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ALA/ACRL Representatives at Academic Ceremonies

Jane Brugger represented the Association of College and Research Libraries at the inauguration of James L. Chapman as president of West Liberty State College, West Liberty, West Virginia, on September 24. At Rice University on the same day Woodvall Ray Moore attended inauguration ceremonies for Norman Hackerman.

At the dedication of the University of Dayton’s new library on September 25, Robert Mowery was the ACRL representative. On September 26, the Max Thompson Learning Media Center was dedicated and a Freedom Shrine unveiled on the South Campus of Macomb County Community College in Warren, Michigan. Avram Rosenthal attended for ACRL.

Mary R. Hughes represented ACRL at the inauguration of George Charles Roche, III, as president of Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, on October 9, and Mary Louise B. Cobb was the representative during inauguration ceremonies for E. Bruce Heilman at the University of Richmond on October 13. The inauguration of William Edward Everheart as president of Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, on October 17 was attended by Elmer E. Rodgers, and that of John Grove Barker as president of Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, on October 23, had Louis J. Gill in attendance.

On October 29, inauguration ceremonies were held for John Paul Schaefer as president of the University of Arizona, and for Edgar D. Draper as president of the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Representing ACRL were H. William Axford at the Tucson ceremony and Ellsworth G. Mason in New York. Also acting as an ACRL representative on October 29 was Irene W. Melson at the inauguration of Ward Pafford, president of West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia.

Inaugurations were held November 12 for Brigham Young University’s president, Dallin Harris Oaks, Ralph D. Thompson attending, and on November 15 for John Edwin Johns of Stetson University, De Land, Florida. George E. Larsen represented ACRL at the latter.

Harold B. Schell attended the inauguration of Calvin Cleave Nolen as president of North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, on December 1.