First Look

The Houston Public Library Foundation
invites you to a preview celebration
of the grand reopening of Central Library

A Progressive Dinner Party In The Stacks Of The Library With Music,
Authors, and Guitar Hero

Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7 p.m.
500 McKinney

Benefitting Central Library’s Public Opening Events And Programming

Authors:
ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Molly Glentzer
Andrea White
Katherine Center

Gala tickets $250
Next Chapter tickets $100 (age 35 and younger)

Cocktail Attire
Complimentary Valet Parking

Preview Party Chairs

Demetra & Franklin D.R. Jones, Jr.
Tina & Mitja Peterman, Jr.

Next Chapter Chairs

Geoff Cormier
Elizabeth Fertitta
Dianna Jones
Kelli Kickerillo

Underwriters

Platinum Sponsor
McGovern Foundation

Gold Sponsor

H-E-B

Silver Sponsor

McCullough Foundation

Bronze Sponsor
Continental Airlines
Mr. & Mrs. Joe B. Foster
Carol & Gary Gartsman
Greenberg, Traurig LLP
Houston Chronicle
Humana
Barbara & Charles Hurwitz
JPMorgan Chase
Ms. Patricia Lasher & Mr. Richard Jacobs
Linn Energy
Steven & Sheila Miller Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. George P. Mitchell
Mr. & Mrs. Mitja Peterman, Jr.
Shell Oil Company
Silver Eagle Distributors, Inc.
Diana Strassmann & Jeff Smisek
Mr. & Mrs Robert B. Tudor, III
Wells Fargo
Cyvia & Melvyn Wolff Family Foundation

Honorary Committee

Sofia Adrogue & Sten Gustafson
E. Fred Aguilar, M.D.
Lilly & Thurmon Andress
Mr. & Mrs. Raleigh William Baird, III
Melinda & Norman Berkman
Kelli & Eddy Scurlock Blanton, Sr.
Dr. & Mrs. Meherwan P. Boyce
Deborah & Gardner Cannon
Cherri Carbonara & Tim McGhie
Anne and Albert Chao
Dr. & Mrs. John B. Clemmons, Jr.
Susie & Joe Dilg
Diane Durbin
Juanita Elizondo
Harriet & Joe Foster
Nene Foxhall
Carol Gartsman
Janis & David Goldstein
Saundria & Jerome Gray
Leigh & Todd Harris
Jim Hundemer
Barbara & Charles Hurwitz
Jill & Dunham Jewitt
Jesse H. Jones
Betsy & Dan Kamin
Pat Lasher & Richard Jacobs
Rhea Brown Lawson, Ph.D
Harriet & Truett Latimer
Alison Leland
Barry Mandel & Scott Sawyer
Soraya & Scott McClelland
Jacqueline S. Martin
Samantha & Saul Martinez
Trini Mendenhall-Sosa
John Middleton
Sheila & Steven Miller
Denise & Bill Monteleone
Jess & Beth Sanders Moore
Annette & Eric Mullins
John & Bobbie Nau
Regina Rogers
Sally & Norman Reynolds
Cathryn & Doug Selman
Ann & Don Short
Ed Smith
Dr. & Mrs. J.S. Stone, II
Emily Todd
Lynda L. Transier
Phoebe & Bobby Tudor
Pattie Dale Tye
Lisa & Barron Wallace
Dancie & James Ware
Mayor Bill & Andrea White
Cyvia & Melvyn Wolff

Next Chapter Honorary Committee

Elizabeth Abraham
Catherine Allibone
Monica Bailey Bickers
Kristen Cannon
Emma Colbert
Isabel & Danny David
Frederick Day
Nick Diaz
Thomas Dorsey
Georgie Ferguson, Jr.
Zack Fertitta
Allie Fields
Kristin Finan
Todd Forester
Dana Kantalis
John & Alex Klitsch
Lauren Levicki
Celina Lopez
Chad & Katie Lyons
Christina Maple
Carla Valencia & Alejandro Martinez
Christopher Miller
Tim Moloney
Guadalupe Orellana
Divya Paralkar
Heather Pray
Marisa Richetta
Stuart Rosenberg
Jamie and Kris Sava
James Tramuto
Dominique Varner
Rosalind Young
Laura Zehl

For Additional Information:

Please contact Susan Bischoff, President of the Houston Public Library Foundation at sbischoff@houstonlibraryfoundation.org or 832.393.1450.