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DATE: SPRING 2003

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 20:17:41 -0500
From: Didi Pancake didip at mindspring.com 

    I've been extremely busy this past year being a Co-President of the Virginia Museum of Natural History Foundation. It's turned into far more of a job than I had bargained for due to crisis-level state funding cutbacks coupled with the state actually approving a bond-issue that will include construction funds for a new museum building! Talk about feast or famine! One hand gives us a sorely needed facility (I just heard the ground-breaking is supposed to be this fall), and the other hand has resulted in over 40% staff cuts last year and zero money to keep our two branches open this coming year. Sheesh.

    As a result, I am on a major learning-curve re fund development activities. Absolutely NOT what I planned to spend even a portion of my retirement on, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

    Otherwise, I've also been doing some occasional painting in pastels and watercolors...have a couple of items in a couple of shows this coming month...doubt that anything will sell since I put outrageously high prices
on them, but you never know...

    I will not be going to New York. It's just too expensive for the small amount of visiting with friends that I would be able to do between program sessions that are no longer relevant to my life. Not to mention that my creaky knees are still creaky and make something like a conference out of range unless I rented a scooter. I suppose I'll get new knees eventually, but while my mother is still alive and in a nursing facility, I just can't afford the down-time for the operations and recovery period.

    So that's what I've been up to recently. I haven't heard anything from anybody SLA-related in a long time and so am completely out of the loop on SLA business. Oh, I take that back, I did hear from long-time member Ruth Cannon from Williamsburg, VA (formerly worked for The Fed in Richmond) that she is moving to The Colonnades this month which is right across the street from me. A couple of other former SLAers live there, and maybe we'll get together for lunch someday.

    Have fun in NYC

        Didi

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:30:07 -0600
From: Lou Parris louparris at pdq.net 

    Like Didi, I am SOOOOO busy! The standard wisdom that wonders when we ever had time to work does seem to apply!

    Besides enjoying leisurely mornings and evenings that last as long as I want them to, with no prescribed bedtime for the early commute, I spend my time enjoying tennis leagues (with participation on the league Board of Directors), rescuing dogs (Siberian huskies). The organization is called Husky Haven of Houston and information about it can be viewed at 
http://www.huskyhaven.org  

    My other volunteer effort, and indeed my principal one, is work with The Women's Home. This is a residential rehabilitation program for women who are victims of addiction, abuse, mental illness, etc. Being part of that effort is indeed a very humbling experience. I was drawn into it (and to the Board of Directors) by a high school friend. Should you want to learn more, the web site is http://www.thewomenshome.org  I also do some volunteer work for our church - St. Mary's Episcopal.

    Besides the above, there are a host of other wonderful activities and people that keep me very busy. Among the chief of these are our grandchildren - Kerry (14) and Matt (8) here in Houston; Lauren (nearly 5) and Hannah (just 2) in San Jose, CA. Kerry and Matt's mom and dad have a vacation house down on Galveston Bay and we spend quite a lot of time 
there.

    The events of the last couple of years - including the downturn of the stock market - have caused us to defer many of our travel plans, but we have plenty to keep us busy and happy right here at home.
            Lou

Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:04:08 -0800
From: Barb Spiegelman barb.spiegelman at verizon.net 

    Barbara -I think this is a great idea! I would very much like to keep in touch with those who are enjoying life outside SLA.

    Our granddaughter, Rebecca, is now 14 months old - walking or running all over the house and talking up a storm. Being a grandparent is MUCH more fun than being a parent. Oh, the bliss of not being responsible for bringing
up a good citizen! We can enjoy her, and then give her back to her parents, who can worry about her citizenship. This Friday, I am planning to introduce her to chocolate!

    I continue to teach management of special libraries and information centers at Pitt one term a year, and doing consulting work as projects of interest come along. Being on the SLA Board is amazingly time-consuming, but very
"interesting", especially with events of the last year.

    My MS is under control right now, except for fatigue. I take a nap every day, which makes me the ideal companion for Rebecca.

    My new love is a small soap business, which I am building on the net. Please take a look and send me ideas! http://barbarasbath.tripod.com 

Stay well and busy. Best from,

Barbara M. Spiegelman
Barbara's Bath
barbaras.bath at verizon.net 
Spiegelman Group and University of Pittsburgh SIS
barb.spiegelman at verizon.net
Churchill Associates
Churchill_assoc at msn.com

Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 18:17:24 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Joanne Marshall marshall at ils.unc.edu 

Dear Fellows

Just a note to say that I am sorry I will not be able to join you in New York. I am faculty for our Summer Seminar with Charles University in Prague from 5/30 to 6/19 and so I will miss SLA this year. I believe that I was at our Summer Seminar at Oxford during SLA last year, but now I have fulfilled these international commitments and next year should be better!

I greatly enjoyed speaking at an SLA/LC sponsored symposium in Monterey in Fall 2003 and of course we have a wonderful, very active NC/SLA chapter. Our school received an award from the chapter this year for its support of our very own special library -- Rebecca Vargha our librarian will be representing UNC at the library school reunion. 

I feel very honored to be among such fine "fellows" and look forward to further contact. This has been a rough year for everyone in both the public and private sectors as we struggle with budget cuts and other challenges. It is always great to experience the support and caring of one's peers -- something that SLA has always facilitated very well -- and I look forward to experiencing that again at the
earliest opportunity.

Have a great meeting!
Joanne 

PS:     I became president-elect of the Medical Library Association in May 2003 so look forward to promoting cooperation between our two fine associations.

Joanne Gard Marshall
Dean and Professor
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
100 Manning Hall, CB 3360
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
Voice (919) 962-8363
Fax (919) 962-8071
email: marshall at ils.unc.edu 
homepage: http://ils.unc.edu/~marshall/ 

DATE: FALL 2003

Date: Oct 2003 17
From: Fred Roper <deanroper at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Updates on Fellows Web Site

Greetings from Columbia. I like retirement a lot! Have been so busy I don't know how I had time to work! Spent July cleaning out my office and finishing some
professional obligations. Jo Anne Boorkman, Jeff Huber, and I have just completed the fourth edition of our INTRODUCTION TO REFERENCE SOURCES IN THE HEALTH
SCIENCES. I had four chapters to complete in July. It will be published by Neal/Shuman in December. 

Then in August, I had hernia surgery. Not a fun thing! Took several weeks to recover. Will have a second one next spring. :-(( 

On September 14, Jon and I went to London for 8 days and had a great time. We chose September so that we could tour Buckingham Palace. It's only open each year in August and September while the Queen is in Balmoral. We saw Bea Arthur's one woman show at the Savoy. Wonderful evening and great trip!

At the Fellows Meeting in June, I mentioned my hobby of baking and entering cakes in the State Fair. I found out today I won 2 blue ribbons and 1 red ribbon. I was baking right up till they were due yesterday morning.

I am pleased to announce that Dan Barron's title no longer includes the word INTERIM. He was officially named the new director of the School of Library and Information Science yesterday.

Many of you know Bob Williams of our faculty who has been very active in SLA. Bob has announced his retirement at the end of this school year.

The time passes quickly...too quickly some days...and I look forward to seeing all of you in Nashville. 

Best wishes to all.

Fred

[Note: the following email message was forwarded to our SLA Fellows by Marlene Tebo marlenetebo at yahoo.com "As a former SLA'er and a good friend of Mary Lee Tsuffis, also a very active SLA'er, I wonder if you might forward this message of her death to the Fellows.  With long and distinguished careers, several of you might remember Mary Lee, and would appreciate knowing of her passing.    Thank you so much, should you decide to pass this on."  Marlene Tebo (formerly Univ.Calif-Davis; now B&B owner) ]

ISLAND FELLOWSHIP of UNITARIANS Meets at 3242 KAOHINANI DRIVE, HONOLULU, HI 96817           
THE INFORMANT September 24, 2003     GENE BRIDGES - Editor
Phone: 808 595 7622 * E-mail: Gene at HawaiiBnB.com

  MARY LEE TSUFFIS DIED SEPTEMBER 22, 2003

  We haven't had a meeting of Island Fellowship since July when our daughter Beth visited from San Diego, and I don't think  I've sent  any email since early July.

And now it's SAD news that I'm sending to all of you on the IFNL list, and to those Bland Family names I have in my computer from the last Reunion, and to many of the hosts we know through Bed & Breakfast Honolulu (Statewide).  Some of you may not know that in addition to our own Bed & Breakfast units, we represent over 400 hosts on 6 of the Hawaiian Islands.

I'll start by saying that Mary Lee died quietly and painlessly at Queens Medical Center at 1130 pm on September 22nd; then I'll provide a bit of background.

We flew to  Wichita, Kansas  for the high school graduation of our granddaughter, Danielle Bridges, on May 24th; then hour s before we were supposed to fly to Wisconsin for granddaughter, Heather Tsuffis' graduation on May 31 in Platteville, we went to the ER in Wichita.  Mary Lee was admitted with a severe case of pneumonia, and we spent 5 days there before she was well enough to fly home to Honolulu, and to our sorrow we missed Heather's graduation.

She never really regained her usual energetic level after our return, even though she continued to work her usual 60+ hours a week up until mid-August. Even as walking became more painful, she still limped from our 3rd floor bedroom to the 1st floor and back to our office in the loft.

In late August her internist said she suspected lung cancer, and scheduled a biopsy on September 9th.  At the very end of  August  the pain in her right area was so severe that we put a bed on the 2nd floor so she wouldn't have to walk up and down from the 3rd floor where our bedroom is.

Up until September 6th, she was still working about 4 hours a day; however she didn't leave the 2nd floor on the 6th, and on the 7th she could barely stand and we used an office chair to wheel her the 15 feet to the toilet.  And then she was too weak to even try to stand, so we called 911 for an ambulance.

They carried her to my car out front, so I could drive her to the ER without having to pay an ambulance fee.

Shortly after she was admitted, they said her pneumonia was back, and hospitalized her.  The biopsy was done as scheduled on September 9th.  It confirmed non-small cell cancer in the lung.  The discovery took so long because it was hidden by her heart and the scar tissue from her emphysema.

That lead to a bone scan which revealed cancer in her  upper right arm, and in the area of her right hip.

The arm was the major source of pain, but before they could start radiation of the bone cancer, the arm was totally fractured and they put a titanium rod in from shoulder to elbow.  That meant no radiation of the arm for at least a week, but she did have radiation of the hip cancer on the 19th and on the day she died.  [No weekend radiation.]  Shortly after she returned to her room at 9 am, they came in to take her vitals and called a Code Blue because both her blood pressure and her pulse rate were extremely high, plus hardly an oxygen in her blood.

The attending doctors for Code Blue  came to see me in the Waiting Room, and said their examination and consultation with her primary care physician lead them to believe there was no reasonable possibility that she would regain consciousness.  They asked if we wanted any extra-ordinary measures taken.  I told them "no, because Mary Lee and I had discussed that when we did our estate planning in 1997, and the goal should be a quick and painless death."

They took everything a way except for oxygen and pain medication.

  I was told she could die in a matter of minutes or possibly days, but that she was pain-free.

I had a cot in her room and was with her 19-20 hours a day from September 7 until the nurse told me there were no vital signs at 11:30 pm.  I touched her frequently, and continued to talk to her because there was at least the possibility that she might hear and understand even though she was unable to even blink her eyes or make any movement.

Her sense of humor was badly battered, and her pain was so great that she was often barely able to speak.  But it wasn't gone.  The last example was on Sunday.  The nurse came in because one of the machines was beeping loudly, and she commented that the noise was bad enough to drive a person crazy.  Mary Lee managed a response:  Not if you're already there.

Mary Lee was the love of my life, and she and my mother were the two finest people I've ever known.  We've been in love since we met when I started law school at Iowa City in February 1949, and she was working at the SUI hospital while trying to decide what she would do after she got her B.S.  In 1950 she went East to get an M.S. in library science, and I went to SMU in Dallas for my last year of  law school.

I saw her a few times in 1953 when I was sent to a training school in East Orange, New Jersey, and she was living in New York City.  No contact from then until 1956 when I went to work for an insurance company in Des Moines and was assigned to travel Eastern Iowa.  She had moved to Iowa City, and I saw her a few times before moving to Berkeley  to go to Starr King School for the Ministry [a Unitarian seminary]. Although we talked on the phone a few times in the 70's, I didn't see her until she called me from a Honolulu hotel in June 1979.  She was in town for a convention of Special Librarians.   Jim Tsuffis committed suicide in August. and she moved to Honolulu.  We married on January 1, 1980.  

We had over 23 great years together!

AND if you've read this far, I have a favor to ask from those of you who were touched by Mary Lee's life.   A Celebration of her life will be held at the Unitarian Church of Honolulu, 2500 Pali Hwy, Honolulu, on Tuesday, October 14th at 5 pm with light refreshments to follow.  Whether you are able to attend or not, it would be appreciated if you would send a memory of Mary Lee.  If you're sending by email, please put MARY LEE in the subject line so that I don't inadvertently you identify the context in which you knew her: family member and relationship, ACLU, Unitarian, Bed & Breakfast Host, or other.

  The other bit of information I'd like you to have is with regard to any contributions you might wish to make in honor of her memory.  Two of our favorite causes are the ACLU of Hawaii Foundation, P O Box 3410, Honolulu, HI 96801 [I was chairman of the Steering Committee  that founded the local chapter, and the first phone the ACLU of Hawaii had was on my desk in my office while I was minister of the local church.]  The other organization is the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, 2500 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02108.  For those of you who may not know much about UUs, it's our equivalent of the American Friends Service Committee, and the help it gives is strictly non-sectarian.  If you have internet access, the address is http://www.uusc.org.   The national ACLU is at http://www.aclu.org .  The Foundation is tax exempt as is the UUSC.  While I'm giving out website addresses, I'll add our Wisconsin daughter-in-law who's been more like our child than an in-law. There's a 9/24 tribute to Mary Lee, and I expect more pictures and information will show up in the future at http://www.sites4you.net/journal/.

I look forward to your memories of Mary Lee. It feels like a proper tribute to her life.  The service will be video taped, and copies made of the written materials, so that any of you who would like to see/hear the service and have a copy of the memories, may do so.  Depending of the cost of reproduction, we may need to make a modest charge to cover of  copying and mailing costs.

My final request for a favor from you is to ask that you pass this information on to anyone I might miss sending this to. I don't have ready access to the people she knew before 1979.

We will all miss her terribly, but I hope all of us will remember to be glad for the time she and I had together.

    GENE BRIDGES

DATE: SPRING 2004

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:04:16 -0500
From: "Mobley, Emily R." emobley at purdue.edu
Subject: RE: Fellows News & Notes Update?

Greetings dear Fellows,

I'm sure you all thought that I'd dropped off the face of the earth. No
such luck! Just work, work, work. I thought the academic world was
life in the slow lane. Well, I must have done something wrong because I
worked harder in this job than any in industry. 

I did try to go into a partial retirement in early January, but alas
I've been working every day since. The search for my successor went
slower than desired (academic search committees are truly life in the
slow lane) so I'm ending up staying in office until June 30. Then I'll
be away from Purdue for a year, will return in July 05, work through
December of that year, then off for six months. I plan to work six
months a year for three or four years, or until my portfolio improves,
whichever comes first (smile).

What will send you all into a state of shock are my personal plans. I'm
getting married in September in Las Vegas (he lives there). Now pick
yourselves up off the floor and wish me well -- this old died in the
wool bachelorette will need all the well wishes and advice of those
who've had many years of married life experience.

Well, that's my news. I had hoped to get to Nashville for a couple of
days but unfortunately I couldn't get it to fit within my schedule.
Hopefully I'll see you some other year in the not too distant future.

Emily

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 05:52:34 -0500
From: Lou Parris louparris at pdq.net
Subject: Re: Fellows News & Notes Update?

Well, not much is going on with me. I still keep in touch with "the 
fellows" but I am no longer a member of SLA. That kind of happened 
accidentally; just didn't renew my retired membership. I should have, and 
maybe I'll get around to rejoining. However, I don't miss it at all. I 
doubt that I will be attending an annual conference again, unless it is 
somewhere I was going to be anyway.

When I retired, I forgot the "NO" word (which I used well and often while I 
was working) so I get roped in to a lot of stuff I shouldn't. I spend my 
time:
1) with the grandchildren - Two are local (Kerry is 15 and Matt is 9), The 
other two live in San Jose and we are way overdue to visit them.
2) working with The Women's Home - a residential rehab home for women who 
are victims of abuse, addiction, etc.
3) rescuing Siberian huskies. It's a dog breed I love and my neighbor 
who takes care of our dog when we are gone got me into it. I love it and 
feel good when I see a dog (as I did last night) that would have been dead 
or worse had we not stepped in.
4) Playing tennis - yes, though I have slowed way down in speed and 
skill, and though I had knee surgery over a year ago (which is still not 
right) , I do still
5) the usual stuff - gardening (as I have always loved to do), cooking (a 
new fancy taken up post retirement), playing on the computer (this can be 
both good and bad) , travel (though lately nothing very exciting), a bit 
(not much at all) of genealogy, etc. etc.

As y'all might recall, I used to be an avid SCUBA diver. I have not done 
that in years, though I just returned from Florida and a visit with a SCUBA 
friends from the old Venezuela days. We talked about it - is that good enuf?

I tried really hard to get our church interested in an archives program but 
that's pretty much off their radar screen. Same for The Women's Home. If 
either of these projects ever gets off the ground, I'll probably be looking 
to ya'll for help. One of the things that it is tough to get used to when 
working with a non-profit organization is the lack of Exxon's deep 
pockets. The money is simply not there for some stuff.

I do still keep in close touch with a few Exxon colleagues - one of whom, 
Brenda Stone, tossed the whole library thing many years ago and is working 
in Italy and pursuing her interest in art work.

I am blessed with reasonably good health, a wonderful husband, lots of 
friends (both old and new), and a great family.

Gosh, I could rattle on forever but I think I have bored you long 
enough. I have no exciting news like Emily's - though as of last Tuesday 
we (actually, it's my husband's car - I still have an SUV) have a new car 
- a very spiffy convertible. Hello to everyone, and should any fellow be 
in the Houston area (I can' t think why that might be, but it happens), do 
give me a call. I miss you!

Lou  

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:46:18 -0400
From: Donna Scheeder dscheeder at crs.loc.gov
Subject: RE: Fellows News & Notes Update?

Greetings fellows, especially Emily!

Congratulations to you Emily. You are proving to all of us that it is
never too late to begin a new adventure. My e-mail has changed to
dsch at loc.gov. I am Acting Director of Law Library Services here at LC
and having a wonderful time doing it. I have moved to the other side of
the Madison Building. My phone stays the same. 

I am looking forward to seeing folks in Nashville.

Regards,
Donna Scheeder

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:08:30 -0400
From: karen.reczek at us.bureauveritas.com
Subject: Fellows News & Notes Update?

Barb:

My big news is that I am expecting my first child - due date is anticipated
August 14th! It's a girl (Yes, I had to know!)

I will be in Nashville though!

Regards,

Karen

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:46:21 -0600
From: "DiMattia, Susan (RBI-US)" SDimattia at reedbusiness.com
Subject: RE: Fellows News & Notes Update?

Emily, I'm absolutely delighted with the new turn your life is taking!
Donna, congratulations on the new job.
And to Janice, if she is lurking on this list, positive thoughts go into the
operating room with your father.

Our noble "organizer," Barbara Semonche, will probably be too modest to
mention it, but there was a wonderful article about her in the April 6 issue
of News at SILS, from the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library
Science. The title is "Librarian helps make headlines by casting large
nets." You can still view it at
http://www.ils.unc.edu/ils/releases/RELEASE04_semonche.html 

The article refers to her SLA John Cotton Dana award and it looks at her
career and some of her philosophies. Reading the opening line, I could just
hear Barbara saying, to the person who suggested that she apply for a job at
The Herald Sun newspaper, "Do newspapers have libraries?" That was in 1976,
when she was fresh out of library school. She certainly has learned a lot
and contributed a lot since then.

I don't have any career news--unfortunately. However I have a personal
dilemma. I need to submit photos to a couple of things prior to Nashville.
If I use the old photo that was taken four years ago, no one will recognize
me in person. If I submit a photo of me with new glasses and finally
"de-wigged" -- with extremely short, salt and pepper hair-- no one will
recognize the photo OR me. (2003 was a year of chemo for me, for those of
you who don't have a clue what I'm talking about!) 

Stay tuned to see what I decide to do. Looking forward to seeing all of you
in Nashville, whether you recognize me or not. 

Susan

Susan DiMattia, editor
Library Hotline and Corporate Library Update
Reed Business Information
360 Park Ave. So., 13th fl.
New York, NY 10010
sdimattia at reedbusiness.com
646-746-6813

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:19:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: H Robert Malinowsky  hrm at uic.edu
Subject: RE: Fellows News & Notes Update?

Greetings to everyone. It is great to hear about all of the news--good
and bad. It is hard to believe that I am celebrating my 43rd year as a
librarian and member of SLA. Time flys by when you are having fun. I am
still at the University of Illinois at Chicago managing Collections
Development and Electronic Resources. Oh, how I wish for the good old
days of just paper when you checked it in and forgot about it. Every day
brings new problems with electronic resources. In my budget of close to
seven million dollars about two million is spent on electronic resources.
Needless to say it keeps one busy. In addition I continue to edit to
electronic journals--E-STREAMS for YBP Library Services and the AIDS Books
Review Journal. I keep saying I am going to retire but have not made any
definite plans yet, but it is looming big. I will have been at UIC for 20
years this year.

My partner Charlie and I enjoy life in suburbia but long to be someplace
less crowded. I still have back problems and dread thinking about another
surgery. Charlie has fibromyalgia (sp) which is quite painful and has
slowed him down a lot which he does not like.

We purchased an new VW Tourage and have had nothing but problems. After
much haggling with VW of America, they agreed to replace the care with a
new one which we should get sometime in July. It is a beautiful car,
drives great, but there are electric gremlins that keep messing the
comfort features up. We are looking anxiously for the new one which is
suppose to have all of these problems taken care of.

Work has not been the best these past two years with an interim director
and a state that does not support higher education. The Library lost 50
positions over the past two years with no prospect of getting them back
and the possibility of losing more. All of the work done by support staff
is slowly migrating to the faculty who are already working overtime. I
run a mile a minute during the day but manage to leave it all at work when
I go home.

I thought I would make it to Nashville but it looks like I will not be
able to make it now. I hope you all have a great time. I fondly remember
the witer meeting there when I was President and Nashville gave me my very
own gold country music record. It hangs in a prominent place in my office
at home. I know those of you that will be there will have a great time
and will be looked up to by the newer members. Take care.

H. Robert Malinowsky
Professor and Manager of
Collections Development
University of Illinois at Chicago Library

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:50:32 -0400
From: Didi Pancake   didip at mindspring.com
Subject: Re: Fellows News & Notes Update?

Not much news from Central Virgina...I'm still here, but moving verrrry
slowly these days what with bad knees, bad hips and spinal stenosis. That's
pretty much why you won't see me in Nashville, although I have fond memories
of the Winter Meeting we had there way back when.

However, I have begun the long process of dealing with the medical
establishment to try to alleviate and/or get replacements for some of these
things, and hope to turn up at a future conference someday.

Meanwhile, although I'm waaaay out of the loop on SLA stuff, I manage to
keep busy with things like painting (pastels and watercolors), serving on
the Foundation Board of the Virginia Natural History Museum, and editing a
couple of little newsletters for various groups (so what else is new, Didi?)

So, y'all who will be in Nashville, toast the town for me, and if you happen
to go past Twitty City, give it a wave for me and Connie.

Didi Pancake

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:55:14 -0500
From: ELLEN KUNER     ELLEN_KUNER at chi.bm.com
Subject: Re: Fellows News & Notes Update?


Barbara:

Thanks for all your work on this!

Here's a little about what I've been doing lately...

I'm not very active in SLA anymore.  I attend a few local meetings and
have served on the program committee here for the past several years. 

Very busy at Burson-Marsteller.  I work on a global knowledge team -- 
much fun, but lots and lots of work.  I manage Factiva worldwide  -- 
we have 75 offices around the world so much activity on that front. 
Just finished my term on the Factiva Advisory Board.  It was a three
year appointment. Sad to see that end; great group! Two meetings were
in London and the other was in Princeton.  In addition to Factiva, I
review new products, manage some training and still do lots of
research.

I remain an avid gardener.  Just love digging holes, planting things,
moving things and watching them grow!

I've been a volunteer at the Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio in Oak
Park where we live for the past 14 years.  I give tours and love it! 
This year and next as well, I'm co-chair of Wright Plus, the annual
fund raiser for the Home & Studio.  It's one of the best house walks in
the country.  We sell 2,500 tickets at $85 each.  Eight private homes
are open, many designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.  Lots of work, but great
group and  wonderful buildings! 

We're about to begin remodeling our kitchen.  Will be lovely when
finished but I'm not looking forward to being without a kitchen for
about ten weeks nor to the mess.

Have a grand time in Nashville!

Ellen

Ellen Kuner
Insights & Ideas Group
Burson-Marsteller
233 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60601
312-596-3464 (T)
312-596-3599 (F)
ellen_kuner at chi.bm.com

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:15:02 -0400
From:      Peter_Moon at HSB.com
Subject: Re: Fellows News & Notes Update?

Barbara -- A few items of possible interest which I am pursuing:

Last fall I was voted by our Town Selectment (Hebron, CT) to be a
member of the Tricentennial Commission which is coming up in 2008.  My
project is to identify as many of the selectmen over the 300 years as
possible, and find comparable photos, paintings of them for posting to
the town website.  At this point, excepting 2005-2008; there are only
11 more years in the early 1700's missing names of our Selectmen (aka:
Townsmen).  It's been a fascinating historical view of the
decisionmakers of the town.  In the early years (1700's), it's all
handwritten, and tough to read!

This spring I was elected to the Hebron Democratic Town Committee.

And, I am just winding up my second year of being on a bowling league.
 Never thought I'd be one - and I owe it all to Dottie's cousin,
Rodger,  who lives two towns over.  It's his town where the bowling
center is.  It's great fun and exercise, and this month it became
another smoke-free environment... sort of; I still come home smelling a
bit of smoke - much to our chagrin.  Rodger also recruited me to go
with him for tournament play in Vermont in March.  We're still waiting
for results, but don't expect much.  My stated average for the
tournament was based on last year, 120; now I bowl around 131 on
average - and hopefully continue to improve - the last two weeks all
six games were over my average.

Thank you for doing all this compilation, Barbara.  I know how much
work it can be.  --  Peter

Peter S. Moon, Manager                   e-mail:  peter_moon at hsb.com
Virtual Information Center                  web:  http://www.hsb.com
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co.
One State Street, 9th Floor                tel:  860-722-5486
Hartford, CT  06103-3199                fax:  860-722-5530

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:49:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fred Roper     deanroper at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Fellows News & Notes Update?

Greetings from Germany, good friends. Jon and I are
spending 10 days in Bavaria and having a great time. 
Weather has been very good, and we've covered lots of
territory. Looking forward to Nashville.

My biggest piece of news is that I have been selected
by the Medical Library Association Board of Directors
to give the Janet Doe Lecture at the 2005 Annual
Meeting in San Antonio. San Antonio is special to me
because that's where I became President of MLA in
1994. Now I have a year to agonize over what to say! 
Maybe being President was easier!

Best to all. Fred

DATE: FALL 2004

Karen and Peter Reczek's new baby girl, Maia Lyn, arrived on August 13, 2004. Vital stats include birth weight, 8 lbs. 2 oz., length, 20.5 inches. The photo of Maia reveals her to be a bright eyed beauty. Welcome to the world, Maia! Mama Karen reports that she will be on maternity leave until January 2005. 

DATE: SPRING 2005

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:13:54 -0500
From: Ethel Salonen <ethel.salonen at worldnet.att.net>
To: Barbara Semonche <semonch at metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Soliciting: Updates on Fellows for Spring 2005 News & Notes

Hi Barbara,

Here is my information:

For those of you who don't know, I have been laid off yet again...my fourth layoff in
8 years. The company is paying me into May, not bad, so I am referring to my time
off as a "paid sabbatical." My SLA President activities take up an enormous amount
of time, as many of you are aware since so many Past Presidents are Fellows, if not
all of us. I am casually looking for work so I hope to have something in place when I
attend the Toronto Conference. I hope to see many of you in Toronto. Take care.

Ethel 

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:16:53 -0800
From: "Geiger, Richard" <RGeiger at sfchronicle.com>
To: Barbara Semonche <semonch at metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Geiger here / for Fellows notes

Chair of the News Division, Linda Henderson of the Providence Journal newspaper, announced that the winner of the Division's most prestigious honor, The Joseph F. Kwapil Memorial Award will be presented to Richard Geiger, from the San Francisco Chronicle, at the 2005 SLA conference in Toronto. 

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:07:05 -0600
From: Stephen Abram <stephen.abram at sirsi.com>
To: Fellows <sla-fellows@lists.sla.org>
Subject: RE: Soliciting: Updates on Fellows for Spring 2005 News & Notes

OK Fellow Fellows:

I have had a busy year!

On the home front, I am healthy and the kids are doing great. My 16-year-old daughter,
Sydney, just had some photos accepted by the Art Gallery of Ontario magazine (Visit this great
AGO in June) and has written and acted in a short film hat was directed/produced by an award
winning director. Zachary, at 19, is doing great at Trinity College at U of Toronto.
Stephanie is teaching grade six boys this year and the stories are amazing. We're all looking
forward to seeing you in Toronto in June!

I taught several ways at U of Toronto ths year. I loved teaching the required first year MLS
management course this Fall. It's amazing to teach the newcomers to our profession. I
learned a lot. I also teach in the Managing Information Enterprises certificate program in
both Toronto and Ottawa. I teach designing new products and services and it's great fun. I
learn a lot from the students' projects. I taught a few CE's which are always energizing.

I am just celebrating my first year as Vice President, Innovation at Sirsi Corporation. It's
great fun and I am having a wild and wonderful time. Most of this year I have been on the
road giving speeches and talking to clients - about 25 out of 30 days a month. I also got to
visit clients and give a few talks in South Africa which was totally amazing. I did 7 safaris
and saw 65 of the 90 animals that you can see. What a treat! At Sirsi, we have done a lot of
strategy work and I am leading a major research project on user personas in the public, academic and special library spaces. I also got to lead some of the planning on our huge
Opryland user conference at the end of this month. At last count I did about 50 speeches in
2004. You can see some of these at http://www.sirsi.com/Resources/abram_articles.html .

I am writing for fun. You might see my monthly column in Information Outlook. I also write
regularly for Library Journal, Multimedia and Internet @ Schools as well as other Information
Today journals. I have a regular column for Feliciter and OLA Access in Canada as well as
writing for SLA bulletins occasionally. I wrote a book chapter this year for a Scarecrow book
on Succession Planning as well as being featured in a book about passion in librarianship (no
giggle please - it's a great book). I have a few more chapters on the go but they're behind
deadline so I'm embarrassed. I think this is the cure for insomnia - getting yourself tired
enough to sleep.

I am the president of the Canadian Library Association (until the end of June) and there has
been much activity on this front. Please consider coming to the conference we designed (great
help from Dysart and Jones too). You can find out more at http://www.cla.ca . I've honed much
better skills in policy lobbying for government as well as internationally - having gotten
hooked on IFLA in Buenos Aires this year. Watch for me in Oslo. I also wrote a key document
that we distributed to all legislators in Canada and all candidates in our federal election that has become very useful throughout the year. We actually placed libraries on the election
agenda and on the federal budget. CLA is doing great and we're about to release a major study
on HR in librarianship and how to deal with our succession. I am in the process of appointing
a presidential commission on this study to give it legs. Great fun!

Some of the work I have contributed to and supported in the past few years came to a head last
week. The Ontario government announced $700,000 in new money for the Ontario Digital Library
(ODL) a few other partners have committed a few more million dollars. Also, last week, the Rae
Commission on Higher Education released their report with 8 mentions and a major recommendation of monetary support for the ODL. Yay! It may take years but vision speak can work. We convinced the government and the decision makers that our vision of libraries was worth
investing in.

I have found about 5 pins for our new Fellows. I'll bring them to conference (and if I forget
I can just run home!)

On the bigger picture, a very close friend made it through quadruple bypass last night and my
uncle split his skull open on the ice and had to be glued back together again and he's recognizing people and walking again this week. Soooo - the most important stuff is being healthy and loving your friends and relations.

Cheers, hugs and love,

Stephen

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:12:03 -0800
From: Doris Helfer <doris.helfer at csun.edu>
Reply-To: Fellows <sla-fellows@lists.sla.org>
Subject: Re: Soliciting: Updates on Fellows for Spring 2005 News & Notes

Dear Fellow Fellows,

First let me add my deepest congratulations to our newest Fellows. Congratulations and
well done and very well deserved.

I am running for SLA president-elect and have lots of fun going to visit various chapters and
getting to meetings that I don't normally get to like Online International in London! So remember
to vote early and often!;-)

Had a great time in London and oh yes had lots of fun visiting with SLA folks at the SLA Booth
at the conference!

I had several other wonderful vacations this year. Traveled through Virginia, North Carolina
and Tennessee to get to the SLA Conference in Nashville on what we jokingly called "The Presidents
and the King Tour". Saw the homes of Presidents, Monroe, Madison, Jefferson, Johnson (Andrew) and
Jackson and then visited Graceland (bet you wondered how I visited a home of a king in America);-)!
Also went to the Great Waters Music Festival in New Hampshire and had a great long weekend at their
Folk Music weekend.

My mother died unexpectedly last Spring and in addition my father fell in November, broke his
hip and is now in an assisted living facility. It's been that kind of year for almost everyone
in my library. I guess we are all of that age now. Fortunately children are both happy and doing well
in college. My husband is enjoying his work.

I hope to see as many of you as possible in Toronto. I was in Toronto for a brief chapter visit in November
and am really looking forward to going back when its warmer and getting to spend more time there.
It is one of my most favorite cities and I am sure it will be a great conference. So Stephen, are you
going to show us all where the best places are in Toronto? I am counting on you.

Warmest regards to all,
Doris

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:41:05 EST
From: Rphulser at aol.com
To: Fellows <sla-fellows@lists.sla.org>
Subject: Re: Soliciting: Updates on Fellows for Spring 2005 News & Notes - Richard's update

Hi, all!

This past year has brought many adventures at work and beyond, and challenges and
losses as well. As a member of the library management team at Amgen, a biotech company
headquartered in Thousand Oaks, CA (about an hour drive north of Los Angeles for those
who are unfamiliar with the area), I have been involved in digital projects and lots of
other things.

I had an opportunity to be a moderator of a day of sessions at Internet Librarian
International this past October in London and I took a tour of Kensington Palace, which
I recommend it highly to any and all of you interested in the history of the British Empire. 
I combined that with a trip to the Amgen offices in Cambridge, England as well,
an area I had not previously visited. The architecture was truly impressive and the
local pubs were fun too!

On the home front, I did a fun cruise of the Hawaiian Islands last March and just came
back last week from another one in the Caribbean, where we stopped in Puerto Rico, St.
Maarten and Labadee, Haiti. The Caribbean cruise ship even had a skating rink and a
street mall with a 4 story atrium, believe it or not! These cruises enabled me to
obtain some very nice artwork at good prices to enhance my apartment. I have also
attended many charity bingo games in the neighborhood, as well as other benefits and TV
show tapings, adding to my long list of movie and TV celebrities, as well as
politicians I have met.

This year brought me into my 50th year, a milestone to be sure. However, I soon
thereafter heard of the death of my father from prostate cancer and a few weeks later a
dear friend only 52 years old died of a heart attack. These events continue to ensure a
focus on enjoying each day and making the most of sharing good times with friends and
colleagues.

For more, and pictures, you will just have to ask ;-)

Richard Hulser

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:05:13 -0500
From: Joanne G. Marshall <marshall@ils.unc.edu>
To: 'Barbara Semonche' <semonch@metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: update

Greetings to the SLA fellows. 

I stepped down (as we say in academia) from the deanship at UNC 
Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science in
July 2004 and am enjoying a year of administrative leave. This happens to
coincide with my presidency of the Medical Library Association, so I have
had the time to truly enjoy my visits to many of the MLA regional meetings
across the US. I will also be meeting with two Canadian groups this year --
the Northern Alberta Health Libraries Group and the Canadian Health
Libraries Association -- important to me as a Canadian. I will soon depart
for London, England to present a paper at the Leslie Morton Memorial
Conference -- Leslie Morton was a very famous bibliographer of the history
of medicine and renowned in our field. 

Other than MLA, I have been busy as principal investigator of two grants
that UNC received from the Institute on Museum and Library Services. The
first provides funding and mentorship for five doctoral students who are
working with academic research libraries in the Triangle Research Libraries
Network. The idea is to produce future faculty members who will orient their
research and teaching towards the issues and problems facing the library
world. The second grant is to recruit students to the master of library
science program who have advanced degrees in other fields (think special
librarians!). I am enjoying this contact with our students and finding time
to be a student myself one weekend a month in a yoga teacher training
program. Next year I look forward to getting back into teaching at UNC,
including the special libraries course.

My husband Victor is also at UNC as director of the Institute on Aging and
we are applying for grants that will complement the National Study on the 
Future of Librarians in the Workforce received by our new dean Jose Marie
Griffiths. My daughter Emily is a doctoral student in interdisciplinary
studies (studying adolescent health) at the University of British Columbia.
She has "advanced to candidacy" as they say at UBC, which means that
comprehensives and dissertation proposal are all approved. We are hoping
that the end is in sight!

Joanne Gard Marshall
Alumni Distinguished Professor
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
100 Manning Hall, CB#3360
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
voice: (919) 929-9162
joanne_marshall at unc.edu
http://ils.unc.edu/~marshall/ 

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 07:38:54 -0800
From: Dorothy McGarry <dmcgarry at library.ucla.edu>
Subject:  Margaret Mann Citation recipient for 2005 

My year has been fairly busy, some months of the year. I attended my usual
conferences in the U.S., and also travelled to London in July to attend the
conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization and to
Buenos Aires in August to attend the IFLA conference. I've been involved
in cataloging revisions through the ALA/ALCTS/CCS Committee on Cataloging:
Description and Access, which is reviewing work being done on preparing an
AACAR3 and through the IFLA ISBD Review Group, which has been revising
several of the ISBDs and is working on a consolidated version. 
A few weeks ago, I received notice about an award I will receive in June.
Part of the announcement reads:
______________________________________________________________________
ALCTS Announces Margaret Mann Citation Recipient

Dorothy McGarry, retired Head of the Cataloging Division of the UCLA
Physical Sciences and Technology Libraries, is the recipient of the 2005
Margaret Mann Citation presented by the Association for Library Collections
& Technical Services (ALCTS), Cataloging and Classification Section (CCS)
of the American Library Association (ALA).

The award is a citation and a $2,000 scholarship donated in the recipient's
honor by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., to the library school
of the winner's choice. It recognizes outstanding professional achievement
in cataloging or classification either through publication of significant
professional literature, participation in professional cataloging
associations, demonstrated excellence in teaching cataloging, or valuable
contributions to the technical improvement of cataloging and classification
and/or the introduction of a new technique of recognized importance.
________________________________________________________________________

Dorothy

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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:37:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fred Roper <deanroper at yahoo.com>
 
Subject: Re: Soliciting: Updates on Fellows for Spring 2005 News & Notes

Belated greetings to all! It has been a busy year for
me. Had hernia surgery right after last year's
conference in Nashville--which is the reason I didn't
make it there. Thank goodness that is behind me!

Many of you know of the great pleasure that I derive
from baking poundcakes, and I entered in both the
South Carolina State Fair and the Western North
Carolina Mountain State Fair. Received several
ribbons which was nice. My favorite was a first place
ribbon for a coconut pound cake that I developed.
Maybe I'll open a CAKESrUS yet!

Did travel back and forth from Columbia to Chapel Hill
quite a lot this year to the basketball games, and
have just finished watching my Tar Heels win their 4th
national championship. I'm a very happy camper
tonight!

My biggest news is that I was awarded the Janet Doe
Lectureship by the Medical Library Association for
2005, and I will deliver the lecture on May 17th in
San Antonio. This is quite a wonderful honor, and
I've had an interesting time developing the lecture.
The title is MLA'S PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
A LOOK BACK AT THE WAY AHEAD. The topic was easy to
choose since I've been involved in MLA's professional
development program for over 40 years.

Retirement continues to be the best career move I ever
made! I recommend it highly. There are days when I
don't know how I had time to work!

Before I close, I would like to remind everyone that
our fellow Fellow, Joanne Marshall, has been President
of the Medical Library Association this year, and she
has done an outstanding job. Her term will end in San
Antonio.

Best to all of you. I wish I could be in Toronto, but
that is not going to be a possibility this year. I'll
be thinking of you all and wishing I could be there to
welcome the new fellows.

Best, Fred

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:26:33 -0400
From: Toni Carbo <tcarbo at mail.sis.pitt.edu>

Subject: RE: Soliciting: Updates on Fellows for Spring 2005 News & Notes

Dear Colleagues,
Although I have been less active in SLA than I have been in the past, I
enjoy reading the news from my fellow fellows. It's a joy to be back
teaching and doing research after 16 years as dean. I'm teaching the
introductory course to LIS, called Understanding Information, Information
Policy and Information Ethics, working to establish an institute on
Information Ethics and Policy, and serving on several boards.

I had the great pleasure of speaking to the local SLA chapter on Information
Ethics in January, which led to a lively discussion, and on the future of
LIS education at Dalhousie on March 17th. My other news is that I was
surprised and honored to be named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania
last year, and I am now a grandmother. My grandson, Jacob, just turned one.
Unfortunately, I won't be at annual, but I will be thinking of all of you.

Best regards,

Toni Carbo, PhD
Professor, School of Information Sciences and
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Editor, The International Information & Library Review
University of Pittsburgh
605 IS Building, 135 N. Bellefield Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15260

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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:17:33 -0400
From: Didi Pancake <didip at mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Soliciting: Updates on Fellows for Spring 2005 News & Notes

Spring is very busy today, springing that is. Time to open all the windows
and air the place out before pollen season sets it!

I am happy to say that I am definitely recovered from the hip replacement
last fall...it took a while, but I'm feeling pretty good at present. Will
probably go for a knee replacement this summer...then eventually the other
knee. Maybe someday I'll be able to walk well enough again to take on an SLA
Conference!

Meanwhile, I keep busy...mostly doing not much...a little painting, a little
traveling. I'm just coming to the end of a double term on the Foundation
Board of the Virginia Museum of Natural History. We're getting a shiney new
building down in Martinsville and just heading into a big capital
campaign...I think I'm glad my term is almost up <G>!

Have a good time in Toronto, everybody!

Didi

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 09:34:46 -0400
From: Pat Molholt <molholt at columbia.edu>
Subject: Update

Dear Colleagues -
I have sort of been a recluse on this listserv, but I do enjoy keeping in
touch with what's going on. Unfortunately, although I am very active
professionally, my responsibilities have drifted away from special
libraries. Old habits die hard and I have not given up my membership - -
partly because of all the excellent information that comes my way via the
PAM listserv, my original home some 30 years ago???

As you will see by my "signature" below, I'm pretty busy. The good news is
that I'm enjoying it; the less good news is that it's a rather crazy life
sometimes. I am definitely enjoying the challenge of improving the
infrastructure and support services for the education missions of the
medical, dental, nursing, and public health schools here at Columbia
University. We are well into the planning stages of a new education
building - something this campus has never had. That should keep me busy
until retirement.

On the more personal side, my husband and I just bought a second home in the
southern Birkshires - a 200 year old house in a tiny town about two hours
north of NYC. It is a bit of a project but we love it and find out time
there (most weekends) to be very, very relaxing despite the painting,
repairing, gardening and tending a small orchard. We have a year old
grandson but I have to admit I am entirely UNcomfortable with the
designation of grandmother. I'm just not there yet!!

Our kids are all doing well, one is a rabbi/seminary faculty member, one a
cantor, one an art historian currently at the American Academy in Rome, and
one doing her PhD in Native American history. We feel very blessed - when
we all get together (rare) the conversations are incredible.

Best wishes to all, Pat

Pat Molholt, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources
Director, Office of Education
Senior Lecturer, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Columbia University Medical Center
701 West 168th Street Room 201
New York, New York 10032

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 12:52:50 -0400
From: "Ladner, Sharyn J" <sladner at miami.edu>
Subject: RE: Soliciting: Updates on Fellows for Spring 2005 News & Notes

Hello fellow fellows,

I'm happy to report that things are a bit less hectic this spring
compared to last year, when I defended my Ph.D. dissertation at Florida
State two weeks after the wedding of my son and daughter-in-law in Miami
(thank goodness they planned the wedding).

In May my husband and I will be traveling to Europe, visiting Paris, the
French countryside, Switzerland, Austria, Venice, Tuscany/Florence, and
Rome on a Rick Steves' "Europe Through the Back Door" tour. It will be
our first European vacation together, and we are really looking forward
to it.

Now that I'm no longer spending my nights and weekends writing the
dissertation, I've joined the Greater Miami Civic Chorale and growing
orchids.

Regarding SLA, I added PAM and Sci-Tech Divisions this year, having
assumed responsibility for the physical sciences and engineering last
spring here at the University of Miami Libraries (in addition to serving
as interim head of reference and government information). It's an
exciting time to be involved in science librarianship--quite different
from the 1980s when I last worked as a science librarian! I'm also
thrilled to have been asked to serve as a mentor to an SLA Diversity
Award winner this year.

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Toronto.

Best regards,
Sharyn

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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:44:09 -0400
From: wilda newman <wildanewman at yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: Update

Hi Pat,

I was delighted to read your "update." I am wondering if you are working
with Jim Neal? If so, give him my best regards. My last full year at JHU/APL
was on a fellowship, sponsored by APL, with Jim and the Libraries of
Hopkins. The Digial Knowledge Center at JHU (under Jim) was the center of my
work on Knowledge Management.

Since "retiring" from JHU/APL, I have done some teaching for JHU's School of
Professional Studies in Business and Education and also Catholic University
of America's School of Library and Information Science in courses toward an
MS since then, both courses were in KM. Like you, I maintain my membership
with SLA for similar reasons. But, am really doing more travelling than work
these days, which suits me fine, and it also allows me to continue some of
the professional work that I still like to do, both with SLA and IFLA. This
year I served on SLA's nominating committee and next year I will chair it.
Send names of any new candidates you think of. I fondly remember you as one
of our most outstanding Presidents.

The very best to you and your family and enjoy the summer and your exciting
work.

Ciao,
     Wilda

Wilda B. Newman
Knowledge Resources Associates, LLC
5964 Rosinante Run
Columbia, MD 21045-3826
 

_____________________________________________________________________

DATE: SPRING 2006
 

Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 21:53:02 EDT
From: Clgmls at aol.com

I happily became a grandmother (of a beautiful little girl called
Charley Sheridan Paone) in January 2006. It's the best thing that has
ever happened to us.
 
Also began consulting practice in earnest with two plum assignments
for prestigious clients. I am really enjoying it.
See you all in Baltimore!

Best Regards,
Carol
 
Carol L Ginsburg

Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:51:43 -0400
From: Peter_Moon at HSB.com

For the past 3 years I've been on the Tricentennial Commission for the
town of Hebron, CT.  We will celebrate our Tricentennial in 2008, the
town having been incorporated May 26 of 1708... the month and day
coinciding with Dottie and me celebrating our wedding anniversary!
 

What a coincidence!  In May, Jim who was our chair, announced he
would be going on extended vacation... a month and a half... and he talked
me into becoming the next chair of the commission.  I can't
begin to tell you all the town connections I will be making,
particularly in Town Hall, where I am already known anyway, but not to
the degree I will be now!  And the organizations in town, all the
individuals - scheduling a sequence of events to celebrate through a
good deal of the year.  Then, last week, I was accepted onto the
Historic Properties Commission for Hebron.  These two posts are the
kind of position where you have to be sworn in by the Town Clerk -
it's a big deal.  I know Carla, the Town Clerk, because I've been
using a lot of  records under her care, for a project I started three
years ago for the Tricentennial!  It's not that I want all this work,
but Hebron and I have a a wonderful, engaging, delightful experience.
 

The town's been great to Dottie and me, and we are becoming more
fully involved with each passing day, week, and month.  We've only
been there for 4 years... and we've already done so much more than
during the 13 years we stayed in East Hartford.

See you really soon!  --  Peter


Peter S. Moon, Manager        
Virtual Information Center
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co.
One State Street, 9th Floor    
Hartford, CT  06103-3199  

Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 08:57:44 -0700
From: Jo Anne Boorkman <jaboorkman at ucdavis.edu>

Hello Carol,
 
Congratulations! on your new granddaughter and your "plum
assignments". Sounds like life is very good.  I won't be attending the
Baltimore meeting...my travel time/dollars are going to IFLA in Seoul
this year.  Hello to all.
 
Jo Anne Boorkman

Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 15:25:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Barbara Semonche <semonch at metalab.unc.edu>

Greetings everyone!

The biggest news in the Semonche household has nothing to do with the
careers of Jack and me, but rather our daughter, Laura, and her husband, Rob.
No, no grandkids, yet, but we can tell you that on April 5 this year they
launched their fine art gallery in Charlottesville, VA. It's called
"Migration Gallery." The gallery's web site is:

http://www.migrationgallery.com

Rob continues his job as a securities analyst for a Charlottesville law firm
but works closely with Laura in the selection of the art for their gallery.

Jack and I will be in Baltimore where we'll be seeing as many of you
as possible. Cheers to all!

Barbara

Barbara P. Semonche, Director, The Park Library

Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 16:19:23 -0400
From: Susan DiMattia <sdimattia at optonline.net>

How nice to get a few tidbits about individual Fellows, whether we all will
be together in Baltimore or not.

My professional life currently is nothing like I envisioned it would be two
years ago, but it continues to be satisfying. I do the occasional consulting
project, although, frankly, it's hard to find things that really interest
and challenge me at this stage. The new magazine for executives that I was
working on with a venture capitalist and a publishing expert is apparently
dead for the moment, which is a disappointment. Knowing my partners, I
wouldn't be surprised to see it crop up again in another year. It was an
interesting proposition, but it wasn't developing along the lines that the
venture capitalist envisioned, so he opted to forget about it while he
pursues other projects. I'm disappointed, because I was to have a strong
editorial responsibility, but there will be other projects.

I've been talking about writing a textbook for the special libraries course
I've taught twice now, but other things seem to keep getting in the way. I'm
hoping to make it the project for this summer. In the meantime, I've signed
on to teach two courses at Pratt SILS this Fall. Love the teaching and the
students. Hate the commute. Oh well.

I've been writing several journal articles over the past several months,
which is a challenge, because it requires shifting gears with each one, but
they are all good learning experiences. One article that won't come out
until next year will be written jointly with one of my students from this
past spring semester, which should provide a new experience for both of us.

On the family front, our daughter Amy completed her Masters in Higher
Education Administration at Boston College and got her degree two weeks ago.
She will be joining me for two days in Baltimore, so I hope several of you
will have an opportunity to meet her. Brian, after completing his dual
MBA/MS in information systems degree from Boston University is doing some
freelance consulting with a firm in Boston--primarily doing interviews,
analysis, and report writing. At the same time, he's acting as director of
marketing for a new electronic consumer product that's in the planning
stages. Launch is still several months away. In the meantime, he's waiting
for the ideal job to come his way. I hope he finds it before I retire!!

I'm almost organized for Baltimore, so I look forward to seeing many of you
there.

Susan

Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 18:23:03 -0400
From: Toni Carbo <tcarbo@mail.sis.pitt.edu>

It's so good to learn all this news from people. I am enjoying being out of
administration after more than 35 years as a manager. I am teaching
Information Ethics, Information Policy, and our required introductory
course, Understanding Information. This fall I will also teach the
Introduction to the PhD Program.

I've been busy writing and editing and have almost completed work on a
Perspectives on Global Information Ethics for JASIST. I'm also working to
raise funds for an Institute on Information Ethics and Policy.
My greatest joy is my 2-year-old grandson, Jacob.
I'm sorry to miss SLA again this year. I'll be thinking of all of you.
 

Best regards,
Toni

Toni Carbo, PhD
Professor, School of Information Sciences and
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Editor, The International Information & Library Review
University of Pittsburgh
602 IS Building, 135 N. Bellefield Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15260

Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:54:30 -0400
From: Didi Pancake <didip@mindspring.com>

I guess I'm still a Fellow even though I'm not an SLA member any more...

Since Sept. 2004, I've managed 3 joint replacements, the last at the end of
this Feb. I don't recommend doing 3 in 18 months unless you are really
dedicated to the idea of getting it over with. I've survived, but am not
really ready to go dancing again yet.

My own dedication stems from the fact that I have booked the cruise of my
dreams for January 5 to March 12, 2007. 66 days on Holland America's
Prinsendam all the way around South America, Through the Canal, down to
Antarctica, up to Rio (the week before Mardi Gras), up the Amazon to Manaus,
then back to Ft. Lauderdale. Gotta be ready for lots of sightseeing on that
trip! I might even have to start a webpage or a blog to report en route!

Otherwise, I seem to get my time pretty well occupied with to-ing and
fro-ing. I can tell I need to check out the new art gallery Barbara
mentioned...wonder if they will carry anything other than oils and
acrylics...?

Hope everyone has a good time in Baltimore.

Didi Pancake

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DATE: SPRING 2007

FROM: Jim Tchobanoff
DATE: February 14, 2007