Class of 1961 Memorial Book Fund
The Class of 1961 Memorial Book Fund was established through the generosity of the Class of 1961 at their 40th reunion in April 2001. The fund is used to purchase a book which is plated and placed in the McCain Library collection in memory of each deceased member of the class of 1961.
The books selected to date are as follows:
Class member | Book |
Molly Jane Schwab January 7, 1967 |
Old English Literature: a short introduction |
Elizabeth Davis Towler November 26, 1973 |
Exploring the invisible: art, science, and the spiritual |
Martha Brock Hanna Alexander May 12, 1982 |
Imagining London |
Joan Lewis Runkle November 6, 1987 |
Cradle of Thought: Exploring the Origins of Thinking |
Ann Ashford Lehfeldt March 15, 1988 |
Writing in the Asylum: Student Poets in City Schools |
Helene Marks Crawford November 17, 1988 |
Lord of Misrule |
Elizabeth Fuller Smith April 2, 1989 |
Naked Economics: undressing the dismal science |
Dorothy Cummings Bailey March 15, 1995 |
Assessing Student Learning Outcomes for Information Literacy Instruction in Academic Institutions |
Margaret Bullock June 17, 1995 |
A passion for birds: American ornithology after Audubon |
Mary Jim Clark Schubert February 2, 1996 |
Choral Music in the twentieth century |
Ellen Hines Smith April 26, 1998 |
Mother/Nature: popular culture and environmental ethics M |
Jane Kelly Watson October 9, 2001 |
Sensory Worlds in Early America |
Sally Bryan Minter October 18, 2001 |
Lockout: Dublin 1913 |
Mary Taylor Lipscomb Garrity June 4, 2003 |
Staging domesticity: household work and English identity in early modern drama |
Mary Jo Hudgens Suekoff August 11, 2004 |
Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War |
Marsha Lear Taylor August 9, 2006 |
Third Views, Second Sights: A Rephotographic Survey of the American West |
Linda Grant Teasley March 4, 2008 |
Poems of Henry Timrod with Memoir and Portrait |
Virginia Thomas Shackelford June 2, 2008 |
The River Where America Began: A Journey along the James |
Dinah McMillan Kahler September 19, 2008 |
Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations |
Nancy Jane Boothe Higgins September 8, 2009 |
Cleopatra: a life |
Virginia Aderhold Powell December 12, 2009 |
Founding Mothers: The Women who Raised our Nation |
Elizabeth Hammond Moore February 2, 2010 |
Effective School Interventions, Second Edition: Evidence Based Strategies for Improving Student Outcomes |
Peggy Wells Hughes March 14, 2010 |
Charles Dickens |
Betty Barber Cobb March 25, 2010 |
Finding Frida Kahlo |
Mary Fairfax Ware May 8, 2010 |
Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry |
Caroline Ryman February 14, 2013 |
Out of Time: Music and the Making of Modernity
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Helen Everett Smith March 31, 2013 |
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
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Julia Maddox Paul September 14, 2013 |
Neoconservative Politics and the Supreme Court: Law, Power, and Democracy
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Dorothy Burns Douglas December 17, 2013 |
Mixed Messages: cultural and genetic inheritance
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Martha Lair McGregor February 1, 2014 |
Cutting for Stone: a novel
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Harriet Higgins Miller October 16, 2014 |
Women and Peace in the Islamic World: Gender, Agency and Influence |
Helen Patricia Rogers February 10, 2015 |
Social Neuroscience: Brain, Mind, and Society |
Jane Cooper Mitchell February 17, 2016 |
Learning Assessment Techniques: a Handbook for College Faculty |
Rose Marie Regero Giltrap Gibbons September 30, 2016 |
To Flourish or Destruct: a Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure and Evil |
Louise Williams Baker November 2, 2016 |
The Edible South: the Power of Food and the Making of an American Region |