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History:
Originally compiled by Diane Myers
Revised by Marsha L. West
1930
Department of School Libraries of Georgia Education Association
formed.
Beverly Wheatcroft
Chairman,1930-38
1947
Children's & Young People's Section of Georgia Library Association
and Georgia Education Association (GEA) formed.
Chairmen:
1974-49 Mary V. Manley
1949-51 Mary Louise Rheay
1951-53 Frances Rees
1953-55 Dorothy Blake
1955-57 Mary Purcell
1957-59 Mary Carruth Vaughn
1959-61 May McCall
1951
Librarian's Section of Georgia Teachers and Education Association
(GTEA) formed.
Presidents:
1951-52 Theodosia Theus
1952-54 William D. Beasley
1955-56 Leroy C. Childs
1957-58 William H. Travis
1959-60 Helen L. Burnett
1961-62 Rosebud. B. Dixon
1963-64 Doris P. Little
1965-66 Nancy Beasley
1967-68 Laura S. Lewis
1969-70 Lillie Benjamin
1970-71 Cornelia M. Easley
1958
Student Library Assistants (SLAGS) of GTEA formed.
Georgia Association of Library Assistants
(GALA) of GEA formed.
1961
Library Department of Georgia Education Association and Children's
and
Young People's Section of Georgia Library Association formed.
Chairmen:
1961-63 Elizabeth Sorrier
1963-65 Helen Fattig
1965-67 Cornelia Lowe
1967-69 Mary Belle England
1969-71 Wilma Cravey
1970
Georgia Library Media Department (GLMD) of Georgia Association
of Education (GAE) formed.
(after merger of GTEA and GEA)
Presidents:
1971-72 Mable Underwood
1972-73 Grace Martin
1973-74 Ruth White Ormston
1974-75 Rosebud B. Dixon
1975-76 Grace Corrick
1976-77 Lewis Miller
1978-79 Elizabeth Boyd
1979-80 William E. Patterson
1980-81 Jeri Hall
1981-82 Ethelene D. Jones
1982-83 Gordon N. Baker
1983-84 Margaret W. Pemberton
1984-85 Geraldine W. Helton
1985-86 Mary Jean Sloan
1986-87 Ona Blankenship
1987-88 Anita O'Neal
1975
Georgia Educational Media Association and Georgia Library Media
Department merged.
1976
Georgia Associaiton of Media Assistants (GAMA) formed (merger
of GALA and SLAGS).
1983
Gordon Baker named Executive Secretary of GLMD.
1986
Executive Secretary became Executive Director.
Gordon Baker.
Executive Director 1985-89
(In 1989, GLMA was reorganized without
an Executive Director. JLH Consulting
assumed managerial responsibilities.)
1988
Georgia Library Media Department
became Georgia Library Media Association (GLMA) (No longer a department
of GAE).
Presidents:
1988-89 Joyce Durand
1989-90 Diane D. Myers
1990-91 Merchuria Chase Williams
1991-92 Nancy B. Clark
1992-93 Brenda W. Newbury
1993-94 Armenda L. Bonds
1994-95 Miriam F. Powell
1995-96 Harriett E. Brown
(Governing/membership year changed to calendar year at end of 1996)
1997 Webster L. Wallace
1998 Patricia W. Pickard
1999 Marsha L. West
2000 Patricia Wall
2001 Melissa Johnston
2002 Barbara Hallstrom
2003 Kathi L. Vanderbilt
2004 Millicent D. Norman
2005 Cawood Cornelius
2006 Donna Milner
2007 Rosalind Dennis
2008 Sherry L. Grove
1993
GLMA, Incorporated to become GLMA. Inc., establishing a Board of Directors
and an Executive Committee.
Today
GLMA, Inc. continues as the largest professional organization serving
school library media professionals in Georgia. GLMA, Inc.
is affiliated with GAE and is the state affiliate to the Amercian
Association of School Librarians (AASL), a division of the
American Library Association (ALA).
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