{"id":35608,"date":"2018-05-21T14:10:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T18:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=35608"},"modified":"2018-10-17T09:48:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T13:48:22","slug":"ucba-ucserves2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2018\/05\/ucba-ucserves2018\/","title":{"rendered":"UCBA Library Staff Lend a Helping Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

by\u00a0 Christian Boyles and Michelle McKinney<\/em><\/p>\n

Christian Boyles, Collection Services Manager, and Michelle McKinney, Reference and Web Services Librarian, took part in UC’s university-wide, service day, UC Serves<\/a> on Friday, May 18, 2018.<\/p>\n

Christian spent the day at the\u00a0Kennedy Height Arts Center.<\/a> The Arts Center is in the process of creating a landscaped area in honor of Tuskeegee Airman\/Civil Rights activist\/Kennedy Heights resident Lt. John Leahr who passed away in 2015 at the age of 94.\u00a0 The team\u00a0of volunteers from UCBA and various offices on Main Campus planted shrubs and trees, mulched the gardens and cleared out some overgrown trees\/weeds.<\/p>\n

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Christian Boyles, UCBA Library Collection Services Manager (5th from left)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Christian had the honor of meeting Lt. Leahr (and several Negro League ballplayers) once during a Civil Rights program at the public library in Pleasant Ridge, so I was very excited to see this opportunity come up.\u00a0 He flew 132 combat missions protecting Allied bombers from the Luftwaffe.\u00a0 He was a man who risked his life fighting for freedom in Europe all while not being afforded the same rights and priviledges in his home country.\u00a0 I am so happy to have played some small part in bringing attention to a true American hero and helping to ensure his legacy will not be forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\t\t