i think the guys all collection, ted's original drawings are important to have here at ucsb. researchers can come and use them whether it's a faculty member who might be teaching a class in children's literature or someone who is teaching american history who might want to use the political cartoons he did in the 1940s. but i think most of all, uc san diego is a very heavy science and medicine campus and i think having the doctor seuss drawings here also adds an element again of quincy and non-science and you can think of sort of the cat in the hat running around through all of these eucalyptus trees on campus, maybe causing a little bit of mischief. i think doctor seuss is important to the history of literature. he wrote a new kind of children's book, is works remain incredibly popular through the world,they've been translated into many different languages . i think sometimes that loses a little bit in translation because he made up so many words and it sort of throws the rhyme scheme off but i think his genius will endure. >> one rodriguez cumbria led the first european exp

the two of them were very active when ucsb began, which actually was not until 1960. they were very involved with the medical school and then eventually, and this was after ted guisele died. mrs. guisele has been very much involved with the university library hear. ted guisele was a student at dartmouth college in the 1920's thinking he would be a writer. majored in english literature. he happened to be very adept at drawing and did lots of drawings for the jack o. lantern, the darts moth numerous, year books, things like that. at that time he actually used his own name. he had -- he and some of his a little t of had run-in with the dean much because they drank a bit too much and he was banned from working on the paper and started using the name sues so he could get his little ca toones into the appearance. well, sues is really his middle name. theodore sues guisele and sues was his mother's maiden name. he became more and more interested in drawing and one of the wonderful things we have here in the collection is his notebook from oxford university and i think if you