Caroline Steinman Nunan, 85, an owner of the Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer Journal/New Era newspaper
Rob Cibik
Caroline Steinman Nunan, one of the owners of the Intelligencer
Journal/Lancaster New Era, has died. She was 85.
Nunan, died Sunday in Lebanon, N.H., the paper reported. She was one
of three daughters of late publisher Col. James Hale Steinman and was
a director of Steinman Enterprises, the family-run company that owns
the paper.
She was a graduate of the Shippen School for Girls in Lancaster, the
Greenwood School in Maryland and the Katherine Gibbs School in New
York and is survived by one sister, two daughters, and three
grandchildren.
Nunan was also a trustee emeritus of Franklin & Marshall College and a
director of the Heritage Center of Lancaster County. She was also a
founding member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Music and a founder and
past president of the Lancaster Summer Arts Festival, the free
festival of visual and performing arts that began in 1963.
Gail Hillard, the festival's longtime secretary/treasurer, said she
"can't think of anyone who has done more to advance local arts" than
Nunan.
"I just don't know what we will all do without her. ... She just had a
way of bringing people together," Hillard said.
Former Franklin & Marshall College President John Fry in 2007 called
her "incredibly self-effacing. It's one of her great characteristics."
"I think the city cries tonight," Peter Seibert, former president of
the Heritage Center of Lancaster County, said late Sunday. "I'm not
sure Lancaster will ever see the likes of her again."
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The obit that appeared in this morning's paper:
Caroline Steinman Nunan
Caroline Steinman Nunan "Carrie," 85, of Lancaster passed away Sunday,
July 25, 2010 at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon,
NH. Born in Lancaster, she was the daughter of the late James Hale and
Louise Tinsley Steinman. She was a graduate of the Shippen School for
Girls in Lancaster, the Greenwood School in Maryland and the Katherine
Gibbs School in New York.
Carrie was a director of Steinman Enterprises, which includes
Lancaster Newspapers Inc., owner of the Intelligencer Journal/
Lancaster New Era, Sunday News, Lancaster Farming and Lancaster County
Weeklies.
Other Steinman Enterprises with which she was involved are the
Intelligencer Printing Co., Delmarva Broadcasting Co., with radio
stations in Delaware and Maryland, and Steinman Park Restaurant Inc.
She was a partner in Steinman Development Co., owner of coal and gas
lands in Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Carrie was also the chairwoman of the James Hale Steinman Foundation,
a private foundation created in December 1951 for the purpose of
providing grants to tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, primarily
those serving the citizens of Lancaster County.
At the time of her death, Carrie was a trustee emeritus of Franklin &
Marshall College, a board member of the Lancaster Summer Arts Festival
and a director of the Heritage Center of Lancaster County.
Carrie is widely credited with helping to shape a thriving cultural
climate here through her tireless volunteerism, generous charitable
giving and remarkable fundraising capabilities.
She was a founder and past president of the Lancaster Summer Arts
Festival, the free festival of visual and performing arts that has
grown in popularity since its inception in 1963. She was also a
founding member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Music and received the
nonprofit cultural landmark's "Director's Award" in 1993.
Carrie supported arts programs for young people as well. She
contributed to the Fulton Opera House's Youtheatre program, which
provides programs for at-risk, disabled and disadvantaged teens. In
2005 she helped bring the Classical Music for Urban Kids program to
the Crispus Attucks auditorium during the Summer Arts Festival. In
April of this year, Carrie received the "Outstanding Leadership and
Service in Arts for Youth Award" from Gov. Ed Rendell.
Carrie's legendary philanthropic efforts extended far beyond the arts,
into historic preservation, public health, education and the
environment.
She was a life member of the Lancaster County Conservancy and was
given the conservancy's Partnership Award, its most prestigious honor,
in 1999. That same year, Franklin & Marshall College named its campus,
which is a designated arboretum, the Caroline Steinman Nunan Arboretum
at Franklin & Marshall College.
Carrie's numerous board memberships included the American Red Cross,
which she served for 15 years as a Gray Lady volunteer at Lancaster
General Hospital. She also served on the boards of the Demuth
Foundation, Fulton Bank, where she was the first woman director,
Planned Parenthood of the Susquehanna Valley, Hospice of Lancaster
County, Lancaster Country Day School and Lancaster Symphony Orchestra.
She was a past trustee of Lancaster General Hospital.
Carrie was named a "Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania" and
received the "Red Rose City of Lancaster Award" from Mayor Albert
Wohlsen in 1979.
A charter member of the Rock Ford Foundation, the organization that
rescued the home of Colonial war hero Gen. Edward Hand, she was also a
member of the Lancaster Farmland Trust's "Founders Society."
A supporter of scouting, Carrie won an honorary lifetime membership to
the Penn Laurel Girl Scout Council, and in 1996 was awarded the
"Distinguished Citizen Award" by the Pennsylvania Dutch Council Boy
Scouts of America.
In 1983 she received the "Service to Mankind Award'' from the Sertoma
Club, and in 1998, the John A. Jarvis Medal for Distinguished Service
from the Lancaster Country Day School.
Carrie was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters
from F&M in 2003. It was an historic occasion, as she was the only
daughter of an honorary degree recipient to be honored similarly in
her own right. In May of 2009, she received an honorary degree from
the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design and, in 2010, won the
honorary alumnus award from Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology.
She and her sister, Beverly R. "Peggy" Steinman, were inducted into
the Central Penn Business Hall of Fame in 2008 and received the
Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence from the Pennsylvania Newspaper
Association in 2009.
She is survived by one sister, Beverly R. "Peggy" Steinman, of
Lancaster; two daughters, Caroline Nunan Hill, of Lancaster and Louise
Nunan Taylor, wife of William Punch Taylor III of Norwich, Vt.; and
three grandchildren, Jennifer Louise Taylor, Elizabeth Duncan Taylor
and Thomas Hale Hill. Nunan was preceded in death by a sister, Louise
Steinman Ansberry, who died in March of 2008 at the age of 85.
A funeral service will be held at St. James Episcopal Church, corner
of Duke St. and Orange St., Lancaster, PA on Friday, July 30, 2010 at
1:00 PM. Private interment will be held at the convenience of the
family in Woodward Hill Cemetery.
If you wish, instead of flowers, please send a contribution to your
favorite charity.