April
18, 2014 at The Briar's Restaurant, 512 N. State Rd.
of
Briarcliff Manor Rotary Club Meeting
TODAY
IN HISTORY
1923:
The first game between the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox was
played at the old Yankee Stadium. The Yankees won 4-1.
MEETING
LEADER: President Anne Cargill
PLEDGE:
Anne SONG: Sy
PRAYER: Anne via Robert Burns poem
ROTARIANS
PRESENT AND HAPPY THOUGHTS: 13 Rotarians present. Today is Good
Friday, which may account for the small number of members present. Sy
will be 90 on Easter Sunday when much of the world will celebrate
though not his birthday; Vote for Eric's slate of the 2014-2015 Board
at next Friday meeting; Kris back in the hospital; Anne, will not be
voting for new board.
GUEST:
Edmar Flores, guest of Sean.
SPEAKER
AND SUBJECT: Sean Santiago on SING SING Prison with help from
his guest Edmar. Part II of his talk will be on July 18.
SUMMARY
OF TALK
The
first prison in New York City was started in 1791. In 1828 Sing Sing
prison was built and inmates transferred from NYC. Current
prisoners, all of whom have committed felonies, are at Sing Sing
now. The new prison was a model of reform. Then got to prison
only by steamboat on the Hudson River or by the then muddy Albany
State Road, now Route 9. President Lincoln visited the prison in the
1860s. The prison had an electric chair to kill prisoners which was
last used in 1947 to kill prisoners Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for
spying for Communist Russia. New cells added in 1929 had running
water and a toilet. Famous wardens included Wayne Seltzer,
Thomas Osborne and John Lewis. Several movies were made about
the prison. There was even a bird sanctuary in the 1920s. Rachel
recalls a break out around 1988. There are about 2000 prisoners
there now.
This
Friday at The Briar's: Scott Lanoff with a Mortgage Update.
Elinor
Yuter, Reporter
Rachel
Leihbacher, Expediter
