Some Gave All: the 8th Air Force Series (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781511677578)

A native of New York Mills, New York, Cheryl Pula is a retired Reference Librarian with a B.A. degree in Russian Language and a minor in German. After substitute teaching in the New York Mills Union Free School District for five years for both foreign language and special education classes, she went back to school and received a Master's in Library and Information Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she is a lifetime member of the University of Michigan Alumni Association. Her first library position was as the supervisor of the Lending Department at the Mid-York Library System in Utica, where she performed all the reference and research work for the system's 43 member libraries. After almost ten years, she became the Head of the Adult Services Department at the Utica Public Library in Utica, then in 1987, the Reference Librarian at the Dunham Public Library in Whitesboro. Though officially retired in August 2011, she now works part-time at the New York Mills Public Library in New York Mills, NY. Cheryl also does extensive speaking engagements throughout New York and is available to speak at your next event. In 1988, Pula was awarded the New York Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Award. She served on the Board of Trustees of the New York Mills Public Library. Cheryl also teaches for the Mohawk Valley Institute for Learning in Retirement at the Mohawk Valley Institute for Learning in Retirement at SUNYPI in Marcy, New York, teaching a variety of historical subjects to retirees who are interested in continuing their education. She has taught courses on unsolved historical mysteries; the American Civil War; World War II; The Titanic and several other topics. She is a member of the American Legion Auxiliary of the Arthur Moran Post #66 in Camden, New York, as well as an honorary member of the Memphis Belle Memorial Association of Memphis, Tennessee. She is known around central New York for presenting a number of historical lectures (110 to be exact!) on topics from the Titanic to the first moon landing in July 1969. Cheryl was elected "Historian of the Year" by the Oneida County Historian's Association in 2006, and chosen MVILR Facilitator of the Year for 2014. In 2010, she was listed in Who's Who In America. To arrange to have Cheryl at your next event as a Keynote Speaker, e-mail info@8thmilitary.com or visit her website at: http: //www.8thmilitary.com.