Campus Celebrities Read

Ten Posters Featuring Faculty and Staff Members with Their Favorite Books to be Unveiled Sept. 19

September 11, 2007

By Mimi Ko Cruz

Posters featuring 10 campus celebrities, who have made notable contributions to Cal State Fullerton and their favorite books, will be unveiled at 6 p.m. Sept. 19 in Room 130 of the Pollak Library. The CSUF READ @ Your Library poster series is part of the library’s contribution to the university’s 50th anniversary celebration. The poster people and their books are:

• University Librarian Pat Bril — “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers” by Robert L. Heilbroner

• President Milton A. Gordon — “It Can't Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis

• Former baseball coach George Horton — “Heads-Up Baseball” by Kenneth Ravizza, professor of kinesiology, and Tom Hanson

• Tam Nguyen, Cal State Fullerton Distinguished Alumni Award winner — “The Golden Destination,” a brochure for the VIBE 50th Anniversary event.

• A.Y.  “Fred” Ramirez, associate professor of secondary education — “Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis

• Nancy L. Segal, professor of psychology — “Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA “ by Brenda Maddox

• Tuffy Titan, university mascot — “Babar and the Professor” by Laurent de Brunhoff

• Ernest Toy, Cal State Fullerton’s founding librarian — “Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counter Insurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam” by John A Nagl

• April Ulloa-Cannon, President’s Scholar and alumna — “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee

• Carole Wilson, Human Resources staff member — “Tanamera: A Novel of Singapore” by Noel Barber

“We’re excited to present CSUF READ @ Your Library,” said Heather Tunender, electronic resources librarian.  “It celebrates reading for pleasure, as well as for enlightenment. I hope seeing the books that have influenced these 10 honorees inspires others to read or to think about books that have made a significant impact in their lives. “

In 1985, the American Library Association began its celebrity READ Poster campaign with the simple message: Read. The posters feature celebrities along with a book of their choice. The celebrities donate their time and the use of their image to promote the use of libraries.