{"id":35,"date":"2007-10-24T13:15:48","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T20:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-01-30T13:40:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:40:36","slug":"alsc-past-president-elizabeth-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/alsc-past-president-elizabeth-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"ALSC Past President Elizabeth Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/watson.jpg' alt='Elizabeth Watson' \/><br \/>\nWith a sad heart, I share that Elizabeth Watson, President of ALSC from 1997-1998, died recently. You may read her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20071022\/OBIT\/710220310\">obituary<\/a> in the Worcester (MA) Telegram &#038; Gazette.<\/p>\n<p>She completed her Master in Library Science from the University of Michigan in 1968. From 1969 to 1970, she was the children&#8217;s librarian at the Bacon Memorial Library in Wyandotte, Michigan. Beginning in 1971, she was the children&#8217;s librarian and then the chief librarian at the Fitchburg (MA) Public Library. She retired in 2004. As an ALSC member, Elizabeth also served on the Caldecott, Budget &#038; Finance (as Chair), Arbuthnot (as Chair), and ALA-CBC Joint committees. <\/p>\n<p>I did not have the honor of knowing Elizabeth; I encourage those of you who did to share your thoughts in celebration of her life and work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a sad heart, I share that Elizabeth Watson, President of ALSC from 1997-1998, died recently. You may read her obituary in the Worcester (MA) Telegram &#038; Gazette. She completed her Master in Library Science from the University of Michigan in 1968. From 1969 to 1970, she was the children&#8217;s librarian at the Bacon Memorial Library in Wyandotte, Michigan. Beginning in 1971, she was the children&#8217;s librarian and then the chief librarian at the Fitchburg (MA) Public Library. She retired in 2004. As an ALSC member, Elizabeth also served on the Caldecott, Budget &#038; Finance (as Chair), Arbuthnot (as Chair), and ALA-CBC Joint committees. I did not have the honor of knowing Elizabeth; I encourage those of you who did to share your thoughts in celebration of her life and work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[91,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memorial","category-news-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}