The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park

Join Us on July 21: Treasures from Hemingway's Trunk

 

"Few Americans have had a greater impact on the emotions and attitudes of the American people than Ernest Hemingway ... He almost singlehandedly transformed the literature and the ways of thought of Men and women in every country in the world."
- President John F. Kennedy, 1961

Save the date! Wednesday, July 21, 2010
For The 27th Annual Ernest Hemingway Birthday Lecture

Treasures from Hemingway's Trunk:
Highlights from the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library
Presented by Thomas J. Putnam, Director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum*

Special guests are relatives of William Walton, who helped establish the Kennedy Library and Museum and its Hemingway Collection.

An open house begins at 3:30 p.m. at the Ernest Hemingway Museum, 200 N. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, IL 60302

The birthday lecture is at 7:30 p.m. at the Hemingway Museum.

Admission: $10 for Foundation Members, Seniors and Students, $20 for Non-members.

Phone: (708) 848-2222 or email to ehfop@sbcglobal.net for reservations.

The Write Inn across Oak Park Avenue from the Hemingway Museum will offer special corporate rates for guests coming to the Hemingway Birthday Lecture. Rates range from $100 to $120 per night. Call (708) 383-4800 or email welcome@writeinn.com.

For more information on the Kennedy Library and Museum, see www.jfklibrary.org

*This Boston-based Library houses the world's most extensive Hemingway collection.

John W. Berry Elected Chairman of The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park’s Board of Directors on May 13, 2010 elected John W. Berry as the 26-year-old organization’s sixth chairman, succeeding Allan Baldwin.

Berry joined the EHFOP in 2008 and became the organization’s vice-chairman in 2009. He is executive director of the Network of Illinois Learning Resources in Community Colleges based in Chicago. The 40-year-old consortium has 50 member institutions across Illinois and Missouri.

Formerly, he was director of advancement and research associate professor, the University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) 1990-96. He has held faculty and management positions at Northern Illinois University, Elmira College (NY) and Indiana University. He is currently professor of the Practice of Library and Information Science in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University.

He holds the MLS (Library and Information Science), MAT (Social Studies) and BA (Political Science) from Indiana University.

A widely published author and frequent lecturer, his areas of research interest include 21st Century literacy skills, intellectual property, distance learning, library building design and fundraising for libraries.

Mr. Berry served as American Library Association's 118th President in 2001-02. He is Past President of the Freedom to Read Foundation Board of Trustees (the legal defense arm of the ALA) and past chair of ALA’s International Relations Committee.

“John Berry has been an able Board member and Vice Chairman of the Foundation and is more than capable to lead us into the future,” Baldwin said. “I am proud to pass the gavel to John.”

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park fosters understanding of the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, with emphasis on his Oak Park origins and his impact on world literature. Its mission reflects the Foundation’s belief in the importance of the written word and the value of thoughtful reading and writing.