Page 23 - Priorities #15 2001-July

(Library continued from page 11)
In the early 1970s, students packed up the books in baskets and moved them across the road to a newly designed library building—now the Assembly Hall and music classroom. The new library was so spacious you could almost hold dances between the tables, said Peter Reinhardt, who has archive photos of those early days.
The Jackling collection is still helping supply the library. Peter Rinhardt has sorted out books that might now be more profitably sold than housed—a few in foreign languages now rarely uses and some of which we have duplicate copies, for example. Parent volunteers have priced these books using Internet sources and two students, Charles Kou and Sampson Ho (Class of 2001) established a relationship with an international bookseller in London.
Today, library purchases are paid from the school operating budget. Choices include teacher requests and resources suggested through professional library associations. In the 2000-2001 school year, the library added 314 books, 4 videos, 17 DVDs and one script. Titles of new acquisitions are published in the daily e-bulletins.
Parent volunteers today are essential in maintenance, not direct funding. They have the collections completely cataloged and referenced for the first time, and they have successfully created on-line access. They are working on archiving historical materials as well as pricing the rare books. Thanks to parents, the multi-media materials are easily accessible for the first time.
"A great library takes time. Without all those Mothers Teas decades ago we wouldn’t have the luxury of our extensive collection today. I think those parents must have worked at least in part out of respect for the idea of the library as a cornerstone to academia. They knew their own students would only be here for a short time but what they
were building would last," said Tim
Molak, headmaster.
The original old building is still with us. It is the front section of the Fine Arts Building.
Who Are The Soccer Greats From the
First Twenty Years?
Ramiro Arredondo is clearly a soccer great of the last decade (see the story, page 26). After his recent visit to the Priory, people in the alumni office began speculating on who the greats may have been from the school’s first two decades.
That was back when soccer was an unusual sport in this area, when we played the Stanford freshman team and schools in the Monterey area, and when monks were out there in soccer shoes.
Elizabeth Dellheim, Class of 2002, scoured yearbooks and compiled a list of candidates. Monks and faculty with long memories whittled that down. Now we would like input from grads of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Whose names would you submit for the Soccer All-Star 1960-80 team? Contact Father Martin Mager (mmager@woodsidepriory.com) or Gail Kimball (gkimball@ woodsidepriory.com).
Here are our nominees: Pepe Itturralde
Noel Kidd
Greg Miodonski (deceased) Sean Smith
Joe Mongtero
Steve Kalman (deceased)
Ben de los Reyes Bele Csikesz Attillia Csikesz Carlos Araujo Emery Csikesz Bob Dougherty
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This archival photo shows the library when it was located in a spacious Assembly Hall. Now the Assembly Hall is overcrowded for its multiple uses but could house the current library well.