Elaine Froehlich

Since 1993, Elaine has worked on interface projects with clients including: Microsoft (Slate magazine), Bose, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, EMC2 , Nature Scientific Journal(s), Wellington Management Company, LLC, Roger Williams Hospital Stem Cell Research Center, Merrill Lynch, Gtech lottery systems. She also taught at Clark University, Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education and the International Certificate Program in New Media.

Elaine holds a Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Clark Kepler, Advisor

As Kepler's President, CEO and Chairman, Clark is responsible for Kepler's bookstore and business operation. Growing up in and around Kepler's Books in the '60s and '70s, he first joined the staff in 1979 starting off in the Receiving Department, and then was promoted to buyer in 1980. In 1983, he assumed full responsibility for bookstore management. Under his management, sales in the 1980s grew steadily. Clark served on the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association for eight years throughout the latter half of the decade and into the next, eventually serving as its vice president. In 1989, Clark saw the opportunity to move the bookstore to its present location in Menlo Center. Sales in the early 1990s tripled. The book trade publication Publishers Weekly named Clark Bookseller of the Year in 1994. In 2001, the Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce awarded Kepler's Books and Magazines the Golden Acorn award in recognition of community.

Having grown up in and around books all his life, he is an avid reader and is passionate in the belief that in a democracy, a free people must have access to alternative views when making choices. Kepler's Books provides him a right livelihood to serve the community by making available the full range of humankind's ideas. Clark is proud to carry on the bookstore in his family's tradition.