Melville library has 5,000 borrowers in 1964

Janet Ricca, 8, receives a gift book from the library when she becomes the the 5,000th borrower to be registered.

Winter, Melville library, 1963

The Brownies decorate the tree while Ms. Moran looks on.

Board of Trustees: Mrs. Newhouse, Anthony Uzzo, Virginia Moran (director), Charles Booth, Ruth Freeze.

Summer, 1963 at the Melville Library

Story hour on the front lawn.

Dorothy Quick hands out a library card.

P.T.A Council at the Melville library, May 1963

Can you identify these council members?

P.T.A. check for library bus – Eleanor Robinson hands it to Virginia Moran.

Across the generations, Melville library, 1963.

Laurie McNally, William Quick, and Virginia Moran

Brownies, Christmas, 1962.

Troop 76 of Dix Hills decorate the tree at the Melville library.

Summer storytime at the Melville library, 1962.

Do you know the names of these children?

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.