The Pinecone
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June 2013 • 3 •
Are you or a family member ready
to enjoy the Kirby Pines difference
in retirement living?
Call a Kirby Pines Senior Living
Advisor at 901.369.7340 and join
our family today!
Joyce Read was born and raised in
Monette, Arkansas. She was blessed
with a son, Tom, and a daughter, Lee
Ann, both of whom she loved watching
grow over the years.
Joyce, a retired teacher, enjoyed
a very active roll in her hometown of
Monette. Over the past eight years
she was always busy planning events
like parades and overseeing city
beautification projects as a City Council
member in Monette. With over 1,500
residents, it’s easy to see why.
Joyce enjoys smocking, knitting,
ballroom dancing and going on cruises.
She also loves to play cards! She even
belonged to a card group in Monette
that has played together for the past
forty years!
Joyce’s parents taught her to be
honest and kind to others but, most
importantly, to cherish her friends. We
know she will have many new friends
to do just that here at Kirby Pines.
welcome to
3535
Kirby Road • Memphis, TN 38115
JOYCE READ
L E T T ERS
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Kirby Pines librar y volunteers
work long hours to ensure our
librar y is the best it can be. From
stocking the shelves with a variety
of literature to repairing rare
editions by hand, the volunteers
take great pride in their work and
it shows.
The volunteers often receive
letters from Kirby Pines residents
expressing appreciation for their
dedication and never-ending
attention to detail that makes the
Kirby Pines librar y the valuable
literar y resource that it is. The
volunteers would like to share a
few letters with you.
Kirby Pines Library,
As a writer, former history teacher
and an eight-year public library em-
ployee, I am confident that I recognize
a truly fine library when I need one.
The Kirby Pines library more than fits
the bill. It has unexpectedly versatile
and easily accessible collections, and
a highly effective and dedicated volun-
teer staff.
The extent to which the KP library’s
book holdings are able to fill my research
needs is particularly gratifying. When I
needed to know more about early and
mid-20th century etiquette rules, Emily
Post’s classic book was available. When
I needed to refresh my recollections
from Barbara Tuchman’s The March
of Folly, a near-mint copy of that book
was also available and easily found. Of
course, the Kirby Pines Library also has
a good selection of works on Memphis-
area history, including several of my
books.
Finally, our library’s honor system
means that I can check out a book
whenever I need it 24/7. So, what more
could I ask of the library?
John E. Harkins
Kirby Pines Library,
Having tutored English and reading
skills for 35 years, desperate phone calls
from teenagers with off beat questions
rarely surprise me. I once got a Sunday
evening phone call from a regular pupil,
a high school junior with amild attention
span disorder. This particular call did
not reflect her usual upbeat attitude.
She could not understand the plot of
an Ernest Hemingway short story. Her
test was to be the following Wednesday
and her appointment time with me was
on Tuesday. I admitted to her that I had
never come across this particular story,
but I told her that I would find a copy
of it and the two of us would go over it
together.
After calling both Borders and
Davis-Kidd bookstores, I was quite
disappointed to learn that neither of
them had anything at all about it in their
compilations of Hemingway selections.
Desperation sent me to the Kirby Pines
library. There, I found the story in an
obscure American literature book.
I quickly read the story, jotted
down pertinent facts and was ready for
our tutoring session on Tuesday. My
student made an “A” on her test! Nearly
the same thing happened again with
the same student, same teacher, same
agenda, but this time with a William
Faulkner story.
How grateful I am for the excellence
of the Kirby Pines library’s holdings.
Georgia S. Harkins
