April 2
Spring Benefit Dinner
At this year's Spring Benefit Dinner, on Saturday, April 2, we will honor
the New Choral Society of Central Westchester and its conductor, Dr. John T.
King, and executive director, Betsy Broyd. In
addition, we will present newly-established awards and certificates of civic
excellence to Rush Wilson, Mary Dixon and Barbara Shay MacDonald, and will recognize
the family of Lynne and Ira Wilson, of Wilson & Son Jewelers, on its 100th
anniversary of doing business in Scarsdale.
Please
make sure to plan to join us on April 2, 7 p.m., at Fenway
Golf Club! Event chairs Geralyn and Ralph DellaCava have planned a very special evening. Laura Cavataio, Cindy Krossman and
Carolyn Mehta will be Auction co-chairs; Maureen Hart will be Journal Chair and
Editor. The invitation is being designed by Barbara Shay MacDonald and Cindy Krossman.
The event will include the traditional Silent Auction, a Dinner
Journal, and much more! Proceeds will support Society education programs and
maintenance of our historic buildings.
To ensure the success of our 31st Annual Spring Benefit Dinner, we are
asking for your help! We are counting on you to:
. Attend,
and invite your family and friends!
. Purchase a group table!
. Be an underwriter!
. Donate items to the Silent Auction!
. Sell ads for the
Journal, or purchase one yourself!
. Solicit donations
from the community!
. Help set up for the Dinner and
Auction!
Volunteers are also needed for the event. We hope that you will help us to meet our goal in our major fund-raising event of the year. Please call Cindy at the office, 723-1744, to offer your assistance.
Capital Campaign Aids
Restorations
In his December letter
to members and contributors, President Bill Doecher
asked: "Years from now, wouldn't it be wonderful for your family and
friends to stop by the Society, take a stroll along
our 'Steps in Time' donor pathway and find your name? As part of our renovation
project and to thank our donors for their kind generosity, plans have been made to install a
beautiful brick pathway with the names of our supporters. For a donation of
$300 or more to our 2004-2005 Capital Campaign, your name(s) will become an
everlasting part of history."
Last fall, the roofs of both the 1828 Quaker Meeting House and the Cudner-Hyatt House were replaced with new cedar shingles.
The exterior of the Meeting House was painted (in a new gray color); painting of
the Cudner-Hyatt House exterior will be done this spring.
In addition to the painting, restoration and repair of our two historic
buildings, the Cudner-Hyatt House and the 1828 Quaker
Meeting House, funds from the Campaign will enable us to install a much-needed
new dry well.
We urge you to give generously to our 2004-2005 Capital Campaign! Take your place in Scarsdale history by
purchasing a "named brick" for our new pathway!
As Bill's letter concludes: "Your participation
will not only help us to continue to paint, restore and repair; it will help us
enrich our charming Scarsdale community."
Meet Our Honorees
The New Choral
Society, in its 11th season, will be honored for bringing sophisticated musical
entertainment to many in the Village of Scarsdale with its presentations of
great choral classics and chamber music.
Rush Wilson will receive our
first Civic Award for his dedication and loyal support to the Scarsdale
Historical Society and other non-profits in the Village. Mary Dixon will be
honored with our first Community Service Award for her more than 25-year service
to the Society as a volunteer, Membership Chair and Trustee, as well as active
involvement with the Women's Exchange and Woman's Club. Barbara Shay MacDonald will
receive our first Historic Preservation Award for her service as a volunteer,
Trustee, Vice President and Historian, writer and teacher of local history.
Special recognition is being given to the family of Lynne and Ira Wilson of
Wilson & Son Jewelers on its 100th anniversary of being in business in
Scarsdale, and for its longtime support of the Society.
Auction/Journal
Committees Need Your Help
Historical Society members,
the community and its businesses have always been extremely generous with their
donations to the Auction and the Dinner Journal.
You can help us! For the
Auction: If you have a vacation home, would you be willing to donate a week or
a weekend? If you have season tickets for a sports team or cultural event, please
consider donating a pair! Gift
certificates for restaurants, clothing, home, office, baby & kids, travel, specialty
services, antiques and art are always welcome. We're also in the process of visiting
local businesses, shops and restaurants to ask for contributions; we'd welcome
your help!
We've already received two Mets box scat tickets
that come with pre-paid parking; two tickets to Fashion Week, a vintage brooch
and a beautiful custom painting by a Westchester artist. Our own Museum Shop, headed by Greta Fisher
and Etta Parker, will donate several beautiful items for the home and for children.
We hope to have a spectacular Dinner Journal, and
need the support of community residents and businesses. If you would like to purchase an ad for the journal,
either for your business or as a tribute to one or more of our honorees, please
call Cindy at 723-1744 for ad dimensions and pricing.
“Ghosts of Post Road" continues
through Spring
Our wonderful exhibition, "Ghosts of the Post Road", curated by Susan Kaufman, continues through Spring 2005. Below are prints from two distinct eras and cultures depicted in the exhibition:
New Education Dept. Program with
Greenacres 1st-graders
First grade students at the Greenacres School
have begun a four-part program in conjunction with The Society that was
implemented with the help of Amy Kenney, Social Studies Coordinator for the Scarsdale
Schools. The program makes great use of the current exhibition "Ghosts of
the Post Road", which looks at the lives of the previous inhabitants of the
area we know as the White Plains Post Road from the lime of The Lenape to the early 20th century.
The core social studies curriculum for first-graders is "the
Family". The students will visit four times, with each visit focusing on a
different period of time described in the exhibition. Students will learn about
family life during the time of the earliest inhabitants, the matrilineal Lenape, then examine Colonial life,
early 19th-century life and finally late 19th to early 20th-century life. The
culmination of the program will be a mural on the theme of "Family"
that will be created by the students and painted at Greenacres school under the supervision of Education Director Susan
Kaufman.
February Recess Programs
for Kids
Education Director Susan Kaufman has announced some great programs tor children during February 21-25 vacation. For registration or additional information, phone the office, 723-1744. 10a.m.-12:30: fee for each workshop $15 per child: $60 for the week. Materials and snacks provided.
Mon.. Feb. 21 - President's Day - Learn which Hag
design was waving when your favorite president was in office. Then make your
own flag out of paper.
Tues.. Feb. 22 - Create a watercolor bouquet! Look at Currier &~ Ives prints for
inspiration.
Wed.. Feb. 23 Doll-making. Stitch a doll, using pipecleancrs and fabric. When it is complete, you will be
able to position it.
Thurs.. Feb. 24 - We will make furniture for
our dolls to sit on!
Fri.. Feb. 25 - Silhouette pictures. Using
black cloth or paper, make beautiful designs, then
glue them onto colored backgrounds.
Society Participates in Public Outreach Programs
Society staff members Cindy
Krossman, Susan Kaufman and Laura Cavataio
and Trustee Carolyn Mehta used their artistic talents to help make the holiday
season brighter for many area residents. In November, they created Thanksgiving
"tablescapes" for the Fox Meadow School's multi-cultural
luncheon at Wayside Cottage and for the American Home Section of the Scarsdale
Woman's Club. In December, they helped
to install a doll exhibition in the hallways of the Maria Fareri
Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center, and created a "White
Christmas" display for the Scarsdale Woman's Club Garden Section's Dec. 8
holiday open house and flower show.
Society Grateful for 2004
Grants
Grants from many
arts and government organizations, friends, supporters and businesses
have aided the Society's programs. The Board of Education, through theoffice
of Assistant Superintendent of Schools Paul Folkemer,
under wrote the costs of bringing Scarsdale public school 1st- through
4th- graders to participate in our education programs. We have applied for a $5000 grant from The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and
Historic Preservation through the office of Assemblyman Gary Pretlow, to allow more
than 200 first-graders from five Mt. Vernon public schools to
participate in our education programs,
and to tour our exhibitions and the Cudner-Hyatt
House.
The Westchester Arts
Council has been of great assistance, with a $3000 basic support grant. A $6000
grant from the James A. Macdonald Foundation underwrote the
mounting of the "Ghosts of the Post Road" exhibition. The Leon Lowenstein Foundation, the McCreery Family
Foundation and the Robert H. Lorsch Family
Foundation Trust are among the private
foundations that help
fund programs and exhibitions. The Society always seeks private foundations and individuals to help
finance its education programs and restoration projects.
Congratulations!
Barbara Jaffe has been chosen to receive the 2005
Scarsdale Bowl (April 27 at Lake Isle)
Margaret Vetare, who served as our
Education Director in the early 1990's, has been named Director of
Interpretation for Historic Hudson Valley.
For the past several years, she has been Director of Special Projects at Philipsburg Manor, where she
headed a reinterpretation of the site
to include the days of slavery.
Dates to Remember
Winter Recess Workshops for Children
Monday, Feb. 21 -
Friday, Feb. 25, 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Spring Benefit
Dinner,
Saturday, April 2, 7
p.m. Fenway Golf Club
Spring Lecture
Thursday, April 28,
8 p.m., Scarsdale Public Library
Condolences
The Society mourns the
recent passing of five of our very special members: Nat Myers Jr., who served
for many years as our Treasurer; John LaWare, one of
our earliest members and supporters; John Laughlin, a long-time member of our
Quaker Meeting House Committee; former Village Manager Lowell Tooley, and Eloise Dibble, long-time member, Advisor and contibutor to many auctions, with her late husband Earl, of
"Dibblelog" travelogs.
We send heartfelt condolences to their families.