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O’Shaughnessy Frey Library adds new stained glass window medallion

 

For only the second time since the original library was completed in 1959, we have added a new stained glass “medallion” window.  This year, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the UST English department and UST Libraries collaborated on the design and production of a window celebrating the classic novel.  (The first new window, added in 2009, was dedicated to Zora Neale Hurston, author of “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”)  Both windows were designed and created by the Conrad Pickel studio in Vero Beach, FL, the same glassmakers who created the original windows (all of which can be seen here.)

A Go Fund Me campaign raised the money needed to produce the Frankenstein window, and a celebration was held on December 4th, 2018, at which students, faculty and staff met to read portions of the novel.  The newest medallions (hanging in windows on the first floor, west side of the O’Shaughnessy Frey Library, overlooking the quad) are intended to honor authors of color and women – more windows will be forthcoming.

 

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