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Re: Friday amusement #1



Regarding donor/post-gift/borrowing back .... have you gotten back
the two menus he borrowed??


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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer wrote:

> Some of you may know that one of my special collections is a large
> menu collection, with probably about 30,000 menus in it. About two
> months ago, one of the major donors (whose collection was over 3000
> menus) contacted us and asked if he could borrow two of his menus
> back. While we don't normally loan menus, this man is an icon in the
> food community, and we were happy to make an exception in his case.
> He's a courtly Hungarian-born gentleman in his 70s, and I received a
> gracious letter from him, and I in turn suggested that if he was ever
> on campus, I would be very happy to show him his collection in the
> archival boxes and folders that we recently put it in as the result of
> receiving a conservation/preservation grant
>
> Soon afterwards, I saw that he was scheduled to be our graducation
> speaker today, and so contacted the person who schedules the doings of
> VIPs when they visit, and told her that I'd like to show him his
> menus. As a result, he came yesterday and saw them. I had pulled one
> of the archival boxes so he could see the folders inside. When he had
> admired them, he decided to autograph it for me, and pulled out a
> felt-tipped pen and signed his name and the date with some lovely
> flourishes!
>
> I guess I'll have to put those menus into another folder, and store
> that folder somewhere nice and safe!
>
>
>
> Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
> Special Collections Librarian/Archivist
>
> Culinary Institute of America
> 1946 Campus Drive
> Hyde Park, NY  12538
> (845) 451-1757
> c_crawfo@culinary.edu
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