Gretchen Walsh, head of the African Studies Library at Boston University, died unexpectedly on June 10th 2007 at the age of 65. She was a formidable force in Africana librarianship. Her colleague David Westley provides the following tribute and John Mcllwaine adds a few lines on behalf of Gretchen's friends in SCOLMA.

Gretchen was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and was educated at Muhlenberg College and the University of Pittsburgh where she graduated. Soon afterward she married Ivan Dihoff and the two of them moved to Nigeria first to Ibadan and later to Katsina where they both taught. Sometime in between or later they taught English in Barcelona for several years. They had two children, ...

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