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MARION DUPONT SCOTT CONFERENCE ROOM IN THE
MARY AND DAVID
HARRISON INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN
HISTORY, LITERATURE,
AND CULTURE, AND THE ALBERT AND
SHIRLEY SMALL SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS LIBRARY
Marion duPont Scott, who owned “Montpelier” in Orange County, was a noted horsewoman. She bequeathed the University her important collection of books and periodicals on the history and practice of equestrian and related sports, she left an endowment to be used for adding to the collection, and she bequeathed a major gift toward the construction of the new Special Collections Library.
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