Norman Williams Legacy Society
The Legacy Society is a select group whose members have demonstrated commitment to the library by generously giving directly to our endowment through outright or planned gifts.
Margaret Agwin
Tom and Nancy Blackford
Susan Chiefsky
Mrs. Thomas M. Debevoise, III
Gail Dougherty
Rhea Etherington
Barry and Susan Feinberg
Richard M. Gaull
Robert E. Henning
Virginia A. Hornung
Charles Humpstone
Louis and Margaret Kannenstine
Jane Lancaster
Christopher Lloyd
Mary Louise Lycett
Tim Maguire
Robert and Phyllis Meyers
Mark and Sarah Mitchell
John and Nancy Schullinger
Harvey and Lois Watson
Albert and Virginia Webb
Eric Wegner
Restoration Project
In 1999-2000, the NWPL underwent a $5 million renovation, restoration, expansion, and automation project. The building was in poor structural shape and approximately 2/3 of the money raised was used to address this problem. After restoring the facility the basement area was totally remodeled and changed into a well lit, comfortable, child and teenage area. A mezzanine level was then constructed to house the reference collection and Internet computers and Administrative offices and the Vermont History Room were built in the former attic space. The original child’s area became the Reading Room, a place to relax and read newspapers, magazines, or a good book. This incredible project tripled the usable space from 5,000 to 15,000 square feet. When the new facility reopened to the public in September 2000 the card catalog and circulation system were automated.
Founder
Clyde C. Abbott
in memory of his wife, Margaret F. Abbott
Anonymous
Mrs. Sandford Etherington
Mr. and Mrs. Ethan A. Hitchcock
Gerald K. and Virginia A. Hornung
Margaret F. and Milton G. Johnson
Mattson-McHale Foundation
Bettina Towne Moore and John Barden Moore
Laurance S. Rockefeller
Elizabeth S. Ross
Benefactor
Freeman Foundation and Preservation Trust of Vermont
Barbara Kaufman
Christopher Lloyd and Vassie Sinopoulos
Mrs. John Mayer
John Lee McDill, Jane McDill Smith, and Laura McDill
in memory of John Harcourt McDill and John Lee McDill
Montgoris Family Foundation
Lois and Harvey Watson
The Woodstock Foundation, Inc.
Patron
Anonymous
The James Bryant Family
Mrs. Duncan Campbell
in memory of John and Julia McDill, Mary French Rockefeller and Elizabeth French Hitchcock
Laura Chassin
John and Laurie Chester
William and Gayle Chorske
Peter S. Jennison
David and Sarah Roberts
Laurance Rockefeller
Turrell Fund
Dr. Lucy R. Walentsky
Marion R. Weber
Maisi Williamson
Steward
Anonymous
Polly and Darrel Bigham
Mrs. Thomas M. Debevoise II
Elizabeth B. Emmons
Marianne G. Faulkner Charitable Trust
Hudson Holland, Jr.
in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Fuller and Mr. and Mrs. Nelson C. Holland
Pam and Ron Jaynes
Peggy and Louis Kannenstine
in honor of The Countryman Press
The Ladies’ Home Journal
Jane Lancaster
Constance K. McCollom
Harold and Paula Schwenk
State of Vermont
Ching-Wen and Carl Taylor
in memory of Hung-Ki Pu and Pauline Billings Taylor
Jeanne T. Williams and Family
in memory of Norman Williams, Jr.
David and Suzanne Winton
Wynne and Joan Wister
Partner
Phyllis Arata-Meyers and Robert Meyers
Banknorth Group, Inc.
John and Nancy Bassett
Leslie and Susan Berge
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis I. Blake
Peter and Anne Brooke
Marjorie V. Castimore
in memory of Robert I. Coleman
Chittenden Bank
Davenport and Gladys M. Cleveland
Norman and Sally Cross
in memory of Harold and Marion Campbell Cross
Mr. and Mrs. William S. Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Doubleday
in memory of Ruth H. Shgurtleff
Clover Durfee
in memory of Leila and Ralph Breiling
Lolita Emmons, Harley and Lorraine Higbie
in memory of Lynette Craven Nichols
First Community Bank
Richard M. Gaull and Susan C. Keefe
in memory of Shirley Gaull Seidman
Jim and Joy Gray
Mike Grossman and Ellen Sulkin
Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. V. Hardiman
George Hood Helmer
Constance B. Hitchcock
Donald and Jacqueline Hoyt and Family
W. Jens and Margarit Jacobs
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jennison
in memory of Jane L. Jennison
Ledlie and Roxana Laughlin
Denise Martin
Dean and Lorrie Merrill
Cissy Petterson Trust
Mrs. Thomas T. Richmond
in memory of Thomas T. Richmond
Mrs. John Seabrook
Charles and Mary Simons
Elizabeth and Robert Sincerbeaux
The Six Talents Foundation
Rhoda Teagle
in memory of Frank H. Teagle, Jr.
Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development
Rev. Edward H. Williams
in memory of Jacqueline Williams Butler
Jean A. Williams
in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Williams III
Sponsor
Mimi Baird
Peter and Marjorie Behr
Matthew and Elizabeth Belle Bigham
Franklin S. and Pauline G. Billings, Jr.
Jireh and Natalie Billings
David and Joan Blackwell
Paul Bourdon
Jennifer and Peter Brock
in memory of Gertrude H. Mertens
W. Michael and Jennifer Mary Brown
William J. Bryant
Thomas and Constance Cassady
Charter One Bank
Howell and Winona Chickering
Alison Clarkson and Oliver Goodenough
Patricia Carroll Compton
Douglas and Elizabeth Costle
in memory of Norman Williams, Jr.
Countryman Press
Missy Cunningham
Thomas Debevoise and Laurie Livingston
Linda Galvin Desmond
in memory of Claire Galvin
Mr. and Mrs. W. Bruce Dudley
in memory of Alice L. Eaton, Harrison and Irene Ambrose and Beatrice D. Diette
Charles and Katharine English
J. Richard and Rhonda Kay Farley
Susan and Barry Feinberg
Reg and Connie Fitz
Dexter Foss
F.H. Gillingham and Sons. Inc.
Gould Realtors
Stella Helmer
Robert Henning
Orton Hicks
John and Pamela Hoffman
in memory of Woodstock’s children
Charles C. Humpstone
David and Mary-Wythe Jealous
Cynthia and Vincent Weaver Jones
Gerard and Emily Jones
Ralph and Frances Lancaster
J. David Laughlin, DDS
Nelson B. Lee, Jr.
in in honor of my good friend, Jonathan L. McDill
Norwood and Joanna Rudge Long
in memory of Abigail Hazen Rudge
Kimberly Hornung-Marcy and Theodore W. Marcy
The Frank O’Connell Family
Lori and Roland Pease
Alvin W. Peck
in memory of Norman Williams, Jr.
The Petersen Family
Karl Pfister III
Margaret and Dick Powell
Robert and Beverly Raymond
M. Jean and Walter Reeves
Judith and Stuart Repp
John and Nancy Schullinger
Meg and Bruce Seely
in memory of Gertrude H. Mertens
Ad and Mavis Shaw
Allan and Margaret Stimson
John and Polly Timken
Robert Wallace and Sandra Benoit
Anne and Harry Wollman
Woodstock Insurance Services, Inc.
Woodstock Rotary Club
Thomas P.Wright, Esq.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wynkoop
in memory of Xenia of Russia
…and many Friends…
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