T HE W ILLA C ATHER F OUNDATION

2010 Annual Report To Our Friends and Supporters

Looking ahead. At the headwaters of the Willa Cather Foundation, Mildred Bennett and her kitchen cabinet understood that if the historical materials and milieu that had nurtured young Willa Cather were to be preserved for future generations, the Foundation’s first leaders would have to work decisively and passionately as a group. Fifty-six years later, we are all reaping the benefits of the foresight and commitment of these early preservationists. But their work isn’t finished.

This year a group of board members had the opportunity to step off the sidewalks of Red Cloud and up a dark staircase that led us into the interior of the building known as the Moon Block. We entered a shadowy space where some of the material culture of the past awaited us: beautifully crafted woodwork, patches of old wallpaper, the remains of a fraternal meeting hall, and solid but creaking old floors begging for restoration. Willa Cather once walked these hallways, and it didn’t take much imagination to see the past as we walked from room to room. The Moon Block is huge, and exploring that space gave us a better sense of our ambition to build a state-of-the-art archive, to expand our bookstore and gallery and improve our theater facilities, to build loft apartments for income, and to renovate five business bays on Webster Street, Red Cloud’s main street. When restored, the Moon Block and the iconic Opera House will give visitors a significant understanding of Willa Cather, one of the world’s great authors, and of small-town America in the late nineteenth century. Together they will present a magnificent front for a national center dedicated to Cather studies.

Cather’s most triumphant characters looked ahead. Alexandra Bergson, ignoring her risk-averse brothers, bought farmland on the Divide and prospered. Ántonia Shimerda never allowed hardship to deny her a vision for financial independence and family. Archbishop Latour entered a strange new land and learned to love it and improve it. Motherless Cécile Auclair, a member of the vulnerable community of colonial Quebec, would become a symbolic mother of Canada’s future. These characters inspire with their determination and creative powers for good.

You who are passionate about the Cather Foundation’s work give in the ways that these memorable characters give: for the future. Your support allows the Foundation to keep looking ahead. We are at an exciting, pivotal point in the Foundation’s history, and with your continued, generous help, a truly national center for Willa Cather will come to fruition.

Susan Maher President Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Stepping up to the challenge. In 2010, the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors launched the Preserving our Past, Pioneering our Future campaign to match challenge funds offered to inspire new and renewed participation in the Foundation and its work. Our loyal donors embraced the challenge with their increased support, and we were just as pleased to welcome more than 200 new members to our organization.

The success of the campaign was not the only thing that made 2010 a thrilling year. Our third annual immersion-learning program, co-sponsored with Elderhostel (now known as Road Scholar), gave program participants the chance to experience and explore Cather’s Red Cloud. And our third annual Prairie Writers’ Workshop, entitled “The Nature of Home,” provided participants with 16 hours of creative nonfiction instruction under the inspiring direction of award-winning author, John T. Price.

The Willa Cather Memorial Prairie was selected as the site for the Nebraska State 4-H/FFA Range Judging Contest, which brought nearly 400 students to the Prairie to test their knowledge of rangeland ecosystems.

Memorable Opera House events included a Cather-themed performance by the Susie Thorne Jazz Band, held in conjunction with the 55th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference. Our yearly visitors, the Missoula Children’s Theatre, helped young area performers present Red Riding Hood to two sellout crowds. Our neighbors, the Hastings Junior Community Theatre, had a success with their presentation of The Boxcar Children.

There were several standouts among the assortment of exhibits in the Art Gallery throughout the year. Author Wendy K. Perriman gave a presentation on her book, Willa Cather and the Dance: “A Most Satisfying Elegance” as part of the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibit, “The Dancer Within.” Other notable exhibits included “Still Life,” featuring the artwork of area artists, “Pencil and Oil Sketches from Willa Cather’s Childhood” by the late John Blake Bergers, and “Cowgirls: Contemporary Portraits of the American West,” by Exhibits USA, a program of the Mid-America Arts Alliance.

Thanks to your support, a rich program of activities will continue long into the future, and we will enthusiastically carry on preserving Cather’s legacy.

Ashley Olson Stephany Thompson Associate Executive Director Director of Foundation Programming Finance & Administration

1 “A Matter of Appearances”

In partnership with the Nebraska State Historical “Willa Cather: A Matter of Appearances” Society and its Foundation, the Cather Foundation opened in October 2010 and runs through is a co-sponsor of “Willa Cather: A Matter of August 2011, after which many of its treasures Appearances,” an exhibit at the Nebraska History will be on display in the Red Cloud Opera Museum in Lincoln. Using clothing and textiles House Gallery. owned by Cather, her friends, and family, this fascinating exhibit presents a side of the writer often overlooked in popular and scholarly accounts — her personal style and taste, as reflected in The famous teal jacket the image she consciously projected throughout Twenty Years of Cather Studies her lifetime. The year 2010 marked the publication of Cather Studies 8, as well as the Drawing deeply from the Willa Cather twentieth anniversary of the first volume in the series, edited by the late Foundation’s archives — with the Foundation’s Cather’s silk velvet cape Susan J. Rosowski and published by the University of Nebraska Press. own items forming the core of the wide-ranging from Paris, 1920s In cooperation with the University of display — the exhibit tells “the story of a woman Nebraska-Lincoln, the Willa Cather who made her own rules in fashion, literature and life,” in the words of Foundation has sponsored this exhibit curator Tina Koeppe. Taking us from publication since its inception. the cotton lace dress Cather wore as a little girl through the masculine attire she sported The latest volume, subtitled Willa as a teenager, and on to the elegant, richly Cather: A Writer’s Worlds, draws in part detailed designs upon the 2007 International Cather she often favored Seminar in France and focuses on as a successful the many locales and cultures — in writer, the both Old World and New — that exhibit creates inform Cather’s work. The new a compelling volume was edited by John J. Murphy, picture of Cather Francoise Palleau-Papin, and Robert as a style icon Thacker (Murphy and Thacker are — a label that members of the Foundation’s Board fits much more of Governors and Palleau-Papin has Cather’s cotton lace dress, comfortably than been a contributor to the Foundation’s as seen in this studio portrait even her most Willa Cather Newsletter & Review). ca. 1882 The volumes of Cather Studies are ardent readers available through www.WillaCather.org Series Editor for Cather Studies is Board might imagine. and wherever scholarly books are sold. of Governors member Guy Reynolds.

2 The Pleasures of the Table

More than 200 Cather lovers attended the festive 55th annual Willa of Willa Cather’s youth — to name just two of the conference’s high Cather Spring Conference in Red Cloud, June 2010. Directed by Ann points — there were also chances to taste the delicious foods under Romines and co-sponsored by the Cather Project at the University of discussion (all of them included in our new cookbook). Conference goers Nebraska-Lincoln, the conference focused on “Food, Drink, and Willa were truly able to fill, and refill, their plates. Cather’s Writing” and coincided with the publication of At Willa Cather’s Tables: The Cather Foundation Cookbook (now in its second printing!).

“Barn dance” revelers at the Red Cloud Opera House

We had an ice cream social, a festive barn dance and Ann Romines and an attentive audience at supper, a wine tasting, and Cather’s childhood home even an exploration of the edible plants growing in the Cather Prairie. Weekend This rich subject opened up many favorites included Willa topics for exploration, both of a Cather’s own muffins and the scholarly and gustatory nature. For Virginia pound cake of her every opportunity that participants early youth. But the delicacy had to discover the Foundation’s that disappeared the fastest collection of the Cather family’s own was Grandma Harris’s mouth- cookbooks, or learn about church watering white coconut cake Jenny Nixon, our guide to prairie edibles socials and suppers in the Red Cloud from “Old Mrs. Harris.” The rewards of Cather scholarship — for every palate

3 Looking Ahead to the National Willa Cather Center

Known historically as the “Moon Block,” the handsome but virtually Early pledges, three federal grants, and historic tax credits already account silent structure adjacent to the Red Cloud Opera House will soon for about 20% of the project’s estimated $5,000,000 cost. As preliminary once again be filled with activity and life. The Foundation is launching site work begins in earnest later in 2011, we will have much more news a capital campaign to restore the building and join it to our current to share with our loyal supporters about this exciting undertaking. home at the Red Cloud Opera House, to create an expanded and enhanced base for our work. We will then have what we’ve built toward throughout our history: a modern, multi-purpose facility combining well-equipped spaces for instruction, performance, archival research, display, and public gatherings. We will be able to give our facility a name befitting its scope and promise — a name such as, perhaps, the National Willa Cather Center.

Most importantly, the renovation will create a home for our priceless archives, providing environmentally secure spaces for housing and studying the invaluable objects in the Foundation’s growing collections. Preliminary renderings of new archival facilities (above) and expanded We will add new media facilities and double our gallery and display bookstore and gallery space (right) space, for greater flexibility in mounting artistic and educational exhibits. The Opera House Auditorium will also get much-needed backstage facilities. The restored building will include four bays of revenue- producing retail sites and three large loft apartments.

Red Cloud Opera House The Moon Block

4 Financial Summary 2010

Support and Revenue Use of Funds

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6% 16% 4% 4% n Contributions H1 $390,734 Program Services n Memberships 35,518 n Nebraska State Historic Site Operations and Maintenance $99,936 n Grants 50,005 n Scholarships 2,109 n Royalties H2 46,253 n Opera House Programming and Operations 96,256 n Rental Income 25,602 n Prairie Restoration and Maintenance 20,251 n Nebraska State Historical Society Appropriations 68,430 n Bookstore, Publications, Conferences and Seminars 72,929 n Sales and Admissions 75,459 Supporting Services n Conferences, Seminars, Other 95,697 n Management and General 113,400 $787,698 n Development 57,675 $462,556 The variance between Support and Revenue and Use of Funds is largely due to two factors: H1 a generous one-time estate gift of $207,300 received in 2010, and H2 royalty income of $46,253 received in 2010 representing two years of royalty activity. Income of this type is highly variable in timing and amount. A portion of the variance was used to retire debt incurred in 2009. The 2010 net gain in assets will be available for budgeting purposes in future years to address particular budgetary needs and opportunities as they arise. These figures are based on final year-end audited information compiled by an independent public accounting firm.

5 Support The following individuals and organizations were donors to the Willa Cather Foundation in 2010. Space does not permit us to list donations under $50.00, but we are grateful for these contributions. Every gift is important to us.

$50,000 and Above Dr. Susan N. Maher & Al Kammerer, Duluth, MN Kathryne E. Shannon, Castle Rock, CO John & Anne Mulvihill, Kansas City, MO Carol Barnes, Colby, KS Estate of Ella Cather Lewis, Long Beach, CA Reverend & Mrs. Charles Peek, Grand Island, NE Dr. Amy Springer, Red Cloud, NE John J. Murphy, Santa Fe, NM Gary W. Barth, Hastings, NE Peoples-Webster County Bank, Red Cloud, NE C. Kay Stahly, Kearney, NE Elsa Nettels, Williamsburg, VA Duane & Clare Baylor, Ralston, NE $25,000 to $49,999 Glenda J. Pierce, Lincoln, NE Jon Teaford, Lafayette, IN Shari Patrick & Steven Leichter, New York, NY William & Elaine Beezley, Red Cloud, NE Jim & Trish Schreiber, Meadow Vista, CA David H. Porter, Saratoga Springs, NY Robert Thacker, Canton, NY Mike Patterson, San Antonio, TX Susan Belasco & Linck Johnson, Lincoln, NE Kristine Puerta, Wauwatose, WI Curtis & Margaret A. Watson, Red Cloud, NE Wendy K. Perriman, Mooresville, NC Virginia Bellott, Springdale, AR $15,000 to $24,999 James C. & Rhonda Seacrest, Lincoln, NE John & Ardis Yost, Red Cloud, NE Joan S. Petty, Corona del Mar, CA Bonnie Bernhardt, Vallejo, CA Garnet Lewis, Red Cloud, NE Brad & Nancy Sherwood, Red Cloud, NE Patricia Phillips, Omaha, NE Duane & Ardyce Biede, Hastings, NE $250 to $499 Nebraska Arts Council, Omaha, NE John Sherwood, Red Cloud, NE Julie Piepenkotter, Los Angeles, CA Timothy W. Bintrim, Johnstown, PA Nebraska Humanities Council, Lincoln, NE Barbara Sprague, Red Cloud, NE Alan & Sharon Amack, Apache Junction, AZ Gary F. & Jean F. Pokorny, El Cerrito, CA Russ & Tonia Bomhoff, Bainbridge Island, WA LeRoy & Jean Thom, Hastings, NE Mr.& Mrs. Harold W. Andersen, Omaha, NE John F. Preis, Richmond, VA Roger Bradford, Lexington, MA $10,000 to $14,999 Joseph R. & Lesley Urgo, St. Mary’s City, MD Helen L. Anderson, Seward, NE Guy Reynolds, Lincoln, NE Melissa Bradley, Denver, CO Reese Gates, Red Cloud, NE R. T. Vanderbilt Trust, Norwalk, CT Connie Bostock, Red Cloud, NE Ann Romines, Alexandria, VA Carl & Karen Brasee, Grand Island, NE John A Yost & G. Wade Leak, New York, NY Dr. James E. Weesner, Lincoln, NE Mark W. & Ashley Bostock, Windsor, CO Betty Sayers, Holdrege, NE Paul & Linda Bremer, Jacksonville, FL Dayre & Lu Williams, Red Cloud, NE John R. Campbell, Omaha, NE Janet Scheevel, Grand Junction, CO Curt & Mary J. Brumbaugh, Red Cloud, NE $5,000 to $9,999 Yost/Leak Historic Preservation Fund, New York, NY Jeanne C. Collins, Denver, CO Dr. Susan A. Schiller, Mt. Pleasant, MI Jim & Patricia Burdyny, Omaha, NE Mike & Carmen Zalman, Lincoln, NE Joanne Berkshire, Omaha, NE John Conley, Omaha, NE Richard W. Sellars, Santa Fe, NM The Rt. Rev. Joe G. Burnett, Omaha, NE Sara Corless, Mission Hills, KS Steve Shively, Logan, UT Laurie Smith Camp, Omaha, NE UNL Cather Project, Lincoln, NE $500 to $999 Thomas Reese Gallagher, New York, NY James G. Croghan, New York, NY D. Charles Shoemaker & Lynne A. Friedewald, Dr. Isabella Caruso, Brooklyn, NY Estate of Helen Cather Garner, Pittsburgh, PA Dr. Virgil & Dolores Albertini, Fairway, KS Linda High Daniel, Culpepper, VA Hastings, NE Catherland Auto Sales, Red Cloud, NE Robert & Ardis James, Wilmington, DE Dr. & Mrs. Bruce P. Baker II, Omaha, NE Hal & Mary Daub, Omaha, NE Margaret Sibley, Alpine, NY Jack L. & Tia Clarke, Newbury Park, CA Geraldine L. Lewis, Red Cloud, NE Edward & Margaret Bates, Lincoln, NE Frank Dowding, Saint Paul, MN Frederick J. & Eve Simon, Omaha, NE Beverly J. Cooper, Council Bluffs, IA Gary & Marcia Thompson, Red Cloud, NE Barb Bean, Hastings, NE Marsha E. Fangmeyer, Gibbon, NE Paul G. & Annette L. Smith, Omaha, NE Lise Cordsen, Boulder, CO Pamela Wicksel-Zayer, Syosset, NY Dr. Fred & Mary Bliss, Davis, CA James L. Farmer, Red Cloud, NE Richard Norton Smith, Arlington, VA William M. Curtin, Storrs Mansfield, CT Dr. Gary Cook, Cumberland, MD Kathleen Fowles, Grand Island, NE Chris & Vicki Sommerich, Lincoln, NE Connie L. Dake, Beatrice, NE $2,500 to $4,999 Gloria Dinsdale, Palmer, NE William R. Furgeson, Jr., Dallas, TX Rick & Connie Spellman, Omaha, NE Patrick & Kelli Daly, Lenexa, KS Elise R. Donohue, Clyde Park, MT Gary Thompson Agency, Inc., Red Cloud, NE Sylvia A. Stevens & Dawn A. Nehls, Mesa, AZ Sally J. Dickman, Phoenix, AZ BNSF Foundation, Fort Worth, TX Dave & Marietta Garwood, Red Cloud, NE Faye J. Glass, Crete, NE Peter M. Sullivan, Indiana, PA Tom & Kim Dinsdale, Grand Island, NE Red Cloud Community Foundation, Red Cloud, NE Richard C. Harris, Glen Cove, NY The Rt. Rev. Frank Griswold, Philadelphia, PA Pam Swisher, Ft. Calhoun, NE Alice Dittman, Lincoln, NE Bruce Lauritzen, Omaha, NE Richard Holland, Omaha, NE George & Judith Haecker, Omaha, NE Steven & Mary Terry, Red Cloud, NE Mary M. Dixon, Hastings, NE Daniel & Lucia Woods Lindley, Evanston, IL Melissa J. Homestead, Lincoln, NE James & Ann Hager, Simpsonville, SC Warren & Sandy Tucker, Grosse Pointe, MI Josh Dolezal, Windsor Heights, IA Nebraska Division of Travel & Tourism, Lincoln, NE Kevin & Beth Jensen, Duluth, GA Harry Hall, Omaha, NE Sidney Wade, Gainesville, FL Jane K. Dressler, Kent, OH Nebraska Environmental Trust, Lincoln, NE Andrew & Becca Jewell, Lincoln, NE Dennis & Sally Hansen, Red Cloud, NE Bruce Whitacre & Pierce McCormack, New York, NY Angela Duca, Red Cloud, NE Bernard J. & Nancy S. Picchi, New York, NY Ruth & Jim Keene III, Omaha, NE Daniel & Pamela Hewes Hartman, Rio Vista, CA Dan Yost, Hastings, NE Reverend Ruth Eller, Bountiful, UT James P. & Angela J. Southwick, Heber City, UT Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation, Lincoln, NE Anne Hubbard, Omaha, NE Ella Epp, Henderson, NE $100 to $249 $1,000 to $2,499 Paul R. & Lynette R. Krieger, Hastings, NE Judy Morhart Hudson, Santa Rosa, CA Peter & Kathryn H. Faber, Vero Beach, FL Pam Lay, Hastings, NE Ron & Naomi Hull, Lincoln, NE Martha Ackmann, Leverett, MA Mary Jo Farrar, Ames, IA Adrian Almquist, Bloomington, MN Cheryl Livingston, Golden, CO Barbara E. Hustwit, Wooster, OH Dr. George & Colleen Adam, Hastings, NE Larry & Lyn Fenwick, Fort Worth, TX Richard (Dick) Amack, Lac Du Flambeau, WI Susan D. McClanahan, New York, NY Judith Hykes, Livingston, MT Mike Adams & Kate Benzel, Kearney, NE James L. & Marianne Fitzgibbon, Red Cloud, NE Marion A. Arneson, Wayne, NE Marilyn W. Offutt, Omaha, NE David Katz, New York, NY Keith & Zola Albers, Red Cloud, NE Dr. & Mrs. Donovan Foote, Hastings, NE The Theodore G. Baldwin Foundation, Kearney, NE Daryl Palmer, Denver, CO David L. & Amy Kornblau, Manhasset, NY Florence Amamoto, St. Peter, MN William S. J. Fraenkel, Harrison, NY Erma B. Bennett, Indianapolis, IN Stanley & Gloria Plesent, Larchmont, NY Ann Mactier, Omaha, NE Kari Anderson, Kearney, NE Abe & Pauline Fratts, Santa Ana, CA Robert A. Cary, Portland, OR Red Cloud Women’s Chamber, Red Cloud, NE Harold E. Magill, Omaha, NE Dave & Jenni Aske, Greeley, CO Elisabeth R. French, Washington, DC Jane Renner Hood, Lincoln, NE Republican Valley Arts Council, Red Cloud, NE John D. & Deborah Ann Mercer, Oak Park, IL Marion R. Austin, Troy, NH Pamela Gallagher & Dean Ott, Kearney, NE James W. Johnson & Michael L. Connell, New York, NY The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY Mary Ann Mignon, Lincoln, NE Pamela Baker, Lincoln, NE Gil & Susan Garcia, Loveland, CO Julie Morsman Schroeder Foundation, Omaha, NE Gabriel Scala, Oxford, MS Ellen Baldwin, Lincoln, NE Roger W. Gatz, Hiawatha, KS Frederick J. & Diane Kaufman, Hays, KS Bruce S. Nelson & Sabrina L. Schulz, New York, NY 6 Michele A. Barale, Amherst, MA Joel & Chris Geyer, Lincoln, NE Paul & Merry Gibb, Niwot, CO Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Kurtz, Jr., Clearfield, PA Peter Riddleberger, Washington, DC Brad & Kathy Wulf, Red Cloud, NE C. E. Dahlquist, Roseville, MN Dr. Joan Giesecke, Lincoln, NE Mellanee Kvasnicka, La Vista, NE Sandy Righter, Denver, CO Robert Xidis, Lenexa, KS Mary Ann Daily, Cambridge, MA Charles Gifford & Michele van Deventer, Omaha, NE Roy B. Lacoursiere, M.D., Topeka, KS Elizabeth S. Roberts, Mount Desert, ME Jeff & Cindy Ryman Yost, Lincoln, NE Linda Daugherty, Omaha, NE John G. & Francetta C. Gilsdorf, Lincoln, NE Elizabeth Larned, San Francisco, CA Ky & Jane Rohman, Lincoln, NE John & Lyn Wallin Ziegenbein, Omaha, NE Margaret Deason, Richmond, IL Sarah Glickenhaus, Scarsdale, NY Priscilla Leder, San Marcos, TX Sheri Rose, Springfield, OR Angela Glover, Indianola, IA Geneva Lewis, Bladen, NE Dr. Aden Ross, Salt Lake City, UT $50 to $99 Bill Demke, Omaha, NE Calvin Goding, La Vista, NE Kathryn K. Lilley, Fredericksburg, VA Dr. Elizabeth Sabiston, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Judy Adams, Quincy, IL John & Amy Dempsey, Omaha, NE Karen Goodheart, New York, NY Mr. & Mrs. William Lindsteadt, Hastings, NE Donna J. Safreed, Melrose, MA Gerald L. Alexanderson, Santa Clara, CA Cat DeRose, Denver, CO Robert H. Greenwald, New York, NY Abigail A. Loomis, Madison, WI Don & Barbara Saladen, Grand Island, NE Paul & Ellen Alkon, Rolling Hills Estates, CA Martha Despain, Monument, CO Jean Griffith, Wichita, KS Esther Lopez, Milledgeville, GA Pat & Jeanne Salerno, Omaha, NE Sherri T. Allred, Greenville, SC Rodney Deuel, Superior, NE Stacey Guill, Boise, ID Mr. & Mrs. Richard Loutzenheiser, Hastings, NE Dr. James P. Sandrock, Iowa City, IA Steve & Betsy Alspach, Jefferson, MA Muriel R. Dimock, Red Wing, MN Dr. Mark & Laurie Guy, Grand Forks, ND John & Catherine Mamer, Minneapolis, MN Ann Satterthwaite, Washington, DC Henry Altchek, New York, NY Virginia Dobias, San Diego, CA Lizabeth & David Halsted, Hastings, NE Erica Marcus, Brooklyn, NY Richard Schilling, Loveland, CO Sylvia Andersen, Red Cloud, NE Dr. Jerry Dollar, Poestenkill, NY Dan & Jennifer Hamann, Omaha, NE Bill & Jean McCall, Houston, TX Ms. Otis Rhea Schmidt, Austin, TX Shamim Ansari, Maryland Heights, MO John & Elizabeth Hancock, Omaha, NE Mr. & Mrs. Robert McGill, Walkersville, MD Cynthia Schneider, Omaha, NE Cheryl Arends, Omaha, NE Louise C. Drapek, South Bend, IN Henry & Shirley Hansen, Phoenix, AZ Therese J. McGuire, Evanston, IL Ann S. Schoenacher, St. Petersburg, FL Mark Arneson, Arlington, TX Neil Draves-Arpaia, Saratoga Springs, NY Wayne M. Hansen, Dorchester, NE Robert & Angenette Meaney, Omaha, NE Bob & Suzi Schulz, Red Cloud, NE James Bagley, Nevada, MO Robbie Dunlap, Longmont, CO Hastings State Bank, Hastings, NE Morris B. Mellion, M.D. & Irene C. Mellion, Seth Parker Schulz, Lincoln, NE Michelle R. Bahr, Glenwood, IA Stephanie Durrans, Pessac, France Jeffrey Hayden & Eva Marie Saint, Los Angeles, CA Teton Village, WY Rachelle (Shellie) Sclan, New York, NY Laura Barlament, Staten Island, NY Linda M. Dyer, Amherst, NH Linda Healy, South Sioux City, NE James R. Messenger, Marietta, GA Edward & Jeri Shute, Red Cloud, NE Mary Jane Barnes, Baldwin Park, CA East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN Charles Heeter, McLean, VA Gary & Beverly Meyer, Red Cloud, NE Helyn Sibert, Red Cloud, NE Margaret F. (Peggy) Bartley, Colorado Springs, CO Dave & Linda Eckhoff, Red Lodge, MT Charles & Margaret Hermes, Hastings, NE Lindsey Miller-Lerman, Omaha, NE Margie Silberstein & Lenny Bloom, Potomac, MD Elisabeth Bayley, Leuven, Belgium Dawson C. Heron, Concord, MA James B. Milliken & Nana Smith, Lincoln, NE Craig Simpson, Mechanicsville, VA Baylor University, Waco, TX Jack & Judy Ekeler, Fremont, NE Phyllis Herrin de Obregon, Queretaro, Qro., Mexico Cynthia Mines, Wichita, KS Elaine Y. Smith, Temple Terrace, FL William Beachly, Hastings, NE David & Connie Eldred, Plano, TX Edward A. Hinz, Jr., Rancho Palos Verdes, CA John & Kathleen Mitchell, Omaha, NE Marcus J. & Pamela H. Snow, Ashland, NE Elizabeth M. Beasley, Kansas City, MO Charlette Elm, Bloomington, IL Jon & Christine Hoek, Gansevoort, NY James H. Morgan, Morristown, NJ Mara Southorn, Naperville, IL Douglas & Louise Bereuter, Alamo, CA Gerald Eykholt, Madison, WI Joyce Hoelting, St. Louis Park, MN Jessica Morse, Washington, DC Jonathan & Sandra Sparks, Greenwich, CT Berggren Architects, Lincoln, NE Becky Faber, Lincoln, NE Priscilla Hollingshead, Inavale, NE Fred & Ann Moseley, Cumby, TX Neal & Jackie Stephany, Nashua, NH Peggy Farney, Kansas City, MO Clara G. Hoover, Omaha, NE Fritz Mountford, Hastings, NE Sally Stich, Denver, CO Ann Billesbach & John Carter, Lincoln, NE Wilbur Huck, Bend, OR Mary Ellen Mulcahy, Omaha, NE Dr. Kaz & Opal Stivrins, Lincoln, NE Vinal Overing Binner, Vienna, Austria Janet Faubel, DeFuniak Springs, FL Steven S. & Annette Huff, Omaha, NE Nebraska Trails Council, Omaha, NE Judy Stokes, Kansas City, MO Sharon Bishop, Henderson, NE William D. Fellows, Milwaukee, WI Lewis & Pamela Hunter, Superior, NE Alison Newman, Tucson, AZ Claudia D. Stravato, Amarillo, TX Charles & Kay Blackstone, Red Cloud, NE Ann Ferebee, New York, NY Clair D. Husby, Arlington, SD David & Vickie Nolan, Red Cloud, NE John N. & Cheryl Swift, Whittier, CA Terry & Susanne Bloomfield, Holdrege, NE Gertrude E. Ferguson, Shawnee Mission, KS Diane Pierce Huxtable, Lake Wales, FL Jan Nybakke, Astoria, OR Juliet Swoboda, Rancho Palos Verde, CA Beverly A. Bohlke, Lincoln, NE Kate Filla, St. Louis, MO Tim & Susan Irons, League City, TX Margaret O’Connor, Pomona, CA Art & Carol Thompson, Eagle, NE Janice Borzendowski, New York, NY William Fitts, Lincoln, NE Andrew & Lilian Jacobitz, Omaha, NE Julie Olin-Ammentorp, Manlius, NY Terry & Stephany Thompson, Hastings, NE John Flannigan, Chicago, IL Michael & Jennifer Janezic, Westminster, CO Oregon Trail Equipment, Red Cloud, NE Lori Minasian & Douglas Throckmorton, Potomac, MD John & Bethann Bostock, Red Cloud, NE Diane B. Foster, Wyncote, PA Terry & Linda Jehling, Jefferson City, MO Jack & Pamela Osborne, Hastings, NE Bette Tien, Prairie View, KS Jack & Sandy Bowen, Little Rock, AR Dave & Patti Jensen, Joshua Tree, CA Ralph Osborne, Harrison, NJ David L. Tomko, Brookeville, MD William & Martha Boyd, Hastings, NE Ellen Foster, Grove City, PA Edward & Cynthia Johanson, Estes Park, CO Theresa J. Osborne, Forest Hills, NY Steven Trout, Hays, KS Karen Brenenstall, Sacramento, CA Sue Carol Francis, Ft. Collins, CO Calvin R. & Jane Johnson, Hastings, NE Edwin Overing, Hot Springs, AR Ken Winkle & Ann Tschetter, Lincoln, NE George H. Brockway, New York, NY Evelyn Funda, Logan, UT Loren Johnson, Murray, UT Francoise Palleau, Paris, France Antonette Willa Turner, Bladen, NE Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA Henry H. & Josephine G. Gardiner, Sally Johnson, Lincoln, NE Karen W. Park, Kearney, NE Richard & Karen Vierk, Lincoln, NE Greenwood Village, CO Shirley M. Johnson, Lincoln, NE Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Hastings, Hastings, NE Margaret D. Vogel & Marvin I. Friedman, Potomac, MD Ken Burns, Walpole, NH Mary Ida Garrard, Sherman, TX Dale & Jan Juranek, Blue Hill, NE Harvey & Susan Perlman, Lincoln, NE Katherine L. Walter, Lincoln, NE LoAnn Campbell, Hendersonville, NC Steve & Lisa Bouma Garvelink, Grand Rapids, MI Diane Karr, Blue Hill, NE Jo Ann Perry, Friendship, TN Virginia Welty, Red Cloud, NE Cloyd Clark, McCook, NE Don R. Gerlach, Harvard, NE Virginia Kassel, New York, NY Allison Petersen, Walton, NE William A. West, Denver, CO Roy E. Cook, East Granby, CT Sarah & Milo German, Exton, PA Judy Keller, Lawrence, KS Genevieve Pfaff, West Hartford, CT Rev. Thomas C. Widner S.J., Indianapolis, IN Evelyn M. Copeland, Southbury, CT Tammy Gestring, Lincoln, NE Helen W. Kenefick, Omaha, NE Gene & Margaret Pokorny, Jaffrey, NH Catherine Woeber, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Barbara Jean Cortesio, Des Moines, IA Roger & Joan Givens, Bellevue, NE Don & Helen Kleiber, Sky Valley, GA Karma Ragland, Red Cloud, NE George E. Wolf, Lincoln, NE Dr. Dan Cox, Omaha, NE Carol Goering, Platte Center, NE Phyllis Klein, Boulder, CO Jane Rainis, Palm City, FL Lois Goosic, Inavale, NE Virginia Knoll, Lincoln, NE Daniel D. Rasby, Rapid City, SD Roger & Pat Crook, Red Cloud, NE Mark D. Greenberg, Denver, CO Rick & Barb Kudrna, Red Cloud, NE Joyce E. Reilly, Chatham, NJ 7 Jill Crooker, Pittsford, NY Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA Neil Gustafson, La Grande, OR Marcia MacLennan, Lindsborg, KS Diane L. Prenatt, Indianapolis, IN Thea Lynne Swanson, Cheyenne, WY Honorary and Memorial Gifts Phil D. Guy, Lilburn, GA Mark J. Madigan, Pittsford, NY Joe Price, Omaha, NE Lynn Baumann-Swanstrom, Omaha, NE Contributions made in 2010 in Elsie Galbreath Haley, Denver, CO Ceil Malek, Colorado Springs, CO Fay M. Purcell, Decatur, GA Kate Swift, East Haddam, CT memory or appreciation of certain Susan A. Hallgarth, Corrales, NM Dr. Mark & Bonnie Gill Manhart, Omaha, NE Diane & Bruce Quantic, Derby, KS Vance Taylor, Omaha, NE individuals are credited in the donor Deni Halton, Laguna Beach, CA Frank R. Markley, Ashland, OH John & Deb Quirk, Hastings, NE Dr. Terrell Tebbetts, Batesville, AR list and repeated here in recognition Charles & Erika Hamilton, Lincoln, NE Mary Ann & Eugene Marko, Sioux Falls, SD Dr. Jessica Rabin, Curtis Bay, MD Steve & Jan Thelen, Lincoln, NE of the individuals honored. Eugenie L. Hamner, Mobile, AL Dr. Elizabeth H. Marsh, Hobe Sound, FL Gary & Sara Radil, Omaha, NE Susan J. Thomas, Omaha, NE William (Liam) Hannaher, Alexandria, VA Deanna C. Martinez, Lafayette, CO Brian Abel Ragen, St. Louis, MO Barbara Raess Thomsen, Madison, WI $5,000 and Above Sherrill Harbison, Amherst, MA Martin & Ruth Massengale, Lincoln, NE Lizabeth Rasser, Red Cloud, NE Ruth R. Thone, Lincoln, NE In memory of Daisy May & Wallace Cather Chris Harrell, Coffeyville, KS Dorothy Mattison, Red Cloud, NE Neal Ratzlaff, Omaha, NE Virginia Tingle, Kearney, NE In memory of Madeline Wicksel David Harrell, Santa Fe, NM Dee Ann McCurdy, Glenwood Springs, CO Andrew H. & Ruth Raun, Hastings, NE Alexandra Truitt, South Salem, NY Roberta Harrington, Red Cloud, NE David & Carla McGill, Rancho Cucamonga, CA Donald Rhoads, Bloomington, IN Elizabeth A. Turner, Fox River Grove, IL $1,000 to $2,499 Sue Hart, Billings, MT Ron McKee, Rockville, MD Phyllis C. Robinson, New York, NY Stephany Upp, Gering, NE In memory of Merrill Skaggs Leroy & Una Hartman, Red Cloud, NE Dan & Carol McWhirter, Doniphan, NE Jason & Amy Roche, Lincoln, NE Alfred D. Van Buren, East Setauket, NY Helen Harvey, Brooklyn, NY Rebecca Means, Omaha, NE Sister Charlotte Rohrbach, Wichita, KS Kimberly Vanderlaan, Ruston, LA $500 to $999 Wilbur & Sarah Hass, Lincoln, NE Bob & Jane Meehan, Omaha, NE Dr. Kari Ronning, Lincoln, NE Linda Varberg, Lawrence, KS In memory of Wally Bean Anthony Haswell, Tucson, AZ Patricia Meisinger, Plattsmouth, NE Barbara E. Roshak, Forked River, NJ Mary L. Vaughan, Hastings, NE In memory of Ruth Challburg Dee & Jerri Haussler, Hastings, NE Christy L. Meline, Red Cloud, NE Dr. Steve Rothenberger, Kearney, NE Lynne M. Waldeland, Sycamore, IL Terry Heller, Cedar Rapids, IA Sue Meline, Red Cloud, NE Beverly G. Russell, Lincoln, NE M. L. Warner, Omaha, NE $250 to $499 Joanne Hively, Mill Valley, CA Jean Mercer, Akron, OH Pam Russell, Oklahoma, OK Sarah Cheney Watson, Longview, TX In memory of Don Connors Virginia Hoelscher, Williams, IA Susan Meyer, Wellesley, MA Rev. Steven P. Ryan, Columbia, MO Mr. & Mrs. Donald Webster, Red Bluff, CA In memory of May Elizabeth Hartman Marlin & Marie Hoffman, Red Cloud, NE Paulette M. Miksch, Colorado Springs, CO Dr. Mary Ruth Ryder, Normal, IL Richard A. Weil, Oak Park, IL In memory of John Mercer Matthew Hokom, Fairmont, WV Paulette Miniter, Cold Spring, NY Dr. & Mrs. Edwin C. Salter, Lake Forest, IL Steve Whayne, West Chester, OH In memory of Anne Jeanne Pierce Marilyn Holcomb, Omaha, NE John & Gretchen Mino, Monte Rio, CA Cyndy Salzmann, Omaha, NE Claudia M. Whitnah, Martinez, CA In memory of Nancy J. Shively Doug & Charlene Hoschouer, Red Cloud, NE Mabel Miyasaki, Emeryville, CA Mary Louise de Sarran, Bowie, MD Carol Williams, Sidney, NE John Jacobs, Winchester, VA Carol J. Moen, Anoka, MN Elizabeth A. Savage, Fairmont, WV Ed & Joyce Willneff, Oak Park, IL $100 to $249 Steve & Cheryl Jewell, North Platte, NE Michelle E. Moore, Chicago, IL Ellen Wheeler Scott, Omaha, NE Chuck & Sara Willsey, Tucson, AZ In memory of Ralph L. Farrar Dr. Barbara Johnson, Aberdeen, SD Maria Isabel Morales, Kenosha, WI Jim Severance, Loganville, WI Laura Winters, Morristown, NJ In memory of Rachel Jensen Elaine D. Johnson, Oak Park, IL Bradford Morrow, New York, NY Robert W. Shively, Jr., Lincoln, NE Barbara Wiselogel, Red Cloud, NE In memory of Richard McPartland Rev. William A. Johnson, Scarsdale, NY Francis & Maxine Moul, Lincoln, NE Robert W. Shively, Fort Collins, CO Thomas & Patti Yaussi, Lincoln, NE In memory of William Mountford Dolores A. Justin, Pittsfield, MA Louise Mountford, Lincoln, NE Jack & Bonnie Sibert, Lincoln, NE Jerry & Vicki Yost, Hastings, NE In appreciation of Charles & Nancy Peek Howard Kane, Foxboro, MA Sarah Mulqueen, Sterling, VA Mrs. Langdon Silberberg, Denver, CO Birgit Young, Lincoln, NE In honor of Charles Peek August G. Kauffmann, Summit, NY Pamela Murphy, Port Townsend, WA Mary Silvey, Lincoln, NE John S. Zeigel, Santa Fe, NM In honor of David H. Porter Suzanne Kehm, Omaha, NE Anne Myers, Red Cloud, NE Leonard Skov, Kearney, NE Nikki Zimmerman, Omaha, NE In memory of Terry L. Wescoat Kathleen Kisner, Des Moines, IA Katsuya Naito, Claremont, CA Kristi Smith, Hickman, NE In honor of Jay Yost Dr. Mary Emily Kitterman, Overland Park, KS Pat Needham, Kansas City, MO Robert & Nancy Sorensen, Lincoln, NE In-Kind Gifts Ramona Kluth, Columbus, NE Ann L. Nelson, Fairway, KS Louis I. Sowersby, Tucson, AZ The following individuals and $50 to $99 Brian Kolbin, New Haven, CT Bill Ness, Olathe, KS Gregory Spears, Brooklyn, NY organizations made in-kind donations In memory of Mary Ellen Erickson Ron & Betty Kort, Hastings, NE Jorn & Mary Olsen, Hastings, NE Hilary Sperber, Hicksville, NY of documented value during 2010. In memory of Edsel L. Pope Dr. Susan Kress, Saratoga Springs, NY Tyler & Ashley Olson, Red Cloud, NE Paul & Jan Stanko, Denver, CO We appreciate these donations, which In memory of Linda Ross Marcella Krieger, Hastings, NE Sabine Oswald, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Joe Starita, Lincoln, NE represent another means through Deanna Lackaff, Minneapolis, MN Nicholas Page, York, United Kingdom Donna B. Stedje, Buffalo, MN which donors can support the work Joseph Lanham, Clemson, SC Phyllis Palmer, Washington, DC Paul Stevens, Kearney, NE of the Foundation. Ted & Wilma Larsen, Kearney, NE Rita Parris, Lincoln, NE Sharon Stonecipher, Hastings, NE Ralph Larson, Topeka, KS Domna Pastourmatzi, Thessaloniki, Greece Janis P. Stout, Brenham, TX Sara Corless, Mission Hills, KS Darrel & Roberta Lloyd, Hastings, NE Richard Patterson, Lincoln, NE Paula Strobl, Gladstone, MO Louise C. Drapek, South Bend, IN Kathryn Lockhart, Red Cloud, NE Mary Peirce, Red Cloud, NE Mitsuharu Suzuki, Tokyo, Japan Thomas Reese Gallagher, New York, NY Casey J. Long, Broadlands, IL Connie Pieper, Friend, NE Terese Svoboda, New York, NY Joel & Chris Geyer, Lincoln, NE Melvin Ludlam, Red Cloud, NE Rebecca Pinker, Olathe, KS Mary E. Swain, Englewood, TN Tom & Linda Hitchler, Red Cloud, NE Stacy Ludwig, Spencer, NE Noel Polk, Starkville, MS Sandra Swan, Chocowinity, NC Paul R. & Lynette R. Krieger, Hastings, NE Sally Lusk, Omaha, NE Lori Potter, Kearney, NE Rick & Barb Kudrna, Red Cloud, NE Sonja Lynch, Waverly, IA Patricia Poulos-Leonard, Reno, NV Pickering Creative Group, Lincoln, NE Bernice MacDonald, Hartsdale, NY Louis Pratters, Hastings, NE 8 James P. & Angela J. Southwick, Heber City, UT The Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Staff

Officers Advisory Members Ashley Olson Susan Maher, President Fritz Mountford Bruce P. Baker II Associate Executive Director, Duluth, Minnesota Hastings, Nebraska Omaha, Nebraska Finance and Administration Thomas Reese Gallagher, John J. Murphy Laurie Smith Camp Stephany Thompson Vice President Santa Fe, New Mexico Omaha, Nebraska Director of Foundation Programming New York, New York Rev. Charles A. Peek Charles Cather† Jennifer Pankoke Glenda Pierce, Secretary Grand Island, Nebraska Long Beach, California Office Manager Lincoln, Nebraska Guy Reynolds Carol Cope Cheryl Wilson David Porter, Treasurer Lincoln, Nebraska Kearney, Nebraska Buildings and Sites Curator Saratoga Springs, New York Ann Romines James L. Fitzgibbon Karin Prellwitz John A (Jay) Yost, Alexandria, Virginia Red Cloud, Nebraska Maintenance President Emeritus Nancy Sherwood Jane Renner Hood Dorothy Mattison New York, New York Red Cloud, Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska Senior Tour Guide Priscilla Hollingshead Board Members Steve Shively Betty Kort Hastings, Nebraska Tour Guide Virgil Albertini Logan, Utah Angela Duca Fairway, Kansas James P. Southwick Mellanee Kvasnicka Omaha, Nebraska Tour Guide Sara Corless Heber City, Utah Lucia Woods Lindley Barb Kudrna Mission Hills, Kansas C. Kay Stahly Evanston, Illinois and Tour Guide David B. Garwood Kearney, Nebraska New York, New York Kay Blackstone Red Cloud, Nebraska Robert Thacker Dale McDole Tour Guide Joel Geyer Canton, New York Overland Park, Kansas Sylvia Andersen Lincoln, Nebraska Steve Trout Mobile, Alabama Gary L. Meyer Office Assistant Ron Hull Red Cloud, Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska Joseph R. Urgo Nancy S. Picchi St. Mary’s City, Maryland Andrew Jewell New York, New York Lincoln, Nebraska Lu Williams Rhonda Seacrest Red Cloud, Nebraska Ruth H. Keene Lincoln, Nebraska Omaha, Nebraska John N. Swift Lynette Krieger Whittier, California Hastings, Nebraska Gary W. Thompson Red Cloud, Nebraska

† Deceased Willa Cather’s childhood home in Red Cloud

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