Famous Biblical couples will be explored at Friends’ upcoming meeting The first of many outstanding speakers lined up for the 2025 meetings of the Friends of the Eufaula Memorial Library is Beth Little, who will speak about famous Biblical couples.
A Eufaula resident since 2004, Little’s career in education progressed from teacher at Paden High School, to guidance counselor and then assistant principal at Shawnee High School, and concluded as Superintendent at Gordon Cooper Technology Center in Shawnee.
She now teaches the adult Bible study class at Lake Eufaula Christian Church, where she continues each week to amaze a full class of adult Sunday schoolers. The meeting at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, in the library’s Follansbee Room is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served and an opportunity offered to join the Friends for a $5 annual membership fee.
Brochures detailing all 2025 speakers and their topics are available at the library.
Please mark your calendars now for the following:
* March 21 – Leslie Young-Holland, a genealogy specialist at Muskogee Public Library, will demonstrate how to find your family history.
* April 18 – Courtney Clark, author of From Grief to Grace, will talk about how to turn pain into purpose.
* May 16 – Michelle Marston with Oklahoma Home and Community Education will tell how OHCE helps local communities throughout the state of Oklahoma.
* June 20 – Molly Hutchins, director of Honey Springs Battlefield, will tell about its role in the Civil War.
* July 18 – William (Bud) McCombs, a descendent of two Eufaulan grandfathers, will talk about the time when Eufaula was once only an intersection.
* August 15 – Selby Minner, an Oklahoma Blues Hall of Fame inductee, will speak and sing about the history of America’s first original music — the blues.
* September 19 – Jennifer Saenz and Vicky Watson—a mother/ daughter Cherokee team, will display and talk about their bead telling exhibit of the Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes.
* Oct. 17 – Danielle Burchfield, EML assistant, will narrate a tour of Greenwood Cemetery with graves of many noted Eufaulans.
* Nov. 21 – Selina Jayne-Dornan’s students from her Eufaula High School speech and drama classes will present a play about sacrifices during war.
* Dec. 19 – Roger Thompson, beloved retired EHI history teacher, will present “How Christmas Evolved.”
The Friends feel privileged to present these speakers who indeed fulfill their goal to encourage appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the library’s educational facilities and to enhance the cultural landscape of the community.
