Photograph by Louise Webb
Sally Towse (left), Mary Joanne Fenn and Wil Morrison, all active members of Friends of the Libraries, visit during a holiday tea.
The Friends of the Libraries group is having a very positive year. Their membership is up 31 percent from last year. Membership chairman Jim Givens feels that Monte Sereno and Saratoga residents are the cause of the success because they want a quality community library and are aware of all the good things happening at the library. The Friends have donated a great deal of money for various library projects. According to Mary Jeanne Fenn, Book-Go-Round chairman, much of the money was earned at the Book-Go-Round on Oak Street, where secondhand books are sold at low prices. Community librarian Dolly Barnes says thanks to the Friends, new bestsellers are being purchased and soon will be available for checking out of the library a week at a time at no additional cost.
Speaking of bestsellers, the American Association of University Women's Educational Foundation Committee has an Authors Luncheon scheduled Jan. 30 at the Saratoga Country Club. The three authors lecturing on marriage are Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, whose book Arranged Marriage is a bestseller; Colene Sawyer Schlaepfer, who wrote Fishing by Moonlight: The Art of Choosing Intimate Partners; and Elizabeth Pschorr, who wrote A Privileged Marriage about her experiences during Hitler's reign of terror. Call 354-6034 for details.
The National League of American Pen Women, Santa Clara Branch, is an organization for professional women in letters, visual arts and music. Saratogans belonging to the group include Lillian Wilson, Felicia Pollock, Bonnie Stone, Michelle Gabrielle, Audry Lynch, Dori Phifer and me. Saturday, Feb. 8, is their annual Celebrity Luncheon at Villa Felice, honoring local achievers. An auction will be held for scholarship funds for high school students excelling in art, letters, and music. The public is invited. Entertainment includes "An Afternoon Visit With Toulouse-Lautrec." Ken Young, an impressionist and art educator, has averaged over 40 performances per year about various artists since l978. He always appears in costume and feels he knows the artists he portrays inside and out. Call 867-7717 for ticket information.
The team of Craig Skillman from Saratoga and Darrell Malone from San Jose finished l32nd at the l996 Lexus Champions for Charity National Golf Championship, competing against 165 two-person teams in La Quinta, Calif.
Pamela Cooper, co-chairwoman of the Butter Paddle cooking school, says there are a few places left in the Jan. 27 class given by David Kinch, owner and chef of Sent Solvi in Saratoga. Call 867-1678.
Barry Chang, a local real estate agent, attended the inauguration of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Albert Gore Jr. Jan. 20 in Washington, D. C., along with his wife, Sue, and children, Aileen, Alice and Howard.
Chang said he was involved in helping plan a fundraising event for Gore last March and he suspected that was why he was invited.
Do you have a romantic love story or anecdote? Did you meet your spouse in an interesting way? Call me at 867-9533.
This article appeared in the Saratoga News, January 22, 1997.
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