University of Delaware Library Associates elects officers for 2016

8:22 a.m., Dec. 11, 2015--The University of Delaware Library Associates, the friends group of the University of Delaware Library, held the annual meeting of the board of directors on Tuesday, Nov. 17, and elected officers for calendar year 2016.

The officers are as follows:

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• President Wilson J.C. Braun Jr., managing director and chairman of Mid-Atlantic region, J.P. Morgan Private Bank.
• Senior Vice President Theodore F. Killheffer, UD Class of 1958 and private attorney.
• Vice President Edmond L. Lincoln, retired investment banker.
• Treasurer Joseph P. Melloy Sr., president of Technology Planning Group.
• Secretary Marsha Barnett, court-appointed special advocate (CASA) for the state of Delaware.
• Interim Assistant Secretary/Treasurer Sandra Millard, UD Class of 1999 and interim vice provost and director of libraries at the University of Delaware.

At the meeting on Nov. 17, Killheffer presented a gift check of $40,000 on behalf of the University of Delaware Library Associates to Provost Domenico Grasso and Millard. 

The contribution will be used to assist with the purchase of acquisitions of materials for Special Collections in the University of Delaware Library.

Re-elected board members for the term of Jan. 1, 2016, through Dec. 31, 2018, are:

• Marsha Barnett
• Wilson J.C. Braun Jr.
• David Ley Hamilton
• Theodore F. Killheffer
• W. Oliver Kincannon Jr.
• Janet McCloud
• Joseph P. Melloy Sr.
• Nancy M. Norling
• John A. Quintus
• Judith Winchester Spruance
• William H. Sudell Jr.
• John B. Tepe Jr.
• Marguerite D. Thew 
• Isabella Timon
• Dale E. Wolf

Newly-elected board member for the term of Jan. 1, 2016, through December 31, 2018, is Susan Brynteson.

The University of Delaware Library Associates work to expand and enrich the research collections of the University of Delaware Library through gifts from individual members, funds raised by sponsored programs and by donations of significant books.

Contributions of the University of Delaware Library Associates assist the University of Delaware Library financially with the acquisition of rare library materials for Special Collections which otherwise could not be acquired. 

The Library Associates also support an annual lecture program featuring the research of a UD faculty member and sponsor an exhibition program with a reception. 

The Library Associates sponsor an annual fund-raising dinner that includes a presentation by an author of national acclaim. In 2016 the annual dinner will be held on Wednesday, April 6, with speaker Erik Larson, an American journalist and a master of narrative non-fiction author, who will speak about his most recent book, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. 

The Library Associates publish a semi-annual Newsletter of the University of Delaware Library Associates.  

The University of Delaware Library Associates welcomes new members. Contributions begin at $50 per year. The membership brochure of the Library Associates is available via the library web.

To request a printed membership brochure, interested persons can send an email message to UDLA@udel.edu or contact Library Administration at 302-831-2231.