November 1, 2008 Book overdue for 61 years returned in Tulsa, OK Play video

(NECN/ABC) - A library book checked out from an Oklahoma school library in 1947 has turned up in Ohio and been returned, with a $250 check to cover overdue fees.

The following video is from KTUL in Tulsa, OK.

Librarian Betty Niver says the book "New Word Analysis: Or School Etymology of English Derivative Words" was mailed to Holland Hall School in Tulsa by Martha McCabe Jarrett.

Jarrett wrote that she was a high school sophomore when she signed out the book 61 years ago at what was then Holland Hall School for Girls.

She says she recently found it while cleaning out her home in Rome in southern Ohio's Adams County.

School officials said they were not sure what they will do with the $250 because there's no specific overdue book fund, but it might be put toward student scholarships.