Elizabeth Moger, a surviving member of one of Roslyn's most distinguished families, is planning on leaving the village. Mrs. Moger is the wife of the late Roy Moger, longtime board of trustee member, official village historian and author of the popular Roslyn, Then and Now history and guide to the village.

Mrs. Moger is relocating to a retirement community in Hanover, NH. A native of the Upper Midwest, Minnesota and South Dakota, she was also a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, MN and a member of the US Army during World War II.

Following the war, she worked at libraries in Baltimore, MD and Great Neck, Elmont and Mount Vernon, NY before moving to Roslyn in 1954 when she married Mr. Moger. After retiring from the Mount Vernon library staff, Mrs. Moger was the archivist for a Manhattan-based "religious society of friends."

In 1964, Mr. Moger published Roslyn, Then and Now. Three decades later, the Bryant Library published a second edition of the book. Mr. Moger, one of the most popular figures in the Roslyn area, served 13 terms on the board of trustees. He also served on the board of zoning appeals and as the village historian until 1990.

Mrs. Moger, needless to say, will always have fond memories of Roslyn, admitting that she will miss her adopted hometown. It was home to her husband and children, but also the Mogers thought "very highly" of Roslyn "as a place," which probably explains the great research and easy prose style that distinguishes Roslyn, Then and Now.

However, Mrs. Moger also allowed she was saddened by events concerning Dr. Roger Gerry---another legendary Roslyn figure---toward the end of Dr. Gerry's long career in public service. Mrs. Moger felt that local residents took "mistaken action[s]" when they rejected the Stop & Shop supermarket, a construction that Dr. Gerry, as a member of the Board of Trustees, approved.

Dr. Gerry, according to Mrs. Moger, tried to get the "best possible deal" for Roslyn on the controversial supermarket plan. Mrs. Moger added that she was both "very sad" that people in Roslyn failed to appreciate what Dr. Gerry did concerning the supermarket or "how useful" the establishment would have been for Roslyn.

Mrs. Moger had kind words for the Bryant Library. She praised the library itself as "absolutely unique" among the many first-rate libraries in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

"There's no other library like it," Mrs. Moger said, referring to not just the regular materials, but also the collection in the Bryant Room. "The archives are absolutely unique," she said.

Mrs. Moger also saluted the Bryant Library staff as "exemplary" and "something special." In a recent letter to The Roslyn News, Mrs. Moger expressed hope that the staff receive an "equitable contract" in current labor negotiations.