Annual Report 2018-2019 by Patricia Pettit

ANNUAL REPORT 2018-2019

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2018-2019 Marvin Abney Holly Bannister, M.D. Daniel Benson Miles Bidwell David F. Brodsky Vincent Buonanno Grenville Craig Virginia Decker Zia Eftekhar Jacalyn Egan Edwin G. Fischer, M.D.* Ronald Lee Fleming Michael K. Gewirz John R. Grace Washington Irving III Dodie Kazanjian Elizabeth Leatherman Earl McMillen III Victoria Mele R. Daniel Prentiss, Esq. Frank N. Ray Allison Walk

Letter From The President

Letter From The Executive Director

MISSION

This annual message customarily celebrates another year in the almost three centuries of the Redwood’s existence, and announces plans for the coming year’s activities that will continue our vibrant presence in the cultural landscape of our community. While the Redwood did indeed have a fine year in 2019, the year 2020 presents challenges and uncertainties of which all are aware, and which I will discuss briefly below.

Dear Friends:

Founded in 1747 on the Enlightenment ideals of intellectual pursuit and civic engagement, and committed to lifelong, interdisciplinary learning, the Redwood Library & Athenæum generates knowledge in the humanities for the benefit of the widest possible audience with “nothing in view but the good of mankind.”

First, it is a pleasure to report that the Redwood did indeed have a grand year. The Claggett Clock exhibition, which opened in December 2018, was an enormous success. It was the largest exhibition ever of clocks by Newport clockmakers William Claggett, Thomas Claggett, and James Wady, who are considered the very best of American eighteenth century clockmakers. The pieces were a magnificent combination of intricate mechanical movements encased in cabinets made by the best of Newport’s eighteenth century furniture-makers. The various chimes in the clocks (which were set to ring in staggered succession) rang beautifully in building. Our summer contemporary arts exhibit was by the Norwegian artist Per Barclay. It consisted of a glass structure in the Rovensky Room, an installation of a black oil surface on the floor of the Summer House, and several of Barclay’s signature, giant format color photographs of other installations in historic buildings around the world. Barclay generously donated several of his photographs of the Summer House installation to the Redwood, which we hope will command a significant price for fundraising. And we received final approval from the Historic Preservation Commission for the restoration of the Rovensky Room to its original floor plan. This work is now almost completed, and the change is dramatic. The room is far grander and brighter, a most impressive space to welcome the visitor. Our plans for the coming year are, however, on indefinite hold. As I write this, the Redwood is closed, as are essentially all businesses and institutions that derive life and energy from public attendance. We will be guided in our planning as the year unfolds by the Governor’s directives for protection of public health from the virus pandemic. As much as we regret this hiatus in our programs, we support fully the necessity for radical curtailment of activities in order to control the spread of disease. This is a challenging time for everyone, as we work to devise ways to adapt to life under pervasive restrictions. The Redwood will meet the challenge. It has existed and grown over the entire history of our nation, and endured with the nation all of its wars and other tribulations. We the nation and we the Redwood certainly will weather this fraught time as well, which will become another part of the fabric of our society’s history that is preserved and celebrated at the Redwood. In his most recent work This is Happiness the Irish novelist Niall Williams made this sublime observation: Books, music, painting are not life, can never be as full, rich, complex, surprising or beautiful, but the best of them can catch an echo of that, can turn you back to look out the window, go out the door aware that you’ve been enriched, that you have been in the company of something alive that has caused you to realise once again how astonishing life is, and you leave the book, gallery or concert hall with that illumination, which feels I’m going to say holy, by which I mean human raptness.

*Honorary Board Member

It is always a great pleasure to write at this time to briefly take stock of what we’ve accomplished together to ensure that this hallowed institution remains healthy and vital. Certainly—and I can communicate this on behalf of both staff and board—the Redwood’s position as an anchor institution and cultural beacon would be unthinkable without the support of members, patrons and supporters such as you. Thank you. While acknowledging the troubling circumstances wrought by the pandemic as of this writing, we might find some comfort in a few high points marking the past fiscal year bookended by the summers 2018 and 2019. Primary among these are the final financial numbers, the best and most hopeful in years, which certify that challenges notwithstanding we are on the right path to sustainability. A convenient index of this positive trajectory lies in our expenses and revenues: over the last six years revenues increased by 35% while operating expenses in the same period increased only 3%. In short, we are doing more with less, performance that should be credited directly to our exceptional staff, a group that in my professional experience is unsurpassed in their commitment to both their respective vocations and the institution. I say it humbly, but the breadth of our offerings is truly exceptional. We’ve hosted nationally known speakers such as satirist P.J. O’Rourke and Pulitzerprize winning historian David Blight; we’ve had music performances of every kind: classical, folk and gospel. Our art exhibitions have spanned the gamut: world-class contemporary art, Claggett clocks and Tiffany & Co. silver. And this programming is getting noticed: we’ve been featured in Art & Antiques, Maine Antiques Digest, countless times in Rhode Island newspapers, and we currently enjoy a very special promotional relationship with Rhode Island PBS. Finally, and hardly least, I would mention the addition of a half-dozen titles to the Redwood Special Collections that are the sole copies to be found in the country. With your support and participation we have a lot to be thankful for and to look forward to. With many thanks again for your participation in sustaining the Redwood.

Benedict Leca, Ph.D. FRSA Executive Director

VISION By the end of 2020, the Redwood Library & Athenæum is one of the leading cultural institutions in Southern New England, producing programming of the highest rigor— lectures, exhibitions, musical performances—in addition to promoting historical research. With an equal devotion to the visual and the literary, as well as to the necessary dialogue between history and contemporary culture, the Redwood’s preeminent position is the result of the breadth and intellectual value of its programming and collections, exemplifying the belief that the humanities can empower all citizens to create a better world.

For 273 years the Redwood has exquisitely performed this function of enlarging our lives by enriching our appreciation for life. We will continue to fulfill this role even when actual physical public presence in the Redwood is not possible, through expansion of on-line resources and activities. We look forward to resumption of our full activity schedule as soon as that is possible, and in the meantime will do our best to stay in communication with all of you. Sincerely, R. Daniel Prentiss, Esq. President, Board of Directors Cover photo: “House of Oil” Per Barclay Photo: David Hansen

Photo: David Hansen

Statement of Financial Position

Statement of Activities

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position as of June 30, 2019

Statement of Revenues and Expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019

Cash and cash equivalents Pledges receivable, net Prepaid expenses Cash restricted to endowment Investments Newport book inventory Property and equipment, net Beneficial interest in assets held by Rhode Island Foundation Permanent collection items acquired since 1992

864,170 $ 594,894 37,343 654,897 110,596 91,917 33,000 53,000 10,495,615 10,291,480 30,117 33,812 11,611,131 11,929,389 113,692 104,468 2,196,864 2,196,864

Total Assets

$25,492,528

$25,950,721

Liabilities Accounts payable Accrued payroll and taxes Deferred revenue Note payable Total Liabilities

18,877 40,995 257,187 54,856 371,915

496,930

Sources of Funds 2019

Total Net Assets

25,120,613

25,453,791

$25,492,528

$25,950,721

739,769 $ 1,134,684 105,690 97,805 237,656 184,662 148,629 135,687 528,410 574,919 75,200 78,900

$1,835,354 $2,206,657

Functional Expenses

Total

18,921,175 19,550,179 425,548 410,998 5,773,890 5,492,614

Total

93,119 31,143 372,668

Net Assets Unrestricted Temporarily restricted Permanently restricted

Total Liabilities and Net Assets

Grants and donations Memberships Special events, net Program and other revenue Investment returns for operations Share assessments

Programs Fundraising and marketing General and administrative Depreciation

Liabilities and Net Assets

2019 2018

Revenues

2019 2018

Assets

1,034,595 $ 1,028,886 340,966 304,472 371,805 377,449 455,246 453,470 2,202,612 2,164,277

Functional Expenses 2019

Grants and donations 40% Special events 13% Memberships 6% Share Assessments 4%

Depreciation 21% Programs 47% General and administration 17% Fundraising and marketing 15%

Programs and other revenue 8% Investment returns for current operations 29%

Financial affairs are overseen by two Board Committees: Finance, chaired by Zia Eftekhar; and Audit, chaired by Miles Bidwell. This report contains information from the Consolidated Balance Sheet and Statement of Activities of the Redwood Library & AthenĂŚum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, as audited and determined to be fairly presented by Mullen Scorpio Cerilli, an independent accounting firm. Complete financial statements are available for review at the Redwood Circulation Desk.

Planned Giving Charles Bird King Society: Planned Giving Newport native and renowned artist Charles Bird King (17851862) holds a special place in the Redwood Library’s long list of dedicated supporters. Described by President John Quincy Adams as “an ingenious, thinking man, with a faculty of conversing upon almost any topic”, King lived in New York, London, and Washington, D.C., but Newport was dearest to his heart. Over the years, King contributed generously to the Library, giving funds and books as well as scores of paintings. Upon his death in 1862, he gave the Redwood his personal library, volumes of bound engravings, a significant monetary gift and 75 additional paintings. The Redwood is most appreciative to Charles Bird King and to all those who have helped it thrive for more than two and a half centuries by contributing to the endowment. It is fitting that the Library commends those who have made or intend to make, such gifts by including them in the Charles Bird King Society. The following donors have honored the Library and helped to sustain its mission with bequests, planned gifts or gifts to the endowment, thus joining the membership of the Charles Bird King Society. We are grateful for their support.

Robert Johnston, 1783-1839 Gift of Margaret Vaughan

Donors Bequests

Mrs. Roy C. Anderson Gertrude King Bedard Ellen C. Booth Elizabeth Anne Burton Jean DiBona Rudolf and Lillian Dwyer Jane C. Ebbs Betty Ruth Everett Arthur W. Fagan John Goehlich Henry S. Grew Dorrance H. Hamilton Nancy Hay Bruce Howe R. Campbell James Jonathan Brandenburg Monroe Jane Akers Ridgway Jeanne Muller Ryan Alfred J. Shepherd Elliott MacGregor Strauss The Revd. Canon Henry G. Turnbull

Planned Gifts

Miles and Lisa Bidwell Edith Brewster David and Carolyn Brodsky Robert A. Chase Edwin G. Fischer, M.D., and Angela B. Fischer R. Daniel Prentiss, Esq. James and Virginia Purviance Dennis Stark Lawrence Wick

Gifts to the Endowment

Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust Les and Carol Ballard Daniel and Dory Benson Anthony and Sara Carcieri James Barr Patrick Dolat Bernard and Sarah Gewirz Dorrance H. Hamilton Charitable Trust George and Nannette Herrick Maris S. Humphreys Quinlan and Sarah Murphy Waring and Carmen Partridge Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince Christopher T. H. and Janet Alexander Pell van Beuren Charitable Foundation For those who may be considering a gift to the Library’s endowment, please contact Alyssa Gaudreau at 401-847-0292.

It was through the generosity of its donors that the Redwood Library was conceived and built 272 years ago, and that same generous spirit enables it to thrive well into its third century. The following individuals, foundations and corporations contributed gifts, grants and pledges from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019, to support the Library’s operations, collections, programs and exhibitions. The Redwood is deeply grateful to these benefactors, as its sustainability tomorrow is built upon the generosity of those here today.

$50,000 and above

$5,000 to $9,999

Mr. Cornelius C. Bond and Ms. Ann E. Blackwell The Edward W. Kane and Martha J. Wallace Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John Rovensky Grace Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grace

1772 Foundation Dr. Holly Bannister and Mr. Douglas Newhouse Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Benson Mrs. Thomas W. Blake Captain and Mrs. Nicholas Brown Mr. and Mrs. Anthony A. Carcieri Mr. and Mrs. Guillaume de Ramel - The de Ramel Foundation Felicia Fund Pamela McEnness Giannini Mr. and Mrs. E.J. Hudson, Jr. Mrs. Marianne Jarzombek Mr. and Mrs. James Lanzillo Mr. and Mrs. John Manice Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Manice Dr. and Mrs. Michael S. Murphy Mr. and Mrs. George Petrovas R. Daniel Prentiss, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight D. Sipprelle Mr. Oakleigh B. Thorne and Ms. Susan Dye

$25,000 to $49,999 Mr. Robert A. Chase Oliver S. and Jennie R. Donaldson Charitable Trust Mrs. John R. Donnell EJMP Fund for Philanthropy George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Foundation The Hartfield Foundation Belinda Buck Kielland and Walter Glennon Mae Caldwell Rovensky Foundation Estate of Jonathan B. Monroe Prince Charitable Trusts

$10,000 to $24,999 Mr. and Mrs. A. Leslie Ballard Mr. Vincent J. Buonanno Mrs. Sandra Craig Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Darden Virginia F. Decker Mr. and Mrs. William P. Egan Mr. and Mrs. David B. Ford Mr. and Mrs. Bernard S. Gewirz Hamilton Family Charitable Trust Harvey Firestone Jr. Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William L. Leatherman Mrs. James W. Lloyd Ms. Diana L. Pearson Mr. and Mrs. Christopher T.H. Pell Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ray Ms. Patricia G. Saunders VIA Art Fund Mrs. Alfred S. Wilsey

$2,500 to $4,999 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Bacon Mr. and Mrs. Richard I. Burnham Mr. and Mrs. James F. Carlin Mr. and Mrs. Duncan A. Chapman Mr. Patrick Dolat Mr. and Mrs. Zia Eftekhar Dr. and Mrs. Edwin G. Fischer - The Hope Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Peter Goltra Mr. and Mrs. S. Matthews V. Hamilton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Kidder Mr. and Mrs. M. Holt Massey Mr. and Mrs. Earl McMillen III Mary S. Murphy, Ph.D. and Kurt Schlichting, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Quinlan Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Torre A. Peterson Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince Mr. and Mrs. John M. Purdy, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James Purviance Mr. Luis Roth and Ms. Jennifer Dalrymple Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Rothe Major General and Mrs. Stephen R. Seiter Mrs. Carla Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G.W. Walk Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J. Warren Mr. and Mrs. Ellicott Wright

$1,000 to $2,499 Mr. Lawrence A. Allen Mr. Edgar R. Berner Mr. and Mrs. Miles Bidwell Mr. Thomas Blake Mr. and Mrs. David F. Brodsky Mr. Thomas J. Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Ross S. Cann, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James Chadwick Mr. and Mrs. George E. Clark, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Conese, Jr. Mrs. Robert B. Conner Mrs. Marilyn Curtis G. Peabody and Rose Gardner Charitable Trust The Bob and Wini Galkin Fund Genser Insurance Steven Gewirz and Katie Hamilton Gewirz Mrs. Sophie T. Girard Goulston & Storrs Mr. and Mrs. George G. Herrick Mr. Frank Hohmann III Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Johnson Mr. and Mrs. William M. Kahane The Red House Fund Ms. Dodie Kazanjian and Mr. Calvin Tomkins Peter R. & Cynthia K. Kellogg Foundation Mr. Doug Kohler Sandra Liotus Lighting Design, LLC Mr. Henry S. Lynn, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Mele Ms. Pauline C. Metcalf Mr. Paul F. Miller & Mr. Charles J. Burns, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Guy W. Millner Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Nemtzow Ms. Janet L. Robinson Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ross George M. and Barbara H. Sage Fund Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Santry III Mrs. Jay R. Schochet Mrs. John J. Slocum, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Steinbrenner Stifel Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Sullivan Foundation Fund of Central Carolina Community Foundation Mrs. Virginia Treherne-Thomas Mr. and Mrs. James R. Twaddell Ms. Barbara van Beuren and Mr. Stephen Glascock Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Van Liew

$500 to $999 Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Auchincloss, Jr. Merrilyn Bardes/Bardes Fund Mrs. Evelyn I. Barrack Mr. and Mrs. Jon M. Barrett

Mr. John E. Benson Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bills Mr. and Mrs. Steven Bowman Mr. and Mrs. John W. Brooks Captain David C. Brown and Ms. Sheila McCurdy Captain and Mrs. Warren Caldwell Mr. Connell Christopher Cannon and Ms. Carol Hopkins Mr. and Mrs. James O. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Delano Mrs. Ronald F. Dick Mrs. C. Mathews Dick, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Emlen Drayton Dr. Howard Eisenberg and Ms. Doris Zografos Mr. Martin Elias Mr. Ryan Elsman Mr. and Mrs. David K. Elwell, Jr. Jae and John H. French Robert H.I. Goddard and Hope Drury Goddard Fund Mr. and Mrs. John T. Good Mr. John K. Grosvenor and Ms. Cheryl Hackett Mrs. Beatrice H. Guthrie Mr. and Mrs. Gerald P. Hendrick Mr. and Mrs. George Hinman Ms. Stefani M. Hulitar Jennifer Huntley and Helen Huntley Mr. and Mrs. Ian Huschle Washington Irving III, Ph. D. Mr. and Mrs. Evan Jones Mr. and Mrs. David Little Mr. Frank Mauran Mr. and Mrs. Robert McGinnis Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Moore Mr. Alan R. Morse Ms. Pamela F. O’Connor Mr. and Mrs. Brian O’Malley Mr. and Mrs. John S. Palmer Mrs. Dallas Pell Dr. Barbara Pilling and Mr. Andy Anderson Melissa Rosner David Warren Ray The Reamer Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John W. Richmond, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David Ryan Ms. Linda Sawyer and Mr. John D. Harris II Mr. and Mrs. Michael Stout Mr. Paul L. Szapary and Ms. Diana Sylvaria Mr. Thomas W. Thaler Ms. Valerie Urry Mr. and Mrs. Archbold van Beuren Mr. and Mrs. Guy F.C. Van Pelt Mr. and Mrs. Barclay Warburton Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Watts Mr. and Mrs. Robert Webster Ms. Katherine Weschler Williams

Mr. James Woodworth and Mr. John Murphy Dr. and Mrs. Harrison Wright

$250 to $499 Mrs. Leith Adams Mrs. Wendy Almquist Ms. Carla D. Anderson Mr. Henry H. Anderson, Jr. Mr. George P. Antone Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Armstrong Mrs. Richard Benson Mr. Marc Braunstein and Ms. Elizabeth Niemiec Ms. Edith H. Brewster Mrs. Roberta Carpenter* Mrs. Taylor Chewning Mr. and Mrs. Lyn Comfort Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Cowley Mr. and Mrs. William A. Crimmins Mrs. Caterine Milinaire Cushing Elizabeth Gibbs and Eliot Raymond Mr. and Mrs. Theodore J. Giletti Mr. Leonard Grace Ms. Leslie R. Grosvenor Ms. Ruth M. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Halladay Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Hayes Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Hoopes, Jr. John and Jane Kazanjian Dr. Powel Kazanjian Ms. Jody Kuss Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lanza Ms. Lisa S. Lewis and Mr. Bart Dunbar Mrs. David E.P. Lindh Mr. and Mrs. Charles Matheson Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. McDonough Newport Garden Club Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan H. Pardee Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Perrault Mr. Edward Pitoniak and Ms. Kate Barber Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Riggs Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Roberts, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald O. Ross Ms. Marianne R. Rowe Mr. and Mrs. Albert K. Sherman, Jr. Mr. Scott DeF. Shiland Tennis Hall of Fame Captain and Mrs. Michael Tollefson Prof. Michael Vocino

$100 to $249 Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Abney Mr. John W. Adams Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Adams Mr. and Mrs. James Alexandre Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Ashford Nelson Baetjer

Charlie Baetjer Mr. and Mrs. William Barrack Phoebe Beachner Mr. and Mrs. Murray Belman Mr. and Mrs. Chris Berl Brooke Berlin Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce Berriman Mr. and Mrs. J. Stuart Bevan Brooke Blake Ms. Christine Bloom Ms. Juliana Blumel Anne Wister G. Boenning Mr. David E. Boenning John and Winnie Broughan Mr. Reid Burns Mr. and Mrs. James Burress Mr. and Mrs. John W. Burrows Ms. Kirtley Cameron Francesca B. Campo Campo & Company Events Mr. and Mrs. David Carlin Mrs. Patricia A. Cassidy Sara Eastman Chadwick Mr. Donald C. Christ Ms. Emma Christie Arthur B. Cochrane Ms. Marsha Cohen Mr. Andrew Conrad Karen and Bill Corcoran Mr. Michael R. Corcoran Juan E. Corradi and Christina M. Spellman Mr. Michael R. Cottrell Derek Diclemente Olivia Donatelli Mark Dowicz Mr. and Mrs. O. Mario Favorito Kelsey Fischer Mr. Bob Gerber and Ms. Veronica Rynn Dr. Vasant and Sarah Gideon Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. Glenn Mrs. Thomas Goldrick Mr. Brooks Gordon Mr. Patrick Greeven Ms. Caroline Griffiths Rick and Terry Grosvenor Andrea Halloran Michael Hartnett Mr. Peter J. Harty Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Healey Mr. and Mrs. Chester Helms Mr. Thomas Lee Higginson, Jr. Mr. Gordon Holmes Mr. John Howell Ms. Grace Hyde Mr. Jack P. Jefferies Mr. and Mrs. Peter Jefferys Ms. Mary Jennings Mr. and Mrs. Steve Johnson

Ms. Victoria Johnson Mr. Bobby Kelsey Mr. Robert Kelsey Ms. Rachel Kitchens Mr. and Mrs. James D. Klau Cayla Kusnierz Ms. Lois Lang Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lederman Mrs. Tiina Liiv Miss Caroline Lippincott Mr. and Mrs. Curtis W. Magee Mr. and Mrs. Donald Magee Ms. Olivia Mairs Mr. Neil Manchester Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Marino Mr. David Martin Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. McAloon, Jr. Sheila McEntee and Darry Hazel Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. McMahon Betsy McStay Devin McVeigh Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Meikle Midtown Oyster Bar Mr. David Mirkin and Ms. Karen Piacentini Mr. Arthur W. Murphy William C. Murray, Esq. Newport Hospital Newport Tent Company, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. J. Timothy O’Reilly Mr. Thomas P. Palmer and Ms. Dominique Alfandre Wade K. Paquin Mrs. Elizabeth Parker Mr. Thomas J. Peirce Mr. Charles Peto Ms. Patricia Barry Pettit Ms. Elizabeth Phelps Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Pinto Mr. N. Claiborne Porter, Jr. Ms. Patricia C. Presnall Mr. and Mrs. John Regan Ms. Alexandra Reynolds Mrs. Louise Rick Mr. Roger King Mr. and Mrs. John Rok Mr.* and Mrs. Steven Ross Katherine Rowland Mr. William M. Salmons, Jr. Mr. Federico Santi and Mr. John Gacher Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Seward Mrs. Frances Sherman Ms. Patricia Slingluff Mrs. Rita D. Slom Mr. Earl Smith Mr. and Mrs. John Smyth Capt. and Mrs. Timothy E. Somes Mr. J. Peter Spang Mrs. Marjorie Spencer

Mr. William H. F. Spencer Mr. and Mrs. Gary J. Stack Laura Stonerbrook Mr. Kevin P. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tarpgaard Mrs. Anna Templeton-Cotill Mrs. Harle Tinney Dr. and Mrs. William A. Turley, Jr. The Hon. and Mrs. Robert F. Vacchelli Mr. Jamie Vara Susan and Robert Vincent Mr. and Mrs. George Walker Mr. Robert S. Walker Mr. Alexander G. Walsh Mr. Michael F. Walsh Mr. and Mrs. Roger K. Wells The Honorable and Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse Professor John Wilmerding Isabel Wilson Ms. Ellen Winsor and Mr. David Coppe Ethan Zexter

Gifts up to $99 Anonymous (2) Mr. John Winthrop Aldrich Ms. Mary W. Ambrosio Captain Lee C. Bakalarski Lockett Ford Ballard, Jr. Mr. Irving Barrett Mrs. Barbara H. Bartram Mr. Peter B. Belinsky VMD Mr. Nicholas W. Benson and Ms. Alix Flood Mr. Ray Bergwin and Ms. Ruth Clauser Mr. George C. Bitting Mrs. Helen Brennan Nancy Nelson Caswell Mrs. Marion O. Charles* Sam & Pat Chase Ms. Florence Everett Mrs. Richard Grosvenor, Sr. Mrs. Jessica Hagen Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hill The Reverend Father NJA Humphrey and Ms. Anne Stone Mr. Matthew Kenney Mr. and Mrs. Gordon King Mr. Marc Lewinstein Mr. William H. Leys Mr. Christian McBurney Mrs. Gloria L. Merchant Ms. Barbara Murdock Mr. Cornelius Murphy, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Ohrstrom Ms. Rochelle Ohrstrom Leland M. Park, Ph. D. Ms. Linda Phillips Mr. Wayne Robinson Ms. Peggy Roney

Mrs. Richard B. Sheffield Mr. Paul Silver Ms. Elizabeth F. Smith Miss Virginia Smith Mr. and Mrs. Henry Spingler Mr. John James Steele Ms. Julia Rush Toland Ms. Karen Trinkle Ms. Roberta L. Tungett Mr. Jeffrey Weston Mr. Phillip M. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. William F. Wilson Ms. Kay Winston Alyce Wright and Russel Taby *deceased

Matching Gifts John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc.

Community Partners Gustave White Sotheby’s International Realty Sandra Liotus Lighting Design, LLC

Tribute and Memorial Gifts In memory of Canon Lockett Ford Ballard and Charlotte Carr Morrison Ballard Lockett Ford Ballard, Jr. In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Barry Ms. Patricia Barry Pettit In memory of Ralph E. Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. Torre A. Peterson In memory of Roberta Carpenter Mr. Paul Silver Mrs. Marjorie Spencer Mr. William H. F. Spencer

In memory of Jerry Slocum Dr. Leland Madison Park Mr. and Mrs. John W. Richmond, Jr. In memory of Gladys Vanderbilt Széchenyi Mr. and Mrs. Eugene B. Roberts, Jr. In memory of Hester Virgin Mr. John Winthrop Aldrich Ms. Mary W. Ambrosio Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hill Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Seward In honor of Virginia Decker Ms. Valerie Urry

In memory of Thomas P. Cassidy, Jr. Mrs. Patricia A. Cassidy

In honor of Bennie Fleming Ms. Karen Trinkle

In memory of Julia Sands Chase Mr. Robert Chase

In honor of Michael Harty Mr. Peter J. Harty

In memory of Frederick A. Cushing Ms. Caterine Milinaire Cushing

In honor of Belinda Kielland Mr. and Mrs. James B. Gubelmann Mr. and Mrs. S. Matthews V. Hamilton Jr. Ms. Elena Kissel Mr.and Mrs. John S. Palmer Mr. and Mrs. Archbold D. van Beuren Ms. Barbara van Beuren and Mr. Stephen Glascock Mr. and Mrs. Andy West

In memory of C. Mathews Dick, Jr. Mrs. C. Mathews Dick, Jr. In memory of Powel and Louise Kazajian Mr. and Mrs. John H. Kazanjian In memory of John Quinlan Murphy Mary S. Murphy, Ph.D. and Kurt Schlichting, Ph.D. Dr. and Mrs. Michael S. Murphy In memory of Dave and Lisa Peto Mr. Charles Peto In memory of Penelope Roberts Mrs. Betsy McStay Mrs. Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince Mr. and Mrs. Henry Spingler

In honor of the Redwood Library Staff Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. McAloon, Jr. In honor of Bettie and Jonathan Pardee Ms. Rachel Kitchens In honor of Teresa Roney Ms. Peggy Roney

Committees, Staff & Volunteers STANDING COMMITTEES 2018-2019 Executive Committee Audit Committee Buildings and Grounds Committee Finance Committee Development Committee Investment Committee Library Committee Museum Committee Nominating Committee Program Committee Young Redwood Committee Redwood Advisory Council

VOLUNTEERS Maggie Brewer Katy Cassetta Kyra Dezjot Mia Dimon Dianne Elliott Grace Godeski George Koucakdjian Wayne Robinson Acadia Stevens

STAFF Benedict Leca, Ph.D. Executive Director

Victoria Leduc Library Assistant

Brandon Aglio Library Assistant

Michelle Lee Leonard Children’s Program Coordinator

John Bartosh Facilities Manager

Patricia Barry Pettit Chief Communications Officer

Rowena Burke Library Assistant/ILL

Joseph Rusnak Visitor Services Supervisor

Susan Chakmakian Technical Services Librarian

Gail Sullivan-McCune Library Assistant

Jill Dosouto Library Assistant

Kerri Tallman Communications & Social Media Assistant

Carolyn du Pont Program Director

David Thalmann Director of Finance

Michelle Farias Special Collections Assistant

Lisa White Administrative Assistant

Alyssa Gaudreau Donor Relations Manager

Niall Tarrel Library Assistant

Nancy Hackett Circulation Supervisor Drew Kemp Library Assistant Photo: David Hansen

In honor of The 125th Anniversary of the Dedication of The Zabriskie Memorial Church of Saint John the Evangelist The Rev. Nathan J.A. Humphrey

Photo: Jessica Pohl

Circulation

Cataloguing

16,929

FACTS at a

GLANCE

1,837

D O N AT I O N S

Ed Ruscha: Ex Libris

Books on CD and DVDs

The Claggetts of Newport: Master Clockmakers in Colonial America

Books

1,480

TOTAL

Member Visits

8,494

Group Tours

TOTAL VISITATIONS

Periodical Subscriptions

1,567 Membership

1,803

16,773

PROGRAMS

Special Lectures

Music: Concerts & Lectures

Total Attendance

Special Events

Ongoing

14 19 4

Ingenuity and Invention: Women Illustrators of the Golden Age Spectacular Silver: Yachtingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Goelet Cups Per Barclay: House of Oil and Water Photos: David Hansen

Exhibition Openings

Public Forum

Life of the Mind Salons

EXHIBITIONS

10 4

UP 32.8%

In Memoriam Hope Powel Alexander

Carol A. Hodges

Edmund Morris

Kenneth H. Brockway

Barbara Hower

Karen A. Oakley

Roberta Carpenter

David P. Leys

Katherine Ostrander

James Lyons Carroll

Lillian Lopes

Richard Simmons Palmer

Marion O. Charles

Jean MacCormick

Mary H. Reynolds

James J. Coleman, Jr.

Lorraine Marie Grondin MacGowan

William E. Rhodes

Mary Lou Daly

Claire Salvatrice Martin

Marcia H. Rogers

Mary Jo Dieckhaus

Verna S. Damon Matthews

Steven T. Ross

Jonathan Epstein

Julie McAlpine

B. Mitchell Simpson III

Bruce C. Foulke

Deborah McCain

Gilbert Pemberton II

Kendra W. Friedrich

Jim McCamphill

Hester M. Virgin

The Rev. John Hall

John P. McGinty

Photo: David Hansen

PRESIDENTS 1747-2019

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