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92s : Biography

Angelo, Jeremiah D. Assigned a new identity under the Federal Witness Protection

Program, he is working at a public library near you.

Andzoey, Franny. Quit her job and married Bill soon after the events described above.

Discovered a new vocation as an award-winning travel writer after publishing an article about

their “spontaneous marriage event” in Tuscany.

Austen, Bill. After helping the Cistercian Monastery digitize their collection and link it

to a searchable on-line catalog, Bill transferred to the Abbey in Muenster, Switzerland, where he

married Franny and completed his doctoral thesis. Post-doctoral studies have taken Bill and

Franny to Venice, Milan, Rome, and Alexandria.

Belden, Trixie. After a nation-wide candidate search, Trixie Belden was appointed the

new director of the River Bend Library System.

Canyon, Steve. Director of the second best writers’ school in Iowa, Steve has “bagged

more mountains than I can count, really,” and written books about most of them.

Cordova, Cody. After overseeing construction of the 21st Century Library & Convention

Center, Cody retired. Selling out his KeyCo stock just before the bubble burst, Cody was able to

retire while young and still-good looking. Tabbed to serve on the board of the Humanitas

Project, Cody hangs with Ex-President Jimmy Carter, traveling the world, overseeing

construction of affordable and ecologically-responsible housing.

Davis, Jefferson. Jefferson Davis quit teaching, cold turkey, and went off to write that

novel he had so often spoken of at so many writers’ conferences. Jeez, it’s been ten years now,

and no word from him yet.

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Drew, Nancy. Soon after the events described above, Nancy moved to the hill country of

Virginia, where she is director of a library in a building designed by Frank Loyd Wright and

heads the Roseola Support Foundation.

Dude, Derick the. Living large on the fully restored S.S. Magnolia, a floating museum of

riverboat history and fully operational casino cruising up and down the Mississippi, funded by

the NEA, the NPR, the National Historic Trust, donations from the Phew Charitable Fund, and

from people like you.

Fitzgerald, Zelda. Died in her sleep of natural causes incident to old age soon after the

events described above. Family and friends request that in lieu of flowers, please send a donation

to the Friends of Libraries, U.S.A.

Livingstone, Stanley. Retired soon after the events described above. Bought his own

damn island with proceeds from sales of his KeyCo stock, after selling out at the historic high

point for a company that no longer exists. Talk about your flash in the pan. Just an instant in the

stream of things, and yet it irrevocably changed so many lives.

Madley, Marian. Quit the library and opened an art gallery with proceeds from sales of

her KeyCo stock.

Matt, Mayor. Dedicated to a life of public service, Mayor Matt is still at large. “Why

risk your capital in the private sector, when public RDAs are so much more lucrative, return-for-

investment-wise, if you get my drift,” he said with a wink and a nudge.

Mephistopheles, Dr. Frank. Linchpin of the KeyCo deal for the 21st Century Library /

Convention Center, the whereabouts of Dr. Mephistopheles are not known. He’s gone and left no

trace. It’s as if he never existed.

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Montana, Helena. Retired the day after the opening of the 21st Century Library. After

cashing in her KeyCo stock, Helena bought a forest preserve on the coast of Oregon where she

runs a non-profit shelter for homeless women and children.

Petrie, Jamie. Married Reverend Dr. Wu. Moved to Silicon Valley with their baby,

named, apparently, Digit. “It rhymes with Gidget,” said Jamie during a brief phone conversation,

“and that’s the kinda girl she is.”

Rabinowitz, Rachael. After successfully founding a new design magazine in San

Francisco and editing it for eight years, Rachael quit to write a book about affordable modern

home design.

Robinofsky, Argentina. Currently managing the Farmer’s Market for Mayor Matt,

Argentina Robinofsky still hasn’t given up her dream of organizing River City artists into a

unified group. “Heads up, guys,” Argentina said recently. “Next meeting is at the Finnmeister’s,

down by the river.”

Rockne, Knute. At age 75, Knute still comes in to keep the boiler going at Old Main,

reincarnated as The Museum of Library Science, and home of the Mississippi River Folklore

Society.

Rubble. Barney. Recently named Director of Information Services for the River Bend

Library System. Barney is still happily married and the father of three children, “all of them

perfectly healthy and normal with ten fingers and toes, thank you.”

Seriatim, Sybil. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Sybil Seriatim is requested to

contact the Fraud & Vice squad at River Bend Police Department. She is wanted for questioning

about a string of kited checks and bad credit cards used during her brief rein as Publisher/Editor

of NEXXUS Magazine and director of the Deep River Blues Festival.

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Tippi. Still cruising the stacks in transvestite frocks, Tippi can reliably be found after

dark, monitoring the magazines and music department of the 21st Century Library.

Tom. Tom is Chief Maintenance Engineer of the 21st Century Library / Convention

Center.

Vern. Still working two jobs and sleeping through staff meetings.

Wally. Wally is franchasing his rock’n’roll bakery outlets across Canada and China,

adapting to local tastes and what’s available.

Wood, Evelyn. Married that nice man in Idaho with two teenage sons from a previous

marriage she met on-line. They started a computer repair business together, The Byte Shack,

which Evelyn reports, has a new location opening soon in Boise.