Friends of the Tufts Libraries

Abe and Marianna Dranetz cutting the ribbon at the Grand Opening of The Tower, the new café in Tisch Library.

Gib Metcalf, Chair of Undergraduate Experience Task Force, which recommended a café as the intellectual center of Arts, Sciences and Engineering in Tisch Library talking with Abe and Marianna Dranetz, donors of the Dranetz Tower in Tisch Library.

During the Grand Opening, students in café already making themselves at home studying.

Café construction planning group (left to right): Jo-Ann Michalak, Director of Tisch Library; Brian Kennedy, Linbeck Construction Project Manager; Paul Forgione, Tufts Construction Project Manager; Matt Horrigan, Linbeck Construction Project Supervisor; Brian Amaral, Livermore Edwards & Associates, Project Architect; Tom Trufant, Linbeck Construction, Officer; Robert Livermore, Livermore Edwards & Associates, President; Patti Klos, Director, Dining Services and Amy Van Lauwe, Livermore Edwards & Associates, Project Manager.

Jim Glaser, Dean of Undergraduate Education; Beverly Gobiel, Co-Leader of the Exhibits Oversight Team, Tisch Library and Jo-Ann Michalak, Director of Tisch Library at the New Faculty Publications area in the corridor immediately outside of The Tower. Beverly is the staff member responsible for the ongoing display of new faculty publications.

Christine Kittle, Co-Leader of the Exhibits Oversight Team, Tisch Library; Jo-Ann Michalak, Director of Tisch Library; Beverly Gobiel, Co-Leader of the Exhibits Oversight Team, Tisch Library and Jim Glaser, Dean of Undergraduate Education at The Tower Gallery. Christine and Beverly will mount new student art displays selected by Studio Art professors Patrick Carter and Roswell Angier.

Ellie Short, Marianna Dranetz and Dean Linda Abriola read their fortunes from The Tower fortune cookies.