Exhibits, books mark Sesquicentennial

number of special Sesquicentennial exhibitions and publications will highlight the upcoming Sesquicentennial Weekend observance on campus October 12-15.

An exhibition in Rush Rhees Library's Friedlander Lobby focuses on 150 Years of Leadership: The Presidents of the University of Rochester, which looks at the University's history through the achievements of its presidents, from first President Martin Brewer Anderson to current President Thomas Jackson. This exhibit is now open and remains on view through Wednesday, October 18.

Another exhibit currently on view is the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections' display of 150 Treasures. This is an exhibition of 150 significant and remarkable books, manuscripts, and historical objects acquired by the River Campus Libraries, the Eastman School's Sibley Music Library, and the Medical Center's Edward G. Miner Library over the past 150 years. This exhibit is open through Wednesday, October 18.

In the library's Great Hall there will be an exhibition on A Century of Women, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the admission of women to the University and the contributions made by women students, faculty, and staff. The exhibit is open Monday, October 2, through Wednesday, October 18.

The Rush Rhees exhibits in the Friedlander Lobby and the Great Hall are open during regular library hours, except during Sesquicentennial Weekend. Regular hours are Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-1 a.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; and Sunday, noon-1 a.m. During Sesquicentennial Weekend the hours will be Friday, October 13, 8 a.m.-midnight; Saturday, October 14, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; and Sunday, October 15, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. The Department of Rare Books' exhibit is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., with extended hours on Sesquicentennial Weekend: Friday, October 13, 9 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday, October 14, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; and Sunday, October 15, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

The Hartnett Gallery in Wilson Commons will feature an exhibition of proposed ideas and realized plans for the River Campus, which opened 70 years ago this fall. The Campus That Wasn't: Planning the University is open Monday, October 9, through Friday, November 17. The gallery's hours are Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, noon-6 p.m.

In addition, the Memorial Art Gallery's Sesquicentennial exhibit, Gifts from the Robert E. and Anne-Marie Logan Collection, showcases selected works that Anne-Marie Logan has donated from her and her husband's collection of prints by contemporary artists. A native Rochesterian, Robert Logan received his bachelor's degree from the University in 1950; he died in 1996. Three years ago, his widow--a former curator at Yale University Art Gallery and former librarian at the Yale Center for British Art--began donating masterworks from the Logan collection to MAG. The artwork of Andy Warhol, Josef Albers, Chuck Close, Ed Ruscha, Helen Frankenthaler, Claes Oldenburg, and Frank Stella are among those represented. The exhibit opens on Friday, October 6, and remains on view through Sunday, December 3.

For a visual remembrance of Rochester's first 150 years, Beside the Genesee, which was commissioned especially for the Sesquicentennial, provides a pictorial history of the University. Filled with historical and contemporary photos, this 120-page full-color keepsake book chronicles the University's beginnings, its rise as a true "university" in the early 1900s, the flowering of its national stature in research, and its current standing as one of the nation's leading institutions. Limited quantities have been printed and will shortly be available at cost at campus bookstores.

Also soon to be available in the bookstores is a second commemorative volume published this fall. Titled Transforming Ideas: Selected Profiles in University of Rochester Research and Scholarship (University of Rochester Press), the book contains essays exploring a selected number of intriguing topics in research and scholarship--across the disciplines of the University--that have been pursued during the past century by Rochester faculty.

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