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 May 1, 2025 and May 31, 2026.
$100,000-$300,000
Daphne G. Triphon Revocable Trust
Trustee, Camilla Strickler
$20,000–$99,999
Judith Bachner & Eric Lasley
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
Ginny† & Bob Black
Karen Cohn
Suzanne Conlon
Karen Fox
Lawrence Gartner
Alicia & Fred Hallett
Celia Henely
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
Fritz & Nora Sargent
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
Art Pratt Foundation of Old Mission Rotary Club
Bobbi Chifos Trust
Trustee, Meredyth Pierson
Althea M. Brimm
Suzanne Conlon
Brent Covey & Carolyn Oliver
Kathleen Denno
Linda & Wallace Dieckmann
Karen Dow
French Fund
Celia Henely
Anne Hubbard & Lee Puffer
Marilee & Peter Kovacs
Nancy Linke Patton & Rip Patton
John Mann
Greg Mitchell
Dogan & Laura Perese
Ursula Pfeffer
$3,500–$4,999
Bob & Karen Bowden
Mary Bush
Robert Caplan & Carol Randolph
Renée Comeau & Terry Gulden
Edward & Martha Dennis
Zdenka Fronek & Walter Olsen
Carol & George Lattimer
Mariko Sawa & Ulf Sundberg
Dale & Mark Steele
$2,500–$3,499
Anonymous
Robert & Toni Bader Charitable Foundation Inc.
Jeff Blackburn & Anne Fleischli Blackburn
Giovanna Casola & Scott Stewart
Cathy & Michael Casteel
Randall Clark & Tom Maddox
Meredith Dreiss
Daniel DuBois & Christie Mitchell
Helane & Jan Fronek
Harry Hixson, Jr. & Teresa Hixson
Vanina Joulin-Batejat
Diane & John Kane
Angel & Fred Kleinbub
Patricia & Stephen Lending
Joseph & Nancy Manno
Barbara & Donald Niemann
Dorothy Piacentini
Dannie Sue & John Reis
Betsy† & M. Lea Rudee†
Mariko Sawa & Ulf Sundberg
Annasue & John Wilson
$2,000–$2,499
Ralph Ayala
Barry Bielinski & Seonaid McArthur
Virginia Gordon & Robert Hooper
Gary & Martha Jacobson
Kimberly Johnson
Gloria Kondrup & Justin Rattner
Ann & Gerry Lipschitz
Erik and Kim Tyrrell-Knott
Jack & Laura Peluso
Andrea & Joseph Schmidt
Richard VandeNoord
Nicole White
$1,500–$1,999
Buck & Penny Abell
Daniel & June Allen
Kris Anderson & John Iammarino
Anonymous
Weston Anson
Sally Ashburn
Dan & Jennifer Atkinson
Jordan & Masha Block
Benjamin Brand & Shara Williams
Zonia Button
Joyce & Paul Dostart
Ed & Edith Drcar
Diane & Elliot Feuerstein
Georges & Germaine Fusenot Charity Foundation, Nellie High-Iredale, Trustee
Stacy Jacobs
Charles & Maureen King
Bill Lo
Melane & Philip Lurie
Arlene & Louis Navias
William Norcross
Debbie & Neal Nordstrom
Bill Lo
Claudia Prescott
Patricia Shank
Randall† & Florence Smith
Gitte & Theo Theodossi
Gianangelo Vergani
Marie Vickers
Marty & Olivia Winkler
$1,250–$1,499
Gayle Barsamian & David Clapp
Deborah Bothun
Jack Brown & Jan Chatten-Brown
Paul & Susan Mitchell
$1,000–$1,249
Sally Ashburn
Susan Barbey-Booth
Mary Beebe & Charles Reilly
Silvia Berchtold
Linda Blair
Betsy Blakely & Judith Morgan
Gordon Brodfuehrer
Reydeen Brooks & Steven Prestrelski
California Bank & Trust
Pamela Dekema
Elizabeth & Joseph Taft Foundation
Michele Goodman & Eric Wan
Denise Hickey & Christopher Soares
Charles Kennel & Ellen Lehman
John & Laura Killmer
Gail & George Knox
Kaveh Kohani & Abbaseh Samimi
Karen Ladner & Todd Stone
Luisa & Paul Larson Living Trust
Michael & Susan Lieberman
Sheridan Lorenz
Mark Mann
Gerry & Linda McAllister
Holly McGrath
Hans & Ursula Moede
Carmen & Jim Plank
Marilies Schoepflin
Samuel Lawrence Foundation
Jeanette Stevens
Steven Strauss & Lise Wilson
G.E. & R.D. Wallace Foundation
Janet Wallace, Trustee
Abby & Ray Weiss
Penelope & John West
$500–$999
John Alexander
Kris Anderson
Anonymous (2)
Leila Armstrong
John & Linda Ball
Grace Bell & Will Parsons
Anita Bernstein
Kevin Bertrand & Marie Kaledijan
Eric Blau & Julie Gollin
Julie Bothell & Cory Kelly
Manuela Broccolini & Terrence Pirtle
Diane Brockington
Nancy & Rich Carroll
Irene Chandler
Patricia Chien
Family of Charles Crocker Fund
Hugh Davies & Faye Hunter
Davide de Lucrezia & Ada Serena Marletta
John Dineen & Jennifer Nelson
Kelli Douglas
David & Denise Elyanow
Hafez & Shahnaz Erfani
Gail & John Ermer
Laurence Fechter & Tom Stansbury
Gary Ferdman & Myriam Miedzian
Michael & Susanna Flaster
Anne Fletcher
Sonali Fonseca
Janine & Marvin Free
Richard Fridshal & Candace Gietzen
Joseph Gabbert & Vivienne Hainbach
John & Mary Gallo
Gary & Joan Gand
Mike & Sarah Garrison
Michelle Gilbert
Joseph Glaser & Josephine Von Herzen
Diana & François Goedhuys
Shari Golden
Cindy & Tom Goodman
Carolyn Greenslate
Carrie & Jim Greenstein
Grunow Construction, Inc.
Anna Haudenschild-Meier & Philip Meier
Chris & Eloisa Haudenschild
Laura Henson & Geoffrey Hueter
Peter Herman
Nancy Howard-Cobb
John Iammarino
Roderick Innes
Michael Jacobs
Kristi Jaska & Pete Nolan
Christopher Kearns & Leslie Kroupa
Daniel & Mary Kelley
Bill & Tricia Kellogg
Louise Keogh & Robert Sarnoff
Josephine Kiernan
Duane & Lynn Knize
Anahid & Shant Koumriqian
Miriam Krippl
Dexter† & Carolynn La Pierre
Richard Lappo
Claudia & Jeffrey Lee
Veronica Leff
Jeff & Nancy Levinson
Richard Lin & Melanie Webster
Diana Lombrozo
Karina Lombrozo
Jean Lowe & Kim MacConnel
Tri Luu
Walt Savitch† & Patricia Mahtani
Douglas & Monica Matthews
Eve Mayall
Ed & Tanya McCaffery
Mary Jo McCall
Debra McGinty-Poteet & Larry Poteet
Douglas & Susan McLeod
Michelle & Roger McNeil
Joanne Meredith
Alex Moseley
Joyce Nash
Robert Nau & Jane Winsor
Elvi Olesen
Gregory Pardue
Charles & Julie Pinney
Alan & Brigit Pitcairn
Brett Pollak
Edward & Nancy Quinn
Rick Rand
James Anthony Rasmussen
Cele Renaudin
Vivien Ressler
Patricia Rutledge
Karen & Norman Sade
Dorette Sarachik
Carole & Christopher Scott
Ellen Warner Scott
Andy & Mimi Sells
Tom Shapiro
Harry Sherr & Cynthia Strauss
Bruce & Jane Silva
Annemarie & Leland Sprinkle
Sara Stevens
Anthony & Ione Stiegler
Julia & Kenneth Stone
Dr. Grace Valencia
Sandee Van Orshoven
Marie Vickers
Stanley & Stefani Walens
James & Lucia Warner
Nancy Warwick
Eric Weisman & Susan Chortek Weisman
Ann & Philip White
David & Deborah Woods
Barry & Janet Young
Tanya Young & Dr. Michael McManus
Christy & Howard Zatkin
Barbara & Michel Zelnick
$250–$499
Judith Adler
Rumyr “Ardee” Antonio
Ali Arsanjani & Maryam Daftari
Cathy Baron
Susan Berk
Martin & Sherry Bloom
Antoinette Bodeau & Sara Matta
Carol M. Buckley
Tom Carroll & Joyce Schneider
Thomas Cerruti
Bill & Marsha Chandler
Alain Cohen & Denise Warren
Olga Criman
Geoff Dawson & Walter Whinnery
Barbara & Walter Doren
Daniel & Margaret Dudas
Vincy Dunmire
Ray DuVall
MC Eastman & Holland Smith
Steve Eilenberg & Marie Tartar
Marti & Ron Erickson
Linda Fisler
Kathleen Fredman
Buzz & Peg Gitelson
Katia Graham
James Greenway
Carol Harter & Bill Smith
John Henze
G.M. Hetherington
John & Marsha Hildebrand
David Hodgens & Linda Olson
Laurence Hren
Arianne Hudson
Roland & Susan Kluver
Sharon Lee
William Lewis
Brooke Loomis
Alexia & Ray Markarian
Jeffrey & Patricia Maysent
Lynda Maze
Alison McGhee
Lesya Mckenzie
Esther Nahama
Kevin Neal
Carla & William Nolan
Brigitte & Richard Obetz
Chanel Penley
Delilah Perea
Noel & Patricia Phelan
Joan & Martin Plaehn
Brian & Paula Powers
Liane Reed
Brad Reinard
Nani Richards
Jacqueline & Jean-Luc Robert
Anne & Paul Roberts
Deborah Rotz
Katherine Schwab
Tammy Schwinegruber
Gerry Scribner
Inna Serebryakova
Jo Ann Sherwood & Gerald Shmavonian
Bruce Shirer
Anne & Ronald Simon
Leslie Simon
Murray Sinclaire, Jr. & Robin Sinclaire
Jim & Mimi Stake
Janet Steiner
Stephanie Stolarz-Fantino
Sid Stutz† & Paula McColl
Dane Swango, Jr.
Barb & Sam Takahashi
Judith & Lee Talner
Claudia Tornsaufer
Allen Tyler
Audrey Viterbi
Dr. & Mrs. Keith Wahl
Isabelle Wasserman
David & Susan Weston
Richard Wildman, Jr.
Bonnie Wright
In Memory of:
In Memory of Connie Mullin Branscomb
Dan & Jennifer Atkinson
In Memory of Jacob & Shirley Dekema
Pamela Dekema
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 Judith Parzen
Debra Grannick
Tanja Knott
Mitchell Siegler
Kristina Waltz
In memory of Dr. & Mrs. Michael & Constance Mullin
Michael Mahlon Mullin Family Trust
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 Margaret Triphon
Daphne G. Triphon Revocable Trust
Trustee, Camilla Strickler
In Memory of Bard Wellcome & Carolyn Yorston-Wellcome
Nancy Linke Patton & Rip Patton
Yvonne E. 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 Fritz & Nora Sargent
Blake, Dave & Martha Rex
In Honor of Erika Torri
Betsy Rudee† & M. Lea Rudee†
In Honor of Maura Walters
Carol Buckley
How to Donate
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