Black History Month at the LRC

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Volume 3, Issue 3

SPRING 2006

Collection Highlights

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Student Worker 2

Book Club Reading List

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Featured Web Site

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Lecture Series Highlights

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Inside this issue:

Edi ted by Suzanne Waddel l

February is…...Black History Month, and this year’s theme is

African Americans in the United States Military. Mr. Timothy Creamer

has put together a display which includes new books, DVDs, and VHS

tapes. The posters shown above honor the Buffalo Soldiers, who served

out West, and the Tuskegee Airmen, who served in WWII. For a list of

new books added to the collection, please turn to page 2. To read about

this newsletter’s featured Web site, Black Wings: African American Pio-

neer Aviators, please turn to page 4.

National Library Week will be observed the week of April 2 - 8

this year. First sponsored in 1958, this is a time to promote the use and

support of all types of libraries—school, public, academic, and special.

Library Director, Diane Ambruso, has decided to celebrate this event at

Stevens College by holding a book drive. From now until the first week

of April, you can drop off new and gently used children’s books at the

library. The library staff plans to donate these books to a local chil-

dren’s elementary school.

Children’s Book Drive

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Know Your LRC Student Workers

Ryan Diehl

Collection Highlights

Taps for a Jim Crow Army: Letters From Black

Soldiers in World War II, edited by Phillip

McGuire

Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Bat-

talion, World War II’s Forgotten Heroes, by Kareem

Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton

We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans

From World War II to the War in Iraq, compiled by

Yvonne Latty

Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Rec-

ollections of Military Life and Service in the West,

edited by Frank N. Schubert

Encyclopedia of African American Military History, by

William Weir

American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military

from the Revolution to Desert Storm, by Gail Buckley

Soldiers of Freedom: An Illustrated History of African

Americans in the Armed Forces, by Kai Wright

America’s First Black General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.,

1880 - 1970, by Marvin Fletcher

African American Recipients of the Medal of Honor: A

Biographical Dictionary, Civil War Through Vietnam

War, by Charles W. Hanna

Black Knights: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen, by

Lynn Homan and Thomas Reilly

Black Company: The Story of Subchaser 1264, by Eric

Purdon

Proudly We Served: The Men of the USS Mason, by Mary

Pat Kelly

To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the

Only African American WACS Stationed Overseas Dur-

ing World War II, by Brenda L. Moore

Honoring Sergeant Carter: A Family’s Journey to Uncover

the Truth About an American Hero, by Allene G. Carter

and Robert L. Allen

African Americans and the Gettysburg Campaign, by James

M. Paradis

Black Phalanx: African American Soldiers in the War of

Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, by

Joseph T. Wilson

Campfires of Freedom: The Camp Life of Black Soldiers

during the Civil War, by Keith P. Wilson

Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American

Soldiers in the Union Army, 1861-1865, edited by Edwin

S. Redkey

Cathy Williams: From Slave to Female Buffalo Soldier, by

Phillip Thomas Tucker

The Unwept: Black American Soldiers and the Spanish-

American War, by Edward Van Zile Scott

And a series of fictional books about African American sol-

diers called The Black Sabre Chronicles, by Tom Willard:

- Book 1: Buffalo Soldiers

- Book 2: Sable Doughboys

- Book 3: Wings of Honor

- Book 4: Stone Ponies

- Book 5: Sword of Valor

New Chairs For Computer Lab

Ryan Diehl was recently

added to the slate of students

working at the library. He’s a

freshman in Electronics and

he lives in the dorm during

the week. On the week-ends he drives

home to Perkasie, PA, to work at Cof-

fee Head, a coffee shop owned by his

mother. When he’s not studying or

making blended, iced coffees, Ryan

likes to go bowling.

It felt like Christmas when 20 new

chairs arrived in the library over the winter se-

mester break. Unfortunately, like a lot of Christ-

mas presents, they came with “some assembly

required.” Fortunately, Tim

Creamer volunteered to take on

the project, and within two

days, he had all of the chairs put

together and the old, broken

chairs removed. Once they were

put together, the chairs looked

great, and, with the state of the

art computers that were in-

stalled last summer, the li-

brary’s computer lab has a

whole new look.

Volume 3, Issue 3 Page 3

February- - - - - The Five People You Meet in Heaven,

by Mitch Albom

March - - - - - - -The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks

April- - - - -- - - What You Owe Me, by Bebe Moore

Campbell

May - - -- - - - - A Salty Piece of Land, by Jimmy Buf-

fet

June - - - - - - - All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn

Warren

July - - - - - - - - Open House: A Novel, by Elizabeth

Berg

August - - - - - - She’s Not There: A Life in Two Gen-

ders, by Jennifer Finney Boylan

September - - - -The Wind Done Gone: A Novel, by

Alice Randall

Me z z a n i n e M a v e n s

Pick This Year’s Reads

Local Author Lecture Series Continues...

The local author series of

lectures continued with Mr. Ken

Munro in December. Mr. Munro

writes the Sammy and Brian mys-

tery series that take place in the

Lancaster area and are geared to-

ward the 9 –12 age group. His latest

book in the series, The Mysterious

Baseball Scorecard, features Lan-

caster’s Clipper Stadium and the

world of baseball memorabilia col-

lecting.

January’s speaker was Ms. Genevieve Wimer, the

author of Honour and Humility, a sequel to Jane Austen’s

Pride and Prejudice. Ms. Wimer opened her talk with an

overview of Jane Austen’s life

and works. She then went on to

tell how she imagined further

adventures for certain of Aus-

ten’s characters, so she began

writing her sequel. An admira-

tion of Austen’s writing and an

appreciation of that time period

led Ms. Wimer to establish the

Jane Austen Society of Lancaster

County.

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Three lectures remain in the series; they are

scheduled to begin at 12 noon in the LRC seminar room

with a light luncheon buffet served at 11:30 am.

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A City Transformed: Development, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

by David Schuyler Monday, February 13, 2006 - 12 Noon

Quality of Care

by Elizabeth Letts

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 12 Noon

The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania by William J. Switala

Friday, April 21, 2006 - 12 Noon

Ken Munro

Genevieve Wimer

in period clothing

Items Donated to Archives

The two large posters used at the Fulton Theatre

to advertise Mr. Don Rhoads’s play, Thaddeus Stevens:

The Play, were donated to the library’s archives. In addi-

tion to the posters, several

programs, smaller posters,

and mailers were also do-

nated. A display of these

items is planned for the near

future.

The Alumni Asso-

ciation donated several items

to the archives, including

paintings by James Hartzell.

A decision has not yet been

made as to how to display

these items.

~ Diane Ambruso Student workers, Dorie Burkett and

Sarah Lupp, with poster of Stevens

Featured Web Site -

Black Wings: African American Pioneer Aviators

http://www.nasm.si.edu/interact/blackwings/index.html

Blacks for War, there is a picture of First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt at the Tuskegee flying school.

The third section, Tuskegee Airmen

Fight in WWII, describes how the 99th Fighter

Squadron became the first squadron of black pi-

lots to face combat.

The Quest for Equal Op-

portunity, the fourth section, dis-

cusses how the military eventually

became integrated after President

Truman issued an executive order in

1948.

Lastly, a tip when browsing this site:

be sure to click on View Images

From This Section. Then click on

the individual pictures for even

more tidbits of information about

these amazing aviation pioneers.

Created by The National Air and Space

Museum, this Web site provides researchers with

a photo-rich resource on the history of African

American pioneer aviators. The online exhibit is

divided into four sections: The first section, titled

Early Pioneers Inspire Blacks to

Fly, tells how Bessie Coleman, the

first licensed Black pilot in the United

States, had to go to France for her pi-

lot training because no school in the

U.S. would accept her as a student.

Also mentioned in this section is Wil-

liam J. Powell, an “aviation vision-

ary,” who published his book, Black

Wings, in 1934, and who organized

the Bessie Coleman Aero Club in Los

Angeles.

In Part 2, Training Prepares

Kenneth W. Schuler Learning Resources Center

Our goal is to help you find the in-

formation you need at a time and

place that's convenient for you. Our

promise is to help you understand

when information is needed, recog-

nize where it is, and master meth-

ods to retrieve it.

Library Staff

Diane Ambruso - Director

Timothy Creamer - Librarian

Suzanne Waddell - Librarian

Brenda Smith - Library Technician

We’re on the web

http://www.stevenscollege.edu/

services/library/index.htm

15th Annual Career Fair

Thursday, February 23rd

10:00am – 2:00 pm

MAC gym