75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Scripps College Press: Goudy Symposium

David Godine, Valerie Lester, Sumner Stone, Steve Matteson, Christine Bertelson, Robin Price and more
March 05, 2016
9:00am to 6:00pm

We have invited as speakers former Goudy Lecturers, Scripps faculty and Scripps College Press students and alums, along with new voices, to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the Scripps College Press by Dorothy Drake and the Class of 1941.

David Godine, Valerie Lester, Sumner Stone, Steve Matteson, Christine Bertelson, Robin Price, Kitty Maryatt, Jeff Groves, Judy Harvey Sahak, Robin Trozpek, Mary MacNaughton, Alex Chappell, Colin Browne, and other former and current students will talk about publishing in today’s environment, about Bodoni, about digitizing Scripps College Old Style, about the work of Bertha Goudy, about the First Floor Press, about student work at the Press since 1941, and about the use of Denison Library, the Williamson Gallery and the Clark Humanities Museum at Scripps College.
 

Please join us for the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Scripps College Press

Cost $15 (includes lunch)

Scripps College Humanities Auditorium
Scripps College, Claremont
 

Schedule

March 5, 2016

8:30-9:00       Coffee and Registration at the Humanities Auditorium

9:00-9:30       Welcome

9:30-10:30    Session I: David Godine, Valerie Lester

10:30-11:00  Coffee

11:00-12:00  Session II: Sumner Stone, Steve Matteson

12:00-1:30    Lunch in Hampton Room, Exhibits in Denison Library and the Clark Humanities Museum

1:30-3:00       Session III: Christine Bertelson, Robin Price, Kitty Maryatt, Jeff Groves

3:00-3:45       Dessert at Clark Humanities Museum/Exhibit at Denison Library

3:45-5:15       Session IV: Judy Harvey Sahak, Robin Trozpek, Mary MacNaughton

5:15-6:00       Session V: Colin Browne, Alex Chappell and other former and current students

6:00-7:30       Dinner with speakers
 

Exhibition

The Artist Book as an Agent of Social Change, including books printed on Twinrocker papers, was mounted by the Core III students, and is on exhibit at the Clark Humanities Museum from January 4 through March 5, 2016.
 

Dinner

Please join us for dinner at Scripps College after the symposium at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, 2016.
Cost $27.50.
Reservations required by March 1.
 

Registration

To register, send $15 for only the symposium (includes lunch), or $42.50 for both the symposium and the dinner by March 1, 2016 to the Scripps College Press, 1030 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711.
Please include address, phone and email address with payment.
You will receive confirmation and directions upon receipt of payment.

For further information, contact
Kitty Maryatt, Director of the Scripps College Press
(909) 607-3866
[email protected]
scripps-staging.skybox0.com/scrippspress
 

New Publication

We are pleased to announce the latest publication from the Scripps College Press Flecks of Light written and produced by the students in the Typography and the Book Arts class.

Students researched medieval color pigments, color choices by painters, and color in letterpress printing.

Size: 3.5 x 3.5 inches.
Edition of 92 copies.

The book is available for $225 plus California sales tax of $20.25 (if applicable) and shipping of $12.00. To order, please send a check to the Scripps College Press, 1030 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, CA 91711.
 

Please note that Frederic W. Goudy Lectures are free and open to the public.