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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter | June 9, 2011
Esther L. Sandstrom, a former middle school librarian and a world traveler, died May 26 of heart failure at Franklin Square Hospital Center. She was 95. Esther Louise Plancon, the daughter of French immigrants, was born and raised in Springfield, Mass., where she graduated in 1933 from Classical High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from American International College in Springfield in 1937. She worked as a telephone operator after college and in 1937 married John Russell Sandstrom.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | October 18, 2010
Margaret M. Guccione, a retired Goucher College information technology librarian and volunteer who helped place stray animals, died Oct. 8 of colon cancer at her Butchers Hill home. She was 67. Margaret McFarlane, the daughter of a physician and a nurse, was born and raised in Alton, Ill. After graduating in 1961 from Marquette High School in Alton, Ms. Guccione earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1965 from St. Louis University. She taught English in St. Louis until moving to Germany in the late 1960s with her first husband, David Guccione, whom she later divorced.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter | October 14, 2010
Carol N. Kelly, who was head librarian at St. Paul's School for Girls for two decades and an active churchwoman, died Sept. 29 of Alzheimer's disease at the Maples of Towson, an assisted-living facility. She was 71 and had lived in Cockeysville. Carol Ann Newman, the daughter of an insurance executive and a homemaker, was born in Hartford, Conn., and graduated from East Hartford High School. She was an undergraduate at Drew University in Madison, N.J., when she met and fell in love with a classmate, John Frederic Kelly.
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By FREDERICK N. RASMUSSEN | March 17, 2009
Paulette Tanenbaum, a retired Harford County librarian, died of malignant melanoma March 8 at her home in Street. She was 79. Paulette Townsend was born in Paris, the daughter of an American pastor and a French mother. After the Germans occupied France, the family fled to Lisbon, Portugal, where they boarded a ship for New York. They lived in southern New Jersey before moving to Providence, R.I., where Mrs. Tanenbaum graduated from Mount Pleasant High School. She later moved to Harford County, where she worked as a county librarian in Bel Air and Fallston for 30 years.
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By Gregory P. Kane and Gregory P. Kane,Sun Staff Writer | October 1, 1994
A librarian and an art teacher were injured yesterday as they tried to break up a student brawl at Meade Senior High School, authorities said.Donald Gobbi, the librarian, was flown to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center for treatment, said Anne Arundel County police spokesman Randy Bell. Mr. Gobbi was released last night, ...^...C hospital spokeswoman said.John O'Neill, the art teacher, was treated at North Arundel Hospital for minor injuries and released, Officer Bell said.Five students received minor injuries in the fracas, which brought county officers and military police from Fort Meade rushing to the school.