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Stories for August 18, 1999

  
REVVING up for Fall

  
Berkeley Launches New Plan for Responding to Campus Deaths

  
Apprentice Aviators Taste Fear and Fun High Above Terra Firma

  
Carol Christ to Return to Full-time Teaching

  
BAM Offers Last Chance to Buy Asian Posters, Art

  
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Photo of the Week: Treasured Texts

Photo: Lyubov Luba Golburt

Lyubov "Luba" Golburt was recently named the first winner of the Hill-Shumate Collecting Prize, administered by the Bancroft Library, for her outstanding collection of literature.

Beginning with a thin volume of poetry purchased from a San Francisco bookstore, Golburt's library has since grown to include more than 150 titles of poetry, supplemented with prose, art and biographies.

Books were "pretty much the only thing we had," the May graduate says of her childhood in the former Soviet Union. Her parents had to sell their treasured collection of books and manuscripts, for just $25, when they emigrated to the United States.

"It was really painful to leave our books," Golburt recalls.

The new annual prize, funded by noted book collectors Kenneth Hill and the late Al Shumate, is for collections of print material by campus undergraduates. Peg Skorpinski photo.







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August 18 - 24, 1999 (Volume 28, Number 2)
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