Items

• Graduation Exercises, The Twenty-first Class United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School

  Program for the graduation exercises of the 21st class U.S. Naval Reserve Midschipmen's School.
• Key to the city of Santiago de Cali, Columbia

  Key to the city of Santiago de Cali, presented to William Gass at the Cali Festival of the Arts.
• Kenyon College Commencement Program

  Program for 119th Kenyon College Commencement, Class of 1947.
• U.S. Navy Reserve Officer Dog Tags

  William Gass's Navy Reserve Officer dog tags, worn during his service in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
• U.S. Navy Officers Hat

  William H. Gass's U.S. Navy Officers Hat, worn during his service in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
• The Pushcart Prize - "I Wish You Wouldn't"

  Pushcart Prize award for "I Wish You Wouldn't," originally published in Partisan Review, No. 3, 1975, reprinted in The Pushcart Prize, 1976: Best of the Small Presses, and revised for inclusion in Cartesian Sonata.
• National Book Critics Circle Award - Finding a Form

  National Book Critics Circle Award for Finding a Form: Best Book of Criticism, 1996, and a list of NBCC award finalists in all categories.
• Standard Oil (Indiana) Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award

  Standard Oil (Indiana) Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award from Purdue University for William Howard Gass for his signal and effective performance in the instruction of undergraduate students.
• U.S.S. Pasadena wallet card souvenir

  U.S.S. Pasadena wallet card souvenir issued to Ensign William H. Gass, U.S.N.R., showing he was present in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945 at the signing of surrender terms of the Allied Nations by the Japanese.
• "Teach-In on 'The Concept of Freedom'"

  Program for a "Teach-In on 'The Concept of Freedom,'" at Purdue University, Indianapolis Campus. Includes a lecture by William H. Gass, "Free and Un-Free Freedom."
• "Eye and Idea" - Harvard University Tanner Lecture on Human Values

  Program for two lectures by William H. Gass at Harvard University, as part of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values: "The Eye is the First Circle," and "The Fulfillment of Form," titled collectively, "Eye and Idea."
• "River Styx at Duff’s" - Broadside

  Broadside advertising a "River Styx at Duff's" event, including a fiction reading by William Gass.
• Dandy & Fine, Accent to Ascent - Exhibition Catalog

  A catalog to commemorate the April 5, 1989 opening of an exhibition in the Rare Books and Special Collections Library at the University of Illinois, entitled Dandy & Fine, Accent to Ascent (1940 - ): Correspondence on the Occasions of Work Published in Literary Magazines at the University of Illinois. Includes a brief history of Accent, the literary magazine that first published William H. Gass, in 1958, and pages on the authors, including Gass, Katherine Ann Porter, Eudora Welty, ee cummings and others.
• T.S. Eliot Centennial Celebration Program

  Program for the events surrounding the T.S. Eliot Centennial Celebration - collaborative events sponsored by River Styx, St. Louis Humanities Forum, the St. Louis Chamber Chorus and the T.S. Eliot Society. Includes contributions by and images of William Gass and Stanley Elkin.
• 1997 Lannan Literary Awards - Lifetime Achievement Award

  Cover of and four pages from the program for the 1997 Lannan Literary Awards. William H. Gass was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award. Pages included in this exhibit are: the front and back cover, the credits and explanation of Lannan, the list of all six literary award winners, and the Gass Lifetime Achievement Award.
• A Temple of Texts: Fifty Literary Pillars

  Twenty-six pages of an exhibition catalog to inaugurate the International Writers Center. Includes short essays by William H. Gass on each of the 50 "literary pillars" he selected. The entire catalog consists of 51 pages of text, plus gallery map and acknowledgements.
• "Cartoon Verse by Gassy"

  Seven versions of an unpublished cartoon/poem by Gass, intended for The Tunnel.
• "Tribute to Chancellor Danforth"

  Printout draft of "Tribute to Chancellor Danforth," an introduction to William H. Danforth, possibly on the occasion of his retirement.
• Toni Morrison Introduction

  Printout draft of Gass introduction of Toni Morrison.
• Joseph Campbell Introduction

  Corrected typescript for an introduction of Joseph Campbell presenting "The Spiritual Background of Oriental Art."