Food for Thought 2023
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Thank you for all your support!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT, Two-hundred donors and supporters of the West Palm Beach Library Foundation enjoyed an elegant, entertaining evening at the annual Food for Thought Dinner, November 4, at the Norton Museum of Art. The fundraiser was the Foundation’s most successful to date, raising more than $330,000 for vital community programming.
Food for Thought is a wonderful evening of hilarity, wit and great dinner conversation facilitated by an exceptional table host. Guests can select their choices of preferred table host(s) to ensure a truly memorable evening.
Special Thanks To:
Event Chair &
Platinum Benefactor
Melissa Sullivan
Grand Benefactor
The Honorable Ann W. Brown
Corporate Benefactor
Benefactor
Beverly Myers
Honorary Co-Chair
Abe & Dianne Bernstein
Food for Thought Committee Members
Dianne Bernstein
The Honorable Ann W. Brown
Margaret Moraskie
Beverly Myers
Diane Myers
Adrienne Raptis
Julie Rudolph
Publisher
Individual Sponsors:
Frances & Jeffrey Fisher
The Eric Friedheim Foundation
Roger & Myrna Landay
Corporate Sponsors:
Author
Individual Sponsors:
Marianna Baker
Josephine Bayard
Dr. and Mrs. Timothy Burke
Adrienne Coffin
Anne Ilyinsky
Nancy Marshall
Trey & Lindsay Mahoney
Corporate Sponsors:
Head Librarian
Individual Sponsors:
Christopher Cowie
Steve Mayans & Terry Resk
Drs. John & Daisy Merey
Kathryn Vecellio
Corporate Sponsors:
Patron
Individual:
Jeff Alderton
Louise Austin
Suzanne Cameron
Corinne Dandeneau
Dean Dimke
Margaret Donnelley
Wallace & Dr. Mary Ann DuPont
Carole Gigliotti
Victoria Herbert
Nadine Melniker
Lon & Michelle Otremba
Individual:
Cynthia Jean Oneglia
Nathan & Judith Olney
Elizabeth Rankin
Michael Reiter & Janet Pleasants
Philip Robinson
Carissa Robinson & Daren Rubenfeld
Pam Slotkin
Colleen Smith
Barbara Sullivan
Aleta Wolfe
Robin Woodard
Media Sponsor
Special Guest
Carl Hiaasen
Journalist & Author
Table hosts
Nancy Brinker
Founder Susan G. Komen & Promise Fund of Florida
The Power of a Promise
Steven Caras
Ballet Artist and Photographer
A Life Inspired by Dance
Leta Austin Foster
Interior Designer
Paul Gervais
Artist and Author
Reading: Where? When? What?
Carl Hiaasen
Author and Journalist
An Evening With Carl Hiaasen
Isaac Levy
Yvel Jewelry
What Goes Around, Comes Around
David McClymont
CEO of Palm Beach Symphony
Sustaining the Notes
Joseph and Max McNamara
Entrepreneurs
Medical Repatriation While Traveling
Nabil Meralli
Investor and Entrepreneur
Venture Capital and Technology Startups
Dr. John Merey
Holocaust Survivor
Ophthalmologist
Holocaust Remembered
Daphne Nikolopoulos
Editor Palm Beach Illustrated
Transformative Travel
Michael Reiter
Security Advisor and Former Palm Beach Police Chief
40+ Years of Protecting Palm Beach
Rob Russell
Entertainer
Celebrity Sotries!
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Bryan Walsh
DTR Modern Galleries
Art Collecting Made Easy
(Art for Dummies)
Sybille Welter
Director of Arts, Culture and Community Building
Belonging: You, Me, We:
Shared Stories of a Community
Ricky Wade
Entrepreneur - McDonald's Franchisee of 28 restaurants
Collaboration
David Walker
General & Artistic Director
Palm Beach Opera
Mounting an Opera:
Start to Finish
John Webley
International Adventurer
David Willson
Editorial Cartoonist
Balancing Billionaires and Butterfly Ballots
Christopher Young
VP Creative Director at
Tiffany & Co.
The Creative Process
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.