My Mom, the Librarian
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By Rocco Staino -- School Library Journal, 5/6/2009 2:00:00 PM
You can discover some of the most interesting trivia while reading the New York Times wedding announcements. For instance, this past Sunday financial journalist Jean Chatzky was married. She does |
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Jean Chatzky's mom is a retired school librarian. |
With Mother’s Day upon us, I started to wonder how many other big names had mothers who were librarians. With the help of Google and my colleagues on the school librarian discussion board LM_NET, I’ve come up with a varied collection of librarian moms with celebrity offspring.
CBS senior correspondent, Jeff Greenfield’s 1993 New York Times wedding announcement says his mother, Helen, was a school librarian at the Booker T. Washington Middle School in New York City, while Julia, the mother of Julian Bond, the famed civil rights leader, earned her master of library science from Atlanta University at the age of 56.
“My mother was a librarian, so I had no choice but to read,” said B.J. Armstrong, former Chicago Bulls
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Tim Gunn's mom helped create the CIA library. |
Musicians seem to have a lot of mother-librarians. Indigo Girl Emily Saliers’s mother, June, is a retired children's librarian at Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System in Georgia. Linkin Park’s Brad Delson; the Smiths’s Morrissey; and Australian singer, writer, and actor Nick Cave all had librarian mothers.
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Librarians also spawned powerful leaders, like Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Amy Pascal and the President of Israel, Shimon Peres. And of course, there’s former school librarian and First Lady, Laura Bush, mom to twins Jenna and Barbara—and wife of the 42nd president of the United States, George W.
