LIBRARY FOREVER CHANGED FOR DOCENTS.Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
Their job will never be the same - not after last week. For the men and women in the blue jackets a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval uniform. (Naut.) See under Blue. See also: Blue Jacket , something changed. Something big. These volunteer docents at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs can't quite put their finger on it, but they know this much: When the library reopens to the public at 10 a.m. Monday, they're going to have some incredibly moving stories to tell the families, schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school and tour groups visiting the library and resting place of the 40th president of the United States The head of the Executive Branch, one of the three branches of the federal government. The U.S. Constitution sets relatively strict requirements about who may serve as president and for how long. . Volunteer Lee Carter Talmadge Lee Carter, (October 27, 1958 - ) is the current judge of the 25th Judicial Circuit of Alabama. He is one of two judges that serve the counties of Marion and Winston. Judge John Bentley is the other judge that serves the 25th Circuit. will relate how he was called at home, in the middle of the night, and asked if he could come in as quickly as possible. There were thousands of mourners lined up to view Reagan's flag-draped casket, and the staff on duty was worn out. He'll tell them how, at 6 a.m., he was stationed at the door of the Oval Office display, right next to the restrooms for those who had been waiting four or five hours in line. How those people would try to sneak a look inside the display, which had been closed the day Reagan died. But Lee opened it up for them. After 10 years as a docent at this library, he thinks he's gotten to know Ronald Reagan pretty well. ``I knew this was something he would have wanted me to do - invite these people waiting in line for hours to pay their respects to him inside his Oval Office for a tour,'' Lee said. ``After I talked to them, they'd rush back to get in line to hold a place so other people could come down and take a look. Easily 90 percent of them had never been to the library before and didn't know we had displays like this. ``They all said the same thing as they thanked me,'' Lee said. ``They were coming back.'' Docents Rebecca Reimer and her daughter, Cindy, will tell their tour groups about being dog-tired after 12-hour shifts of loading and unloading Unloading Selling securities or commodities whose prices are dropping to minimize loss. people on buses. But they were rejuvenated re·ju·ve·nate tr.v. re·ju·ve·nat·ed, re·ju·ve·nat·ing, re·ju·ve·nates 1. To restore to youthful vigor or appearance; make young again. 2. as they left to go home and get some sleep when a long line of people who had been waiting four hours to see the president's casket began singing ``God Bless America.'' ``None of us saw a single person upset or angry at the wait,'' Rebecca said. ``What we saw were people crying. ``I'd put my arm around them, hold them, and cry with them. It was an incredibly moving experience.'' Alan Pietrowski will tell his tour group about sitting for hours at a table, asking mourners to sign the visitors book. ``Very few just signed their names,'' the Woodland Hills man said. ``Most of them took a quarter- or half-page to pour their hearts out about how they felt about the president.'' You couldn't read the comments without finding a tear running down your own cheek, Alan said. Al and Val Palmer of Camarillo will tell their groups about people like the couple from Canada, who had driven nonstop HP's brand name for its fault-tolerant servers, which range in size from four CPUs to 4,000 CPUs. The NonStop line was created by Tandem Computers, which was acquired by Compaq, which later became part of HP. to be here. Val was on duty at the entrance of the library when they came in, Al at the exit when they left. ``They had driven all night, then had to wait another six hours in line just to say goodbye to the president in person,'' Val said. ``Incredible.'' Al thanked them for coming as they left, but he's not sure they heard him. The couple from Canada were like most people walking out that exit door, he said. Lost in their own thoughts, most of them crying. Yeah, things changed last week, but the biggest change of all will come Monday morning, the docents said. Most of them have been through other presidential libraries, such as the Truman and Eisenhower museums. They've seen the difference. ``When you talk to the docents there, they always talk about their presidents in the past tense past tense n. A verb tense used to express an action or a condition that occurred in or during the past. For example, in While she was sewing, he read aloud, was sewing and read are in the past tense. Noun 1. - now we will, too,'' Val Palmer said, crying. The job will be the same for the men and women who wear the blue jackets at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Dennis McCarthy, (818) 713-3749 dennis.mccarthy(at)dailynews.com IF YOU GO The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library will reopen re·o·pen tr. & intr.v. re·o·pened, re·o·pen·ing, re·o·pens 1. To open or be opened again: Officials reopened the airport after the snow was cleared. Schools reopen in September. this week, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Weekend hours will be announced later. The library is at 40 Presidential Drive, Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. . For information, call (805) 522-2977 or go to www.reaganlibrary.com. CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: Volunteer docents arrive at the Reagan Library for Friday's service. Gus Ruelas/Staff Photographer Box: IF YOU GO (see text) |
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