Dianna Lucas As members of Friends of the Library (FOL), you can all give each other a hearty pat on the back for a year filled with many accomplishments. Under the leadership of our 2021-22 board, headed by Marsha Scholze, we have done so much. We started the year with a plan for new shelving…
Joan Muyskens Pursley Want to know if our library has biographies on past presidents, film stars, or sports figures? How about if we have any books by your favorite author? Any puzzles featuring birds? The Field of Dreams movie? Now you can check for those and more on your home computer or, if you are in…
May Book Discussion—’The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson’ Dianna Lucas All Robson residents are invited to attend the next FOL book discussion on Thursday, May 19, at 2:30 p.m. We will meet in the Robson Library to discuss Mark Twain’s The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson. We hope the library will provide a comfortable setting for the…
Joan Muyskens Pursley In last month’s Pioneer Press, the Library Board asked residents to take a short “What Do You Like to Read?” survey. The first 100 surveys have been tallied, and the results are below. However, we need at least another 100 of you to participate in this survey to have a more accurate…
Joan Muyskens Pursley One of the nice things about living at Robson Ranch is that when you need help, someone always steps up. Such was the case when we needed additional volunteers to staff our library. About a dozen residents promptly offered their services. Here, we introduce you to five of them: Linda Bono, Debbie…
Friends of the Library Annual Meeting and August Book Discussion on Jane Austen’s Emma Dianna Lucas Thank you to everyone who attended the annual meeting of Friends of the Library (FOL) in July. We had an impressive turnout. FOL would like to introduce the newly elected slate of officers. They are as follows: Chair Marsha…
Alan Albarran Hopefully our headline grabbed your attention! The annual meeting of the Friends of the Library (FOL) is coming soon—Wednesday, July 14 at 3 p.m. We will meet in the clubhouse for an in-person meeting for the first time since July 2019! We were able to gather on May 27 for our second book…
Joan Muyskens Pursley In January, the Robson Library Board of Directors elected G. Gil Clifton as chair, replacing Linda Terry, who recently moved to Arizona. Ms. Terry had been board chair since 2010 (two years after its founding) and donated literally thousands of hours of her time to ensure the library is a well-organized, comfortable,…
Linda Bono, Friends of the Library April 4 through 10 is National Library Week, and Welcome to Your Library is this year’s theme. Actress, author, and activist Natalie Portman will lend her star power to shine a spotlight on our nation’s libraries as the honorary chair for 2021. As she says, “Libraries show us anything is…
Alan Albarran Happy New Year from the Friends of the Library (FOL)! We hope you had a joyful holiday season and are looking forward to this year and the hope we can return to some sense of normalcy, both at Robson Ranch and in our country very soon. Like every other organization at Robson, the…