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Information for Members of the
The Ethical Culture
Society of Essex County

May 16, 2010

Members who would welcome get-well cards:

 

Marty Cotler
18 Woodland Road
Maplewood, NJ 07040

Doris Rados
352 South Ridgewood Ave.
South Orange, NJ 07079

Jeanine Rosh
105A Troy Drive
Springfield, NJ 07081

Ted Seagull
500 Southern Blvd.
Room 137
Chatham, NJ 07929

 

 

 

 

Video Clip of Singing from Boe's honoring event!

 

 

 

From Barry and Joanne

 

Green Enterprises Web Design
www.EarthcareWeb.com
646.327.5566

 

 

We arrived here on Saturday, September 12, after 3 exhaustive weeks of packing, worrying, and ultimately a mostly pleasant 1,200 mile drive.

I'm happy to report that except for heavy gecko traffic on the series of bikeways that dot our new community, life is relatively worry-free, although not necessarily for the geckos. The house we are renting has its own pool, an idea that I originally poo-pooed when first offered the choice of with or without. It didn't take much to convince me that having this little baby only steps from our living room doesn't really suck. In fact, after an arduous session of unpacking the myriad of cartons we spent those weeks filling with years of accumulated crap, and some possessions we can actually use, there is nothing like a quick dip. And my environmental friends will be pleased to learn that the pool is heated by our good friend Sol.

I know it is too soon to make predictions, but right now, Sarasota is looking really good as a permanent location for Joanne, me, and our 3 furry charges. The 90 degree heat that still lingers from the hot summer is not much of a deterrent since the alleged Supreme Being invented air-conditioning and swimming pools.

But before I go back for my next dip, let me give you our new contact information:

5712 Ferrara Drive
Sarasota, FL 34238
Home phone: 941-552-6526 (or 941-5-jam-jam)
Barry's cell stays the same: 646-327-5566

2009-2010 schedule for coffee and greeters.

 

Snapshots of Events and New Members

From Boe:

Dear Members and Friends of Essex Ethical Society: Hannah Berkley passed away, Tuesday Jan. 13, 2009 in the evening. I had just visited her earlier in the day and had seen her the week before. I was told by the nursing director that she had lost the ability to swallow and had elected to go into their hospice program. I have been in touch with her family: her son Lincoln who is in China and her daughter-in-law Marcie who lives in Boston but came down to see her earlier in the week  after I had requested that the family obtain a private duty nurse. Her son Forest was away in the Andes.   There will be a memorial service at the Society at a time to be determined by the family.

 

                                                        Sorrowfully,

                                                        Boe

Statement on Religious Identity
of Ethical Culture Fall 2008

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Special Contact Information for Members and Friends

Notes On Members and Friends' Activities

 

Fall 2008:

See clip of Patty and Bob Bender on CBS T.V.

 

July 2008 Notes:

Intercepted emails with updates on the Benders and Mike and Marie!

 

June 2008:

Carol Varker passed away in June 2008.
Please join in condolences to her husband Dick.
You may write him a t18 Karam Circle, West Orange, NJ 07052

See Terri Suess's letter-to-the editor of the Star-Ledger
about the National Guard here or on the Social Action Page.

Past:

Molly Gilman being interveiwed on television!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d28QgCBU9UY

Snapshots of the Appalachian Coal Miner's Dinner at Sue & Andy's. If you liked the "Songs of Coal," the book and cd
are available from a wonderful Appalachian group at this site.

 

 

 

Directory Corrections & Additions

 

E-mails

Terri Suess
tsuess05@yahoo.com

Obrzut, Tom & Rebekah Novemsky
bektom@comcast.net

Addresses

Gigi Goldstein
77 Madison Ave. - 224D
Morristown, NJ 07960
Phone: 973-960-7335

Win Thies
25 Manor Dr. - Apt. 1E
Newark, NJ 07106

Jerry Kaplan
973-763-1921

 

 

Various New Addresses

Bob and Patty Bender

will be wintering at
538 Mansfield M, Century Village
Boca Raton, FL 33498
Cell phones:
908-477-7811 for Patty
908-477-7812 for Bob

 

Louisa Lubiak's new address & phone:

1106 EVERGREEN ROAD
YARDLEY, PA  19067
215-428-1429

 

 

Marie Weber and Mike Siegel have new email addresses:

mrsiegel@sonic.net and
marievweber@yahoo.com .

 

 

Bob Bender reports: Larry Lorre,  of South Orange, who in the 1960s was active with the Ethical Youth/Young Adult group and in the chorus in the 90s, died October 17, 2006.  Larry retired from the NJ/Essex County  Probation Dept several years ago.  He had been active in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. He had lived with former ECS member Carrie Schwimmer. There's a gathering for Larry on Thursday, October 19, 7 - 9 p.m. at the Preston Funeral Home on South Orange Avenue at Prospect Street, South Orange.

 

 

 

 

Janet Mangano has been coming to the Essex Ethical Society for more than thirteen years to grace us with pre-platform music. She has participated in the Chamber Music Study Program at the Society directed by Joseph Gluck and Mary Babiarz and in the Diller-Quaile Amateur Chamber Music Program in New York City.  

In the past, she has performed as a soloist, accompanist, and ensemble member in Philadelphia, New York City, Krakow (Poland), and Vienna (Waehring District).

Janet studied at Philadelphia Musical Academy (now The University of the Arts) with Clement Petrillo, teacher of Andre Watts, and at Settlement Music School with Hal Friedman. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. Always interested in ethnic musical roots and derivatives, she played prima balalaika with the Penn Balalaika Orchestra, and studied sitar with Dr. Lalmani Mishra at the University of Pennsylvania.

Currently residing in Short Hills with her husband Charlie and twin sons Andrew and Mark, she specializes in the music of Albeniz, Bach, Bartok, Mozart, and Schubert.

The Society is most grateful for Janet's contribution with her fine technique and musicianship, she enhances and elevates our Sundays together.

On December 19, 2004 the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County adoped the following statement:

Whereas extensive irregularities concerning the November 2, 2004 elections have been widely reported around the country; and whereas, these irregularities severely shake our faith in the fairness of our voting processes while undermining the legitimacy of our entire democracy; and whereas, the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County that has made Maplewood, New Jersey, its home for more than 50 years, holds the principles of a free and open democratic society among its highest values; therefore be it resolved, that we urge our elected representatives at the state and federal levels to conduct public hearings to examine the practices of recording, tabulating and reporting election results so as to assure as best as is humanly possible that those who represent us are doing so under the fairest practices.

 

For more informaton, call 973-7631905
The Ethical Culture Society of Essex County
516 Prospect Street, Maplewood, NJ 07040
EMail:essex@essexethical.org

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