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Personnel
On August 1 Frank P. Grisham became di­

rector of the Joint University Libraries of Van­
derbilt University, George Peabody College, 

and Scarritt College 
in Nashville, Tenn. 
He had been a mem­
ber of the JUL staff 
for fourteen years and 
had served as its as­
sistant and associate 
directors for the past 
four years. He was 
acting director for six 
months in 1967.

An Alabamian orig­
inally, Mr. Grisham 
took his AB degree 
from Birmingham- 

Mr. Grisham Southern College in 
1949, his BD degree

from Vanderbilt University in 1952, and his 
masters degree in library science from George 
Peabody College in 1958. Among his manifold 
experiences he can count having served as a 
sometime apprentice carpenter, a quondam steel 
worker, and an ubiquitous pastor in Methodist 
and Presbyterian pulpits. Old hands at library 
administration will recognize that each of these 
experiences will in some unique way aid him 
well in the task to which he has now com­
mitted himself.

Mr. Grisham’s library expertise has been gen­
erated, developed, and tested in the Joint Uni­
versity Libraries, where he was first appointed 
divinity librarian in 1952. With a two-year 
hiatus, he served JUL’s religion section from 
that time until 1963. In addition to his full­
time library duties during the decade he filled 
regular classroom responsibilities in the Van­
derbilt University divinity school with appoint­
ments successively as instructor, assistant pro­
fessor, and associate professor of religious liter­
ature. In 1964 he literally “moved upstairs” to 
the JUL administrative suite where he has re­
mained since.

Mr. Grisham has proved to be an able and 
popular library manager. He has manifested 
his ability to elicit great dedication and hard 
work from his associates and subordinates, and 
news of his appointment has been received 
with joy in Nashville. In addition to being a 
good inside man,” his own life has demon­
strated that he believes one should not try to 
live by bread alone. He is very active in public 
and civic affairs, makes innumerable platform 
appearances, serves on myriad boards and com­
mittees, was one of Nashville’s first Metropoli­
tan Action Commissioners (the local OEO 
agency), and currently serves as the very dy­

namic vice chairman of the Nashville Metro­
politan School Board. Despite these varied and 
demanding duties, however, he is never too 
busy to be a devoted father to his four fine 
children, a relaxed counselor to a troubled col­
league or neighbor or friend, or a patient com­
municant to a worthy cause. In his “free time” 
he is an adjunct instructor in the Peabody 
library school.

Mr. Grisham now becomes the third person 
to fill the directorship of the thirty-two-year- 
old Joint University Libraries. This complex, 
decentralized, cooperative library enterprise 
now boasts some 1,150,000 volumes, a staff of 
120, and book funds this year totalling near 
$800,000. All who know Frank are confident 
in his ability to manage them all well and 
with his usual aplomb.—D.K.

When on July 1 he assumed his new position 
as librarian of Dickinson College in Carlisle, 
Pa., Yates M. Forms began his fourteenth 

year of library serv­
ice, most of which has 
been spent planning 
new library buildings 
and establishing new 
collections.

Mr. Forbis joined 
the Dickinson faculty 
in 1965 as deputy li­
brarian. During his 
three years in that 
post he helped com­
plete the plans for 
the $2.25 million 
Boyd Lee Spahr li­Mr. Forbis brary, supervised the 
interior decoration and

the purchasing and placement of furniture, and 
organized the move from the old building to 
the new.

Working closely with the college faculty, he 
established departmental book budgets, aided 
professors in building book collections for new 
courses, and secured an ACRL grant and three 
federal grants, totaling $22,000, for the pur­
chase of new books. During this time he also 
served on major college committees, including 
the Academic Program Committee, was chair­
man of the Independent Studies and Honors 
Program, and chairman of the College Lecture 
Series.

Born in Mecklinburg County, N.C., Mr. For­
bis attended Wingate Junior College, where he 
first decided to become a librarian. He re­
ceived his undergraduate degree in history 
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University, and his masters degree in educa­
tion.

After serving two years in the Army in Ko­
rea, being discharged as a staff sergeant, he be­
gan working as an elementary school librarian. 
He moved on to Arlington, Va., where he es­
tablished the library for a new junior high 
school and taught library courses through an 
extension of the University of Virginia. He con­
tinued his studies at Columbia University, re­
ceiving his masters degree in library science in 
1958. While at Columbia, he served as circula­
tion librarian at the Columbia law school li­
brary.

His first job out of graduate school was plan­
ning a building and establishing a new library 
collection—this time at St. Andrews, a new col­
lege in Laurinburg, N.C. From there he moved 
on to Kenyon College, where as reference li­
brarian, he helped organize the collection and 
facilitate the new programs for that library. 
The summer before coming to Dickinson, Mr. 
Forbis served as reference librarian at Library 
USA at the 1965 New York World’s Fair.

David Winston Heron succeeded Thomas 
R. Buckman as director of libraries at the Uni­
versity of Kansas on August 1, after seven dis­

tinguished years as 
head librarian of the 
University of Nevada. 
He and Winifred, and 
their children Holly, 
James, and Charles, 
are widely known and 
appreciated up and 
down the Western 
states; they are cer­
tain now to be equal­
ly admired in the 
Middle West.

The details of 
Dave’s career were re­

Mr. Heron ported in CRL in 1961, 
when he moved to 

Nevada. He is a graduate of Pomona College 
and the school of librarianship at Berkeley. 
When I needed a replacement at Stanford 
University in 1955 for Elmer Glieder, who was 
beginning a two-year leave of absence in Tur­
key, I found Dave at UCLA, where he had 
first worked as a reference librarian and then 
as head of the graduate reading room. He did 
so well at Stanford as assistant to the director 
that, after Grieder’s return, he became assistant 
librarian of The Hoover Institution. Later, when 
I went on leave, he returned to the main li­
brary as assistant director.

These were all good years, and they in­
cluded two periods of overseas duty that de­
veloped another lively dimension of Dave’s pro­
fessional interests. In 1952-53, while on leave

from UCLA, he served as librarian at the 
American Embassy at Tokyo. In 1960-61 he re­
turned to the Far East as library advisor to the 
University of the Ryukyus at Naha, Okinawa. 
During both expeditions he traveled widely and 
created many lasting friendships. It was upon 
his return from Okinawa that he assumed the 
directorship at Nevada.

In professional circles, Dave has been active 
in the ALA as well as the California and Ne­
vada associations. Currently he is a member of 
the ALA Council and editor of the ACRL 
Monograph Series. He was president of the Ne­
vada Library Association, 1963-65, and chair­
man of the Regional Resources Coordinating 
Committee of the California Library Associa­
tion, 1957-58. He is the author of a number of 
articles and reviews, and recently he was re­
sponsible for an experiment in telefacsimile 
transmission of texts between the University of 
Nevada library and the University of California 
at Davis.

In addition to his administrative, overseas, 
and professional experience, Dave has two oth­
er qualities that especially fit him to follow in 
the Vosper and Buckman traditions at Kansas. 
The first is bibliophilic. He is good with book 
collectors. His membership in the Roxburghe 
Club kept him commuting all the way from 
Reno to San Francisco; and I would not be 
surprised if he turned up even from Kansas. 
The second is simply human. He is a gentle­
man. His warm, considerate, and gently irrev­
erent responses to the vicissitudes of men are 
a joy.—R. C. Swank, University of California, 
Berkeley.

In 1961, a fine, tall young man by the name 
of Warren S. Owens, with dark hair, came 
out of the Middle West to become director of 

libraries at Temple 
University. Following 
the beloved Walter 
Hausdorfer, Mr. Ow­
ens could build on 
W a lte r ’s a c h i e v e ­
ments, but even so he 
faced a task of no 
mean proportions. His 
problems were not un­
like those of other li­
brarians; a plethora of 
students; a dearth of 
library materials; not 
enough staff of the 

Mr. Owens right kind; and a 
building that, although

the delight of all when it was built, was im­
possible for the university of today.

Despite these hurdles, Warren Owens, when 
he went to his new post as director of li­
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left the Temple University libraries in a 
healthy, growing state with the main library 
safely housed in the new Samuel Paley library 
building. The book stock had increased by two 
or three hundred thousand volumes and one 
to two thousand more periodicals were cur­
rently received. There was a corresponding 
growth elsewhere in the system.

Mr. Owens drew on his prior experience as a 
librarian at the University of Michigan where 
he had held numerous responsible posts. Prior 
to his becoming a librarian he had taught Eng­
lish in two universities, one of which was the 
University of North Dakota. Possibly this sug­
gests a reason for his desire to return to that 
section of the country. While fishing was good 
in Pennsylvania and camping at Cape May 
fun, I am sure the brook trout of the Rockies 
and the camping sites of the Far West were 
deciding factors in the move to Idaho.

While in Pennsylvania he served the pro­
fession well, having been chairman of the Li­
brary Development Committee and president 
of the Pennsylvania Library Association. In ad­
dition he served several years as treasurer of 
the Union Library Catalogue of Pennsylvania. 
We all valued his counsel and advice.

Idaho will like this man, now eight years 
older than when he came to Philadelphia, now 
with graying (and less) hair, but with a spirit 
and determination that will be just great in 
Moscow.—Emerson Greenaway, Free Library 
of Philadelphia.

On April 1 Harley C. Brooks became li­
brarian of George Peabody College for Teach­
ers, succeeding J. Isaac Copeland, now of the 

University of North 
Carolina. Mr. Brooks 
has also accepted a 
joint appointment as 
lecturer with Peabody 
library school, begin­
ning in the fall of 
1968.

The Peabody li­
brary is a division of 
the Joint University 
Libraries, which, soon 
after Mr. Brooks’ ar­
rival received the 
la r g e s t  o p e r a tin g  

Mr. Brooks budget in their history. 
Clearly, Mr. Brooks has

had an auspicious beginning and faces a chal­
lenging year. Those who know him believe that 
he is fully capable of meeting this challenge— 
and others that will inevitably follow.

A graduate of Lincoln Memorial University 
( 1951) in his hometown of Harrogate, Tenn., 
Mr. Brooks did his hitch in the Army and then 
taught mathematics and civics in high school

prior to attending Peabody library school. After 
receiving his master’s degree in library science 
in 1957, Mr. Brooks returned to East Tennes­
see as librarian of Hiwasee College in Madison­
ville, where he met his wife-to-be, Barbara 
Collier. In 1959 the Brookses moved to Al­
buquerque where Harley served as a catalog 
librarian at the University of New Mexico, 
pursuing further studies in Russian and mathe­
matics. He was admitted in 1961 to doctoral 
studies at the graduate library school of the 
University of Chicago, where he gained added 
experience as circulation and reserve librarian. 
Immediately prior to returning to Peabody, he 
served as head of the circulation department of 
the Ohio State University libraries (1964-68).

An active member of ACRL, Mr. Brooks 
brings broad experience and irrepressible en­
thusiasm to a key position at Peabody. His spe­
cialization in library history and administration 
will be utilized to the fullest in his course in 
foundations of librarianship and in the emerg­
ing plans for expanding the Peabody library to 
accommodate a rapidly growing collection — 
Edwin S. Gleaves, George Peabody College for 
Teachers.

A P P O IN T M E N T S

Charlotte Ames has accepted the position 
of general cataloger and assistant instructor of 
library administration, Ohio State University 
libraries.

Mrs. C. Joyce Anderson has accepted ap­
pointment as reference librarian and instructor 
in library administration, effective September 
1, in the University of Oregon.

Margaret Anderson has accepted the posi­
tion of Middle East bibliographer and cata­
loger of Arabic material, and assistant instruc­
tor of library administration, Ohio State Uni­
versity libraries.

Mrs. Marcia Aston has accepted the posi­
tion of general cataloger and instructor of li­
brary administration, Ohio State University li­
braries.

Aurie Austin is assistant reference librarian 
in Bates College, Lewiston, Me.

Mrs. Evelyn S. Baker has been promoted 
to head, serial division, catalog department and 
instructor of library administration, Ohio State 
University libraries.

Catherine Bennides has been named to the 
cataloging staff of State University of New 
York library, Stony Brook.

Murray A. Berman has been appointed as­
sistant special collections librarian in the Hon- 
nold library, Claremont, Calif.

Larry Xon Besant, assistant librarian for 
Chemical Abstract Services in Columbus, Ohio, 
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services of the M. D. Anderson memorial 
library at the University of Houston.

Mrs. Magda Boehm became acquisitions li­
brarian in the library of Osgoode Hall law 
school of York University, effective Sept. 1.

David Bolotine is newly appointed senior 
cataloger in the library of State University of 
New York, Stony Brook.

Robert J. Bonner has been named District 
Center extension librarian of the state library 
services at Pennsylvania State University li­
braries.

Jean A. Brotsman has accepted appoint­
ment as senior catalog' librarian (serials) and 
assistant professor of library administration, ef­
fective September 16, in the University of 
Oregon.

Mrs. Helena Brychta has accepted the 
position of general cataloger and instructor of 
library administration, Ohio State University 
libraries.

Judy Calvert has been awarded a four-year 
graduate assistantship in the Pennsylvania State 
University libraries.

Mrs. F. Anne Cannon joined the staff of the 
reference department, York University libraries, 
May 1.

Mrs. Virginia N. Cesario has been appoint­
ed assistant chief librarian, public services, the 
City College library, City University of New 
York.

A. Zane Clark is newly appointed as senior 
reference librarian, Fresno State College.

Mrs. Alice S. Clark has accepted the posi­
tion of assistant head, personnel and budget 
office, and assistant instructor of library ad­
ministration, Ohio State University libraries.

Martin Colverd became assistant librarian 
of College-Burgess-Carpenter libraries of Col­
umbia University, Aug. 1.

Gail A. Corbett joined the staff of the 
public services division, York University li­
braries, effective July 15.

Charles D. Custer has been named execu­
tive director of the Capital District Library 
Council for Reference and Research Resources.

Ronald B. Daniels has joined the staff of 
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute library as 
assistant in the acquisitions department, effec­
tive July 1.

Eleanor R. Devlin has accepted the posi­
tion of head, reference department, and asso­
ciate professor of library administration, Ohio 
State University libraries.

Helen V. Dungan has been appointed as­
sistant cataloger at Lafayette College, Easton, 
Pa.

Joseph Dunlap has been named to the new­
ly-created position of bibliographer for the 
City College Library System, City University 
of New York.

Mrs. Jane B. Durnell has been appointed 
reference librarian at the University of Oregon 
effective July 1.

Richard J. Fitzsimmons was appointed to 
the position of librarian at the Scranton cam­
pus of Pennsylvania State University libraries 
on July 1.

Juan R. Freudenthal became special collec­
tions librarian at SUNY Binghamton library as 
of September 3.

Katharine Gaines has been appointed as­
sistant cataloger at Lafayette College, Easton, 
Pa.

Mary E. Garst, assistant librarian, has been 
appointed head, gifts and exchange division in 
the Louisiana State University library, Baton 
Rouge.

Olga J. Gil became head of documents serv­
ices, York University libraries, effective May 15.

Mrs. Judy E. Ginsberg is now a cataloger 
in the library of Osgoode Hall law school of 
York University.

Paul J. Green has accepted appointment as 
acquisition librarian (serials) and instructor in 
library administration, effective September 9, 
in the University of Oregon.

Sharon Hamby became circulation librarian 
of the business library in Columbia University, 
on Aug. 1.

Stephanie Hillman is newly appointed as 
assistant college librarian in Fresno State Col­
lege.

Georges J. Houle is now assistant acquisi­
tions librarian in California State Polytechnic 
College, Pomona.

Geraldine Irby has been appointed govern­
ment documents librarian of the University 
of South Alabama, Mobile.

E lizabeth Jenkins, is now head, circulation 
department and assistant professor of library 
administration, Ohio State University libraries.

Richard D. Johnson became librarian of 
the Honnold library, Claremont, Calif., in July.

Robert Kaufman became librarian of the 
fine arts library of Columbia University on 
July 1-

Winifred Kistler has recently been named 
reference librarian in the health sciences li­
brary, University of California, Davis.

Mrs. Nellie W. Kitchen has been appoint­
ed cataloger in the Honnold library, Claremont, 
Calif.

Robert A. Kowalski, a graduate of Penn 
State, has been appointed assistant serials cata­
log librarian at the Pattee library, Pennsylvania 
State University.

Jay Ladd is now head, department libraries 
and assistant professor of library administra­
tion, Ohio State University libraries.

Evelyn Lauer became librarian of the



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school of library service in Columbia Univer­
sity on July 1.

John P. Lawrence is foreign language bib­
liographer in the acquisitions department of 
York University libraries.

Wen-Chouh Lin is now a descriptive cata- 
loger in the Perkins library of Duke University.

J. W endell Lotz has accepted the position 
of social sciences bibliographer and assistant 
instructor of library administration, Ohio State 
University libraries.

Jay K. Lucker was named associate librarian 
of Princeton University on July 17.

Mrs. Caroline W. Macfarlane joined the 
catalog staff of Osgoode Hall law school li­
brary, York University, effective June 17.

Richard M. Malinski is a new member of 
the reference department, York University li­
braries.

James M. Matarazzo has been promoted to 
a new position of serials librarian, effective 
July 1, in the MIT libraries. He will act also 
as assistant to the head of the acquisitions de­
partment.

Betty J. Meyer is now head of acquisition 
department and associate professor of library 
administration, Ohio State University libraries.

Metod Milac has been appointed assistant 
director in charge of public services of the 
Syracuse University libraries.

Sarah Mitchell has become a subject cata- 
loger in the Perkins library of Duke University.

Diane Mosher has been appointed junior 
reference librarian in Fresno State College.

William H. Mullane became administra­
tive assistant in the University of Nebraska li­
braries in March.

Mrs. Margaret F. Nolan is chief librarian 
of the photograph and slide library of the 
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

David L. Olsen has been appointed acquisi­
tions librarian at Lafayette College, Easton, 
Pa.

Mrs. Biruta Z. Osis is now serial cataloger 
and instructor of library administration, Ohio 
State University libraries.

Mary Ellen Page is now assistant docu­
ments cataloger and instructor of library ad­
ministration, Ohio State University libraries.

Paul Palmer of Columbia University be­
came theater arts librarian on July 1.

Mrs. Lillie Parker has been appointed as­
sociate college librarian of Fresno State Col­
lege.

Rose Marie P erez has been appointed cata­
loger in the Honnold library, Claremont, Calif.

William J. Petesch has been appointed se­
nior catalog librarian, Fresno State College.

Charlotte K. Post has been appointed to 
the position of assistant cataloger in the Wis­

consin State University library, Whitewater, be­
ginning September 1968.

Priscilla E. Pratt is a new member of the 
acquisitions staff in the library of the State 
University of New York, Stony Brook.

Ronald E. Robbins has been appointed as­
sistant reference librarian at Lafayette College, 
Easton, Pa.

Marion Ruth Schulz has accepted the posi­
tion of reference librarian, botany and zoology 
library, and assistant instructor of library ad­
ministration, Ohio State University libraries.

Mrs. Donna G. Sciascia has been appointed 
cataloger in the Bowdoin College library.

Shirley Scott has been appointed chief 
librarian of the research library at the Uni­
versity of Rhode Island graduate school of 
oceanography.

Ann M. Seyboth is now reference librarian, 
reference department, Ohio State University 
libraries.

Janet Sheets has been appointed a refer­
ence librarian in the Perkins library of Duke 
University.

Zenon B. Sheparovych, associate director of 
libraries at New York State College in Geneseo, 
has been appointed director of libraries and 
associate professor at Essex County College in 
Newark, N.J. as of August 1.

Mary Ann Sides has been appointed assist­
ant technical librarian with the Pennsylvania 
Technical Assistance Program, Library In­
formation System at Pennsylvania State Uni­
versity libraries.

Robert A. Siever has been appointed acqui­
sitions librarian at Franklin and Marshall Col­
lege, effective July 1.

Virginia Smiley has been promoted to head, 
commerce library and instructor of library ad­
ministration, Ohio State University libraries.

Mrs. Beverly J. Smith is a newly appointed 
cataloger in York University libraries, effective 
July 1.

Anna Spohrer has been appointed the as­
sistant reference librarian of the University of 
South Alabama, Mobile.

Frank A. Stevens has been appointed chief 
of the Library Training and Resources Branch, 
Division of Library Services and Educational 
Facilities, U.S. Office of Education.

Alva W. Stewart has been named head 
librarian at North Carolina Wesleyan and will 
assume duties on July 1.

Eugene V. Sullivan has been appointed 
serial records librarian of the University of 
South Alabama, Mobile.

Wai-Fong Tang has been appointed senior 
acquisitions librarian in Fresno State College.

Robert Thorson is now assistant head, cir­
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administration, Ohio State University libraries.
James C. Toms is now a cataloger in York

University libraries.
Edwin G. Tyler has been appointed serials

librarian in Bowdoin College.
Mrs. Elizabeth R. Usher has been named

chief librarian of the Art reference library in
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Ivan Vlasic has accepted the position of
Slavic cataloger and assistant instructor of li­
brary administration, Ohio State University li­
braries.

Samuel J. Waddell has been appointed
librarian of the nursing education library that
Hunter College is developing on its Bellevue
campus.

Joyce I. Warshaw became assistant librarian 
in the cataloging department at SUNY Bing­
hamton library as of June 3.

William H. W ebb has been named Uni­
versity of Colorado bibliographer, effective 
July 1.

Jean Whalen has accepted the professional 
intern position, Ohio State University libraries.

Mrs. Ethel Marie W. Wikander becomes 
a cataloger on the staff of the Sterling and 
Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 
Mass., in September.

Ann Wilkinson became librarian of the

College-Burgess-Carpenter libraries of Colum­
bia University on July 1.

Brian B. Wilks is librarian of the Leslie 
Frost library, York University.

Miriam E. W illits has been appointed cata­
log librarian and instructor in library adminis­
tration, effective October 1, in the University 
of Oregon.

Don E. Wood is now head of serial division, 
acquisition department and instructor of li­
brary administration, Ohio State University li­
braries.

Joyce M. Wright has been named director 
of the East-West Center library of the Uni­
versity of Hawaii, Honolulu.

Tinna K. Wu has accepted a position as re­
search associate, instructor, in the Hamline 
University library, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Virginia Yagello is now head, chemistry 
and physics libraries and assistant professor of 
library administration, Ohio State University 
libraries.

Daniel J. Yett has been appointed to the 
new position of science bibliographer for The 
George Washington University library.

Yun-Yang Zee has been appointed cataloger 
in the Honnold library, Claremont, Calif.

NECROLOGY

James T. Babb, librarian of Yale University 
from 1945 until his retirement in 1965, died on 
July 21.

Archibald Prewitt DeWeese, chief of the 
information division of the New York public 
library from 1943 to 1966, died on July 31.

Ralph T. E sterquest, director of the ALA 
International Relations Office, died on Satur­
day, August 10.

Rudolph H. Gjelsness died on August 16 
after being struck by a car near the University 
of Puerto Rico campus. Professor Gjelsness had 
gone to Puerto Rico to teach in the newly 
established Institute of University Librarian- 
ship Training there.

Edward J. Meyers, who had been biblio­
graphical consultant and subject cataloger in 
the Perkins library of Duke University since 
1948, died on May 9.

John H. Ottemiller, associate university 
librarian at Yale University from 1951 until 
his resignation last month, died on July 22. ■ ■

RETIREMENTS
Edith M. Quibell retired recently as senior 

catalog librarian, after twenty-one years on 
the staff of Fresno State College.

Virginia C. West retired in July as associate 
college librarian of Fresno State College after 
twenty-seven years of service.

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