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Elizabeth Ridgway: A Colleague, a Friend, an Inspiration

Posted by: Matt Raymond

Winston Churchill is widely quoted (although perhaps apocryphally) as having said, “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”  But there are some whose living is also rife with giving. Such was the case with Elizabeth Ridgway.  This remarkable woman, the Library’s director of Educational Outreach, passed …