“I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.”
–William Shakespeare

DONORS & FUNDERS
(February 2009-April 2010)
The programs and services of Writers & Books would not be possible without the generosity of our donors, members and institutional funders. We are extremely grateful for your tremendous support.

INSTITUTIONAL FUNDERS:
Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester
Bonadio & Co., LLP
Boylan, Brown, Code, Vigdor & Wilson, LLP
Canandaigua National Bank
Century Pittsford Wines
Cognitive Marketing
Durwood Management, Inc.
ESL Federal Credit Union
Federated Clover Investment Advisors
Flower City Printing
The Fred & Floy Wilmott Foundation
The Gell Fund of the Rochester Area Community
Foundation
The Gleason Foundation
Harter, Secrest & Emery, LLP
HSBC
The Mary Mulligan Charitable Trust
Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc.
Monroe County
National Endowment for the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts
New York State Senator Joseph E. Robach, Jr.
Nixon Peabody LLC
The Guido & Ellen Palma Foundation
Paychex
Rochester Area Community Foundation
John F. Wegman Fund

GODSEND
$25,000 & UP
Anonymous

MUSE
$1,000-24,999
Janet Buchanan Smith
Jan & Jim Gleason
Anonymous
Gilbert G. & Katherine B. McCurdy
Ken McCurdy
The Westport Fund
Linda Rice & George Scharr
Anonymous
Mary & Stan Widger
    in memory of Helen M. Banks

PUBLISHER
$500-999
Dr. William & Patricia Grande
Bruce & Celeste Kier
Stuart & Illa Loeb
Chip & Joyce Nimick
Roger & Kimberly Palma
Constance Potter
Patricia Seka, Margaret, Daniel & Stephen Ward
   in memory of William E. Ward
Brad Van Auken
Henry W. Williams, Jr.
Craig Zicari & Anne Coon

NOVELIST
$250-499
Nelson Blish & Sharon Stiller
Dawn K. Good Elk & Reuben Auspitz
Will Irwin
Language Intelligence
Dr. Barbara & John Lovenheim
Katharine S. Parsons
James M. Quinn

ESSAYIST
$100-249
Maureen T. Alston
Molly Bach
Andrea Barrett
Paloma A. Capanna
Anonymous
CCCER Inc.
Jean Close
Mary & Daniel Cooper
John Costello & Lissa Light
Charles & Barbara Cote
   in honor of Charlie Cote
Mary Dambly & Allen Krisiloff
Pat & Jim DeCaro
Josanne DeNatale & Peter Holloran
Jane Doeblin
Leaf E. Drake
   in memory of Joyce Pearson
Rina M. Drescher
Celia Easton & Lori Anschuetz
Harold & Joan Feinbloom
Joanne Felzer
Rich & Rob   in Flaherty
Beverly Gold & Bruce Horowitz
   in honor of Talia Rae Horowitz
Jim & Pat Hancock
Wendy Hembrock
Bob & Marianne Hesselberth
Stephen & Mary Heveron-Smith
Jon Itk   in & Alexa Scott-Flaherty
Susan & Howard Itkin
Rose-Marie B. Klipste   in
Deb Koen
John & Nancy Laurence
Chris and Dia Lawrence
   in memory of Eleanor Hall
Jennifer Leonard
Teresa Levy
Jenny Lloyd
Peter Lovenheim
Howard & Lynn Low
Anonymous
Dan Meyers
Iris & Luther Miller
Anonymous
Betsy Naumburg & Carl Hoffman
Peter Obourn
Elizabeth A. Osta
Maddy Segal & Abby Reichlin
Zoe Segal-Reichl   in & Dan Garodnick
Tom & Betty Richards
Nancy Robinson
Bob Shea & Kate Weisskopf
   in honor of Bob Shacochis; James Carroll
Kraig Sproles & Inara Scott
John T. Sullivan Jr.
The Century Club of Rochester
Mr. & Mrs. John Thoman
William J. & Mary Anna Towler
Ralph & Pamela Uttaro
Kim Hunt-Uzclac & Adam Uzclac
Mari Wells
Irene Reeves Westerfield
Bruce Zaretsky

POET
$1-99
Anonymous
Domenico Alampi & Michele Liguori-Alampi
John & Kathleen Albertini
Carolyn Anderson
Joanne B. Arany
Betsy & Gerald Archibald
Denise Bartalo
Kathryn Bonnez
Donnette Boucher
Linda Bretz
Mary Lynn Broe
   in memory of Albert J. Montesi
Vicki & Roger Brown
Mari Brown
Patricia J. Chadwick
Tamsan Cleveland
Lisa Cuff
Robert & Janice Daitz
Norman & Jung Davis
Lawrence and Shirley Dawson
Jacques & Monique Delettrez
Bill & Eileen Digg   in
Anonymous
Samuel Dixon
   in memory of Paul C. Dixon
Barbara Dooley
Tina Engels-Vattana
Julian M Fitch
Mrs. Joan Flaherty
Sarah J. Freligh
Ronny & Alan Frishman
Anonymous
The Family of Sara Young Gale
   in honor of Sara Young Gale
Jessica Gaspar
Gail Gilberg
Anonymous
Dane & Judy Gordon
Ed & Terry Grissing
Anonymous
Mary Lou Heilman
Goldee Hecht-Meyer & Bill Barton
Christopher & Joanna Hodgman
Peter & Lynda Hotra
   in honor of Gilbert K. (Ken) McCurdy
Mary & Earl Ingersoll
Germaine Knapp
   in honor of Anne Coon
Bob Koch
Carolyn Kourofsky
Sharon Kovalsky
Kathy Johncox
Anonymous
Archie & Patty Kutz
Theodore W. Lechman
Danielle M. Lutomski
Dr. Stephen & Regina MacAdam
Sandra Mitzner, M.D.
Anonymous
Shirley & Jim Moore
   in honor of James M. Moore
Carol Neufeglise
Nannette Nocon
Matthew J. O’Brien
Dolores Parlato
Jason Park & Kim Mura
Katharine S. Parsons
Rob Tyler & Patricia Pauly
Jeffrey & Diana Pollock
Rob   in Pulver
   in memory of Barbara P. Erdle
Anonymous
Herb Rees
Don & Linda Reinfeld
Peggy Rosenthal
Dr. Alice Rubenste   in
David & Leah Ruekberg
Mart   in Scott & Sandra Swanson
Wanda & Bill Schubmehl
Vicki & Richard Schwartz
Joanna Scott & James Longenbach
Claudia Stanek
Marcia & Gary Stern
Keith Stott
   in memory of Paul Bither
Mary Jo & Dick Ten Eyck
   in honor of Linda Allardt
George Tennant
Clifford W. Smith & Bernie Todd Smith
Tolsdorf Family
Walt & Dottie Waldron
   in memory of Lois Kaskel Welch
Elizabeth & Julian Webb
Elissa & Chris Werner
Sally & Jamie Whitbeck
   in memory of Alfred Scheible
Sergeant & Catharine Wise
Marianne Zeitl   in

HELEN M. BANKS SCHOLARSHIP
Joe Flaherty & Liz Scott
Bev Gold & Bruce Horowitz
Jon Itk   in & Alexa Scott-Flaherty
Bruce & Celeste Kier
Margie Mitchell

SUMMERWRITE YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP FUND
1 Child for 1 Full Day Class for 1 Week
($220 and above)
Joanne D. Felzer
Mimi Levitt
Stuart & Illa Loeb
Katharine S. Parsons
   in honor of Rose Marie Klipste   in
Kite Tails LLC
Jean Gordon Ryon
   in memory of Phyllisa McEwen
Anonymous
Henry W. Williams, Jr.
Wayne Willis and Susan Medoff

1 Child for 1 Half-Day Class for 1 Week
($110 and above)
Anne C. Coon
Leaf & Dana Drake
Joyce Eustance
Joan L. Feinbloom
Beverly Gold & Bruce Horowitz
   in honor of Talia Rae Horowitz
Bob & Marianne Hesselberth
Deb Koen
Anne E Konar
Jenny Lloyd
Jim & Shirley Moore
Language Intelligence
   in memory of Salvatore J. Parlato

$10 - $100
Jacques Delettrez
Christine Deschamps
William & Eileen Diggin
Barbara Dooley
Marica Elwitt
Ronny & Alan Frishman
Beverly Gold
Edward & Terry Grissing
Sharon & Arnie Kovalsky
Lift Bridge Bookshop
Lisa Lipani
Harry & Debra Rubin
Bill & Wanda Schubmehl
   in memory of Salvatore J. Parlato
Joanna Scott & James Logenbach
Marcia & Gary Stern
Maia Tolsdorf
Elissa & Chris Werner
Sally & Jamie Whitbeck
Barbara E. Yunis

WRITERS & BOOKS MEMBERS

BENEFACTOR
Kathy & Mark Cleary
Kate Weisskopf & Bob Shea
Craig Zicari & Anne Coon
Melissa Head

CHAMPION
Mary & Stan Widger
Read D. McNamara

PATRON
Jack and Bonnie Garner
Suzanne Gouvernet
Martha Heyneman
Marguerite & Jim Quinn
Linda Rice & George Scharr
Linda & Jeff Whyland
Rodine Dobeck
Lissa Light & John Costello
Chip and Joyce Nimick
Suzanne & Michael Schnittman
William & Caroline Hall
Robert & Miela Ford
Mary Dambly & Allen Krisiloff
Peter & Linda Obourn
Teresa Levy
Mary Daniel & Robert Cooper
Norm & Jung Davis
Patricia Pauly & Robert Tyler
Jenny Lloyd
Mary Ann & Michael, Aleksandra Sprague
Henry W. Williams, Jr.
Ken McCurdy
Celia Easton & Lori Anschuetz
John Sullivan
Sharon Stiller & Nelson Blish
Jane Schuster
Joanna Scott & Jim Longenbach
Elizabeth Schenk
Bruce Horowitz & Beverly Gold
Mari Wells
Joseph and Maryann Platania
Nina Plotz
June Rogoff

SUPPORTING
Cynthia Louise Blair
Craig Delancey
Mrs. Leaf E. Drake
Nancy Gombert
Mary Lou Heilman
Dr. Danielle Fraenkel & Jeffrey Mehr
Karen Morris
Vicki & Richard Schwartz
Carolyn Wendell
Al Larkin
Sergeant & Catharine Wise
Craig Delancey
Ellen Nakhnikian
Mary Lou Heilman
Mrs. Leaf E. Drake
Mary Lynn Broe
Allison Larkin

HOUSEHOLD
Eric DiLella
Donna Eggleston
Michael & Alexander Christie, Lisabeth & Marguerite Frarey
Karen Jones
Stephen, Laura, Eric, Alec Linder
Ellen Powell & Art Maurer
Sherry, Rod, & Kit Rhodes
Gerry, Susan, Daniel Rooney
Sally Wood-Winslow & Roy Sowers
Beth Ferrari & Karl, Alice, Liam, Clare Wiberg
Judith & Dane Gordon
Jacques & Monique Delettrez
Wanda & Bill, Adriana Schubmehl
Joel Rosen & Lara Evans
Rima Segal
Leslie Simon
Tracy Worrell & Rick LouAllen
Alexandre and Nicolas Angelone and Betsy Traub
Chris and Kurt Devlin

FAMILY
Don & Denise Bartalo
Pat Campbell
Teressa and Connor Cochran
Jane, Thomas, Alice, & Emma Doeblin
Romolo Celli & Elizabeth Forbes
Mary Ellen, John, Anna, Joseph & Evalyn Gleason
Edward & Terry Grissing
Sharon, Mark, Chloe,Sophie & Annelise Hamer
Leslie Locketz, Bobby, Bailey Johnson
Elizabeth Johnston
Linda, Sean, Aidan and Michael Kelly
Scott, Julie, Cassidy, Tori, Dakota Kogler
Mick, Susan, Mark, Ellie & Joy Krasner
Kenny & Miriam Lerner
Sam Lopez
Geoffrey Williams, Artemis, Peri & Kathryn Markakis
Robin & Donald Pulver
Heidi and John and Sean Quinlivan
Carol & Alvani Santos
Katherine Schaefer
Tom, Bridget Sherwood
Peter & Stephanie Siegrist
Maria, Robert, Luke, Marc, Gabriel Vanni
Louise Wagner
Bonny Claxton & John Wilkinson
Tim and Susan Boland
Steve & Maiken Nedergaard Goldman
Kim, Tom & Murie Gillett
Richard & Marcia Middleton
David, Debra, and Madison Ross
Sue Arguello
Chris & Dia Lawrence
Delaney, Roger & Kimberly Palma
Donnette & Jon Paul Boucher
David, Vera Tilson
Lisa Marshall, David, Danielle Kettles
Pat & Jim DeCaro
Anthony Inzana & Dr. Kimberly Erway
Cathleen Braunen
Jessie, John, Leah, Emily, John & Olivia Summerville-Farrar
Abigail, Crista, Mike, Samuel Deniz
Stephanie, Peter, Helen, Claire Siegrist

COUPLE
Susan Murphy & Ralph Black
Rev. John & Jean Cedarleaf
Zena Collier
Finvola & George Drury
Chris & Helen Haller
Edward VanLanen and Betsy Jenson
John and Sharon Karl
Sean & Anne Krauss
Robert and Patricia Levine
Carmel Merrill & Richard Lunt
Mary Parke & James Manning
Henry & Annabelle Martin
Joann & David Minor
Helen & Saul Presberg
William & Pamela Pruitt
Arlene Levit & Bernie Shore
Alec & Mindy Sutherland
Jim & Deanna Tiefenthal
James & Sharon vanMeenen
Linda & David White
Paul Meyer, Heidi & Olivia Zimmer-Meyer
John & Kathleen Albertini
BJ & Julian Yudelson
Bob and Lucy Michniewicz
Karl Obine
Christopher & Joanna Hodgman
David & Shirley Malone
Mary Ellen & Mike Rickert
Nina & Pat Smith
Mary & Stephen Heveron-Smith
Aung Win
Richard & Mary Jo TenEyck
Laura Cushman & Theodore Lechman
Dean & Jeane Harper
David & Marie Jolkovski
Charles & Barbara Cote
Mary Miskell & Terry Clar
George & Melinda Tennant
Doris & Douglas Meadows
George Dardess & Peggy Rosenthal
Jeanne Harper
Lisa Moretto & Lori Marra
James & Nancy Morrison
Jim Watson & Leah Zazulyer
Elaine Miller

INDIVIDUAL
Claudia Ciresi
James Harte
Robert E. McGrath
Karen Noll
Lois B. Taubman
Andrea Feldman
Michael Arve
Dr & Mrs William Africano
Linda Allardt
Deborah Anderson
Marie Arcuri
Tricia Asklar
Joan Baier
Susan Baruch
Louise Bennett
Henry Boessl
Heath Boice-Pardee
David Bowman
Judith Boyd
Nora Bradbury-Haehl
Laura Brumbaugh
Rae Burchfiel
Cecile Carson
Ellen Clark
Edward Cloos
Nella Corryn
Daniel Cottone
Michael Coyle
Eleanor Cushing
Carolyn Dancy
Gennaro DiSano
Diane Drechsler
Debra DuBiel
Berdjouhi Esmerian
Terri Fischette
Barbara Flynn
Lynda Foti
Neil Frankel
Jay Giess
Gerald Gladstein
Nancy Gombert
Dawn GoodElk
James Graves
Todd Greanier
Barbara Grosh
Janet Gunter
Beth (K.E.) Haggerty
Judy Hall
Paula Hansen
Mary Harris
Edward Haskins
Wendy Hembrock
Sue Henninger
Brad Hindson
Dee & Bill Hogan
Kathleen C. Holcombe
Samantha Horrocks
Garrett Hughes
Latasha Johnson
Nora Jones
Joy Kinz
Joyce Lehmann
Patricia Lindley
Janet Sunkin and Salvatore Liotta
Judith Love
Laura MacLemale
Elizabeth Maginnis
Ken Maher
Ravi Mangla
Donna M. Marbach
Robert Marcuson
Paul McArthur
George Campbell McDade
Ruth Messinger
Ellen Monagan
Theo Munson
Jeanne Nagle
David Michael Nixon
Fran Norman
Nancy O'Neill
Tom Painting
Elizabeth Anne Palermo
Gloria Parker
Dolores Parlato
Brad Landsman & Loretta Petralis
George Pointon
Ann Putnam
Maria Randazzo
Nancy Robinson
John Roche
Marianne Rohack
Dan Rugg
David Ryder
David Ryon
Patricia Seka
Maxine Simon
Suzanne Slack
Kathie A. Spanganberg
Terrelle Spiva
Jean Stahl
Claudia Stanek
G.V. Stelzenmuller
Laura Tenebruso
David Tinling
Margaret Tuchrello
Sharon Turner
Kathy Van Schaick
Kathleen VanDamme
Risa Vendittuoli
Pamela J. Walpole
Patricia Welch
Almeta Whitis
Dwain Wilder
Leonore Wiltse
Sandra Witmer
Ruth Wright
Mary Ellen Zuckerman
Bob Herzog
Charles P. Harris
Norman Greiner
Bonnie Graves
Ann Marie Johnson
Julian M Fitch
Vicki Brown
Bruce Zaretsky
Marianne Zeitlin
Kathy Bonnez
Galo, Cindy, Jacob, Joe Proano
Christina Dionne
Jennifer DeVille
Adele Jones
Sue Border
Dijana Winter
J.R. Dillon
Cathleen Hutter
Ruth Lempert
Amanda Kish
Tim Madigan
Ben Chapman
Monica Gilligan
Wayne Hilton
Richard Col
K.C. Meyer
Patricia Riger-Romano
Cynthia Kolko
W Raymond Duncan
John Richardson
Paula LaManna
Daniel & Ruth Sheehan
Nicholas & Kathryn Jospe
Dona Jaekel & George Ehresman
Deb Koen
Erica Caldwell
Peter Lovenheim
Elaine Richane
Susan Barocas
Carolyn Kourofsky
William Hubbell
Nancy Chalker-Tennant
Friederike & Joel Seligman
Beth VanFossen & Lewis Neisner
Maryellen Donohoe
Derek Darling
Sally Steinmiller
Meghan B. Andrews
David Henehan
Ruth Kessler
Keyon Blunt
Charles P. Harris
Bridget Watts
Matthew O'Brien
Margaret Mitchell
Amber Newman
Phil Brune
Robert Pettengill
Dr. William Grande
Ralph Frisch
Janet Collinge
Sean & Amy Louise Donnelly
Elizabeth Whitehead & Paul Heary
Mark Jabaut
Neal Holtschulte
Nancy Preston Stark
Gregg Hartvigsen & Meredith Drake
Allene Lind
Jean Guthrie
Jessica Gaspar
Robert Ernst
Philip Ebersole
Mary Hale
Gail Hosking
JoAnn Davis
Christine Murphy
Ann E. Kurz
Susan Tingey
Jan Wenk Cedras
Karen Wilson
Peggy Gilfus
Sarah Nettleton
James Judkins
Danielle Massare Lutomski
Lisa Cuff
EC Salibian
Marian Parker
Margot Skivington
Scott Jenks
Daniel Rybinski
Gloria Heinemann
Marcia Birken
David Trout
Colleen McCoy
Evelyn Jansen
John Allen
Linda Bretz
Ed Scutt
Randy Moredock
Joseph McMahon
Ann Tippett & Michael Doolin
Roxanne Chadwick
Nancy Rosenberg
Donna Kaplan
Walter Uhrman
Vicki & Richard Schwartz
Gardner Ryan
CJ Witherow
J. Newcombe Losh
Will Irwin
Evelyn Jensen
Sarah Cannon
Alan Bock
Susan Stark
Sally DeConinck
Elizabeth Webb
Donald Voorhies
Beth Sleboda
Melissa Fischer
Nick Pudetti
Joseph Guastaferro
Judith Byorick
Kathleen Ross
Loretta Kalamaroff
Angela Phillips
Duane Cook
Penny Cherney
Joyce Lyke
Aaron Perlstein Prince
Bonnie Dorscheo
Juanita Tischendorf
Betty Brayer
Denise Slaughter
Don, Alex Blum
Kathy Shoemaker
Sharon Humbert Clark
Joshua, Nicholas & Chloe Weiner and Rosanne Fabi
Susan Hagen
Willard Brown
Gerald Goldstein
Julie Horton
Carol Neufeglise
Sheila Albers
Angela Knisley
Katherine DaCosta
Hinda Miller
Stacy Curtis
Rosaline Yin
Deb McLean
Lisa Rubiner
Daniel Kummeron,Adrian, Alexandra & Lisa Lipani (Lisa)
Mike and Ann McCarthy (Michael)
Paloma Capanna udal
Ralph & Pamela Uttaro

STUDENT
Kati Albert
Matt Bailey
Zack Bauer
Tessa Bottaro
Jenna Bower
Gena Brantley
Jackson Camblin
Sharon Kofod & John & Leah Cary
Katy Crane
Colin Cubitt
Ann Dunham
Sue, Neal, Sarah, and Hannah Eckhaus
Elizabeth Flanagan
Noah Franz
Jewell Freeman
Erin Graham
Carmelo Guglielmino
Jordan Iserson
Lily Iserson
Hannah LaDuca
Madeleine Laitz
Emily Nitschke
Clara, Therese O'Connor
Younghu Park & Hayoun Lee
Eli Pinker
Katie Ruberti
Khai Schmidlin
Leaz Sheeran
Melissa Skyer
Victoria Soong
Hayley VanDusen
Isabella Watts
Jennie Yu
Elise Zaffran
Lindsay Hansen
Michelle, Brian and Erin Cullen
Christel Thielmann
Julia Ortenzi
Emily Rand
Katie Morgan
Monica Beck
Rina Drescher
Andrew Knight
Michele Brown
James Martin
Kevin Ruppert
Chrissy Teague
Megan Donoghue
Anna Cerosaletti
Amanda Rodriguez
Kahdeisha Bliss
Samuel Cohen
Lydia Carli
Jason Choi
Airiel Pearlman
Matthew Kostyshak
Rachel Lonobile
Esther Betancourt
Michael Callari
Kaia Cedras
Isabella Ciaramitaro
Irena Gao
Cecilia Hoskins
Sooan Kim
Chloe Komorowski
Emily Liang
Michael & Jason Lohwater
Justin Man
Ilana Meeker
Sydney Picciotti
John Wikiera
Katarina O'Dette
Paige Colley
Lynne Wallace-Lee
Joanna Jin
Yoonhee Chang, Minsoo, & David Kim (David)
Bob & Kathy & Madison Russell (Madison)
Briana and Johana Ren

 

 

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