Submitted to Sumner Newscow — Jo Plumb, Wellington Public Library Director, along with several members of the Library Board of Trustees and library patrons joined together Thursday at a reception to celebrate National Library Week and to announce a generous gift received from long time Wellington resident Sibyl K. Wells. 

Sibyl Wells

Ms. Wells was a graduate of Wellington High School and went on to work for the Allis-Chalmers dealership for 35 years and then the Sumner County Clerk’s Office for 20 years before retiring.  Ms. Wells died October 20, 2015 at the age of 97.

Ms. Wells’s donation, which exceeded $100,000, will be used in accordance with the library’s mission and values; to support the library’s endeavor to be responsive to the ever changing information needs of the community and to support diverse programming, and up-and-coming technologies.The Board of Trustees is very grateful to receive such a generous gift to further the Library’s programming and mission.  The Wellington Public Library will be celebrating its 100th anniversary this summer.  It is one of the few Carnegie Libraries still in use in Kansas.

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