Honoring Ted Hipple by Keeping YA Literature Alive for Future Generations

[...]with the help of Mark Greenberg, the Director of the University of South Florida (USF) 's Special Collections Department, and Jamie Hansen, the USF Special Collections Cataloguer, the idea for a Ted Hippie Special Collection was conceived. Ted's wife of 49 years, Marge Hippie, flew in from Tennessee for the event as well as two of their three children-Kathy Hippie from New York City and Betsy Hippie from Los Angeles. Besides USF's Assistant Provost Dwayne Smith, Dr. Lisa Scherff came from Alabama and Dr. Jeff Kaplan drove over from Orlando, Florida. Lois Duncan generously donated the proceeds of the night's sales as well as her talk for the continuation of this Special Collection. Since my first edited trade book Dear Author: Letters of Hope was actually dedicated to Ted Hippie, a portion of the royalties has been donated to the Ted Hippie Fund established by the ALAN Board of Directors after his death; a match has also been given by Philomel for this cause. [...]a plaque was given to the Hippie family and they were invited to do the actual ribbon cutting for the 333 donated books.