ATLANTA'S CARNEGIE LIBRARY SCHOOL 1907

My great-great Aunt, Rosalie Howell, whose life coincided with mine and whom I knew, graduated from the Carnegie Library School in Atlanta's new library building.

The sample questions from the previous class were given out to Ros and her fellow students (girls only) to give them a suggestion of the final examination.  The level of General Knowledge required to pass this test is astonishing by today's standards, not to mention that a fluency in French was also required.

After receiving the Croix de Guerre for her nursing work in France during the Great War (and presented to her by General "Blackjack" Pershing  on his visit to Atlanta), for about twenty years she ran the extensive East Coast library system for the US Army, administered from Governor's Island in New York Harbor.

Aunt Ros, as I knew her, was the fierce keeper of the Howell history. She's shown here in her apartment in the (now-demolished) Pershing Point Hotel, named after Pershing following his visit here to meet her.  Her scrapbooks are held by the Atlanta Historical Society which she helped to found so she'd have a place to give her scrapbooks.

June 2016