People

Virginia Farace has retired as Director of the Boynton Beach City Library, FL, after 35 years of service. She set an early retirement date five years ago and will leave before a 30,000 square foot addition to the library is completed.

Jack Hicks, Director of the Deerfield Public Library, IL, will retire in June 2006. He joined the library in 1972, serving as Head of Reference before becoming director 18 years ago.

Judy Hohmann is the new Partnerships and Communications Division Manager at the Hennepin County Library at its headquarters in the Ridgedale Library, Minnetonka, MN. She was Director of Marketing and Communications at Twin Cities Public Television in Minneapolis.

John Lamborn, formerly Assistant Dean for Public Services, Ohio University Libraries, Athens, is the new Head of the Lilly Library at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN. He replaces Larry Frye, who is retiring after 26 years of service.

Samuel Morrison, retired Director of Broward County Library, Fort Lauderdale, FL, was honored March 3 for having the vision to create the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) as part of the library system. More than one million people have visited AARLCC since it opened in 2002.

Sue Peacock has been named Reference/ Instruction Librarian and Coordinator of Electronic Resources at Columbia College, Chicago. She was Assistant Coordinator of Library Web Services at DePaul University, Chicago.

Sylvia Tuller, Head of Adult Services, Steele Memorial Library, Chemung County Library District, Elmira, NY, retired March 24. She had worked at the system since 1974, serving also as bookmobile driver, branch coordinator, and reference librarian.

Matthew R. Williams, formerly Director of the Watertown Public Library, WI, is the new Director, Kearney Public Library and Information Center, NE.

Obituary

Wayne Gossage, cofounder of Gossage Regan Associates, now Gossage Sager Associates, Inc., Buffalo Grove, IL, possibly the first executive search firm for library personnel, has died at the age of 79. Beginning in the early 1980s, the firm offered executive placement of public and university library administrators and pioneered the practice of temporary placements in libraries. A former public and academic librarian, Gossage worked at libraries in East Orange, NJ, and in Levittown and Tarrytown, NY, before becoming Assistant Director of Teachers College Library, Columbia University, and Library Director at the Bank Street College of Education, both in New York.