Obituaries
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Alice LeMaster Summers, fomer teacher and librarian at Union (S.C.) High School, died May 18.
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Virginia Bruch, 90, retired chief of the Pentagon’s Army library section in Arlington County, Virginia, died May 5 of heart disease. She was also research curator and trainer of docents for the Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home in Alexandria.
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Mary R. Boyvey, 91, former program director for the Texas Education Agency (TEA), died May 12. She was a school librarian with several school districts before joining TEA. Boyvey also was past president of the Texas Library Association and a former ALA board member.
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Constance Organ, 87, former librarian for the University of Iowa’s psychology library in Iowa City, died May 10.
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Russell M. Smith, 93, retired archivist at the Library of Congress, died April 21 from Alzheimer’s disease. He oversaw the presidential papers collection and helped transform the the archive of documents related to the presidency of George Washington to Calvin Coolidge into a modern resource for scholars. Smith cataloged, indexed, and transferred the documents, many stored in shoe boxes, into microfilm. He also contributed to the library’s Great Americans collection.
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Joseph A. Rosenthal, 81, retired university librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, died April 7. He also worked as New York Public Library and served as principal investigator on numerous grants from the Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Rosenthal also served on the boards of the Center for Research Libraries, the Public Affairs Information Service, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Research Libraries Group. He held several positions of responsibility for ALA and its divisions—on the board of the former Library Resources and Technical Services Division; president of the former Information Science and Automation Division; and as a member of ALA’s governing Council.
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Jeanne Kircauldy Wood Reid, 83, retired reference librarian at Ardsley (N.Y.) School District Library, died May 7.
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Bill Pierce, 80, retired librarian from the University of California, Los Angeles, died April 26. He was also a certified master gardener.
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Thomas F. Moroney Jr., 99, owner of the Thomas F, Moroney Company, died March 19. His company built bookmobiles that earned a distinguished national and international reputation. The patented Moroney Monolite #174 light and ventilation system was a highlight at a world exhibition in Russia in the 1950s. The company’s first bookmobile was built in 1948 for the City of Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Paula Marie Moore, 81, former librarian and media specialist at Berryessa Union School District in San Jose, California, died in April. She also worked at Vinci Park Elementary School, where the media center was named in her honor when she retired in 2003,
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Bennet Ludden, 97, former Juilliard School music librarian, died April 16 of heart ailment and pneumonia. He worked at the New York City music school since 1957 and also taught music and library science at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon; Columbia University in New York City; and Kent (Ohio) State University. Ludden was a member of the Music Library Association.
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Harriet S. Jarosh, 72, retired director of Laurel (Del.) Public Library, died April 27. She also worked in public libraries in Georgetown and West Chester in Delaware as well as in Chester, County, Pennsylvania.