Stranger Bearing Gifts
Mystery woman helps Wisconsin school library
Staff -- School Library Journal, 6/1/2000
Six months later, Brennan got a call from a lawyer. The young woman, he said, wanted to make a donation to the library and Brennan should draw up a list of things she needed. "The first thing I thought was that our computers were constantly freezing up," Brennan says. She decided to ask for three computers and a digital camera. After prodding from her principal, she also asked for all-new furniture and shelving. The principal added in new playground equipment and money to frame student artwork. To their surprise, the lawyer wrote back saying his client would buy everything on the list. Total cost: $77,000. Brennan's still not sure what motivated the donor's largesse. She told Brennan only, "I have good memories of this place."--Andrea Glick
It was just a normal day last spring when a young woman arrived unannounced at Lincoln Elementary School in Wauwatosa, WI. It turned out the woman had gone to the school as a child and had stopped by hoping for a tour. Lots of former students drop by to say hello, says media specialist Jeanine Brennan, which is why she didn't think much of it when the principal brought the woman to the library to look around. 
