Thomas Y. Cooper Fund
Purpose
Literature, American History
About the Donor
Thomas Yost ("Ty") Cooper (1884-1967), longtime city editor of the Hanover (Pennsylvania) Evening Sun, established this fund in 1965.
More Information
In addition to the fund, Cooper donated more than 1,600 books and other items to the Gettysburg College library in memory of his parents, Moses and Kate Miller Cooper. The collection includes many rare first editions of the classics, as well as an extensive collection of theatre programs and movie posters dating from the 1890s to 1959. Read more in the Fall 2003 Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter, p. 2.