Port Washington Library Foundation 2006 Inspiration Gala Honorees

Susan Isaacs

Novelist, Essayist and Screenwriter

Community Leadership Award

Port Washington Library Foundation 2006 Inspiration Gala Honorees

F. William Schmergel

Schmergel Enterprises

Corporate Leadership Award

Port Washington Library Foundation 2006 Inspiration Gala Honorees

Dr. Charles Rogers

Chair, PWPL Health Advisory Council

Community Leadership Award

The Port Washington Public Library Foundation provides

ongoing support for the Family Place, the Local History Center

and other building and programming enhancements.

We are proud to be a “Family Place Library”

Early Childhood Workshop

Parents play and speak to resource professionals

Family Story Hour

The Family Place offers parenting information and support, early childhood workshops, and literacy

intervention.

Parent Child Home Program

Graduation Day!

Another Happy Graduate!

Funding from the PORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY

FOUNDATION enables us to serve the community as a

repository of rare and valuable historical information.

Check signed by S. L. Hewlett, 1897

These slides represent the work of the LOCAL HISTORY

CENTER of the Port Washington Public Library, which is

dedicated to preserving and making accessible the

photographs and documents of our past.

Roosevelt Field, 1930s

Main Street School Play, 1930

Duck Hunters, circa 1900

Driver, Guggenheim Estate, circa 1920

Biddle, Dumpson & Townsend Family Members After WWII

Ventura Air Service Dock

Collecting started more than 100 years ago, when the

Woman’s Club of Port Washington was formed.

Before the present day library existed, volunteers created an archive of tax records, maps,

papers, political records, diaries and photographs.

Laura Ingalls in Ryan monoplane, which she flew from Los Angeles to Roosevelt Field in

the 1930s.

Evan Rumbelow and Helen McKay’s Wedding Day, 1927

Workers’ families at Bourke Cockran Estate, Sands Point 1910

Today, the Library Foundation helps fund the Local History Department’s many diverse

projects.

Archivist Carol Clarke

Sally Olds with Dr. Maurice Teitel and Dr. Charles Rogers,at work on a Medical Oral History project.

Archival Consultant Francesca Pitaro

Donation of Schreiber High School Gambol Collection

Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington Archive opens

‘At Last!’ students at work on maritime flag project

Librarian Lori Gerbasi at work in Local History Center

Elly Shodell reviews historical documents with Fire Chief Peter Zwerlein

The LOCAL HISTORY CENTER continues to provide a safe haven for the materials that were bequeathed to us for

safe-keeping over the generations.

Workers pose at Phoenix Sand Bank, 1910

Steam shovel crew, 1930

Growing up in the sandbanks, 1940s

Improvements to the Library parking lot were made possible by the Library

Foundation.

The Library Foundation also

funded the dramatic

improvements made to the

Lapham Meeting Room sound

system following the library’s renovation.

Thanks to the Port Washington Library

Foundation we are now a ‘WiFi Hotspot’!

Patrons taking advantage of the Library’s wireless Internet access

Cocktail Reception SponsorBernard and Irene Schwartz

Dinner Sponsors:Donald DrapkinKenneth LipperMarcia Riklis

Entertainment SponsorSalerno Brokerage Corporation

Program and Scroll of Honor SponsorMarvin and Elyse Tepper

Honoree Gifts Compliments of:A Friend

Effects of Color

Falconer’s Florist

Ruth Feingold

Guarino Graphics

The Port Washington Garden Club

Ted Rosenthal

Jourdan Urbach

The Port Washington Library Foundation would also like to send special thanks to:

Leonard Wurzel, Elkan Abramowitz, Chuck Berger … and the Gala Committee