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Board and Council
BOARD OFFICERS | BOARD MEMBERS | COUNCIL
Board of Directors 2007–2008
Officers
• Lewis Lapham,
o Honorary Chair
o Editor Emeritus,
o Harper’s Magazine
• Jeffrey A. Scherer,
o Chair
o Principal, Meyer Scherer
o & Rockcastle, Ltd.
• Nancy Dunnan,
o Vice-Chair
o Financial Advisor,
o Economist, and
o Security Analyst;
o Publisher, Travel Smart |
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• John Lazarus,
o Treasurer
o President, Retail Resources,
o Inc.
• Bruce Astrein,
o Executive Director |
Board
• Christopher Cerf
o Co-Founder,
o Sirius Thinking, Ltd.
o Executive Producer,
o Between the Lions (PBS)
• George Cigale
o Chairman and CEO,
o Tutor.com
• Dennis Donohue
o Mayor, Salinas CA
• Diane Filippi
o Director, Urban Center,
o San Francisco Planning
o and Urban Research
o Association (SPUR) |
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• Charles Matheson
o Software Specialist in
o Media and Entertainment
• Fred Rodriguez
o The Rodriguez Law Group
• Tania Tetlow
o Professor of Law,
o Tulane University
o Chair, New Orleans
o Library Board
• Kendall Wiggin
o State Librarian
o of Connecticut;
o Former State Librarian
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Americans for Libraries Council
The following civic leaders, representing an array of expertise and experience, share a commitment to strengthening our nation’s communities through strong public libraries. They have been named members of the leadership group, Americans for Libraries Council.
Note that from 2004–September 2007, LFF operated under the organizational name Americans for Libraries Council. Today the Council serves as an advisory body to the LFF board.
• Kitty Benedict
o Former Senior Editor,
o Harper & Row Publishers
• John Brademas
o Former Congressman (D-IN);
o Former Chair, President’s o
o Committee on the Arts
o and the Humanities;
o Former President, NYU
• Craig Buthod
o Director, Louisville Free
o Public Library
• Benjamin Carson, M.D.
o Professor of Neurosurgery,
o Plastic Surgery,
o Oncology & Pediatrics,
o Johns Hopkins University
• Schuyler Chapin
o Former Commissioner
o of Cultural Affairs,
o City of New York;
o Dean Emeritus,
o Columbia University
• Matt Dunne
o Former Vermont State Senator
• Maurice J. Freedman, Ph.D.
o President, American Library
o Association (2003-2004)
• Neal Goff
o Executive Vice President,
o Weekly Reader Corporation;
o Former President,
o Scholastic Library Publishing
• Peter Gomes
o Plummer Professor of
o Christian Morals and
o Pusey Minister
o in the Memorial Church,
o Harvard University
• Patricia Grey
o Former Director of Elementary o Education, Norwalk Public o
o Schools
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• Lawrence K. Grossman
o Co-Chair,
o Digital Promise Project;
o Former President, PBS
• Susan Hildreth
o State Librarian of California
• Sanford Kravitz
o Foundation Advisor;
o Former Senior Vice
o President for Programming,
o Arizona Community Foundation
• Kenneth Miller
o Trustee, Cooper-Hewitt
o National Design Museum
o and Member,
o Education Committee,
o Smithsonian Institution
• Peter Pearson
o President, Friends of the
o St. Paul Public Library
• Susan Petersmeyer
o Board Member,
o Petersmeyer Family
o Foundation
• Karen Pritzker
o President,
o Seedlings Foundation;
o Secretary of the Board,
o Pritzker Cousins Foundation;
o Board Member, Read to Grow
• Molly Turner
o Executive Director,
o The Viburnum Foundation
• James Welbourne
o Director, New Haven (CT)
o Free Public Library
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