Honoring the Founding Members of the Athenaeum Center
Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture is committed to thoughtfully and joyfully engaging the community, creating and promoting beauty in its diversity of forms, and inspiring people to seek answers to life’s deepest questions.
During the Athenaeum Center’s inaugural years, a remarkable group of donors chose to invest in that vision from its beginning. Their generosity helped establish the foundation for the artistic, cultural, and civic life that continues to grow here today.
The Founder’s Club was created to recognize these early supporters and their lasting commitment to the Athenaeum Center. Membership in the Founder’s Club is now closed, but the impact of its members will remain part of the Athenaeum Center in perpetuity.
The Athenaeum Center is committed to bringing more art and more beauty into the world because we think these things make human life richer. Beauty moves the whole human person, connects us with others who are sharing the experience, and brings us to greater knowledge of reality.
Beauty is the visible form of the good.
—JPII
With Our Gratitude
Our Founder’s Club members believed in what the Athenaeum Center could become and helped make that future possible.
Their support strengthened our programming, sustained our operations, contributed to the restoration and improvement of our historic home, expanded accessibility, and helped create a place where audiences can encounter art, ideas, community, and beauty.
We are deeply grateful to every member of the Founder’s Club for taking part in this formative chapter of the Athenaeum Center.
How their support makes a difference
- Supported the curation of performances and events that invite people to pursue the beautiful, the true, the good, and the interesting
- Made restoration and renovation efforts possible, helping ensure our historic home reflects our mission of inviting people to encounter beauty
- Helped improve accessibility and welcome more people into the Athenaeum Center
- Provided essential support for the operations and growth of the organization
Sheen Circle
St. Alphonsus Parish
Michael and Lois Harring
Noel and Michele Moore
Charles and Ellen Mulaney
Jim and Molly Perry
Michael Errin Rios
Ted and Sally Smith
Dante Circle
Erwin and Nancy Aulis
Sally Blount
Mike Cunningham
Ben and Erin Gilfillan
Kenneth and Barbara Kaufman
Mike and Lynda Mooney
Dennis and Laura Quaid
Christopher and Sandi Ryland
Peter and Carol Tomaselli
Mark and Rita Tresnowski
Linda Weaver
Scruton Circle
Anonymous
Bishop Mark Bartosic
Franz and Melia Berkemeier
Henry Berkemeier
Matthew Daniel Binder
Thomas C. Borders
Thomas Brusstar and Susan Hasegawa
Joe and Maggie Carrozza
Alietia Caughron
David Cavicke
John and Elizabeth Cusack
Thomas and Anne Donnelly
Patrick and Jenny Nicole Fisher
Matthew and Mary Eileen Gaudette
David and Susan Geiselhart
Mary Lou Gorno
Michael and Maryssa Hawking
Monica Herron
Jordan and Molly Hill
Fr. Rocky Hoffman
Gabrielle Jastrebski
Don and Dorsey Jastrebski
Brendan Jubulis
James J. and Mary F. Keil
Thomas & Emily Kelly
Claire Anastasia Kitz
Taylor and Marisa Luiso
Evan and Alex Lutomski
Neal and Susanne McNamara
John Paul and Lauren Mulhern
William and Melanie O’Hara
Matthew and Anna Paprocki
Neal and Jennifer Reenan
Anonymous
Mark and Eleanor Schneider
Brian and Lytle Smith
Joseph and Mary Clare Starshak
Dan Stokes
Kristofer Swanson
Matthew Tully
Christopher Villanueva
William and Meg Weicher
Richard and Eileen Weicher
Hunter and Timi Williams
A Lasting Legacy
Our Founder’s Club members believed in what the Athenaeum Center could become and helped make that future possible.
Their support strengthened our programming, sustained our operations, contributed to the restoration and improvement of our historic home, expanded accessibility, and helped create a place where audiences can encounter art, ideas, community, and beauty.
We are deeply grateful to every member of the Founder’s Club for taking part in this formative chapter of the Athenaeum Center.
Continue the Tradition
The Founder’s Club is now closed to new members. Those interested in deepening their support of the Athenaeum Center are invited to learn more about the Premiere Society, our current community of leadership supporters.
