Volume 12, December 15, 2016 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) WSL REMEMBERS JOHN GLENN & LIBRARY 21 2) 2017 WLA CONFERENCE PROPOSALS SOLICITED 3) NEA BIG READ GRANTS 4) EZRA JACK KEATS MINIGRANTS 5) TEEN SUMMER READING WEBINAR 6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK
From the desk of Mary Paynton Schaff American hero John Glenn died yesterday after an action-packed 95 years. Glenn was a decorated fighter pilot who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross five times, the first American to orbit the Earth in the Friendship 7 capsule, a 24 year public servant as a Senator from Ohio, and the oldest person to ever fly in space when he flew aboard the shuttle Columbia in 1998. It would be hard to underestimate Glenn’s impact…
(Photo courtesy of Washington State Archives.) For all of you NASA fans and those who remember this monumental occasion, July 20 marks the anniversary when U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin walked on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. In honor of that amazing moment when man first visited Earth’s lunar counterpart, our State Archives unearthed (so to speak) this photo showing Armstrong (third from left), John Glenn (far left) and seven other U.S. astronauts as…