Go Beyond the Page

Fall 2020 / Volume 19, No. 4

In memory of Julie Cruise See page 3

Fund the Need Week Success See page 5

Perfect Time to Give a Gift See page 7

Gifts and Tributes See page 11

Virtual Author Events See page 12 Inside this Issue:

03 04 05 06 In memory of Julie Cruise Grants received/Covid-19 Relief Fund the Need Week From the Stacks

07 08 10 11

Perfect Time to Give a Gift New and renewing Friends New and renewing Friends Gifts and Tributes

12 Upcoming virtual author visits

Board Officers David Kehm Honorary Board Members Manager of Development Brian Davies, President Rich Kniep Sen. Bill Bradley Jackie Hamilton Gerald Jehling, Vice President Brad McLaury Mary Engelbreit [email protected] Jim Wood, Treasurer Maurice Quiroga Eddy Harris Coordinator of Author Events Linda Legg, Secretary Steve Rhoades Julius K. Hunter Carrie Robb JoAnn Sandifer Ridley Pearson Board Members [email protected] Amanda Schmitt Scott Phillips Jodi Alfermann Tom Smith Beau Willimon Friends Coordinator Laura Dierberg Ayers Kristen Sorth Courtney Wood Martha Fitz Director and CEO Kristin Thompson Poelker [email protected] Paula Friedman Kristen Sorth Nguyen Violette Mary Gira, MD Development Assistant Assistant Director, Advancement Lisa Hanly Amanda Murphy Barbara Turkington James Hoffmeister [email protected]

Neil Jaffe

Karen Jordan

Friends Newsletter St. Louis County Library Foundation Published by St. Louis County Kim Fischer, Senior Graphic Designer 1640 South Lindbergh Blvd. Library Foundation ©2020 Kara Hayes Smith, Photographer St. Louis, MO 63131 314-994-3300 foundation.slcl.org

The St. Louis County Library Foundation is recognized as a tax-exempt organization by the IRS under Section 501(c) (3), EIN 43-1863977. Please check with your tax advisor to confirm if all or part of your gift may be tax deductible as a charitable contribution. In memory of cherished library staff member, Julie Lynn Cruise by Kristen Sorth, Director and CEO

Julie Cruise started her employment at St. Louis County Library on November 17, 1981 at the Eliza Heidbrink branch as a Paraprofessional. She transferred to Data Processing (now ITS) on June 1, 1984 as a Paraprofessional. She transferred to Administration as a Library Planner on November 24, 1997 working with Marie Conlin. On July 1, 2000, she became an Administrative Analyst and worked to develop the SLCL Julie had the ability to see the good and bad of most situations. Friends group. Then on December 1, 2006, she transferred to She often used this ability to send me very timely excerpts from the Communications as a Publications Coordinator. history of the Library. Here are two that I keep in my desk drawer. Both were about previous Library Directors and had the subject title Julie Cruise was one of the first people to make me feel welcome of “Something You Might Find Amusing.” when I started at the Library in 1998 as a 27 year-old in my second grown up job. What I didn’t know and Julie would tell me later was Librarians opt pants suits… that the Library Director at the time had asked Julie and Marie Conlin Jane Knost, Technical Processing, broke the ice and wore a pants to befriend me. Lucky for me, our relationship went beyond those suit to work Monday, Oct. 5. It was a library “first” and Don Gaertner first few weeks because “she decided I was a keeper.” I have a list approved. He commented that tailored pants suits are certainly in with all of the things that I want to talk to Julie about from politics to style and that there was no objection to the staff wearing them our pets. There are many days when I pick up the phone to ask her provided they exercised good judgment. “I don’t want staff members a question about the history behind a decision or why a building to wear slacks and a shirt of outfits that look like they are going to a functions the way it does and then I have to hang up because she library picnic. However, a tailored pants suit with a becoming tunic is is gone. a better choice for library work than mini skirts and reveal too much stocking and underwear,” he said. Chronicle, November 1970, Vol 3, No 11

In the first ever issue of the Chronicle, there was an interview with Stewart Smith. This is a quotation from that interview.

“He (Mr. Smith) does say that his greatest satisfaction has been the unusual opportunity to start a new library from scratch, unhampered by ‘the dead hand of tradition.’”

I miss her. I miss her sense of humor, her sarcasm, her voracious knowledge of everything and her unwavering love of the people that worked here and of the Library itself.

Fall 2020 / PAGE 3 Grants Received The Foundation was awarded several grants in 2020 for a variety of programming. Below is a list of funds received from January through August 2020. First time contributors included First Bank and Neighbors Credit Union. Thank you to all our sponsors.

January May • Dana Brown Charitable Trust, $20,000 for Wi-Fi Hotspots for • First Bank, $3,600 for STEM kits to be distributed at drive-thru area high schools. meal sites. • Citi, $10,000 for partnership with Oasis for tutoring. This year it has March shifted online. • Josh Seidel Memorial Foundation, $10,000 for Coding 101 for • Citi, $10,000 for partnership with Eye Thrive to provide a mobile children 10 –14 years of age. vision clinic at several branches. • PNC Foundation, $60,000 over three years for Born to Read. August April • Blues for Kids, $5,000 for Born to Read. • Opportunity Trust, $5,000 for COVID Response, books for distribution. • PNC Foundation, $75,000 for COVID Response– • Saigh Foundation, $5,000 for Oasis Intergenerational Tutoring. Chromebook/Wi-Fi Hotspot • Neighbors Credit Union, $2,250 for COVID Response efforts. bundles to circulate. • St. Louis Community Foundation, $25,000 for COVID Response Chromebooks deliver to Library efforts. Headquarters. COVID-19 Relief Efforts This year the Foundation as seen an outpouring of support for the The Foundation has given more than $107,000 to support those most library’s COVID-19 relief efforts. In May, Give STL Day saw more than affected by the pandemic. Below are a list of donations distributed $20,000 raised for drive-thru meals and emergency diapers at library from March–October 2020. branches. Fund the Need Week held late August/early September surpassed the goal of $100,000, raising more than $175,000 for $30,000 Operation Food Search educational resources for use during the pandemic and beyond. $20,000 St. Louis Diaper Bank

$11,492 PBS Playtime Pads $6,300 Wi-Fi Boosters $11,069 Books $29,000 Chromebook/Hot Spot Bundles

The Foundation continues to distribute funds to the library as it remains at the forefront of COVID-19 relief. It’s never too late to give to the relief efforts. To donate visit foundation.slcl.org/membership-support and

Partnerships with St. Louis Area Diaper Bank and Operation Food Search are two note COVID relief or contact our Manager of Development at of the Foundation’s many Covid-19 relief efforts. 314-994-3300 ext. 2156, [email protected].

PAGE 4 / Fall 2020

Fund the Need Week Raises Over $180,000 by Courtney Wood, Friends Coordinator

The St. Louis County Library Foundation, just three months shy of their sit-down gala, switched gears to a week-long digital campaign. Fund the Need Week ran from August 29–September 4 in support of educational resources at St. Louis County Library.

The campaign featured celebrity support from former St. Louisans Jon Hamm, Beau Willimon and Curtis Sittenfeld. Donors purchased seats to an exclusive Zoom call with bestselling author Chris Bohjalian. JoAnn Sandifer won the Golden Raffle, which included seven nights of luxury accommodations at Hammock Cove Resort & Spa Antigua.

The Foundation was able to raise more than $180,000 to purchase Wi-Fi Hotspots, Chromebooks, tutoring, PBS Playtime pads and books to help kids learn during the pandemic and beyond.

Jon Hamm Beau Willimon

Curtis Sittenfeld Chris Bohjalian PBS Playtime Pads were distributed at Hancock Place Elementary.

A BIG THANK YOU to our Sponsors, Board Members, Friends of the Foundation, patrons and new donors for your generous support.

Fall 2020 / PAGE 5

From the Stacks Fiction for the fall season by Jennifer Alexander, Adult Collection Development Specialist

In mid-October, Rumaan Alam’s latest novel “Leave the World happened. The electricity Behind” had only been on bookshelves for one week and it was throughout the city is out, and already a hit. It was selected as a finalist for the 2020 National Book they decided that rather than Award in fiction, and many reviewers were calling it the book of the try to make their way back to fall season. Alam’s unsettling and mesmerizing story of a family in their apartment, they drive out crisis would surely have been popular with readers any year. It is a to the Long Island house. They book that makes you change your plans, either staying up all night offer a refund of the rental fee or ignoring a perfectly beautiful day outside because you cannot and ask to stay in the basement stop reading. But this eerie tale seems to be resonating particularly apartment of the house until well with readers in the fall of 2020. Perhaps the widespread anxiety they can figure out what has happened. and uncertainty generated by living with COVID-19 for seven months have left readers more receptive to this thought-provoking novel. This bizarre circumstance creates a wave of wariness, suspicion, and doubt. Although Amanda received an alert about a blackout Amanda and Clay and their teenaged children Archie and Rose on her phone earlier, the electricity is working fine at the house. have left their home in Brooklyn for a vacation on Long Island. The Because she made the reservations online, she would not spacious upscale house set in the woods has a pool and expensive recognize the owners. They have no cell service, internet, or features such as a marble kitchen island and a copper faucet over television. G.H. and Ruth do not know what has happened and the stove. Amanda found the rental on Airbnb, in a blurb inviting choose not to speculate out loud, but they are clearly frightened. “Step into our beautiful house and leave the world behind.” Amanda and Clay find it difficult to believe that something catastrophic has occurred because their immediate surroundings The ad’s promise seems solid as the family begins familiar vacation appear so normal. routines. The kids immediately jump in the pool, Amanda buys way too much food at the local grocery store, and Clay happily prepares Soon the members of this newly formed family of six are tentatively hamburgers for his family, enjoying the luxury of having level floors working through how to navigate an emergency that remains and central air-conditioning for a week. mysterious. While the nature and scale of the disaster are revealed slowly and incompletely to the characters, readers are offered Late on the second night there is a knock at the door. An older glimpses of what is happening elsewhere and of the future. The couple, G.H. and Ruth, explain that they are the owners of the result is high suspense without much hope of resolution. house. They had been at the symphony in the city when something Like other accomplished works of art, this novel is open to multiple interpretations. Some may read it as about contemporary politics, or race, or parenting, or climate change. When asked about whether he minds if a reader thinks his novel is about X when he thinks it is about Y, Alam said that it is essentially none of his business. He feels that his job is finished when it is handed over to the reader, and the reader’s experience is personal and independent of the creator’s intention.

Whatever readers see in this novel, there is a question that is likely to remain with them. Are the things we rely on as solid as we believe? “Leave the World Behind” is perfect for a time when many are examining what is essential and what they can live without. PBS Playtime Pads assist community children to keep learning.

PAGE 6 / Fall 2020 Perfect Time to Give a Gift

to gather again) and exclusive invitations to Author receptions are just a few of the benefits.

Honor a special someone this holiday season with a tribute gift in their name. A wonderful gift for the person who has everything. Remember a loved one with a tribute gift in their memory. A great way to honor their spirit by helping others in the community. It’s never too early to start thinking about estate planning. One small sentence in your will, trust or insurance policy can make a difference in the lives of many, many people throughout the community. Consider stock sales, donor advised funds or charitable rollovers.

For a full list of options visit foundation.slcl.org/membership-support or contact our Manager of Development 314-994-3300 ext. 2156 or email [email protected] Drive-Thru Food Pick-Up for Kids at Weber Road Branch.

Still looking for a way to make a difference before the end of the year? Now is the perfect time to consider giving an additional year-end gift. There are many ways to make an impact with a donation of any amount to the Library Foundation.

Your friends will be thanking you all year long if you give them a Friends Membership. Recommended Reading lists from bestselling Distribution of emergency diapers and books for kids are part of the Foundation’s authors, reserved seats at Author Series events (when we are able ongoing Covid-19 relief efforts. Friends Recommended Reads

Book of the Month Friends or higher that included “The Thursday Murder should be on the lookout for a Club” by Richard Osman. new perk. Each month, be- Best-known as the author loved authors, library staff of “Wicked,” Gregory and special contributors Maguire had wonderful will share what books they selections for November would recommend to a that included “The Queen friend. Our contributors of the Tambourine” by were told their selections Jane Gardam. S a G ire hari Lapen regor agu could be new or old, fiction or y M non-fiction just 10 books they enjoy. You won’t want to miss December’s list. If Their lists did not disappoint. you are a Pageturner Friend, make sure to upgrade to Book of the Month to start receiving these curated lists. International bestselling author of “The Couple Next Door,” Shari Not receiving our emails? Email us at [email protected] to make sure Lapena kicked off this exciting, new venture in October with a list you don’t miss a Recommended Reading list.

Fall 2020 / PAGE 7 New and Renewing Friends

The following is a list of people who joined the Friends of the St. Louis County Library Foundation or who renewed their membership between the dates January 12, 2020 and September 30, 2020.

Ms. Debra A. Acton Mr. Tom & Mrs. Cindy Bottini Mr. William & Mrs. Donna Cooper Ms. Rochelle L Ferdman Mr. Brad Aden Mrs. Rosemary Boustany Mr. Russell & Mrs. Susan Copper Ms. Geraldine A Ferguson & Mrs. Susann Sullivan-Aden Peggy W. Bowe Dr. Mark Corman Mr. Ed Finkelstein Dr. & Mrs. Stewart G Albert Dr. Chris & Mrs. Joan Bowe Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Cornell Dr. & Mrs. William Finnie Mrs. Jennifer Alexander Ms. Marsha S. Bray Ms. Jeanette R. Craig Mrs. Ann R. Fischer Mr. & Mrs. Robert Allen Mr. & Mrs. Chuck Bremer Dr. Anne Craver Ms. Carol Flannery Mr. Robert & Mrs. Barbara Anderson Mrs. Marilyn J. Brennan Mr. Edward & Mrs. Laura Crites Ms. Sallie Flum Mr. Tom Anzalone Ms. Nina Brewer Mrs. Debra J. Cronin Mrs. Janis K. Forsen Melanie Appelbaum Ms. Joan Briccetti Ms. Helena Crowder Mr. Bob & Mrs. Marti Fowler Ms. Georgia Arnold & Ms. Kathy Greminger Mrs. Mary Curran Mr. Leonard Frankel Ms. Nancy K. Ash Mr. & Mrs. Steven Bricker Ms. Susan E. Curvey Mrs. Ellen L. Franzel Mrs. Linda R. Ayres Mr. & Mrs. Michael Briggs Mr. Dan J. Czolgosz Mr. Barry Freedman Ms. Lea Ann Baker Barbara M. Briggs Mr. Conrad Damsgaard & Ms. Ava Ehrlich & Mr. Jan Pierre Pallaras Ms. Katie Brookes Ms. Carol Darnall Mrs. Marilyn Freundlich Dr. Patricia Martens Balke Mrs. Barbara Brooks Mr. Benjamin M Dent, Jr. Mrs. Paula J. Friedman Dr. & Mrs. Gerald W. Baltz DeAnne & Gordon Brown Mr. Joshua & Mrs. Shelby Dersch Mrs. Marilyn L. Fries Mr. Gerald Bamberger Mr. Bob & Mrs. Margie Browner Mrs. Mary DeSuza Mrs. Nancy Gelb Mr. & Mrs. George R. Barber Mr. Richard Browning Jon Deuchler & Teresa Andreone Bob & Nancy Gellman Mr. Robert Barnes Ms. Patti Bubash Mrs. Cathye Dierberg Genevieve Gibson-Newman Mrs. Patricia Barney Dr. Katherine Buchowski Ms. JoAnn Digman Mr. & Mrs. David Gierada Mrs. Jan Barrett Mr. & Mrs. Bruce S. Buckland Ms. Elaine R. Diller Mrs. Debbie Gilula April & Matthew Bauer Nathan E. Burrow Nancy & William Dilley Drs. Joseph & Mary P. Gira Ms. Patti J. Bauer Mrs. Mary V. Bussmann Mr. David L. Dilthey Ms. Deborah Farris Goldberg Dr. Lynn L. Beckwith, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. David Butler Dr. & Mrs. Richard Dirks Ms. Linda Goldenberg Drs. Don & Carole Beere Joyce & Gary Campbell Ms. Ginny Dittmar P. Wayne & Jane B. Goode Mr. & Mrs. Donald Behrmann Francine & Harvey Cantor Ms. Peggy O. Dolter Mrs. Ruth Gosik Mrs. Sandy Belfi Ms. Arlene Caplan & Mr. Joe Tripodi Mrs. Judith A. Donohue Mrs. Anne Gould Ms. Traci A. Bell Mrs. Debra Carpenter Mr. & Mrs. Jerry O. Doud Mrs. Charla Gray Ms. Dianne Bendas Ms. Jan Case Mrs. Sharon Dougherty Ms. JoAnn Graziano Ms. Nancy Bengtson Ms. Ann Case Mr. Daniel & Mrs. Jamie Driemeyer & Mr. Alan Weber Mr. Kenneth Bennett Mr. & Mrs. Joe Castagno Dr. Dorothy & Mr. John Dwyer Mr. Michael Greenfield Ms. Nancy W. Benson Ms. Sue Cejka Bob & Linh Dye & Ms. Claire Halpern Ms. Laurie Berger Alisa Chapman Simpson Mrs. Patricia A. Eckert Mrs. Margaret Greenwood Mrs. Anna R. Bertman & Ken Simpson Ms. Stephanie M. Edney Mr. Chris & Mrs. Meg Griesedieck Mr. Brian & Mrs. Shirley Bild Mr. Phil Chicoineau Ms. Cathy Ennion Mr. James Griffith Ms. Cynthia Billingsley Mr. Paul & Mrs. Kathy Chilcutt Mr. Philip Estep & Ms. Elizabeth Early Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bindler Mr. & Mrs. Elliott Chubb & Ms. Mary Carpenter Mrs. Katherine Gross Mr. Scott Biondo Ms. Patricia M. Ciapciak Susan Fadem Bill & Sally Grun Dr. Sandra Blanco Mrs. Sheila Cohen Ms. Suellyn Fahey Ms. Helen V Guenthel Mrs. Susan C Blandford Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Cohen Ms. Ann Falk Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Guerrant Mrs. Annie Blum Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Cole Michael D. Farley Dr. & Mrs. C. Hudson Guthrie Mr. & Mrs. William E. Blumenhorst Kelly Connors Mrs. Barbara Faupel Mr. Evan Haas Ms. Alice J. Bollenbach Ms. Linda Cook Mr. & Mrs. Richard Feldman Ms. Linda M. Hahn Ms. Ellen Bonacorsi Dr. Susan Cook Mr. & Mrs. Christopher T. Felling Ms. Carolyn Haimann Ms. Lori Boschert Ms. Frances A. Cook Ms. Martha J. Fenger & Mr. Thomas K. Vandiver

PAGE 8 / Fall 2020 The St. Louis County Library Foundation is committed to enhance and enrich the library’s educational and cultural mission by securing financial support beyond public funding, sponsoring programs and special projects, and serving as a library ambassador.

Ms. Lynn F. Hamilton Mr. & Mrs. Phil Kaplan Ms. Nancy W. Litzinger Mr. Harlan & Mrs. Liz Meyer Ms. Heather R. Hanly Rev. Chris W. Keating Mr. Art & Mrs. Martha Liyeos Mrs. Nancy Meyer Mrs. Lisa Hanly Mr. David Kehm Ms. Leslye H. Louis Mr. Bruce & Mrs. Renee Michelson & Mr. Michael Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. James Kennedy Mr. & Mrs. Tony Louvier Mrs. Mary Ann Miller Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Hanson Ms. Carol H. Kershner Mrs. Liz Lowis Ms. Patricia D. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Gregg S. Hanson MaryAnn & Chris Kinder Dr. & Mrs. Herbert Lubowitz Ms. Ann Miller Mrs. Glenda Hares Mr. & Mrs. Eugene J. Kissling Mrs. Ann Ludlow Ms. Ruth H. Miller Mr. Bill & Mrs. Patti Harrer Ms. Katura Klaus Ms. Barbara Luedde Mrs. Karen L. Miller Ms. Barbara R. Harris Mr. & Mrs. Herbert G. Kleyboecker & Mr. Carl Pruess Ms. Wanda Million Ms. Nancy Hartman Mrs. Stephanie Kline-Tissi Dr. & Mrs. Carl A. Lyss Mr. William & Mrs. Pamela Moench Mr. Thomas Mr. Richard & Mrs. Stephany Kniep Mrs. Christine M. Macarthy Mr. & Mrs. Joe Molinaro & Mrs. Sandra Heineman Mrs. Lesley C. Knowles Mrs. Tabitha Mailhes Carla A. Monroe-Posey, PhD Ms. Shari Heitmann Mr. & Mrs. James W. Koeger Mr. John R. Mallon Ms. Barbara T. Moore Mr. Patrick Hendershot Mr. Alan & Mrs. Jacquelyn Kofsky Mr. Patrick & Mrs. Julia Mangner Ms. Sharon J. Moran Mrs. Nancy Henke Richard & Carol Kohnen Mr. & Mrs. Ned Maniscalco Ms. Carol A. Moran Mrs. Rita Hennessey Mr. John & Mrs. Arlene Koly Ricki & Neil Marglous Mrs. Karen Morgan Ms. Brenda Henty Ms. Gay Kornblum Pat & Jim Markey Ms. Mary Ann Morley Mrs. Mary A. Hess Mr. & Mrs. Marc S. Kramer Mr. & Mrs. Ronald G. Marsek & Mr. Dennis Smith Mr. Michael & Mrs. Jeanne Hevesy Mrs. Judi Kramer Ms. Christy Marshall Mrs. Barb Morris Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Higgins Daniel & Brittany Krewson Mrs. Pat Marstall Mr. & Mrs. Susan A. Moser Mr. James & Mrs. Joyce Hill Ms. Joan Krueger Hiram C. & Cheryl A. Martin Mrs. Sherry Muehlfarth Mrs. Jackie Hilzinger Mr. Mark & Mrs. Deborah Kumming Mrs. Kay Martin Mr. Tom Muenks Dr. Maurice & Mrs. Marian Hirsch Dr. & Mrs. Haruo Kusama Aixa Martinez & Paul A. Robiolio Mrs. Ginger Mulanax Mrs. Shirley Hoemeke Dr. Toni M. Kutchan Ms. Candace Martz Mrs. Janet Mulholland Mr. Tom & Mrs. Karleen Hoerr Mr. Daniel Kweskin Ms. Margaret Massey Dr. Julia Muller Mrs. Gail A. Hoffman & Ms. Gloria E. Kweskin Mr. Bill & Mrs. Helene Mathis & Mr. Earl Shreckengast Mr. Richard W. Hokamp Mrs. Lindsey LaFore Ms. Sue S. Matlof Mr. Birch & Mrs. Catherine Mullins Ms. Tina Holland Ms. Maria R. Lambing Mr. David A. May, Jr. Ms. Janet E. Mulroy Mr. & Mrs. Warren Holmes Dr. & Mrs. James E. Lamont Dr. a& Mrs. Fallon H. Maylack Mrs. Gloria G. Mundwiller Ms. Nancy Hope Ms. Sue Lancaster Mr. & Mrs. Luckett Maynard Ms. Marianne Muran Mr. Repps & Mrs. Stacey Hudson Ms. Martha Lane Ms. Joanne McAndrews Mr. & Mrs. Barry A. Murov Mrs. Mary Beth Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence E. Langsam Ms. Jan McClenahan Ms. Susan Murphy Ms. Lynn Huson Mrs. Sarah Larson Ms. Peggy A. McClure Mrs. Ilene Murray Mr. & Mrs. Joel S. Iskiwitch Mrs. Elaine Sponberg Larson Mrs. Carolyn McCune Ms. Dawn Murray Mr. Martin & Mrs. Margie Jaffe Ms. Monica L. Lauer Mr. Tom & Mrs. Elaine McKenna Ms. Debra A. Murrish Savitri Jain Mrs. Karen Lavin Joan McKerrow & Michael Rubin Mrs. Judith Mutchler Mr. Steve & Mrs. Sue Jarrett Mrs. Sandy Layton Mrs. Nanette M. McKown Dr. Gary Myers Ms. Cindy Jensen & Mr. Joe Clarke Mr. & Mrs. Derek Legler Mr. & Mrs. Larry McLane Dr. Susan W. Nall Mr. Dean & Mrs. Cheryl Joerling Dr. Janet B. LeSage Mr. Brad McLaury Ms. Mary Ann Nielsen Dr. & Mrs. Morris Joftus Ms. Beth Letscher Ms. Janis Meckfessel Ms. Lynne R. Nikolaisen Mrs. Barbara A. Jones Ms. Constance Levy Mrs. Persis Mehta Ms. Daryl Norman Ms. Mabeline Julien Mr. & Mrs. Ronnie Light Mr. Murray & Mrs. Linda Meierhoff Ms. Linda Nottestad Ms. Sydney K. Jumper Mr. Mark Lincoln Mrs. Barbara R. Melnik Mr. & Mrs. David Nowak Jerry & Joan Kaemmer Mrs. Cheryl J. Lindley Ms. Anna Marie Meyer Ms. Rhonda O’Brien Jeanne Fischer & Michael Kafoury Ms. Marilyn Lipman Ms. Evelyn Becker Meyer Mr. Bruce & Mrs. Robbin Oehler

Fall 2020 / PAGE 9 New and Renewing Friends

The following is a list of people who joined the Friends of the St. Louis County Library Foundation or who renewed their membership between the dates January 12, 2020 and September 30, 2020.

Mr. & Mrs. Michael C. Ogilvie Mr. & Mrs. Robert Richardson Mrs. Mary Sisul Mr. Kenneth & Mrs. Lida Wagner Mr. Eric & Mrs. Linda Otten Mrs. Ellen & Mr. Dennis Riggs Dr. & Mrs. Harold Sitrin Mr. Wayne & Mrs. Mary Walker William D. Owens Mrs. Jane & Mr. Bruce Robert Mr. & Mrs. James M Smith Dr. & Mrs. Lynn Walker Ms. Sheila M. Palitzsch Bobbie E. Robertson Ms. Jane H. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Wallace Ms. Abigail Pankau Ms. Karen Robinson Mrs. Barbara A Smith Mr. Curtis Walls Ms. Peggy Parr Mrs. Luz Rooney Montie & Michael Sommers Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Waltman Mrs. Joyce G. Patterson Ms. Holly Rose Mrs. Tracey M. Stanton Miss Kathryn Ward Mr. Ward & Mrs. Mary Patterson Mrs. Carla E. Rosen Ms. Katherine Steele Mr. Tony Waskiewicz Ms. Deborah J. Patterson Mrs. Gretchen H. Ross Mr. Robert & Mrs. Carol Stelmach Ms. Marian S. Webb Sandra Patterson Ms. Jan Rothermich Mrs. Catherine A. Stenger Ms. Mary Weinstock Mr. & Mrs. Fred H. Perabo Mrs. Patricia Roy Mrs. Joy Sterneck Mr. & Mrs. A. R. Weisheit Ms. Debra Petree Ms. Leah S. Rubin Mr. Josh Stevens Ms. Ellen S. White Mr. & Mrs. Don Phillips Ms. Jana Rush Ms. Carol J. Stevenson Mr. & Mrs. Jerry H. Wibbenmeyer Ms. Kristin Pierce Mr. & Mrs. James Ryan Ms. Jo Ann Stoda Mr. Martin Wice Ms. Debra Piggott Ms. Vicki J Sanchez Mr. Peter & Mrs. Nancy Stratte Ms. Emily A. Williams Mr. & Mrs. William R. Piper Ms. Anita L Sanchez Ms. Elizabeth Struckhoff Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Williams Janice E. Plotkin-Kimmel Mrs. JoAnn Sandifer & Mr. James Harris Mrs. Gretchen M. Williams Mr. George Poland Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Sandmel Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Stuerman Dr. & Mrs. Martin Willman Mr. & Mrs. John Porter Mrs. Kay Sandweiss Mr. Bart Sullivan Dr. Harlan Wilson George & Susan Powell Ms. Margaret S. Sant’Ambrogio Ms. Peggy A Sullivan Ms. Sue Wilson Reverend & Mrs. Paul Prange Mr. & Mrs. Tom W. Santel Mr. Robert A. Swingler Ms. Leslie Anne Wolk Ms. Susan Preis Ms. Mary Schafers Mr. Robert Tatum Mrs. Javais A. Wolters Mr. & Mrs. Dick Price Mr. & Mrs. Steve Schilson Tarza Tawfiq Ms. Courtney M. Wood Mr. & Mrs. Terry L. Proffitt Mrs. Amanda & Mr. Matt Schmitt Ms. Johanna O. Taylor Ms. Mary Joan Woods Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. Puleo Ms. Damaris A. Schmitt Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey R. Taylor Mrs. Kathryn L. Workman Mr. & Mrs. Jack Quinn Ms. Sharon Schmitz Ms. Donna L. Tedeschi Ms. Sarah Wunderly Mr. & Mrs. Maurice E. Quiroga Mr. Glenn Schmoll Dale Terrell Mr. & Mrs. Harold Yeager Bindu Raghavan Ms. Mary K Schomaker Jo Ellen Thelen Ms. Mae Ylagan Anne & Craig Ragland Mrs. Amanda L. Schoonmaker Mrs. Susan Thoelke Ms. Kim Zachritz Miss Susan Rainer Mr. Craig Schriewer Mrs. Susan Thompson John Zalewski Mr. Carl & Mrs. Marsha Ramey Mr. & Mrs. Richard Schumacher Ms. Elizabeth Threlkeld Ms. Aleene S. Zawada Mrs. Linda S. Ramin Desiree & Brett Schumann Allison & Taylor Tompkins Dr. Kenneth & Mrs. Mary Zehnder Mr. Rod Randoll Mrs. Susan & Mr. Allan Scott Mr. Dennis & Mrs. Adele Tuchler Mrs. Donna Zerega Frank & Mary Rassieur Mrs. Kelley Seibel Mrs. Susan Upchurch Mr. Jay & Mrs. Betsy Zimerman Dr. Gary & Mrs. Marilyn Ratkin Mr. Thomas Sellmeyer Mr. Phillip Urberger Mrs. Jennifer Zink Mr. Joseph H. Raybuck Mrs. Barbara Shannon Ms. Barbara Cole Valdes Ms. Kathleen Zorica Bryan & Sheila Reddick Mr. John & Mrs. Mary Beth Shaw Ms. Katie Van Allen Mr. & Mrs. Elliot Zucker Mr. James & Mrs. Linda Reed Ms. Mary Sherfy Mr. & Mrs. Russell R. Vanderbeek Ms. Vivian Zwick Mr. David F. Reed Ms. Susan B. Shriver Mr. David & Mrs. Tina Vass Mr. David & Mrs. Kathy Rehmer Mrs. Sylvia K. Silver Ms. Susan M. Veidt Ms. Tracey Reynolds Dr. & Mrs. Alan B. Silverberg Mr. David & Mrs. Cathy Vierse Ms. SaraJoan Rezak Mr. Allan & Mrs. Karen Silverwood Mr. & Mrs. Nguyen Violette Mr. Ricky Rhine Mrs. Elaine F. Simmons Mr. & Mrs. Jim Virtel Mr. Andrew Richards Mrs. Jane Sinclair Mrs. Sue Votaw & Ms. Mary Eisler Ms. Kathy Sinnott Mrs. Sandra Vuitel

PAGE 10 / Fall 2020

Gifts and Tributes The Library Foundation offers a special opportunity to honor and remember a loved one, friend or colleague. A donation at the Foundation recognizes and expresses your love and respect for a beloved individual while enhancing the Foundation‘s early childhood literacy programs. Please consider the Foundation for a tribute or memorial gift.

In Memory of: In Honor of:

Jane Adams Jean Hunkeler June Stewart Premier Financial Partners Mrs. Carol Kohnen Mr. Jacob Lee Carlson Henrietta Chesnek Clients Jane Esker Mr. Jim J. Wood, CFP Mr. Jeff Behrends Ms. Arline Kalishman Lietta Haenel Ms. Karen Marshall Ms. Randee Blum Grand Glaize Branch Ms. Yvette Joy Liebesman Ms. Nikki Buechler Jane Brase Erica Leisering Chris McGraugh Mr. Steven Albright Dr. Michael Murphy Meadows at Concord Anna Gonzalez Durrwachter Yael Winston Vic, Mellissa, Maggie Ms. Josephine Licavoli Homeowners Association & Tommy Amato Mrs. Nancy Gelb Mrs. Ilene Ordower Mr. Frank Greening Ms. Jill Cave & Mr. Jay Shipp Mr. Joel A Poole University United Methodist Ms. Evelyn Lieberman Tom & Sandy Delaney Mr. & Mrs. Adam Reynolds Church The Boccardi Family Ms. Florence Cohn Barbara Roeseler Larry & Sarah Haake Tan Fui Lan Katie Schwaneke DeJuan Henderson Mrs. Susan & Mr. Dean Haake Mr. & Mrs. Edward A Scallet Ms. Joann M Watts Ms. Marian L Halley OneCity For Recovery Ms. Rosalyn Segal Barbara Tebbetts Karen Kahn & Crossroads Community Ethel M. Lindsey Ms. Mary Ann Morley Mr. Matt Kahn Mrs. Amy & Mr. Rick Held Anonymous Mr. Dave & Mrs. Jackie Hughes Mrs. Sandra Van Cleve Dorothy Pingel Ms. Jan Krause Suchitra Mayekar SLCL Staff Association Ms. Marjorie Pingel Dan & Leslie Nowicki Mr. Anup Mayeka Carol Volk Kay Russell Jude & Lisa Reed Mr. Arthur Morey Mrs. Barbara Brooks Elizabeth Russell Anonymous Ms. Shanna Jacobson Grace Waldman Mr. & Mrs. Don & Peni Shaw Ms. Carrie Robb Ms. Shirley Wegener Jean & Bob Thomas Anonymous Robyn S Levy-Marino Mrs. Anita and Mr. Allen Tigert Betty Platt Emily Marino Anonymous Mr. Butch Todd Mr. Jim Wood Mike Todd & Karen Ranspot Dr. Vernon J. Roden, MD Kara Brockmeier The Zeltwanger Family Ms. Susan M Barrett Phillip Catanzaro Mr. Tim Scribner Mr. John P. Eschmann Dr. and Mrs. David Corman Mrs. Diana Gail Robbins Harvey & Marti Ferdman Christen Ms. Nancy Persons Ms. Pat Christen Clifford Statler Ms. Julie Cruise Ms. Joan De Francesco Ms. Nicole Higginbotham Ms. Doris McCall Mr. John Willock Peter DePasquale

Ms. Ruth Fuller

Fall 2020 / PAGE 11 St. Louis County Library Foundation 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63131 foundation.slcl.org

Upcoming virtual author events

Wednesday, January 13 Tuesday, December 15 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Jane Smiley Ace Atkins “Robert B. Parker’s Someone “Perestroika in Paris” to Watch Over Me”

Tuesday, January 26 Tuesday, February 2 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Melanie Benjamin Vivian Gibson “The Children’s Blizzard” “The Last Children of Mill Creek”

Go to www.slcl.org/authors for more information about these and other author visits.