Lulu Informed She has been Elected the President of the American Association of School Librarians - That Makes Me the Trailing First Man

This week Lulu has been visiting several of her library students in their classrooms in Central Florida. It is part of her job that she enjoys very much because it keeps her in touch with her roots. For years - she was a practicing school librarian before she became a library professor at Saint Johns University and Florida State.

Now she is the director of the school library media program at FSU. US News and World Report has named her program as the third best in the nation.

Today - while walking around downtown Lakeland - taking a break in the gardens and sitting at the train station - her telephone rang. Like magic - strains of "Hail to the Chief" came from the heavens. Lulu is president-elect.

Imagine that - the little girl from Tamaqua - who served as a library aid in the high school - commuted to college at Kutztown from home - got her masters and doctors degrees in Florida while tending two small kids - has now been elected by her peers from all over the country to be their leader.

There could not be a better poster child for the profession. And I helped...