March

On March 4th, 1918 at Fort Riley in North Central Kansas, Private Albert Gitchell,  reported symptoms of a sore throat, fever, and headache. Similar symptoms soon spread throughout the base among 100 additional soldiers, with outbreaks then to follow in army camps and prisons throughout the country -- and then quickly to Europe as soldiers made their way to the battlegrounds of World War One.

The Gottesman Libraries, a member of the Metropolitan New York Library Council, was pleased to receive a grant in the amount of $10,636 from New York State to participate in coordinated collection development for academic year 2023-2024. We enhanced our collections in three areas: Bilingual-Bicultural Education, Science Education, and K-12 Education.

Gottesman Libraries Special and Digital Collections’ team recently imported one new collection—Joan Hollobon Correspondence—and substantially added to another—The Teachers College Book Plate Collection.

The third largest planet and seventh from the sun, Uranus was originally called the "Georgian Planet" by William Herschel who first observed it on March 13th, 1781 from the gardens of his home in Bath, Somerset.

Born on March 22nd, 1912 in Macklin, Canada, Agnes Martin was a preeminent abstract expressionist who painted serene, large scale works, typically using grids and pencil lines with bands of color to evoke emotion.