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Amy Massey
MLIS, 1991
As of January 2022, Amy was the Branch Librarian at the Leavenworth Public Library.
Amy Schaaf Massey
MLIS, 1991
As of 2024 Amy retired from serving as Branch Librarian at NCW Libraries/Leavenworth Public Library.
John Sheller
MLIS, 1991
In October 2012, John was appointed to a three-year term as the Federal Relations Coordinator for the Washington Library Association.
Pennington Ahlstrand
M.Lib, 1990
After contracting and consulting in Silicon Valley for 20 years, Pennington started working as the reference and processing archivist for the Computer History Museum.
Mary Furr
M.Lib, 1990
Mary retired to her family farm after a career in corporate systems development.
Kenneth Rudolf
MLIS Law, 1990
Kenneth retired as director of the law library at the University of La Verne on June 1, 2020. He is now a professor emeritus of law.
Irene Haines
M.Lib, 1989
After 15 years as a Branch Library Manager, Irene moved to her favorite position: Adult Services Librarian at the Broadview Branch of the Seattle Public Library. She started at Broadview in 1983 and worked in 10 different locations before ending up full circle back at Broadview.
Lorelette Knowles
MLIS, 1989
Lorelette is a retired librarian (academic, corporate, public community, school), now involved in music (choral singing) and doing a lot of traveling, mostly on her 46-foot sailboat.
Valerie (Schultheiss) Lawrence
M.Lib, 1989
After a many years spent working in health sciences libraries in and around the Pacific Northwest, Valerie (Schultheiss) Lawrence '89 returned to the Bay Area, her native land. In 2014, she she began working as a Consultant for the Care Management Institute, with Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA. She is part of Kaiser's Clinical Library team, responsible for content and project management.
Thurston Miller
M.Lib, 1989
Thurston has worked at the University of Notre Dame since 1992 as the Physical Sciences Librarian. In the past few years, he:
* organized the 2016 Great Lakes Science Boot Camp for Librarians held at the University of Notre Dame. The event drew 75 people from 14 states and one province;
* was awarded the University of Notre Dame Foik Award in 2017 for significant contributions to library service to the Notre Dame community or to the library profession through personal scholarship or substantive engagement in professional associations;
* was promoted to full librarian in 2018;
* was awarded the PAM Achievement Award in 2018 for professional work that is marked by distinction and dedication to librarianship in Physics, Astronomy, and/or Mathematics (PAM). PAM is a division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA);
* gave a talk on using Excel at the 2018 Annual SLA conference that was voted as one of the best sessions by attendees. Afterward, the talk was included in the webinar series: Best of the SLA.