Libraries - North Dakota | Stuttering Foundation: A Nonprofit Organization Helping Those Who Stutter

Aneta Public Library 309 Main Avenue Aneta, ND 58212 (701)326-4701	Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public 515 North 5th Street Bismarck, ND 58501-4057 (701)355-1480
North Dakota State Library 604 East Boulevard Avenue Dept 740 Bismarck, ND 58505-0605 (701)328-4622	Bottineau County Library 314 5th Street W Front Bottineau, ND 58318-1237 (701)228-2967
Margaret Fraase Public Library 204 Wilcox Avenue N Buffalo, ND 58011 (701)633-8543	Carrington City Library 87 8th Avenue N Carrington, ND 58421-1230 (701)652-3921
Casselton Public Library 702 1st Street N Casselton, ND 58012-3308 (701)347-4861	Cavalier Public Library 106A West 2nd Avenue S Cavalier, ND 58220-4117 (701)265-4746
Griggs County Library 902 Burrell Avenue Cooperstown, ND 58425 (701)797-2214	Divide County Public Library 204 First Street NE Crosby, ND 58730 (701)965-6305
Lake Region Public Library 423 7th Street NE Devils Lake, ND 58301-2529 (701)662-2220	Dickinson Area Public Library 139 3rd Street W Dickinson, ND 58601-5147 (701)456-7700
Elgin Public Library 121 North Main Street Elgin, ND 58533-7107 (701)584-2181	Ellendale Public Library 67 First Avenue South Ellendale, ND 58436 (701)349-3852
Enderlin Municipal Library 303 Railway Street Enderlin, ND 58027-1343 (701)437-2953	Fargo Public Library 102 3rd Street N Fargo, ND 58102-4808 (701)241-1472
Carnegie Regional Library 630 Griggs Avenue Grafton, ND 58237-1436 (701)352-2754	Grand Forks Air Force Base Library 511 Holzapple Street; Building 201 Grand Forks Afb, ND 58205-6303 (701)747-3046
Grand Forks Public Library 2110 Library Circle Grand Forks, ND 58201-6324 (701)772-8116	Harvey Public Library 119 10th Street E Harvey, ND 58341-1531 (701)324-2156
Hazen Public Library 203 East Main Street Hazen, ND 58545 (701)748-2977	Adams County Library 103 6th Street North Hettinger, ND 58639 (701)567-2741
Stutsman County Library 910 5th Street SE Jamestown, ND 58401-4418 (701)252-1531	Kindred Public Library 330 Elm Street Kindred, ND 58051-4008 (701)428-3456
Cavalier County Library 600 5th Avenue Langdon, ND 58249-2500 (701)256-5353	Edna Ralston Public Library 116 1/2 Towner Avenue Larimore, ND 58251 (701)343-2181
Harry L. Petrie Public Library 101 NE 1st Street Linton, ND 58552-7123 (701)254-4737	Maddock Community Library 114 Central Avenue Maddock, ND 58348 (701)438-2252
Mandan Public Library 609 West Main Street Front Mandan, ND 58554-3168 (701)667-5365	Minot Air Force Base Library 156 Missile Avenue Minot Afb, ND 58705-5008 (701)723-3344
Ward County Public Library 405 3rd Avenue SE Minot, ND 58701 (701)852-5388	Pathfinder Parent Center 1600 2nd Avenue SW; Suite 30 Minot, ND 58701-3459 (701)837-7500
Minot Public Library 516 2nd Avenue SW Minot, ND 58701-3740 (701)852-1045	McLean-Mercer Regional Library 216 Second Street Riverdale, ND 58565 (701)654-7652
Rolla Public Library 14 1st Street SE Rolla, ND 58367 (701)477-3849	Valley City Barnes County Public Library 410 Central Avenue N Valley City, ND 58072-2949 (701)845-3821
Walhalla Public Library 1012 Central Avenue Walhalla, ND 58282 (701)549-3794	West Fargo Public Library 109 3rd Street E West Fargo, ND 58078-1817 (701)433-5460
Williston Community Library 1302 Davidson Drive Williston, ND 58801-3861 (701)774-8805

CELEBRITY FOCUS

Bruce Willis

While the world knows Bruce Willis as an A-list actor, few know that he struggled with stuttering throughout his first 20 years.

Walter Bruce Willis was born in 1955 in West Germany to his German mother, Marlene, and his American GI father, David Willis. The family settled in David’s hometown of Penns Grove, New Jersey in 1957, and the couple has three other children.

John Stossel

John Stossel is one of the most recognized and articulate reporters today. However, he once considered giving up his broadcasting career because of his stuttering.

“Fear of stuttering can easily become worse than the stuttering itself,” observed Stossel. “The idea that I’m on television and making speeches is still a shock to me sometimes.”

Frank Wolf

This Virginian congressman has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1981. The longtime supporter of the Stuttering Foundation drew national attention to childhood stuttering in 2006 when he submitted an article about Tiger Woods from the SFA newsletter to the Congressional Record. The congressman is featured in the Stuttering Foundation's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.

Marilyn Monroe

From Edward S. Herrington's letter to Southcoasttoday.com

I am writing in response to "The importance of voice" (May 29), which mentioned that famous actor James Earl Jones struggled with stuttering. Another famous voice that you cited was the trademark breathy voice of Marilyn Monroe; however, you did not make mention of the fact that Marilyn Monroe also struggled with stuttering at various points in her life, sometimes very painfully.

Lewis Carroll

The recent Disney version of Lewis Carroll’s classic, Alice in Wonderland, garnered a great deal of media hype. Even though the mainstream media has not made mention that Carroll was a person who stuttered, his family history gives credence to the discovery of the genetic link to stuttering. Carroll was born to parents who were first cousins; almost all of their eleven children, three girls and seven boys, struggled with stuttering past childhood.