Obituaries
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Dr. Joyce C. White, 90, former medical librarian at Hunterdon Medical Center in Raritan Township, New Jersey, before retiring in 1990, died April 9 in the Rolling Hills Care Center, Clinton Township.
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Dorothy Anne Holland, 77, youth and adult services librarian at Elmwood Park (Ill.) Public Library, died April 4 from a stroke caused by a brain hemorrhage after falling ill at work. Unbeknownst to her family, Holland has signed the back of her driver’s license allowing her organs to be donated upon her death. Her body was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago where liver transplant surgery was performed.
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Susan (Sweet) Lombard, 69, former librarian at Harvard University's Widener Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, died March 27
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Mary S. Kern, 91, former reference librarian at Mt. Vernon (N.Y.) Public Library. died March 31 at The Fountains in Tuckahoe.
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William McDermed, 88, died due to complications related to a fall, January 3. William served as president of the boards of the Thomas Ford Memorial Library, LaGrange Library, and Suburban Library System in Illinois for several years.
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Kathleen B. Hegarty, 81, died after a short illness, January 28. Kathleen served at the Boston Public Library for 46 years as coordinator of adult services, staff officer for programs and public relations, and staff officer for special programs and services. Kathleen established the Access Center for people with disabilities at the library and was a longtime member of the Reference and User Services Association and the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies Libraries Serving Special Populations Section.
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Cecilia Elaine Cline, 65, died after a long battle with breast cancer, January 16. She was a college librarian at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; Georgia State University in Atlanta; and Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Elaine completed her career as chief librarian of the Ralph J. Bunche Library at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C.
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Glenn Anderson, 63, assistant dean for collections development at Auburn (Ala.) University Libraries, died January 21.
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Philip Miller Boord, 101, librarian emeritus of Randolph-Macon Woman's college in Virginia, died December 27. Mr. Boord had also served as adjunct professor at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, public librarian at Mason City (Iowa) Public Library, and librarian with the Illinois State Library in Springfield.
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Nina V. Siegel, 76, former librarian for 33 years in the Plattekill and Leptondale Elementary Schools in New York, died January 12.
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Thomas Sutherland, 71, former director of the Paducah-McCracken County (Ky.) Public Library from 1968 until his retirement in 1995, died January 17.
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James M. Ethridge, 90, former executive vice-president and editorial director of Gale Research Company until his retirement in 1985, died December 13. James was responsible for launching some of the company's flagship publications, including Contemporary Authors and Directories in Print.