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...Note: The Winsor Map Room is indeed in good order this year under a male attendant. It was last year that the sweet old ladies held away...
...profile, although interesting and informative in its portrayal of R. A. Skelton and the plans he is formulating for the University's map collection, becomes even more interesting and at the same time very much less informative in its exaggerated description of the present state of affairs in the Winsor Map Room. Unfortunately, (I'm rather partial to sweet little old ladies, myself) neither the staff nor the surroundings are quite so picturesque as those described by Gerry; the attendants, although seriously handicapped by the lack of a catalogue, are usually able to come up with a map which answers...
...Harvard map collection, one of the largest in the country, numbers some 250,000 pieces, but don't expect to find the one you're looking for. Not that the sweet ladies who run the Winsor Map Room don't do their best for you. They pore over the old handwritten catalogue books and sort through the forests of wall maps, drawers crammed with charts, and stacks of old and valuable atlases. But to little avail. Everything, it seems, is out of place; nothing has been scientifically catalogued...
...Whats" Determine "Hows." In 1929 Boston-bred David Park turned up in Berkeley Calif., and except for a five-year teaching stint at Boston's Winsor School he remained there for the rest of his life For a while he was a stonecutter for a sculptor; he got through the Depression with the help of the WPA, worked as a factory hand during World War II, eventually landed a job at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. It was there that Park experimented with abstract expressionism...
...also announced recently: Miriam-Ann Fleck '64, Margaret von Szeliski '64, Barnard; Nancy H. Doe '64, Bertram; Carol D. Goodman '64, Aimee M. Wilson '64, Briggs Elizabeth M. Denny '66, Nancy K. Nichols '64, Camille F. Staciva '65, Cabot; Janet B. Darley '63, Virginia S. Jordan '64, Mary F. Winsor '65, Comstock; man '64, Emily L. Delman '66, Norris '65, Holmes; Helen S. Miranda C. Sampsell '65, man '65, Moors; Evelyn R. Rosamond Welchman...