2009 Donor and Partner Luncheon

July 9, 2009

The Chicago Public Library Foundation and the Chicago Public Library welcomed 150 donors, partners and friends to the 2009 Annual Recognition Luncheon on June 16 in the Harold Washington Library Center's beautiful Winter Garden. Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer--who has written 30 books about Abraham Lincoln--enchanted the audience with his little known Lincoln stories and credited public libraries with providing the research tools he needed in his pursuit of Lincoln knowledge. The luncheon followed the annual meeting of the Board of the Chicago Public Library Foundation, during which Michael Osanloo, EVP, Strategy for Kraft Foods, was elected to the Board.

	Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey and Library Board members Julia Zhu, Cristina Benitez and Susan Hassan with Foundation Director Jorge Solis
	Harold Holzer with Foundation President Rhona Frazin
	Jill Lawlor, Patti Dudek and Sandy Mather
	Foundation Life Director Bunny Douglass with Foundation Director Audrey Tuggle
	Cathie Ryan, Foundation Director Dan Hill and Sharon Heitz the Library's Karim Adib
	Chicago Public Library Board Vice President Cherryl T. Thomas
	Raymond and Nancy Kratzer
	Foundation Director Caroline Ballantine with Bill McIlvaine
	Carla Michelotti, Alice O'Hara and Sheri Besse
	Library Board President Jayne Carr Thompson
	Stanley Paul and Richard Turner
	Harold Holzer visiting the Harold Washington Library Center's Tall Man of Destiny: Images of Abraham Lincoln exhibit
	Howard and Doris Conant in their Abe Lincoln hats