NCSU Libraries Focus Online

Volume 27 number 1 - Fall 2006

Friends of the Library: In Memoriam--Bernard B. Blanchard

By Anne Schnatter, Friends of the Library

Bernard Berkeley Blanchard died at the age of eighty-four on July 18, 2006. Born in Saluda, North Carolina, she was the granddaughter of Governor and Mrs. Richard I. Manning of Columbia, South Carolina. In 1952 she married Charles Fuller Blanchard, a former president of the Friends of the Library. Both Blanchards became life members of the Friends and created the Blanchard Endowment, which supports the NCSU Libraries' collections in all subjects and formats.

She is survived by her husband, Charles Fuller Blanchard; daughters Lelia Bernard Blanchard and Anna Neal Blanchard; sister, Lelia Eastburn of Santa Rosa, California; and numerous devoted nieces and nephews.

For information on sending a memorial donation to the Blanchard Endowment, please call Jim Mulvey at (919) 515-3339 or send an electronic-mail message to jim_mulvey@ncsu.edu.