The Gelman Library is installing an exhibit entitled “From Strength to Strength” to honor University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg’s tenure as president of The George Washington University. The exhibit documents President Trachtenberg’s enduring legacy and impact on Washington, D.C., The George Washington University, and on The Gelman Library System, as well as his inimitable insights on the well-lived life.

The exhibit will open on April 16, 2007 and will run until July 2007. The opening coincides with a reception on the same date in honor of President Trachtenberg from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. hosted by Charles Manatt, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The George Washington University, and Jack Siggins, University Librarian. Comments will begin around 4:40 p.m.

The exhibit is located in the Gelman Library’s First Floor Exhibit Room immediately to the right of the entrance to the library at 2130 H. Street, NW, Washington, D.C. The reception will take place in room 207 of the Gelman Library on the second floor.

All members of the GWU community and the Washington, D.C. area are invited to visit the exhibit, or view its content online here.

George Washington University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg publicly thanked Mike Harreld, Regional President of PNC Bank, for the generous donation by PNC Bank to GWU of the PNC-Riggs National Bank Records at a gala reception held by the Gelman Library System on March 15, 2007 from 4:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. Representatives from PNC Bank, the George Washington University administration, the Gelman Library System, and the press were in attendance.

Tyler Anbinder, Chair of the History Department at GWU, also spoke about the critically important nature of the Riggs National Bank Records for historians doing research into 19th Century Banking; Anbinder spoke about how this collection is one of the three most important collections of U.S. Bank history preserved anywhere in the world.

Image courtesy of Jessica McConnell, GWU Staff Photographer