Briefs

Remembrance event: On April 3 a remembrance event will be held honoring the life of Elsie Dinsmore Popkin '58, who died Jan. 8. The memorial gathering will take place from 10 a.m. to noon at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, sixth floor, on campus and is being planned by the museum and by Cornell Plantations. Popkin, who earned a B.F.A. from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, was a noted painter and pastel artist, an active Cornellian and a member of the President's Council of Cornell Women from 1993 until her death. Her landscapes of views from the Johnson Museum's upper-floor windows were exhibited at the museum in June 2003, and her pastel triptych of Cayuga Lake and environs is on display at the Statler Hotel registration desk. She taught workshops in pastel painting to Cornellians and others in the Shoals Marine Laboratory gardens on Appledore Island off the coast of New Hampshire. For more on Popkin, see the obituary notice that ran in the Jan. 20 edition of the Cornell Chronicle http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/05/1.20.05/Obituaries.html.

Sections of Kroch are closed: As part of the ongoing Kroch Library sprinkler project, the entire Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections on level B2 and the Asia Collection book stacks on level B1 will be closed during spring break, through Sunday, March 27. The Asia stacks on level 1 will remain open throughout the week of spring break. The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections will reopen Monday, March 28. However, researchers planning to consult material housed in the division anytime during April, May or June should contact the library staff as far in advance as possible, since additional brief closings also may be necessary. For information, call 255-3530 or e-mail rareref@cornell.edu.