Histories · 1975Estimated date
Dittmar biography — continuation of publicity draft
Typescript page 2 recounts the 1938 fire, career, hobbies and 1975–76 county-library statistics.
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She evacuated the building, ;sent a high school lad dashing for the fire department, and the library and the books were saved. The men's room, site of origin of the glames, was completely demolished, but the book collection suffered neither from flame nor water damage. Her superior, in a written report commended her as a "good soldier".
Mrs. Dittmar started work as a library page in Hermosa Beach in 1934 fresh out of Los A geles high school. She received her library training through an on the job program under the late Mrs. Fern Rhein and has serve with every Hermosa librarian since: Eleanor Lapham, Dorothy Olney, Carlotta Hoye, Judy Troland, Lucille Chitwood and Alice Lovelace, present chief librarian.
A native Californian, Mrs. Dittmar was born "in the shadow of the Southwest Museum, in Los ANgeles. She has been married 20 years to Robert W. Dittmar, who is employed at Hughes Aircraft Co., Newport Beach. Her hobbies, the products of which have been constatnly donated to the library for special events and holidays, are decorative arts and needleowrk, crewel and embroidery. Favorite reading is biographies and travel books.
When Mrs. Dittmar started, the county system(of which Hermosa Beach library is a branch)served a population of little over half a million, had a collection of 400,000 volumes and an annual circulation of about 3.5 million. Today the county system boasts more than three million volumes and anticipates a circulation of 12.5 million in 1975-76
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HB fOLL gazin 2 She evacuated the building, ;sent / high school lad dashing for the fire department, and the library and the books were saved. The men's room, site of origin of the glames, was completely demolished, but the book collection suffered neither from flame nor water damage. Her superior, in a written report commended her as a "good soldier". Mre. Dittmar started work as a library page in Hermosa Beach in 1934 fresh out of Los A geles high school. She received her library training through an on the job program under the late Mrs. Fern Rhein and has served with every Hermosa librarian since: Eleanor Lapham, Dorothy Olney, Car- lotta Hoye, Judy Troland, Lucille Chitwood and Alice Lovelace, present chief librarian. A native Californian, Mrs. Dittmar was born "in the sak shadow of the Southwest Museum, in Los ANgeles. She has been married 20 years g to Robert W. Dittmar, who is employed at Hughes Aireraft Co., Newport - Beach. Her hobbles, the products of which have been constanly donated to the library for special events and holidays, are decorative arts and needleowrk, crewel and embroidery. Favorite reading 1s biographies and travel books. When Mrs. Dittmar started, the county system(of which Hermosa Beach 11brary 1s a branch)served a population of little over half a million, had a collection of 400,000 volumes and an annual circulation of about 3.5 million. Today the county xig system boasts more than three million volumes and anticipates a circulation of 12.5 million in 1975-76 ?..30...