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Print by artist and Library member Peter Salwen
Volume 21, Number 3, Fall 2014
Books&People
IN THIS ISSUE “A Wonderful Place to Grow Upâ€
New Hours in 2015 Meet the Thornberry Family
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by Sara Holliday, Events Coordinator
Honoring Janet Howard
PAGE 8 As staff will tell you on any tour, our building at 53 East 79th Street was built as a family
home and converted into the New York Society Library in 1937. What you may not know
is that the following decades saw another family at home here: the Thornberry family. As
we move into the fall of our 260th year as an institution, I had the pleasure of chatting
with Rose Mary Thornberry McLean and Dr. Terence Thornberry about their memories
of growing up at the Library more than fifty years ago.
A Meaningful Gift
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Staff Changes
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Dr. Terence P. Thornberry
On a 2013 visit, Rose Mary Thornberry McLean showed her childhood home to her granddaughters, Claire, Eva,
and Katherine Dice.