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          TODAY IS A GREAT DAY IN LAFITTE. 
          WE WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME ALL OF YOU TO THIS GREAT RENAMING OF THE LIBRARY FOR MISS RUTH, ADAM. 
          MISS RUTH. 
          ADAM WAS A PIONEER. 
          UH, SHE WAS OUR FIRST LIBRARIAN. 
          UH, SHE WAS INSPIRATIONAL. 
          SHE LOVED READING BOOKS. 
          SHE LOVED EDUCATING, WHETHER IT'S CHILDREN OR WHETHER IT WAS ADULTS. 
          WHEN YOU HEAR STORIES ABOUT MISS RUTH IN THOSE LIBRARIES, ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO READ, PICKING OUT BOOKS FOR THEM, UM, UH, TAKING TIME WITH EACH KID. 
          AND A LOT OF THOSE KIDS WEREN'T READING AT HOME. 
          I MEAN, REALLY CHANGED THE WAY THEY, UH, THEIR TRAJECTORY IN LIVES. 
          THAT'S WHY I JUST, I I, I WAS SO EXCITED TO HONOR SOMEBODY THAT REPRESENTED THAT I JUST WISH HE WOULD'VE LIVED. 
          AND, AND, AND, AND DAVID, WE COULD'VE BUILT HER SOMETHING LIKE THIS WHERE SHE WOULD'VE REALLY, YEAH, WOULD'VE REALLY BEEN NICE. 
          BUT I, I'LL SAY SHE'S VERY, UH, DESERVING OF THIS AWARD. 
          SHE WAS, SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, SWEET AS COULD BE. 
          SHE REALLY DID PAVE THE WAY FOR A LOT OF OUR CHILDREN AT THAT TIME IN THIS AREA TO LEARN MORE. 
          SHE ENCOURAGED THEM TO READ MORE. 
          THAT LIBRARY HIT US THE SMELL, THE LEATHER BINDING OF THE BOOKS. 
          AND WHEN YOU'D CRACK THOSE BOOKS, YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST KNEW WHERE YOU WERE. 
          YOU WERE IN LAFITTE LIBRARY, AND IF YOU NEEDED ANYTHING, MS. ROOT WAS THERE TO HELP YOU.
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