Exhibit spotlights Mt. Hope

he University and Mt. Hope Cemetery are linked by more than just proximity, as a new exhibit at Rush Rhees Library shows.

"Rochester's Hope: University Connections to Mt. Hope Cemetery," on display in the Friedlander Lobby through August, traces some of the physical and spiritual connections between the neighbors.

Mt. Hope is the burial ground for University presidents Martin B. Anderson and Rush Rhees, whose graves are located in a special section deeded to and maintained by the University. The exhibit includes pictures of the two leaders and of the memorials marking their graves, as well as Anderson's will and the deed itself.

Photos and descriptions spotlight other individuals who are key in University and community history. Among these are the Strong family--Henry Alvah Strong was president of Eastman Kodak, and his second wife contributed Strong Auditorium to the River Campus, while his daughters contributed to Strong Memorial Hospital--and suffragist Susan B. Anthony, whose efforts led to the admission of women to the University in 1900.

The exhibit is sponsored by the Department of Religion and Classics and the library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. It was curated by students in "Speaking Stones," a class taught by Emil Homerin, chair of the Department of Religion and Classics. The class examines gravestones and funerary architecture and iconography as well as funeral rituals and practices.

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