On this day 45 years ago, Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th President of the U.S., after the Richard Nixon resigned.

In November 1976, The Villanovan covered President Ford’s visit to Villanova University and delivered remarks to students including, “In the last two years, the United States of America has made an incredible comeback, and we are not through it yet….I have done my best to put this nation back on even keel, to chart a steady course for our country’s future.”

Read his complete remarks on the Ford Library Museum website.

Shawn Proctor, MFA, is communications and marketing program manager at Falvey Memorial Library.

This fall semester, our students will have a lot of “new” to look forward to on Villanova’s campus, including beautiful new sidewalks between Falvey Library and Mendel Hall!

Shawn Proctor, MFA, is communications and marketing program manager at Falvey Memorial Library. His favorite Shel Silverstein book is The Giving Tree, which he received as a Christmas gift in 1983.

“As a scholar, I recognize the labor and time that goes into the composition of these #books. Each book is a unit of human time. I’m searching for a way to acknowledge what it means for that time to be over.”–Professor Alice Dailey, discussing her art project, which will transform nearly 500 deselected #shakespeare books into #art reflecting the passing of time

The sky over Falvey Memorial Library, as taken by Keith Mathews, Library student-worker.