About Friends of the Library

Directors and Officers

James Anderson: Board Position/Term: Director. 1st term expires June 2013.; Experience with FOL:; Life/Work Experience:

Janet Anderson: Board Position/Term: Director. 2nd term expires June 2013.; Experience with FOL: Long-time, year-round volunteer, working with the collectible books & Virginiana. Served previous terms as a director during the past 20 years.; Life/Work Experience: For forty-plus years she worked in both trade & scholarly publishing as a book/ jacket designer. Retired from the University of Virginia Press, where she was the design & production director for 20 years. As a book collector, she focused on the works of 20th century American book & type designers, W. A. Dwiggins & Warren Chappell.

Elizabeth (Libby) S. Carpenter: Board Position/Term: Secretary. 2nd term expires June 2013.; Experience with FOL: Fourth year on the Board. For several years I have helped stock shelves for the Book Sale.; Life/Work Experience: Former ethics professor. Served on several boards including Jefferson-Madison Regional Library, Friends of the Greene County Library, and Friends of Virginia Libraries.

Melissa Dickens: Board Position/Term: Director. Term expires June 2014.; Experience with FOL: At least ten years volunteering with the sale. Volunteering at J-MRL for over 20 years, including nine years as a Library Board member representing Charlottesville.; Life/Work Experience: Circulation Desk Clerk, Firestone Library, Princeton University; medical secretary, Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, New York City; part-time and substitute Library Assistant, J-MRL. Housewife and mother – husband, Michael Dickens; two daughters, one of whom is Branch Manager at Gordon Avenue Library.

Fran Feigert: Board Position/Term: President. 2nd term expires June 2013.; Experience with FOL: Three years on the Board. Worked on pricing and boxing books for the last 3 years and also volunteers during the sale.; Life/Work Experience: Retired Librarian.

Anne Hemenway: Board Position/Term: Director. Term expires June 2014.; Experience with FOL: No previous experience except for being a patron of the book sale and the library system since moving here twenty years ago. “The libraries-mostly downtown and Gordon Avenue-were such an important community focus for us as a young family, and the downtown library continues to be an important resource and meeting place for each of us.”; Life/Work Experience: In addition to legal research and writing on a professional level, I have been actively involved in numerous community projects in the downtown area, schools, and most recently with the development of the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center.

Sharon Heyka: Board Position/Term: Director. 2nd term expires June 2013.; Experience with FOL: Have been assisting with the sale for 18 years. Previously served as a director and also as treasurer.; Life/Work Experience: Business and Grants Manager for the Department of Neuroscience Basic Research at UVA.

Peter McIntosh: Board Position/Term: Treasurer. no term limit; Experience with FOL: Member since 1992, 1st Vice President from 1996-2000, President from 2000-2006, Treasurer since June 2006.; Life/Work Experience: U.S. Naval Supply Officer 1965-1970; Lawyer from 1973 through 2006.Avocations: gardening, home remodeling and cabinet building, crossword puzzles and napping.

Liza Millet: Board Position/Term: Director. Term expires June 2014.; Experience with FOL: I have been working with the book sale for over ten years, having been recruited by Jane Hess when we first moved here in 2000. I price the English, Writing, and Small Books sections.; Life/Work Experience: We moved here from New Jersey where I taught school for many years.

Margaret O’Brien: Board Position/Term: Director. Term expires June 2014.; Experience with FOL: I have been an all-year-round volunteer for ten years.; Life/Work Experience: I love reading and my favorite form of exercise is turning the pages of a book.

Timothy F. Jost Tolson: Board Position/Term: Director. 1st term expires June 2014.; Experience with FOL: I’ve come to the Friends of the Library board after serving ten years as the Albemarle County trustee on the JMRL Board.; Life/Work Experience: For many years I’ve been active member of several Crozet community groups as well as at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Ivy. I work at UVa as an information security and policy analyst and received my doctorate in community psychology from UVa as well. In my spare time, I enjoy riding my BMW motorcycle, hiking with my wife Donna, and our dog, Quake, and of course, reading. We have two grown sons, who we raised in Crozet.

Anthony Townsend: Board Position/Term: Director. 1st term expires June 2013.; Experience with FOL: Tony Townsend comes to the Friends of the Library board after serving eight years as Albemarle County trustee on the JMRL Board.; Life/Work Experience: He has been a loyal user of public libraries since learning to read, and currently is Chief Technology Analyst at UVa.

Thomas Allan Whitlock: Board Position/Term: Vice-president. Term expires June 2014.; Experience with FOL: Previously Board member 1998-2001, and 2007-2008.; Life/Work Experience: Retired, now a farmer in Louisa county. JMRL Board of Trustees, 1999-2007, and as JMRL Board President in 2007.

John Halliday: halliday@jmrl.org; Board Position/Term: Regional Library Director. Ex officio member of the Friends’ Board; Experience with FOL: Book sale volunteer, expert checker and cashier, for 12 years.; Life/Work Experience: Director of JMRL since 1997, father of four lovely children, author of several novels for children and young adults.

Bill Davis: info@jmrlfriends.org; Board Position/Term: Book Sale Manager; Experience with FOL: Staff member 1991 – 2003, and 2005. Staff member again June 2007 to date.; Life/Work Experience: Staff at JMRL: Bookmobile driver, Library Assistant, Courier/Outreach. Father of three. Amateur actor, playwright, and Morris dancer.

Andrew Hniat: info@jmrlfriends.org; Board Position/Term: Book Sale Assistant; Experience with FOL: Since summer 2009.; Life/Work Experience: Paper Deliverer, Map Drawer, Tax Collector, Rat Perfusor, Overseas Traveler, Reagent Producer, Tree Measurer, Student Tormentor, Sports Merchandiser, Blood Processor, Book Sorter