LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Volume 15, No. 20 A Weekly Newspaper for the Library Staff May 28, 2004 400 Volunteers Interview Vets on the Mall early 400 Veterans said Beverly Lindsey, acting Histor y Project director of the Veterans His- N(VHP) volunteers, tory Project. including LC staff mem- “It’s coming together great. bers, are interviewing We’re just hoping for good World War II veterans and weather,” said VHP publicist civilians who supported Anneliesa Clump Behrend. them during the National The Library’s Veterans His- World War II Reunion on tory Project is one of several the National Mall in Wash- organizations participating ington, D.C., this Memorial in the four-day event, which Day weekend, May 27-30. will include ceremonies In addition, the VHP and activities produced by is presenting more than the Smithsonian Center for 30 hours of panel discus- Folklife and Cultural Heritage sions at its performance and the American Battle Mon- stage and pavilion near uments Commission. National the National Air and Space Reunion events will take place Museum (see schedule on on the mall in seven pavilions Veterans’ stories gathered on the National Mall this weekend will join page 5). those of Major William Valentine Loncaric, shown here, whose D-Day and on two performance “We will be taking assignment was to “carry the maps” and help his Corps Headquarters stages, including those of the advantage of this historic establish command of the Omaha and Utah beaches. He contributed a Veterans History Project. gathering of World War scrapbook containing these snapshots to the Veterans History Project. The National Reunion coin- His photos and account of the invasion and his arrival at Dachau may be II veterans to capture as found in a new VHP Web site collection, D-Day 60th Anniversary June 6, cides with the American Battle many wartime memories 1944-2004, on the VHP Web site, www.loc.gov/vets. Monuments Commission’s as possible. The unfortu- dedication of the National nate truth is that this Great- War II veterans die each day and, with World War II Memorial on est Generation is of an age that makes our each death, we lose a valuable piece Saturday, May 29. task urgent. Approximately 1,100 World of the national story of World War II,” VHP, ContinuesContinues onon pagepage 4 Library Long Remembers Its World War II Dead he names of 15 Library employ- days’ work, their names are inscribed in and lettering of the marble panel, which, ees who died in World War II simple dignity as a reminder to us always according to Library records, cost less T are memorialized in gold letters of the devotion which they gave to pre- than the printing of the program for the incised in a white marble panel in the serving and maintaining a civilization ceremony. south corridor of the Great Hall of the in which free men enjoy the benefi ts of Acting Librarian of Congress Verner Thomas Jefferson Building. great liberal institutions,” Col. Willard W. Clapp spoke at the ceremony attended The memorial panel, often referred to Webb said at the 1948 ceremony com- by some 800 Library employees—then at the Library as the “Roll of Honor,” was memorating the memorial. half the staff of 1,600. Commander H. W. unveiled at a memorial ceremony at the The head of the former Stack and Howe, representing the Navy, gave the site at 10 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1948. Reader Division, Colonel Webb had invocation, and Maj. Gen. Luther Miller, “Here in the stately marble corridors, headed the memorial project. Staff con- the Army’s chief of chaplains, gave the where once they passed to and fro in their tributed $1,242 to pay for the engraving MEMORIAL, Continues on page 5 2 THE GAZETTE MAY 28, 2004 NOTICES The Gazette A weekly newspaper for the Library of Congress staff FOCUSING ON REAL Weight Watchers GAIL FINEBERG LIFE ISSUES Editor Sponsors MICHAELA McNICHOL Meeting: June 10, noon - 1:30 p.m., The At Work Program® Visual Information Specialist LM 139. 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