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Mounce has fond memories of 3 decades
By SHAUNA LEM 7IS for retirement but looks managers, two mayors,
shauna.lewis@theeag !e.com forward to being involved two city councils and keep-
with docu- ing up with two budgets
For more than 30 years, menting the has been very satisfying. I
Clara Mounce has i worked history of have always be@n support-
quietly to improve the pub- the library ed by both cities, and I
lic library system. system fora have appreciated the sup-
On Friday, 1\ flounce display in _ port I have received from
announced that she would the Carnegie the Library Advisory
L step down as the d lirector Center. „ Board and the Friends of
1 of the Bryan-college "I have the the Library." O r;
Station Library Sys tem at most excit Mounce was hired in
the end of the year. ing job any MOUNCE 1978 as an associate librar-
Mounce, who oversees one can imag- ian shortly after visiting
the three libraries in the ine," Mounce said.
system, said she's ready "Working with two city See BOOKS, Page All x
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r. : Mounce to retire this year
Continued from A9 J. Ringer Library, which Public Library after an arson-
opened in College Station in ist set fire to the building in
the Bryan library looking for 1998, and lists the restoration 1995.
Ujob vacancies in the area, of downtown Bryan's Carnegie "She takes great pride in her
7city officials said. Library -now known as the role as a public servant, and
iss Three years later, she was Carnegie Center of the Brazos she has been an asset to this
mepromoted to the head of the Valley - among her greatest community for many years,".
"ailibrary. In 1987, the cities of accomplishments. Deputy City Manager Joey
wiBryan and College Station She also helped acquire a Dunn said.
en'signed an agreement under $100,000 grant from the Gates Mounce and her husband,
grfwhich Bryan would adminis- Foundation that paid for a Claude, who have been mar-
her a library in College Station, computer lab at the Bryan ried since 1957, live on a
byand Mounce became the com- Public Library and additional 30-acre farm, where they
onmunity librarian. public computers in all three tend to horses, dogs and cats.
ed She was active in the design of the libraries. She oversaw They have two daughters,
and construction of the Larry the restoration of the Bryan Bethe 'and Jeane Mounce.
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