Librarian and UI alumna Esther Walls was elected director of the United States Secretariat for the International Book Year 1972. In this capacity, she coordinated the activities of the U.S. Secretariat, an agency established to promote the United...
Excerpted is Helen Focht's account of a trial integration of University of Iowa's Currier Hall in the summer of 1954 and her recollections of Betty (Arnett) Ward, the African American student involved in the integration.
Contents: Acceptance and address correction for jury in awarding Lippincott Award, Oct. 16, 1975; Acceptance and appointment to A.V.P. Equal Opportunity Committee, Mar. 3, 1977; Acceptance to serve on search committee for chairman of Dept. of Art,...
Contents: Acceptance letter to serve Admin. Computing Policy Advisory Board, Mar. 31, 1983; Acceptance letter to United Board committee, Apr. 8, 1980; Continuing life membership ALA, Oct. 31, 1988; Invitation to national advisory board Center for...
Contents: 4eme Semaine de la Jeunesse de l'USRDA, Jul. 3-11, 1965; ALA Watch for these new books, African Encounter; Buffet luncheon and High Life party invitation, Sept. 30, 1961; Carte d'invite no.49, Semaine de la Jeunesse, Mali; Conference...
"The summer exhibition of contemporary art at the State University of Iowa [is] a major feature of the Annual Fine Arts Festival. This year there are 160 paintings, drawings and prints, drawn from private collections, artists' studios, and...
Festival included: panel featuring Grant Wood, Paul Green, Lawrence Tibbett, Frank Lloyd Wright; exhibition of paintings by Grant Wood and Marvin Cone; graduate student art exhibition; plays and musical performances.