Staff Spotlight, June 2010: Ruthe Morse & Katherine Koehn

Ruthe Morse (aka Leona Ruth) was born in Cabool, Missouri.  She works in the Catalog Department and has worked for MU Libraries for 24 years and 9 months.

In Ruthe’s leisure time, she enjoys reading and frequenting flea markets.  Her hobbies include crocheting and other crafts.

About the coolest place she’s ever visited she said “I don’t know whether it’s cool but I’ve seen the back side of Mt. Rushmore.”

She declined to name an actress portraying her, saying “Oh, I couldn’t subject anyone too such a waste of film.”

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Katherine (Kat) Renee Koehn was born in Ayer Massachusetts. She works in Security and has worked there in some manner or other since July 2006. She is a graduate of Holden High School and also graduated with 2 bachelor degrees from Mizzou (Anthroplogy and Religions Studies).

Kat has 2 cats (black Salek and tortoiseshell Michsief) as well as one silverback zebra finche named Jazz (after the silver Autobot in the 2007 Transformers movie).  Her favorite hobby is beading, and she has bought some of her handiwork in the last 2 faculty and staff arts and crafts show. She also enjoys reading and watching movies in her spare time.

The coolest place she has ever visited has been Whiteman Airforce base, specifically the day the B-2 bombers arrived for the first time.

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