Radcliffe College has successfully completed a challenge grant totaling $1.5 million from the Carl J. Herzog Foundation. The funds raised will establish the Johanna-Maria Fraenkel Curator of Manuscripts post at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. The position will be filled by Eva S. Moseley '55, who has been curator of manuscripts at the Schlesinger Library since 1972.

Donations to the Herzog Foundation challenge grant came from more than 100 donors, mainly Radcliffe alumnae, friends of the Schlesinger Library, and library staff. It is the second key position at the Schlesinger Library to be endowed by Radcliffe's capital campaign. In 1992, a gift of $2 million from the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation funded the directorship of the library.

"This endowment is vitally important to the future of the Library's rich manuscript resources, which are irreplaceable and require great care," said Schlesinger Library Director Mary Maples Dunn.

The Schlesinger Library's status as a leading resource on the history of women in America rests in large part on its manuscript holdings, which attract several thousand visitors each year. The curator of manuscripts influences the direction of collecting, identifies and acquires historically important personal papers and organizational archives, and directs staff in the care of these collections.

Moseley, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Mount Holyoke College, earned a master's in Sanskrit and Indian studies from Radcliffe. A fellow of the Society of American Archivists and former member of its governing board, Moseley also served as president of New England Archivists and as acting director of the Schlesinger Library in 1994-95; she is a member of the Harvard University Library Council's Manuscripts and Archives Committee and a trustee of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts.

Among the manuscript holdings of the Schlesinger Library are the David F. Babson papers, donated between 1984 and 1986 by his son, David Babson Jr. '45, treasurer of the Herzog Foundation. The collection consists mainly of letters to Babson from his mother and sisters when he served in the army in France during World War I.

Carl J. Herzog was the head of the United States branch of the company that makes Nivea skin care products. Most of the Foundation's grants have been in the field of medicine, especially dermatology. The Herzog Foundation trustees, who named the position after Carl Herzog's only daughter, praised the Schlesinger Library for preserving documents that pertain to women's lives and their work.