When I donated the leather bound/gold embossed Distinguished Guest Register and Parker Duofold pen to my collegiate alma mater, Texas A&M University-Commerce (TAMUC), I did so with the knowledge that most major institutions of higher education maintain a distinguished guest register to record the signatures of notable visitors to campus. Both the handmade leather bound/ gold embossed Distinguished Guest Register and the Parker Duofold pen are of the highest quality available to project tasteful formality and a sense of high scholastic standards to all who sign the Register when visiting TAMUC.

The leather bound Distinguished Guest Register was handmade in Maine with gold tipped pages, a satin ribbon page mark and prominent gold embossed lettering in collegiate font to project the University's name with dignity and good taste. The Parker Duofold pen is equally distinctive as the Duofold series is the pinnacle of quality for the Parker Pen Company since 1922. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many of his Sherlock Holmes stories using a Parker Duofold pen and General of the Armies, Douglas MacArthur, signed the Japanese surrender with a Duofold on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo bay in 1945 marking an end to World War II.

The intent in donating the Distinguished Guest Register and the Parker Duofold pen to TAMUC was to ensure that the signature(s) of all notable guests to campus would be permanently recorded in the Register for historical record purposes and to project the quality and detail reflected in the Register and pen that demonstrates the University's commitment to the highest standards of scholarship and academic achievement.

It was for these reasons that I ordered, purchased and donated the Distinguished Guest Register and Parker Duofold pen to my collegiate alma mater, Texas A&M University-Commerce.

TRC
Class of 1970