*   Story about our archival project and unveiling event that followed
 *   Photos and captions (JPEG images in zip file link<https://app.box.com/s/l83x8hcr4toel3q0uh9vdghiwy5wzr2s>, captions below)
 *   Event lineup on formal program

 *   Story about Mattie Coleman marker unveiling and reception that will immediately follow (2 p.m. April 14, 2023)
 *   "Save the Date" postcard for that event
 *   Large image of Mattie Coleman

Greetings Colleagues, Clare Kimbro, Meharry Medical College (TN), shares the following new initiatives from the Meharry Medical College Library & Archives. Newsletter, photos, timelines, etc. can be found at this link: Meharry Medical College<https://hbculibraries-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/ldenard_hbculibraries_org/Eo8S1SHDxutFq-GUyNc0ztwBIl2FEAv_pKSt4bAQr32Ezw> 1. The Meharry library and archives' recent newsletter (vol. 2, issue 2) highlights its Meharry history timeline project and March 2023 unveiling event 2. Story/Q&A written for The Meharry Digest about the library and archives' aforementioned campus event (photo captions are below) and the program lineup for that event * Story about our archival project and unveiling event that followed * Photos and captions (JPEG images in zip file link<https://app.box.com/s/l83x8hcr4toel3q0uh9vdghiwy5wzr2s>, captions below) * Event lineup on formal program 1. Story written for The Meharry Digest about the library and archives' participation in an upcoming campus unveiling (planned for April 2023) of a historical marker on Mattie Coleman, a Meharry graduate twice over and woman suffragist, and a "Save the Date" postcard we created for that upcoming event, which will be hosted in the Kresge lower level exhibit hall, directly below the library. The marker will be placed outside of the building that houses the library and archives (S.S. Kresge Learning Resource Center) * Story about Mattie Coleman marker unveiling and reception that will immediately follow (2 p.m. April 14, 2023) * "Save the Date" postcard for that event * Large image of Mattie Coleman Captions below for hi-res photos in HBCU Alliance zip file from the February 2023 library and archives event, found in DropBox here online<https://app.box.com/s/l83x8hcr4toel3q0uh9vdghiwy5wzr2s>: Caption 1: After Meharry Medical College Library & Archives' history timeline unveiling event on Feb. 28, 2023, 6-year-old Channing Beasley, daughter of fourth-year medical student Micah Ernst, seemed mesmerized by the festivities. PHOTO BY LUCIUS PATENAUDE/Meharry Medical College Office of Marketing & Communications Caption 2: Van West, Tennessee's state historian, speaks to those gathered at Meharry Medical College Library & Archives' history timeline unveiling event. PHOTO BY LUCIUS PATENAUDE/Meharry Medical College Office of Marketing & Communications Caption 3: Meharry President James E.K. Hildreth interacts with visitors to the campus at the library and archives' history timeline unveiling event. PHOTO BY LUCIUS PATENAUDE/Meharry Medical College Office of Marketing & Communications Caption 4: Meharry President James E.K. Hildreth, flanked by Meharry Medical College students, cut the cake at the history timeline reception at the library. The cake displayed an image of the "Salt Wagon story," which is a prominent part of Meharry's history of its founding. PHOTO BY LUCIUS PATENAUDE/Meharry Medical College Office of Marketing & Communications Caption 5: Meharry faculty talk with Nashville Mayor John Cooper, center, before the unveiling event at the library. PHOTO BY LUCIUS PATENAUDE/Meharry Medical College Office of Marketing & Communications Caption 6: Library & Archives Executive Director Sandra Parham shares the vision she had for telling Meharry's history through a paneled timeline and mural installed in the building on campus which houses the library. PHOTO BY LUCIUS PATENAUDE/Meharry Medical College Office of Marketing & Communications Caption 7: Along with dozens of visitors, more than 100 Meharry students, faculty, staff gather for a reception in the library after the unveiling of its new history timeline and mural. PHOTO BY LUCIUS PATENAUDE/Meharry Medical College Office of Marketing & Communications Caption 8: Students present flowers to Sandra Parham, the Meharry library and archives' executive director, who has held that post since 2020. PHOTO BY LUCIUS PATENAUDE/Meharry Medical College Office of Marketing & Communications Caption 9: The library and archives' history project involved creating a timeline on the lower section of the lobby wall in the S.S. Kresge Learning Resource Center on campus. A mural created by the executive director covers the upper section to the ceiling, which is visible from the veranda outside the library's entrance. PHOTO BY LUCIUS PATENAUDE/Meharry Medical College Office of Marketing & Communications Caption 10: Meharry Medical College students gather just after the history timeline unveiling event Feb. 28, 2023, with college President James E.K. Hildreth outside the library and archives entrance. PHOTO BY LUCIUS PATENAUDE/Meharry Medical College Office of Marketing & Communications Caption 11: Visitors and Meharrians look to the vaulted ceiling to watch the library and archives' short film on the history of Meharry Medical College. 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