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
