Season Sponsors, Literary Circle, Patrons & Donors
Premier Sponsor
The Slutzker Family Foundation
Best Seller Sponsors
Michael and Jacki Goldberg
Book Club Sponsors
Advance Media New York
Allyn Family Foundation
Bottar Law, PLLC
Constance Bull
Upstate Medical University
Classics Sponsors
CNY Community Foundation
Cygnus Management Foundation, Inc.
Marriott Syracuse Downtown
Stickley, Audi & Co.
Visual Technologies
Wegmans
Novella Sponsors
Bousquet Holstein PLLC
Edward & Angela Bernat
Martha Mulroy and Dave Manfredi MD
Poets Corner Sponsors
C&S Foundation
Carrie Berse
Community Bank
Eastwood Rotary
Partnership Properties
Pastabilities
Tammy and Ed Kiesa
Media Sponsors
Cumulus Radio Station Group, a Division of Cumulus Media
WAER 88.3
WCNY
WRVO Public Media
32nd Season Literary Circle Subscribers
Angela Bernat
Nancy Caple
Beth Drew
Edward & Lena Kochian
Rozanne & Richard
Kopecky
Steven Kulick
Donna Mahar
Suzette Meléndez
Ellen Runge
Margaret Van Patten
32nd Season Patron Subscribers
As of July 15, 2026
Ivette Cruz Barso
Todd Benware
Virginia Biesiada
Nancy Bottar
Constance Bull
Mary Beth & Jeff Bronk
Jessica Cohen
Barb Connor & Doug
Wood
Robin Curtis
Marlene Denney
Virginia Denny
Matthew Denton
William & Judith Dowling
Betsy Elkins
Peggy Fabic
Janet Fine
Jacki Goldberg
Baird & Sarah Hansen
Ruth Hart
Brian Hoke
Sarah Holbrook
Deborah & Richard Hole
Barbara Karas
George Kilpatrick Jr.
Cynthia Kirby
Nicole Kolinski
Elllen Laberge
Jennifer Lamphere
Renée Levy
James Mackillop
Philip & Marcia Hayden-
Horan
Dawn Marmor
Joseph Marusa
Heather Mautz
Kevin & Suzanne
McAuliffe
Christine Measell
Jennifer & Todd Milligan
Deborah Moore
Terry Morris
Martha Mulroy
Aimee Nash-Reinagel
Patricia Numann
Cynthia O’Connor
Eileen Ponto
Brenna Richardson
Ann Rothschild
Erica Rube
Anita Schmidt-Kyanka
Tom Schwarz
Lisa Sellin
Nicole Shue
Steven Sisskind
Jacob Skeval
Heather Smith
Anne Spitzer
Jill Stratton
Sharon Sullivan
Monika Taylor
Karen Uplinger
Bill Van Patten
Chris Van Patten
Elana Van Patten
Kathy Van Patten
Laurie Walker
Elaine Walter
Jennifer Weekes-Osada
2025-2026 DONORS
In addition to FOCL’s sponsors, advertisers, and subscribers, we thank these thoughtful donors for gifts received from July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026.
$20,000
Anonymous
$10,000
Howard and Grayce
Bendixen Memorial
Trust
John Gordon Bull Fund
of the Community
Foundation of Broward
$2,500- 5,000
Lockheed Martin
Employees Federated
Fund
Richard Mather Fund
$1,000-2,499
Allyn Family Foundation
Nancy Bottar
Marlene Denney
Sidney Devorsetz
Baird Hansen
Jonas and Epsilanty
Family Fund
Kathy Mezzalingua
River’s End Bookstore
$500-999
Natasha Alford – In honor
of the Nottingham
Bulldogs
Connie Bull
Beth M. Drew
Mary Margaret Fabic
Susan Hansen
Harvey’s Garden, LLC
Brian Hoke
Roxanne Kopecky
Lit Actually Romance
Bookshop
James Mackillop
Cynthia O’Connor
$100-499
Carol Biesemeyer
$100-499, Continued
Ms. Marilyn M Bittner
Nicki Bisson
Richard Brazell
Janet Chemotti
Linda Cohen
Elizabeth Cowan
Ivette Cruz Barso
Lynne DiGennaro
Mark Feldman
Jill & Lenny Fromer
Robert Gilka
Jacki Goldberg
Ellen Golden – In honor
of Lee C
Vicki Greenberg
Rebecca Greenblatt
Georgina Gregory
Gary Grossman
C. Beth Hansen
William Harrington
Sara Hawkins
Marcia Hayden-Horan
Fumiyo Hirano
Robert Kane
Susan Keeter
Edward Kochian
Susan Kowalski
Steven Kulick
Dawn Marmor
Caitlyn McAfee
Suzette Meléndez
Pamela Kip Reisman
Monaco
Virginia Biesiada O’Neill
Lleni Pach
Amanda Perrine
Eileen M. Ponto
Jill Robinson
Megan Russo
Jon Selzer – In memory of
my wife Thelie Trotty-
Selzer
Mary Seifritz
Carol Sonneborn
Sharon P. Sullivan
Kristin Swift
Mary Lou Thomasmeyer
Caitlin Toomey
$100-499, Continued
Robert Wagner
Elaine Walter
Yeager-McLean Fund
Up to $99
James Aiello
Dianne Apter
Mary Roberts Bailey
Michael Bettua
Colin Brazell
Susan Brazell
Bernard B. Bregman
Donna M. Coloton
Marguerite Conan
Elizabeth Costello
Diana Cramer
Ann N Crane
Mallory A DeJohn
Bertram Devorsetz
Andrew Eastham
Laura Filip
Elizabeth Fleury
Kate Haswell
Anne Jamison
Corliss Kaiser
Tammy Kiesa
Elizabeth Lockwood
Amanda Lucas
Heather Mautz
Cheryl Maxian
Pete & Jackie Michel
Nancy Monti
Cynthia Mosher
Priscilla Mulhern
Anton Ninno
Anna O’Neil
Marilyn L Pinsky
Diane Rimkis
William Rogers
Terry Scanlon
Anne Spitzer
Rosalie G. Spitzer
Seth Tucker
Sharon Vining
Laurie Walker
Diane D. Webb
Linda Zimmerman