Library cat dons fatigues for Veterans Day
SUSAN LOESCH
CATS IN THE STACKS
Patriotism and appreciation are in the air! On this Veterans Day, rather than say the pledge of allegiance in individual classrooms, our secondary students gathered in front of a huge flag in the hall for the pledge, the “Star Spangled Banner” and a moment of silence.
Our school email is full of thank-you’s to all veterans and soldiers and especially to those close to us…a teacher whose son is on his fifth deployment, a nurse who served in the Navy Medical Corps in the ’70’s. (more…)
Susan Loesch has been the librarian at the Arkansas School for the Blind for 35 years and is on the board of Feline Rescue and Rehome. She started the library cat program about 10 years ago after much animal therapy research.