On Aug 23, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Ray Marshall wrote:
In two years there won't be 50 people who would be able to identify
Countryman, other than by guessing that she was a librarian or
something.
Being that a library contains books, how about naming the new
building after
Sinclair Lewis? I was going to suggest F. Scott Fitzgerald, but I can
visualize the trauma that would be caused "east of the river" if I
were to
suggest that.
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis don't need any help to be
remembered by history.
Gratia Countryman does need help to be remembered.
Your statement -- that less than 50 people know who she is -- is
actually an argument FOR naming the library after her.
Greg Abbott
Linden Hills
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