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Article first published in Vol. 28 ()

By Raul Bardales Jr., Eileen Marzullo, Heather Coons and Ruth Vise

Erudition need not be dull,” so stated librarian Maud Durlin Sullivan, whose dedication and service for almost 30 years gave the El Paso Public Library a national reputation.

Speaking to the Woman’s Club in October , Sullivan said, “One of the greatest privileges we have in this country is freedom to read good books.”

Maud Durlin was born Dec. 7, , in Ripon, Wis., to Fayette Durlin and Annie Root Durlin.

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Like her siblings and neighborhood children, she was home schooled by her father, an Episcopal rector, and by the occasional tutor. The elder Durlin owned an extensive collection of leather-bound first-edition books on which Maud “cut her teeth.”

Image caption: This photograph of Maud Durlin (Sullivan) at age 20 shows her in her first formal ball gown of pink satin.

(Photo courtesy of El Paso Public Library)

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