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.' Riggs Library the late 1970s, by the Pointer Sisters. M'CDl/CUAItI1 (lII(CC1FD ¥f His lyrics to Charmaine, based on 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. Program at Gu. We are The Crawford Family Papers are available to interested researchers in the grateful to the Institute for Special Collections Division. Ie, its generosity to Lauinger Library this year. The Institute describes LEON ROBBIN GALLERY RIBBON-CUTTING itself on its website (http:// turkishstudies.org) as "the Leon Robbin, L'22 and his wife TH E only non-profit, private LEON ROBOIN Olga were in attendance in May to GALLERY educational foundation in the participate in the ribbon-cutting United States devoted solely ceremony which officially opened to supporting and encouraging the development the Leon Robbin Gallery. The of Turkish Studies in Gallery will feature exhibits of American higher educa tion." music manuscripts from the The book jacket extensive Leon Robbin Collections illustrated above is from the as well as other manuscripts from English translation of Turkish author Orhan Pamuk's My the Library's Special Collections, c ~ Name is Red. The novel is purchased by the Leon Robbin co I required reading for all of this "0 Endowment Fund. S co year's incoming freshmen, and o the Turkish versions of all of The Gallery opens the exhibit ~ o Pamuk's books will be bought Music of a Hollywood Songwriter 5: with money from the in August. Ie, From left to right standing: former University Librarian Institute's grant. An exhibit on Sue Martin, Olga Robbin, and University Librarian the book can be seen this fall Artemis Kirk; seated, Leon Robbin L'22 in the Kerbs Exhibit Area of the Lauinger Library. 3 LIBRARY ASSOCIATES · Summer 2002 HOLIDAY GIFT From the Vault: THREE MARyS AT THE TOMB OF CHRIST Following the clearing of a little-disturbed storage area in Healy Hall last summer, the Georgetown University Art Collection turned its attention to researching and restoring a number of the paintings from the University's holdings. One such painting, which the Collection is particularly pleased to have in its care, is Three Marys at the Tomb of Christ (c. 1835) by Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1788-1853). It is an uncommon scene in depictions of the Gospel. Readers will nonetheless be familiar with the episode from the varying versions in Matthew 28, Mark 16, and Luke 24. Schnorr von Carolsfeld has combined elements from each book's account, and simplified the scene; yet in taking these artistic liberties, he suggests masterfully the sense of discovery and illumination, simultaneously literal and spiritual, from the moment. O ur readers may remember Born in Leipzig, Schnorr von Carolsfeld was the son of Hans and older brother of that our Winter 2002 issue mentioned that the Library Julius, each also painters of distinction. He studied at the Academy in Vienna, and was looking for a first edition worked throughout Germany and Austria; his paintings can be found today in museums copy of Stanley Middleton's throughout those two countries. Late neoclassical in style, early romantic in subject, The Holiday, to complete its Three Marys' light, almost pastel-hued palette is consistent with his work. collection to date of the Unfortunately, The Three Marys has suffered a series of three radiating tears, winners of the Booker Prize. denoted by the arrows superimposed on the reproduction. Repair and restoration of such At a recent event in serious damage necessitates a complex blend of chemistry and artistry; skilled expertise New Jersey, hosted by can bring a remarkable result, undetectable except by close inspection. To repair a series Georgetown parents Tom (C'64) and Meg Healey, of tears such as this might require a delicate mix of thin papers, glues, acrylic lacquers, Artemis Kirk talked about pigment, and possibly the ongoing need for libraries restretching sections of to preserve culture and the canvas. With the continue to collect work in Library's commitment to print even as we move maintaining the toward digital libraries. She University's important used as an example author works of art in the best Stanley Middleton, discussed by recent Library Associates possible condition, speaker Jason Cowley in former University an online article at Librarian Susan K. www.amazon.co.uk as "the Martin designated the forgotten man of post-war funds, with the British literary culture." continued support of Cowley mentioned in his University Librarian article that Georgetown's Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld Artemis G. Kirk, for the Library had long sought the Germany and Austria, 1788- 1853 repair of elusive Holiday, to no avail. Three Marys at the Tomb of Christ, c. 1835, oil on canvas The Three At the end of her talk, Tom For a color image of The Three Marys at the Tomb of Christ, Marys, now underway Healey retrieved his own first please go to 4 LIBRARY ASSOCIATES · Summer 2002 A TRIBUTE TO PAUL HUME GEORGE The exhibit currently in the Stephen Richard Kerbs Exhibit Area on the third floor of Lauinger honors Paul Hume (1915-2001), a member of the Georgetown University community who made important contributions to the study and performance of music in America. His life and works offer a musical vision of America. A Chicago native, Hume pursued a wide-ranging musical career. Over a lifetime of achievement, he served in a number of roles, including music critic for the Washington Post, G EORGE, the online catalog program host for Washington's classical music station of the main campus libraries, WGMS, Georgetown University professor of music now includes the records history (1950-1977), and Yale University professor of from the catalog of the music history. Hume directed the Georgetown University Medical Center's University Glee Club for 25 years. Dahlgren Memorial Library (GEORGEmed)-an addition The materials for this exhibit are drawn mainly of more than 127,000 books, from the Paul Hume Papers, an extensive manuscript journals, and non-print collection preserved and available for research use in the volumes; 2,900 multimedia Special Collections Division of the Georgetown and microcomputer software titles; and 800 active journal Paul Hume at the Moller organ University Library. Several books by Hume are subscriptions in the in the Basilica of the available in the main stacks of Georgetown University's biomedical sciences. National Shrine of the Lauinger Library. ,., Immaculate Conception Finding materials in interdisciplinary scientific AN AGENT OF THE OLD SCHOOL subjects will be greatly simplified by searching the "Lamphere: shrewd as a fox and a born interrogator" read The Independent headline new combined catalog, still announcing to England the death of an American-legendary FBI agent Robert J. called GEORGE. One search Lamphere (1918-2002). Rupert Cornwell, author of the obituary, goes on to say: in the new GEORGE (http:// library.georgetown.edu) will In the space of ten years, between his entry into the Soviet access records for the espionage division and his departure from the FBI in 1955, holdings of several libraries: Lamphere handled some of the most famous cases of the Cold Blommer Science Library; War. He was instrumental in unmasking the first major post-war Dahlgren Memorial Library; Soviet spies in the United States, Gerhart Eisler and Judith Lauinger Library; National Coplon. He was sent to London to interrogate Klaus Fuchs, Reference Center for Bioethics Literature; and arguably the most damaging of Moscow's nuclear spies. Then he Woodstock Theological led the team which broke the Rosenberg spy ring, paving the way Center Library. for the trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Along the way he crossed swords with arguably the most famous spy in history, Kim Philby, and was a vital collaborator in the Venona codebreak project-so secret that even Harry Truman was not told of it. Lamphere was an agent of the old school, a rough-hewn man yet shrewd as a fox, a born interrogator, and possessed of boundless energy. Lamphere spoke at the Library Associates "spyposium" in November 1994, electrifying the Gaston Hall audience with his aggressively honest statements. "I HATED KIM PHILBY," was his opening salvo. The library is grateful to his widow, Martha , A nd Philby, the man who Lamphere, for the donation of her husband's remarkable papers and library. Besides sat across the desk from me letters from such notables as Ben Bradlee, J. Edgar Hoover, Daniel P. Moynihan, Sam in the FBI's espionage section, Papich, Samuel Rifkin, Richard Rhodes, Edward Teller, William H. Webster, and Nigel lives in retirement in Moscow. West, there is also a considerable amount of research material for his gripping 1986 I recall his treachery often, memoir, The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story. Its publication was fought for years by the NSA, and remains the best account of a critical period in modern espionage with disgust. , history. The Lamphere Collection is a wonderful addition to the library's famed -Robert J. Lamphere and intelligence holdings and its importance cannot be exaggerated. ,., Tom Shachtman, The FBI-KGB War 5 LIBRARY ASSOCIATES ' Summer 2002 CURRENT AND HONORED WITH BOOKS UPCOMING EXHIBITS This spring, as it has in past years, the Library invited parents of graduating students to participate in the Honor with Books program. These gifts to the Library allow the purchase of one or more books for its collections, and a bookplate with the name of the giver and the honoree is placed in each book. The Library would like to thank the donors below and congratulate the graduates in whose name the gift was made. ,., HONOREE: DONOR: Eileen Barrett M'02 ...... Thomas Barrett Jay P. Barron C'02 ...... Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Barron Anne E. Bihler F'02 ...... W. George & Joy Bihler Maura Cristin Cannon B'02 ...... Kathleen & Chris Cannon Charles Quest, (1904-1993) Sara Lillian Chieffo C'02 ...... Vincent Chieffo Seated Woman, 1950 color woodcut Katherine Dover N'02 ...... Dr. & Mrs. George J. Dover proof B, Edition: 12 Timothy Daniel DuBois C'02 ...... Gerald J. Catano LEON ROBBIN GALLERY Thomas Fote L'02 ...... Joseph & Elaine Fote Music of a Hollywood Cynthia Marie Frey L'02 ...... Robert L. & Josephine Taylor Songwriter August-October Sahil Godiwala L'02 ...... Tejas Godiwala Jeremy Hirsh L'02 ...... Robert & Rochelle Hirsh ~ GUNLOCKE ROOM Adam Neilson Hoit C'02 ...... Robert & Rosanna Hoit German Publishers' Bindings 1810-1920 Elizabeth Koch Janik G'02 ...... Jim & Donna Koch August-October Melissa Erin Jones L'02 ...... Mr. & Mrs. Richard Jones FAIRCHILD GALLERY Melanie Lynn Knapp B'02 ...... Pat & Maggie Knapp Charles Quest: Thomas J. Leahy C'02 ...... Michael & Harriet Leahy Visions in Copper and Wood Michael J. Levine B'02 ...... Andrea & Gregory Levine July-October Nicholas Majka F'02 ...... Marie Beauregard John G. McGinn G'98, G'02 ...... John J. McGinn Drawings by John Watson Davis for the Mary Lauren McKinney C'02 ...... Patsy & Don McKinney Society for the Kevin 1. Nishimura B'02 ...... Mr. & Mrs. Steve 1. Nishimura Propagation of the Faith October-December Eloise Choate Patterson C'02 ...... Maria W. Patterson Audrey Lee Perlow C'02 ...... Lawrence S. Perlow & Cheryl A. O'Brien ~ STEPHEN RICHARD Raphael A. Posner C'02 ...... Sylvia & David Posner KERBS EXHIBIT AREA My Name is Red Robyn K. Pretlow L'02 ...... Revardo & Dolores Pretlow An exhibition on the Michael Sherman C'02 ...... Benna & Steve Sherman book by Orhan Pamuk August-October Michael Delavan Stanley MBA'02 ...... Susan L. Stanley Michael A. Troncoso L'02 ...... Ariel L. Troncoso, M.D. J. C. Uva F'02 ...... Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Uva Russell William Wallace C'02 ...... Vickie Wallace Alexandria Lynn Walton F'02 ...... Richard & Barbara Walton Brian M. Wheeler C'Ol ...... Carol & Tom Wheeler Julie & Andrew Young B'89, L'02 ...... Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Young Morgan Joshua Zucker L'02 ...... Sheldon & Roz Zucker 6 LIBRARY ASSOCIATES · Summer 2002 THE SCULPTOR AND THE JESUIT GALLERY TALK In May the Library held a dedication of the sculpture Martin Cyril D'Arcy, S. J. by the late Frederick Shrady. The sculpture is permanently on display in the Murray Room on the fifth floor of Lauinger Library. Roderick S . Quiroz c R oderick S. Quiroz, art Q) co collector and friend of the I"" .-0;; artist Aline Fruhauf, gave a co o gallery talk on a recent £; Leger, Matisse and Andre Derain, who was The exhibit was made his first mentor as well as a friend. possible by generous donations from the artist's Following a brilliant career as a husband, Erwin Vollmer, and painter, with works in the Metropolitan by Mr. Quiroz. Museum of Art in New York as well as museums in Paris, Lyons, Grenoble, Belgrade, and Zagreb, Mr. Shrady turned to sculpture. His first work in 1950 was the head of Martin C. D'Arcy, S.J., the famous English Jesuit and a good friend ofthe artist. The sculpture was immediately acquired by , Of books read there are the Metropolitan Museum of Art. nearly always a few which Now, thanks to the generosity of stand out as landmarks; Shrady's daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and or rather, when one is in Mrs. Peter L. Smith, and his granddaughter process of producing an idea Bettina Smith C'02, Georgetown is honored of one's own, they deserve to to own a casting made from this famous be called midwives. , Frederick Shrady, sculpture, in memory of Frederick Shrady Martin Cyril D'Arey, S.J. and his wife Maria. -Martin C. D' Arcy S.J., preface to Frederick Shrady's Twelve Stations of the Cross can also be seen in the The Mind and Heart of Love University's Dahlgren Chapel. n. 7 LIBRARY ASSOCIATES . Summer 2002 r------.., FROM THE ARCHIVES I WHAT IF I I WOULD LIKE I TO CONTRIBUTE? I I W e'll try to make it I easy! If you have books, I manuscripts, prints or I other items the library I might be able to use, I contact Marty Barringer, head of Special Collections, at (202)687-7475, or Betty Smith, head of the Gifts unit, at (202)687-7458. If you are considering a contribution in the form of cash, appreciated securities, or a bequest or planned gift, please call Marji Bayers, Library Director of Development at (202)687-5666, or the Library Associates' Coordinator at Ladies from the neighboring Young Ladies' Academy of the Visitation at Georgetown (202)687-7446. You can pay a social visit to campus, ca. 1911, and pause for the camera in front of Healy Hall. also give a gift to the Library on-line at A NOTE OF APPRECIATION Georgetown's Third Century Campaign Many thanks to all our friends who have recently given us books, website: http:// papers, and manuscripts and ephemera. They will be listed in the Fall www.georgetown.edu/ issue of the Library Associates Newsletter. j., oaur /index.html. 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