Richard J. Ryan
Trustee of the Barrington (Ill.) Library
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Ryan has served as a Trustee of the Barrington (Ill.) Library for a total of 33 years. He served as board treasurer from 1974 to 1980 and board president for 25 years from 1985 to 2010. He is currently fulfilling a six-year term that ends in 2015. Even before he was elected to the board in 1974, he served on the Barrington Area Development Council’s ad hoc library committee and acted as co-chair of the library coordinating committee for publicity. In 1991, the library broke ground on a 31,000-square-foot addition and renovation project for the library he had help to build in 1978. The board is again studying population projections to plan for possible expansion.