Hero of the Week.

I’d like to take a moment to share a story with you, paperreaders. It’s a story that probably won’t take up a lot of your time to read, but will undoubtedly leave you thinking for days, maybe even years to come. It’s the story of my friend, Ryan, who has been deemed this week’s Hero of the Week.

Ryan J. LaBoy

It was a day like any other day at Talbott Library. I was sitting at my desk under the glow of the garish fluorescent lighting (I have to wear a lot of jewel tones so it doesn’t wash me out–but that’s another story), just typing away at the computer to the gentle sound of an ice storm pelting at the windows, when I heard the cry of a familiar voice. The voice belonged to my friend and fellow library-worker, Ryan LaBoy. He stood before me with quivering lip, cradling an unwieldy stack of crinkled paper, which I soon learned was mangled at the hands of angry students. The reason was this: the graduate assistant for Ryan’s theory class was given the task of making photocopies of the final exam. At the beginning of the test, however, the professor informed the class that some of the pages were incorrect and should be removed from the packet of papers. “They were just going to chuck it!” reports LaBoy who, enlightened by the anti-paperwaste efforts of our library, asked if he could take the unseemly pile to be recycled.

Now Ryan has always been a hero of sorts to me, but I never realized his indisputable value to society until today. I have put together a classy photo montage to honor Ryan’s valiancy….