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In Memoriam
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What’s Happening with SILS Alumni
Christel L. McCanless (MSLS ’66) co-
authored Faberge Eggs: A Retrospective
Encyclopedia (2001) with Will Lowes. McCanless
is a library consultant and independent researcher
and is active with the Art Reference Library of the
Huntsville Museum of Art and the Research
Institute of Paper Technology in Boston.
John Moorman (MSLS ’72) received his
Ph.D. degree in library and information science
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign in May. His dissertation was titled
“Combined School Public Libraries in the United
States: Three Comparative Case Studies.” He is
director of the Williamsburg (Va.) Regional
Library.
Dav Robertson (MSLS ’75) has been
elected chapter chair-elect for the Special Libraries
Association. He is director of the NIEHS library
in Research Triangle Park.
Martha M. Smith (MSLS ’79) has been
appointed to the faculty at Drexel University’s
College of Information Science and Technology
(IST). She will be responsible for providing
leadership and coordination for the college’s
online M.S. program.
Hugh J. Treacy (MSLS ’79) is associate
director of the Whittier Law School Library in
Costa Mesa, Calif. He is also treasurer of the
Orange County Library Association.
Eleanor I. Cook (MSLS ’82) married
Joseph R. Balint Jr. on March 7, 2000. She is
serials coordinator at Appalachian State University
and is president of the North American Serials
Interest Group for 2002-2003.
Laura Davidson (MSLS ’82) became dean
of library information services at Meredith College
in Raleigh on July 1. She previously served as
head of information services at Georgia Southern
University’s Henderson Library.
Gerald Holmes (MSLS ’84) participated
on the panel for the program “Your Article Has
Been Accepted…” during the fifth National
Conference of African American Librarians in Fort
Lauderdale, Aug. 13-15. Holmes, an assistant
reference librarian at Jackson Library at UNC-
Greensboro, also served on the volunteers sub-
committee for the Association of College and
Research Libraries’ (ACRL) 11th National
Conference in Charlotte in April.
Susan Janet Towe (MSLS ’94) is the
Public Services Librarian at Northern Marianas
College in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.
Andrew Koebrick (MSLS ’95) ran as a
Green Party candidate for secretary of state of
Minnesota.
Sharlene Harris (MSLS ’96) is director of
libraries for the Government of the Virgin Islands.
Jane Ibl (MSLS ’96) is senior research
specialist at Exponent Failure Analysis Associates
in San Francisco. She has also served as chair of
the Professional Development Committee of the San
Andreas Chapter of SLA for the past three years.
Doug McGee (MSLS ’96) is engineering
librarian at Nimitz Library at the U.S. Naval
Academy in Annapolis, Md.
Lynn W. Zimmerman (MSLS ’96) received
a PhD in curriculum and teaching with a
concentration in the cultural foundations of
education from UNC-Greensboro in May. She is
assistant professor of multicultural education at
Purdue University-Calumet in Hammond, Ind.
Evelyn M. Poole-Kober (MSLS ’97)
attended the 12th annual SAIL (Southeast Affiliate
of IAMSLIC) conference at the Virginia Institute of
Marine Science in May. She was elected SAIL
representative to IAMSLIC (International Aquatic
and Marine Science Librarians and Information
Centers). She also served on the Task Force on
Online Library, which was formed by the Air &
Waste Management Association (AWMA).
Poole-Kober also attended the Fifth Annual
Meeting of the Atmospheric Science Librarians
International (ASLI), which was held in
conjunction with the 82th Annual Meeting of the
American Meteorological Society, in Orlando in
January. As the 2000 ASLI chair, Evelyn serves on
the ASLI executive board and is also membership
chair.
Steven Case (MSLS ’98) married Sue
Brown on August 8. The couple resides in
Chapel Hill.
Ralph Kaplan (MSLS ’98) received the Al
Maresh Memorial Award in August at the
international conference of the Correctional
Education Association in Portland, Ore. He
received the award for his web-based work for the
Correctional Education Association. Kaplan is a
systems librarian for NC LIVE, North Carolina’s
virtual library.
Robin Hollingsworth (MSLS ’99),
director of the Sampson-Clinton Public Library
System, and Joey Williford, a pharmacist with
Eckerd Drug and Newton Grove Drug Company,
were married July 27.
Renee McMannen (MSLS ’99) married
Keith Beard on April 20. She is employed in the
information management organization at
GlaxoSmithKline in Research Triangle Park.
Rich Murray (MSLS ’99) is catalog
librarian for Spanish and Portuguese languages
at Duke University. He is also the 2002-2003 chair
of the Shirley Olofson Memorial Award committee
of the American Library Association’s New
Members Round Table and was appointed to the
Subcommittee on Recruitment of the Association
of College & Research Libraries’ Western
European Studies Section.
Naomi V. Tuttle (MSLS ’99), formerly
health sciences librarian at Shenandoah
University in Winchester, Va., is now a library
media specialist at Park View High School in
Sterling, Va. She will also be working on her
teacher certification and M.Ed. with a specializa-
tion in reading.
Jessie Clegg Griffin (ABLS ’32) Jan. 28, 1993
Evelyn Day Mullen (ABLS ’32) Nov. 5, 2001
Eleanor Robinson Pearsall (ABLS ’33) July 19, 2002
John Wesley Dudley (ABLS ’35) Dec. 28, 2001
Sarah Bowling Holland (ABLS ’38) Oct. 6, 1999
Eleanor Smith Godfrey (ABLS ’39) July 4, 2002
Nancy Wilson Levy (ABLS ’40) Jan. 7, 2002
Ruth Johnston Davis (BSLS ’42) Dec. 26, 2001
Lunelle Geer Archer (BSLS ’43) May 13, 2002
Elizabeth Henderson Wood (BSLS ’43) Aug. 4, 2000
Eleanor Smith Alexander (BSLS ’44) Jan. 4, 2001
E. Lucille Higgs (BSLS ’44) Dec. 26, 2000
William Edward Ticknor (BSLS ’47) Nov. 24, 1999
Ethel Collins Wakefield (BSLS ’48) Aug. 27, 2002
Marian Sanner (BSLS ’49) March 28, 1997
Clyde Joseph Miller (BSLS ’50) Jan. 14, 1997
Flora Susan Lockridge (BSLS ’52) Dec. 20, 2000
John Wesley Pinkerton, Jr. (BSLS ’56) March 3, 2002
Peter Kudrik (MSLS ’58) April 9, 1991
Eunice Paige Drum (MSLS ’66) June 10, 2002
Margaret Brown Hunnicutt (MSLS ’68) May 8, 2002
J. Marshall Bullock (MSLS ’88) Aug. 20, 2002
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