FPCPL Officers and Board of Directors

2006-2007 Officers

Bob Graninger, President
 Susan Chapman, Vice President
Sue Bernard,Treasurer
 Rebecca McCarthy, Secretary
Ann Roscoe, Past President

Board of Directors

Kathryn Baron
Nick Buchholz
Phyllis Dirksen
David Ellington
Norma Gambrell
Franklin Lane
Shirley Muney
Harlene Reeves
Anne Watson
Marcia Winick

Nancy Ledeboer, TPPL Director 
 

Meet Your Board

Ann Roscoe  Between her two terms as President she was the board’s Secretary. Ann moved to Tucson in 1996 after living thirty years in Ithaca, New York. Both Ann and her husband, Lew, retired after many years at Cornell University. She was active in library activities in Ithaca and served as the President of the Friends and on the Tompkins County Library Foundation Board.

It has been a natural for Ann to become actively involved with Friends here in Tucson. She has helped with book sales as a floor worker, cashier and in the Collector’s Corner. On a weekly basis she is most heavily involved with researching and listing books for our online operation. Ann uses both www.abebooks.com and Amazon and has made a specialty of listing and selling textbooks.

Susan Chapman is new to the Board. She is a retired lawyer who currently works as a bookkeeper and tax preparer. She taught ESL through Tucson Adult Literacy Project, and has volunteered her tax/bookkeeping expertise for Friends of the Humboldt County Libraries. Susan has also been on the Board for Project AMOR.

Phyllis Dirksen has served as a Board Member since 1993 and was FPCPL Treasurer for five years. Previously she worked with the Membership Committee and is active with the online sales team.

Phyllis, born and reared in rural northwestern Illinois, completed her BA at the University of Dubuque in Iowa. While attending college she met and married Robert. They began their teaching careers in Illinois moving later to Colorado. Phyllis attended the Library School of Northern Illinois University in Dekalb. After completing her MA in Library Science, she served for twenty-two years at Vineland Middle School in Pueblo, Colorado. She continued work toward a degree in Educational Media during this time.

After retirement, Phyllis and her husband moved to northwest Tucson. She substituted as a school librarian for six more years. Phyllis joined the Friends at the 1992 Book sale at El Con Mall and has worked each sale since that time.

Susan Bernard is the current Treasurer. She has served on the board since 2003. She retired as a partner in a CPA firm in South Carolina. Born in New York, Sue has lived in Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Sue has three terrific daughters who have provided her with three marvelous grandsons. She relocated to Tucson to marry her high-school sweetheart.

Sue has been Chair of the Finance Committee. In this role, along with the Treasurer, she has been instrumental in producing the Friends Financial Management Handbook. Sue has restructured our financial reports and educated the Board in the nuances of profit and loss statements and other critical reporting. Her expertise in accounting and general office procedures has sharpened our management and has led to greater Board recognition of the financial requirements needed to bring the Friends up to date.

Sue is a familiar person at every sale, always showing up to participate in the financial accounting of sales receipts. She says she enjoys this aspect of the Friends as well as keeping us on the right financial track.

Kathryn Baron is serving her first term on the Board. She is a part time travel consultant with Bon Voyage Travel. Ms. Baron is currently on the board of the Rosemont East Neighborhood Association and is a past president and board member of the Soroptimist International of Desert Tucson. She currently volunteers as a rough sorter at the Book Barn and works books sales.

Nick Buchholz was born and raised in New York City. He has been interested in reading and books since an uncle started giving him science fiction works in the mid-1950's, (some of which he still owns.)

He worked at the 42nd Street branch of the NYPL while he obtained a B.E. (Mech.) from the City University of New York. After graduating he worked for the Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board in Richmond from 1970 to 1979. He moved to Tucson in 1980 to join his wife who was attending graduate school at the U of A.

From 1980 to 1984 he worked for PAG on air pollution planning and obtained his M.S. in computer science. After a brief time as a software consultant, he took a position with the National Optical Astronomy Observatories. He has worked at NOAO for the past 19 years designing and writing software for a number of infrared astronomical instruments. He is currently the lead software engineer on a new generation of detector controllers being implemented at NOAO and being used by NOAO, CTIO, UIUC, Fermi Labs, STScI and others.

He became a board member in 2005. He hoped he'd be able to foster in others his love of reading and to give something back to the community by helping the friends accomplish their mission.

David Ellington  joined the Friends Board in 2006 after working with the online sales group and enjoying the success that effort has had in raising funds for the library.  He recently retired from UBS Financial Services after years as a stock broker.  David and his wife Donna are long time residents of Tucson; deciding to live here after David served at Davis Monthan Air Force Base during the Vietnam War.


Norma Gambrell was born and educated in London, England and arrived in Tucson forty years ago as a military wife. She retired about 10 years ago as a VP in the Trust Department of Wells Fargo Bank after serving there for 27 years. Norma is an experienced volunteer.  She was trained and certified by the state of Arizona as a Tour Guide at Kartchner Caverns, where she volunteered 4 years. She currently volunteers at the Tucson Visitors Center.  Norma became aware and involved with FPCPL about 6 years ago and now schedules cashiers for the Book Sales (as well as working many shifts herself), works most of the off site sales and also serves on two committees.  Norma became a Board Member in 2004 and hopes to be involved in increasing future revenues for FPCPL

Robert Graninger Robert Graninger returned to Tucson upon his retirement from the Department of State in 1993. He has been on the Board since 2002 and is the Friends Historian. Bob graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a B.A. in English. He has a M. A. in Anthropology from Arizona and a M.S. in Information Resources Management from Syracuse. Bob and his family (Marie, Elizabeth and Cara) lived overseas for most of his career with the Peace Corps and Department of State in Colombia, Fiji, Liberia, Saudi Arabia and Costa Rica.

Bob regularly works the book bales, is an avid reader and collector of mystery genre books and hopes to continue with the Board as historian. He is collecting data for the definitive history of the Friends.

Franklin Lane is currently semi-retired, a part-time hiking guide for Canyon Ranch and an entrepreneur. He has extensive overseas and domestic military/security experience in addition to teaching & administration experience at Catalina Foothills High School. Franklin currently volunteers with Pima County Juvenile Detention, Arizona Trail construction project, the Sonoran Sea Aquarium Outreach program and is the military advisor for U.S. congressional candidate
Patty Weiss.

Rebecca McCarthy Rebecca McCarthy joined the Board in 2006 and is a member of the bookcart and book sale committees.  She fell in love with Tucson during high school and ended up moving from her hometown of Columbus, Ohio.  She currently holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Management Information Systems from the Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona.  Rebecca  currently works as an Engineering Project Manager at Tucson Electric Power Company (TEP).   Rebecca and husband Patrick have lived in Tucson some 20 years and enjoy reading, scuba diving and hiking.

Shirley Muney  Shirley Muney has been an active member of the Friends since she moved to Tucson in 1999. Last year, she served as the Board Secretary.

After being graduated from Barnard College, she received an MLS from Rutgers University School of Library Service, and worked as an information librarian for over 30 years in New Jersey and in the Maryland suburbs of  Washington, D.C.  She has two grown daughters and two grandchildren.  After retiring to Tucson, she's become active in her homeowners' association, the League of Women Voters, the American Association of University Women, and is an active bridge player. She's also active in local politics.

With the Friends, she volunteers at the warehouse weekly, and has also worked at the library book sales, utilizing her family's retail experience. On the Board, she serves on the membership and book sale committees.

Harlene Reeves has been a member of the Board of Friends since 2003. As a Friend of many years, she began volunteering at the Book Barn after her retirement from TUSD as teacher/librarian. Harlene’s major involvement has been with our online operations, where she recently served as chair of the Online Committee. She has served on a variety of other committees most recently as chair of the Mary Guilbert Fund Committee. Using a generous donation designated to “make the Friend’s volunteer experience even more comfortable” this group completed several projects.

Harlene, mother of two daughters and two granddaughters, moved to Tucson from Los Angeles and her beloved Pacific Ocean in 1967 with her husband, Dick. Dick might say that Harlene’s hobby is the Friends, but she maintains that she enjoys their trips together, time spent with family and a completed house remodeling project. Oops! I forgot to mention reading.

Anne Watson grew up in Niagara Falls and Tucson where her family has lived since 1944.  She graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in history and religion.  Anne served twenty years in the Navy, was stationed in Hawaii and at many posts in the USA.  Her jobs in the Navy included teaching swimming to boot camp sailors and working with personnel records and systems.  She retired back to Tucson and joined the Friends Board in the late 1990?s.  She serves on the Facilities and Online Committees and can always be counted on to fix or build anything.

Marcia Winick is a past Board member and long time book sale volunteer. She is also on the Friends’ Book Cart committee, doing hands on work on this new initiative. Ms. Winick is a retired executive of Information and Referral Services and has held positions as a engineering programmer analyst and administrative assistant. She also volunteers a docent at the Reid Park Zoo.