Terri Orsini Saye, daughter of Mary Louise Baker Orsini, who started at MHS with the Class of 1948, and Tony Orsini, Class of 1946, both living on Swisher Hill, had her photo of a North Carolina sunset featured on the front of the Durham News section of the Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer.

Terri is Cataloging Librarian at the University of North Carolina School of Law with an office in Van Hecke-Wettach Hall. Her phone number is (919) 962-0836 and her email is tsaye@email.unc.edu Terri lives in Durham.

Terry’s late husband, Dr. Jerry D. Saye, on the faculty at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, passed away in 2012.

He won the school's Outstanding Teaching Award in 1998 and  2005, the Association for Library and Information Science Education Award for Teaching Excellence in 2002, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Distinguished Teaching Award for Post Baccalaureate Instruction in 1999, was a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars and 2009 he received the Lifetime Teaching Award, presented by SILS. 

His primary subject areas included cataloging and classification, history of the book, library history and metadata. He authored, "Manheimer and Saye's Cataloging and Classification," 5th edition.

Jerry got his doctorate and master's degrees in Library Science from the University of Pittsburgh.

He was in the U.S. Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy, including the Pearl Harbor Naval Base Library as a Library Technical Assistant. He rejoined the U.S. Naval Reserves and retired as a Lt. Commander with 27 years of service.

If you have memories of the Orsini or Saye families, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com and I’ll add them to this Monongah High Alumni blog.