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principal and I was the part-time librarian.”
Mrs. Kilby took a leave from teaching to raise her children, Bill and Mary Moore, and then came back to Washington Elementary until there was an opening in Sperryville. She returned to the classroom herself, earning her certification as a librarian at James Madison College and when the new elementary school opened, she was its first librarian.
“You get closer to a group of children as a classroom teacher, but in the library, you see the children grow’, from kindergarten on up until they move on to the high school.” As she's watched individuals change, she’s seen kids in general change as well.
“Children were much more polite in the old days, and when a boy shook your hand, it was just as good as a written contract. That was the way of the hollow. They shook your hand and that was a promise. Now it’s a little more difficult, what with TV and the newer, freer way of living. But children still try, they still work hard to please. Children still react in the same way if you work WITH them. If you show them that you like them, that you’re interested in them, then they’ll give it back to you,” Mrs. Kilby said, nodding her head in that characteristic indication of absolute conviction.
And even with TV stealing reading time, “children are interested in the library,” Mrs. Kilby continued. “They’re doing more research than they’ve ever done before, and the better students are still reading for fun. We’ll always have readers, because nothing takes the place of a book.”
Looking back over the 28 years
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