NCSU Libraries Focus Online

Volume 28 number 3 - Spring 2008

Friends of the Library--In Memoriam, Joan M. Barkalow

Joan M. Barkalow, wife of the late Frederick S. Barkalow, died on November 25, 2007, at the age of ninety. She is survived by her daughter Joanna B. Kann, two grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. Barkalow was a Friends of the Library life member and member of NC State University's Association of Retired Faculty. She was a Raleigh resident for more than fifty years, and in that time was an active member and supporter of the Raleigh Fine Arts Society, North Carolina Museum of Art, Graduate Dames Club, and Faculty Wives Club at NC State, as well as numerous other clubs in the Raleigh area.

Barkalow was a longtime supporter of the NCSU Libraries and helped to donate the papers of her late husband, Frederick Schenck Barkalow Jr. Her contributions to the North Carolina Wildlife Federation live on through the Dr. Fred S. and Mrs. Joan M. Barkalow Lecture series held each spring at North Carolina State University, which enhance students' learning experiences in biology, wildlife, natural resources management, or other conservation-related fields.