William Kenneth Boyd, who perhaps has a portrait in the history department seminar room, deserves a place in the Gothic Reading Room. He not only presided over the enlargement of the history department as Trinity College grew into Duke University, he was the chairman of the library committee that oversaw the planning and growth of the university libraries. He also was a great collector who secured much of the Southern Americana that laid the foundations of what is now the Rubenstein Library and made Duke the peer of the Southern Historical Collection at Chapel Hill.