JANUARY

2025

news & updates

"WHAT'S HAPPENING IN 2025?"

WE'RE GLAD YOU ASKED!

2025 marks a milestone for Friends of the Dallas Public Library—it's our 75th Anniversary!

We're making plans to celebrate decades of impact and continue our mission to support and enhance Dallas Public Library. Stay tuned for ways to participate in this historic year.

HONORING OUR LEGACY MEMBERS

As part of our 75th Anniversary in 2025, we’re honoring the descendants of our founding members and all those whose leadership shaped Friends of the Dallas Public Library.

If you or a family member played a leadership role with FoDPL, we’d love to hear from you! Help us celebrate these pioneers—and you—by contacting friends@fodpl.org.

OUR 23 FOUNDING MEMBERS

While these visionaries established FoDPL, we’re looking to reconnect with all families who’ve played leadership roles throughout our 75-year history.

Mrs. John Leddy Jones, President

Leon A. Harris, Jr., Vice President

W.P. Bentley

Mrs. Leon Blum

Mrs. Alex Camp

Miss Cleora Clanton

Mrs. Wirt Davis

E.L. Degolyer, Jr.

Miss Violet Hayden

Joseph Linz

Mrs. Elizabeth Ann McMurray

Stanley Marcus

Mrs. Allen Merriam

John P. Morgan

Mrs. J.H. Nance

Rabbi Levi A. Olan

Alvin M. Owsley

John William Rogers

Mrs. Sam Shelburne

Waldo Stewart

E.B. Stroud, Jr.

Lon Tinkle

A NEW YEAR MEANS NEW BOARD MEMBERS

If you'd like to be considered for the Friends of the Dallas Public Library Board of Directors or want to suggest a worthy candidate, here's your chance.

Nominations are now open for three-year terms beginning later this year. We're looking for people with various skills, willingness to get involved, and above all, passion for our Library and all it does for our community.

To nominate someone - or yourself - use this link.

Libraries are where fear and ignorance meet facts. Libraries are where history is captured and boundaries are rightfully crossed, and communities are built, not broken, around them.

--Colbert King, Washington Post columnist

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