SOUTH GATE : 2 School Librarians Win Reader’s Digest Award
Two librarians from South Gate Junior High won a prestigious education award Wednesday for their efforts to encourage parents and children to read.
Ruby Ling-Louie and Dale Buboltz are among 10 national winners of the 1992 Reader’s Digest American Heroes in Education award. Ling-Louie and Buboltz will each receive $2,500. The school receives $10,000, which Principal Peter Ferry said would be spent to enhance library services.
Ling-Louie, 61, was a library volunteer for 19 years before becoming a professional. She is known for taking books to students’ classes when she can’t take the students to the library. Buboltz, 41, became a librarian after first being a classroom teacher. Ferry praised him for computerizing the library and organizing community outreach programs.
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