University Daily Kansan / Fridav. November 1, 1991
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Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
Halloween cans — not candy
After two hours of trick-or-treating for canned goods, four members of Alpha KappaLambda fraternity bag the 220 cans that they collected from area neighborhoods. The four were one of 42 groups that collected food last night for a food drive sponsored by KU Students Against Hunger. Approximately 3,000 cans were dropped off on the terrace at Wescoe Hall. The cans will be delivered to the Salvation Army today at 5 p.m.
Dog's antics result in gift to library
KU alum donates prize money from TV show for purchase of rare book
By Ezra Wolfe Special to the Kansan
Most libraries never have received a donation from a dog.
But, Stubby, a terrier bought from
the pound for $25, partially was
responsible for the Spencer Research
acquisition of a rare book
worth $3,000.
"It's just another one of those dumb things you do and you end up winning."
Stubby was videotaped in January by his owner, who sent the tape to "America's Funniest Home Videos." Stubby's videotaped antics won the grand prize.
The prize money financed the purchase of *Falconey* in the British Isles, an important volume in Spencer Jarvis's prized falconey book collection.
Swift first won the qualifying $10,000
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While Swift was videotaping, Stubby jumped into Swift's hot tub and tried to bite the jets shooting out air. Unsatisfied with the jets, Stubby then ran around the house and tried to bite the air intake valve sticking out from the house.
Stubby belongs to John Swift, 46, a 1968 KU graduate and falcon enthusiast.
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“It’s just one of those dumb things you do and you end up winning,” said Swift, the executive director of the YMCA in Tulsa. Okla., where he lives.
Swift grew up in Lawrence and has been interested in falconry since high school. His interest has led to a close link with the librarians at Spencer Library.
Swift used his winsitions to buy the book from a private dealer and donated July 29. He plans to use more of the money to buy 12 more books for the library.
Swift visited Lawrence recently to discuss the library's needs with librarians.
buying rare books, 'Swift said. I knew KU wouldn't 'buit it, so had to.
Swift has been working with Spencer Library for several years to increase its collection of falcon-related books.
"Libraries are having a hard time
Spencer Library has one of the best ornithological book collections in the world, comparable to collections at Yale University and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
Most of the collection was donated by Ralph Ellis, who gave 15,000 books to the KU library system, said Alexandra Mason, Spencer librarian Ellisa had first tried to give the books to Columbia University with the condition that he be accepted to their faculty. Columbia declined.
Natural History at the time, and a friend from Ellis' earlier days at the University of California at Berkeley
Hall and the University agreed to take Ellis and the books on the condition that the books stay at KU if Ellis died here. Ellis died in 1945 at KU, and his books have stayed in the library system.
Ellis then contacted E. Raymond Hall, the director of KU's Museum of
Mason said that a small number of people regularly used the falconry collection and that visitors from Australia also had used the collection.
Falcony in the British Isles, by Francis Henry Salvin and William Brodrick, is valuable because there are so few copies of the work in circulation.
The book has a green cover with slightly worn corners. The front cover is white.
"It's a very important book when you are concerned with falconry," said James Helyar, a librarian at Spencer. "It would have been on our wish list."
Everyone concerned with the book had a laugh about how the book ended up in Spencer Library.
“It's the darndest thing. It was a great piece of luck,” Mason said.“I hope he feeds the dog well.”
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