A Bookshelf in the children's section of the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt., was originally installed at Centennial School, which Leslie Whittington attended as a child. Whittington died Sept. 11, 2001, in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.

After two hijacked commercial airliners were flown into the World Trade Center towers, a third airliner, also taken over by terrorists, crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

Aboard that plane was a former Lawrence resident and her family.

Leslie Whittington, 45, was born in Topeka but lived in Lawrence from 1958 to 1964. Her father, H.G. Whittington, was a psychiatrist at Kansas University’s Watkins Health Center and then was director of the Bert Nash Mental Health Clinic.

In the children’s section of Lawrence Public Library is a bookshelf holding dozens of books donated in Whittington’s memory.

The books and shelf were dedicated in April 2003 at Centennial School, where Whittington had been a student. Teachers, students and relatives who knew Whittington attended the dedication. Centennial closed in May 2004, and the books and shelf were moved to the library.

At the time of the crash, Whittington was on sabbatical from Georgetown University. She was going to spend two months as a visiting fellow at Australian National University in Canberra.

Also on board the plane with Whittington were her husband, Charles Falkenberg, and daughters Zoe, 8, and Dana, 3.

Whittington was a teacher and researcher noted for her interest in the economic role and status of women and the impact of taxation policy on family life. She taught one course with Geraldine Ferraro, former Democratic candidate for vice president of the United States.