Alan Albarran The Robson Ranch Friends of the Library (FOL) held their annual meeting virtually on July 14. New officers were elected and are introduced below. Dr. Alan Albarran, the new chair, has lived at Robson Ranch for 15 years. He is a retired professor emeritus at the University of North Texas. Alan is an…
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Front Page, June 2020
Library Friends Starts Virtual Monthly Reading Group
Jane Scholz Friends of the Library (FOL) is starting a monthly New Yorker Magazine Reading Club open to all Robson residents. For now, the group will meet via the online meeting application Zoom. You don’t need to be a member of FOL to participate—our activities are for the enjoyment of all Robson Ranch (RR) residents! Of…
Generals, June 2020
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Linda Bono Nothing’s the same anymore, is it? COVID-19 is our new reality. It’s an unprecedented situation, and we don’t know what the future will bring. Nevertheless, Friends of the Library (FOL) is making plans. At this writing, the date of the library’s reopening and any new restrictions are uncertain, but the library will be…
Generals, February 2020
Friends of the Library: Exciting FOL Programs for 2020 Make it Lively in the Library!
Linda Bono A new year brings fresh ideas and Friends of the Library (FOL) has been hard at work turning those ideas into new programs for the library. Our first event of the year in the library will be “A Celebration of the Old West!” For this inaugural 2020 Book Discussion, we’ve chosen a terrific…
Generals, November 2019
FOL to host Puzzle Palooza Contest November 22 and 23
Joan Muyskens Pursley Friends of the Library (FOL) is hosting a jigsaw puzzle contest in the RR Library on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 22 and 23. You are invited to form a team of three, sign up in the library for a time slot (10 a.m. or 2 p.m.), then choose a 500-piece puzzle and…
Clubs & Classes, May 2019
The FOL Grant event was a big success
By any measure, the discussion in the library on Ron Chernow’s acclaimed biography, Grant, was a major success! On April 25, a beautiful spring day in Texas, sixty-three people gathered in the library to enjoy the third installment in Friends of the Library’s FRIENDS with WORDS Series. This was the first non-fiction book in the…
Clubs and Classes, February 2019
FOL Mockingbird discussion rousing success
Linda Bono A large turnout on January 11 enjoyed a stimulating discussion of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the second Friends with Words activity hosted by the Friends of the Library (FOL). Published in 1960, Mockingbird is still a popular and cherished work, winning 2018’s PBS Great American Read Vote (with more than four…
Front Page, December 2018
Friends with Words activity launched by Friends of the Library
Linda Bono Have you had a yen to eavesdrop on a book discussion, hear a stimulating lecture or participate in an educational seminar without making a major commitment or even leaving the Ranch? Then this is the place for you! The newly formed Friends of the Library just initiated a continuing series of programs in…