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ACRL and ALA Representatives at Academic Ceremonies and Meetings

The Association of College and Research Libraries and the American Library Association regularly receive invitations to send representatives to a variety of academic ceremonies and meetings. During the past year, members of ACRL have represented the association at the 100-year anniversary celebrations of two universities, at the inaugurations of college and university presidents, at the dedication of a new university library building, and at the annual meetings of other associations.

In June 1974, Dr. Harry Robinson, Jr., director of learning resources services at Alabama State University, Montgomery, served as ALA’s and ACRL’s representative on the 100-year celebration day of that university. The Centennial Convocation of the University of Nevada, Reno, held on October 12, was attended by Gordon P. Martin, university librarian at California State University, Sacramento.

David E. Estes, assistant university librarian for special collections at Emory University, represented the association at the June 1974 inauguration of Marvin Banks Perry, Jr., as president of Agnes Scott College. On September 26, Dr. James K. Zink, director of university libraries at the University of Oklahoma, attended the inauguration of J. Terry Johnson as third president of Oklahoma Christian College. The inauguration of Thomas Bonner as president of Union College, Schenectady, New York, and chancellor of Union University, Albany, held on October 5, was attended by E. J. Josey, chief, Bureau of Academic and Research Libraries in the New York State Education Department. Dr. Billy R. Wilkinson, staff relations officer for the New York Public Library, served as the association’s representative at the inauguration of Harold Proshanksy as second president of the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, on October 10, 1974. Gordon P. Martin, university librarian at California State University, Sacramento, attended the inauguration of Max Milam as president of the University of Nevada, Reno, held on October 12 in conjunction with the university’s Centennial Convocation. Representing ACRL and ALA at the October 26 inauguration of Henry Ponder as eleventh president of Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina, was Kenneth E. Toombs, director of libraries at the University of South Carolina. On November 22, Gary L. Menges, assistant director of libraries for public services at the University of Texas at Austin, attended the inauguration of Lee H. Smith as sixth president of Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos. On November 24, Oivind M. Hovde, head librarian at Luther College, in Decorah, Iowa, represented the association at the inauguration of William Wayne Jellema as president of Wartburg College. Serving as ACRL’s representative at the December 4 inauguration of Viggo Norskov Olsen as eleventh president of Loma Linda University, California, was Norman E. Tanis, director of university libraries at California State University, Northridge, and past president of ACRL.

On February 1, 1975, Callie Faye Milliken, library director at Abilene Christian College, Texas, served as the representative of ALA and ACRL at the inauguration of W. Joe Hacker as president of Lubbock Christian College. The inauguration of the Rev. Charles David Sherrer as sixth president of King’s College, Wilkes- Barre, Pennsylvania, on March 8, was attended by George M. Jenks, university librarian at Bucknell College, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. ACRL’s representative at the March 13 inauguration of Dr. George Bugliarello as president of the Polytechnic Institute of New York, in Brooklyn, was Dr. Eugene P. Kennedy, director of libraries at New York University. On April 19, Dr. Donald D. Hendricks, director of the library at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, represented ALA and ACRL at the inauguration of John Grove Barker as seventh president of Midwestern University, Wichita Falls, Texas. Representing the association at the inauguration of Philip B. Secor as twelfth president of Cornell College, Iowa, on April 27, was Frank S. Hanlin, bibliographer at the University of Iowa Library. F. Hunter Miracle, special collections and humanities librarian at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, attended the May 2 inauguration of David Arthur Noebel as second president of American Christian College, in Tulsa. The May 17 inauguration of Dr. Benjamin H. Alexander as second president of Chicago State University was attended by Dr. Beverly P. Lynch, Executive Secretary of ACRL.

The dedication ceremonies of the new university library at the University of New Haven, on October 20, 1974, were attended by Dr. Richard K. Gardner, editor of Choice.

The fifty-seventh annual meeting of the American Council on Education, held October 9-11, 1974, in San Diego, California, was attended by Dr. H. William Axford, university librarian at the University of Oregon and president of ACRL, and Dr. Beverly P. Lynch, executive secretary of ACRL. Dr. Lynch also served as the association’s representative at the annual meeting of the National University Extension Association, held April 27-29, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. ■ ■