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Southern Chapter Members
Oral Histories  Nancy Clemmons
"Southern Chapter members really recognize and appreciate each other.
It's a very encouraging environment for a librarian."
 Lynn Dennison
"The main thing I remember [about my first meeting] was the friendliness of the Chapter.
I just felt welcomed with open arms."
 Sarah Gable
"One of the funniest things I ever experienced in my whole life was at a Southern Chapter meeting, when Ada Seltzer did a roast of Ted Srygley.
She disrobed as she talked. It was hilarious!"
 Irene Graham
"Southerners are social. Southerners are storytellers... Southerners are people who like to gather together, like family, to eat.
The [Southern Group] was a very, very social group of people, and a great deal of fun."
 Desmond Koster
"I remember that [at an early Southern Group meeting] everyone seemed very professional, very stylish, very well-dressed.
They wore hats and white gloves, and they knew everyone."
 William (Bill) Leazer
"[At the Southern Group meetings] there was the omnipresent quartet of gracious southern belles who were the reigning queens of the Southern Group:
Sarah Brown, Mildred Langner, Miriam Libbey... and Irene Graham.
These true southern beauties formed the leadership [of the Group]... you learned from them that a gentle and kind work, strongly enough said, could achieve wonders.
I believe that the Southern Chapter continues to be endowed with directors of insight.
They may not be as soft-spoken as their predecessors, but they are certainly librarians of like action."
 Ann Macomber
"The beautiful part of the Southern Group was that, because the meetings were small, you knew everyone there."
 Jess Martin
"The one Southern Chapter tradition that I remember most and appreciate most is the tradition of friendship and friendliness.
These people in the Southern Chapter are friendly to everybody; they even displayed a friendly attitude toward me, a transplanted Yankee from the north."
 Nilca I. Parilla
"[What sets the Southern Chapter apart] is its excellent leadership, its warm-hearted and very nice people, its members with high professional standards that serve as examples to new members, its good communication, and the encouragement to its members to participate in the organization."
 Mary Fran Prottsman
"[In the Southern Chapter] there is an underlying graciousness and just an enjoyment of one another that I have not found in many chapters."
"My advice to new librarians is to get involved at both the chapter and the national levels."  Ted Srygley
"The aim of those early [Southern Chapter] meetings was to socialize and get to know people.
Southern Chapter for me was a way to meet colleagues in the field."
 Karen Thompson
"I remember always having a real good time [at Southern Chapter meetings]... it was always so nice to get together with people and talk to them face-to-face and to see what they were doing.
Whenever I came back, I always had a renewed sense of the things that were possible.
I always brought back one really important piece of information that would transform some of the processes that I used."
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