Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

A.A.U.P. gift. The Association of American University Presses
has sent, for addition to the depository file in Special Collections,
the twenty-two books published in 1970 «'hich were awarded
places in the 1971 A.A.U.P. Book Show.

Bowman gift. Dr. Garda Bowman has donated the papers of her
husband, the late Dr. LeRoy Edward Bowman (Ph.D., 1954), a
leader in numerous New York community and political organ¬
izations. Comprising correspondence, speeches, notes, and clip¬
ping files, the papers document his interests in social work, re¬
ligion, education, problems of the aging, planned communities,
the position of women in society, and funeral ceremonies, to men¬
tion only a few. The organizations in which he participated in¬
clude United Neighborhood Houses of New York City, United
Parents Association, National Conference of Social Work, New
York State Joint Legislative Committee on Problems of the Ag¬
ing, Liberal Party of New York, Continental Association of Fu¬
neral and Memorial Societies, American Humanist Association,
and League for Industrial Democracy. Dr. Bowman wrote widely
on the above subjects, and the collection contains copies of his
numerous books, pamphlets, and magazine and newspaper articles.

Burne Jones gift. Mr. and .Mrs. Dan Burne Jones, who contributed
funds toward the acquisition of the Rockwell Kent Collection in
1971, have added numerous significant items to the Collection in
a series of recent gifts. Noteworthy among them are the follow¬
ing: a .six-piece dinner-ware setting with designs from Kent's
Salamina illustrations, manufactured by the Vernon Kilns in Los
Angeles in the early 1930's; two pieces of drapery, each measuring
nearly two feet square, reproducing designs by Kent showing a
wheat field with his farm in Au Sable Forks, New York, in the

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