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Conserving Colorado's Climbing LegacyMay 2, 2008This year's American Institute for Conservation's Angels Project was led by Beth Heller, a conservator who graduated from the School of Information in 2004. Jamye Jamison (alum 2003), Katherine Kelly (alum 2007) and Laura Bedford (conservator student in the iSchool ) also took part in the project. read more at Mile High News... Vietnam Archive at TTUOctober 18, 2005I wanted to share a few links related to a project I've done with the Vietnam Archive here at TTU. This past spring they received a donation from a Vietnam Vet who had kept two diaries written by a woman who had gone to south Vietnam to work as a volunteer doctor for the Vietcong. The second diary was actually recovered next to her body after she had been killed by U.S. forces. After the diaries were donated, they were able to locate her family in April, and her mother and three sisters came to Lubbock last week to see the diaries in person. I made a box for the diaries (using Ikegami's Japanese Bookbinding as a guide) and a small portfolio to house the paper stencil that had been inside one of the books, both using some beautiful Oriental papers. In Vietnam, 350,000 copies of Thuy's diaries have been sold and interest in her life has been so popular that even I have been included in news stories! This story even seems to have part of a sidebar with some quotes attributed to me. (The correct spelling of my name, as well as Texas Tech's, apparently did not pass muster with their proofreaders, who changed both.) I've not received a translation of that article yet, but it was summarized in English in a Korean paper. I also understand that another picture of me, taken in the Lab, has beenin another Vietnamese paper. USA Today carried the story yesterday. CNN also had a segment (which did actually include my hands pagingthrough one of the books).It was a very moving event to witness and after I was introduced ashaving made the box, one of Thuy's sisters came to me and told me "Thank you for making my sister a new house" and then her mother pulled me down to sit next to her. We talked (through interpreters) for quite a while even though it was during part of the press conference. I got to find out that Thuy knew how to bind her own books and that the ink she used was one made in Vietnam and how one of her sisters knew she had taken bottles of it with her when she left home. It was absolutely amazing to be able to make such a directly personal connection with something I had worked with. I only learned after the Trams had left Lubbock that they had actually intended to request the diaries be returned to the family. However, after seeing the Vietnam Archive and the box made especially for Thuy's diaries, Madam Tram and her daughters decided that this was the place the diaries should stay. This is quite an honor for TTU, even if not something you would think would be in a Texas archive, and I do encourage everyone to read the English translation available from the Vietnam Archive. Sara J. Holmes Conservator for Special Collections Southwest Collection/Special Collections Texas Tech University Last Modified: May 02 2008 13:40:53. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
