Merle Hoover teaching at Columbia.

In Memoriam: Merle M. Hoover

Merle M. Hoover (Columbia M.A., 1911), who was active in his associ¬
ation with the Friends from its start in 1951, died on June 2. He was a
member of the Organizing Committee, and on the Publications Committee
of Library Cohnmis during the same formative period. He was, more than
any other single individual, responsible for suggesting and building the
"Park Benjamin Collection" which the late William Evarts Benjamin first
established at Columbia University in 1937 in honor of his father. He was a
beloved teacher and counsellor of students until his retirement in 1949.
At the memorial service, Dean Clifford L. Lord of the School of General
Studies t]uoted a former student of Mr. Hoover's, who said, "As a teacher
he demanded the utmost; as a friend he asked nothing." Wc shall miss him.