibition scheduled to open in the Gallery Library. Since that time his assistance in de­ to the Library to read Continuing Memoirs, Bird's-eye views of "Pomeiocc," "Caro­ on the afternoon of the Annual Meeting of veloping the collection has been indispens­ there is also a real treat in store. lina," St. Augustine, Havana, Santo Do- The Friends of The Bancroft Library. able; his close ties with the contemporary >] [3] ©Copyright 1975 The Friends of The Bancroft Library scene and his comprehension of new literary material in their research. Not only are they which now includes over one million photo­ primary resource for original research, espe­ directions, quickened by catholic taste, have employing the collection for literary studies, graphs as well as thousands of prints, posters, cially in the subject areas of Californiana and made him an ideal advisor. His basic scheme but they are exploring many psychological and original works of art in all media. These Western Americana. for collecting has two aspects: first, the re­ and sociological facets of contemporary visual documents are not mere adjuncts to For example, the collection includes origi­ gional, whereby poetry written in the San American life revealed in the works of these scholarship exemplified by written works, nal watercolors and drawings from all early Francisco Bay area is obtained for itself and poets. For, as Robert Duncan has said, "... but comprise in themselves an unparalleled expeditions to California for which pictorial in relation to cultural studies of this locality. words are, like men themselves, fields of life." Secondly, the collection is to keep abreast of contemporary movements regardless Recent Exhibitions of locale, paying special attention to avant- Realizing that its Gallery is often crowded garde and counter-culture poetry.
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