Library Update: Fall Festival and Friends supporters
By Carole Kelly
Making library support plans are (l to r), front row: Kathy Buckley, Carol Pate and Angie Abbott; and back row: Gloria Wright, President of the Board Helen Blackwell and Carolyn Johnson.
Fall Festival will highlight October programs at the Clinton-Quisenberry Library, reports Brittany Moore, branch manager.
“Fall Festival on Tuesday, October 29, will have us watching Hotel Transylvania,” says Moore, who notes that the festival will include face painting and caramel-apple dipping classes. Add in popcorn with soda and punch, and the fun will be complete. Tentative start time is 3:30.
Moore urges patrons to check the library announcement board in coming days for further details. Friends of the Library is supporting the library staff in the special festival.
The September Friends of the Library board meeting included making plants for upcoming book sales. The usual first Friday and Saturday sales included the successful October 4 and 5 efforts, with future dates to be November 1 and 2, and December 6 and 7. In December, the sale days will feature many more books spread spaciously throughout two rooms. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. There will be no book sale in January.
Energetic and versatile could be used to describe board members of the Friends of the Clinton-Quisenberry Library who share their time, talents and energy with the organization that supports the mission and programs of the library. This month spotlights three members of the board.
Angie Abbott
Born in Ft. Rucker, Alabama, Angie Abbott grew up in Columbus and is a graduate of Mississippi State College for Women. Her three sons, eleven grandchildren and one great-grandson make the retired teacher smile. Her thirty-five years of teaching found her at Ft. Walton Beach, Columbus, Corinth and Raymond Elementary School.
A member of Clinton Methodist Church, she is secretary for her homeowners’ association; serves as secretary of the Friends of the Library board; plays bridge weekly; and enjoys reading, needlework and traveling.
Abbott reports, “I joined Friends when my best friend Karen Sims encouraged me to join.”
Sims is a past president of the Friends board.
Carolyn Johnson
Carolyn Johnson was born and raised in Jackson.
“I married my Air Force husband in 1972,” she says. “We have lived in Florida and Alaska and brought up four wonderful children in the country of Madison County.”
She drove a school bus for Clinton for twenty-two years and worked as a lunch room cashier at Clinton Park School. Moving to Clinton from Flora four years ago, she visited the library book sales several times before asking Gloria Wright if she could be “a part of this wonderful team of ladies who donate their time and efforts to help bring enjoyment in reading to our children. It’s been so rewarding as I have met so many sweet people!”
She loves reading, crocheting and talking.
Gloria Wright
Gloria Wright has been involved with the library since her retirement from nursing fourteen years ago. She started as volunteer in the children’s department working with Alston Curtis.
“From the time l was in elementary school, l have loved to read, from classics to comics,” she says. “When l was invited to join the Friends of the Library and serve as secretary, l did not hesitate. I think that the Friends of the Library members make an important contribution to the citizens of Clinton by supporting library activities through fundraising programs such as the monthly book sale.”
In addition to her library support time, the past president of Friends enjoys writing, gardening and painting.
