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B Y T H E N U M B E R S Mudd Manuscript LibraryPrinceton's Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library is named for a practicing cardiologist who later was a faculty member at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California, where he also served on the board of trustees. • Mudd, who lived from 1895 to 1968, was keenly interested in promoting higher education. During his lifetime, he contributed more than $10 million to private colleges and universities. His will established a $44 million fund for American university and college buildings. The Seeley G. Mudd Fund of Los Angeles was created to support educational excellence through grants for the construction of buildings for teaching, learning and research.
• The Mudd Fund stipulated that the institution requesting funds would pay at least half the cost of the new building. In the case of Princeton's Mudd Manuscript Library, the trustees of this fund made a grant of $1,125,000 to Princeton toward the $2,500,000 needed for a manuscript library; the balance was contributed by other donors, many of whom were alumni or relatives of alumni. • Many colleges and universities applied for grants from the Mudd Fund, and, as a result, a number of campuses have buildings named after Seeley G. Mudd. There is a Mudd Library at Yale University, Duke University, Lawrence University and Pomona College. The University of Southern California has a large medical complex named for Mudd, and Howard University's College of Medicine also has a Mudd Medical Building. Mudd science buildings can be found at the University of Denver, Colby College and Lehigh University, and there is a Seeley G. Mudd Chapel at Whitworth College. Source: Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library Web site <www.princeton.edu/~mudd/>. |
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