Rodney G. Sarle ’46

Rodney G. Sarle ’46, of Brunswick, Me.; May 27. He served in the U.S. Navy’s officer training program then held business positions before he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland. He was later appointed to the faculty of the School of Business Administration at UNC Chapel Hill, where he earned a master’s degree from the School of Library Science. In 1958 he was selected by the Library of Congress to serve in various research, reference, and administrative positions before being appointed as the director of the Library’s acquisition and processing office attached to the American Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, in 1964. In 1967, following the Six-Day War, he was evacuated from Egypt and assigned as director of the Library of Congress office in Karachi, Pakistan. He later held dual appointments as director of both the Cairo and Karachi offices. Subsequently, he headed the Library’s offices in New Delhi, India, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He returned to Washington, D.C., in 1976 and headed the Library of Congress’s programs in parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. He retired to Brunswick in 1989, where he continued to travel and volunteer at local libraries. Phi Beta Kappa. He is survived by nieces and nephews.