Kathy Drury has been the library secretary forever. Well, maybe not forever, but it seems like she invented the position. She was there when I first worked at the library in 1988 and there when I returned in 2000. After today, she won't be there. The Ledyard Libraries will never be quite the same.
Kathy didn't just type letters, create catalog cards and spine labels, process books, order supplies, pick up papers and the mail, file and do video/audio swaps . Kathy kept us all from taking ourselves too seriously. She always had a remark to cover the occasion perfectly. I will always remember her glee when I sat down at the computer next to her desk to struggle with the library commission treasurer's report. My fledgling computer skills and frustration were her entertainment for the day. Or how she continually asked if I had gotten that boy a cat yet. For the record, that boy is 23, so I guess she has been here almost forever.
Kathy has been both the backbone and the heart of the library. We will try to stand strong without her. We will welcome her replacement and look forward to her expertise and style, but it just won't seem quite right without that impish grin and chuckle as we go about our day here at the Ledyard Libraries.
I welcome others to post their Kathy stories.
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Kathy,
Now you'll have more time to read carefully, the obits...
Do you need anymore blank library cards, before you leave? You know you could leave a pile in every corner of your desk for the newbie! Whenever we write memories, it feels like the person, well should be in the obits! I know they 'll miss you. I miss you and I'm not even there! Keep up your sense of humor and you'll live through retirement, no problem.
Maybe buy some new socks!
SUE
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