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Annual meeting set for May 26

All alumni are invited to attend the Annual Meeting May 26 from 6 to 8 p.m. on the third floor of Noel Memorial Library on the LSUS Campus. Following a time of networking and refreshments, alumni will attend a brief business meeting and then tour the James Smith Noel Collection.

The business meeting will include a presentation and acceptance of the 2005-06 slate of officers and nominees for the Alumni Association Board. Plans for the upcoming year will be discussed.

James Smith “Sunny” Noel was a local businessman and scholar who spent approximately 70 years developing a collection of more than 200,000 books. Since 1995 the Noel Collection has been housed on the third floor of Noel Memorial Library at LSUS. At least half of the books were printed before the middle of the 1900s and some are quite rare. Among the most noteworthy is a copy of Aesop’s Fables printed in Paris in 1549, which is one of only three copies in the world. The other two are at Yale in Connecticut and Cambridge University in England. Two of the books were once owned by Isaac Newton and Theodore Roosevelt. Many have beautiful illustrations, often printed from engraved plates and sometimes colored by hand. There are many other fascinating items included in the collection, which is available for public viewing.

All alumni are invited to attend the event, but reservations are required. Please call the Alumni Office at 318-797-5190 or alumni@lsus.edu to register. Dues-paying members of the Association will receive invitations in the mail.