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  • Remembering Kendrick B. Melrose

    Remembering Kendrick B. Melrose

    June 29, 2020
    Mike Donohue

    On April 16, 2012, Orange County Library System received the largest single private gift in its history when benefactor Kendrick B. Melrose donated $1 million in memory of his mother, Dorothy Lumley Melrose. The gift was used to enact the construction of The Dorothy Lumley Melrose Center for Technology, Innovation & Creativity, a space that…

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