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1 MARGIE MAY HELM
§ b. Aug. 21, 1894 I
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1 Margie May Helm, librarian, the daughter of Doctor Thomas _
{ Oliver and Ellen (Blakey) Helm, was born in Auburn, Kentucky.
i She received her early education at the Auburn Seminary, graduated ·
{ from the Bowling Green High School in 1912; was awarded a Babhelor
  of Arts at Rando1ph~Hacon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia,
E four years later. She graduated from.Pratt Institution Library I
l School in 1922 and finished with a Master of Arts degree from the
3 University of Chicago in 1933. She is a Presbyterian and a -
Q Democrat. Her home is 522 Main Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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E Miss Helm began her career as a teacher of English and Latin 1
{ at Jarratt (Virginia) High School in 1916, then went to the Bowling
} Green, Kentucky, High School. After which she received an appoinnxmi .
A as assistant librarian of the Highbrid e Branch of the New York Pwiiz =
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Librarv. The next year in 1922 she was made assistant librarian mm ‘
i then librarian of Western Kentucky State Teachers College, a positim;
i which she fills today.
1 She is a member of the American Library Association, the Southat g
J Library Association of which she was secretary-treasurer in 1934 to
t 1936. She served as president of the Kentucky Library Association
3 for two years and in 1936 was chairman of the Teachers College A
( Librar section of the American Librar Association.
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3 Her clubs are the Twentieth Century, the Literary and Bowling
[ Green Country.
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{ Kentucky Historical Clippings ` A
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i SUSAN THORNTON HENNING {
{ (Mrs. James Williamson Henning) 9
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3 Susan Thornton Meriwether Henning, breeder of Jersey cattle; i
: K was born at her ancestral home, Allen Dale Farm, near Shelbyville,
I I Kentucky. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Meriwether, y
of Shelby County. Her husband was James Williamson Henning II. Q? N
y Louisville, Kentucky, and New York City, one of the owners of the