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(Continued from Page 1) and collectors featured on the library steps. Her boundless enthusiasm sparked the "Super Flea Markets” of 1972 and 1973 which grossed a total of almost $9,000 for the library.
In her nomination letter, Grace Sims noted that Mary has been a frequent visitor to the State Library in Richmond. working to ensure that Rappahannock’s elegibility for state and federal aid programs. Every May, she has appeared before the county’s board of supervisors to eloquently plead a case for continued county support of the library.
To The Rescue
In April, 1979, it appeared that the Rappahannock Library would lose federal and state funds due to inadequate financial support by local government. Mary Jamieson personally prepared and circulated a petition calling for an additional 25 cents per capita of local tax money, a raise from 45 cents to 70 cents. The 850 signatures she collected plus her own lobbying effort were enough to convince the supervisors to grant the increase requested by the library’s trustees.
Her travels on behalf of the library took her to Governor Holton’s statewide conference on Public Library Service held in October, 1971, and to Region 6 meetings of both the Governor’s Conference and The White House Conference in 1978.
Mary saw a library need that remained to be filled and so in 1974, she worked for the formation of the tax
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