Image from the Licking County Library Veterans Project: https://www.lickingcountylibrary.org/services-research/veterans-project/
Veterans of Granville will be the program topic on Tuesday, Nov. 30 at 7:00 p.m. for the annual meeting of the Granville Historical Society.
Doug Stout, Veterans Project Coordinator with the Licking County Library in Newark, will present the program, "In the Company of Heroes, Granville Veterans." Stout will share some stories of veterans from the Granville area through Revolutionary times to Vietnam.
The annual meeting will be held starting at 7 p.m. in the Society's Robinson Research Center. A business meeting will precede the program that will include approval of the slate of officers for 2022 for election to the Society's Board of Managers, and presentation of the Harold "Buck" Sargent Volunteer Award.
The slate of officers is as follows:
Officers:
President - Heidi Drake
Vice-President - Chuck Peterson
Secretary - Amy Welsh
Treasurer - Kim Manley
Class of 2024 Board of Managers for three-year terms:
Evelyn Frolking
Eric Yassenoff
Greg Dixon
Regarding the program on Granville veterans, the Licking County Library has been collecting information since 2014 on veterans in Licking County for their online database, "In the Company of Heroes, Licking County Veterans." Stout has been with the library for 32 years this coming Jan. 1 and has held many different positions over the years, but his favorite is veterans coordinator. The database currently has over 6,600 veterans and over 60,000 pages of photos, diaries, letters and military memorabilia.
Stout has a weekly column in the Newark Advocate and authored a book published by the Licking County Library about Licking County Veterans titled Never Forgotten: the Stories of Licking County Veterans. The library has also done three documentaries on Licking County Veterans that he has helped with. Currently, the staff is working on their fourth documentary, When Death Came to Newark: The B-25 Crash of 1942. The film should be finished by the end of the year.
