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ALA Representatives at Academic Ceremonies

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On Dec. 9 Richard G. Elliott represented 
A L A  at the inauguration o f Johnathan Bert 
Barnes as president o f the College of Idaho. On 
Jan. 26 at the inauguration o f Paul Francis 
Geren as president o f Stetson University Mar­
tha Marie Berhel represented ALA ; Evan Far­
ber represented ALA and AC RL at the Na­
tional Conference on Emerging Universities 
and National Concerns at Ball State University 
on Feb. 7-8.

At the inauguration o f Hugh Morris Gloster 
as president o f Morehouse College on Feb. 17, 
Mrs. Virginia Lacy Jones represented ALA; 
W . Stanley Hoole was the representative at the 
inauguration of Harold N. Stinson as presi­
dent o f Stillman College on Mar. 9. At the 
inauguration o f John Arthur Peoples, Jr. as 
president of Jackson State College (M iss.) on 
Mar. 9 Mary O ’Bryant represented ALA.

G. Flint Purdy was the A L A  representativ
at the inauguration o f Robben Wright Flem­
ing as president of the University o f Michigan 
on Mar. 11; Richard J. Beck, at the inaugura­
tion o f Glenn Terrell as president o f Washing­
ton State University, Pullman, on Mar. 17; 
and Hugh A. Brown, at the inauguration of 
Lloyd Drexell Vincent as president of Angelo 
State College (T ex .) on Mar. 24-25.

On Mar. 27, A LA  was represented by Elea­
nor McCann at the inauguration o f Wesley 
W entz Posvar as chancellor of University of 
Pittsburgh; on Mar. 28 b y  John P. M cDonald 
at the inauguration o f Arthur C. Banks, Jr., 
as president o f the Greater Hartford Communi­
ty College. At the inauguration o f Robert 
Edwin Kennedy as president o f the California 
State Polytechnic College on Apr. 3, Donald 
C. Davidson represented ALA ; and at the 
inauguration o f Norman A. Wiggins as presi­
dent o f Campbell College on Apr. 6 , Jerrold 
Ome was the A LA  representative.

Hardin Craig, Jr., represented A LA  at the 
dedication o f the library addition at the Uni­
versity of Houston on Apr. 10. Herbert Poole 
was the A L A  representative at the inaugura­
tion o f James Ralph Scales as president of 
Wake Forest University on Apr. 11; Benjamin 
B. Richards, at the inauguration of Earland 
Irving Carlson as president o f Westminster 
College on Apr. 19; and Kenneth J. LaBudde, 
at the inauguration of Peter H. Armacost as 
president of Ottawa University (K ans.) on 
Apr. 21.

At the inauguration o f Hawthorne Clough 
Evans, Jr., as president o f Lees-McRae College 
on Apr. 22 William L. Eury was the ALA 
representative. Mark Gormley represented ALA 
at the inauguration of John T. Middaugh as 
president o f Carroll College on Apr. 27; also

on Apr. 27, James V. Jones represented A LA  
at the installation o f Robert Warren Morse as 
president o f Case Western Reserve University. 
At the inauguration o f Martha E. Peterson as 
president o f Barnard College on Apr. 29 
Richard Logsdon was the A L A  representative; 
at the inauguration o f Paul Russell Anderson 
as president o f Temple University on May 1 
Richard L. Snyder represented ALA ; and at 
the inauguration o f Marvin Banks Perry, Jr., 
as president o f Goucher College on May 3 
John H. Berthel represented ALA.

At Cornell College’s inauguration of Samual 
Enoch Stumpf as president on May 4 Dale 
M. Bentz represented ALA , and Nada Vujica 
was the representative at the dedication o f the 
Learning Resources Center o f M arywood Col­
lege on that date. Carson W . Bennett rep­
resented A L A  at the dedication of Tiffin Uni­

 versity library on May 4. James F. Holly 
represented A L A  at the inauguration o f Mal­
colm Charles Moos as president o f the Uni­
versity o f Minnesota on May 9. On May 10 
John R. Russell represented A L A  at the inaug­
uration of E. K. Fretwell, Jr., as president of 
the State University o f New York College at 
Buffalo; on May 11, David Estes, at the in­
auguration of Frederick Corbet Davison as 
president of the University System o f Georgia; 
and also on May 11, Mrs. William Bryan, at 
the inauguration o f Samuel E. Braden as presi­
dent of Illinois State University, Normal. On 
May 17, Frayne Anderson represented A L A  at 
the inauguration of Harry Pitkin Bowes as pres­
ident o f General Beadle State College; on May 
18, Sister Bernard Joseph, at the inauguration 
of George B. Erbstein as president of Ulster 
County Community College ( N .Y .); on May 23, 
Lewis F. Stieg, at the inauguration o f Charles 
Johnston Hitch as president o f the University 
o f California, Berkeley; and on May 24, Sister 
Marie Jean at the inauguration o f Rhoten A. 
Smith as president of the University o f North­
ern Illinois.

TAUBER HON O RED
M aurice F. T a u b e r , professor in the school 

o f library service, Columbia University, was 
awarded a Distinguished Service Award on the 
dedication of the Findlay College library, Find­
lay, Ohio, for “ outstanding contributions to 
higher education, as a teacher, writer, librarian, 
critic and leader in the science o f library serv­
ice and ‘partner in learning’ to untold num­
bers, May 10, 1968.”  Dr. Tauber was senior 
programer for the library building, and pre­
sented a paper on the issue o f “ Partners in 
Learning.”  ■ ■



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