Food for Thought 2021
Saturday, November 13, 2021
Thank you for all your support!
The West Palm Beach Library Foundation's annual social gathering and fundraiser, FOOD FOR THOUGHT is an elegant dinner party held in the Grand Reading Room in the downtown Mandel Public Library. Each table is hosted by local luminaries - authors, historians, artists, physicians, media, and community leaders. Guests select their table hosts and enjoy an intimate dinner and lively conversation with experts about their professional fields.
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The West Palm Beach Library Foundation enhances and supports the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach, with a vision to create an inspired community where children excel and adults thrive, their activities financially support the library and its programs, services, and resources that enrich and strengthen our diverse community.
Special Thanks To:
Event Co-Chairs
Lesley S. Hogan, Esq. and
Dianne Bernstein
Honorary Co-Chairs
Josephine Bayard
Kim Bepler
The Honorable Ann W. Brown
Alexander "Sandy" Myers, Esq.
Melissa Sullivan
Grand Corporate Sponsor
Food for Thought Committee Members
Natalie Alvarez
Josephine duPont Bayard
Kim Bepler
Margaret Moraskie
Beverly Myers
Pam Slotkin
Edith Hall Friedheim
Lesley Hogan
Myrna Landay
Nancy Marshall
Tricia Trimble
William Shakespeare Sponsors
Individual Sponsors:
Dianne and Abe Bernstein
Frances Fisher
Rodger and Myrna Landay
Beverly J. Myers
Ernest Hemingway Sponsors
Individual Sponsors:
Nancy Marshall
Adam H. Palmer & Tricia and Tom Trimble
Corporate Sponsors:
Charles Dickens Sponsors
Individual Sponsors:
Adrienne M. Coffin
Stuart and Allison Haft
Melanie Nussdorf
Howard and Julie Rudolph
Corporate Sponsors:
Emily Dickinson Sponsors
Individual:
Drs. John and Daisy Merey
Pam Slotkin
Mark Twain Sponsors
Individual:
Stephen and Heather Atkins
Jack Bochonok and Philip Tilearcio
Dean W. Dimke
Dr. Mary Ann and Mr. Wallace DuPont
Edith Hall Friedheim
Elizabeth Rankin Geitz
Carole Gigliotti
Lesley S. Hogan, Esq.
Helene Karp
Zelda Mason
Deanie Melniker
Robert Sanders
Robert and Mary Simses
Corporate Sponsors:
Media Sponsor
Special Guest
Valerie Hemingway
Underwritten by Melissa Sullivan
Table hosts
Rena Blades
Community Leader
​Laura Bohn
Professor of Molecular
Medicine and Neuroscience
Bill Boggs
American Television Host
Frank Cerabino
News Columnist
Rafael Clemente, Executive Director WPB Downtown Development Authority
Paul Gervais
Artist
Valerie Hemingway
Author
Paul Jamieson
Sunfest Director
Corrine Lasmezas
DVM, PHD
Steve Leveen
Author
David McClymont
CEO Palm Beach Symphony
Daphne Nikolopoulos
Author and Journalist
Rob Russell
Colony HotelEntertainment
Director
Mary Simses
Author
Les Standiford
Author & Historian
​Jill & Rich Switzer
Radio Hosts Legends 100.3 FM
Joel Zoss
Composer & Musician
About West Palm Beach Library Foundation
The West Palm Beach Library Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization formed in 2000 to support the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach. It holds activities and events to financially sustain the library’s free programs, services and resources for children, teens and adults that enrich the diverse community. For more information or to donate to the foundation, please visit https://www.wpblf.org.