October 23, 2012

Book Prize Award Ceremony

Please join the Goucher College Library in celebrating the inaugural Applestein-Sweren Book Collecting Prize! This new competition for book collectors is funded by a generous endowment established by Betty Applestein Sweren '52 and Dr. Edgar Sweren in 2012. The student winners will be honored on Tuesday, November 13th from 6:30-8 pm in the Batza Room.  An exhibit featuring selections from the winning collections will also be on display.  Please R.S.V.P. by November 6 to Randi Kennedy, assistant to the college librarian, at randalynn.kennedy@goucher.edu.

The winners are:

Co-first place.  Lily Dodge'12: A Portal to Middle Earth: The Dodge Collection of Tolkien Books & Ephemera

Camden Kimura'12: I Know That Town: To Kill A Mockingbird

 
Second place. Cynthia Ferguson'14: Strange Things Afoot: Gothic Literature in the American Tradition

 
Honorable mention. JoAnna Ramsey'16: The Movies, the Magic and Me