Saturday, March 5, 2011

WHERE IS LOVE? & I WAS VERY HUNGRY

This month our tellers told stories based on the theme of "Where is Love? and  I Was Very Hungry".

L to R - Pat Sandefur, Ann Rothschild, Nancy Griffith and Robin Aurelius.

Pat Sandefur
was inspired to tell us the story of meeting her husband while on duty as a librarian.  Her charming and more sophisticated supervisors cautioned her that he might be acceptable if "he would lose the red pants."  Since they both knew Oklahoma well, Pat accepted him, red pants and all, and the rest is history. 

Ann Rothschild
told of the legacy of WWII when she and her family suffered in many ways on the beautiful Isle of Guernsey, and how she found the one place she was sure to find warmth and love.

Nancy Griffith
led a big troop of hungry Girl Scouts into the wilderness and the packer bringing the food to a drop-off point did not show up.  Many miles into the wilderness, with a hoard of hungry scouts, what's a leader to do?  and, what did the Scouts do to the packer when he came a day late?

Robin Aurelius
played the organ as a boy in church, and as he grew older followed the profess into many different churches.  In one, he helped with the merger of two congregations, but found the new organ could not coexist with the old.  It was the building committee versus the music committee. What would happen to the Hammond organ if the alter rail and the carpet had to be cut?

LOCAL PUBLICITY

It seems that Straight Talk Storytellers is gaining a little bit of "awareness" momentum. We were featured in the February 22 edition of Senior Spectrum.  We were delighted make the front cover. The feature story is called, "Once Upon a Life."

The February edition of Midtown Monthly also published a fun candid shot of Mary McGrath at the Marrs building off of J street.