About Us
Citizens Supporting the Library Referenum have come together to launch a campaign to bring out the YES vote on November 4, 2014 for the Park Ridge Public Library Referendum.
Official name:
Citizens Supporting the Library Referendum (CSLR)
Slogan:
Save Our Library Services (SOLS)
Co-Chairs:
John Benka, former Park Ridge Alderman and former Park Ridge Library Board member;
Mary Wynn Ryan, former Park Ridge Alderman and former Park Ridge Library Liaison to City Council
Secretary:
Kathy Rolsing, former Park Ridge Library Business Manager/Park Ridge Community Network Manager
Treasurer:
Dick Van Metre,former Park Ridge Library Board member and Treasurer
Fundraising:
Pat Lofthouse
Finance/Reporting (Donations/Disbursements):
Co-Chair Ryan and Treasurer Van Metre
Media Contacts:
John Benka, Mary Wynn Ryan, Mary Ann Irvine
Website: Julie Stam
Members:
Mary Ellen Bleeden
Andrea Bochat
Angela Berger
Trudy Bers
Mary Jo DiRe
Sally Fortney
Steve Huening
Steven Hunst
Mary Ann Irvine
Judy Keller
Kate Kerin
Pat Lofthouse
Jack Owens
Chris Parson
Nan Parson
Eleanor Pierce
Denise Reeder
Cindy Smolka
Cathy Thompson
Jeanne Wells
Luann Zoellner
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
~Carl Sagan, Cosmos