SCLA, 1962.

The Suffolk County Library Association meets at the Melville library.

Mr. Ramson, Joy Meisels, Virginia Moran, Ruben Weltsch, Walter Curley, Robert Fidoten, Robert Gildersleeve, James O’Brien (photographer),  Mr. Pressing, Seymour Berman.  Seated: Elaine Phipps, Susan Thurber, Marianne Woolfe, May Walsh (Bay Shore and founder of SCLA), Rosalind Robinson, and others unidentified.  Can you help us?

Great Books at the Melville library, 1961-1962

The adult and junior division.  Can you help us identify these early library users?

Brownies in the library, 1962

Troop 175 decorated the Easter tree at the Melville library.

Melville library, original Board of Trustees, 1959 or 1961?

Standing Left to right:  Mr. Pugh, Ester Gross, Lee Porkorny, Agnes McNally, Vera Walls, Ruth Freeze, Anthony Uzzo.  Seated Left to right:  Betty McAdam, Ruth Schultz, Madeline Eleas.

Library trustees and staff, 1961

In 1960 the community approved tax support for the Melville library. Pictured here with the first library director is the first tax supported Board of Trustees.  Left to right (seated) are Betty McAdam, Ruth Freeze, President; and Esther Gross.  Standing are Agnes McNally, Virginia Moran, Director, and Donald Waite.

Melville Library Trustees, 1961

Left to right: Mrs. McAdam, Mrs. Freeze, and Mrs. Gross.

Melville Library Director, 1960(?)

Library Director Virginia Moran and young patrons.  Can anyone identify these children?

Picture Book Time, Melville library, 1961

Melville Library Children’s Department, 1961

Boy Scouts help with books at the library, 1959

Mr. George  Freeze and the Boy Scouts bringing books to the new Melville library during the book drive.