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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 Up”



      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.
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