A Fund for the Archives

Francis J. Heazel, Jr. (C'40), in appreciation for the Archives' help with the Class of 1940's golden reunion, established a restricted fund to help the University Archives preserve and promote appreciation of the history of the university. Archivist Jon Reynolds hopes to use the fund as seed money for more projects like Georgetown University: A Pictorial Review, and the popular reproductions of turn-of-the-century baseball posters.

The first project will be to provide computerized versions of the Georgetown line art available in the archives. The profit from this project should begin the process of building up the fund to endowment status. Eventually, we hope to take our popular illustrated lectures "on the road" or perhaps produce a video about Georgetown and the archives, in a style rather similar to Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. "I've tried to achieve that effect in my lectures ever since I've been here," says Reynolds.

Associates with a particular interest in the archives are invited to assist this project by sending a contribution to the Archives Fund in care of the Library Associates at the address on the newsletter.