First Annual Meeting

The Library Associates first annual meeting was held on May 22 in the Pierce Reading Room, Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library. University Librarian Joseph E. Jeffs announced that the Associates have attracted more than four hundred members in twenty-five states and several countries. Membership contributions amounting to more than $14,000 are being used to initiate library endowments for American history and culture, English and American literary material, Irish history and literature, and other appropriate subjects.

The guest speaker at the annual meeting, Dr. O. B. Hardison, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, presented a very interesting and entertaining description of the classical tradition in the design and development of Washington. After the meeting in the Pierce Room, members and guests visited an exhibit of Georgetown history in the Gunlocke Special Collections Room and enjoyed a reception in a fifth floor area of the library with a magnificent view of the Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln Memorials and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.