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Logan Elm Press Receives Major Gift

With a gift of $50,000 Grace Vance recently established an endowment for the Libraries' Logan Elm Press in honor of her late husband, R. Reid, who was a third generation executive in the greater Columbus printing industry and was president of the Printing Industry Association of Northern Kentucky and Ohio (PIANKO) for almost twenty-five years. William (Bill) Stickney, who succeeded Reid as president of PIANKO, and his wife Arminta are close friends of Grace and worked on her behalf to establish the endowment. The purpose of the R. Reid and Grace H. Vance Logan Elm Press Education Fund will be to foster the study and preservation of fine printing and the art of the book through The Ohio State University Libraries' Center for the Book Arts. Annual income from the fund, which has also received additional donations from members of the printing industries and friends of the Logan Elm Press, will be used to accomplish the mission of the press, and include residency programs, publication projects, visiting lecturers, undergraduate and graduate student assistants, public and printing industry programs and the acquisition of equipment and materials for teaching fine printing and the book arts. ¶ If you have questions about the Logan Elm Press, OSU Libraries’ Center for the Book Arts or would like to make a donation to the R. Reid and Grace H. Vance Logan Elm Press Education Fund, please click here.

Bob Tauber of the Logan Elm Press, (left), and Director of Libraries Joseph Branin (right) with Grace Vance (center), who recently established an endowment for the press in memory of her late husband, R. Reid Vance.