LIBRARY LETTERS

Wishing you all a happy, healthy holiday season and some well-deserved rest and relaxation. Thank you for your daily dedication to our mission and for making every day here at the DML bright. Looking forward to seeing you all in the new year!

During the week of December 16th, The Learning Commons will offer online writing appointments. Go to https://regis.mywconline.com/ to schedule. Further availability throughout the break for writing and other subjects will be available on Tutor.com via WorldClass. Due to reduced staffing, office hours will be inconsistent, so for any in-person appointments, please contact tlc@regis.edu.

Our DML Archives Team is excited to announce the opening of an upcoming exhibition in the Fireplace Gallery. Details below and flyer above - please consider attending and sharing widely.

Exhibition: Decolonizing African Art

Dates: December 4th – January 24th

Opening Reception: December 4th at 5pm

Location: Dayton Memorial Library – Fireplace Gallery

About the exhibition:

In a course offered in the Fine and Performing Arts Department that shares the same name as the exhibit, students learned to be critical of the ways African art has historically been discussed, often described using derogatory terms such as "exotic" and "primitive" and frequently interpreted as inferior to art of the West, only significant in the context of Modern artists such as Pablo Picasso. Working with objects from the African Art Collection of the Dayton Memorial Library's Archives and Special Collections, students conducted formal, iconographic, and material analyses of the pieces, followed by in-depth, original, art historical research. Their research culminated in exhibit labels that support African cultural agency by representing and describing each piece in ways that are faithful to the cultures they represent.

Join us December 4th at 5pm for a talk with Dr. Paul J. Hamilton, a lifelong educator and collector of African art and cultural heritage collections, who generously donated numerous works to the Regis Archives and Special Collections.

On April 17, 1920, snow began falling. This was no ordinary spring dusting, but one of Denver’s largest storms in history. Over the course of three days nearly two feet of snow fell onto the Queen City of the Plains. Boarders at Sacred Heart College, the previous name of Regis University, often traveled home on the weekends and many were caught in the relentless storm.

The railroads became completely blocked and the streets impassable, stranding countless people and cars. A Corbett Ice Cream delivery truck got stuck in the snow on Federal Boulevard between 50th and 52nd. As the streets cleared and life returned to normalcy, Principal Father Floyd received a call from a representative of Corbett; they wanted their canisters of ice cream returned.

Following the call a campus wide meeting was held; the students claimed their innocence aghast at the chilling accusations. Over the course of the next few days the campus grounds crew began uncovering numerous canisters of ice cream buried in snow drifts all around the campus. Father Floyd fined each boarder and paid restitutions to the Corbett Ice Cream Company.

The library will be housing a free closet for casual clothing and small housewares. This holiday season please consider donating your gently used items to this effort. A donation box will be in the library lobby and there will also be donation boxes around campus. The plan is to open in the Spring semester, and it will be a permanent resource for the Regis community. For more information contact Kimberly Kemp, klkemp@regis.edu.