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When he isn’t teaching Near East history and theology at Hartwick College, Bryan Babcock and wife Betsy, this month’s “Farmers of the Future,” are applying experience in international business to organic farming/SEE B1
SUNY Alumni Back In City For Reunion
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The Wounded Warriors, right, and Otsego police and firefighters’ team, left, stand at attention for the national anthem at the start of the Sunday, May 27, game in Cooperstown’s Doubleday Field. In the foreground are, from left, vets Alan Christman, Gulf War; George Tucker Jr., Korea; Bill Bose, WWII, and Bill Haase, Vietnam. Col. Paul Russo, a Bassett physician, sings the anthem.
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undreds of SUNY Oneonta alumni, with family and friends, will be back FridaySunday, June 1-3, for Reunion Weekend 2012, with highlights including a “Taste of Oneonta” promotion in local restaurants Saturday evening. A college president, forensic biologist and philanthropist will be among recipients of annual Alumni Awards to be presented at an on-campus reception at 10:30 a.m. Saturday/SEE A2 SWAIN RITES: Bill Swain, SUNY Oneonta professor emeritus in education, passed away on Memorial Day. Arrangements were incomplete at presstime. Details, www.allotsego.com ANI HONORED: Sixth Ward Athletic Club members Friday, May 25, delivered the $632.50 balance of food to the St. James Food Pantry, completing the 2012 Ani Colone Food Drive. The drive produced $5,600, including $2,328 in cash from Ani’s family and friends, a $2,000 match from the club, and $1,250 in donated food. POLLS TO OPEN: A Republican primary for U.S. Senate and Democratic one for 19th Congressional District is noon-9 p.m. Tuesday, June 26.
From the steps to Cooperstown’s Council Rock Park, the winningest participant in the 50-year history of the General Clinton Regatta, Serge Corbin, right, and his paddling partner, Steve Corlew, watch one of the Memorial Day races cut through Otsego Lake toward the mouth of the Susquehanna. In the background are the Sleeping Lion, a view made internationally famous by James Fenimore Cooper’s novels, and Kingfisher Tower/SEE A-8
Nurse Who Died As WWI Ended Remembered Here By LIBBY CUDMORE “Quiet, but very excited.” “Lots of fun when she got talking.” “Clever, well-read.” “A little plump, satisfactory person.”
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his is how friends and fellow Red Cross workers described Ethel
Scratchard at her February 1919 funeral in Paris, as reported by brother George in a letter to family in Scratchard Oneonta. Ethel was the only Oneonta woman to die in World War I, and this Memorial Day, May Please See NURSE, A6
Grad Liz Kelly hugs her mom, Hartwick College President Margaret Drugovich, who presented degrees Saturday, May 26, at the college’s 81st graduation/SEE A-3
Fund Drive To Return Swart House Corncrib By LIBBY CUDMORE
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he first challenge for pioneering Swart family’s 200-yearold corncrib was getting it out of the Schoharie County mud after last September’s flooding from Hurricane Irene.
TO DONATE: Mail checks to Friends of Swart-Wilcox House, 31 Elm St., Oneonta, 13820. Write “corncrib” in memo line. “When we tried to move it, it was stuck so firmly in the mud that it started to pull apart,” said
Helen Rees, historian at the Swart-Wilcox House, Oneonta’s oldest surviving home. “We had to dismantle it in order to move it.” Betty Kosco, who lives on the original Swart homestead in Middleburgh, donate the strucPlease See CRIB, A6
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A-2 HOMETOWN ONEONTA Lyall Takes Top DAR Essay Prize
FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2012
SUNY To Recognize 9 During Reunion Weekend
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Grace Lyall of Center Street School was awarded first prize from Jeanne Westcott, for her essay on the War of 1812. The contest was sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Oneonta chapter.
• Dr. Joann La PerlaMorales, ’68, president of Middlesex County College in Edison, N.J., will receive the Distinguished Alumna Award. • Jeannie Tamariz, ’02, a forensic biologist in the New York City Frost Office of Chief Medical Examiner, and Stanley S. Hansen Jr., ’75, executive director of the New York State Education Department’s Office of K-16 Initiatives and Access Programs, will receive the Educational Opportunity Program Alumni Outstanding Achievement Awards. • Lisa Pittari, ’06, training and
ight SUNY Oneonta alumni will be awarded for their outstanding contributions to the college at the 2012 SUNY Oneonta Reunion Weekend: • Dr. James Frost, SUNY Oneonta history professor and administrator in 1947-1964, who went on to serve as SUNY vice chancellor and chancellor of the Connecticut State University System, will receive the Emeritus Faculty Outstanding Service Award. • Jay S. Winuk, ’80, president/ founder of the public relations firm Winuk Communications Inc. and co-founder and vice president of the nonprofit MyGoodDeed organization, will receive the 2012 Distinguished Alumnus Award. WINS FULBRIGHT: Eric Schultz, 22, Hartwick College ‘12, has been named a Fulbright Scholar.
education manager for Colorado Youth Matter and a member of the Denver Mayor’s Youth Commission, will receive the Outstanding Young Alumna Award. • Dana Kuznetzkoff, ’83, awardwinning producer, creative director and documentary filmmaker, will receive the Outstanding Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion Award. • Ronald and Eileen Tulloch, ’62, will receive the Excellence in Alumni Service Award in recognition of their leadership, philanthropy and engagement in alumni activities. A reception to recognize the winners of the annual Alumni Awards will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 2.
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Hartwick Profs Elder, Troischt Honored for Scholarly Work
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aura Elder, associate professor of political science and chair of the department, received Hartwick College’s TeacherScholar Award. Dr. Elder, who received her B.A. from Colgate, joined Hartwick in 1999
and specializes in women in politics. She has written numerous papers and addressed numerous conferences on a range of subjects. Both Parker Troischt, assistant professor of physics, and Gary Herion, professor of religious studies, who
received Winifred D. Wandersee Scholar-in-Residence awards. The awards were presented Thursday, May 10, during the college’s annual Honors Convocation in Lambros Arena.
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Lloyd Baker, left, retired Oneonta school superintendent and former football coach, is a walking encyclopedia of OHS sports history. When he ran into Sam Lamonica, center, at the Neptune Diner the other day, he recalled his 90-yard run against Vestal in 1956. With Lamonica, a physician who summers at Goodyear Lake, was teammate Bill Whitaker, a retired Navy commander.
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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MAY 30-31, 2012
Dr. Mark R. Davis, chairman of Hartwick’s Education Department, smiles at the applause on receiving the Margaret Bunn Teaching Award.
Drum Major Gates Murchie and the Broome County Bagpipe & Drum Corps lead the way.
Faculty Chair Reid Golden places a hood on Taylor Goble’s shoulders, signifying his graduation.
309 Depart Hartwick’s Oyaron Hill Clara Tanner, Schenevus, was one of the most popular folks there: She distributed bottled water to steamy attendees.
Sophomores Danielle Dillard, Chelsea Ziegler and Marel Andrews take a break from the ceremony.
Xavier Clair, Class of 1914, poses with older brother Alex. The two have six other siblings, including brother Nicholas, who graduated in the Class of 2012.
Alicia Fish, director of alumni relations, presents a bell, symbolic of the bell rung at Hartwick Seminary going back to 1797, to each of the 309 graduates during the college’s 2012 commencement Saturday, May 26, under the tent on Oyaron Hill. The commencement speaker was Kathy Ordonez, president of Celera.
Rebecca Flynn, along with her 308 fellow graduates, heartily rings a bell provided to each of the seniors, a memento of their years in Oneonta.
President Drugovich comforts her teary daughter, Liz Kelly, who received her diploma from her mother on graduating in the Class of 2012.
Bob Hanft of Cooperstown, a Hartwick trustee (and former chairman) processes into the ceremony.
Layla Butterman, 4 months, attended her first graduation, along with mom Ana.
Giada Ratchford enjoys a bit of freedom before grandmother Leah Elwood, a coordinator in the Office of Advising, retrieved her from the runway to make way for the bagpipe band.
Grad Sarah Briggs of Wayland was all smiles – she begins work shortly at Bassett Hospital’s ICU. Mom Mary, dad Jim and boyfriend Michael Converse smile with her.
HOMETOWN Views
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FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2012
EDITORIAL
Want State Funding? Then Let’s Learn How To Play The Game
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FA. When an editorial starts out with an acronym, most readers immediately turn the page. But stick with this for just three more paragraphs. CFA stands for “comprehensive funding application” – please, just a little longer – which is how New York State is distributing $1 billion in economic-development money annually that used to be channeled through dozens of programs and agencies. If you are a businessperson or elected official or volunteer with a great project but no money, focus: A seminar that will instruct you how to fill out a CFA is planned 3-5 p.m. Thursday, June 14, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom. To RSVP, go to http://regionalcouncils. ny.gov and type “suny oneonta” in the search bar in the upper right. OK, that’s the end. End of the mandatory part. The crossword is on Page B7. (We’re headed there, too) •
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It would be nice to tell you this is important. It may be. But we won’t know for a few months. It depends how successful Otsego County is in extracting significant funding from the Mohawk Valley Economic Development Commission – Governor Cuomo created 10 such EDCs (drat, another acronym) statewide – for significant local projects. Well-crafted CFAs (see above) are important to that. To recap (skip ahead if you like): Last fall, when $1 billion in state money was first distributed through CFAs, private enterprise in Otsego County only received $140,000. That was for an expansion of Brewery Ommegang. A lot’s happened since. Citizens Voices, 115 businesspeople concerned about “unintended consequences” of the anti-fracking movement that might impact local enterprises, challenged state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, at a breakfast last December to do something about economic
Streck. In short, good things are happening. No check in hand, yet, but good trending. • Sure, it seems complicated. The CFAs are due in July. They will be reviewed by the Mohawk Valley EDC, compared to regional priorities identified last year, and sent on to a couple of additional state reviews before the lucky projects are announced in the fall. But government consists of bureaucracies and bureaucracies are, well, bureaucratic. So let’s learn the rules. And if money comes for say, an acoustical shell for Foothills’ stage, or new sidewalks, benches and lighting for Cooperstown’s Main Street, or – just sayin’ – feeder systems to provide cheaper natural gas to all the major communities along the proposed Constitution pipeline, we may eventually be convinced the process works. Meanwhile, register for that CFA seminar Thursday, June 14, at SUNY Oneonta.
MEMORIAL DAY, THE NATION REMEMBERS
Editor’s Note: Here are Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller’s remarks at the Memorial Day gathering in Neahwa Park.
I like clear messages, and instructions. There should be no excuses for not following them. Let me state what I think President Lincoln told us. In sum he said: • Those in whom we entrust the or 146 years since the first Decoresponsibility of government, seeing ration Day in 1866, in speeches the need to protect our and editorials, peocountry’s fundamental ple have been tapped to histories, send some of say something profound, our fellow citizens off memorable, inspiring and to war for the benefit of perhaps new about what those left behind we do on Memorial Day. • Those of us left Always we come behind, and who enjoy together physically and those liberties, have the in our thoughts to honor responsibility of workthose who served, have ing just as hard in the brought home physical true luxury of safety to and emotional scars, or protect them. who have paid the ulti• It is the ultimate mate sacrifice by giving dishonor of those who their lives for our country. serve and sacrifice to Unfortunately, the we is a small group. Most hometown oneonta not do so. • Spending a few enjoy a holiday like any Oneonta Mayor Dick hours a year at cerother holiday with little Miller, a Vietnam vetthought of its meaning. eran, delivers Memorial emonies like this is not At Memorial Day Day remarks in Neahwa enough. • Every day we must and at Veterans Day, we Park. Behind him is Les Grummons. work to preserve and remember, those of us enhance for all Amerihere will follow General cans the fundamental liberties stated Logan’s orders. in our bill of rights upon which our We have heard the inspiring words country was founded. of President Lincoln. The first part of • Only through doing that do we his Gettysburg Address was specific to properly honor those who served, were the Civil War and the terrible battle on scarred or perished for us. the grounds in southern Pennsylvania • As we conclude our remembrance where he made his speech. today, let us recognize the work we The last two paragraphs apply to all must do, recommit ourselves to it and wars and what we should be doing toget on with it. day and every day to honor those who God bless the men and women who served and particular those who made gave us that chance. the ultimate sacrifices.
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development locally. He returned the following month, called economic-development efforts in Otsego County “woefully inadequate” compared to the other 10 counties in his 51st District, and announced he planned an Economic Development Summit, which drew 200 people and packed The Otesaga’s ballroom on March 8. The gathering identified three economicdevelopment goals – broadband access, entrepreneurism or business development, and targeting companies that might want to locate plants or offices here. Committees were formed to pursue these topics – the targeting one met Tuesday, May 29, and the two others are to meet in the next few days. Seward also created a leadership council, which includes the college presidents, the mayors of Oneonta and Cooperstown, and economic-development officials. And he’s planning a gathering of eagles – the top local business leaders, from the managers of Covidien and Amphenol to Bassett’s Bill
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt of remarks Gulf War veteran Alan Christman delivered at Cooperstown’s Memorial Day observance.
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have come to believe that the true and the only reason for Memorial Day is for the men and women of this great nation of ours who have given it all on the battlefield ... Memorial Day is not about the living. It has to be about the men and women who have died on the battlefields both known and unknown who have given us the rights and freedoms that we so enjoy today. At this very moment, halfway around the world in some of the most desolate places you could ever imagine, Americans are fighting and dying in the name of freedom. There are still some who think we should have done nothing after 9/11 and many are very vocally opposed to any military action. But herein lies the beauty of America: You can disagree peaceably if you so choose. Our Constitution guarantees those freedoms of expression and assembly. But it is important to remember who fought for and gave you these rights. For more than 230 years, our military has provided a bastion against our enemies. In that time our world has changed and our armed forces
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Gulf War vet Alan Christman addressed Cooperstown’s Memorial Day observance.
have changed with it. But the valor, dignity and courage of the men and women in uniform remains the same. From Valley Forge to Desert Storm, from San Juan Hill to Operation Enduring Freedom, the fighting spirit of the American soldier permeates the history of our nation. The founders of the United States understood that our military would be the rampart from which America would guard its freedom. George Washington once stated, “By keeping up in peace a wellregulated and disciplined militia, we shall take the fairest and best method to preserve for a long time to come the
happiness, dignity and our independence.” The prophecy of those words has been fulfilled time and time again. The cost of that vision has been tremendous, for the periods of peace our country has enjoyed are few. The longest time of complete tranquility for our armed forces was the 23 years between WWI and WWII. Since the Revolutionary War, more than 42 million men and women have served in America’s military. More than 1,314,000 of those dauntless, selfless warriors have died in the various conflicts that gave birth to and have sustained our great nation. But why are we so willing to fight and, if need be, to die? The answer to that question is as simple and yet as complex as the soul of America itself. We fight because we believe. We believe NOT that war is good but sometimes that it is necessary. ...The words of the philosopher John Stuart Mills say it best. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling of an individual who thinks nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free.
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Pacherille Case Not Closed Until Anthony Comes Home
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To the Editor: I find that I must respond to last week’s editorial, “It’s Time to Act on Hard Issues, So Community Can Move On.” Move on? With the inappropriate photo accompanying the editorial? For me, as I turned the page to the editorial, I saw the photo and I felt a blow. For me, it brought back all the horrible memories of that sad, sad day. That day – when my daughter, Kathy, called me saying Anthony shot someone and himself – and my first thought being someone tried to break in his house and he defended himself and then shot himself accidentally. That day – walking into the ER and seeing Anthony covered with blood with a bullet in his forehead. That day – when I held Anthony’s one hand and he, with his other, held a suction tube to extract the blood from his throat so he could breathe and I saw the tears streaming down his face. To then read on to have it stated that Craig and Tracy Lippitt are not hard-hearted and unbending gave me
another blow. As for the Pacherilles and Lippitts being brought together – in my opinion, isn’t it a little too late? Is it not known that Tony and Kathy tried to reach out to the Lippitts and their minister? Is it not known that Tony called the Lippitts only to have Craig Lippitt say, “Don’t ever call this house again?” Is it not known that Tony and Kathy went to a session of the “Circle of Caring “ meeting, only to be told they could not speak of the tragedy and having Craig Lippitt storm out of the meeting? Is it not known that Tracy Lippitt hung up the telephone on Tony’s 80year-old mother as his mother pleaded with her for mercy? I see words in the editorial such as “kindness,”, “peace,” “acceptance” and “forgiveness.” I saw Craig Lippitt carrying a sign with the prominent word “forgiveness” (among others). How hypocritical. Kindness and forgiveness for who? Certainly none was shown for An-
thony. For me, I sympathize with the Lippitts, trying to put myself in their place. They have undergone a traumatic experience, who only they can explain. But to say they are not hard-hearted and unbending is, in my opinion, not a truth. For me, the editorial is correct in stating Anthony’s treatment is underscored almost daily by others with less serious crimes receiving less punishment than Anthony. For me, of course Anthony did a very bad thing. But he is a good person who did a very bad thing. He is not a criminal and does not deserve what he is getting. If only the Lippitts had shown some of what was on that sign that Craig Lippitt carried, I think the outcome would have been better for all. For me, the door on the Pacherille case will never be closed for our family until Anthony is home. MARY-ANN ANGELO Cooperstown
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History
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Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library
125 Years Ago
The Local News – A job printing press now approaching completion at the machine shops of Miller & Co. on Mechanic Street is destined to bring a fortune to the inventor, if the press accomplishes all that it is intended it shall. The press is built upon principles differing materially from the average jobbing press, printing from a self-feeding roll of paper, and making several times as many impressions per minute as is possible with the press requiring a boy to feed it. An adjustable knife cuts the sheets to any size required as fast as printed. Mr. D.T. Eckerson of Worcester is the inventor, and he also has in course of construction at Miller & Co.’s shops a hot hair engine of his own design. Mr. Blend, the architect, is drawing plans for the five cottages to be built on Lawn Avenue by the Stanton Estate. The cottages are to be alike, and supplied with every modern convenience. June 1887
industry. Behind Karen on the bed was an inflatable cow three feet long. When asked, Shelly had no idea how many stomachs a cow has. “A cow has four stomachs.” Other questions and answers followed. The conversation turned to ice cream. “Ice Cream doesn’t come from a cow,” Karen explained. “But there is milk in it.” Karen spoke to more than 600 children in West Winfield and Richfield Springs on Wednesday and on Tuesday she was at the Cherry Valley School and the Worcester Nursery School. On Friday she will be in all the Oneonta elementary schools. June 1972
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30 Years Ago
Governor Hugh Carey confirmed Tuesday that he will sign a bill to raise New York’s minimum drinking age from 18 to 19. The change in drinking age is the first since 1933 when Prohibition ended. The legal drinking age in Connecticut was raised to 19 recently. This leaves Vermont as the only state in the northeast where 18-year-olds can legally drink. Richard Snelling, governor of Vermont recently vetoed a bill to increase his state’s drinking age to 19. Governor Carey cited studies showing that 18-year-olds were responsible for a disproportionate number of drinking and driving fatalities. June 1982
80 Years Ago
The first commencement exercises at Hartwick College will be held Monday morning, June 13, at 10:30 o’clock at the First Methodist Church in Oneonta with Dr. Frank Pierrepont Graves, president of the University of the State of New York giving the address. Senior exercises will be held Thursday night, June 9, at which time a senior banquet will be held. In reality this will be the first alumni banquet since in future years it will occupy this position on commencement programs. An informal reception to parents and guests will be given at the college building Friday afternoon, June 10, at 3 o’clock. At 7 o’clock of the same day the Hartwick College Association will have its annual meeting and dinner at the First Methodist Church. The speaker will be Dr. Stephen F. Bayne, district superintendent of schools in New York City. Senior Class Day exercises will commence Saturday, June 11 at 10 o’clock on the college campus. The exercises will include the senior class song, an address by senior class president Howard Sherman, presentation of the class gift, acceptance of the gift, bestowing of the mantle upon the Junior class, acceptance of the mantle, class will, prophecy, history, poem, and the planting of a tree from the Mt. Vision estate. Sunday, at 10:30 o’clock, the Andrew and Philip Society of the school will conduct a service at the Lutheran Church of the Atonement. The address will be given by the Rev. William G. Boomhower, D.D. June 1932
60 Years Ago
Graduation exercises for the Bugbee School eighth grade will be held at 8 p.m. on Wednesday in the Bugbee music
June 1912 room. Dr. Royal F. Netzer, college president, will speak to the class, and Dr. Willis P. Porter, principal, will award the diplomas. A play featuring the theme “This is America to Me” will be presented by the students under the direction of Miss Edith Laue, eighth grade teacher. Participating students will be Matthew Rhodes, Thomas Donnelly, Myron Leach, William Pirone, Bruce Downie, George Hoofes, David VanWoert, Cary Robinson, Kathleen Canellis, Carl Spinola, Molly Whitaker, Gordon Anderson, Elizabeth Weidman, Edward Disbrow, Richard Keegan, Marilyn Wright, Nancy Bree and Constance Leach. June 1952
40 Years Ago
Otsego County Dairy Princess Karen Golja of Worcester and a student at the College of St. Rose in Albany arrived home from school on May 19. Since then, she has been reaching out to as many area people as possible to encourage use of milk and dairy products. Last Thursday, Miss Golja visited with six-year-old Shelly Emmett in the pediatric ward at Fox Hospital. On a nearby table were coloring sheets with pictures of cows and barns. As Karen helped Shelly with the coloring project, she talked about the dairy
20 Years Ago
In the past 27 years, more than 1.5 million seriously disadvantaged young people have gone through the Job Corps experience – an intensive program that offers schooling, vocational training, and counseling for social adjustment and group living. Job Corps students live in dormitories, receiving meals, health care, and work clothing from the center. In the year ending in June 1989, 69 percent of Job Corps students nationwide had been placed in meaningful jobs, or had moved on to further education. The Job Corps is the most expensive employment and training program operated by the federal government at $20,000 per student annually. June 1992
10 Years Ago
Recently released figures from the 2000 census indicate that the proportion of people living in poverty in New York State rose from 13 percent to 14.6 percent during the 1990s. Nearly 2.7 million people out of the state’s 19 million residents fell under federally set classifications. For example, the poverty threshold for a family of four is pegged at $16,895. In Otsego County, 45 percent of single mothers with children age five years are under are living in poverty; in Delaware County, 61 percent. June 2002
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Monet Arrives, Iroquois Culture Celebrated At Fenimore Art Museum
Walt Ashley, above, of Cooperstown, examines Monet’s “Bridge at Dolceacqua,” the first work by a major French Impressionist to be displayed at The Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown. It provides a point of reference to “American Impressionism: Paintings of Light and Life,” which opened Saturday, May 26, for the season. At right, Walter John of the Haudenosaunee Singers & Dancers performs the smoke dance under the main tent during The Fenimore Art Museum’s Iroquois Cultural Festival Saturday, May 26, next to the museum’s recreated 17th century Seneca village. Watching at left are Jessica Gilmartin, Jennifer Walsh, Isabel Clements and Debbie Clements, all of Cooperstown.
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90 Years After Monument Built, Nurse Remembered $20,000 Sought For Corncrib NURSE/From A1 28, marked the 90th anniversary of the dedication of the monument in Neahwa Park. Fannie Ethel Scatchard was born March 1, 1886. Her father, Elmer, owned the Oneonta Knitting Mill, where Enterprise Rent-ACar is now. When Ethel was described as the “woman of the house” – “it was as though she was fated to do what she did,” said historian Robert Calendresa, who lectured on her life to a full house at the History Center on Memorial Day. “She enjoyed caring for people, and that’s what she did for the rest of her life.” Three of the nurse’s greatgrand-nieces, Pat Wheeler of Binghamton, Nancy Launt O’Hara of Milford and Joanne Launt of Cooperstown attended. The family lived on Maple Street and she graduated
snacks, drinks and leisure to traveling soldiers. Knowing she would soon be sent overseas, in 1917, at age 31, she signed her will. She was sent over in November 1918, just nine days after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, She was buried with full military honors in Suresnes American Cemetery in Paris, France, section B, row five, grave six. Her name, however, is backwards, listed as Ethel Fannie Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA Scatchard. Scratchard’s three great-grand-nieces, from left, A local memorial serPat Wheeler, Scotia, Nancy Launt O’Hara, Milford, vice was April 6, 1919, at and Joanne Launt, Cooperstown, share family lore the Free Baptist Church with local historian Robert Calandresa. in Oneonta. The organist from Center Street School. tained, she and her siblings played “Abide with Me” In her passport applicatraveled through Europe on while her portrait was distion, filled out on June 18, the “Grand Tour,” returning played. 1912, she described herself by ocean liner three months In 1920, the Women’s as “five feet, three or four after the Titanic sank. Club of Oneonta planned to inches, high forehead, hazel In April 1917, the Red honor their fallen comrade eyes, nose is prominent, Cross opened its first chapwith a memorial in Neahwa thick lips, face tending to be ter in Oneonta, in response Park, and 4,000 people sharp.” to World War I. Ethel donated 30 cents each, raisOnce the passport was ob- signed up for the first class ing the funds necessary to in surgical dressing, and build the monument. As later taught the class herEthel was a nature lover, the Healthy Plants at Reasonable Prices self. She signed up for the memorial was designed with 7 Days a Week 9a.m. - 6p.m. Red Cross canteen service, two benches and a birdbath, which opened in railway constructed out of boulders stations to give food, native to the area. Davenport Route 23 Center
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CRIB/From A1 ture to the Swart-Wilcox organization. “The 12 feet of water just lifted it right off the foundation and carried it two miles down the road – when you think of something 200 years old surviving something like this, it’s amazing,” said Rees. “ And a 200-year-old corncrib is just perfect for our Lawrence Swart house,” she added. “It’s serendipitous.” John Edgerton retrieved the structure and has it stored on his property in Mount Vision. But the second challenge is putting the corncrib back together again. Because the Swart-Wilcox House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Rees describes the restoration options as “somewhat limited. “ “It has to be restored in an appropriate fashion,” she said. “It’s not just something anyone can do.” Edgerton, who has restored buildings for The Farmers’ Museum, will be repairing and stabilizing beams that have rotted. It
has a 1950s-style roof, where the corn would have been loaded from above; Edgerton will replace it with a tin roof in the style of the 1870s, where corn would have been loaded in from the side with a shovel and pitchfork. “Such a corncrib would have a roof made from tin left over from the house’s roof,” Rees explained. Though the Swart-Wilcox house roof is currently shingled, Rees said that a future project would be to restore the original tin roofing. The Swart-Wilcox House is kicking off the fundraising effort with a series of summer programs, including tours every Sunday through July. The group has raised $10,000 of the $20,000 needed for the repairs, and hopes it will be done in time for a fall unveiling at the Corn Festival. When the corncrib finally arrives at its new home, Rees says it will create a new way to view history. “We’ll be able to do outdoor programs that we weren’t able to do before,” she said.
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1,000 Honor Wounded Warriors At Doubleday Tom Carlo, a Marine and member of the Wounded Warriors Softball Team, belts one into the outfield at Doubleday Field Sunday, May 27, during a game with local police and firefighters. Scott Monington is catcher. Some 1,000 fans packed the historic grandstand and spread out into the bleachers. The Wounded Warriors, soldiers who suffered amputations during service to their country, had been scheduled to play in Binghamton on Memorial Day. But learning they would be so close to Cooperstown, determined they would play there too. Carlo, who lives in Harrisburg, Pa., lost his right leg below the knee.
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As the Broome County Bagpipe & Drum Corps performed patriotic tunes in the outfield, the team of firefighters and police removed their caps in respect. From left are Glen Falk, Jeremy Preston, William Henn, Jay Szwejka, Cooperstown Fire Chief Jim Tallman and Jim Cox. Congressman Scott Gibson, R-Kinderhook, who is running to represent all of Otsego County, and Dr. Paul Russo of Cooperstown, who served in Afghanistan, chats with Wounded Warrior Matias Ferreira in the dugout before the game. A Marine, Ferreira is from Atlanta.
CYB Coach John Lohan brought some of his players and their pals to watch the game from the Doubleday grandstand. From left are Dominic Abbate, Brendan Lohan, Jesse Furnari, Richie Abbate and Noel Greenblatt.
Bonnie Neu of Oneonta cuddles grandson Kaiden, 7 months. She is flanked by daughter Christina Neu and boyfriend Doug Winters.
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Rod and Miranda Robinson, a father-daughter team from Otego, embark at Cooperstown’s Lakefront Park on Memorial Day for the 50th annual General Clinton Canoe Regatta down the Susquehanna. Andy Triebold and Steve Lajoie claimed the $5,000 top prize, besting perennial winner Serge Corbin, who came in second.
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Above, Evelyn Collier of Cooperstown, with daughter Jessica and daughter-in-law Kristen, bids husband John and other Colliers Godspeed on their journey to Bainbridge. The Colliers manned three canoes this year.
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At left, Ruby Mancke watches the regatta from atop her dad’s shoulders. The family, now living in Cambridge, Mass., was originally from Davenport.
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This updated 1967 ranch sits on about 3 acres in a country setting, Cooperstown Schools. Offering about 1,240+- square feet of living space, this home has a large kitchen with breakfast bar, dining room, living room with wood stove hook-up, and French doors opening to a den with doors to a large deck. There is a large hallway to the outside, currently being used as extra closet space, a full bath and two bedrooms. All except the bath have lovely wood floors, many replacement windows, and lovely light filled rooms. The lower level offers a family room, bathroom, laundry, work and storage space and under the house garage. Fully applianced. A real bonus is a full second floor which could be finished for another l,000 square feet of living space. REA electric heat, new siding, new roof, outdoor storage building, fenced garden space, pretty stone walls and a large yard. The lower property level is flat and would be perfect for horses. offered exclusively by Ashley-Connor realty $189,500. Visit us on the Web at www.ashleyconnorrealty.com • Contact us at info@ashleyconnorrealty.com
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Bill Meade, chaplain of the Oneonta American Legion, left, shakes hands with George Mukai, who received the Congressional Gold Medal last November. Mukai served as staff sergeant in the 442nd Regiment, an all-Japanese-American unit that sustained the highest casualties and most decorations in World War II. Behind them is George Miller, who served as an engineer during Vietnam.
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OHS Valedictorian Michael Lee delivers the Gettysburg Address at the Veteran’s Memorial in Neahwa Park at 11 a.m. Monday, May 28, during Oneonta’s Memorial Day observances.
OHS Salutatorian Meredith Clemons reads the 2012 Memorial Day proclamation.
Boy Scout Joel Attanasio and American Legion Commander Len Casron place a wreath on the Air Force portion of the Veterans Memorial.
The Oneonta Veterans Club color guard passes before the crowd that lined Main Street for the annual Memorial Day Parade.
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Make yourself at Home on our website http://www.donolinrealty.com for listings and information on unique and interesting properties. We'll bring you Home!