Obituaries
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Dorothy Broderick, 82, died December 17. Broderick was the co-founder of VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates) magazine and led the publication for 19 years. She began her career in the mid-1950s as a children’s librarian before entering academia; she served as a professor at five library schools, including Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, since 1972. She served several terms on ALA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee and received the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award in 1987, the Freedom to Read Foundation’s Roll of Honor Award in 1998, and the Scholastic Library Publishing Award in 1991.
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Pauline J. Shipp Love, 100, died December 8. She was a librarian at Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas, and Atchison (Kans.) High School before joining the ALA Publishing staff as editorial assistant in 1942. Love became manager of special publishing projects in 1969, reporting to the associate executive director for Publishing Services.
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Berenice Marie Appel, 86, died of heart failure November 10. Berenice was librarian of Lourdes Library at Gwynedd-Mercy College in Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania, for 23 years.
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Cristina Yu, 52, former librarian for 22 years of the Z. Smith Reynolds (N.C.) Library at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, died November 3.
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Leona Katherine Forster Turk, 93, died due to lung cancer, November 2. From 1964 until her retirement in 1980, Leona worked as the medical records librarian and head of the department at the Independence (Mo.) Sanitarium and Hospital.
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William Williamson, 91, professor of Library Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1966 until his retirement in 1987, died November 19. He had previously served in librarian positions at Baylor University in Waco, Texas; Montclair (N.J.) State College, and Columbia University in New York.
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Frances McClure, 69, former librarian at Montgomery County (Md.) Public Libraries, died of complications related to ovarian cancer November 10. Until her retirement in 1997, Frances served as chief of technical services, administrator for the Gaithersburg branch, and manager of bookmobile services.
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Michelle A. Visel, 64, former conference director for the American Library Association for 20 years, died November 17.
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Mary Wilson, 49, died of leukodystrophy November 27. Wilson worked as head of youth services at the Rochester Hill (Mich.) Public Library for more than 10 years.
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Fred W. Todd, 75, passed away November 12. He had worked as a librarian at the Medical Library at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio.
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Carol P. Cummins, 73, former head of public services at the Virginia Theological Seminary Library in Alexandria, died November 1.
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Carla M. Connolly, 59, a librarian at South Suburban College in South Holland, Illinois for 22 years, passed away November 6. She began her career in 1974 at Midlothian (Ill.) Public Library. She joined South Suburban as a part-time Telecourse Assistant in 1981, and was later promoted to full-time librarian in 1989. Her nephew, David M. Connolly, is a long-time staff member of ALA and ACRL.