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Seattle School Library Fund to See First ResultsThe delivery of some 30,000 books to Seattle Public School libraries is expected early this year, the first results of a book fund honoring school Superintendent John Stanford, who died in November. The Seattle Times reported December 30 that the three-year effort to rebuild library collections has received nearly $1 million. Two-thirds has come since April as part of the Stanford Book Fund, established when Stanford was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia last spring. The remainder is private money contributed since Stanford became superintendent in late 1995. The Times said that although the fund has already made some purchases, those books are waiting to be distributed along with many more in a massive single gift, as Stanford insisted from his hospital bed two weeks before he died. Rather than seeing the volumes dribble in box by box, he told his staff, people should be able to view the evidence of the connection between their donations and the improvement to the schools. Posted January 11, 1999. |
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