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.
 

1995 Obituary by Decherd Turner