Helen
Warren
DeGolyer
The DeGolyer family has long been associated with book collecting and Helen Warren DeGolyer with bookbinding, an art she both loved and mastered. It is not surprising; therefore, that soon after she died in 1995 Mrs. DeGolyer’s family honored her wishes by creating an endowment to support American bookbinding at Bridwell Library. Working closely with Bridwell director Dr. Valerie Hotchkiss, Mrs. DeGolyer’s children, Edith Warren DeGolyer and Everett Lee DeGolyer, and her brother, Joe Warren, established the Helen Warren DeGolyer Exhibition and Award for American Bookbinding and the DeGolyer Conference. In addition, her children gifted Mrs. DeGolyer’s collection of fine bindings to the library. For more than a decade these events and the generosity, enthusiasm, and vision of the DeGolyer family have greatly benefited bookbinding and Bridwell Library.