MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS December 21, 2001
by Mary Brown
As the first year of the new century winds down, the library
sees the year out with closed doors and dark rooms. We are closed
until January 2nd due to budget constraints. If you are returning
items before the 2nd, please do not stuff the drop box on the
front porch. (We will not charge overdue fines if the box is
full !)
The final big event of the year, the annual Holiday Silent Auction
was a rousing success. The final total this year was over $ 1600.
There were so many generous people who helped make this auction
happen. A huge thank you goes out to the following donors: Jean
Puddington, SUNY Morrisville Bookstore, Lynde LaFever, SUNY Ice-Plex,
New York Pizzeria, Gratia Burleigh, Marion Taylor, Ruth Matthias,
Teresa Lemery, Joan Zazzara, Nancy McPherson, Joyce Nelson, Traci
Schuster, Eva Pecor, Barb Fogg, Johanne Purple, Mary Brown, Edie
Brown, Carla Kutzuba, W. Ralph Murray, Kay Christman, Barb Schiavone,
Edith Mabon, Mark Whitney, Wal-Mart, George Shehadi, Collin &
Wesley Luce, Doris Roberts, Maxine Hunter, Liz Clement, Joan
Gregory, Donna Dockray, Bette Slocum, Jean Puddington, Jennifer
Caloia, Judy Donnelly, Barb Richmond, Jean Tayntor and any other
donor we may have missed in this long list.
Currently on view in the program room is a nice exhibit of drawings
of horses by Anna Dryer, a ninth grader at MECS. Stop by and
enjoy.
To round out the year, there are a few new books to report, thanks
to the kindness of donors and adopters. Ethel Crane adopted Jimmy
Carter's Christmas in Plains, a memoir detailing his Christmases
as a boy in rural Georgia, as a naval officer, a politician and
president. Also newly arrived is the late Robert Ludlum's The
Sigma Protocol, his final gripping thriller. This one focuses
on Ben Hartman who is nearly killed, setting off events that
lead him to Sigma, a multinational cartel built by industrialists
and financiers bent on exploiting wartime technology and protecting
their wealth from the threat of communism. Ludlum fans will find
this a fitting finale to the author's life and career. David
Baldacci's Last Man Standing is our last new book of 2001. This
exciting thriller has all the makings of a good read: a tough
but tender-hearted hero (Web London of the FBI's Hostage Rescue
Team), dirty dealings in the nation's bureaucracy, and a roller-coaster
plot.
Happy New Year to all our patrons and friends. May the new year
bring peace and success to you all as well as many new friends,
new books and new sources of funds to our local library.
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