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IN MEMORIAM

Each year, WCRTA provides the Wood County Public Library with money to purchase books in memory of our deceased teachers. This year books were purchased to remember the following teachers for 2009.

Doris Ruth Augustine (Harmon)
Craig Bedra
Ruth Bortel (Klaiber)
Dr. Raymond B. Browne
Margaret E. Cornell (Bostater)
Orville Decker
Dr. Ann Doering-Jones (Harrold)
Joan Enright (Rolller)
Mary Lou Errett (Mertz)
Ola M. Gerig (Raber)
Bette Grabill (Baker)
Dr. William D. Hann
Dr. William Harris
Richard E. Hoffman
Dr. Lawrence Klein
George B. Langell
Francis Lattin
George Lazar Jr.
Ruth E. Lemmerbrock (Hoodlebrink)
Dr. Joseph J.Mancuso
Ruth O. Manor (Studer)
Boyd Martin
Ruth Matheny (Ketzenbarger)
Dr. David B. Meronk
Dr. John Goodwin Merriam
Rose Lynette McCullough (Purkey)
Paul Warren Myers
Elizabeth Ann Neidecker
Earl F. Ott
Dr. Robert Allen Patton
Dr. Virginia Platt
Evelyn Reiser
Kenneth A. Robb
Wilma Celestia Schneider (Johnson)
Carole Schultz (Ridenour)
Opal Spackey
Dr. Joseph G. Spinelli
Jay Edmund Spreng
Ivan Stearns
Karen S. Swartz (Schaller)
Mae Belle w. Tornow (Weis)
Marvel Marie Troutner (Patton)
Susan M. Waring (Schaefer)
Michael L. Watkins
Harry J. Wilcox


Memorial books purchased:
  1. Age of Wonder:  How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science.  Holmes, Richard.  $40
  2. The Children's Book.  Byatt, A.S.  $27
  3. Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah:  A Free Black Man's Encounter with Liberty.  Harris, J. William.  $28
  4. Mannahatta:  A Natural History of New York City.  Sanderson, Eric W.  $40
  5. Newton and the Counterfeiter:  The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist.  Levenson, Thomas.  $25
  6. A Short History of Women,  Walbert, Kate.  $24
  7. Soul of the Age:  A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare.  Bate, Jonathan.  $35
  8. Strange Eventful History:  The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and the Remarkable Families.  Holroyd, Michael.  $40
  9. Up from History:  The Life of Booker T. Washington.  Norrell, Robert J.  $35
  10. Waiting on a Train:  The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service - A Year Spent Riding Across America.  McCommons, James.  $18
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