Many staffs (and friends) left

I just couldn't believe my ears when Katherine told me that many staffs had left the LI. This afternoon I went to Katherine's office for sorting something out. On the monitor besides us, there was a mail-list with a familiar name on it - Claire Ngwira(?). Claire is my first teacher in the LI when I just came to New Zealand. She is so tall that it could be her trademark. I saw her several months ago but somehow she didn't show up recently. Actually I've wondered for a while why I haven't seen some teachers as well as staffs for a long time. "Is Claire still in this LI?" I asked Katherine. The answer was quite disappointing - she'd left. Not only Claire but many other staffs - Arizio, Colleen, Meg, Deb, Diane and Nancy - have also left. No wonder I coudn't find them either in the LI main building or in the LAIN building in the campus. (Well...actually Deb, as a photographer, showed up in LAIN building 2-3 weeks ago. Diane - now working as a writer - also came to the resource centre several months ago). I can see Katherine was also annoyed with the fact that many of her good friends had left.