Libraries - District of Columbia | Stuttering Foundation: A Nonprofit Organization Helping Those Who Stutter

Northwest One Neighborhood Library 155 L Street NW Washington, DC 20001-2521 (202)939-5946	Watha T Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library 1630 7th Street NW Washington, DC 20001-3249 (202)727-1288
District of Columbia Public Library 901 G Street NW Washington, DC 20001-4531 (202)727-1579	Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central 901 G Street NW Washington, DC 20001-4531 (202)727-0321
McKinley Technology Education Campus 151 T Street NE Washington, DC 20002-1519 (202)281-3950	Northeast Neighborhood Library 330 7th Street NE Washington, DC 20002-6104 (202)698-0058
Rosedale Neighborhood Library 1701 Gales Street NE Washington, DC 20002-7205 (202)727-5012	Southeast Neighborhood Library 403 7th Street SE Washington, DC 20003-2708 (202)698-3377
Palisades Neighborhood Library 4901 V Street NW Washington, DC 20007-1549 (202)282-3139	Georgetown Neighborhood Library 3260 R Street NW Washington, DC 20007-2940 (202)727-0232
Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library 4340 Connecticut Avenue NW; Ste A Washington, DC 20008-2315 (202)282-3080	Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library 3160 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20010-3383 (202)671-3121
Lamond-Riggs Neighborhood Library 5401 South Dakota Avenue NE Washington, DC 20011-2668 (202)541-6255	Petworth Neighborhood Library 4200 Kansas Avenue NW Washington, DC 20011-5732 (202)243-1188
Juanita E Thornton/Shepherd Park Library 7420 Georgia Avenue NW Washington, DC 20012-1722 (202)541-6100	Takoma Park Neighborhood Library 416 Cedar Street NW Washington, DC 20012-1932 (202)576-7252
Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library 5625 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC 20015-2603 (202)282-0021	Lubuto Library Partners 5614 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC 20015-2604 (202)558-5609
Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library 4450 Wisconsin Avenue NW Washington, DC 20016-2142 (202)727-1488	Woodridge Regional Library 1790 Douglas Street NE Washington, DC 20018-2014 (202)541-6226
Dorothy I Height/Benning Neighborhood Library 3935 Benning Road NE Washington, DC 20019-3402 (202)281-2583	Deanwood Neighborhood Library 1350 49th Street NE Washington, DC 20019-3955 (202)698-1175
Capitol View Neighborhood Library 5001 Central Avenue SE Washington, DC 20019-6470 (202)645-0755	Francis A Gregory Neighborhood Library 3660 Alabama Avenue SE Washington, DC 20020-2449 (202)698-6373
Anacostia Neighborhood Library 1800 Good Hope Road SE Washington, DC 20020-4613 (202)715-7707	Southwest Neighborhood Library 900 Wesley Place SW Washington, DC 20024-4212 (202)724-4752
William O Lockridge/ Bellevue Neighborhood Library 115 Atlantic Street SW Washington, DC 20032-1404 (202)243-1185	Parklands-Turner Community Library 1547 Alabama Avenue SE Washington, DC 20032-5054 (202)645-4532
West End Library 2522 Virginia Avenue NW Washington, DC 20037-1904 (202)724-8707

CELEBRITY FOCUS

Bob Love

Bob Love has dreamt about being a great public speaker since his early days in Bastrop Louisiana, even though, as a young man, he could barely put two words together, let alone speak a full sentence.

In spite of his severe stuttering disability, Bob Love, the son of a sharecropper, rose to become a Chicago Bulls NBA superstar, whose records were eventually surpassed by Michael Jordan. Throughout his entire athletic career, Bob Love kept his stuttering a secret from the fans who adored him, thinking he could do his “talking” on the basketball court.

Winston Churchill

Seeking to "remove Winston Churchill's stutter by second guessing the diagnosis" indicates neither a truthful retelling of history nor an informed opinion about a complex speech disorder, say experts in the field of speech-language pathology.

Recent news reports that quote Dr. John Mather, a Washington physician, as saying that Churchill's stutter "is a lie" brought adamant critical response from specialists in the field of stuttering and fluency disorders.

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.

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.

Jack Paar

While Jack Paar is among the most prominent of the entertainers on the Stuttering Foundation’s list of Famous People Who Stutter, he deserves special recognition as he was among the first to openly address his stuttering in public. As host of The Tonight Show from 1957-1962, he spoke of his difficulties as a stuttering child and teenager, giving hope to young people.