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reediana
By Gay Walker ’69
Nowhere
is the grand variety of Reedies’ interests more apparent than
on the shelves of the Reediana collection in the Reed College library.
Cookbooks by James
Beard ’24 jostle brain teasers
like Exercises for the Whole Brain by Allen
Bragdon ’52 , founder of Games
magazine. The Beat Generation poetry of Gary
Snyder and Phil
Whalen , both ’51, sit near
the romantic novels of Jeanne
Savery Casstevens ’60 , while
the fascinating Tattoo History: A Sourcebook, by
Steve Gilbert ’52 ,
looks across at Matt Kramer’s
’73 A Passion for Piedmont:
Italy’s Most Glorious Regional Table. Other eclectic
titles include:
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Barbara
Ehrenreich ’63, Nickel and
Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Gary Rogowski ’72,
Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery
George Alderson ’63,
How You Can Influence Congress
Mira Kamdar ’80,
Motiba’s Tattoos: A Granddaughter’s Journey into Her
Indian Family’s Past
Violet Kochendoerfer ’41,
One Woman’s World War II
Mary Freeman Rosenblum ’74,
Devil’s Trumpet: A Gardening Mystery |
Almost 2,000 Reediana volumes grace the shelves
in a unique special collections area off the Cornelia Marvin Pierce Room
on the library’s lower level. The collection continues to grow as
Reedies continue to write in every genre and subject. Housing titles by
Reed graduates, faculty, and staff, the collection is enriched by gifts
from alumni and others in the Reed community and often with purchases
of new titles announced in Reed magazine. We are particularly delighted
when a package arrives containing a signed copy of a new title by a Reed
graduate. All books in this collection are cataloged in the online catalog
and may be accessed through special collections.
Please help keep this amazing and distinctive collection alive and growing.
Check the library catalog (www.library.reed.edu)
for your titles and send us copies of what’s missing (preferably
signed)! Mail to Special Collections, Reed College Library, 3203 SE Woodstock
Blvd., Portland,OR 97202-8199.
Gay Walker is Reed’s special
collections librarian. |
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