Feel Good Story from Phoenix Union‏

A package arrived recently at Camelback without a return address, with two books, a note and a money order. The note revealed that the books were from the Camelback Library, and the writer explained that he (looked like man’s handwriting) had been a student at the school in 1958, but his family moved to Colorado hurriedly and he was unable to return the books. But he calculated that at two cents per day delinquency dues for 51 years, he owed $745. He wrote that he sent along a few more dollars in case the rates had changed over the years, and the money order from “almost a graduate,” was for $1000 to the Camelback High School Media Center. Librarian Georgette Bordine was thrilled with the find, and plans on using the money to buy books. She is also going to frame the letter. Principal Chad Gestson has written a thank you letter to the mystery person whose only identification was a P.O box in Walsenburg, Colorado. The two books were from a National Audubon Society series: Community of Living Things : Forests and Woodlands, and Field and Meadows. Bordine says they were in good shape and still relevant for student reading today.

Source: Phoenix Union High School District