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VaBook! Volunteer Committees
The Virginia Festival of the Book is an annual program produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) in cooperation with community organizations. Consistent with our mission to promote literacy and reading through an annual celebration of books, festival programs are open to the public, and most are free of charge. Almost every aspect of VABook! is organized and generated by volunteer committees (listed below) who generously contribute their time and energy to this annual celebration of books and reading.
Steering Committee
- Paul Collinge, Heartwood Books
- Pat Crook, Professor Emeritus, Curry School, UVa
- Nancy Damon, The Senior Center, Inc.
- Tom Dowd, UVa Continuing Ed.
- Bill Frank, Professor Emeritus, Longwood College
- Bob Friedman, Hampton Roads Publishing
- Mitchell Hall, Barnes & Noble Booksellers
- John Halliday, Jefferson-Madison Regional Library
- Deborah Hocutt, Center for the Book at the Library of Virginia
- Diane Ippolito, Albemarle County Public Schools
- Mary Jane King, Piedmont VA Community College
- Evette Lamka
- Suzanne Liola, VABook! Program Director
- Paxson MacDonald, VABook! Public Relations
- Michael Mallory, Ron Brown Scholar Program
- Calvin Otto, Chair
- K.K. Pearson
- Leah Puryear, UVa Upward Bound Program
- Tamyra Turner, Piedmont Virginia Community College
- Robert C. Vaughan, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Publisher's Days Committee
- Kathy Cooper, Hampton Roads Publishing
- Bob Friedman, Chair, Publisher's Days Committee, Hampton Roads Publishing
- Ross Howell, Howell Press
- Mayapriya Long, Bookwrights Press
- Calvin Otto
- Molly Ryan, UVa Internship Program
Program Committee
- Karl Ackerman, Writer
- Kathi Ann Brown, Milestone Historical Consultants
- Paul Collinge, Chair, Program Committee, Heartwood Books
- Nancy Damon, The Senior Center, Inc.
- Ted Genoways, Meridian
- Vesta Lee Gordon, The Book Broker
- Susan Tyler Hitchcock, Writer
- Suzanne Liola, VABook! Program Director
- Steve Rubin
- Tamyra Turner, Piedmont Virginia Community College
- Boyd Zenner, University Press of Virginia
Youth and Family Committee
- Timothy Carrier, Jefferson-Madison Regional Library
- Nancy Cook, Jefferson-Madison Regional Library
- Susan Coleman, Motheread/Fatheread of Virginia, VFH
- Pat Crook, Chair, Youth and Family Committee, Professor Emeritus, Curry School, UVa
- Karen Goebel, Albemarle County Schools
- Proal Heartwell, The Village School
- Carolyn Lawlor, Free Union Country School
- Suzanne Liola, VABook! Program Director
- Kay Remick, Edward T. Rabbit Books
- Judy Rood, Charlottesville City Schools
- Randy Weiss, Greathall Productions
- Jean Wilhelm, Piedmont Council for the Arts
Advisory Committee
- Calvin Otto, Chair
- Beverly Bagan
- Peggy Baggett, VA Commission for the Arts
- Josef Beery, Josef Beery Graphic Design
- Terry Belanger, Book Arts Press
- Lu Bolen, Boys and Girls Club of Charlottesville/Albemarle
- David Bowerman, County of Albemarle Board of Supervisors
- Bob Chapel, University of Virginia Department of Drama
- Paul Collinge, Heartwood Books
- John Conover, Papercraft Printing & Design
- Emily Couric, Senate of Virginia
- Maurice Cox, Charlottesville City Council
- Pat Crook, Professor Emeritus, Curry School, UVa
- Nancy Damon, The Senior Center, Inc.
- Virginia Daugherty, City of Charlottesville, Mayor
- Arletta Dimberg, Charlottesville City Schools
- Tom Dowd, UVA Division of Continuing Education
- Mary Flinn, New Virginia Review
- Bill Frank, Professor Emeritus, Longwood College
- Bob Friedman, Hampton Roads Publishing
- George Garrett, UVa English Department Creative Writing Program
- Magaret Hager
- Kimberly Hall, Charlottesville Downtown Foundation
- Mitchell Hall, Barnes & Noble Booksellers
- John Halliday, Jefferson-Madison Regional Library
- Deborah Hocutt, Center for the Book at the Library of Virginia
- Charlotte Humphris, County of Albemarle Board of Supervisors
- Diane Ippolito, Albemarle County Public Schools
- Mary Jane King, Piedmont Virginia Community College
- Laura Kollar, Piedmont Council of the Arts
- Evette Lamka
- Rob Leventhal, Blueridge Internet Technologies
- Charles Lewis, Kathy's Produce
- Suzanne Liola, VABook! Program Director
- Beverly Jane Loo, UVa Divison of Continuing Education
- Paxson MacDonald, VABook! Public Relations
- Michael Mallory, Ron Brown Scholar Program
- Forrest Marshall, County of Albemarle Board of Supervisors
- Robert Merritt, VFH Southwest Virginia Regional Council, Bluefield College
- Lawrence McConnell, The Daily Progress
- Gary O'Connell, Charlottesville City Manager
- Priscilla Ord, VFH Piedmont Regional Council
- William Paquette, Tidewater Community College
- John Peale
- Lydia Peale
- K.K. Pearson
- Leah Puryear, UVa Upward Bound Program
- Kathy Reed, UVa. Office of the Provost
- Bob Reynolds
- Meredith Richards, Charlottesville City Council
- Blanche Herring Scarf, VFH Chesapeake Regional Council
- Lisa Russ-Spaar, UVa Creative Writing Program
- Valerie Sutter
- Mackey Tilman, Wachovia Bank
- Robert W. Tucker, Jr., County of Albemarle
- Tamyra Turner, Piedmont Virginia Community College
- Camille Wells, Monticello
- Karen Whittenborg, University of Virginia Libraries, Alderman Library
- Agnes Cross White, The Tribune
- Margaret Wright, Sprint
- Robert C. Vaughan, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities