Congratulations to Sandy... and hooray! -- Melinda C. P. Skinner Richmond, VA -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Brent Tarter <[log in to unmask]> > The Library Board meeting in Richmond on Monday, June 11, 2007, > unanimously appointed Sandra Gioia Treadway to be Librarian of Virginia > effective July 1 to succeed Librarian Nolan T. Yelich, who has been the > librarian since March 1995 and is retiring at the end of June. > Treadway has been deputy librarian since January 1996. She has a > doctorate in American history from the University of Virginia and will > receive a master of library and information science from the University > of Tennessee in August 2007. Prior to becoming deputy librarian, > Treadway directed the publications program of the Library of Virginia. > She is a founding editor of the Dictionary of Virginia Biography, has > published widely in Virginia history and in Southern women's history, > and is a former president of the Southern Association of Women > Historians.