About Jan

Dear PMA Members:

I am sad to inform you that our Executive Director, Jan Nathan, died on Sunday, June 17, 2007, after a year-long battle with cancer, surrounded by her husband, six sons and her 90-year-old mother.

The great majority of you have been directly helped and supported by Jan. Others have benefited by the PMA programs that have been implemented during her leadership. Plans are in the works to create a web space where all may express their thoughts about her as a person and about her numerous contributions to PMA during the 24 years she led the organization. There will also be a public celebration of her life at a future date.

Details at this moment are to be finalized, but the Jan Nathan Memorial Fund has been created for those who wish to contribute to the many causes for which she was so passionate.

Jan would want us to carry on the business of the organization that she has worked so tirelessly and successfully to build. Terry Nathan, who has been working by Jan's side the past 15 years, will continue to do the excellent job he has been doing, as will the staff, and the Board will continue to be innovative, creative and committed to the future of our organization.

Florrie Binford Kichler
President, PMA, the Independent Book Publishers Association