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Carolyn Mason

Recommendations for Life

by JoAnna McAdams

rs. Carolyn Mason is the Upper Library, where I first met a couple of years. She told the city
a native Texan and a her in my seventh-grade year and manager that she was interested
MSundown graduate. found her recommendation skills in helping out and was able to
Mrs. Mason currently works at the are second-to-none. “You match greet patrons. The library had no
City of Sundown Library but took the reading material to the person,” computer system and no record of
a roundabout road to get there. she said. inventory, as
Her proudest accomplishment, “Suddenly, they had lost
however, is raising her daughter, it was like funding due
Jennifer. “Being a mother made they didn’t to budget cuts.
me who I am,” she said. “But there realize they Carolyn and
are no instructions!” From a bank were learning Mrs. Linda
bookkeeper to a secretary, Carolyn about Canon, also a
has experience in working diligently customs, retired school
in the background. She has a special foods, employee, kept
love of books and has used that cultures, or records on a
passion for the benefit of many perspectives paper ledger
students in Sundown, as well as from books that Carolyn
patrons of the city library. they were designed. They
reading.” handwrote the
Carolyn was long employed by She sought to books’ titles,
the school where she not only ignite passion authors, due
helped the librarian but also in students dates, and
headed the school’s closed-circuit who seemed the patron’s
TV system. Students created their to be merely name. This
own broadcasts, and she oversaw floating archaic system
the program’s audio. From a single through life. lasted several
drawer of broadcast items, Carolyn “Sometimes, months. “I’m
built a major library of visual aids. you just knew a kid needed a little pretty sure we lost several books,”
She juggled nine channels from the extra love or attention.” Many Carolyn said sheepishly, “but
small room adjacent to the library, students missed that extra love people were so glad we were open,
seven of which were broadcast when Carolyn retired from the anyway.” She was afraid the city
throughout the school day. “I lived school in 2016. would shut them down again as
by an alarm clock,” she says. a result of their lack of inventory,
Lucky for us, in October of 2019, but the library was able to regain
For 28 years, Carolyn was a familiar Carolyn heard that the previous
figure in the high school library, public library might reopen after its momentum through dedicated
staff and several much-appreciated

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