Library Associates elects officers


Vol. 17, No. 16	Jan. 8, 1998

Library Associates elects officers

The board of directors of the University of Delaware Library Associates has elected new officers to serve in 1998. They include John B. Tepe Jr. of Greenville, corporate counsel for the Du Pont Co., who will serve as president; Wilson J.C. Braun Jr. of Wilmington, president of J. P. Morgan Trust Co., who will serve as senior vice president; Jean B. Blythe of Wilmington, who will serve as vice president; Michael Olin Clark of Chadds Ford, Pa., vice president of Scudder, Stevens & Clark, who will serve as treasurer; J. A. Leo Lemay of Wilmington, Winterthur Professor of English, who will serve as secretary; and Susan Bryntenson of Wilmington, director of libraries, who will serve as assistant secretary and treasurer.

Newly elected board members are Mary Rittenhouse and William H Sudell Jr., both of Wilmington, and Joseph A. Trotter Jr. of Bethesda, Md.

In addition to Braun, Clark, Lemay and Tepe, others re-elected to the board include Thomas C.T. Brokaw, J. David Cist, Mary Jane Elliott, Andrew B. Kirkpatrick Jr., Joseph P. Melloy Sr. and Marguerite D. Thew, all of Wilmington, and John A. Munroe of Newark.

The board unanimously passed resolutions honoring S. Samuel Arsht of Wilmington and Barbara Cooch of Newark for their board service.

Founded in 1958, the UD Library Associates Inc. works to expand and enrich the research collection of the University Library through gifts from individual members, funds raised through programs and donations of significant books.

Each year the associates provide contributions to acquire rare library material, to sponsor an opening reception and to hold an exhibition publication to promote the library's Special Collections. Additionally, the group supports a June lecture program in the Morris Library featuring the research of a UD faculty member, and it holds an annual dinner that includes a presentation by an author of regional or national acclaim.

Members receive a semiannual newsletter, exhibition catalogs and a journal called Collections, which is published on an occasional basis.

Library Associate memberships are actively solicited. To request a printed membership brochure, send e-mail to UDLA@mvs.udel.edu or call 831-2231.

Membership information also is available by selecting University of Delaware Library Associates from the library's web page at http://www.lib.udel.edu