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Tags: 1986, accounting, April 1986, Avon Theater, Bazley's Meat Market, Beach House, Betty Turnell, Bijou Theater, Brintlinger Funeral Home, broken home, Bryn Mawr PA, business major, C.L.U., changes to Decatur, Chartered Life Underwriter, childhood, College of Life Underwriters, contractor, Dean Mesnard, debit company, Decatur Club, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Decatur Memorial Hospital, Dr. Beadles, Empress Theater, Fairview Park, family life, financial planning, G.I. Bill, Great Depression, heating engineer, inflation, insurance office, interview, Lake Decatur, life insurance, Life Underwriter's Training Council, Lincoln Apartments, Lincoln Hotel, Mary W. French School, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Millikin University, mow lawns, mutual companies, OH100, old gravel pit, oral history, painter, Piggly-Wiggly, Prof. Glen Smith, Pythian Home, rake leaves, recording, Roosevelt Junior High School, salesmanship, Shinner's Meat Market, shovel snow, Steven's Creek, stock companies, swimming, Texaco Light House, Texaco Tower, Transfer House, Williamson Heating Company of Cincinnati, Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, workmen's compensation, World War II

Tags: "bear" crew, "gandy-dancers", 1982, accidents, Allis Chalmers, Army, Betty Turnell, braking, Conductor, Decatur IL, diesel engines, firing, freight trains, golf, grandchildren, interview, May 1982, Meyers' Brothers, Norfolk and Western Railroad, OH99, oral history, passenger trains, pension, politics, recording, retirement, social security, Steam Engines, track maintenance, Travel, W.T. Layton, Wabash Railroad

Tags: 1985, Anna B. Millikin Home, August 1985, Betty Turnell, changes to Decatur, childhood, Country Club, Decatur High School, Decatur Hotel and the Arcade, Decatur IL, Erma Wait Cook, fire, Interurban, interview, junior high school, Lincoln Theatre, Mary French School, Millikin University, Morehouse and Wells, Mrs. George Cook, OH96, oral history, Packard automobile, recording, St. Nicholas Hotel, stage plays, streetcar, Transfer House, Travel, vaudeville, W. Main St., Wait-Cahill Wholesale Company, Women's Club, Wood Street School

Tags: Administration, Adult Division, Agenda, August mintues, Baby Talk, bills and payroll, board of directors, Board of Directors contact information, Board of Trustees, Bookmobiles, building division, children's division, circ division, circ stats, City Librarian's Report, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, division head report, DRA, DRA training, e-mail accounts for staff, Expenditures, Extension Division, Finance and Properties, Friends Book Sale, Gate Foundation Grant, GEAC, Illinois Power, job ads, job description, lease space, Lee Ann Fisher, long range plan, Meeting, Minutes, Personnel Policy and Pubic Relations, power outage, RCC, reports, residency requirement union staff, Revenue, RPLS, September 2001, Staff, Standards for Illinois Public Libraries, Statistical Report, system administration, tech division

Tags: Administration, Adult Division, Agenda, bills and payroll, board of directors, Board of Trustees, Bookmobiles, building division, building paid off, circ stats, City Librarian's Report, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, DPL webpage, DRA, Expenditures, Extension, Finance and Properties, friends, Gates Foundation Grant, GEAC, Lee Ann Fisher, long range plans 2001-2006, Meeting, Minutes, PA system, personnel policy and public relations, reports, Revenue, revised job description, RPLS, September minutes, Standards for Illinois Public Libraries, Statistical Report, Sunday hours, Trustee Times, weather related emergencies

Tags: 1977, 4-year scholarship, A.H. Mills, A.M.E. Church, African Methodist Church, Betty Turnell, brother, C.L. Livingston, childhood, College Street Chapel, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, discrimination, Dr. Ellis, Edward Jacobs, family life, First Methodist Church, First Presbyterian Church, housing discrimination, Howard Shaw, Howard University, Huron Place, injunction, interview, James Millikin University, job discrimination, John Reagan, Lake Decatur, Lincoln School, March 1977, Marie G. Baker, Marietta Street School, Mary White Ollington, Mrs. Buster, Mrs. Eugenia Bacon, Murfield Storey, N. Union St., NAACP, National Civil Rights Law, national meetings, Niagara movement, OH95, oral history, Pennsylvania line, Physician's and Surgeon's College, Pugh School, race discrimination, Railway Postal Service, recording, Rev. E.M. Antrim, San Tucker, Singleton's Restaurant, Springfield Race Riots, swimming beach, swimming pools, truck garden, Warren Hardy, William English Walling

Tags: Administration, Adult Division, Agenda, Anthology Booksellers, Baby Talk, bills and payroll, board of directors, Board of Trustees, Bookmobiles, building division, children's division, circ division, City Librarian's Report, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, DRA, Expenditures, Extension, Finance and Properties, Foundation, friends, Gate Foundation Grant, Jesse White, John Dunn, Lee Ann Fisher, Lee Ann fisher reception, library holidays, material selection and collection development policy, Meeting, Meyer Trust, Minutes, October minutes, Parking Lot, personnel policy and public relations, reports, Revenue, RPLS, Staff, Standard for Illinois Pubic Libraries, Statistical Report, tech division, travel policy

Tags: 1983, Betty Turnell, Buddhist Monastery, Camp Milam, Central Jurisdiction, childhood, Christian County, Christian Social Relations, Cleveland Avenue Methodist Church, conversational English, country school, Davidson, Decatur District Women's Foreign Missionary Society, Decatur High School, Decatur IL, Dr, Dr. Donald Gibbs, Dr. E.T. Evans, earthquake, Eastern Michigan University, Evangelical United Brethren Church, farm, First Methodist Church, First Methodist Church of Evanston, Garrett Theological Seminary, Great Depression, Harriet Ellis, Illiopolis High School, Imogene Brown, international committee, Interurban, interview, Japan, Jurisdiction Woman's Society, Ladies' Aid Society, Methodist Church combination, Millikin University, Mrs. Conklin, Mrs. E.T. Evans, Mrs. Lucy Oplinger, Mrs. Marksmiller, Mrs. R.C. Augustine, Mrs. Ruth Gibbs, national board, Negro colleges, North-Central Jurisdiction, Northwestern University, November 1983, OH93, oral history, president, recording, SATC, School of Christian Mission, sound recording, Student Army Training Corps, Teacher, teachers' college, United Methodist Church, Wesleyan Service Guild, Women's Home Missionary Society, Women's Society of Christian Service, World War I, WWI, YMCA, Ypsilanti MI

Tags: Agenda, Annual Meeting, annual report of interim city librarian, annual report to city council, annual report to Illinois State Library, April minutes, art gallery, bills and payroll, board of directors, Board of Trustees, Bodine Electric, Brinkoetter, circ stats, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, Expenditures, fire dampers, Interior Specialty, Jones and Sullivan ENT. Inc., Karen Anderson, lease space electrical services, lease space fire wall, Meeting, Minutes, Nims Computer Consultant, nomination of officers, reports, Revenue, Security Guard, Statistical Report, upgrade DRA, White Supremacist Sues Library article

Tags: 3-M self check machine, Agenda, Anthology Booksellers, Associated Constructors, bills and payroll, board of directors, Board of Trustees, canopy roof, children's division, circulation staff, Colorado bookmobile, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, division head report, DRA conversion, DRA Standards Committee, Expenditures, February minutes, Finance and Properties, Foundation, friends, Gardeners Corner, GEAC, Heart Technologies, interim city librarian report, Karen Anderson, lease space, Madden Auditorium, March 2001, Matt Hale, Meeting, Minutes, monthly circ stats, Parking Lot, Personnel positions, Racial Purity, reports, Revenue, RPLS, search committee, Security, Standards for Illinois Public Libraries, Statistical Report, thank you letters, website security policy