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FOUR The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 6, 1978
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with Justine Weatherford
Last week Friday, June 30, my work with the Heppner
Public Library officially ended. I was appointed librarian in
the fall of 1973 following the retirement of Blanche Frye
Brown who had discharged the responsibility for the previous
seventeen years.
As I reflect on my experiences with books and readers
and library matters, I feel that I have learned quite a bit
about my community from the work. It was pleasing for me
to meet many new people and to handle old and new books.
I've had a little different look into the functioning of some
aspects of my city's and county's governtment because of my
involvement with the library.
I have also enjoyed attending a few regional meetings
and workshops and getting to know some librarians from
neighboring areas. 4
The occasions when our small library has been really
able to help some persons locate some facts he or she sought
or to .bring joy to others through the goodly amount of
recreational reading it offers, were most satisfying.
Many generous and thoughtful patrons and club groups
have done so much to improve the facility. The careless or
thoughtless or forgetful folk who just can't seem to return the
books they borrow, are such a worry. Trying to change their
ways is one of the headaches of the librarian's job.
Especialy pleasing has been the community help from
individuals and organizations who created the Children's
Room. The children's story -times that have been organized
by AAUW each summer and the series this spring arranged!
by a group of young mothers have been delightful and
practical, too, as the best time to interest children in libraries
and books is during their early years which are the basis for
their lifetime habits.
Thirty-three youngsters attended the June 26 storyhour
and puppet show. More are expected at 10:30 on July 10, 17, 31 ,
and August 7 and 14.
So great was the tremendous financial support which
philanthropist Amanda Duvall volunteered in June 1977,
making it possible for the library to stay open the last year of
my tenure when neither the city nor the county could manage
to come up with any library-operating funds.
This year hours of service were pared and the library has
been open to the public 12 instead of 15 hours, with the
librarian supposedly working only 10 hours each
week however, the necessary work, the cataloging,
ordering, record-keeping, filing, weeding, shelf arranging
and book mending continued at about the same pace as
before the cut.
Now since July 1, new hours are being scheduled
allowing five more hours of public service, and the new
librarian, I understand, will officially work twice as long, 20
hours with her 15 hours of public service and 5 hours of solo
work time thanks to the passage of the city budget. It is
still hoped that volunteers will come in to assist her.
During the past five years, as in the years before them,
many women of the community have given regular hours of
assistance to the library. This year about a dozen have come
in on regular shifts and have been most helpful to the
continuing operation.
Several years back when fewer responded to the call for
help, there were two who were most outstanding: June Way
Field helped day after day for several years ; Phyllis Wallace
was another outstanding aide.
I feel pride in having been associated with this historic
library. It began making this a better community in 1893 and
has survived several floods and several gigantic fires. It has
been relocated and reorganized many times. Many very fine
women and men have guided its progress through the years.
When I was appointed librarian, Bill Seward was board
chairman. He was succeeded by Randall Peterson who in
turn gave way to Ed Struthers who was succeeded by the
present chairperson, Myrna Johnson. Although the board's
Shannon Kelly
on Linfield
l)ean9s List
Shannon Kelly of Heppner
made the spring term dean's
list at Linfield College in
McMinnville.
Miss Kelly, a junior at the
school, earned a 4.0 grade
point average.
fourth-Wednesday monthly meetings are open to the public
very rarely do citizens attend them.
Naturally, I have not been in complete agreement with
some of the board's ideas. However, I am sure the five
members are trying diligently to guide the library's
development; their authority must be respected.
, Getting well acquainted with Rachel Harnett and
observing the sensational work she has done with the County
Museum and with the family records she keeps has been one
6f the highlights of my recent years. It has been a privilege to
work in the same building with her and to have her constant
help. Rachel's cheerful devotion to her curatorship week
after week and year after year is most remarkable.
Because books have always been an important part of
my life and because I enjoy being with others who read, I
intend to continue trying to help regularly as a library
volunteer.
I so hope that somehow more citizens will come to
appreciate the offerings of their growing library and the help
and joy that its books can bring to them. I also hope that the
community will come to use the Library-Museum Building
more beneficially as time passes.
Of course, TV has altered family and individual living
habits. It has probably kept many from reading as regularly
as folks did before its advent. I enjoy TV, too, but still I shall
never waiver in my love of and need for books books which I
may refer to over and over, books that transport me to
exciting places, books that reveal the past and open the
future, books that intorduce me to characters who become
my good friends. Some books inspire me, some books amuse
me, and some books help me to better understand myself and
my fellow men and our relationships. Books and TV are both
great antidotes for loneliness.
Were you lucky as I was, in seeing several vignettes from
Morrow County on the tube last week? I really enjoyed
watching Kenneth Turner, and then the next night seeing
Eric Anderson on the Northwest Tonight evening news. Each
man was on his own land and was being interviewed by the
Portland TV crew about his crop.
I wonder if either of these gentlement will -receive fan
mail about their good appearances?
One recent night on KGW's "Evening" show there was
an interesting segment featuring skateboarders. That very
afternoon a Heppner friend told me about the skateboad
demonstration she happened to see on our Main Street near
the City Park the previous night. So, I guess our area is
keeping up with some modern activities.
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10, at 8 p.m., at the Masonic
Hall, Heppner.
Installed as Worthy Patron
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