ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 36 / C &R L News Samuel Proctor Mary Anne Dolan Robert A. Caro Edward G. Holley The theme speakers at the ACRL N ational Con­ ference are generously sponsored by EBSCO Sub­ scription Services. Samuel D. Proctor is a clergyman, educator and author. He served as the associate general secretary of the National Council of Churches during the 1960s and became the senior pastor of the Abyssin­ ian Baptist Church in New York City in 1972. He is a former president of Virginia Union University (1955-1960) and North Carolina A & T State Uni­ versity (1960-1964) as well as a former associate di­ rector of the Peace Corps. From 1964 to 1984 he was Martin L uther King Professor in the G raduate School of Education at Rutgers. Since his retire­ ment in 1984 he has been professor emeritus there. Proctor’s books include The Young Negro in America, 1960-1980 (Association Press, 1966) and Sermons from the Black Pulpit (Judson, 1984). He has received numerous awards and honorary de­ grees. Robert A. Caro is a Pulitzer Prize-winning au­ thor. As a muckraking reporter for Newsday, the Long Island (New York) daily newspaper, in the 1960s, C aro becam e interested in how pow er works. O ut of that interest came two panoram ic sa­ gas, each seven years in the w riting and both best sellers. The first was The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall o f New York (Knopf, 1974), a biography of the unelected “master builder” who m ade himself the most powerful figure in the City and State of New York in our time. The work won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkm an Prize for the book “which best represents the union of the historian and the artist.” C aro’s second best seller was The Path to Power Theme Speakers January 1989 / 37 (Knopf, 1982), the first volume in a projected tril­ ogy about the thirty-sixth president of the United States, The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Mary Anne Dolan is a syndicated columnist and television commentator based in Los Angeles. In 1981 Dolan became the first woman in America to rise through the ranks to the editorship of a major metropolitan newspaper, The Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Dolan came to th e editorship of the Herald after nearly 10 years in executive newspa­ per jobs and after many more years working w ith colleagues to promote a greater role for women in journalism. Dolan wrote an article, “W hen Femi­ nism Failed,” for the June 26, 1988, issue of The New York Times Magazine. In the article, she talks about a problem she encountered at the Herald: “many of these women (executives at the Herald) were content to go along w ith a humanizing philos­ ophy in the workplace as a diversion only. Their es­ sential creed was an ancient m ale one: pow er first.” Dolan will address this issue at the confer­ ence. A panel of reactors will consider the implica­ tions for librarianship. E dw ard G. Holley, professor, School of Infor­ m ation and L ibrary Science, University of North C arolina at C hapel H ill, w ill be the featured speaker at the April 6th luncheon. Holley will speak on “Building a Firm Foundation: ACRL Leadership, 1939-1989.” The luncheon is in honor of all ACRL past presidents and executive secre­ taries and directors. Holley, who received his doctorate from the University of Illinois, served as professor and dean at Chapel Hill, from 1972 to 1985. A past president of ALA, Holley has received the prestigious Melvil Dewey Medal and the Joseph W. Lippincott aw ard for notable achievement in librarianship. In 1988 Holley was selected as the Academic or Research Librarian of the Year by ACRL. Cincinnati’s Union Terminal, an art deco landmark facing 1-75 has been transformed into a luxury them e shopping and dining mall.