Friend’s Annual Meeting Open to All
Posted on: August 11, 2009
“For the Love of Books” is open to everyone, even if you are not a member of Friends of Murphy Library. It is the Friends’ potluck dinner and annual meeting starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, August 18 in the library’s meeting room and you’re invited to invite your friends.
Special guest Don Randall has changed the way Detroit builds cars. The Georgia-born attorney worked as counsel to the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee beginning in 1967. In the 1970’s he wrote a book that stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for ten weeks. Randall will talk about how to write a book that gets attention. His propelled onto the Today Show, the Tonight Show, the Dinah Shore Show and To Tell the Truth.
Randall’s “The Great American Auto Repair Robbery” documented how American car owners were being “systematically victimized by car manufacturers, insurance companies, car dealers, service stations and repair shops.” When consumers started writing their congressmen as Randall suggested, laws were enacted to help them. Randall is also a retired Colonel, Army Judge Advocate General.
Friends Vice-president Elo-ly Bailey advises everyone to bring a favorite dish and also an empty bag. After dinner, all attendees will visit the book storage area at the rear of the library and fill their bag with books at no charge.
Bailey will talk about what’s available in the library’s popular bookstore. And librarian Jeff Murphy will explain, in easy-to-understand language, new technology for book lovers. There will be something for everyone, with books at the center of attention. Call 837-2417 for details.
Bailey will talk about what’s available in the library’s popular bookstore. And librarian Jeff Murphy will explain, in easy-to-understand language, new technology for book lovers. There will be something for everyone, with books at the center of attention. Call 837-2417 for details.
