by Marsha Middleton

After reading in the VSLA newsletter about former president Rebecca Brown’s heading from her school in Warsaw to a school in Egypt, Dollinda Lund and I, who had served with Rebecca on GMBA, planned to have lunch with her at the Perennial Pleasures Nursery and Tea Garden in East Hardwick while she was in Vermont.  Unfortunately, at the last minute, Rebecca couldn’t attend, but serendipitously, who should arrive for lunch but VSLA librarians Karen Gockley, who is librarian in Beijing, China, and Harriette Phillips-Hamblett, who was shortly to leave for a library in Milan, Italy.  We had a great time talking over old times and hearing of Karen’s adventures in China, as well as Harriette’s plans for her three years in Europe.  In the picture, we are all holding purses from China given to us by Karen.

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