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Widow offers to pay fine for library book overdue 74 years
Sacramento Bee ^ | 12/8/10 | Anita Creamer,

Posted on 12/16/2010 7:33:17 AM PST by Jaded

For 95-year-old Hazel Severson, the decision was straightforward. The book didn't belong to her, so she needed to return it.

"It was the library's book," she said. "I wanted to get it back to them."

So what if the book – "Seaplane Solo," Sir Francis Chichester's autobiographical account of his 1930 solo flight across the Tasman Sea – was 74 years overdue from the public library in Amador County? To Severson, returning the book was the right thing to do, period.

With the help of her longtime South Land Park neighbors, Jim and Laurie Gibson, she turned the book over to Amador County librarian Laura Einstadter on Oct. 13.

~snip~

Top among the values that demographers widely ascribe to these older Americans are dedication, hard work, sacrifice and conforming to the rules. As Tidwell notes, members of this generation have also tended to put the public good ahead of their personal interest.

Because they had to.

"They took care of each other," she said, "because they lived through the Depression and World War II."

In contrast, San Diego State University researchers say that as the "Greatest Generation" fades away, Americans' personality traits have shifted toward self-involvement and narcissism.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: fine; honor

1 posted on 12/16/2010 7:33:23 AM PST by Jaded
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To: Jaded
"Americans' personality traits have shifted toward self-involvement and narcissism" -- just thank liberalism for such..... =.=
2 posted on 12/16/2010 7:37:32 AM PST by cranked
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To: Jaded

"Hey man, don't Bundy that book!"

3 posted on 12/16/2010 7:37:49 AM PST by dfwgator (Welcome to the Gator Nation Will Muschamp)
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To: Jaded

“...Americans’ personality traits have shifted toward self-involvement and narcissism.”
__________________
I don’t think so.


4 posted on 12/16/2010 7:38:49 AM PST by lp boonie (Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment)
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To: Jaded

The Tasman Sea...

Between Australia and New Zealand...

about 2,000 miles wide...

I dont remember learning about this guy in school...


5 posted on 12/16/2010 7:45:44 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Jaded

The library investigator’s name is actually Bookman?


7 posted on 12/16/2010 7:48:25 AM PST by Joy in the Journey (is not the lazy man's checkbook)
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To: Joy in the Journey
The library investigator’s name is actually Bookman?

I thought he was a janitor.

8 posted on 12/16/2010 7:50:48 AM PST by dfwgator (Welcome to the Gator Nation Will Muschamp)
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To: Joy in the Journey

The library investigator’s name is actually Bookman?

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Interesting how different people pick up on different things - my initial thought was, “Jeez, there’s a LIBRARY INVESTIGATOR?!?”

Colonel, USAFR


9 posted on 12/16/2010 7:56:49 AM PST by jagusafr ("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
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To: jagusafr

Reminds me of the Texas criminal offense of “impersonating a code enforcement officer”. Is there anything more pathetic than a wannabe code enforcement officer?

Colonel, USAFR


10 posted on 12/16/2010 7:58:26 AM PST by jagusafr ("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
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To: Joy in the Journey

I'll be all over you like white on rice, funny boy"

11 posted on 12/16/2010 8:01:30 AM PST by Mr. K ('Profiling' you is worse than grabbing your balls)
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To: lp boonie

I keep hearing everybody crow about them,, but that generation created the very generation they consistently whine about. Narcissism is alive and well in the greatest generation. They consistently refuse to take responsibility for what they created. They are the reason social security cannot get even the smallest reforms. They did some big things, but that Peter Jennings label is worn thin. Do they truly exceed the civil war gen? The revolutionary war gen? The founders? The ones who won the west? I respect what the did well,, but they created what we must deal with now IMO.


12 posted on 12/16/2010 8:18:26 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: lp boonie

I keep hearing everybody crow about them,, but that generation created the very generation they consistently whine about. Narcissism is alive and well in the greatest generation. They consistently refuse to take responsibility for what they created. They are the reason social security cannot get even the smallest reforms. They did some big things, but that Peter Jennings label is worn thin. Do they truly exceed the civil war gen? The revolutionary war gen? The founders? The ones who won the west? I respect what the did well,, but they created what we must deal with now IMO.


13 posted on 12/16/2010 8:22:13 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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