Extract from obituary for Lois Sweet Fogelsanger in The Ithaca Journal
"Lois Sweet Fogelsanger, 90, of 106 Kay St., died Monday, July 24, 2000 at her home. ...
Born January 18, 1910 in New York City, she grew up on Staten Island, a daughter of the late William Leroy and Ruth Bigelow Sweet and wife of the late D. Aldus Fogelsanger who died in 1981. ...
She attended Smith College in Northampton, Mass., receiving her BA degree in 1931, then came to Cornell University graduate school and received her MS degree in 1934. She then worked at the NYS College of Agriculture from 1934 to 1943. During World War II, she taught one term in the Geology Department of Cornell and then took Red Cross training for Volunteer Nurses Aides. In this capacity, she served many hours in the old Tompkins County Memorial Hospital and with the Blood Mobile program after it was set up from 1943 to 1964.
She was an early member of the Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library and four times elected their president in 1948, '49, '61 and '62. Serving many years on their executive board, she initiated and organized the first Book sales."