Kathryn Wentzel Lumley (c. 1918 – July 18, 2008) was an American educator and children's book author during the twenty and twenty-first centuries.
[2] Born circa 1918, Lumley was employed as a reading specialist and began writing books for children during the 1960s.
In 1966, she served as the director of the Reading Clinic for the public school system in Washington, D.C.
A member of the board when that community college was granted affiliate status with the Pennsylvania State University system in 1989, she continued to hold that board position after the college's status and name change[9] until she retired in April 2002.
Known as the Kathryn Wentzel Lumley Aviation Center, the center's new $6.5 million centerpiece building was dedicated on June 25, 1993, during a dedication ceremony at which Lumley and college president Robert Breuder delivered addresses.