The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-04-02


Academy. Well. she sent 40 vol
umes of excellent books. And
here is a set Of Encyclopedia
went by j. T. Hopkins. of Roa-
noke. 1t is the 18th edition,
probably the most scholarly
edition OF the century.
And here is a beautifully il
Illustrated edition Of King James
Version Of the Holy Bible sent
10 us by one OF our former stu
dents. Billy Hodges. who now
lives in Orlando, Fla. You can
see that it has been in use and
is one of our priced possessions,
not only because it is beautiful
but it is the donation from one
of our recent graduates.
Library Product of Many
Academy Library is the re-
suit of many efforts by friends
far and wide. Miss O'Brien
said. -Four years ago. it just
about broke my heart to turn
the key on the old Farmville
High School library, where l had
labored Is years to build up a
superior school library But I
was soon healtened during that
summer Of 1859, when Mr.. Jack
Fitzpatrick. edioft OF the Rich
mond News Leader, promised
| that he would help me get a
new library started. With his
help and that of Mr.. j. B Wall
of the Farmville Herald, and
several other newspaper editors
at Danyille. South Boston, EN-
porla, r o anok e. Petersburg,
Brookneal, and others. fell in be-
hind them and the books started
rolling into the temporary IL
brary at the Farmville PreSby-
terrain Church. Local peop e
shared their private libraries
and gave or lent literally thous-
ands of good books. The UDC in
Richmond was collection point
truckers, soft drink truckers
and volunteers assembled books
from far and wide. We had
books. book and books. 1000
OF them. which We worked
like beavers TO put on the tenn
porary h e ly S. When school
opened in September We. had
a new ID + airy equal TO the
one / ! 0 ok d in June. Mr..
fitzpatrick has been especially
helpful in supplying new titles.
Mr.. Robert M. Jeffress, of Rich
mond, donated funds in memory
OF his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Jeffress, and here we
are with one of the best school
libraries in Virginia. The per
capita ratio is Is books per stu
dent, and they are excellent
books, too. not just shelf filters
IN fact. we are going to need
more Shelf space. but our IL
brary was built with that in
mind.
Recently an anonymous don
or sent lis 40 new books of in
terest to the teenagers.
/ Another addition was Inau-
gural Addresses of the Presi.
dents of the United States from
George Washington to John F.
Kennedy. sent by Congressman
Watkins NJ Abbitt, and a Bio
graphical d irect tory of the
American Congress 1774 : 1861
both recent publications of the
Library of Congress. A full
set of Americana Encyclopedias
! 1862 donated by a friend il
Washington. was a valuable ad
dition. Individual patrons. the
Upper PTA and the Falmvillt
W0man's Club have made ap
preciated donations this year
To meet the standards of the
Virginia Board of Education fol-
an accredited library an annua
expenditure Of 50 per pupil mus
be made Individual donations O
money and books have enabled
the library to meet this require
ment so far.
What do we need now?
We'll, Of course We have 4.
designed plan for acqnrinl
books as we get the funds. am
| have list of books We need
some duplicate what we have
but we need them for circula
ton.
Probably. some of your sub
scribers have duplicates of thes
books in their libraries the,
would give or lend our library
: Or. possibly some people woul
like to donate one or more Q
the books. l have the titles an
: the approximate costs of each
Let me thank everyone TO
the cooperation, the donation
and for the books here on loar