(Hover your mouse over a slide to pause it temporarily.)
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THE HOLIDAY GALA!
HLF 2024 GALA: Record-Breaking SUCCESS!
We are starting 2025 with gratitude and motivation. In December our annual holiday gala was an epic success! We broke fundraising and attendance records with 255 attendees, reaching over $110,000 overall! We watched in awe as our community rallied around the core principle of the library as a bedrock of civil society.
We’re so very grateful to our auctioneer, Senator Mike McGuire who led the crowd to new heights of giving, raising $30,000 for the Buy a Book campaign, in Honor of HLF Co-Founder and Past President, Elizabeth Murguia. We thank all of the evening’s supporters and volunteers, and especially our presenting sponsor, Canopy/RWE.
And to all of the wonderful patrons who came out to celebrate and ensure the vitality of Humboldt County’s libraries, THANK YOU.
2024 Gala Patrons:
LUMINARY
- First 5 Humboldt
- Verne & Nancy Frost
- Michele McKeegan & Ed Olsgard
- Kusum Stokes

HELEN EVERETT CIRCLE
- Maggie Fleming
- Rusty & Sandra Hicks
- Pacific Gas & Electric Company
- Redwood Capital Bank

LITERARY LION
- JoAnn Bauer
- Mel & Holly Kreb
- Pierson Building Center
- Stokes, Hamer, Kirk, Eads, Firpo Law, LLC
- Jeff & Lynne Todoroff

LAUREATE
- Susan Hansen
- Hubbard’s German Auto, Inc.
- Shelley Holstein
- Kathy & Dick Laforge
- Elizabeth Murguia
- Bob Rottenberg & Suzanne Kimmel
- TriCounties Bank
- Vis Upatistringa

BOOK LOVER
- Jennifer Baird
- Ken & Shirley Bay
- Pam Cahill
- Jane Callahan
- Pam Cavanagh
- Jim & Donna Clark
- Gena Rae Eichenberg
- Howard & Peg Gardner
- Anne & Mark Harris
- Arlene Hartin
- Congressman Jared Huffman
- Jack & Peggy Irvine
- Martha & Fred Johansen
- Victoria & Willie Knapp
- Jeannette Lackett
- Dick & Kathy LaForge
- Peter & Nancy LaVallee
- Nancy Dye Leer & Lee Leer
- Ted Loring
- Mary Lou & Alan Lowry
- Thomas Mays
- Laura Middlemiss
- Jane & Mike Minor
- Sid & Diana Noyes
- Susan O’Connor
- Neil Palmer & Janelle Egger
- Sofia Pereira
- Dorothy Riffenburg
- Sherman Schapiro & Eva Janson
- Carol Scher
- Penny & Wayne Sohrakoff
- Andrea Tuttle
- Sara Traphagen & Dave Duda
