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NO MERE MAN!

Lawrence Clark Powell is a long-time friend and contributor to ARIZONA HIGHWAYS Magazine. Dr. Powell doesn't know it, but after Raymond Carlson he is the second most important man in my life.

When I came West in the mid-1950's I knew nothing of the Southwest other than what I had seen in movies. Western literature held no fascination for me.

Number three in my list of most unforgettable men, Ted De Grazia, introduced me to Raymond Carlson, who in turn introduced me to Lawrence Clark Powell by loaning me a carton of books about books written by Doctor Powell.

"First read these" said R.C. "then read the books he writes about, and you will know more about the West and Southwest than I." The first book I chose was "Death Comes To The Archbishop," by Willa Cather. Then followed "Our Southwest" by Erna Fergusson. After that it was one book after another, and some a second, third and fourth time.

Thank you Doctor Powell, for giving me the key to this most soul-rewarding page-by-page "space ship" to adventures and experiences. In your volume titled "Passion for Books" you describe this sensitiveness to books as, "The Magnetic Field." You wrote "Books are indeed strong magnets, packed with the power to attract people and to change their courses."

My words are an inadequate testimonial to your influence on the course of my life. My great gratitude to you evokes an expression in my heart of hearts, and in simple words: I have yet to read a book you write about that surpasses your own writings. As a poet of another time and another clime expressed it: What does the wine-seller buy half so precious as the stuff he sells."

Lawrence Clark Powell was born by Divine design to be what he is today. If he had been born with the build of a football player, he would have been the first four-year All-American, first team selection. They would have been forced to change the rules to honor this unique super-intellectual, and Arizona is enriched beyond measure by his part-time residence in Tucson, where he teaches Library Science, as Professor-in-Residence at the University of Arizona at Tucson.

From "Who's Who In America" we present a resume for the amazement of "For whom it may concern."

POWELL, Lawrence Clark, librarian and writer; b. Washington, D.C., Sept. 3, 1906; s. G. Harold and Gertrude (Clark) P.; В.А., Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, 1928, Litt.D. in 1955; Ph.D. from University of Dijon, France, 1932; certificate of librarianship, U. of California, Berkeley, 1937; L.H.D., Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1961; m. Fay Ellen Shoemaker; children - Norman Jerrold, Wilkie Haines. Dictaphone stenographer Link-Belt Pacific Co., San Francisco, 1923; Teaching asst. English, 1929; shipping clerk Vroman's bookstore, Pasadena, 1929-30; employed Los Angeles rare book stores and Western Publishers, 1934-36; editorial asst. U. of Calif. Press, Berkeley, 1936-37; mem. staff Los Angeles Pub. Library order dept. and branches, 1937-38; jr. asst. acquisitions dept., U. of Calif. Library, Los Angeles, 1938-43; chief librarian Univ. Library, 1944-61, dir. William Andrews Clark Meml. Library, 1944-, dean, prof. sch. library service, 1960-; Randolph G. Adams Meml. Lectr. U. Mich., 1953; Trumbull lecturer Yale U., 1960; University of Tenn. Library lectr., vis. prof. Columbia, 1954; Guggenheim fellow Great Britain, 1950-51; annual lecture Library Assn. Gt. Britain, 1957. Recipient of the Clarence Day award, 1960. Member of the American, S.W., Pacific N.W., Cal. (pres. 1950) library assns., Bibliog. Soc. Am. (pres. 1954-56), Research Libraries (adv. com.

1949-53), Phi Gamma Delta. Clubs: Zamorano, Rounce and Coffin (Los Angeles); Roxburghe (San Francisco); Caxton (Chicago); Grolier (New York City). Author; An Introduction to Robinson Jeffers, 1932; Robinson Jeffers, the Man and his Work, 1934-40; Philosopher Pickett, 1942; The Manuscripts of D. H. Lawrence, 1937; From Private Collection to Public Institution: The W. A. Clark Memorial Library, 1950; Recollections of an Ex-Bookseller, 1950; Islands of Books, 1951; Librarian on Leave, 1952; Land of Fiction, 1952; Vroman's of Pasadena, 1953; The Alchemy of Books, Sky, Sun and Water, A Man Named Dobie, 1954; Heart of the Southwest, 1955; Clark Library Report of the 2d Decade, 1956; Books West Southwest, 1957; The Malibu (with W. W. Robinson), 1958; A Southwestern Century, published in 1958; Roots of Regional Literature and A Passion For Books, published in 1959; Books in My Baggage, published in 1960; Act of Enchantment, 1961; The Sea, pub. 1962.

Editor: Rare Books and Research; UCLA Library Occasional Papers, 1954-; Libraries in the Southwest, 1955; Quiet Side of Europe (by Gertrude Powell), 1959; Books of the Southwest. Contributor of articles and reviews literary, historical, bibliographical and library periodicals, writer monthly column Western Books and Writers, Westways, Los Angeles.

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