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Friends & Family Charitable Trust
Purpose
The purpose of the Friends and Family Charitable Trust is to provide a means to honor the memory of a family member or a friend. The Trust is also a way to honor a birthday, anniversary, birth of a child or other reason for celebration or commemoration.
This honor or memorial will benefit the Muehl Public Library and the entire community by providing funds that would not otherwise be available to the Library.
All gifts received will be placed into the trust fund benefiting the Muehl Public Library. Your contribution will help create a lifetime of gifts to the library and to the community.
Reasons for Giving
*Celebration of an addition to the family *Honor a loved one *Commemorate a special birthday *In memory of a friend or family member (especially someone who loved LIBRARIES!) *Graduation or commencement *Anniversary *Gift from a school class honoring a favorite teacher
You can print off a donation form here [PDF]
Establishment & Governance
The Trust was created by Mary Ellen Veitch Dahlke as a gesture of her love for and appreciation of the many contributions made by her extended family to the Seymour community. This Trust was also established so that other members of the community will be able to honor their friends and families as well.
A Board of Trustees governs the Friends and Family Charitable Trust. This Board is independent of the Muehl Public Library Board of Trustees.
Project July 2008
You can view the most recent READ project on youtube here!
Acquistion late 2008
The Trust purchased a cabinet to house local history and genealogy materials. Lois Zibell is responsible for organizing this. The purpose of the bulletin board will be a place to post local history questions which may be solved by patrons! Note: The Hamburger Charlie bobblehead is displayed in this tight area! We are using every inch of space!
The Board
From left to right: Holly Collar, Elizabeth M. Timmins, Mary Ellen Dahlke (founder)
Annual Donation by Mary Ellen Dahlke:
On June 25, 2007, Mary Ellen Dahlke presented a check to the Trust in the amount of $500. It was in memory of Robert Mory and in honor of Roberta Mory. Read more about their civic leadership here [PDF]
Roberta Mory
Past Board Member
Gail Dean, a resident of Seymour, is a former board member of the Trust and sister to Mary Ellen. She loves to read large print and donates large print items extensively to our library in honor of their brother (John Veitch) who has passed.
Gail Dean
About Lowell Veitch: (father to Gail and Mary Ellen)
This plant is in honor of Lowell Veitch who died at the age of 95 on October 26, 2006. He was a former Outagamie County Sheriff's Department lieutenant, Seymour alderman and mayor, school board member and assistant Seymour fire chief. Veitch was elected to the Seymour City Council in 1973 where he served until being elected mayor for one term in 1984. He joined the fire department in 1933 and put in 73 years of service!
Who is Wayne Peterson? Wayne Peterson is the investor for the Friends and Family Charitable Trust. He keeps us abreast as to how the fund is doing. His business is at this link:
http://www.familybusinessoffice.net
Here is a picture of Wayne:
Most recent project that was funded by the Trust:
As of Dec. 2007, we are utilizing our new DVD case for children's DVDs to avoid "shrinkage" of our collection. Thanks to the Trust for enabling us to be good stewards of our precious materials by purchasing this DVD case for us! (chocolate brown two drawer case below)
What project is in the works? The Trust will meet in March, 2008 to discuss our next project which will involve making our foyer more inviting! Stay tuned...
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