Marilyn Crandell Schleg Memorial Lecture
 The
Marilyn Crandell Schleg Memorial Lecture provides visiting archivists,
preservationists, curators and historians the opportunity to lecture on
archival and library topics and work with the Albion College community
in preserving their legacy.
It is named for Marilyn Crandell Schleg, a 1958 graduate of Albion
College and medical librarian with master's degrees in microbiology from
the University of Wisconsin and library science from the University of
Michigan.
In 1998, a love for libraries prompted
Marilyn to endow the college with an archivist position and fund an
annual lectureship dealing with archives and libraries. She stated, "(My
family and I) wanted to do something for Albion because Albion did so
much for me." Marilyn was afflicted with Multiple System Atrophy, a form
of Parkinson's disease, for many years before her untimely death in July
of 2001. In 2005, her husband, Edward Schleg endowed the lecture so that
it would continue to serve as a memory to Marilyn far into the future.
Schleg Lecturers
| 2008 |
Dr.
Marcy Sacks, Associate Professor of U.S. and African-American
History here at Albion, "Unmasking the 'Deadpan': The Search for the
'Real' Joe Louis" |
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2007 |
Professor Richard Aquila, Organization
of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer and director of the
School of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of history at
Pennsylvania State University, the Behrend College,
"'Into the Fire': September 11, Popular
Music, and Public Memory" |
| 2006 |
Keith
Donohue of the National Archives, "The
Stolen Child" |
| 2005 |
Hank
Meijer of Meijer, Inc., "Searching for
Senator Vandenberg" |
| 2004 |
Miles
Harvey, journalist and novelist, "The
Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime" |
| 2003 |
Lawrence Taylor, Ph.D., Albion College Professor Emeritus and
founder of the Geology Department, "The
Outrageous Hypothesis of Dr. J Harlen Bretz, ’05: A Perspective on
the Life of a World Renowned Geologist & Teacher" |
| 2002 |
Dr.
James Wyatt Cook, Albion College Professor Emeritus of English,
"Confession’s
of a Stack Rat: Archives I Have Known & Loved" |
| 2001 |
Candace
Anderson Corrigan, singer, songwriter, producer and historical
performer, "Through a Woman's Voice" |
| 2000 |
Cynthia
Davis-Buffington and David Szewczyk of the Philadelphia Rare Books
and Manuscripts Co., "Adventures in Bookdom: FAQs and Fiction" |
| 1998 |
Robert
Warner, Archivist of the U.S., Director of the Bentley Historical
Library |
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