The David Cunningham Memorial Collection
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David Cunningham1961-2001
A gift of 92 books from the library of David Cunningham was formally acknowledged at the President's Reception, during Open House 2002, by the Library Director. The books were donated by Mrs. Jean Cunningham, David Cunningham's mother, from his collection.
The beautiful leather bound books are illustrated on high quality paper and have gilt edge pages. This collection includes titles form several series including 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, Book of the Month Club, Collectors Library of Famous Editions, and First Edition Library. The books are currently on display in the library's Archives Reading room on the third floor.
About David Cunningham
David Cunningham was the Coordinator of Tutoring at Penn College until his untimely death in the summer of 2001. He was well known and greatly appreciated throughout campus, demonstrating not only professional expertise, but a sincerely caring attitude as well. From providing the College with a team of top tutors to providing his employees with generous considerations, David kept an organized, productive, and cheerful office. As is true of all the best professionals, he loved his job; especially when students were learning and succeeding.
Before running the Tutoring Center, David took on tutoring himself. He began helping students with math problems in May of 1982, when the institution was still the Williamsport Area Community College. As one can imagine, explaining difficult math procedures can be tedious and frustrating. But not for David. He patiently helped students as much as they needed, making sure they understood the material. He never gave up on them. Throughout his years here, he went on to hold various other positions, including math lab assistant, college activities assistant, and microcomputer lab assistant. On the side, David enjoyed the musical theatre, and performed in shows such as "Lil' Abner".
David was also an alumnus. He received his Associates' degree from Williamsport Area Community College in May 1981. He went on to Penn State, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in May 1983.
David's family has had a long association with the college. His mother, Jean Cunningham, taught in nursing before her retirement. His brother Jim is the Chief Technology Officer for the College, and his brother Mike is the Chief Information Officer. His family, friends, and coworkers remember him fondly.
For a memorial tribute to David, don't miss "A Tutor Fondly Remembered", written by Jennifer Hammond.
Books in the Collection
| Title | Author | Call Number |
|---|---|---|
| The 42nd Parallel | John Dos Passos | PN35 .C6 v.20 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | PS1305 .A12 1992 |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Tom Sawyer's Companion] | Mark Twain | PN35 .O5 v.37 |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | PN35 .O5 v.3 |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | PN35 .C6 v.1 |
| The Alhambra | Washington Irving | PN35 .O5 v.44 |
| The Analects of Confucius | Confucius | PN35 .O5 v.49 |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | PN35 .O5 v.51 |
| The Arabian Nights | Richard Burton (translator) | PN35 .O5 v.34 |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | PS3511.A86 A9 1957 |
| The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | PN35 .O5 v.58 |
| Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope | PN35 .C6 v.19 |
| The Birds | Aristophanes | PN35 .O5 v.67 |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | PN35 .O5 v.4 |
| Candide | Voltaire | PN35 .O5 v.11 |
| Cannery Row | John Steinbeck | PS3537.T3234 C3 1973 |
| The Charterhouse of Parma | Marie-Henri Beyle | PN35 .C6 v.18 |
| The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | PN35 .O5 v.14 |
| The Confessions of St. Augustine | St. Augustine | PN35 .O5 v.39 |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain | PN35 .C6 v.7 |
| Crime & Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | PN35 .O5 v.57 |
| The Decamero | Giovanni Boccaccio | PN35 .O5 v.10 |
| The Descent of Man | Charles Darwin | PN35 .O5 V.5 |
| The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri | Dante Alighieri | PN35 .O5 v.29 |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | PN35 .O5 v.35 |
| The Effayes | Francis Bacon | PN35 .O5 v.7 |
| Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton | PS3545.H16 E8 1991 |
| Farewell, My Lovely | Raymond Chandler | PS3505.H3224 F3 1967 |
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev | PN35 .O5 v.56 |
| Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | PN35 .O5 v.8 |
| Flowers of Evil | Charles Baudelaire | PN35 .O5 v.42 |
| The Fortunes and Misfortunes of The Famous Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe | PN35 .C6 v.3 |
| Germinal | Emile Zola | PN35 .C6 v.17 |
| God's ittle Acre | Erskine Caldwell | PS3505.A322 G6 1961 |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | PN35 .O9 v.19 |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | PN35 .O5 v.25 |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers | PS3525.A1772 H4 1967 |
| The History of Early Rome | Livy | PN35 .O5 v.63 |
| The History of Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | PN35 .O5 v.28 |
| The House of The Dead | Fyodor Dostoevsky | PN35 .C6 v.14 |
| How I Found Livingstone | Henry M. Stanley | PN35 .C6 v.10 |
| The Iliad of Homer | Homer | PN35 .O5 v.22 |
| The Innocents Abroad | Mark Twain | PS1312 .A1 1992 |
| Ivanhoe | Sir Walter Scott | PN35 .O5 v.26 |
| A Journal of The Plague Year | Daniel Defoe | PN35 .O5 v.59 |
| Jude The Obscure | Thomas Hardy | PN35 .O5 v.52 |
| Kim | Rudyard Kipling | PN35 .C6 v.12 |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | PN35 .O5 v.62 |
| Life on The Mississippi | Mark Twain | PS1314 .A1 1992 |
| The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Laurence Sterne | PN35 .O5 v.70 |
| The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York | Daniel Defoe | PN35 .O5 v.68 |
| The master of Ballantrae | Robert Louis Stevenson | PN35 .C6 v.6 |
| Medea | Euripedes | PN35 .O5 v.66 |
| The Mill on The Floss | George Eliot | PN35 .O5 v.13 |
| Mosquitoes | William Faulkner | PS3511.A86 M6 1955 |
| The Naked and The Dead | Norman Mailer | PS3525.A4152 N34 1976 |
| Native Son | Richard Wright | PS3545.R815 N25 1968 |
| Aeneid | Virgil | PN35 .O5 v.60 |
| Oedipus The King | Sophocles | PN35 .O5 v.65 |
| Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham | PN35 .C6 v.11 |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | PN35 .O5 v.33 |
| Père Goriot | Honoré de Balzac | PN35 .C6 v.4 |
| On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection | Charles Darwin | PN35 .O5 v.17 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | PS3561.E667 O5 1990 |
| The Oresteia | Aeschuylus | PN35 .O5 v.32 |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton | PN35 .O5 v.38 |
| The Pearl | John Steinbeck | PS3537.T3234 P4 1973 |
| Peer Gynt | Henrik Ibsen | PN35 .C6 v.8 |
| The Personal History of David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | PN35 .O5 v.24 |
| The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which is to Come | John Bunyan | PN35 .O5 v.6 |
| The Poems of John Donne | John Donne | PN35 .O5 v.27 |
| The Poems of John Keats | John Keats | PN35 .O5 v.31 |
| The Poems of Robert Browning | Robert Browning | PN35 .O5 v.48 |
| The Poems of W. B. Yeats | W. B. Yeats | PN35 .O5 v.50 |
| Politics, and, Poetics | Aristotle | PN35 .O5 v.12 |
| The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | PN35 .O5 v.40 |
| A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | PN35 .O5 v.46 |
| The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | PN35 .O5 v.64 |
| Pudd'nhead Wilson | Mark Twain | PS1317 .A1 1992 |
| The Red and The Black | Marie-Henri Beyle | PN35 .O5 v.18 |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | PN35 .O5 v.15 |
| The Return of The Native | Thomas Hardy | PN35 .O5 v.55 |
| Roughing it | Mark Twain | PS1318 .A1 1992 |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | PN35 .O5 v.21 |
| The Sea-Wolf | Jack London | PN35 .O5 v.2 |
| She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith | PN35 .O5 v.9 |
| The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde | Oscar Wilde | PN35 .O5 v.16 |
| Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis | PN35 .O5 v.61 |
| The Tales of Guy De Maupassant | Guy de Maupassant | PN35 .O5 v.47 |
| The Tales of Hoffmann | E. T. A. Hoffmann | PN35 .C6 v.21 |
| Tales of The South Pacific | James A. Michener | PS3525.I19 T3 1974 |
| The Talisman Sir Walter Scott | Sir Walter Scott | PN35 .O5 v.41 |
| Tartuffe & The Would-Be Gentleman | Molière | PN35 .O5 v.1 |
| The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | PN35 .O5 v.30 |
| Three Plays of Henrik Ibsen | Henrik Ibsen | PN35 .O5 v.43 |
| The Three-Penny Opera | Bertolt Brecht | PN35 .C6 v.15 |
| The Toilers of The Sea | Victor Hugo | PN35 .C6 v.16 |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | PN35 .O5 v.54 |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea | Jules Verne | PN35 .O5 v.36 |
| Two Plays for Puritans | George Bernard Shaw | PN35 .O5 v.45 |
| Two Plays of Anton Chekhov | Anton Chekhov | PN35 .O5 v.20 |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | PN35 .O5 v.69 |
| Utopia | Sir Thomas More | PN35 .C6 v.9 |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | PN35 .O5 v.23 |
| The Wapshot Chronicle | John Cheever | PS3505.H6428 W3 1985 |
| The Way of All flesh | Samuel Butler | PN35 .O5 v.53 |
| The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | PN35 .C6 v.2 |
| A Woman's Life | Guy de Maupassant | PN35 .C6 v.22 |
Sample Illustrations
The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton, Pg .80 & 81
The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton, Pg .208 & 209
The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton, Pg. 368 & 369
The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton, Pg. 464 & 465
Paradise Lost by John Milton, "Adam and Eve Sleeping" Pg. 104 & 105
Paradise Lost by John Milton, "The Temptation of Eve" Pg. 232 & 233
Paradise Lost by John Milton, Pg. 72 & 73
Caption
The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde, Pg. 108 & 109
The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde, Pg. 118 & 119
The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde, Pg. 136 & 137
The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde, Pg. 252 & 253




