Missing Ruth

As the SCBWI-NE Annual Conference approaches, I find myself revisiting friends, faces and experiences from past events. Among the people I won’t be seeing this year are Ruth Glass and Ann Barrow.

On July 10, 2005, after a long and courageous battle, artist, writer and long time critique group leader, Ruth Landers Glass, passed away. With her death, SCBWI-NE lost one of it’s staunchest supporters and I personally lost a woman I considered a great friend and an invaluable advisor. Ruth not only had a love of writing, but a love for writers themselves. She was passionate about supporting them, informing them and helping them become the best that they could be.

While Ruth and Ann are no longer with us, their legacy of support and group contribution lives on. In honor of their vital additions to SCBWI-NE and their unflagging support for their fellow artists and writers, the SCBWI-NE Memory Fund has been established with the goal of providing one writer’s and one illustrator’s scholarship to the SCBWI-NE Annual Spring Conference. For more information, or contribute to the SCBWI-NE Memory Fund please go to our website at www.nescbwi.org and click on the Memory Fund link.