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Frances Lander Spain : ウィキペディア英語版 | Frances Lander Spain
Frances Lander Spain (March 15, 1903 – January 20, 1999) was a children's librarian and an instructor of school library services. In 1960, she became the first children's librarian to ever hold the position of President of the American Library Association (ALA). Spain was named one of the library’s “100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century.”〔Kniffel, 1999, p46.〕 ==Biography== Spain’s grandfather, Samuel Lander, was a Methodist minister and founder of Lander University in Williamston, South Carolina. Her parents, Malcolm McPherson Lander and Rose Olivia Dantzler, met at Lander College while her mother was a student.〔Williams,1986, tape 1 side 1〕〔Davis, 2003, p203〕 Spain’s father later became a railway postal worker in Jacksonville, Florida, and that is where he and Olivia started their family.〔Williams, 1986, tape 1 side 1〕 Born Frances Lander, she was the oldest of three children, but both of her younger siblings died early in childhood.〔 She held her first job as a page for the Jacksonville Public Library while still in high school.〔 After graduating high school, Spain went to Winthrop College in South Carolina and graduated in 1925 with degree in physical education.〔 The fall of that same year, she married a banker, Donald Spain.〔 The couple had two children, Barbara and Don.〔 Don died of pneumonia in 1932 at the age of 2 and her husband died of the same illness in 1934.〔Davis, 2003, p203〕
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