Edward I. Barton of Washington, Va. was recently elected

Edward I. Barton of Washington, Va. was recently elected as president and a director of the Friends of Rappahannock Library.

Mr. Barton retired president and chief executive officer of Newmont Oil Company, Houston, Texas, grew up in Alexandria. He graduated from Virginia Espicopal School, Lynchburg and from the College of Engineering of the University of North Carolina. Following 3'/2 years service in the Navy, his career in the oil business included 13 years abroad in most of the oil-producing countries in the world, He has been active in civic affairs in Houston where he lived for ten years. Since moving to Washington, Va. he has included in his civic activities memberships on the Architectural Review Board of the town and the Town Capital Improvements Committee.

The following were recently named as new directors of the Friends of the Library for one-year terms: Mr. Barton, Mrs. Raynor V. Snead, Robert T. Parrish, Mrs. John W. McCarthy, Mrs. Norman Cartwright-Brown and Mrs. A.Y. Stokes.

Continuing directors include: James P. Jamieson (chairman protem), Roberta Anderson, Pearl B. Clarke, Robert S. Inglis, Antonia B. Massie, Holly W. May, Francis B. Thornton and Cheryl Woodard.

The Library also announced this week that it has taken possession of its new books. All of those wonderful, brand-new children’s books we have all been waiting for are finally here and ready to be check out.

But first there will be a preview, open to the public, in the Rappahannock County Library’s community room from noon to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 20.

The library received the children’s books through the Libri Foundation, a non-profit organization that donates quality children’s books to small, rural public libraries. The library received a 2-to-l matching grant from the Libri Foundation’s Books for Children Program.

The Friends of the Library, with the help of the Mothering Cooperative, raised the maximum allowed by the grant, $350, which enabled