Bulletin

Mark Skinner ’82 received the 2008 Julie Boucher Intellectual Freedom Award from the Colorado Association of Libraries for his efforts in getting a banned book reinstated on the library shelves of Ortega Middle School in Alamosa, Colo. “The Golden Compass” by Philip Pullman was pulled off the shelves because of controversy surrounding the author’s religious point of view. The local community rallied to the defense of students’ right to read and the school’s administration reversed its decision to pull the book. Mark is the teacher-librarian at Alamosa High School.