2017.02.28 _ John C. Hart Library Receives Large Gift from Woman's Estate
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Title
2017.02.28 _ John C. Hart Library Receives Large Gift from Woman's Estate
Subject
Public Library--Philanthropist
Public Library--Benefactors
Description
Library former patron, Alice Maram, willed $390,854 to John C. Hart Memorial Library.
Creator
Pezzullo, Rick
Source
"John C. Hart Memorial Library Historical News Clippings" Binder, Volume 3, 1991 -
Publisher
The Examiner News
Date
2017-02-28
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Format
Newsclippings
Language
English
Type
Text
Coverage
Yorktown (New York)
Shrub Oak (New York)
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John. C. Hart Library will soon be making several upgrades thanks to a former patron who left the 96-year-old institu- tion in Shrub Oak $390,854 In her will.
Library Director Patricia Ha.llirian notified the Yorktown ToWI]. Board last week of the generous gift made by Alice Maram, who died on April 15, 2013. The library learned about the funding about a year later but some legal hurdles had to be cleared before the money, could be deposited into the library's Trustees Gift Fund.
"The Library Board of Trustees will ensure that her gift to the library will provide a lasting benefit to library users in the Town of Yorktown:' Hallinan said.
Maram was a teacher, art collector and a naturalist. According to Hallinan, Maram and her sister, Cora Sanders, spent summers in Shrub Oak Colony be.fore Sanders and her husband moved there permanently and Maram visited often on weekends and vacations. Ma- ram also eventually relocated to the a.tea full-time. She died at the Field.home in Cottlandt.
Hallinan said the library plans to use som5 of the mone.y to renovate the three pU6lic bathrooms and make them Amer- icans with Disabilities Act (ADA) com- pliant for the handicapped and elderly. . Plans are also in the works to remodel 'the adiilt room and library officials will be reaching out to the community for in- put on that project.
"This truly is a gift and were really looking to make necessary improve- ments to the physical library:' said Library Board of Trustees President Michael Resko. "In the long-term it will be incredibly beneficial. In all respects, it's a blessing to the library."
Library Director Patricia Ha.llirian notified the Yorktown ToWI]. Board last week of the generous gift made by Alice Maram, who died on April 15, 2013. The library learned about the funding about a year later but some legal hurdles had to be cleared before the money, could be deposited into the library's Trustees Gift Fund.
"The Library Board of Trustees will ensure that her gift to the library will provide a lasting benefit to library users in the Town of Yorktown:' Hallinan said.
Maram was a teacher, art collector and a naturalist. According to Hallinan, Maram and her sister, Cora Sanders, spent summers in Shrub Oak Colony be.fore Sanders and her husband moved there permanently and Maram visited often on weekends and vacations. Ma- ram also eventually relocated to the a.tea full-time. She died at the Field.home in Cottlandt.
Hallinan said the library plans to use som5 of the mone.y to renovate the three pU6lic bathrooms and make them Amer- icans with Disabilities Act (ADA) com- pliant for the handicapped and elderly. . Plans are also in the works to remodel 'the adiilt room and library officials will be reaching out to the community for in- put on that project.
"This truly is a gift and were really looking to make necessary improve- ments to the physical library:' said Library Board of Trustees President Michael Resko. "In the long-term it will be incredibly beneficial. In all respects, it's a blessing to the library."
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Pezzullo, Rick, “2017.02.28 _ John C. Hart Library Receives Large Gift from Woman's Estate,” John C Hart Library Archive, accessed May 16, 2024, https://hartarchive.omeka.net/items/show/8.