Donor Spotlight

Marian L. Gotshall The Gotshall-Yeats Collection from Marian L. Gotshall of Plymouth, Michigan is a rich collection of nearly 200 titles by and relating to the great 20th-century Irish poet, William Butler Yeats. The Gotshall Collection includes many first editions, 72 volumes of scholarly and reference works about Yeats, and 34 titles from the Dun Emer Press (later called Cuala Press) run by Yeats’s sister Elizabeth.  Lee Blanke The Leonella Jameson Blanke Collection consists of books, periodicals videos and magazines in support of the curriculum and activities of the Nancy Held Equestrian Center. Leonella ("Lee" Wilcox) Jameson Blanke, Class of 1949, donated the collection in 2004 and continues to support the development of the collection through donations.

2007-08 Donors

Morris Arvoy Drs. Jorg and Ingeborg Baumgartner Betty Beese Thomas Bishop Elaine Bogus Robert Boyd Maurice Branch Tom and Patricia Brown Dale and Barbara Brubaker Ann Bryan Nelson Donna Burk Gail Charlebois Dr. Geoffrey Cocks Dr. James Cook Carol Coughlin Barbara Cox Edward Davis James Dean Lon Dickerson Dr. Thomas Doran Kenneth Durr Sandra and Frederick Farr Elizabeth Fraser Dr. Dennis and Mrs. Carolyn Gaswick Joyce Gates Valery Golovsky Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gross Jahn Hakes Linda Handschy Dr. John Hart Brent Hiatt Judith Hist Marjorie and Raymond Hoag David Hogberg Rita Honti Pao-Shia Hsueh E. Dale Kennedy and Douglas White Allen Kent Marilyn and Frank Kniburys Dr. John and Mrs. Marlene Kondelik David Lindberg Jean Lindemer David Lockwood Dr. Judith Lockyer Frances Lucas Martin and Kathryn Ludington Anne McCauley Anne and James McConnell Nancy and Donald McIntyre Jocelyn McWhirter Wolfgang Mieder Alice and David Moore Martha O'Kennon Nancy O'Neill Jack and Katherine Padgett Dr. G. Robina Quale-Leach LeeAnne Richardson Stacy Rothrock Ruth Schmitter Penelope Schwager Dee Scobey SCR Graphics Jim Seidl Lorraine and A. Sharp Joanna and Karl Sieber Conrad and Margaret Sindt Scott Stephen Dee Story Cindy Thiele JoAnn Tiedemann Michael VanHouten Royal Ward Rachel Welch-Haus West Michigan Conference of the United Methodist Church James and Marsha Whitehouse Faith Whittlesey John and Donna Williams Charles Williams Yu Woo Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Hal and Missy Wyss Nancy Zang Albert Zatkoff Kathryn Ziegler George Zulakis

Special Giving Opportunities for 2007–2008

The Save-A-Book Program We need your help to save our copy of the 1611 King James Bible! The Bible has been in the collection since the 1940s and came to us with excessive water and insect damage, missing pages, and deteriorated leather binding. The work to repair and preserve the book so that it can be used for teaching and curriculum support requires the expertise of conservation professionals. For additional images of the King James and information on the program, see Save-A-Book. Cost: $6,500

Encyclopedia Judaica The 22-volume second edition of this work came out in December 2006. The first edition of Encyclopaedia Judaica was lauded as the standard work on Judaism since first appearing in the early 1970s. For the second edition, over 2,600 new entries have been added and 11,000 have been extensively revised and expanded. This reference work includes more than 21,000 signed entries on Jewish life, culture, history and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists. Cost: $1,995

Encyclopaedia of Islam Online, 2nd ed. This is an essential academic resource, containing articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, tribes and dynasties, the crafts and sciences, political and religious institutions, geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of various countries and history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. It also encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all other Islamic countries. Initial Cost: $12,360   For more giving opportunity ideas, please see Supporting the Library.