>> From the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
[ Pause ]   >> Good afternoon everyone.

Good afternoon and welcome to the Library of Congress.
I'm John Cole.
I'm the Director of Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
which is the Reading and Book Promotion Arm of the library
and we celebrate books in reading in many ways with affiliates
in every state but also through programs
such as this wonderful program at the Library of Congress.
This program is called Books and Beyond and it honors people
who have a special connection with the Library of Congress
who have recently published a book that uses library resources
or it's a person who has worked with the Library of Congress for a number
of years and has produce a book that we want to share.
In this case, as you know,
the honoree is Vivian Ann Davidson Hewitt.
The book itself, is called the "The One and Only."
It's an oral history autobiography.
It is information about its availability is also on this program
which has been especially prepared for today.
If you turn to the back of the program,
you will actually get our plan for the day and at the bottom,
it tells you how to get copies of this wonderful book.
After Dr. Billington introduces--
the Librarian of Congress introduces our guest of honor and she speaks
for a little while, there is gonna be an opportunity for you
to say a special hello to her and also
to have this particular program signed
and also you will have information about ordering the book
which will also be on display.
It's my pleasure now to introduce Dr. James Billington
who is the Librarian of the Congress.
You will learn about his special relationship and friendship
with Vivian Hewitt in his introduction.
Dr. Billington himself was sworn in as the Librarian
of the Congress on September 14, 1987.
He is only the 13th person to hold the position at the Library
of Congress since we were established in 1800.
And I've done the math for you.
That means that the average length of service for a Librarian
of Congress who is a presidential appointee is roughly 16 plus years.
The second part of the math is that Dr. Billington has beat that record,
thank goodness, the average, thank goodness.
He is not an average Librarian of Congress by any means.
He is coming up on his 25th year as the Librarian of the Congress.
Dr. Billington has been a wonderful leader for our organization,
someone who has kept us in the forefront working with congress
in every possible way but also reaching out around the country
to other libraries, to other people and helping to open the Library
of Congress up to all of America.
We're very proud of him and I'm proud to introduce him
to talk about Vivian Hewitt.   Dr. James Billington.

[ Applause ]
>> Thank you John and I'm glad to join him in welcoming you all
to a different kind of Library of Congress special event.
It's a celebration of a remarkable American family,
whose roots stretch back centuries and in 2000
at the library's bicentennial we had initiated a Local Legacies program
to mark the library's 200th year
and we invited every congressional district to suggest a local legacy
that could be added to the library's archive of American Folklife,
archive of the Center of American Folklife.
Representative Mel Watt of North Carolina,
who is a distinguished member of the extended Hewitt family,
had brought to the great hall of the library
for the library's 200th anniversary one of the largest
and most exuberant groups of sponsoring a local legacy.
And the local legacy was the forthcoming 100th celebration
of the forthcoming centennial,
centenary of the Watt family reunions.
I sat down with this group and I learned
about this prospective reunion and thought this was the perfect project
for the library's, American Folklife Center, a great American project
of family reunions and they-- the family was kind enough to let us,
let me and an excellent team from the archive of American Folklife
in the library participate in this.
So that is where I was able to meet and dance with--
I might say some of the best music and story telling I've ever seen
in a family event, the one and only Vivian Ann Davidson Hewitt.
You know Vivian who among other achievements was the first
African-American President of the Special Libraries Association
and has also-- had also been Chief Librarian
for the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace and the Council
on Foreign Relations just to mention a few.
She had written an autobiographical history
of her wholesome life entitled "The One and Only."
In addition to her literary career,
Vivian and her late husband John collected more than 500 pieces
of art during their 50-year marriage.
The John and Vivian Hewitt collection of African art is now
in the permanent collections of the Harvey B. Gantt Center
for African American Art and Culture in Charlotte, North Carolina
where the reunion was of course held.
Now I first met Vivian in Moscow 1991
when she was attending the Annual Conference
of the International Federation of Library Associations
and the Soviet Union was in the process
of imploding at the same time.
We always associate big events with Vivian somehow and we were reunited
at the 100th consecutive Hewitt family reunion in Charlotte in 2005
where I danced with her and engaging in some of the--
enjoying some of the best music and stories as I've already said.
Anyhow, that reunion which included more
than 600 people was a memorable event, videotaped for posterity
by the American Folklife Center as a part
of the Local Legacies celebrations.
We met again in 2009 when I spoke at the 100th Anniversary
of the Special Libraries Association, an event attended
by 29 past presidents of SLA including Vivian herself.
She's the one who is almost universally admired, professionally
and beloved personally, a very rare combination.

And today as the party continues in celebration of a recent birthday,
please welcome here, the one and only Vivian Ann Davidson Hewitt.
[ Applause ]   [ Pause ]

>> Vivian, we can bring this down.   >> Down a little bit.

>> Now just try that and just stand and talk [inaudible].
>> Thank you everybody for being here.
I can't tell you how thrilled I am and how humbled I am to be honored
at this hallowed place, the Library of Congress.
And I go back a number of years, John Cole and I met for the Center
for the Book, the Advisory Committee and that was wonderful working
with him and it was nice having a reunion today and then of course
with Dr. Billington meeting in 1991 in Moscow and then again
at the family reunion and then again for a Special Libraries Association.
It was fun writing the book.
Did I bring my book up with my notes?

>> [Inaudible] put it under [inaudible].
>> Here it is, yeah.
I usually speak extemporaneously and don't use notes.
But I wanted to make sure that I didn't miss him on anything.
My family and friends had been after me for many years to do my memoirs.
Especially my son who would sit at the dinner table
and I would tell him some of the stories and they would say, "Mom,
you ought to write this down."
And I kept backburnering it and doing so.
But he even bought me a tape recorder and tapes to do it.
So on vacation I was to record this and somebody gave me a book
as a guideline for doing memoirs.
Well if you're vacationing in the sunny isle of Barbados, you know
and I was on the beach and being lazy
and then we were socializing at night.
So didn't get very much done and it got backburnered again.
But a couple of years ago at a Christmas party,
the host said to one of his other guests, "See that woman over there,
you gotta meet her, give her your card."
And she came over and gave me her card and I want
to tell you there are times in your life
when people are just heaven sent.
And Annie Segan is a doctoral-- has PhD in oral history and she met me,
gave me her card, I invited her to my home and I hired her on the spot.
And for 5 months every Tuesday and Thursday
from 10 o'clock until 12, we talked.
She recorded and we did my memoirs and we got 650 pages.
But to make it memorable and manageable,
she edited it down to 200 pages.
Now Annie's [inaudible] is that pictures evoke memories.
I don't know how many of you-- I have about 10,000 on file pictures.
I don't know how many of you have on file pictures you know that are
in shopping bags, bags or things like that.
But anyhow I had a lot of pictures and we went through them
and so got my memoirs recorded.   And even for me going back, it was--

it became a page turner evoking memories.
And I'm one of that group of-- a negro society called WEB Du Bois,
it's called the Talent Tenth.
And at that time that was 10 percent of the African American community
who were college educated came from good families and were expected
to contribute to the community and give back
to the community and do good things.   It wasn't a matter of wealth.

It was a matter of class for the most part.
And then I am also a member of the generation,
the Tom Brockaw called The Greatest Generation.
I'm a Depression kid and I'm a World War 2 kid.
And I have very, very fond memories.
In the 10th generation, Talented Tenth,
I'm the last of that generation.   We're all in our 80's, 90's.

And among those Talented Tenth are the Tuskegee Airmen
who in just recent years have been honored
and given their due recognition.
And there are people in this room, my friends, my peer group who are
in that Talented Tenth and any of them could write the book
that I had done because they've experienced being the first
and the one and only.
I was never, never content being the one and only.
I always wanted to bring someone along behind me.
The first, someone had to be first and I didn't mind being first.

Now each of you will get 1 of these as a souvenir and a plate way
to buy your book afterwards.
There are about 21 chapters in it and I'm 91 years old
and how can I talk for half hour and give my life story in a half hour
but what I'm going to do is to give some highlights from some
of my life beginning with my family roots.
I am the direct descendant of Sylvie a slave who was brought
over from Guinea in the 16th Century and my family is very,
very fortunate, very lucky
because we have our family history going back for nine generations
and if my granddaughter and my great grand kids arrive they'll probably
be a little late coming that they-- .
>> They are here.   >> They are here?

They're the eighth down generation of Sylvie the slave so, hi kids.
And so, and I meet today coming in he says, I'm a Howell.
Sylvie had seven daughters and so we are descendants
of the seven daughters and two of the daughters married brothers
and so there's a Mooney[phonetic] the [inaudible] the Howell's,
the Briggs [phonetic] and related families and one
of the Howell's came in and said, I'm your cousin.
So, the kids have done with the new technology
and all have done a record there are 6,000 names so we're sixth degrees
of separations, so I'm everybody's cousin.
[ Laughter ]
>> Now, I was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1920
and although my family roots are in North Carolina.
My mother and father were from North Carolina and my father's work
at that time took him to New Castle and New Castle
at that time was listed as one of the 100 best cities to live in
and it had steel mill, Carnegie Steel.
It had an aluminum factory.
It had a world class pottery factory.
It had a tin mill, a bronze factory and it was famous for its theater.
And one of the people who got his start
in New Castle Pennsylvania was Bob Hope and the Warner Brothers were
from New Castle Pennsylvania and me.   [ Laughter ]

>> Thank you.   Thank you, John.

So, that takes care of that then I graduated from high school and at
that time when I was in school, the public schools were very good.
The teacher's cared about their students
and we got a very superior academic training.
Then I went to Geneva College in Beaver Falls.
My mother decided that we would go--
her children would go to Geneva College
because our great uncle lived in Beaver, Pennsylvania and we passed
by the college when we would go to visit him.
And Geneva was very, very crucial in my life
because it forged the career that I would have.
I worked for four years in the college library and I love library
so that had a lot to do with the choice of career.
And at that time, I think some of you will be interested to know
that the tuition for a semester was 120 dollars
and the extra fee was 40 dollars and the commutation fee--
monthly commutation fee by train from New Castle
to Beaver Falls 20 miles away was seven dollars and 20 cents.
And the street car and bus fare was five cents,
so that gives you an idea of we've gone a long way.

So, I got as I say a very superior training in academic training
in Geneva College and then I was deciding whether
to become a social worker or librarian because at
that time we were limited.
We had ceilings, you know you could be a social worker, a teacher,
a preacher or maybe a lawyer, maybe a doctor if you were lucky
but ceiling was limited but I happened
to meet the executive director of the Urban League at Pittsburgh
and he said, "What are you gonna do?"
And I said, I'm debating whether to become a social worker
or a librarian and he said, "We do not have a professional librarian
in the city of Pittsburgh.
Apply to Carnegie Library School and if they don't accept you,
let met know and we'll go to bat for you."
So I applied at the library school and when I went down,
I never will forget this because you have to think of the times.
This was 1943 and the director said to me at my interview,
we've been waiting for someone like you to come along for a long time.
I'm sorry you don't look more like a negro than you do.
So that when people walk into the library, they'll know what you are.
Well, that was the time and you have to think
at the context of the times.
There were 2 Jewish girls who were admitted to library school
and had it not been the war years, one of them said to me,
I doubted that either of us would be in the library school
and when they graduated, one of the professor said, you would be happier
in New York working than here.   You know a lot of Jews in New York,

so you would be happy among your own kind but anyhow,
those are the things that we had to contend with
and my colleagues were wonderful.
They were absolutely wonderful and I had no role models
but the professional people in Pittsburgh,
I was their pet, I had to succeed.
I had to be successful so that others could come behind me
and be employed behind me and I would say many, many years later
that role-- my role as a pioneer was fulfilled
because the deputy director for branches,
all they had high positions in the library system
in Pittsburgh and-- so that was wonderful.
Then I worked at Wylie Avenue library which is
as much a social agency as they-- as a library because three fourth
of the social agencies in the Pittsburgh area were located there
and highlights from Wylie Avenue when he was five years old,
lived in the neighborhood.
His mother brought him to the Wylie Avenue Branch Library
to get his first library card and that was August Wilson.
I go to see all of August Wilson's place because I know that territory.
I know all of that area.
Now let's move on, from Wylie Avenue I got transferred out to Homewood
because at the time, I was--
the city wasn't ready to transfer me vertically, promote me vertically
but horizontally but I got transferred out to Homewood
where the demographics were changing and the community was changing
to her credit, my boss Eugena Bruno [phonetic] who came from a very,
very prominent historic family in Pittsburgh said,
"I will only accept the transfer to whom if I can take my staff with me
but they would only let her take me and Gladys Howland [phonetic].
We had a good time at the Homewood library.
It was different and the upper class blacks lived there
with the upper class, middle upper class,
they [inaudible] and so forth.
So that was very interesting but I suffered so from sinus,
the whole the hard time that I was in Pittsburgh, it was a dirty city,
smoky city and my mother who is avant-garde said to me,
"You'll never do any good as long as you stay in this city.
You've got to get out!"   So what did I do?

I wrote the darndest letters of application to Southern libraries
and places and never heard anything from them but two years later,
I was vacationing with my aunt in Davidson North Carolina.
I got an SOS call, we've got telegram from Atlanta University,
they want you to come there.
I went out for the interview and was hired
on the spot best move I ever made in my life.
It changed my life because I met my husband the day
after I got on campus.
The dean decided that we would make a good couple so that's--
that was wonderful and Atlanta as a southern city then, was a good city.
As long as you stay in the city limit, it was a good city
and we lived a self contained wonderful life on the campus.
I was teaching at Atlanta University.
John was teaching at Morehouse College and we met everybody
who was somebody who came to campus.
And one of the things that I remember, if you're a teacher,
I think you take great joy in remembering your students
who have become successful and who've done very well.
Now that class that we had, they were--
I call them orangutans because they stole examinations and cheat,
they steal everything but they were--
they became wonderful librarians.
One later took a law degree and became chief librarian
of Atlanta public library, [inaudible] and another
of my students in that same class became her deputy.
And I had 2 students from that class who worked
with the United States information agency.
One was director of libraries in West Africa and another in Brazil.
So I feel very proud of our successful students.
They have long since retired too.
Well, now Atlanta was fun but my husband was a native New Yorker
and family circumstances were such that his mother had died
and they wanted, the family wanted him to come home.
So we went to New York City and I am so blessed because I married
into a family of native New Yorkers.
John was the only child of his mother's second marriage
and his sisters, 3 sisters
and brother were teenagers when he came along.
And they were at the tail end of a Harlem renaissance.
And so I met the cultural elite in Harlem.
And at that time, Harlem was a self contained community
and negros lived above 110th street.
Well, they knew everybody who was somebody
and indeed one sister-in-law became Langston Hughes' confidante
and private secretary for a 10-year period.
So I knew him very well.
We met many, many interesting people and we talk about them.


By John taking me to New York to live, he put me in the position
to professionally gain-- get the jobs that I had and socially
to know the people that I met.
My first job was in the fashionable 640 Fifth Avenue Crowell Collier
company and we were across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue
from Bonwit Teller, to Tailored Woman, to [inaudible] all
of the fashionable stores that--
and women wore hats and gloves if you dressed to go to work.
And I would go out on my lunch hour to window shop and window wish
and I would fit the only black faces that I ever saw in the two years
that I worked on Crowell Collier may have been an occasional tourist
but Sammy Davis, Jr. with his six cameras around his neck
and Dorothy Dandridge and-- but very, very few dark faces on--
so that tells you something about 1952, 53, 54.
I think that the 60's marked the beginning of change, change, change.
It was just wonderful.
Well, anyhow when I worked at the public library in Pittsburgh
for the 7 years that I was there.
I had to work on Saturdays and at night and I decided that as long
as I could control my life and had anything to do with it and as long
as I was in New York City that I was going
to work five days a week 9 to 5.
And my classmate in library school very sophisticated had told us
about special libraries and about ethical cultural school.
And I was able to tell and some years later you planted the seed
that made a big change in my life.
She told me about special libraries, they'll match you up, your resume
and they'll help you find a job.
And after I worked at Crowell Collier then I went
to Special Libraries and they matched me
up with Rockefeller Foundation.
>> And that was wonderful 30 Rockefeller Plaza,
can you imagine a small town girl from the hills
of Western Pennsylvania at the 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the 54th floor,
you know one floor beneath the Rockefeller Brothers
with privileged access to their library and librarians.
It was just kind of heady but I kept my head on my shoulders.
And it was exciting working for them.
We had five offices throughout the world and one of them was
in Mexico City Dean Rusk who later became secretary
of Saint was president.
And he and one of the officers were visiting our agricultural office
in Mexico City and the librarian was complaining about being away,
work piling up and he said, how would you like some help
from New York and she said,
I wouldn't dare ask Mrs. Hewitt she is married and has a child.
And he said, that's not for us
to decide we will ask Mrs. Hewitt and they did.
And so I spent the whole summer of 1956, 58 in Mexico City
and I got introduced to Betty [inaudible]
who became very important in my life as an artist, my acquaintance
with Mexican artists and intellectuals.
I traveled all over Mexico.
And the head of the office in Mexico City
at that time was Dr. Norman Borlaug and I remember him
and the young officers coming in.
They were in their early 50's they would go
out to our agricultural experiment station and they'd have on arm
with the [inaudible] and boots and they would be plowing the fields
and working the fields at Chapingo where Diego Rivero have wonderful,
wonderful murals, a tourist never see.
But anyhow when the harvest came they would bring in the vegetables
to the staff and share it with the staff members.
It was wonderful meeting these people but also contributing
and helping them do their bibliographical research
and I could answer I knew the cocktail French and Spanish
and Donde Esta, where is you know, they help you find things.
So Mexico and Rockefeller Foundations standout for me,
and then, I'm a people person.
I like to work with people and over my desk came a notice
from Special Libraries Association that Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace was looking for a librarian.
And so I applied and was hired
and those were the 20 most wonderful years
that any librarian could wish for.
They were just great and I met there my dear friend [inaudible]
who is here and she was the administrative assistant
in our programs in diplomacy.   And that program funded

by the Rockefeller Foundation trained 300 diplomats
from developing countries.   It was a wonderful program.

And we had-- and I had privilege access to the United Nations library
as no other librarian in the City of New York had.
So, I keep pinching myself I went full circle Carnegie Endowment,
Carnegie Library, Carnegie Endowment, Carnegie Library
of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
And then retired because the Endowment moved the main office
to Washington, here in Washington and we had a skeleton staff
and skeleton library in New York and guess what, where we went back
to room 5400, 54th floor at Rockefeller Center so I round
up full circle at Rockefeller Center.
So, what do you do?
What does a person who was had a full 40 years
of wonderful library experience, wonderful colleagues do.
While I was at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
I was very active in Special Libraries Association
and I became the first African-American Woman Librarian
of Special Libraries Association.
And my-- the retired director is here.
David, where are you?
David, David is back there [inaudible] David.
And Special Libraries Association was wonderful as president I had
to make chapter visits so I travel all
over the United States during travel visit and then we were retrying
to raise the library's status and stature and presence
in International Federation of Libraries and Associations.
Frank McKenna the late director and I did that.
We worked very hard.
And my tenure in Special Libraries was like a president
that nobody before had ever had and nobody
since has ever had and I hope they don't.
Because Frank died after I was four months in the office.
And it fell to me to appoint a search committee to bring in a list
of would be candidates and they brought me
and I short listed two people and I will never will forget that day
in the office I was-- I thought oh this first candidate is the one
that is really going to get it and then they brought in David
in the afternoon and I'm so proud that I tipped the scale
for David Bender to become our Executive Director and he was it
for 23 years and he raised the Special Libraries into the status
and the stature international that it was bound to be.
And David I consider you my legacy to Special Libraries
and also my legacy to Special Libraries Association was getting
them to think globally
and internationally and that they have done.
Well, I'm gonna wind up.   What do you do-- like in the army,

old generals don't fade away you know
but old librarians don't fade away either and we're not this one.

I was fortune enough to travel all during my work career and especially
in those last 20 years after we had trained the diplomats
from the developing countries when my husband and I traveled
or wherever we went except for Spain,
there was always a Carnegie fellow
and it was just wonderful seeing these young men green as grass come
and use my library and then after a year of training and after a year
of traveling to the commonwealth countries
with [inaudible] come back as a full diplomat.
And when general assembly would open we would go over and stand
at the head of the steps and you would think
that we were [inaudible] greeting everybody
because all these young diplomats knew us.
It was, it's a lot of fun.   During my library career and living

in New York my husband and I collected art.
And we were among pioneers to collect African-American art,
invest in our own heritage and so what.
And so John's health began to fail and deteriorate
and we did our estate plan and then our lawyer looked at this
and so what do you gonna do with this paintings?
And we said we wanted to keep them together
as a collection we hope we could sell them to a medium sized museum
or non-profit agency which would care for it and use it as a tool
to teach young people to collect art,
to appreciate their own culture and heritage.
And we hired two brokers and in the 80s
if we all remember the arts were getting short tripped even
by the United States government so it was hard
to sell a collection or broker a collection.
But, by the art world underground
and circumstance my college library school classmate's son was
on the staff at the Dayton Art Museum and knew
about the Hewitt Collection.
His assistant was hired at the Mint Museum in Charlotte North Carolina
as the curator of American Art and he was always also the curator
for a banking icon Hugh McColl.
And Hugh McColl at that time was CEO at Nations Bank
which later became Bank of America launched it
and African-American collection to be house in his--
free to the public museum as a part
of the Mint Museum in uptown Charlotte.
And so Todd Smith [phonetic] called Nikki, and Nikki said,
of course contact Hewitt and the rest is history.
And I want to tell you in retirement for a decade or more.
After the Bank of America bought 58 pieces of the Hewitt Collection,
African-American art collection with the proviso
that they build a building to have the collection and my cousin
who is here Congressman Mel Watt have a lot to do with getting
that building built with the fund raising
and mobilizing the community and the state.
And in October we were there, October 23rd for the dedication
and opening or Harvey B. Gantt African-American cultural center.
And then building price will then building 18.6 million dollars is
just totally awesome as my grandchildren say,
and a number of people in this room where there to be
with be for that celebration.
As I look around this room I am so thrilled that somebody from many,
many facets of my life had shared my memoirs and most of you are or a lot
of love you're in the book.
Now, I wanna tell you the raunchy stuff is left out [laughter]
and some of the stuff has to go with me to my grave.
But, I think you would love it
and I think Dr. Billington would like it too.
I had nothing to do with the--
with the editing or with the how the book comes out
and how the chapters are located.
But one of the chapters, she does the chapter I mean on passion,
and she does a chapter on Fascinating People.
And among the Fascinating People who across my path
and whom I've been fortune enough to know some better than others,
some just as acquaintances.
The fascinating people are Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes,
James Billington [laughter] and the best known courtesan
in New York [blanch] the-- that's not bad company, is it?
Thank you, thank you for being here and I hope you will have as much joy
and if you get the memoirs and reading them as I did
and telling my stories to Annie.   Annie.

[ Applause ]
>> Thank you so much Ann Vivian [laughter] it was wonderful.
I'd like to ask Congressman Watt if he would like to say a few words.
Thank you.   [ Applause ]

>> I dare not say more than a few words following Vivian Hewitt
but I did want the opportunity to correct one thing
that Jim Billington said, Uncle Jim as I now call him since our,
since we invited him and he-- attended our family reunion
and we kind of adopted him into the family we.
We either call him Cousin Jim or Uncle Jim.
He called it the Watt reunion.
That is so far removed from the reality of it is the-- help me.
>> It's the Borders [phonetic], Howler [phonetic], Briggs, Mooney's,
Roberts, and related families.   Okay, alright.

And each one of those each one of those surnames was
because there were seven sisters and each one
of them married a different surnamed person.
In the Mooney clan, right?
And way down that line my mother who is a Mooney married a Watt
so this is not the Watt reunion.
This is-- this is a big deal, this is not,
I kind of disown the Watt part of the heritage.
[ Laughter ]   [ Inaudible Remark ]

>> Oh, yeah there's probably-- we do this at the family reunion
so we should do the Borders any Borders here?
Aha, and what's the next one?   >> Roberts.

>> Roberts?   Any Roberts here?

[ Applause ]   >> What's the next one?

>> Howell.   >> Howelll.

>> Any Howell's here?   >> Any Briggs here?

>> Any Mooney's here?   I know a bunch of Mooney's in here.

[ Applause ]
>> So this is-- this is my low part of the clan.
So, I don't want anybody to leave here thinking that it was--
it was this was-- a wonderful reunion of 100 and I'm delighted
to be here and share this event with [inaudible]
[ Applause ]
>> That includes the more formal part.
The less formal part will be to have a chance to talk with Vivian
and to have your program further inscribed if you so like and also
to take a look at the book and you all know how to buy the book.
The information is on the back of the program but you can take a look
and make up your mind but in the meantime I get some first hand
knowledge and ask questions of our guest
of honor the one and only Vivian Hewitt.
Let's give her a final round of applause.
[ Applause ]   [ Pause ]

>> This has been a presentation of the Library of Congress.