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$19.95...order here... 160 pages, 8 x 10, fully illustrated, with index, biographies, and notes about world and local wartime activities.
Elizabethtown College Bookstore or online at
To order the Book from
Elizabethtown College Bookstore:
Aaron’s Books, 43 S. Broad St., Lititz, PA 17543 -
DogStar Books, 529 W Chestnut St, Lancaster, PA Contact the author at herrlk@me.com
Watch Lois on Blue Ridge Channel 11 Lois Herr, author of Dear Coach: Letters Home from World War II, was interviewed by Diane Dayton from Blue Ridge Cable. Click here: Interview with Lois on BlueRidge Cable 11 Book Talks by Lois Herr Scheduled
About the Author
Lois earned her bachelor’s degree from Elizabethtown College and went on to receive a master’s degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Fordham University. She has had extensive experience in business, government service, and education. Under President Gerald Ford, she served in the Office of Management and Budget as part of the President’s Executive Interexchange Program. Lois’s business career included 26 years in telecommunications management with Bell Telephone Laboratories, AT&T, New York Telephone, and NYNEX. Based on her experience, she wrote the book Women, Power, and AT&T: Winning Rights in the Workplace (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003). She returned to Lancaster County in 1990, bought a farm, and later served in a variety of positions at Elizabethtown College--as teacher, senior administrator, and scholar-in-residence. In recent years, she has served her community as chair of the Lancaster County Planning Commission and President of the Elizabethtown Rotary Club, as well as working on numerous state, local, and nonprofit boards and commissions. Among her awards were “Visionary 2005” from the Coalition for Smart Growth and the “Progressive Voice of Lancaster County” from Democracy for Lancaster. |
Published August 2009
The story of Elizabethtown
College, legendary coach Ira R. Herr, and the men and women athletes of
1937-1946. More than just a collection of war letters, Dear Coach is the yearbook
of an era and the scrapbook of an extended family dealing with a war that
forced a generation to grow up overnight.
Find the book:
Raised on the
campus of Elizabethtown College, Lois Kathryn Herr’s life has been
strongly influenced by the men and women of the college community. Her
father, Ira R. Herr, was the legendary coach and athletic director at
Elizabethtown College for over 34 years. Her mother, Kathryn Nisley Herr,
left a positive impact on countless young people during her teaching
career on campus and in Elizabethtown High School.