Magic Mirror no 6

              By Denise Sciandra, ANCA President
Tales & Tidbits
from ANCA
I landed in Fresno because my husband took a job here.
Sal was a new lawyer who had been hired by the Fresno
County Public Defenders’ Office.
We moved from sunny San Diego in December 1973.
The day we arrived, it was 49 degrees. Freezing to us. We
knew no one. We felt isolated and in culture shock. We
estimated our stay in Fresno would be two years.
I feel fortunate to have discovered Arne Nixon’s book
festivals within weeks of my arrival in Fresno. His
passion for children’s literature was contagious. I
attended many, many of his conferences from 1974 to
1987. Eventually, I took my children, Lisa and Aaron,
with me. I wanted them to see authors as real people.
I met Leo Politi in 1974. Politi’s love of children and
his genuine, down-to-earth nature attracted me. I also
loved his artwork and his multicultural picture books.
Many of them were set in Los Angeles near Burbank
where I grew up. Two took place on his beloved Olvera
Street that I had visited as a child.
Arne Nixon brought Leo Politi to Fresno annually for
many years. My children considered him a friend. As a 5-
year-old, Lisa appeared shy about going up in front of
the audience to draw the name of the lucky winner of
the painting that Politi drew that day. As a 9-year-old,
she felt comfortable enough to initiate a chat with him
at the break and let him sketch her while I watched in
happy disbelief.
Politi invited my family to the 1983 Blessing of the
Animals ceremony on Olvera Street with the promise of
sketching both of my children. We found him in the
crowd and he was true to his word.
The next year we participated in the ceremony by
bringing Aaron’s pet mouse Charles. Six-year-old Aaron
briefly became a celebrity when a reporter from Ripley’s
Believe It or Not interviewed him as the owner of the
only mouse to be blessed that day.
Were my children a little bit in awe of Politi? Perhaps.
They did find him in the World Book Encyclopedia.
And I once heard them say to a friend, “We know some-one
in the encyclopedia.”
In 2002, Leo Politi’s son and daughter took Angelica
Carpenter and me on a guided tour of Leo Politi’s Los
Angeles. We enjoyed this experience so much that we
would like to share it with others. We think we could fill
a bus with Leo Politi fans for a two-day tour in the
school year of 2004–05. Are we correct? Let us know and
we’ll start a waiting list.
Moving to Fresno turned out pretty well. In no other
city would I have had the privilege and pleasure of
counting both Arne Nixon and Leo Politi as my friends.
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(Arne Nixon Center Advocates)
Ada donation, from page 1
at the University of San Francisco, she has a far-reaching
influence. The Center offers graduate degrees in chil-dren’s
multicultural literature and an annual “Reading
the World” conference that attracts hundreds of people
each year.
At this summer’s Pura Belpré Awards, sponsored by
the American Library Association to honor Latino/Latina
authors and illustrators, two honorees thanked Alma
Flor Ada for help with their careers. Muchas gracias to
her now for honoring the Center with this donation!
I met Alma Flor Ada at one of the first “Reading the
World” conferences [at the University of San Francisco] a
few years ago. She went around the USF building sur-rounded
by people, listening to all of those who needed
to talk to her. It seemed like everybody had questions or
requests for Alma Flor. I was a reader; I had known
Alma’s books for a long time, and she was already in my
mind like some kind of warrior from a Spanish written
tale—a woman who had come to a foreign land, had
conquered, and was leaving a precious legacy.
At the time I was already very interested in writing
and illustrating children’s books, but I lacked direction.
When Alma Flor heard that I wanted to write, she
invited me—a mere stranger who had just shaken her
hand for the first time—to visit one of the classes she
was giving at the multicultural literature program at
USF. The class was called “The Author Within,” and
after that first class I was hooked. How could I leave her
class if Alma was talking exactly about what I wanted to
learn, about raising the stories from inside and sharing
them out with the world? It took all my courage to ask
Alma Flor, but she said yes; I could keep coming to the
class, and along with the enrolled students I stayed for
the rest of the semester.
Why does one stick with Alma Flor? Perhaps it is
because she becomes some sort of headlight in one’s life.
During this class, Alma Flor looked me in the eyes many
times and told me that I had talent, that I was a writer.
And I believed her.
Or perhaps because she has the manner of a mother;
when she takes you under her wings, and her warmth sur-rounds
you, you know you have arrived in a safe place.
Or perhaps it is because she is a role model, a Latina
who came to the USA and crafted meticulously her own
life and career. And what woman doesn’t want to be like
Alma Flor?
I do.
Mexican-American author/illustrator Yuyi Morales moved to the
U.S. in 1994, which is when she began to learn English. She won
the 2004 Pura Belpré Medal for illustration for a book she also
wrote, Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book. She
also won a 2004 Pura Belpré honor award for her illustrations
for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, by Kathleen Krull.
Alma Flor Ada (by Yuyi Morales)
Published by
The Arne Nixon Center for the
Study of Children’s Literature
Henry Madden Library
California State University, Fresno
5200 North Barton Ave. M/S ML34
Fresno CA 93740-8014
Phone: (559) 278-8116
Web site: www.arnenixoncenter.org
Open weekdays 1 – 4:30 p.m.
and by appointment.
Staff
Angelica Carpenter, Curator
E-mail: angelica@csufresno.edu
Jennifer Crow, Library Assistant
Matt Borrego, Student Assistant
Maria Carrizales, Student Assistant
ANCA Board of Directors
Denise Sciandra, President
Phone (559) 229-5085
E-mail: deeceebee@psnw.com
Jessica Kaiser,
1st Vice President, Programs
Jackie Sarkisian,
2nd Vice President, Membership
Helen Teichman, Corresponding Secretary
Angelica Carpenter, Recording Secretary
Nancy Hill, Treasurer
Laurel Ashlock
Audry Hanson
Ruth Kallenberg
Cynthia MacDonald
Jo Ellen Misakian
Richard Osterberg
ANC Governing Committee
Michael Gorman
Michael Cart
Maurice J. Eash
Magic Mirror
Angelica Carpenter, Editor
Janet Bancroft, Designer & Co-editor
MAGICMIRROR
MAGICMIRROR by Angelica Carpenter
CORNER
CURATOR’S
My dear friend Hilda Bohem passed away on July
26, at the age of 87. She had been in failing health
for some time, but still the news came as a shock.
Hilda was one of my first friends in California.
Soon after my arrival, I invited the California
members of the Lewis Carroll Society of North
America to my Fresno lecture on “Lewis Carroll at
Oxford.” Hilda couldn’t come but she sent good
wishes and we began a lively correspondence by E-mail.
Soon my husband and I were invited to her home in the Hollywood
Hills to see her Lewis Carroll collection. Her library was large and cozy,
with a big, round table in the middle. Hilda and her friend Stan Kurman, a
book dealer, pulled out book after book to show us their special favorites:
first editions, foreign editions (Alice in Swahili), unusual editions (braille
and shorthand), spin-offs by other authors, and puzzles, tea sets, figurines,
videos, coloring books—every kind of ephemera. As the hour of our
dinner reservation approached, Hilda and Stan reached their finale.
“Let’s show her the dolly!” said Hilda, or at least that’s what I thought
she said. (There were several Alice dolls in the room.)
“Yes, the dolly!” said Stan, but what they were really saying was
“Dalí”— Salvador Dalí, whose limited-edition Alice was selling then for
$12,000 to $15,000. Clearly I had a lot to learn about Alice (I still do), and
Hilda was the perfect teacher.
I visited her often, with many different friends. She taught us where the
good restaurants were and which new movies we should see. She
remembered when Sunset Boulevard had a bridle path down the middle.
She talked about writing for television, using a man’s name for macho
shows like Rawhide. She told us about working as a book dealer and a
librarian. She bragged modestly about her grandson, who was clearly
precocious (she became a grandmother for the first time while in her 80s),
and her son Les, who brought his Emmy Award to show her the morning
after he won it. She made us laugh with stories about her dogs.
Lewis Carroll was her special passion. She wanted her collection to stay
together and to go to a library where scholars could use it. I was honored
that she thought I would be a good custodian for it. “Donate it!” I urged,
but she held out for $150,000. That price was a bargain; the value
continues to increase. She let us have the books up front, paying them off
over a three-year period. And she gave us dozens of books, too—new and
old books to add to the collection, including her Jabberland, an
anthology of takeoffs on Jabberwocky.
Hilda wrote to her friend Ruth Berman in 2004, “Yes, I sold [the
collection] last year and, from what I hear, it’s being loved and cared for. I
still enjoy adding things to it. The librarian, Angelica Carpenter, assures
me it’s still my collection, just living somewhere else, a comforting thought
except when I want to refer to something and find myself staring at a
room full of empty shelves.”
Now our shelves are full but our hearts grieve for Hilda. She was a
beautiful, vibrant person—charming and stimulating even in her last days.
Her legacy is her collection, and it is people, too. Her sister, Blossom
Norman, is a new friend who recently donated 12 boxes of ABC books to
the Center. Hilda’s son, Les Bohem, who won his Emmy for writing the TV
series “Taken,” will soon begin work on two new Alice movies for Dream-works.
Hilda’s vision will shape the future of the Arne Nixon Center.
Happy reading! 3
In June Angelica Carpenter began a 3-
year term as president of the Interna-tional
Wizard of Oz Club. This literary
society has 1,300 members in all 50
states and 7 foreign countries. The Club
hosts 3 large regional conventions each
summer, including the Winkies, who
meet at Asilomar in Pacific Grove (CA).
The Club publishes a semi-scholarly
journal, The Baum Bugle, 3 times a
year. For information about the club,
see its Web site at www.ozclub.org.
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Collecting Lewis Carroll
by Hilda Bohem
It isn’t easy to know where to place the blame. Thinking
back to 1965 when I was in library school, I can pin-point
what started it. But who to blame? Joe, fellow
student, for announcing that University Microfilms was
publishing a facsimile of the first Alice and for offering
to place an order for anyone who wanted a copy? Uni-versity
Microfilms for doing such a thing? Or maybe
Lewis Carroll for writing the book I read with ritual reg-ularity
once a year with constantly maturing pleasure?
I have to confess that I knew nothing about the
author, nor did I know anything about the history of
the book. When Joe delivered my promised “first
edition,” ten dollars net, I didn’t know what to make of
it. The illustrations were wrong, all wrong. The whole
thing was neatly handwritten and that was wrong, too.
Not that ten dollars was such a huge amount, but for a
while there I felt as if I had been had. At last I realized
that this skinny book in its light greenish-blue binding
was called Alice’s Adventures under Ground not
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Only after that
came the realization that this was a facsimile of the
original manuscript with illustrations by the author
himself. A short preface by Luther Evans put it all into
proper perspective for me. I slid my purchase back into
its slipcase. That was nice. I had never had a book with a
slipcase before. Trying to swallow my disappointment—I
had really counted on a bright new copy of my familiar
Alice—I turned my attention to Joe who was explaining
the book to another puzzled classmate. I was getting
more educated by the minute.
A few weeks later, showing an East Coast visitor the
sights, I dropped into Peggy Christian’s bookshop. I had
never been there before. Step two in my education: I
found a copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Amazing! Someone other
than Tenniel (and not Lewis Carroll) had illustrated
Alice. So much to learn, and I was getting a cram course.
Next day in school, I told Joe about discovering that
Rackham had illustrated Alice. Well, he knew that. He
assured me that many famous artists had illustrated the
book. But Rackham, a Rackham Alice was special and
very valuable, a collector’s dream. “Worth more than
nine dollars?” I asked innocently. “Nine hundred’s more
like it.” And I hadn’t bought it.
On my next free day, I went to the bookstore of “that
stupid dealer who didn’t know what a valuable book she
had.” Oh, Peggy, forgive me, callow creature that I was.
Anyone who knew Peggy knows that she was one of the
smartest and most ethical of booksellers, and a woman
who really knew her books. I was lucky to become her
friend. But that afternoon I was especially lucky because
the book I wanted had been sold. Undoubtedly, had I
found it still there, I would have bought it and that
would have been the end instead of the beginning of my
collecting. Peggy was quick to spot a potential collector,
and she was generous in her willingness to share
information and advice. Her enthusiasm for Lewis
Carroll made me realize how much more there was than
the Rackham Alice. I also learned from her, to my
chagrin, that Joe’s “collector’s dream” Rackham was a
very different book from the one I had seen for nine
dollars. That was a trade edition worth, at that time,
exactly nine dollars. The collector’s dream is a large
quarto with elegant tipped in plates, meant to be a
special gift book for a favorite child, but really much too
good for her dirty little hands.
Now that I knew there were two different books, I
was obsessed with a determination to find both of them.
I spent every free moment combing the local bookstores.
In 1965 there were still a lot of them in Los Angeles, big
ones with fancy books, big ones with cheap books, hole-in-
the-wall bookshops that were run by peculiarly
scroungy-looking men. These last were a little scary to
go into but invariably they had a section of children’s
books and often I was rewarded with an Alice. I went to
garage sales and church sales and even sales of library
discards. All I was looking for was those two Rackhams,
the trade edition and the de luxe. What I found was an
endless variety of Alices by an endless variety of
publishers in an endless variety of bindings with an
endless variety of illustrations. I couldn’t leave them
alone. Without ever thinking it through, I was buying
them all. Nobody else seemed to be interested in them.
They could be had for a song.
In the space of two years I must have bought every
Alice in the city. I know there are some that I have never
seen for sale again, unique to this collection. Condition
was not important. If I didn’t have it, a poor book could
be a space-filler until a better copy came along. At first I
tried to avoid duplicates, but I couldn’t always remem-ber,
as my shelves filled, whether I had a particular book
or not, so I bought. They were cheap, no great
investment individually, although quantity was begin-ning
to tear at my budget. Soon I realized that there
were almost never duplicates. There was always some
small but significant difference, a difference in
publication date, a difference in binding cloth. Peggy
encouraged me in my greedy harvesting, teaching me
that bibliographic differences had their place in
scholarship just as textual differences did. She
introduced me to the work of her friend Thomas Tansel,
a brilliant bibliographer, who made me aware of second
editions while I was just discovering firsts.
While I was still in library school, strongly under the
influence of our dean, Lawrence Clark Powell, I had
romantic notions about book hunting. Larry, a spell-binding
teacher, once described his search for an
insignificant book that had special importance for him.
He walked one day into a shop he had never visited
(See Collecting Carroll, page 6)
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Peter Hanff, deputy director of the Bancroft Library at the
University of California at Berkeley and an expert bibli-ographer,
will offer a slide-illustrated history of the printing
of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Angelica Carpenter,
curator of the Arne Nixon Center and author of Lewis
Carroll: Through the Looking Glass, will give a talk on
“Accelerated Reader in Wonderland.” The Kennel Bookstore
on campus will acquire the authors’ books, which will be
available for sale and autographing at the meeting.
Free parking will be available in Lot G, on the northeast
corner of Shaw and Cedar Avenues.
Space is limited; reservations will be made on a first-come,
first-served basis. To reserve a seat, call the Arne Nixon
Center at (559) 278-8116 or E-mail to anc@listserv.
csufresno.edu. The meeting schedule may be seen at
www.arnenixoncenter.org. For more information about the
Lewis Carroll Society of North America, see its Web site at
www.lewiscarroll.org.
The Arne Nixon Center will sponsor an exhibit, “Much of a
Muchness: Lewis Carroll Materials from the Collection of the
Arne Nixon Center,” from October 4 – 30 at California State
University, Fresno’s Henry Madden Library. Exhibit cases are
located by the Library’s front door, in the Solarium, and in
the Arne Nixon Center. The exhibit will showcase materials
acquired recently from Hilda Bohem, who passed away in
July 2004 at the age of 87. (See Alice has arrived! on page 6.)
Carroll Society, from page 1
“Much of a Muchness” exhibit
The Arne Nixon Center hosted the 31st annual conference of the Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) in June at
Fresno State; 215 people attended. Registrants came from 35 states and the District of Columbia, and from Australia,
Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, and Taiwan. One hundred and thirty-eight papers
were presented by 140 people. Ten sessions, each with six concurrent programs, were held.
Keynote speaker Pam Muñoz Ryan delighted her audience with letters from her readers. Richard Peck gave a
spirited talk, with quotes from his heroine Delphine, on the value of historical fiction. Phoenix winner Berlie Doherty
came from England to accept her award for White Peak Farm. She and Canadian author Brian Doyle, the Phoenix
Honor Winner, pleased everyone by participating in many conference sessions. Conference Chair (and Curator of the
Nixon center) Angelica Carpenter, who had just been elected president of the International Wizard of Oz Club,
sponsored an Oz panel discussion and Ozzy illustrations in the conference program.
The International Committee honored Arne Nixon’s Finnish heritage with a
program on Finnish children’s literature. The Center offered a display of Finnish
books. The Finnish Consul in Los Angeles sponsored an appearance by Tove
Jansson’s niece, Sophia Jansson, and sent posters, books, knowledgeable staff
members, and an Internet demonstration. Donor Pamela Harer provided books
for an exhibit, “Picture Books from Between the Wars,” curated by Christy Hicks.
ANCA sponsored a reception at the Madden Library, emceed by ANCA
President Denise Sciandra, at which Michael Cart gave the Francelia Butler
Plenary Lecture. Carpenter cited Kathy Kiessling, Jackie Stallcup, and Jennifer
Crow for their outstanding work and thanked everyone who helped with the
conference, about 80 people in all.
Children’s Literature Association
meets in Fresno
Joel Chaston, President of ChLA, with
Angelica Carpenter and author Richard Peck
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extensively, often with information about books that no-body
else had supplied. His book, Much of a Muchness,
although it was published in a very small edition, is a
solid bibliography worthy of wider circulation.
There are plenty of scholarly papers still tucked away
in this collection. It delights me to know that it will live in
a university setting where its beautiful books will give
pleasure and its entirety will get the sort of use I never
thought of when I started to scour Los Angeles looking for
the Rackham Alice.
before; and as he came through the door, he felt himself
drawn toward the back where, in a dark corner, stood a
tower of books all but ready to topple over. Without
hesitating, he reached for a book at the bottom of the
stack, and it was the book he had been seeking for years.
This was the romance of book shopping, and this was
what I, too, felt when I was on the hunt for Alice. I
decided that, like Larry, I had the “gift.” (I don’t know
whether the stack of books fell over. Larry never told us.)
My first job after I graduated was with Harry Levinson,
a rare book dealer who specialized in 16th and 17th
century books. Here I became sophisticated. I learned that
there were books worth hundreds, even thousands of
dollars, and that my nickel and dime scrounging for
Alice was not the only way to go. Although Carroll was
late for this shop, occasionally Harry would buy a private
library and there would be a few fine children’s books
mixed in with Aurelius and Shakespeare. Both Harry and
his wife scorned children’s books so I was able to buy,
almost at a price I could afford, the first important book
for my collection, The Limited Edition Club Through
the Looking-Glass.
There was no stopping me then. I was a COLLECTOR.
Peggy, who had been nurturing my interest with modest
books a few steps above what I had been finding around
town, now began to tempt me with the glorious books
there were to be had. I moved on to a job that paid more
than a bookstore could so that I might continue feeding
my collector’s appetite.
Collecting Carroll, from page 4
Alice has arrived!
(September 2, 2002)
Hilda Bohem and Angelica Carpenter
I joined the Lewis Carroll Society that had just started
in London and discovered from their journal,
Jabberwocky, that people wrote interesting articles
about Lewis Carroll. I looked at my books with a new
eye, and I realized at once that I had many, many Alices
published by Henry E. Altemus that were distinguished
by variant bindings because they were different series.
They had different title pages and a different illustration
was used for the frontispiece in each. I wrote an article
about them that was published in The Papers of the
Bibliographic Society of America. My collec-tion
had taken on meaning. It was no longer
a bunch of books to show off, but a
working collection, useful for research
and scholarly pursuits. But by this time
it had some pretty books and some real
rarities. I had learned how to read
dealers’ catalogues and even buy
books by mail.
When Byron Sewell wanted to
compile a bibliography of American
editions of the two Alice books, all of
those multiple, not quite dups, and
there were many besides Altemus, now
paid off. I was able to support his research
The Arne Nixon Center proudly announces the acqui-sition
of a collection of 2,000 items and books by and
about Lewis Carroll, assembled by the late Hilda Bohem.
This collection cost $150,000 (but is valued still higher)
and was funded by many generous donations over a
three-year period. Hilda Bohem was a Carrollian
scholar and a rare books librarian at UCLA. Her
Lewis Carroll collection was one of the
largest private collections in the U.S., and
it is now one of the largest library col-lections
in the country.
This collection could not have
been purchased without the support
of our donors. Thanks to all who
gave, and to all who helped with
fundraising events!
Donors make a difference! This
prestigious collection is the proof. We
will continue to purchase books for
this collection, so gifts to the Lewis
Carroll Fund are still most welcome.
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Congratulations to
Denise Sciandra!
Thanks to the many people and organizations who
helped with the ChLA conference! The names of con-ference
organizers and sponsors appeared in the confer-ence
program. Below is one additional sponsor, and
volunteers who worked at registration, author escorts,
packet stuffers, and in many other capacities. If we
missed anyone, we are sorry, but thanks to you, too!
California Reading and
Literature Project
Richard Carpenter
Ramona Cheek
Wendy Costa
Joan De Yager
Jane Fischer
Betty True Gruen
Audry Hanson
Mel Harada
Nancy Hill
Jessica Kaiser
Ruth Kallenberg
Cynthia MacDonald
Diane Majors
Pat Pickford
Anne Reuland
Jackie Sarkisian
Helen Teichman
Valuable volunteers for ChLA
Through purchases and donations, the Arne Nixon
Center has grown rapidly, from 22,000 books in Arne
Nixon’s original 1995 donation, to 38,000 books in the
Center now. Luckily, some office space next door
became available when a non-Library office moved to
another building, allowing the Center to expand from
1,700 square feet to 2,948 square feet, a 75% increase. A
door now connects the two areas and stacks are being
installed in the new annex. All changes are temporary,
as the Center is located in the part of the Henry
Madden Library that will be demolished in about a
year to make room for a new library. During construc-tion,
Library staff and materials will be housed in
locations still to be determined. After construction, the
Arne Nixon Center will be housed in spacious and
appropriate new quarters.
The Arne Nixon Center
expands
’Twas Hogwarts! Said the Gryffindors
To Harry Potter in their midst,
“Forbidden are the upper floors,
And the stairs are bewitched.
“Beware the Voldemort, my boy,
The bloodshot eyes, the cruel chin,
Watch out for Snape, and shun Malfoy,
They’re both from Slytherin.
Portmanteaued from “jabber abracadabra”
in Hilda Bohem’s book, Jabberland
(The full text of this poem by Hilda Bohem may be
found at www.arnenixoncenter.org.)
Jabracadabra
Answers to quiz:
1.
2.
3.
4.
The Adventures of Pinocchio, by C. Collodi
Blue Willow, by Doris Gates
Raggedy Ann Stories, by Johnny Gruelle
“Jabberwocky,” from Through the Looking-Glass
and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll
ANCA President Denise Sciandra was named the Henry
Madden Library’s Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year on
September 24. Michael Gorman, Dean of Library Services,
commended her work at the Friends of the Library’s
annual dinner at The Smittcamp Alumni House.
Sciandra was honored for her outstanding success in
recruiting individual and business donors to support
Arne Nixon Center projects. She brought in many
sponsors for the two Secret Garden parties. It would not
have been possible to raise the $150,000 purchase price
for the Lewis Carroll Collection without her leadership
and other generous donors.
As founding Life Members of the Center, Denise and
her husband, Salvatore Sciandra, contribute generously—
financial and many other kinds of support. They do
hands-on work for Center programs, even hosting some
events in their home, and Denise attends library and
literary conferences at considerable personal expense.
Her op-ed pieces and letters to the editor in The Fresno
Bee and her book reviews and articles for library and
literary journals help to spread the word about the
Center’s programs. Much of her work is done outside the
Center, in the community, where she is widely
recognized as a
spokesperson and
champion for the
Center, and for
children’s litera-ture.
We thank
and congratulate
Sciandra for her
leadership on
many fronts.
Denise and
Sal Sciandra
will do almost
anything to
support the Arne
Nixon Center!
Life Membership
Laurel Ashlock
Shirley Brinker
Michael Cart
J. Delbert Crummey
Fresno Area Reading Council
Robert and Linda Glassman
Pamela Goodrich
Carmen Farr Gregory
Coke and James Hallowell
Christy Hicks
Nancy Hill
Pat Hillman
John and Lollie Horstmann
J. D. Heiskell & Co.
Rosellen Kershaw
Mrs. Deran Koligian
and Debbie Poochigian
Marion Kremen
Eleanor Larsen
Don and Carol Larson
Gary and Barbara Marsella
and Joy Erro
Brenda Martin
Helen Jane McKee
Roxie Moradian
George Pappas
Alice Peters
Betty Jo Peterson
Elizabeth Peterson
Patricia Pickford
Jim and Kay Provost
Tom and Louise Richardson
Evelyn Sanoian
Lisa Schoof
Denise and Salvatore Sciandra
Harold Silvani
Edith Stock
Dennis and Sandy Stubblefield
Jerry and Lois Tarkanian
Juan and Clara Touya
Patron Membership
Paula Ametjian
Baker, Manock & Jensen
Dale Blickenstaff
Carolrhoda Books
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Donations of books and materials
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