Author Tea | Friends and Volunteers

Highlights of January 2017 Membership Meeting

BABY BAGS: The Baby Bag Program with Shore Memorial is thriving. The committee is considering expanding the number of bags from eighty to one hundred each month.

READ ACROSS AMERICA: The Read Across America event, which is held at the Ocean City Primary School, will occur on March 2, 2017. Volunteers will read to the students.

READING TREES: The Reading Trees have been decorated with a Martin Luther King, Jr. theme for January.

SPECIAL PROJECTS/DISPLAY: The display case in the library currently holds 150 Smurfs and Smurf memorabilia from the collection of Blake Bears.
A search is underway for Tea Tins to use in a display to coincide with the Author’s Tea.

NEW BUSINESS:

The 2017 budget was presented and approved.
An Emergency Plan to be used in the event of a meeting cancellation has been developed. An email will be sent to each member and phone call made by board members to people on designated lists.
The library will be sponsoring events that may need our help. The Edible Book Festival is scheduled for early April and the OC-CON is set for April 1 & 2.
A review of the By-Laws and procedures will be conducted.

Great things are happening during the month of April…

Celebrate National Library Week! The Friends and Volunteers will have a table set up in the Library Atrium Tuesday, April 12 through Friday, April 15 from 9 to Noon. Stop in the library & by the table to show your support for our Award-Winning Ocean City Free Public Library!

F&V Meeting—10:00 AM—April 11

Our April 11 meeting will take place at 10:00 AM in the Chris Maloney Lecture Hall. All are welcome!

New Member Appreciation Luncheon—12 Noon

Registration Required

The Friends and Volunteers will host a luncheon to officially welcome our new members. We celebrate their gifts of time and talent.

Author HIGH Tea Ticket Sales!

Get your tickets for our Annual Author HIGH Tea—Thursday, May 5, 2:00 PM—featuring author, Patricia Chappine—New Jersey Women in World War II.

Real-life Rosie the Riveters worked the lines in New Jerseys factories, such as those of General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division, while women on the vulnerable coast enforced blackout orders. Others sold war bonds, planted victory gardens and conserved materials for the war effort. Thousands more served as nurses and in branches of the armed forces like the Women’s Army Corps and the U.S. Navy’s Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service. African American women fought a double war: one against the nation’s enemies and another against discrimination. Historian Patricia Chappine explores the pivotal roles that New Jersey women played in World War II.
Read more at http://www.newjerseywomeninwwii.com/

Tickets can be purchased on Friday, April 15 from 6-8 PM and Saturday, April 16 from 9-11 AM in the Atrium of the Ocean City Free Public Library. Cost per ticket is $30.00—Open Seating. Cash or check only. Make check payable to: FVOCFPL