Patrons
We gratefully acknowledge the following annual donors who support the library through membership and other donations at the level of $250 and above, between April 1, 2025 and April 30, 2026.
$20,000–$99,999
Clarence & Barbara Borns Revocable Trust, Laura Borns, Trustee
Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation,
Douglas Dawson, Trustee
City of San Diego Commission for Arts & Culture
Ann Craig
Max Elliott
Sally & Einar Gall
Garna Muller
Bob & Catherine Palmer
Irwin & Maryanne Pfister
Prebys Foundation
Dr. Seuss Foundation
Vail Memorial Fund, Meredith Brown, Trustee
$10,000–$19,999
Judith Bachner & Eric Lasley
Charles & Ruth Billingsley Foundation
Ginny† & Bob Black
Karen Fox
Lawrence Gartner
Alicia & Fred Hallett
Ingrid Hibben
Margaret Jackson
Joan† & Irwin Jacobs
Sharon Labovitz
Charles Laughlin
Louis Lupin & Gail Myers
Betsy Mitchell
Estate of Joan Nelson
ResMed Foundation
Patricia Rinaker
San Diego County
Jack & Patti Schwellenbach
David & Marcia Sleet, Sleet Music Performance Fund
Keith & Polly Steiner
Margie & John H. Warner, Jr.
Andrea & Victor Wild
$5,000–$9,999
Kathe & Mark Albrecht
Suzanne Conlon
Brent Covey & Carolyn Oliver
Kathleen Denno
Linda & Wallace Dieckmann
Karen Dow
French Fund
Celia Henely
Anne Hubbard & Lee Puffer
Nancy Linke Patton & Rip Patton
Greg Mitchell
Dogan & Laura Perese
Ursula Pfeffer
Fritz & Nora Sargent
Cynthia Walk & Charles Wolfinger
$3,500–$4,999
Bob & Karen Bowden
Robert Caplan & Carol Randolph
Renée Comeau & Terry Gulden
Edward & Martha Dennis
Zdenka Fronek & Walter Olsen
Marilee & Peter Kovacs
Carol & George Lattimer
$2,500–$3,499
Anonymous
Barbara Arledge
Robert & Toni Bader Charitable Foundation Inc.
Jeff Blackburn & Anne Fleischli Blackburn
Zonia Button
Cathy & Michael Casteel
Randall Clark & Tom Maddox
Meredith Dreiss
Daniel DuBois & Christie Mitchell
Helane & Jan Fronek
Harry Hixson, Jr. & Teresa Hixson
Diane & John Kane
Angel & Fred Kleinbub
Patricia & Stephen Lending
Joseph & Nancy Manno
Barbara & Donald Niemann
Jack & Laura Peluso
Dorothy Piacentini
Dannie Sue & John Reis
Betsy† & M. Lea Rudee†
Mariko Sawa & Ulf Sundberg
Dale & Mark Steele
Annasue & John Wilson
$2,000–$2,499
Ralph Ayala
Silvia Berchtold
Mary Bush
Virginia Gordon & Robert Hooper
Chris & Eloisa Haudenschild
Kimberly Johnson
Charles & Maureen King
Gloria Kondrup & Justin Rattner
Ann & Gerry Lipschitz
Erik and Kim Tyrrell-Knott
Andrea & Joseph Schmidt
Elizabeth & Joseph Taft Foundation
Richard VandeNoord
Nicole White
$1,500–$1,999
Daniel & June Allen
Anonymous
Sally Ashburn
Dan & Jennifer Atkinson
Jordan & Masha Block
Benjamin Brand & Shara Williams
Ed & Edith Drcar
Diane & Elliot Feuerstein
Barbara Freeman
Georges & Germaine Fusenot Charity Foundation, Nellie High-Iredale, Trustee
Gary & Martha Jacobson
Vanina Joulin-Batejat
Melane & Philip Lurie
Arlene & Louis Navias
William Norcross
Claudia Prescott
Peggy & Peter Preuss
San Diego Foundation
Gitte & Theo Theodossi
Marie Vickers
Abby & Ray Weiss
Marty & Olivia Winkler
$1,250–$1,499
Gayle Barsamian & David Clapp
Jack Brown & Jan Chatten-Brown
Bill Lo
Debra McGinty-Poteet & Larry Poteet
Jeanette Stevens
$1,000–$1,249
Buck & Penny Abell
Anonymous
Barry Bielinski & Seonaid McArthur
Linda Blair
Betsy Blakely & Judith Morgan
Cameron Booth & Susan Barbey Booth
Deborah Bothun
Gordon Brodfuehrer
Reydeen Brooks & Steven Prestrelski
California Bank & Trust
Carmen Cuenca & Michael Krichman
Carol & Joseph Danks
David Francis & Karen Gordon Francis
Cindy & Tom Goodman
Michele Goodman & Eric Wan
Cori & Tom Grunow
John & Laura Killmer
Kaveh Kohani & Abbaseh Samimi
Miriam Krippl
Karen Ladner & Todd Stone
Luisa & Paul Larson Living Trust
Michael & Susan Lieberman
Sheridan Lorenz
Cecil Lytle
Gerry & Linda McAllister
Hans & Ursula Moede
Mary Lou Orphey
Steven Strauss & Lise Wilson
G.E. & R.D. Wallace Foundation Janet Wallace, Trustee
Mary Walshok
Penelope & John West
$500–$999
John Alexander
Chris & Elizabeth Allen
Donald & Janet Allison
Anonymous
Leila Armstrong
John & Linda Ball
Jeff Barnouw
Suzanne Bates
Kate Beckel & James Halliday
Mary Beebe & Charles Reilly
Grace Bell & Will Parsons
Eric Blau & Julie Gollin
Julie Bothell & Cory Kelly
Robyn Bottomley & Glenn Gutridge
Manuela Broccolini & Terrence Pirtle
Diane Brockington
Giovanna Casola & Scott Stewart
Irene Chandler
Patricia Chien
Cheryl Crittenden & Ricardo Hernández
Family of Charles Crocker Fund
Bronle Crosby
Hugh Davies & Faye Hunter
Pamela Dekema
Joyce & Paul Dostart
Kip Eischen
David & Denise Elyanow
Hafez & Shahnaz Erfani
Gail & John Ermer
Gary Ferdman & Myriam Miedzian
Michael & Susanna Flaster
Anne Fletcher
Janine & Marvin Free
Richard Fridshal & Candace Gietzen
John & Mary Gallo
Gary & Joan Gand
Joseph Glaser & Josephine Von Herzen
Diana & François Goedhuys
Shari Golden
Carolyn Greenslate
Carrie & Jim Greenstein
Grunow Construction, Inc.
Anna Haudenschild Meier and Philip Meier
Louise & Warren Heenan
Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Heller
Peter Herman
Denise Hickey & Christopher Soares
Diana Hill
Roderick Innes
Russell Johnson & Kiyomi Powers
David Jurist & Kathryn Kanjo
Christopher Kearns & Leslie Kroupa
Daniel & Mary Kelley
Bill & Tricia Kellogg
Charles Kennel & Ellen Lehman
Louise Keogh & Robert Sarnoff
Josephine Kiernan
Duane & Lynn Knize
Anahid & Shant Koumriqian
Kathleen Kovacs & Art Sellgren
Andrew Kummel
Dexter† & Carolynn La Pierre
Richard Lappo
Kristine Larson & George Rosborough
Veronica Leff
Marina Lev
Jeff & Nancy Levinson
Richard Lin & Melanie Webster
Diana Lombrozo
Karina Lombrozo
Jean Lowe & Kim MacConnel
Robin Briscoe Luby
Patricia Mahtani & Walt Savitch
Margaret Mallan
Brenda & Mark Mann
Eve Mayall
Ed & Tanya McCaffery
Mary Jo McCall
Jacqui McNally
Joanne Meredith
Paul & Susan Mitchell
Alex Moseley
Joyce Nash
Carla & William Nolan
Debbie & Neal Nordstrom
Elvi Olesen
Gregory Pardue
Manuela Perkins
Charles & Julie Pinney
Alan & Brigit Pitcairn
Carmen & Jim Plank
Brett Pollak
Edward & Nancy Quinn
Rick Rand
Vivien Ressler
Cele Renaudin
Jacqueline & Jean-Luc Robert
Patricia Rutledge
Dorette Sarachik
Marilies Schoepflin
Carole & Christopher Scott
Ellen Warner Scott
Andy & Mimi Sells
Patricia Shank
Tom Shapiro
Harry Sherr & Cynthia Strauss
Bruce & Jane Silva
Randall† & Florence Smith
Annemarie & Leland Sprinkle
Sara Stevens
Anthony & Ione Stiegler
Elizabeth & Lester Stiel
Julia & Kenneth Stone
Joshua Sweetkind-Singer
Mina Taylor
Grace Valencia
Sandee Van Orshoven
Gianangelo Vergani
James & Lucia Warner
Eric Weisman & Susan Chortek Weisman
Ann & Philip White
David & Deborah Woods
Barry & Janet Young
Tanya Young & Dr. Michael McManus
Ann Zahner
Christy & Howard Zatkin
Barbara & Michel Zelnick
$250–$499
Judith Adler
Kris Anderson
Rumyr “Ardee” Antonio
Ali Arsanjani & Maryam Daftari
Cathy Baron
Martin & Sherry Bloom
Antoinette Bodeau & Sara Matta
Carol Buckley
Tom Carroll & Joyce Schneider
Thomas Cerruti
Sandra Chanis
Taylor Chapin & Andrew Ware
Alain Cohen & Denise Warren
Albert & Penelope Coscia
Barbara & Walter Doren
Daniel & Margaret Dudas
Vincy Dunmire
Ray DuVall
MC Eastman & Holland Smith
Steve Eilenberg & Marie Tartar
Debra & Kaitlyn Emerson
Marti & Ron Erickson
Linda Fisler
Kathleen Fredman
John Graul & Cynthia King
James Greenway
Carol Harter & Bill Smith
John Henze
G.M. Hetherington
John & Marsha Hildebrand
David Hodgens & Linda Olson
Laurence Hren
John Iammarino
Kristi Jaska & Pete Nolan
Ryan Jefferies
Roland & Susan Kluver
Sharon Lee
William Lewis
Brooke Loomis
Leanne Hull MacDougall
Beth Manke & Omar Miller
Alexia & Ray Markarian
Douglas & Monica Matthews
Jeffrey & Patricia Maysent
Lynda Maze
Lesya Mckenzie
Douglas & Susan McLeod
Esther Nahama
Brigitte & Richard Obetz
Chanel Penley
Joan & Martin Plaehn
Brian & Paula Powers
Liane Reed
Brad Reinard
Nani Richards
Randy Robbins & Helena Stage
Anne & Paul Roberts
Deborah Rotz
Karen & Norman Sade
Katherine Schwab
Tammy Shwinegruber
Gerry Scribner
Inna Serebryakova
Bruce Shirer
Anne & Ronald Simon
Leslie Simon
Murray Sinclaire, Jr. & Robin Sinclaire
Jim & Mimi Stake
Stephanie Stolarz-Fantino
Sid Stutz† & Paula McColl
Barb & Sam Takahashi
Judith & Lee Talner
Allen Tyler
Dr. & Mrs. Keith Wahl
Isabelle Wasserman
David & Susan Weston
Richard Wildman, Jr.
Bonnie Wright
In Memory of:
In Memory of Matthew Abrams
David & Joyce Abrams
In Memory of Jacob & Shirley Dekema
Pamela Dekema
In Memory of Mary Ellen Fleischli
Ann Zahner
In Memory of Albert Fredman
Kathleen Fredman
In Memory of Carol Gartner
Lawrence Gartner
In Memory of LVK Memorial Award
Alexia & Ray Markarian
In Memory of Connie Mullin Branscomb
Dan & Jennifer Atkinson
In Memory of Judith Parzen
Debra Grannick
Tanja Knott
Mitchell Siegler
Kristina Waltz
In Memory of Betsy & M. Lea Rudee
Robert Caplan & Carol Randolph
In Memory of Jeffrey Sleet
Sleet Music Performance Fund
In Memory of Joseph Taft
Elizabeth & Joseph Taft Foundation
In Memory of Bard Wellcome & Carolyn Yorston-Wellcome
Nancy Linke Patton & Rip Patton
Yvonne Vaucher & Brian Wagner
In Honor of:
In Honor of Carol Buckley
Ginger and Robert Wallace, Janet Wallace Trustee
In Honor of Bob Caplan's 90th Birthday
Irwin Jacobs
In Honor of Louis Lupin & Gail Myers
Anthony & Ione Stiegler
In Honor of Elvi Olesen
Joshua Sweetkind-Singer
In Honor of Carolyn Oliver
James Greenway
In Honor of Al & Sibyl Rubottom
Betsy Mitchell
In Honor of Erika Torri
Jack & Laura Peluso
Betsy Rudee† & M. Lea Rudee†
In Honor of Maura Walters
Carol Buckley
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