<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">August 21, 2007</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Contact: Stacey Schmeidel</SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">For immediate release</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Director of Public Affairs</SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;">413/542-2321</SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style=""><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><B>Printer and Oliphant Press Founder Ronald Gordon Will Lecture at Amherst College Friday, Sept. 21</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 48px;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;">AMHERST, Mass.—Ronald Gordon, </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;">a leading printer and typographic designer who founded the Oliphant Press in New York, </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;">will speak on “The Oliphant Press: Tradition & Transformation” at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, in the Archives and Special Collections of Robert Frost Library at Amherst College. A reception will follow. Both events are open to the public at no charge.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 48px;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;">Gordon studied printing and book design with Leonard Baskin as an undergraduate.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;">He has written: “Amherst played an essential role in my becoming a graphic designer and printer.” He founded the Oliphant Press shortly after graduating from Amherst in 1965. In the four decades since its founding, the Oliphant Press has carried on a tradition of fine printing and typographic design. Beginning as a letterpress printer and designer, Gordon has adapted his style and his design skills as the craft shifted to computer typesetting, offset printing and now, digital printing. The press name is an archaic form of “elephant”; its logo appears almost exclusively on advertising rather than on books. </SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 48px;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;">Gordon’s talk coincides with an exhibition, “The Seahorse and the Elephant: Amherst and Fine Printing,” which will be held in the Amherst College Archives and Special Collections from September 1 through December 16. The exhibition features the work of Gordon and another Amherst graduate, Roland Wood ’20, who (with John Fass) co-founded The Harbor Press. The Harbor Press was synonymous with fine printing in New York for almost two decades (1925-1942). Its seahorse logo appeared in dozens of versions on many Harbor Press productions.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 48px;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;">Thanks to generous gifts from Gordon and Wood, Amherst College’s Archives and Special Collections holds a comprehensive collection of the productions of the Oliphant Press. The Archives and Special Collections also holds the archival collection of the <SPAN style="">productions of the Harbor Press, including not only the books they published, but also much of the ephemera—advertising material, job printing and privately printed books and pamphlets.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 48px;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;">“The Seahorse and the Elephant” is co-curated by Daria D’Arienzo, head of archives and special collections, and John Lancaster, retired curator of special collections. The exhibition is part of “Bookmarks: A Celebration of the Art of the Book,” a region-wide festival from September 2007 to January 2008 that will bring to life the Pioneer Valley’s great literary traditions through film, family events, lectures and readings. The initiative is sponsored by the Amherst College Library (</SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.amherst.edu/library/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;">http://www.amherst.edu/library/</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;">) and Museums10, a partnership of 10 museums and friends (including Amherst College’s Mead Art Museum, the Emily Dickinson Museum and the Museum of Natural History) within the Pioneer Valley. More information about “Bookmarks” is available on the Museums10 Website, </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.museums10.org/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;">www.museums10.org</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Galliard BT" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 16px;">.</SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML>