THE social SCENE VICKSBURG, MS
Retirement Reception for Mitchell
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fter forty-two total years of library service, thirty of them as the director of the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library, Deb Mitchell celebrated her retirement. Family, library staff and board, public officials, and many friends gathered on Tuesday, June 28, 2016, to issue accolades and congratulations 3 for a job well done. Mitchell started her career in Natchez as Children’s Librarian in October 1974. She then traveled to Vicksburg in 1977 and became Assistant Branch Manager until 1980. Returning to Vicksburg in 1983, Mitchell became Director in 1986 when WCVPL became a single county library. Presentations from the Board of Trustees, Friends of the Library, and Library Staff followed the reading of a resolution from the Warren County Board of Supervisors honoring Mitchell’s exemplary career bravely pushing the WCVPL into the technology age while maintaining a beautiful library with updated collections.
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7 1 Joy Garretson, Lacy Ellinwood, Deb Mitchell, and Jennifer Peacock 2 Denise Hogan and Jennifer Smith 3 Deb Mitchell, Jannie Mitchell, and April Blackwell 4 Debbie Carpenter and Don Kirby 5 Beth Culpepper, Robert Walker, Randy Sherard, and Pam Gee
6 Bill Nichols, John Kamman, Brenda Hawkins, Trudy James, Deb Mitchell, Helen Bowman, and Randy Sherard 7 Marie Cunningham, Trena Taggart, Sandra Mayfield, Paula Benard, Evangeline Cessna, Lesa Foster, Denise Hogan, Zandra Miller, and Katrina Stokes with Deb Mitchell
Bluffs & Bayous { August 2016 { Page 51