Veterans

There are 147 names recorded in what is interchangeably called the “Honor Book,” “Honor Roll,” and the “War Record of Pages of Kansas City Public Library.” It was created by John Rankin Greenlee, Chief of the Stacks of the old Main Library building at 9th and Locust, who took it upon himself to record and track former library pages and assistants who served in World War II. (Higher level employees don’t appear to have been included.) Now, just in time for Veterans Day of 2020, the book has been digitized and made available on kchistory.org. Inside the sticker-clad cover, the book contains photos, articles, newsletter pages, and additional information about former library staffers. Some pages only include a name and a brief note of where they were stationed in the service or which library department or branch they worked in. Other pages have photos and newspaper clippings pasted onto them, sometimes obscuring other information.