About Us.Our community deserves a much-improved space for meetings and events. Vineyard Haven Public Library Building Fund, Inc. (VHPLBFI) is undertaking a capital campaign to make this idea a reality.
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Creating a Gathering Space to Comfortably Accommodate our Community
"As one whose life has been powerfully affected by the Library's generosity, I wholeheartedly support the project of a new multipurpose meeting room. The Vineyard Haven Public Library is such a force for cultural activities on our island that its very success makes visible its problem. That missing room for future programs needs to be built. Its utility is both inexhaustible and crystal-clear. I am honored to be part of the team charged with bringing such a project to fruition." --Philip Weinstein, Honorary Co-Chair, Library Capital Campaign
"Settled on our welcoming isle, the Vineyard Haven Library is often life-enhancing for me and I suspect generations of Styrons. Fine readings and lectures, always crowded, abound. We need more havenly space, a special place, for them. A bright new room with garden views is in our future. Let’s make it begin to happen now! " --Rose Styron, Honorary Co-Chair, Library Capital Campaign
"Settled on our welcoming isle, the Vineyard Haven Library is often life-enhancing for me and I suspect generations of Styrons. Fine readings and lectures, always crowded, abound. We need more havenly space, a special place, for them. A bright new room with garden views is in our future. Let’s make it begin to happen now! " --Rose Styron, Honorary Co-Chair, Library Capital Campaign
Established in 2018Vineyard Haven Public Library Building Fund, Inc. (VHPLBFI) is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization, formed in 2018.
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Our GoalThrough a Capital Campaign launched in 2019, we will raise the funds needed for the library addition project.
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VHPLBFI Board of Directors
Carolyn Henderson, ClerkCarolyn Henderson and her husband have been a part of Vineyard life for more than 40 years. Carolyn acts as a Trustee of the Vineyard Haven Library, sings with the Island Community Chorus, is active in the Want to Know Club, and enjoys creating ceramics. Carolyn's professional career includes ten years as Director of The China Exchange Initiative, 25 years as a K-8 Language Arts Specialist in the Newton Public Schools, and 3 years teaching in Kenya.
Special Advisor Maureen SullivanMaureen Sullivan, a seasonal resident of Vineyard Haven, is a widely-recognized leader and educator in the library profession. Her career has included positions the University of Maryland, Yale University, and Simmons College, and as a consultant and trainer with the Association of Research Libraries and the annual leadership institutes sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has served as a consultant to numerous academic and public libraries and as president of the American Library Association.
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Arch Smith, PresidentAfter more than 40 years as a chemistry teacher and Headmaster at New York boarding schools, Arch Smith retired to their home in Vineyard Haven. Locally, he has served as President of the West Chop Club and currently is an advisor to the Vineyard Haven Playhouse and is Treasurer of the Vineyard Haven Public Library Building Fund Inc. He and his wife, Gay Smith, have three adult children and seven lively grandchildren ages one to six who love to visit the Vineyard.
Kathy Hochberg, TreasurerBrief bio coming soon!
Virginia CrismanBrief bio coming soon!
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Myra Stark, Vice PresidentMyra Stark's first career was college teaching, her second, working for 30 years in a big global advertising agency. Myra and her late husband moved to the Vineyard in 2002 as full- time residents. She has been on the boards of the Martha's Vineyard Cancer Support Group and the Friends of the Vineyard Haven Library for many years. Currently working part time in the library, she has seen what a community center it has become.
Kate ShandsBrief bio coming soon!
Betty BurtonBrief bio coming soon!
Honorary Co-Chair Rose StyronBrief bio coming soon!
Honorary Co-Chair Philip WeinsteinBrief bio coming soon!
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Project Architect
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Maryann Thompson, FAIA, was educated at Princeton University and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where she received Masters in Architecture and in Landscape Architecture. She brings to her practice an interdisciplinary approach where issues of site and landscape are central to design thinking. Maryann received a 1998 AIA Young Architects Award, which states that “...although Maryann has been in practice for less than a decade, she has made a significant contribution to architecture.
Maryann is a Professor in Practice of Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. She has taught design as a visiting faculty member at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Virginia, University of Michigan, and Rice University. She founded Maryann Thompson Architects in 2000. Prior to that Maryann was a founding partner of Thompson and Rose Architects. The firm is committed to a design process that is collaborative with the client and the community, believing in an inclusive and collaborative design process, based on dialog and relationship building, to imbue their architecture with the essential spirit of the community. Maryann Thompson has a long time connection to Martha’s Vineyard and has a home in Chilmark. Her past projects on Martha’s Vineyard include the Polly Hill Arboretum Visitors’ Center and a number of private homes. See also https://maryannthompson.com/projects |
Building Design and Construction Committee
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The design and construction for the library addition will be overseen by the Library Building Design and Construction Committee, appointed by the Library's elected Board of Trustees. For more information including records of the Committee visit the Library's website, http://www.vhlibrary.org/Building.shtml
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