Volume 11, Number 4
Jun 1987

People

• Gabrielle Fox, former Handbinder/Conservator for the University of Cincinnati (AN July 1982, p. 32), is the new editor of the Designer Bookbinders Newsletter. Her address is: Slinfold Manor, Slinfold, Horsham, West Sussex, U.K.
• Griselda Warr, formerly of the Huntington Library, started in May as Rare Book and Manuscript Conservator at Princeton University.
• Patricia Battin has been appointed president of the Commission on Preservation and Access, and expects to take up her new duties in August.
• Edgar Mansfield, mow 80 years old and still active in sculpture and bookbinding, has been spending half of each year in England and New Zealand. He and his wife are now in England.
• Paul Koda will become Preservation Officer at the University of Maryland July 1.
• Sherry Byrne became Preservation Librarian at the University of Chicago Library on April 1. [This was announced in the last issue, but the announcement was misplaced and mistakenly gave the impression she worked at Cornell. ]
• John Townsend is mow at the Division of Library Development in Albany, New York.
• Paul A. Olson, President of Game Brothers and Lane since 1980, has retired.
• Marie-Laure Duthoit has joined the rare books firm of Joseph J. Felcone Inc., Princeton, NJ, as bookbinder. She served her apprenticeship in France and is mow accepting private commissions for fine binding and restoration.
• Sandra Nyberg became the SOLINET Field Officer on May 26. (Lisa Fox will continue to direct the preservation program.)
• Richard Frieder, Conservation Officer of the Northwestern University Library, is also President of the Chicago Hand Bookbinders.
• Terry 0. Norris, Vice President of research and development for Nekoosa Papers and past president of TAPPI, retired on May 1. He now lives in North Carolina.
• Dr. Robert L. Leslie, neurologist, typesetter and patron and promoter of the graphic arts, died at the age of 101 in Brooklyn early in April. Just last year, as president of the "Typophiles," he was handling its correspondence and arranging speakers for its monthly meetings. Obituaries have appeared in the April 8 New York Times and the 1986 Bibliography Newsletter.
• Carla Montori assumed her new duties as Preservation Officer at the University of Michigan Libraries on June 1.
• Otto Wächter has retired. His successor at the Institut für Restaurierung at the Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Vienna is Gerhard Banik.
• Margaret Holben Ellis has been appointed as Chairman of the Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center at New York University, effective September 1. The Center, established in 1960, was the first graduate-level, degree-granting program in the U.S. for professional conservators. Ms. Ellis will continue teaching at the Center and will be retained at the Metropolitan Museum as a consulting conservator.
• Carole Dyall, formerly Collections Maintenance Supervisor at Southern Illinois University, has accepted the position of Library Conservator at the University of Connecticut.
• Susan Page accepted a position as senior conservator last October, in the Document Conservation Branch, Preservation Policy and Services Division, at the National Archives and Records Administration. She works at the lab at the Pickett St. Annex, which has responsibility for NASA's cartographic holdings.