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L IBRARY ~SSQCIATES N E W 5 L E T T E R GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY L IBRARY ~SSQCIATES N E w 5 L E T T E R SUMMER 2002.NEWSLETTER 64 UPCOMING EVENTS FROM TIN PAN ALLEY TO HOLLYWOOD r ew Pollack (1895-1946) was one of that small number of gifted people who enjoyed ~ considerable success both as a composer and as a lyricist. Shortly before his untimely death from a heart attack his "Silver Shadows and Golden Dreams," written Ctl-ANGED for the ice-capade film Lady, Let's theWORLD Dance, earned him an Oscar HAIL AND FAREWELL + 1#/~ ' 1' I-WR1GAElJf£ A."'" (THE .M£RCHAtiT MARINE SONG ) M\!«1(" lfllWPOI.LACK . , • .,. W.n.-lkIdI.'<Ir~'-)oj_,.(j._ nomination for best original song. It lost out to Jimmy Van Heusen's "Swinging OCTOBER 15 on a Star," which Bing Crosby made London, UK Simon Winchester famous in Going My Way. Throughout Bestselling Books: the 1920s Pollack's songs consistently S~V~N Surprise and Stupefaction made their way to "top 10" status on the The Travellers Club DAYS charts, earning recordings by a host of DECEMBERS well-known musicians. ASUOm; Washington, D.C. Alice McDermott Pollack first achieved notice for his ICC Auditorium ragtime-jazz composition That's a Georgetown University Plenty, which he produced in 1914. The DECEMBER piece was recorded numerous times: by Washington, D.C. Miff Mole and His (Little) Molers in 2002 Holiday Party 1929, later on by Bing Crosby and, in Georgetown University Riggs Library the late 1970s, by the Pointer Sisters. M'CDl/CUAItI1 (lII(CC1FD ¥f His lyrics to Charmaine, based on <lOHNHAUER music by Erno Rapee, were the moving FREODi£flSHER. More events to come! (C1XDHCL (al."v) force for a tune that was the top-selling AND HIS IIAND IN THIS ISSUE silent movie theme song of the 1920s Hail and Farewell, lyric by Mort Green, Our Student Workers ............. 2 and which was successfully recorded by music by Lew Pollack. From the The Mayor of Georgetown ...... 3 Guy Lombardo and Mantovani, among 1944 musical Seven Days Ashore. Leon Robbin Gallery others. Among the more than 40 films Ribbon-Cutting ....................... 3 for which Pollack created songs or scores was Shirley Temple's Rebecca of Sunny brook Grant ..... .................................. 3 Farm, for which he adapted Raymond Scott's instrumental "Toy Trumpet." Three Marys ............ ... ............. 4 Holiday Gift ............. ............... 4 Pollack registered 192 songs with ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors A Tribute to Paul Hume .. .. ..... 5 and Publishers). The library's recently acquired collection is comprised almost entirely of An Agent of the Old School .... 5 material written between 1940 and the end of Pollack's life. It includes printed or near­ GEORGE .. ... .......... .................. 5 print versions of 32 songs, as well as a "serious" jazz composition written in collaboration Honored with Books .. ............. 6 with Nat Shilkret and AI Sherman. But it also includes more than two dozen of Pollack's Current and Upcoming autograph manuscript "lead sheets" and the manuscripts oflyrics written by others which Exhibits ... ...... .......................... 6 appeared with music by Pollack. The Sculptor and the Jesuit ................. .... ........... 7 The library gratefully acknowledges the research and writing of musicologist Hank Gallery Talk ............................ 7 Bordowitz (www.bordowitz.com). without whose generous cooperation this article could What If! Want not have been written. ;., to Contribute? ............ .. ........... 8 From the University Librarian: T he Georgetown University Library Associates Newsletter is OUR STUDENT WORKERS issued four times a year. It Walking around the Library this summer has reminded me how much we owe to our student is distributed to all Library Associates, members ofthe workers over the course of the academic year. Association of Research Students come to us through two programs: the Federal Work-Study (FWS), a need­ Libraries (ARL), members of based federal financial aid program that provides eligible students the opportunity to earn a the Georgetown University portion of their financial aid package through part-time employment; and the On Campus Board of Directors, Board of Employment Program, department-funded jobs which are available for students who are Regents, Board of Governors, and selected others. not eligible for the FWS program. At Georgetown, the FWS program pays 75% of the student's wages and the Library pays the remainder. On Campus Chair of the Library Employment Program jobs are Advisory Council funded 100% by the Library. David J. Walsh (C '58) Students say they like working at the Library because University Librarian of flexible scheduling. Hours can c be fit in between classes, in the Q) Artemis Kirk 00 <1l evening, and on the weekends in I D convenient increments. The .s; o<1l Editor Library also offers them a range >­ .D Stephanie Hughes of jobs to meet their interests. ...­o o .r:: Access Services depends on 0.. students to serve patrons at the Students help patrons at Lauinger's circulation desk, Arts Editor prior to the Summer 1993 renovation. Circulation desk and answer the David C. Alan main telephone line. Students shelve books (usually with headphones to provide musical accompaniment for the task), shift books, and search for missing books. They prepare and Contributors process reserve materials for professors, including books, photocopies, and electronic David C. Alan materials. They assist the InterLibrary Loan department to search for requested material Marty Barringer and pack and unpack it. CETS (Classroom Educational Technology Services) gives students Marji Bayers the opportunity to gain experience with A-V in classrooms and around the campus. The Lynn Conway Gelardin New Media Center, which employs between 12 and 15 students during the Sharon Forrest academic year, encourages them to take all of Gelardin's workshops and gain hands-on David Hagen experience with the Center's software and equipment. Stephanie Hughes A number of you may have worked in this or other University libraries during your Artemis Kirk student years. If so, you would have consciously or subconsciously learned many skills that Nicholas Scheetz have been helpful in your careers. If you shelved books, you would get to see the literature of Scott Taylor your field, perhaps occasionally being distracted from your job by browsing through an LuLen Walker interesting title. If you shifted whole collections, you received a valuable lesson in space planning and organization. If you served the public at one of our access desks, you honed your Designer ability to maintain composure under occasionally difficult circumstances and to learn when to Laurie L. England "delegate up" to a supervisor if necessary. We love to have students work in the library because we hope to impart to them our own appreciation of books and technology. We hope also that some student workers may become u Printed on recycled paper interested enough to consider library and information science as a viable and vital career, in If you have any comments, today's information-driven world. Soon, a new opportunity for skilled students will be suggestions, criticisms, or compliments about this available: the Elizabeth M. Wood F'76 Library Scholar Fund, which will provide a two­ Newsletter, please contact the semester assistantship for a graduate or undergraduate student to do research and perform Library Associates Editor at special projects under the guidance of one of our professional staff. (202) 687-9459 or via e-mail at If some of you, our Alumni Associates, have reminiscences of working in the Riggs, [email protected]. Lauinger or Blommer libraries, we would be happy to hear from you. Your experiences just may be recounted in a future issue of this newsletter. ;., 2 LIBRARY ASSOCIATES · Summer 2002 THE MAYOR OF GEORGETOWN GRANT The Crawford Family Papers, which contain primary source materials generated by a prominent nineteenth century Georgetown family, have recently been cataloged by the Library's Special Collections. Letters and writings of Richard R. Crawford, who served as mayor of Georgetown from 1857 to 1861, shed light on his term in that office, his legal career apart from his mayorship, and the community's politics. Crawford's lengthy manuscript letterbook containing letters he L auinger Library learned wrote in 1857 and 1858 to the Georgetown recently of its successful Board of Aldermen and Common Council is application for a $2,500 grant the most substantial item in this collection. A from the Institute of Turkish Studies. The funds will be vivid letter to Richard from novelist and used to purchase two CO­ Georgetown homeowner E.D.E.N. ROMs and 31 books in Turkish Southworth (see illustration) is also and English, on the history of included, in which she asks that he intercede Turkey and the Ottoman with those "employed in grading Prospect Empire. Also, the entire sets street [sic]," who have buried her garden on of two Turkish scholarly A portion of a letter from novelist E.D.E.N. periodicals on Turkish/ Southworth to Mayor Crawford, 1858. Prospect Hill "under an avalanche of dirt." Ottoman history will be In addition, numerous personal letters of Richard's brother William Crawford acquired, as well as the complete works in Turkish of provide insight into the family's history. Throughout the papers, references to significant four very important figures with Georgetown connections, such as Henry Addison, James Craik, Francis Scott contemporary Turkish literary Key, Robert Todd Lincoln, and Montgomery C. Meigs, abound. Moreover, some fascinating authors. These acquisitions details oflife in Georgetown are preserved in these documents including letters from the will significantly improve the historic house "Evermay," checks from Georgetown's Farmers and Mechanics Bank, and a library's resources in Turkish bill of sale for slaves sold by William Crawford in Washington, D.C. The documents in the Studies, and greatly benefit the growing Turkish Studies Crawford Family Papers span the dates from 1812 to 1896.
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