Sarah Lillian Bush

Background

Bush, Sarah Lillian was born on September 17, 1920 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Daughter of William Adam and Lettie Evelyn (Burrill) Lewis.

Education

Bachelor of Arts Kansas, Lawrence, 1941. Bachelor of Science, University Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1943.

Career

Clerk circulation department, Kansas City Public Library, 1941-1942; assistant librarian Paseo branch, Kansas City Public Library, 1943-1944; librarian, Kansas City Junior College, 1944-1946; substitute librarian, San Mateo County Library, Woodside amd Portola Valley, California, 1975-1977; various temporary positions, 1979-1987; owner, Metriguide, Palo Alto, California, 1975-1978.

Achievements

• Sarah Lillian Bush has been listed as a noteworthy historian by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Atherton Lands

    (The first printing of this seminal history of Atherton, C...)

  • Atherton lands

Membership

President, vice president Junior Librarians, Kansas City, 1944-1946. Courtesy, yearbook & historian American Association of University Women, Menlo- Atherton branch (California) Branch. Assistant Sunday school teacher, volunteer Holy Trinity Church, Menlo Park, 1955-1978.

Vice president, membership committee, library chairperson, English reading program, parent education chairperson Menlo Atherton High School Parent-Teachers Association, 1964-1973. Founder, board directors Friends of Atherton Community Library, 1967-2002, oral historian, 1968-2002, chair Bicentennial event, 1976. Board directors Menlo Park History Association, 1979-1982, oral historian, 1973-2002.

Board directors Civic Interest League, Atherton, 1978-1981. Member history county commission Town of Atherton, 1980-1987. Volunteer Palo Alto Auxiliary serving Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, since 1967, oral historian, 1978—2008, historian, 1980—2010.

Volunteer United Crusade, Garfield School, Redwood City, 1957-1961, 74-88, Encinal School, Menlo Park, California, 1961-1973, program director, chairman summer recreation, historian, secretary. Volunteer Stanford Mothers Club, 1977-1981, others. Historian, awards chairperson Cub Scouts Boy Scouts American.

Founder Atherton Heritage Association 1989, board directors, 1989-2004, director, 1989-1994. Member Guild Gourmet, since 1971, Mid Peninsula History Consortium, 1993-1995. Oral historian St. Andrew's Church, Saratoga, California, 2003-2006.

Volunteer Los Gatos Meadows, 2004, California. Member Parent-Teachers Association (life).

Interests

• Gourmet cooking, reading.

Connections

Married Walter Nelson Bush, June 7, 1946 (deceased). Children: William Read, Robert Nelson.

Father:

William Adam Lewis

Mother:

Lettie Evelyn (Burrill) Lewis

Spouse:

Walter Nelson Bush

child:

Robert Nelson Bush

child:

William Read Bush