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Kambitsch Takes the Ropes at Local Library Dayton - When Tim Kambitsch took over the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library system, his wife Julie, was shocked. “Hell, he can’t even keep me in line, let alone direct all them libraries,” said Mrs. Kambitsch who stubbornly prefers to use her maiden, furniture moving “Beall” name. “At least he’s got his priorities straight, now that that G—D--- article was printed in the newspaper. I set him straight, I did,” said Ms. Beall swatting a rolled up copy of the Dayton Daily News onto an unsuspecting fly that had entered her tastefully decorated home in Dayton’s historic Oregon district. The righteous Ms. Beall now feels secure in her number one position in Kambitsch’s life. “Shee it, I know Tim likes to climb with all them Bettys down at the Krag and all, but I know whose on top.” Before the bloodless coup that put Kambitsch at the helm of the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library system, rock climbing barely held a tenuous second, with the library a looming closely at third. Now, rocking back in John Wallach’s former chair, clothed in the glory of his usurped power, Kambitsch knows that climbing holds a solid and stable second (behind his number one wife), with the library system in a distant third. “I just want to know who’s in fourth place,” says his concerned mother, Rita Huxtable. Huxtable, petite and youthful, is concerned for her son’s soul. “After all I’ve been through, heaven knows I deserve at least that. Regardless, I will continue to pray for him. For the baby Jesus should come first.” “We joked about it,” Kambitsch said, smiling his big smile, fat lips stretched over protruding tooth and gum. The most he’ll say after five months on the job is, “I’m still having a great time.” “I did not aspire to be the director,” he said. “I was too busy as chief geek and cybrarian playing around with all the new computer technology, buying the latest toys at the expense of the taxpayers.” Now Kambitsch spends all his time fighting Republicans who his mother successfully campaigned into office. “There’s an intellectual challenge to it,” he explained. “You have to plan your approach, your gear . . . There’s such an adrenaline rush you always push yourself to that point of backing down before giving into the fear of falling, or exhaustion.”
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Former technology geek Tim Kambitsch is having a hell of a time as director of the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Libraries. Kambitsch, who is, get this, 45 years old, does not exhaust easily. On any given day the 20 internet-ready terminals at the hulking main library are busy with truant Patterson High School students who are looking at naked and near naked young women hanging from precipices and vertical rock faces. “No matter what I search for, stuff like this always comes up,” says D’Meetree Jones, a Patterson sophomore, skipping from Kambitsch’s sister’s class a block and a half away. “I can’t figure it out.” For Kambitsch, libraries have always been a fact of life. While at Chaminade High School, he followed brother Mike’s lead by finding a non-threatening, easy job at the library, re-shelving books, reading books, looking at pictures in magazines, and sending silly messages to the other pages through the vacuum shoot. The work was so easy he decided to get a degree in Library Science at Kent State University. The rest is history. Kambitsch said he can’t see himself making significant changes. “Wallach did a good enough job, I think I’ll just sit back and watch,” said Kambitsch from behind his massive mahogany desk. Wife Beall, agreed, “I done told him. I said, Tim, whatever you do forget about being anything like Wallach. You got enough on your hands just trying to be Tim.”
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