Archives at Cornell

Association of American University Presses annual meeting items

Collection — manuscript box: 54 - folder 1

Identifier: 2963m

Scope and content

Program and two typescript speeches from the Association's annual meeting of 1969, held at Cornell University from June 22-25 of that year. Speeches consist of a dinner speech by Roger Howley of Cornell University Press on June 22, and Howley's introduction of Morris Bishop at the banquet on June 24.

Dates

1969 June.

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

The Association of American University Presses was formally established in 1937, although representatives from university presses have been meeting together informally longer than that, at least since 1920. The Association's members are mainly from North American university presses, and the organization is based in New York City.

Biographical / Historical

Morris Bishop was a Cornell University professor of Romance Literature, a literary biographer, and the author of A history of Cornell (1962). He also published several collections of light verse, and a murder mystery set in the Cornell University Library, written under the pseudonym W. Bolingbroke Johnson.