Written by: Emily Cottle
Back on December 19th of
last year, the William C. Jason Library held a ceremony to formally accept a
generous endowment to the library from Bertha Carol Jason and William C. Jason,
III., descendants of the library’s namesake, William C. Jason, Sr.
During the ceremony, Carol
Jason, shown below in the screen capture of a press release on the event from
the university’s website, told wonderful stories about William C. Jason, the
longest serving president in DSU’s history from a family volume containing old
course catalogs for the State College for Colored Students dating back to 1893.
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| Screen capture from DSU's News and Events webpage. |
In January, the archives was
fortunate enough to have Mrs. Jason officially donate this book to us. It is currently
being digitized, but we hope to have it available for patrons to view in the
archives soon.
The archives is very grateful
to the Jason family for this donation, which is just the latest of their
generous contributions to our department. Previous donations have included
wonderful rare books and programs for early campus events at the State College
for Colored Students.
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