Joan Werner and Lloyd Huntington Wilkins

LLOYD HUNTINGTON WILKINS, son of LAURA ANGELINE HUNTINGTON and GEORGE EMERSON WILKINS, was born March 29, 1912 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana,^{250, 4917} and died November 18, 1990 in Chula Vista, San Diego, California.^{250, 855}

He married JOAN WERNER on November 30, 1948 in Coronado Memorial Presbyterian Church, San Diego County, California.^{855, 6883} She was born November 25, 1924 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana.

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Children of JOAN WERNER and LLOYD HUNTINGTON WILKINS:

1. Son
2. Daughter
3. Daughter
4. Daughter

Indianapolis Star, December 14, 1948⁶⁸⁸³

Miss Joan Werner, Lloyd Wilkins Wed

Coronado, Cal., Dec. 13 (Spl.)—The marriage of Miss Joan Werner to Lloyd H. Wilkins took place Nov. 30 in the Coronado Memorial Presbyterian Church. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Virginia Hayes Werner, Indianapolis, Ind.

The couple is at home at 4668 Coronado Avenue, San Diego, Cal. The bride attended Butler University and Mr. Wilkins attended Indiana University. Both are former members of The Indianapolis Star Magazine staff.

Indianapolis Star, February 14, 1952⁶⁸⁸⁵

Spaniards Line Up for Hoosiers' News of U.S.

By SEXSON HUMPHREYS

VALENCIA, Spain—A newly opened project be a Hoosier is a dramatic revelation of how interested in the United States are the Spanish people.

Lloyd Wilkins, a graduate of Indiana University and a former member of The Indianapolis Star staff (where he was the first editor of The Star Magazine), now is public affairs officer of the United States Consulate at Valencia.

He has opened, on the city's main square, a "Casa Americana"—a library of 3,000 books about America and a small theater for showing films of American life. It is a part of the United States information and education program of the State Department.

The reading room is open about 3 hours each evening. It fills up as soon as the doors are opened and a man has to be stationed at the door to admit other persons only as someone leaves.

Valencia is a city larger than Indianapolis, a garden spot on Spain's Mediterranean coast. Wilkins had decided he could "handle" up to 1, 500 "memberships" in the library, with the right to take out books. The 1,500 applications were exhausted in the first three evenings the library was open.

TYPING DONE BY APPLICANT

Typewriters are relatively few in Spain. But to save the United States the expense of hiring clerical help to type out all the forms for 1,500 persons, Wilkins specified that no applications would be received ex[c]ept when filled out on a typewriter. In all six cards and forms had to be filled out by each applicant. Yet already more than 1,300 of the application sets have been returned—typed.

The applicants include persons from every walk of life in Valencia—an orderly in an insane hospital, a pawnshop manager, a hotel porter, a window cleaner, a jewelry designer, a soldier, a policeman, housewives for example, as well as professional persons and language specialists who might be expected to form most of the readers in such a library.

The movie theater seats 99. Before it was ready for use, Wilkins had some American films projected on a wall inside the library so they could be seen from the sidewalk. The crowd filled the street and caused a jam in streetcar traffic.

100 TICKETS BRING 200 PERSONS

He tried giving out 100 ticket to the showing in the theater, and 200 persons came. Now he plans to invite his "members in rotation, 100 for each of two showings each evening. On invitation of Spanish groups, the projectionist sometimes takes his films outside the library, and at times has drawn crowds of more than 1,000 persons.

Wilkins also has a collection of American phonograph records and Voice of America discs, which he makes available to local radio stations. Each of the three Valencia stations is using an hour or more weekly of this material.

Along with four Spanish employees of the library, Wilkins and his wife, the former Joan Werner of the Star Magazine, have been spending their weekends classifying and labeling books in the library. The 3,000 volumes are the "basic set" furnished by the State Department for all USIE libraries.

The Valencia library was opened by United States Ambassador Stanton Griffis just before his retirement and return to America. The opening was multicolumn front-page news in all three Valencia newspapers and was mentioned at less length in every newspaper in Spain. It is the fifth USIE library in Spain.

Indianapolis Star, May 5, 1963⁶⁸⁸⁶

Wilkins Gets Turkish Post

Lloyd Wilkins, a member of the editorial staff of The Indianapolis Star from 1937 to 1948 and now a foreign service officer with the United States Information Agency, has been transferred from Beirut, Lebanon to Ankara, Turkey.

He has been information officer at Beirut for the last two years and will take the same position at Ankara. Wilkins joined the agency in 1951.

Wilkins is married to the former Joan Werner, a former Star staffer. They have three daughters.

Indianapolis Star, November 21, 1990⁸⁵⁵

Lloyd H. Wilkins, 78, Chula Vista, Calif., formerly of Indianapolis, died Sunday. No calling or services are scheduled. The Neptune Society, Chula Vista, is handling arrangements. He was a reporter and editor for The Indianapolis Star in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1951, he joined the U.S. Information Agency, traveling extensively until his retirement in 1968. Mr. Wilkins was an army veteran of World War II. He was a graduate of Indiana University. Survivors: wife, Joan Werner Wilkins; daughters, Karen Wilkins, Susan Botts and Hilarie Garvey.