September 18, 2003: Volume 59, Number 2

Faculty donations make South a home

When Suzie Benack, a member of the House System Implementation Committee, gently suggested that her colleagues bring to South College something that would make the students feel at home, the faculty gladly responded.

At the recent open house, the shelves of one seminar room were filled with all kinds of books (classics to beach novels), board games (Trivial Pursuit, for one), mugs (some were to donate their 10-year service mugs as "named gifts") and playing cards, to name a few.

But two slightly older books –- one worn, the other not -- were especially interesting for what their inscriptions said about the donor. In Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (45th edition), Kimmo Rosenthal, dean for undergraduate education and professor of mathematics, wrote, "I have not opened this book in over 30 years. I hope you make better use of it."

But in Standard Mathematical Tables (14th edition), he wrote, "This is a book that no home should be without."

 

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