Milford chronicle., 1959-04-10
Library Aides
OF Delaware

The Library Aides of Delaware
(LAD) an organization of students
of the senior and junior high
schools of Delaware, public, private,
and parochial, will hold it's fourth
annual conference at Ursuline
Academy, Pennsylvania Avenue and
Franklin Street, Wilmington, on
Saturday, April IL. The Library
Aides of Delaware was organized at
the John Bassett Moore High
School, in Smyrna, Delaware, ON
April IA, 1856. Mr.. John Dickinson,
William Pritchard planned the first
conference. At the second meet
ing held in Dover at the Dover
High School the motto "Tomorrow's
Librarians United for Service" was
adopted. At this time the name of
the organization was chosen: Ii
brary Aides of Delaware or LAD.
The third conference was held in
the John Bassett Moore High
School and at this time the con-
stitutiOn was adopted. The purpose
of this organization is to sponsor
a greater interest among students
in the use of books and library
service, to stimulate reading in
terests, to improve the library SER
vice of the school, and to en-
courage and interest the students
in librarianship as career.
Registration for the fourth con-
ference is at $50, followed by
business meeting. During the morn
ing there will be seven workshops,
each one in two sessions. Libra
rianship as a Career" will be led
by Miss Josephine Betz, Librarian
of Foulk Road Elementary School,
and Mrs. John Riggle, Branch LII
brarian of the DUPONT Technical
Library. Mrs. John f. Mullins, a
member of the executive board OF
the Dickens Fellowship, Philadel-
for Teen-agers." The Misses Peggy
Drake Conrad High School), Doro-
thy Johnson (P. s. DUPONT High
SCHOOL,, and Ellen Irwin civilian
Penn High SCHOOL, will be on
1.-The Student Librarian" panel.
Magazine columns for Teen-agers"
will be under the direction of Mrs.
Thomas j. Sheridan, parochial
school teen-age columnist. Mrs.
Thomas w. Howie, Librarian,
Greenville Elementary School, will
conduct "The Collectors Corner,
displaying and speaking on authors
original sketches and autographs.
Mr.. David Taylor Of the ]. B. Lip
IS
Farewell to Valley Forge" and
Lights Across the Delaware" will
present Introducing the Author.
"The Women Poets Write About"
will be the subject of Mother Mary
Austin, o. s. u, Principal, Ursu-
line Academy. At the final assembly
members of the Ursuline Academy
Library Council will present book
skit under the direction of Miss
Jeanne Carbonara of the Glass OF
81. The Ursuline Academy Glee
Club under the direction of Miss
Marilyn Knode1 will bring the con-
ference to a close. Lunch, cafeteria
style, will be served about 12:45.
At the business meeting next
years officers will be elected. The
moderator of the organization is
the librarian from the school of
the president. A proposed State
Handbook will be presented at the
meeting. The State officers for LAD
elected during last years conven-
ton held at Smyrna are: Presi-
dent, Miss Natalie Pacello, Ursu-
line Academy; Vice President, Will
mington, Miss Dorothy Johnson, P.
S. DUPONT High School; Vice Presi-
dent, New Castle County, Miss El-
len Irwin, William Penn High
School; Vice President, Kent
County. Miss Margaret Behen,
Dover High School; Vice President,
Sussex County, Miss Mollie Cook,
Lewes School; Secretary-Treasurer,
Miss Judith Parks, Ursuline Acad-
emy; Historian, Miss Virginia Field,
Caesar Rodney High School: Parli-
amentarian, Miss Peggy Drake.
Conrad High School: Moderator,
Mrs. John ]. Prentzel, Librarian,
Ursuline Academy.