Friday, December 27, 2013

December 20, 2013 Briar Crier



BRIARCRIER
 Dec. 20, 2013, Friday, 12:15, The Briar's Restaurant, Briarcliff Manor Rotary Club.

                                                                                                                                     
 TODAY IN HISTORY
1799: Former President George Washington eulogized by Col. Henry Lee as first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

MEETING LEADER: President Anne Cargill

PLEDGE: Anne Cargill      SONG: Sy Yuter      PRAYER: Paul Rosen

HAPPY THOUGHTS:  Paul, gave dictionaries to third graders and they put their names in them and were very happy to get them; Anne, fell again but will have left shoulder fixed, next week meeting to be led by Eric; Ken for granddaughter spending time with him; Sean wished all a happy holiday. Other happy thoughts but not correctly recorded.

ROTARIANS PRESENT AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: 18 Rotarians present. Rachel, Francis Chu is  back in Phelps hospital and keys to her house are with Sy; Rachel, need canned food for Food Pantry; Eric for Ernie, grapefruits are sweet and delicious and cartons at Recreation Building lower level, and each member responsible for at least five cartons. Zen had to return paintings lent for art auction. Our own art auction scheduled for March 14 and, hopefully, paintings will be back. Kristen Holmes Linder may offer her fruit oil paintings at auction.

GUEST: Christine Cosentino, niece of Etrusca. 

SPEAKER AND SUBJECT: Kristen Holmes Linder on her Jacobi Project.

SUMMARY OF TALK
Kristen Holmes Linder is a  Briarcliff artist and the granddaughter of a  Briarcliff Mayor, Harold Holmes.  She grew up in the Chilmark section and so went to Ossining schools. She is a graduate of Hampshire college and spent time at Columbia Teachers College before she decided to be an artist and not a teacher. She was able to help deprived children at Jacobi, some with HIV, via painting walls with murals.  She showed many slides of the children being helped, many with an increase in self esteem. Painting is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration. She is an artist who has painted many fruit oils, some of which were shown on slides together with her other paintings.

This Friday Dec. 27:  Supt. Ed Torhan on Briarcliff Public Works.

Elinor Yuter, Reporter
Rachel Leihbacher, Expedite