Begun
in 2010 with 22 members, the Jackson Society supporting the University
Libraries at UNCG continues to grow and now has 41 members. The group recently gathered for a reception
at the home of Jane and Richard Levy to celebrate the group’s accomplishments
and review its short history as the premier giving level for those supporting
the University Libraries.
Jackson
Society members have enjoyed past December events at the home of bookbinders
and conservators Monique Lallier and Don Etherington, and at the Hodges Special
Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Throughout the year, they’ve enjoyed intimate
wine and cheese receptions with such visiting authors as novelists Jill
McCorkle and Matthew Pearl, poets Kathryn Stripling Byer and Joseph Bathanti,
storyteller/musical artist Peter Yarrow and John McCutcheon, and writer Tony
Horwitz.
During
2013, Jackson Society donors supported such projects as the African American
Institutional Memory Project, the Howard Coble Fund to process and make
available the Congressman’s papers, and the revitalizations of the landscaping
in front of Jackson Library. Members of
the Jackson Society are free to support any project they choose, and several
have named funds that receive their regular support each year. The Jackson Society also designated money in
2013 to purchase a number of items for the department of Special Collections
and University Archives to deepen our holdings in small/specialized American
publishing houses, the Way and Williams Press and the Perishable Press.
Those
interested in joining the Jackson Society are invited to contact Director of
Development Linda Burr at 336-256-0184. You may also want to visit the University Libraries Giving page.
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