University Press

A new publishing enterprise, The University Press of New England, has been formed under sponsorship of Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire, with additional sponsors expected to join the venture in the months ahead. Conceived as a regional institutional undertaking for the publication of scholarly works, the press is the first of its kind to be organized on an interstate plan. Other multi-university presses in Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas, Colorado, and Mississippi have been intrastate.

All correspondence, editing, design, advertising, promotion, sales, and distribution will be handled by the staff of The University Press of New England in its Hanover quarters, but the actual printing of the books will be done by established book manufacturers under contracts.

Editor-publisher for the press is Victor G. F. Reynolds '27 who, from 1963 to 1969, was founding director of the University Press of Virginia, the first of the presses organized to serve educational and cultural institutions of an entire state. Prior to this, Mr. Reynolds was university publisher in charge of the Cornell University Press from 1943 to 1963. He served as secretary-treasurer of the Association of American University Presses in 1951-52 and as its president in 1953-54.

A governing council made up of representatives from me sponsoring institutions will direct overall organization of the press, and an editorial committee similarly composed will have responsibility for selection of manuscripts for publication.

The new venture had originally been projected as The University Press of Northern New England for institutions of higher education in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Because of the interest expressed in the project by colleges and universities in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, however, the adjective "northern" was dropped to enlarge the compass of the title.