Gunn Memorial Library & Museum cordially invites you to celebrate the 2010 LIBRARY LUMINARIES on Saturday, June 5 at 6:00 p.m. Cocktails at the Library, followed by dinner at the home of your host.

Please contact Pattie Stikeleather or Carolyn Hartman for more information and to reserve your ticket for this very exciting evening! Placement is determined by date of reply and your choice of contribution.
The favor of your reply is requested by May 19, 2010.

Email gunndevelopment@biblio.org
or call 860-868-7586 to book tickets.

OUR 2010 LUMINARIES and OUR HOSTS

DOROTHY and BILL BERLONI
hosted by Joe Loose and Bill Fore at the home of Rod Pleasants and Steve Godwin
Bill Berloni was a 20-year-old apprentice at the Goodspeed Opera House when he adopted and trained a dog to play Sandy in the original production of Annie, beginning a career in humane training for theatrical animals and a lifelong commitment to animal rescue. With scores of credits in theatre, film, television and commercials, Bill and Dorothy have trained animals for more than 30 years. Bill is author of Broadway Tails and Doga, Yoga for Dogs; he is also the Behavior Consultant for the Humane Society of New York, and recipient of the American Humane Association Richard Craven Award.
www.theatricalanimals.com

PHILIP DELVES BROUGHTON
hosted by Sandra Canning
The former Paris bureau chief of London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, Philip embarked on an MBA at the age of 31. Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School is an account of his love/hate relationship with both business and school. He is also author of three books of fiction: two thrillers, Dead Bankers and Ghosts, set in the financial world, starring a billionaire investigator, Benjamin Wright; and a novel, Bel Ombra, set in the south of France on the eve of World War Two, about a young banker who discovers his purpose in life as the administrator of a small island in the Mediterranean.
www.philipdelvesbroughton.com

CESARE CASELLA
hosted by Dorothy Hamilton
Master chef and restaurateur Cesare Casella is a renaissance man of Italian gastronomy, responsible for New York City’s Coco Pazzo, Beppe, and Salumeria Rosi. He is author of True Tuscan, Italian Cooking for Dummies, and Diary of a Tuscan Chef, and Dean of Italian Studies at the International Culinary Center. Dorothy Hamilton, founder of the French Culinary Institute, and Cesare will be cooking dinner together.
www.salumeriarosi.com

MARTHA CLARKE
hosted by Holly Flor and Rudy Mangels
Distinguished choreographer and director of theatre, dance and opera, Martha Clarke may be best known for "The Garden of Earthly Delights," which the New York Times hailed as "one of the most eerily hypnotic spectacles of flesh in motion ever put on a New York stage." She is a recipient of the MacArthur Award, and this June will be honored with the 2010 Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement, the most important lifetime award for choreographers.
News Feature about Martha Clarke

JOE DONELAN
hosted by Dominique and Eric Laffont
Joe is the founder of the boutique wineries Pax, and Donelan Family Wines, vintners of cult-status Syrah and Rhone-varietal blends in Sonoma County, California. His discipline, patience and dedication to excellence in both the single vineyard wines and blends have garnered enthusiastic collectors, and consistently superlative ratings from critics such as Robert Parker who called the 2008 Syrah Obsidian Vineyard a "candidate for perfection," and awarded the 2003 Cuvée Christine a perfect 100 points.
www.donelanwines.com

GARY KOMARIN
hosted by Karen Kelley and Gary Komarin in his Roxbury studio
An American painter in the Abstract Expressionist tradition, Gary’s works are in noted private collections, and have been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Joan Mitchell Prize in painting. An artist’s studio yields unparalleled insight into his work, and the Library is deeply grateful to Gary for generously inviting us into his.
www.komarinstudio.com

GEORGE KRIMSKY
hosted by Sally and Bob Woodroofe, and Mark Mobley and Jay Liese
George is an editor and correspondent, lecturer, trainer, media critic and author. He reported for the Associated Press from Los Angeles, New York, the Soviet Union and the Middle East, and was head of the AP World Services News Department. In 1984, he founded the International Center for Journalists. George is author of Hold the Press, and Bringing the World Home. The Woodroofe’s home, the historical Cogswell Tavern circa 1756, is the ideal venue to channel the spirit of George’s most recent book, Making Freedom: The Extraordinary Life of Venture Smith.
ICFJ Founders page and Making Freedom

DIANE MEIER and FRANK DELANEY
hosted by Patti and Roger Stikeleather
Diane Meier is founder of the respected marketing firm MEIER, a recipient of multiple Clios, ADDYs, the Caples Award and the National Graphic Arts Award. Her work has been published in graphic arts magazines and books all over the world. Diane is the author of The New American Wedding, and this year’s widely hailed The Season of Second Chances, which was selected as an Indie Bound "Best Read" for April by the Independent Book Sellers of America. Frank Delaney, the distinguished interviewer and broadcast journalist, is the best-selling author of more than 21 fiction and non-fiction books including his latest, Venetia Kelly’s Traveling Show.

The Stikeleather’s home, "The Abbe," is named for Abigail Brinsmade Gunn, wife of Frederick Gunn, for whom the Gunn Memorial Library and the Gunnery School are also named. Built in 1819, it served as an early meeting house, containing the town’s first library, before the Gunns moved to its present location around 1850. There it served not only as their home, but as schoolhouse and dormitory. It remained in use by the Gunnery until 1912.
www.dianemeier.com and www.frankdelaney.com

SCOTT SINGER
hosted by Karen and Elliott Davis
Scott is a noted media industry expert, investment banker, strategy consultant, and author of How to Hit a Curve Ball: Confront and Overcome the Unexpected in Business. As Managing Director and Head of Media & Entertainment at The Bank Street Group, a boutique investment banking firm, Scott is an acknowledged expert at the very thing that makes most of us uncomfortable: change.
www.hitacurveball.com

SIMON WINCHESTER
hosted by Carrie Setlow and Andy Shapiro
Adventurer, journalist and broadcaster, Simon Winchester seems to have lived just about everywhere and devoured the world along the way. His most recent book is The Man Who Loved China, about the life of the remarkable Cambridge scholar-eccentric Joseph Needham. Next October will see the publication of Atlantic: A Biography of the Ocean, Winchester’s 21st book. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to journalism and literature” in 2006.
www.simonwinchester.com

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