Caroline Steinman Nunan

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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 and 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 and Marshall College named its campus, which is a designated arboretum, the Caroline Steinman Nunan Arboretum at Franklin and 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
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