The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-02-23
|BLACKFOOT GIRL
ERNEST WORKER
Nancy Reese Puts in
Double Time as
Librarian

is a real work hound and we want
you to know her. There may be q
good many others who are just az
industrious and enterprising, but We
don't happen to know about them
We have scraps Of information about
a good many of them who seem to
be rather unusual in their steady
application to their tasks, and II
takes time to prove their worth.
The one we have in mind just now
is Nancy Reese, daughter of Mrs.
Mrs. Leah G.. Reese, who moved in
from Pahsemari valley some years
ago and now lives at 450 North
Stout. -s
If clothes were as they used to
be, Nancy would be getting out of
the stage of short dresses. She 1s
junior at high school, expects to
graduate in 1928, and hopes to enter
the University of Washington at
Seattle in the fall Of 1928. A part
81 her work there will be to make
a thoro study Of library work so
she can come back to Blackfoot or
some other town and manage a pub
lie library according to the standard
plan.
AS a foretaste Of such work she
has been helping Miss Gillespie at
the Blackfoot library and learning
all she could of the work and of
literature. Last year she put in a
great deal of time at the library,
donating her service for what Miss
Gillespie could teach her, and when
Miss Gillespie took sick in January,
Nancy came to the rescue. The
school management arranged her
work SO that she could keep the
library hours and by keep up with
the classes she earned her credits
the same as If she had been present
in the school with the others. The
library hours were from noon till
10 p. M, and in that time she
waited on an average of 1873 persons
per day and got her lessons.
She also kept up her part with
such extra work as the class play
that was put on so successfully last
week, did her part in what they call
the class stunt, did her research
work in the debating team of which
she is a member, kept on the honor
roll and stood high enough as a
worker to be appointed on the dec
Grating committee for the junior
prom Thursday evening.
When Miss Gillespie, the librarian,
got over her illness and returned
to duty on the first of February,
after twenty-five days absence, she
found Nancy on the job and every
thing in good order. The books that
get piled up on the desk and tables
every day were all in place, the
records were kept, the books that
were loaned out and kept overtime
were traced and the reminders sent
to the holders, and all but the bust
ness transactions that Nancy could
not Judge or know about, were kept
up, and these were on the desk
ready for the chief to inspect when
she came.
Miss Gillespie felt relieved. Did
you ever come home from a visit
and find things piled up and ne
elected SO it almost made you sick?
Well, it was the reverse in this case
Miss Gillespie wished she hadn't
worried at all while she was at home
sick. II she had known the full
depth and breadth of Nancy's loyalty
she might even have cheered up and
got we'll sooner.
When Miss Gillespie told us how
everything was put away and kept
in order, we said, why, that's the
kind Of girls we engage for positions
in The Republican Office" and the
librarian took the scare and ex-
claimed, Don't you dare to take
Nancy away from me-" Any busi-
ness man who is biding his time till
he can get new grip on his busi-
ness and put on more help is look
ing and listening for just that kind
of timber, tho, of course, he would
not take any one away from another
position they are already training
for.
II you have felt depressed after
reading the criticisms that have been
published lately in American news
papers and magazines about the fail
ings of American school boys and
girls, cheer up, for Nancy Reese -
not q sample Of them, and we be,