Colleagues: I received this sad news from Pam Darling yesterday, and pass it on to you. Wes Delivered-To: orb-boomgaarden.1@xxxxxxx Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:07:24 -0500 From: Pamela Darling <pam.darling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Fw: Dean Darling To: Wes Boomgaarden <boomgaarden.1@xxxxxxx> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Hi Wes, I didn't see this on the preservation list, which may mean I'm not authorized to post there, or that I did something wrong, or...? Anyhow, perhaps you will post it for me. Thanks, Pam ----- Original Message ----- From: Pamela Darling To: padg@xxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:29 AM Subject: Dean Darling To friends of preservation.... Those around during the first generation of preservation awareness will remember Dean Richard L. Darling, who raised the money to establish programs for conservators and preservation administrators at the library school at Columbia University. For several years he was incapacitated by hereditary ataxia, from which he was released on Sunday. An obituary follows: =================================== THE REV. DR. RICHARD L. DARLING 1925-2003 The Rev. Dr. Richard L. Darling, dean emeritus of the School of Library Service at Columbia University and priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem (PA), died January 26, 2003, in a nursing home in Maryland after a long illness. He was 78. Born in Great Falls MT in 1925, of Canadian parents, he grew up in Coutts, Alberta and Sweetgrass Montana, enjoying dual citizenship until drafted into the USArmy in World War II. Following military service in the Pacific, he returned to the University of Montana for a BA and MA in literature, studying under the renowned critic, Leslie Fiedler. At the University of Michigan, he earned a master s degree in library science, and a doctorate with specialty in children s literature. His library career included service in Livonia, Michigan, the United States Office of Education, and the Montgomery County Maryland public school system, from which he was called in 1970 to Columbia University for fifteen years as dean of the world s first library school. Taking early retirement, he became a student again, earning a Master of Divinity at the General Theological Seminary in New York City. He was ordained by the Rt. Rev. Mark Dyer, and served as assistant at St Luke s Episcopal Church in Scranton PA until hereditary ataxia forced a second retirement. During his library career, Darling was widely published, and held numerous positions in professional organizations, including president of the American Association of School Librarians, Second Vice President of the American Library Association, and President of the Freedom to Read Foundation. His work in support of intellectual freedom was dear to his heart, and he was amused to find himself quoted in the footnote of a Supreme Court decision on censorship. Dick Darling was a devoted father and grandfather. He loved people, he loved life, and he loved to laugh - qualities enabling him to endure a long and imprisoning illness with grace and humor. He is survived by two sisters, Grace Lerum of Sweetgrass MT and Doris Early of Lewistown MT, brother Robert of Milk River, Alberta, son Jere of Carlsbad CA, daughter Katherine of Silver Spring MD, and five grandchildren.
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