THE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF THE NEWPORT BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION

SUMMER 2017

Colson Whitehead 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winner ©Madeline Whitehead LETTER

Your Brain on Learning BOARD OF DIRECTORS think each of us can recall that euphoric feeling of learning something Kevin Barlow Karen Clark new that completely altered our world. One such moment in my life was Nancy Dahlfors discovering that dolphins breathe voluntarily, consciously quite unlike Elizabeth Edwards humans. Discovering these “minds in the water” was mind-blowing. Another was Rebecca Gonzalez looking at a single drop of pond water through a microscope for the first time and Janet Hadley being astonished at the cellular life forms pulsing in their miniature world. Dorothy Larson Toby Larson What is it about learning or making profound discoveries that is so energizing? Natasha Palmaer Cathy Voreyer Science has answered the question: the act of learning is actually physiologically Adrian Windsor, Ph.D. beneficial, not to mention richly satisfying without any side-effects! The endorphins Lizanne Witte that produce the “runner’s high” are also produced when we learn. Felix Yan

“Learning a more lasting new skill — be it playing guitar or learning to speak a Executive Director foreign language — can equally harness the brain’s joy of learning new things, but Tracy Keys leave you with something of permanent value, in a way that neither drugs nor video Director of Programs games ever could. It leaves you with a sense of fulfillment, which goes back to what Susan Groux pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow called ‘self-actualization.’

As Aristotle realized, there is a difference between the pleasures of the moment (hedonia), and the satisfaction that comes from constantly developing and living LIBRARY BRANCHES one’s life to the fullest (eudaimonia). In recent years, scientists have finally begun Central Library to study eudaimonia. Research suggests that the greater sense of purpose and 1000 Avocado Avenue personal growth associated with eudaimonia correlates with lower cortisol levels, Newport Beach, CA 92660 better immune function and more efficient sleep.” — Excerpted from CNN article 949.717.3800 by Gary Marcus, entrepreneur and artificial intelligence contrarian. Mariners Branch Given the transformational and essential nature of learning, the library is arguably 1300 Irvine Avenue Newport Beach, CA 92660 our society’s greatest asset. Many of us lack the luxury of time to attend classes 949.717.3838 and yet we have the desire to continue learning. The Newport Beach Public Library is the resource for lifelong learning with its programs, books, databases and Balboa Branch 100 East Balboa Boulevard technology. With your largess, it will remain so. Balboa, CA 92661 949.644.3076 The Library Foundation is committed to ensuring that the library has exciting Corona del Mar Branch opportunities for you to have a lifetime 420 Marigold Avenue of discovery and learning. Corona del Mar, CA 92625 949.644.3075 Tracy Keys Executive Director Director of Library Services Tim Hetherton

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CONTACT Library Foundation Office 1000 Avocado Avenue Cover: Colson Whitehead, 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winner, will headline Library Live (see page 7) Newport Beach, CA 92660 Phone: 949.717.3890 [email protected] 2 NEWS

Welcome Nancy Dahlfors to the Board of Westin Experience Specialist (think Directors! VIP customers and social media for the e are pleased to announce that hotel) at the Westin Hotel River North Nancy Dahlfors has joined the downtown. Reede graduated from Library Foundation’s Board of Directors. University of Wisconsin in 2015 and Nancy and her husband Brant have just landed a position with SocialCode lived in Corona del Mar since August in San Francisco, a 2011 startup with of 2001. She hails from a small town offices in NY, DC, Chicago, Detroit, called Fairborn in Ohio and graduated LA and San Francisco. She helps create with a Bachelor of Business from and execute social media campaigns University of Texas at San Antonio for the company and is currently on in 1989. the Purina account. Both tech savvy young women are thriving in their Nancy’s husband of 36 years Brant, is a partner in a private adopted cities. jet brokerage firm based in Southern California. Their daughters Wren and Reede both graduated from CDM An avid reader and member of several book clubs, High in 2009 and 2011 respectively. Wren graduated from Nancy is currently reading The Handmaid’s Tale by Colorado State in 2013 and lives in Chicago. She is the Margaret Atwood.

Planning a Trip? You may need a passport & some language skills! Rosetta Stone now he Newport Beach Public Library is an authorized United States Passport available for free! acceptance facility. Services below are he library is excited to offer the popular offered Monday–Thursday, 10:00am–3:00pm language learning program, Rosetta Stone, (except holidays) at the Central Library. giving customers free access to 30 different language • Processing for first-time applicants courses at the beginning level. Library card holders • Expedited processing can log on to Rosetta Stone from home or the • Lost/Stolen information library and take core lessons to build reading, writing, speaking and listening skills, as well as To schedule an appointment (they are refine grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. required), please call 949.717.3831 or email [email protected].

3 THE WITTE LECTURES

The Witte Lectures Series is a place of discovery! Learn something you don’t know from an expert you THANK YOU have yet to discover. We are deeply indebted to each 20TH SEASON and every sponsor who made our 20th season possible. SPONSORS

MACARTHUR GENIUS Sue and Bill Gross

RHODES SCHOLAR Janet S. Hadley Bill Witte & Keiko Sakamoto Matthew & Lizanne Witte

FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR City National Bank Todd & Natasha Palmaer The Rallis Foundation Barbara Roberts Jon Meacham photo by Jeffrey Rovner, Esq.

PULITZER Sophie & Manouch Moshayedi Dr. James B. Pick & Dr. Rosalyn M. Laudati Ellen K. Shockro, Ph.D. & Jack Shaw Tom & Marilyn Sutton

PEN/FAULKNER Terry & Sharon Bridges Chris & Malin Fletcher Barbara & Greg MacGillivray Marilyn W. McIntyre The PIMCO Foundation Nancy H. Smith Mike & Gloria Sullivan Samuel & Tammy Tang Jill Johnson-Tucker & Larry Tucker Elaine J. Weinberg

HOSPITALITY Hi-Time Wine Cellars Island Hotel Newport Beach Lido Village Books Nespresso

IN-KIND Jene Witte Photos L to R: 1. Jon Meacham 2. Janet Hadley 3. Isabel Wilkerson 4. Carla Furuno, Matt Witte, Chris Alison, Sophie MEDIA Moshayedi, Bob Alison 5. Lizanne Witte, Dr. Michele Goodwin 6. Felix Yan, Joe Nocera, Edna Yan 7. Gregg & Kathleen Abel 8. Dr. Wade Davis 9. Cindy Plant, Dr. Wade Davis, Barbara & Greg MacGillivray 10. Barry Cosgrove, Ingrid Valdez 11. Ben Witte 12. Marilyn Krahe, Keiko Sakamoto Witte 13. Linda & Dan Schmenk 14. Dr. James Pick, Dr. Rosalyn Laudati 15. Professor Jeff Wasserstrom 16. Charles Worden, Erika Palmaer, Diane Hafer, Rebecca Gonzalez 17. Bano & Bob Pozin 18. Peter Keller, Ph.D., Dr. Wade Davis 19. Mary Lynn Bergman-Rallis, John Rallis 4 WITTE HIGHLIGHTS

NEW* 2017/2018 SPONSORS

SERIES SPONSOR Janet S. Hadley

PEN/FAULKNER Carolyn & Bill Klein Eleanor Jaffy

*At the time of publication.

SPONSORSHIP The speakers for 2018 will be announced this fall. Sponsorship is necessary every year to make this series a reality.

If you are interested in sponsoring The Witte Lectures 2017-2018, please call Tracy Keys at 949.717.3890 or email: tkeys@ newportbeachca.gov.

Benefits may include: • Reserved seats • Complimentary tickets • Signed books • Private VIP receptions • Luncheons with the speakers

The Witte Lectures Committee From top L to R: Gordon McAlpine; Natasha Palmaer; Tracy Keys; Janis Dinwiddie; Diane Hafer; Ellen Shockro, Lisa Edwards; Lizanne Witte; Janet Hadley; Jason Sherr; Jene Witte Thank you Jason for chairing the committee with such passion and dedication for more than a decade. We will miss you! 5 LIBRARY LIVE

Andrew Tonkovich & Lisa Alvarez Thursday, September 28 @ 7:00 pm THANK YOU SPONSORS Orange County: Christopher & Debby Gaal A Literary Field Guide Allan O. Hunter, Jr. Panel discussion with contributors Carol & Bill Kewell, Jr. Trust to the anthology moderated by Christopher Keys local literary rock stars Andrew Pacific Life Foundation Tonkovich and Lisa Alvarez. The Schoellerman Gustavo Arellano, who is also a Foundation contributor, says “this book excels Dr. Tom Staple by paying attention to all the Samuel & Tammy Tang quirks that define this place…and in finding the best writing to give each of our flaws and virtues its IN-KIND SPONSORS proper justice or evisceration.”

No charge to attend.

Become a Sponsor If you love our programs and contribute at least $2,500, your investment will enable us to bring more amazing authors to the Central Library. Benefits include private dinners with the authors, preferred seating and Highlights from Stephanie Danler event. signed books. L to R 1. Malin Fletcher, Nancy Dahlfors 2. Stephanie Danler 3. Ashley Cochrane of Baker & Olive

For more information on sponsorship, please phone Tracy Keys at Details Schedule: Reserve / Tickets / Info 949.717.3890 or email: [email protected]. Cost varies per speaker 6:30pm Doors open nbplfoundation.org Reservations required; 7:00-8:30pm Program [email protected] Limited seating 8:30-9:00pm Book sales & signing or 949.548.2411 Held at Central Library

Library Foundation members, students and teachers receive a $5 discount on each ticket. 6 * LIBRARY LIVE Pulitzer Prize Centennial Celebration @ Your Library

ne hundred years ago this year, Joseph Pulitzer established what remains one of the most prestigious awards bestowed for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. The Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, the Hungarian-born American who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a $15,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal.

In the latter years of the 19th century, Pulitzer stood out as the very embodiment of American journalism. An intense indomitable figure, Pulitzer was the most skillful of newspaper publishers, a passionate crusader against dishonest government, a fierce, hawk-like competitor who did not shrink from sensationalism in circulation struggles, and a visionary who richly endowed his profession.

His innovative New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch reshaped newspaper journalism. Pulitzer was the first to call for the training of journalists at the university level in a school of journalism. And certainly, the lasting influence of the Pulitzer Prizes on journalism, literature, music, and drama is to be attributed to his visionary acumen. — Adapted from an article by Seymour Topping at pulitzer.org

The Library Foundation is proud to present two Pulitzer Prize-winners at Library Live: Colson Whitehead and William Finnegan. Thank you sponsors for making it possible. William Finnegan Thursday, November 9 @ 7:00 pm Barbarian Days William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He will speak about Barbarian Days, his 2016 Pulitzer Prize- winning memoir. More than just a recounting of great waves discovered and ridden, it is a story of family, friendships, love, coming-of-age and the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art, told with such lyricism and insight that even non-surfers will be swept along for the ride.

©The New Yorker Tickets: $25/20* Colson Whitehead Wednesday, April 18, 2018 @ 7:00 pm The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead has established himself as one of the most versatile and innovative writers in contemporary literature. He will speak about his latest novel, The Underground Railroad, a #1 New York Times bestseller that won both the 2016 National Book Award and 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Tickets: $25/20* ©Madeline Whitehead 7

TEN QUESTIONS Janet & Walkie Ray 1. All-time 5. Favorite place in the world? favorite book? Our home on Bay Island. My favorite book was We love traveling all over the world (I repeat was) Hawaii by but always return to home and step James Michener which I out on our balcony in awe. “Newps” read in sixth grade when (fondly coined by our daughter) is such I was at Harbor View a special place. School in Corona del Mar. I read all 1,000 plus 6. Most valuable lesson to pages of this paper book teach grandchildren? from cover to cover and Ask questions and listen. Have a felt totally drawn into this personal passion and be compassionate. work of historical fiction. Love yourself, your family, your I was so sad to have community and your country. the book end. To Kill a Mockingbird is now my 7. Who are your heroes? favorite book. Walkie’s One of my local heroes is Marian favorite author is Cormac Bergeson. She stood for what she McCarthy, especially believed in, she listened and is a true Blood Meridian. shining light in our community that lives on. We worked together on many 2. What’s on your nightstand? projects with passion and compassion. hen referring to Newport Walkie’s end table has Making of Beach locals, Janet and Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, 8. Where do you get your news? Walkie Ray come to Destiny and Power by Jon Meacham Online news outlets, definitely not TV. mind first. The Rays grew up in Corona and Born in Exile by George Gissing. del Mar and met in third grade at the Janet’s end table has The Gift of Rain 9. Greatest adventure? bus stop. They attended Harbor View by Tan Twan Eng, The Greeks by Diane We’ve been fortunate to go on safari School and ultimately both graduated Harris Cline and The Devil in the White in Tanzania and take our boat to many from Stanford. Walkie’s father of J. Ray City by Erik Larson. remote spots in Mexico. But our trip Construction Company built the Balboa to the Antarctic in 2016 with Barb Branch of the library and Walkie built 3. Favorite place to read? and Greg MacGillivray was quite an the branch located in Fashion Island When we’re at home I love to curl up in adventure. We left the southern tip of prior to the building of our current bed when it’s quiet at the end of a busy South America on an expedition vessel Newport Beach Central Library. Walkie day and retreat into another world. For with scientists studying the humpback has been a principal of Sanderson me “quiet” is a key word but for Walkie, whales. Other worldly! J.Ray Development Company for more coming from a larger and noisier family, than 35 years. In the early 1990s Janet he can read regardless of what is going 10. Most important offering and Walkie were instrumental in the on around him. Our large family of five of libraries? founding of DiscoveryCubeOC and to children and loads of friends never Libraries are the hubs of community this day continue to be very involved fazed him. Also reading on our boat where lifelong learning takes place. in its growth. Janet is particularly or while on vacation is always a treat. interested in DiscoverCube’s Ocean It can be the quiet place I seek or the Quest at the Fun Zone which focuses on 4. Hardback, paperback or social experience with energy that ocean science education. Janet is also e-book? Walkie thrives on. Either way, it is an honored to serve as a Library Trustee. institution of our community and our Walkie and I are clearly in different country that is the key to the future for The Rays have five grown children and camps on this issue. Walkie always is eleven grandchildren to date. Janet and our children and grandchildren. What reading e-books but, ironically when an honor to be part of this legacy! Walkie feel blessed to have grown up we travel he will manage to get the and lived in this gem of a community, fattest, heaviest hardback (sometimes and we are extremely fortunate to have scientific text book) in his backpack. their commitment and participation. My preference is paperback although I’ll read e-books on occasion. 8 MEMBERS’ VOICES

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enjoy the Bookmark What a wonderful way to “teach.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings publication. You may Perhaps one or more of these young by Maya Angelou be like most of us, always people was changed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks looking for books and reading- by Rebecca Skloot related stories. At a recent Ginger Hayter Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks Library Foundation Member Current Events Session at Oasis Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle Senior Center, one woman shared THE JUDGE’S READING LIST The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison a true story. The Color Purple by Alice Walker A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind A group of teens were brought Native Son by Richard Wright Down These Mean Streets before a judge in Northern Virginia. Exodus by Leon Uris by Piri Thomas They had vandalized a historic black Mila 18 by Leon Uris Black Boy by Richard Wright church with swastikas and other Trinity by Leon Uris The Beautiful Struggle graffiti. When queried, one teen by Ta-Nehisi Coates My Name is Asher Lev admitted he did not know what the The Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt symbols represented – he just did it by Chaim Potok The Underground Railroad with the others. The judge decided The Chosen by Chaim Potok by Colson Whitehead community service, writing repetitive The Sun Also Rises sentences, deprivation of freedom by Ernest Hemingway Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi was not going to impress or change Night by Elie Wiesel The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang these young people so he devised a The Crucible by Arthur Miller Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali unique learning experience. The Kite Runner The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson The “sentence” was one for the by Khaled Hosseini The Help by Kathryn Stockett books. For one year, every month, A Thousand Splendid Suns each young culprit was to select a by Khaled Hosseini Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton book from a list they were given Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Too Late the Phalarope by Alan Paton by the judge. Read a book, write a The Handmaid’s Tale A Dry White Season by Andrè Brink by Margaret Atwood report about the main themes and Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides describe what was learned. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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FOR KIDS

n May, the fourth Annual Bunnies & Books for Kids Festival was held at the Central Library and Civic Center. This popular community event sponsored by the Library Foundation keeps expanding like baby bunnies! Save-Some-Bunny- Rescue was on the scene with, you guessed it, bunnies! Face painters, crafts and games rounded out the perfect day for families at the library.

We want to give a big shout out to the wonderful library staff who facilitated story time and this year’s new festival element “Storywalk®” where kids literally walked through book pages installed in the park. Also, we want to give big kudos to the Making Memories for Children committee and their fearless leader, Jason Sherr.

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Sponsor Terry Bridges with Susan Groux, Director of Programs

Calling All Readers Ages 8 to 13! Jennifer Holm Sunday, September 17 @ 2:00pm

Newberry Honor Award winning author, Jennifer Holm will talk about The Fourteenth Goldfish as well as her popular graphic novel book series, the Babymouse series and the Squish series.

Ms. Holm is the New York Times bestselling children’s author of Our Only May Amelia, Penny from Heaven, Turtle in Paradise and The Fourteenth Goldfish. She has won three Newberry Honor Awards for her books. Details • No admission charge; seating is limited • Location: Friends Meeting Room, Central Library 1000 Avocado Avenue, Newport Beach • Info & Reservations: [email protected] or 949.548.2411

11 GRATITUDE

The Newport Beach Public Library Foundation funds valuable library resources and programs—engaging the community in cultural and intellectual adventure through Mission the sponsorship of diverse public programs and cutting-edge library enhancements. We are a membership-driven organization. Fulfilling our mission is possible because Statement: of the individuals and corporations below. Thank you! The following represents gifts given and new pledges made from January 1 to May 16, 2017.

GUTENBERG COLLECTORS Mr. William H. Roper Ms. Cynthia Bruns Ms. Darlene Letnes ($100,000+) Lon V. Smith Foundation Tykye & Elaine Camaras Mr. Seymour Lobel Mr. Steve Smith Ms. Patricia A. Clarke Dr. & Mrs. Willard C. Loomis Karen & Bruce Clark Paul & Ronnie Watkins David & Barbara Cline Mrs. Bobby Lovell Mr. Peter Collisson Dr. & Mrs. Sanford P. Lyle RARE BOOK COLLECTORS Ms. Betty H. Conklin Mrs. Jane Lyons ($50,000-99,999) LITERARY LIONS ($500-999) Mrs. Christine Cook Neil & Ora MacFarlane Janet S. Hadley Mr. L.D. Malatka Dennis & Diane Baker Barbara & John Cronin Natasha & Todd Palmaer Selma Mann Joann L. Data, M.D. Ms. Janet L. Curci Mr. Charles A. Martin Margaret M. Gates Jeanne & Paul Curry Linda & David McCarty LIMITED EDITION COLLECTORS Mrs. Robert Hyson Ms. Jacqueline D. Davidson Ms. Bonnie McClellan ($10,000-24,999) Marshall & Dolores Johnson Bill & Ann Dennis Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert McCutchan Irwin Kempler, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Steven L. Perry Ms. Joni Doherty Mr. Roger Meisinger Manoucheur & Sophie Moshayedi Mrs. Annie Quinn Mrs. Elana Donovan Barbara Roberts Robert & Janet Dryden Martin & Doris Melnick Robert & Susan Ehrlich Sara Messier, Ph.D. BOOK COLLECTORS Robin & Michael Einbund Ms. Jan Moody FIRST EDITION COLLECTORS ($250-499) Mrs. Andrea Epstein Matthew & Janet Murphy ($5,000-9,999) Ms. Olivia Abel Ms. Peggie Fariss Tom & Audrey Jean Naughton Judi Dutton Samuel & Susan Anderson Ms. Roberta Feuerstein Ms. Carmen E. Nelles William Gillespie Foundation Mrs. Catherine Bailey Suzy & Bill Fletcher Claire & Ken Nilmeier Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Rolfes Martha & Jerome Barich Dr. & Mrs. Michael Forino Mr. Michael Nilsson Ellen Shockro, Ph.D & Jack Shaw Douglas & Joyce Cassel Carlita & Win Fuller Ms. Polly Norwood Larry Tucker & Jill Johnson-Tucker Sally & Randy Crockett Mr. James T. Fulton Oates Family Trust Linda & Tod White Steven & Sheila Dennis Ms. Janice Genevro Mrs. Linda Oeth Ms. Florence Fainbarg Steve & Cathy Gilbert Kirk Ohanian & Phuong Ta CLASSIC COLLECTORS Mr. Steven Frates James & Barbara Glabman Ms. June O’Neil ($2,500-4,999) Charles & Nancy Fry Miriam & Larry Goldberg Michel Oren & Lorelei Tanji Mrs. Sandy Fainbarg Dr. & Mrs. Russell L. Hafer, Jr. Irwin & Sandy Greenberg Ms. Lauren Packard Mr. Allan O. Hunter, Jr. Ms. Heidi Hall Mr. Norman Grossman Mrs. Karen Parks Eleanor Jaffy Ed & Nancy Last Mr. & Mrs. Daniel S. Gurney Darrell & Lynn Pash Carolyn & Bill Klein Hugh & Caroline Logan Ms. Lisa Gustafson Ms. Susan Paskerian Robert & Barbara Kleist Ms. Bridget Malone Rebecca & William Halladay Joette & Michael Pierce Janet & Walkie Ray Hedda Marosi Mrs. Ilham Hamamji Mrs. Charlotte Pinsky Jack & Katharine Schoellerman Ron Presta & Allyson Bolin-Presta Lynn April & Gene Hartline Ms. Fritz H. Reynolds Albert M. Schulten Mr. Carl W. 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BARK (Beach Animals Reading with Kids) The Library Foundation is proud to partner with BARK! Recently we hosted two extraordinary events at the Mariners Branch Library where kids, many of them fearful of reading aloud, transform in the calming presence of highly trained service dogs. We are planning to continue these wonderful programs!