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For Evening, Oneonta Becomes NFL Central By LIBBY CUDMORE NEW BERLIN HOMETOWN ONEONTA
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hen the first class of future NFL Angela Eardley, Oneonplayers and college football ta, co-owner of the standouts arrived in 2004 at Stallions, helped her Milford Academy, which had just been refootball players scoop located here from Connecticut, they were ice cream for attendees at OWL’s annual Ice convinced the Cream Social, held Sunbuilding was day, June 3, at the Boys haunted by & Girls Club. The night ghosts from before, the team won the cemetery its first game/PHOTO, A9
next door. “I told them, Donation Will ‘I need tough Fund Repairs guys to play football,’” reTo Curtis Park New Berlin Mayor counted Coach Bill Chaplick. leinman Performance Terry Potter points out the jersey of “They had to Partners’ President LeSean McCoy, who go live in the Alan Cleinman will just signed a $45 present a check for landscap- million contract with building.” One of those ing and repairs of Curtis the Eagles. future tough Park to Mayor Miller at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, June 7, at the guys was Jeremy Horne, wide receiver Ian Austin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA for the Kansas City Chiefs, who will be a Milford Academy Head Coach Bill Chaplick strides across the lawn of the former New corner of Maple and Main guest of honor at Milford Academy’s Hall Berlin High School, taking over in 2004 by the former Yale Preparatory School of Milford, streets. Conn., as a boot camp of outstanding high school football players looking to raise their The donation, said Clein- of Fame banquet, which will be held in SATs to get into college. He’s cradling a football signed by the 2011 Falcons who boasted Oneonta for the first time this year: man, is a natural extension Please See NFL, A9 a perfect season of 12-0. of his company’s investment in the renovation of two historic buildings next to the park at corporate headquarters. ose for pictures sity, will give the keynote of ‘07, a former Albany with a Patriot, shake address. resident and a running back REFORM EXPLORED: hands with a Chief Attendees will also rub with the Kansas City Chiefs. Assemblyman Bill Magee, and maybe get some tips shoulders with: Tickets are $85, includD-Nelson, state Sen. Jim for next season’s pee-wee • Nico Koutouvides, ing appetizers, full dinner, Seward, R-Milford, and football league at the MilClass of ‘99, who played dessert and cash bar, as well Brian Sampson, executive ford Academy’s banquet at with the New England Patrias a chance to meet and director of Unshackle Up6 p.m. Thursday, June 21 ots in this past Super Bowl. mingle with famous Milford state, will discuss workers’ at the Foothills Performing • Ollie Ogbu, Class of Academy grads. Tickets are compensation reform when At Milford Academy’s annual Sports Banquet, Arts Center. ‘06, a free agent with the In- limited to 300. For tickets, the Citizen Voices business Oneontans can rub shoulders with NFL players UConn Head Football dianapolis Colts and former contact Coach Bill Chapgroup meets at 8 a.m. Friday, Jeremy Horne, Niko Koutouvides and Ollie Ogbu, Coach Paul Pasqualoni, Penn State star. lick, (607) 847-9260. and hear UConn Coach Paul Pasqualoni keynote. June 15, at the Carriage former of Syracuse Univer• Jeremy Horne, Class House on Southside Drive, Oneonta.
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NEW QUARTERS: The School at Springbrook’s graduating class, for the first time, will go through commencement exercises in the renovated gym Thursday, June 14, as the facility’s $15 million expansion nears its end. A grand opening of the completed project will be celebrated on Sept. 20.
Southside Mall Attracts Kay Jewelers, 3rd National Chain In Year
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ork begins Monday, June 11, to prepare Southside Mall to accommodate a Kay Jewelers, the nation’s largest jewelry chain, according to Mall General Manager Luisa Montanti. In the face of national economic conditions,
Kay will be the third such national concern drawn to the Oneonta retail center in the past year – first was TJ Maxx, then Dick’s Sporting
Goods, now under construction. And Montanti said it won’t be the last. “We attract shoppers from 40 miles around,” she said, noting that’s an unusual reach, and national chains are starting to recognize Southside’s significant draw.
That also explains the attraction of the Route 23 retail corridor to Syracusebased Metro Mattress, which opened its 40th outlet next to the Neptune Diner on Friday, May 25. Kay Jewelers, founded in 1916 in Reading, Pa., by two brothers, Sol and Ed-
mund Kaufman, will occupy the 2,800-square-foot space open since Border’s closed its local store last August. With 900 stores nationwide, Kay is a division of Sterling Jewelers Inc., headquartered in Akron, Ohio, the largest retail jeweler chain in the U.S.
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SUNY Binghamton Deputy Chief Fills In While Ingersoll On Leave
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UNY Oneonta appointed Daniel P. Chambers as interim university police chief Thursday, June 1, replacing Barton Ingersoll, who has taken an extended leave from the college. Ingersoll’s leave “comes on the heels of securing the department’s accreditation visit, the culmination of nearly two years of work that would not have been possible without his leadership,” said Steve Perry, vice president for student development. The state Division of Criminal Justice Services is expected to approve the SUNY Oneonta University Police Department accreditation, and to signaling that the department meets
Dan Chambers, left, replaces Barton Ingersoll.
the stringent standards of state accreditation as a law enforcement agency. A ceremony in Albany to recognize the department is scheduled for June 14. “I’m extremely proud of the department and what this says about the level of professionalism at SUNY Oneonta,” said Ingersoll, who received a SUNY Chancellor’s Award at the college’s May 17 gradua-
tion. “Less than 20 percent of all law enforcement agencies in the state have attained accreditation. It’s no small task, and each of our officers has reason to be proud.” Chambers comes from SUNY Binghamton, where he has been deputy chief. He will take a leave of absence there while assigned here. A 26-year member of SUNY Police, Chambers began his career at Morrisville. At Binghamton, he was promoted to lieutenant in 2000, investigator in 2001 and deputy chief in 2005. Ingersoll, who has been at SUNY Oneonta since 1993, has two master’s and a Ph.D., and also holds the title of associate vice president.
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Laura Cox, founding managing editor of Hometown Oneonta, and her husband Matt are parents to their first child, Leatrice Annette, born at 11:50 p.m. Monday, May 28, in Minneapolis’ Twin Cities. Leatrice, named after Laura’s maternal grandmother, weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and was 21.75 inches long. Laura spent two years at Hometown Oneonta while Matt was a student at SUNY Oneonta’s Cooperstown Graduate Program in Museum Studies. Congratulations may be sent to laurajohnson917@gmail.com
Headwaters Plans 2 Golf Tournaments
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he Headwaters Soccer Club presents two charity golf tournaments to benefit the summer soccer camp program: • The 19th Annual Hank Hotaling Charity Golf Tournament will be held Saturday, June 16th at the Stamford Golf Club and will begin at 2:00 p.m. sponsored by AudioSears.
• The 4th Annual Ouleout Creek Charity Golf Tournament will be held Saturday, August 11th in Franklin and will begin at 1:00 p.m. For details, contact George Hotaling, Stamford, at 652-9503 or bull1559@ aol.com, or Bonnie Johnson, Ouleout Creek, at 287-1791 or ladycamel19@ yahoo.com
drian Adamo, who will be a sophomore journalism major at Emerson College in Boston this fall, has been awarded a New York State Press Association summer internship with Hometown Oneonta. She reports for duty on Monday, Adamo June 11. Adrian, 18, daughter of Paul and Ann Adamo, is an Oneonta native and graduate of Oneonta High School, where she was co-editor-in-chief of the school paper and also a teen columnist for the Daily Star. “We’re delighted to have Adrian with us this summer, and look forward to expanding the offerings to our Oneonta readers,” said editor/publisher Jim Kevlin. “She’s a lively writer with a fresh perspective that we welcome.” The NYPA awarded 12 of the competitive scholarships this year for college students to gain professional experience on community newspapers throughout the state. SCHILD GOES PRO: Hartwick women’s soccer senior forward Katie Schild inked a deal with United FC Binghamton of the Women’s Premier Soccer League.
FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2012
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Elliot Stanton, age 3, of Oneonta, plays with the occupants of a doll house that was made by his aunt Wendy Stanton, the featured artist at the Main View Gallery’s “Roots and Wings� exhibit that opened during First Friday, June 3.
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FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2012
EDITORIAL
With Local Economy Ailing, New Chamber Execs Ideal Choices
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ou’ve heard or read that the 14 million Americans out of work are competing for 5 million jobs. Still, Wall Street Journal columnist David Wessel points out, companies are complaining they can’t find qualified help and are leaving vacancies unfilled. One reason, he says – citing an essay, “Why Good People Can’t Get Jobs,” by the Wharton School’s Peter Cappelli – is that big companies are using screening software that, unable to assess candidates’ non-objective qualities, is bumping many perfectly able people out of the applicant pool. “A Philadelphia-area human-resources executive told Mr. Cappelli that he applied anonymously for a job in his own company as an experiment,” Wessel write. “He didn’t make it through the screening process.” There’s a related issue. If you’ve ever advertised to fill a vacancy on Monster or some other job-posting site, you know you get floods of resumes from unqualified people. It’s so easy for anyone to hit “reply” and fire off a vita. At an organizational meeting of the CORE Institute in Milford a couple of months ago, Bassett Healthcare’s Colleen Donnelly reported the hospital fills 500 positions a year, but sorting through the 25,000 applications, most from online sources, makes filling those vacancies a huge paper-shuf-
fling chore, As programs (although the like Con“paper” is of stant Contact the digital sort.) multiply, they The good become less news is, it and less effecdoesn’t have tive. We see it to be. in the newspa• per business: Let’s face In days of yore it. The world, (a year or two in the end, is ago), folks The chambers’ new directors: analog. (E.M. Cooperstown’s Pat Szarpa, left, seeking publicForster’s 1909 and Oneonta’s Barbara Ann ity would drop prescient short Heegan. a postcard in story, “The the mail, fire Machine Stops,” comes to mind. off a one-paragraph e-mail or, He envisioned a world where heavens, pick up the phone and machines provide all humanity’s call, or, double-heavens, stop by! needs, and then, well, the maNow, increasingly, lengthy chines stop.) weekly e-newsletters, requirThis is brought to mind by ing two or three or four clicks to changing of the guards at the access, are showing up in e-mail Otsego County Chamber and the inboxes along with dozens, even Cooperstown Chamber of Comhundreds, of often-unsought and merce. The new executives, able unwanted electronic missives. and familiar as they may be in the The Internet alone is not going digital world, are analog people. to accomplish the bigger job. Both – the Otsego’s Barbara • Ann Heegan and Cooperstown’s And what is the bigger job? Pat Szarpa – said their first job In Szarpa’s case, it is rallying would be to apply shoe-leather Cooperstown’s merchant comto the sidewalk, to get out there, munity. (She’s already started meet their membership and try to doing so.) Since Polly Renckens’ understand the challenges loretirement four years ago, the cal businesspeople are facing. dozens of merchant promotions Heegan and Szarpa are face-toshe pioneered have been reduced face people; they’ll shake your to less than a handful. The chamhand and engage you in conversa- ber must once again embrace its tion. central role: Bringing customers That’s such a relief and welwith money in their pockets into come change. village stores.
LETTERS
New Worry For Parents: Children Gamble More To the Editor, Parents have much to do in raising healthy, happy kids. It seems that there is something new to worry about every time the evening news comes on. I would like to share with your readership that gambling is quickly becoming one of them. Young people have more access to gambling than ever before. And, according to a Yale study, of the kids who start gambling as teens, 15 percent of them will develop serious problems with gambling. That is a much higher than people who begin gambling later in life. Gambling, as a form of recreation, has become pervasive in our culture. Raffles, bingo, brackets, scratch-offs, Internet gambling, Dice, Texas Hold’em, Power Ball and Mega Millions are just a few of the types of gambling that kids are exposed to regularly. Early exposure can be as innocent as penny poker with family, a scratch-off ticket in a Christmas stocking, or a trip to the track
with Dad. Because kids are geared to seek excitement, gambling is often an irresistible hook. Fortunately, there are ways that parents can talk to their kids about gambling that help to protect them from possible problems in the future. • Start Early – Talk to your kids about gambling. • Listen – let them know that they can come to you. • Educate yourself and your kids. • Know what behavior is normal. • Establish family rules and enforce them As I work in and around Otsego County, I am keenly aware that parents want the very best for their children. Talking about gambling is one more way that kids can be supported in growing up exactly as parents dream of: healthy, content and ready to take on the world. For more information, please see www.leafinc.org or call us at 607-432-0090 and speak to a Prevention Specialist. JULIA M. DOSTAL, Ph.D. Executive Director LEAF Council on Alcoholism & Addiction Oneonta
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In Heegan’s case, she needs to refocus a chamber that was mostly concerned with statewide issues – business taxes, workers’ comp reform, big picture stuff – back on the locality of Greater Oneonta. Otsego is one of 67 counties in the state with 60,000 people in a population of $19.4 million people – 0.003 percent. Certainly, state Sen. Jim Seward’s seniority gives us disproportionate clout, but depending on Albany for our salvation is a low-odds venture. The fracking controversy has shown the two chambers have different missions – Cooperstown’s is promoting eco- and baseball tourism; Greater Oneonta’s, retail and jobs. This doesn’t suggest antagonism. Quite the opposite. The missions are complementary. We can have it all, just not in precisely the same geographic space. Heegan and Szarpa, as no doubt they will, should maintain cordial relationships and collaborate when they can. Looking down the road, a Commerce Chenango concept – economic development, tourism promotion and the chambers come under the same umbrella, sharing services and reducing costs – may make sense, but that doesn’t mean one chamber will subsume the other. • Another role that has been lacking in each chamber is economic development. It’s damning that we have the same number of jobs in Otsego County as 20 years ago,
(and that the student census in our schools is down 30 percent.) That’s got to turn around, and Heegan and Szarpa are ideal field generals in this campaign. In Oneonta, Southside Mall is booming, with TJ Maxx and Dick’s Sporting Goods recruited in the past year alone, and more to come. It’s only a quarter-mile from downtown. There must be a way – let’s find it – to ensure Southside Mall and Main Street flourish together. In Cooperstown, start developing the mostly vacant block between Railroad Avenue and Grove Street (the former Agway, beautifully redone, and the Where It All Began warehouse are for sale) for commerce or light industry. Job One, zone it appropriately; the special permit now required for anything but a church or a playground is a non-starter. It’s time for our chambers to get back to basics, and Heegan and Szarpa are promising personalities to help our business community do so. The two chambers may have different missions – the one, Greater Oneonta and all that implies; the other, exploiting while preserving the Glimmerglass Region’s charms. But, apart and together, they have a common mission – even more, a responsibility – to strive and goad and rally their different but complementary constituencies to achieve a more prosperous whole for our Otsego County.
KATHY ORDOñEZ ADDRESSES HARTWICK GRADS
ITHOUT INTEGRITY, NOTHING MATTERS’
Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts from Kathy Ordoñez’ Saturday, May 25, commencement address to Hartwick College’s Class of 2012. Ordoñez, Hartwick ’72, is Quest Diagnostic’ senior vice president for discovery and development, and president of Celera Corp., which focuses on genetic sequencing and related technologies. Her alma mater presented Ordoñez with an honorary doctorate.
abouts and accomplishments. One day, the New York Times wrote an article about me. The next time I went home for a visit, my Dad asked me to go for a walk as we were finishing dinner. This was certainly fine with me because it meant that for once, I got out of having to do the dishes. Anyway, after we had walked a few blocks, my Dad mentioned the New York Times article my brother had sent him and how the newspaper described my career and accomplishments. Suddenly, he stopped in the middle of the sidewalk and looked down while he came here in 1968 as a said, “But Kathy, when I read the letvery naive 17-year-old ters you sent describing all the things from the north part of New you were doing, I always thought it York State. To tell the truth, my Dad wasn’t you doing those things, but sent me here to study French and also rather that you were the secretary to – I think – to find a suitable husband. the person who did those things.” As often happens with parents and We walked back to the house in sikids, I managed to somehow disaplence. As we walked up the steps and point my Dad on both accounts. he opened the front door for me, I told Instead, an astute chemistry prohim simply, “It’s OK, Dad, it’s OK. fessor I met during pre-registration Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA And then I asked him why he told recognized that I had limited language Kathy Ordoñez, Hartwick’72 and me this, after all these years, since skills but a talent for science. He and now a top executive at Quest Di- frankly I never would have known his colleagues introduced me to the wonderful world of chemistry, physics agnostics and Celera Corp., was anyway. He told me something I will back at her alma mater for the never forget. He said: “It’s who we and math, for which I will forever be May 25 commencement. are. I cannot keep this inside and you thankful. I will never forget when I first saw with HoJo, I went off into the world as deserve to know that for all these years the beauty inside the mystery of quan- a chemist, where I invented some neat I thought you were someone else.” My Dad taught me a great deal, but tum mechanics. Now I draw from the stuff and then moved into the business this was one of his greatest lessons resultant familiarity with probabilities side of things, got posted off to Asia – the importance of integrity – to do in understanding genetics and solving where I lived and built a good-sized the right thing even when no one sees business problems in a world I could enterprise for my company, came back or questions. He told me a painful only imagine when I was sitting here to The States and continued to develop truth although I never would otherwise at my graduation 40 years ago. my career in medical diagnostics, mohave known the difference. The promise of the career I have lecular biology and genetics. Along with my warm thoughts of so enjoyed and one of the best friendI ultimately ran a large diagnostics my Dad, I will leave you with a quotaships of my life were each made poscompany here in the U.S. and got the tion from Warren Buffett, the great sible because of the years I spent here opportunity of a lifetime to oversee entrepreneur and businessman, who on the Hill preparing for my future the commercial application of a new said, “In looking for people to hire, ahead. gene amplification technology called you look for three qualities: integrity, I could imagine something different polymerase chain reaction (or PCR) intelligence and energy. If they don’t for myself than my Dad’s expectations and then later to apply the knowledge have the first, the other two will kill because that’s who I am; It’s who we obtained from sequencing the human you.” are to find our place of comfort and genome to learn how human genetic Speaking from personal experience, passion where we can uniquely convariability relates to disease risk and learned at great expense in my own tribute, whether it’s raising a family, optimal treatment selection. career, I can tell you that Warren Bufexcelling at business or working on an Throughout the period before email fett is dead right. Without integrity, individual basis in the arts, medicine, was available, I would diligently write we have nothing at all that matters. law or in many other ways. my parents letters about my where...After college and my brief stint
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History
Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of the New York State Historical Association Library
125 Years Ago
The Local News – The new printing press being constructed at Miller’s machine shops has one feature at least that works like a charm – it takes off a finger or a thumb or a thumb nail with all the readiness of an old-style machine. The inventor tested it himself. A Normal School building, a chair factory, a knitting mill, a new church, and very many of houses, all in course of construction, will be a sight to be witnessed in Oneonta in a few weeks. No newspaper, unless it retains a reporter for no other purpose, can presume to make note of all the new dwellings being constructed in Oneonta this season. Houses are springing up almost as if by magic in all quarters of the village, and it seems apparent now that more building will be done this year than ever before in one year. June 1887
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30 Years Ago
Approximately 40 people, most of them opponents of the controversial Southside Mall, gathered in the Oneonta Town fire hall to question the thoroughness and accuracy of an environmental study of the proposed development at a public hearing called by the town’s planning board. The environmental study was prepared by the John S. MacNeill engineering firm of Homer, N.Y. Glenn Seale, a private economic consultant hired by the City of Oneonta, said his findings indicated that neither the town or the city could support a large retail center. Joseph Bernier, the city’s community development director, said the growth predicted by the MacNeill firm was “tremendously exaggerated.” Bernier suggested that the figures were inflated by more than 20 percent. If the MacNeill figures were accurate Bernier said it would be fantastic “because we would be experiencing an economic boom right now.” Lorraine Benedetto, a town resident, said she was tired of the town being the city’s “poor cousin.” She accused the city of trying to “take care of their business” at the expense of the town. June 1982
100 Years Ago
Miss Josephine Lindahl, city nurse and supervisor of the tuberculosis committee, made the following report of her work during the past three months at the Woman’s Club on Saturday afternoon, June 1: 59 school visits; 397 children visited and treated in school; 79 homes visited of school children; 65 school children treated in homes; 45 tuberculosis visitors; 31 charity visits; one case first reported as tuberculosis, later pronounced otherwise (deceased); one case also reported as tuberculosis, but on change of physician, said not to be. Patient moved; house fumigated; case not followed; one case patient moved, room fumigated, visited regularly. The condition of several school children are greatly improved as well as the condition of several homes, due to constant visits and instruction in cleanliness. June 1912
60 Years Ago
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Neil Nielsen, a building contractor in Central New York dating back to the 1930s died Sunday at the age of 78. June 1932 Nielsen built more than a dozen buildings at Hartwick College, including the Willard E. Yage Library and Museum in 1967 and the Center for the Arts in 1973. Nielsen also is no better than the service that backs it. Our shop is built the college’s Dewar, Leitzell, Holmes, Van Ess, Miller equipped with the latest technical devices and staffed by a and Smith halls, the maintenance building, Binder Physical highly trained TV technician specialist – Easy Terms – a Education Center, the Hartwick Seminary Memorial Wall full 17-inch screen with outstanding picture quality, superb and the Shineman Chapel House over a period spanning performance in a coordinated design cabinet in luxurious 1954-1973. In 1973, Nielsen was awarded an honorary demahogany veneer. Bresee’s Oneonta Department Store gree, the Doctor of Humane Letters, by Hartwick College. June 1952 June 1992
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Oneonta aldermen unanimously rejected a strongly worded anti-war resolution last night that would have called for an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Indochina and a permanent halt to the bombing of North Vietnam. Immediately following the hour-long debate and quick vote, proponents of the resolution said they would attempt to get it on the November ballot in the form of a referendum. They also indicated they might field “peace” candidates for mayor and aldermanic positions at the next city elections in 1973. The anti-war resolution was offered to the Council in mid-May during several days of sit-ins on Dietz Street in front of local military recruiting offices. The original resolution was sponsored by Daniel Fine and Walter Schull, both of the Oneonta State faculty. June 1972
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The Catskill Area Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa recognized several area educators recently at its annual meeting held at Alfresco’s Restaurant in Oneonta. June Edwatds, professor of education at the State University College at Oneonta, was awarded the Charles Hunt Service to Education Award. Instituted in 1976, the award is given to a resident of the Catskill chapter who has participated for a minimum of 10 years in public education, and possesses qualification in leadership, service or research. Among other recipients are Royal Netzer, President of SUCO, Frank Cyr, BOCES superintendent and creator of the distinctive yellow color for school buses, and Madeline Coutant, designer of education programs for gifted students. June 2002
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State Funding Comes With Strings Attached
To the Editor: I agree with last week’s editorial that we must “learn the rules” to benefit from the state comprehensive funding application (CFA) submitted through our Mohawk Valley Economic Development Commission. What is often left if anything was at hand? out of these conversations, A. No, I think the orders as was left out of this editowere – Perkis said – I was rial, is exactly what it takes up in the bow close beside to get funding. So let’s look him – and he said “Our orders are to keep together if reality squarely in the eye at we can, to tie up.” We rested the specifics. When I spoke to Kenneth on our oars, didn’t row, Tompkins of the Empire practically. State Development Corp., Q. Were you looking the regional director of the around to see what you Mohawk Valley regional could see during the night? office, he explained the A. Oh, yes. Everybody procedure. The grants are was. Q. Was there any swell of usually for no more that 20 percent of the total project waves during the night? cost and often only 10 perA. No, it was still. cent, according to Ken. Q. Was there any at the That means if you want time your boat went down $10,000, you have to into the water? find $90,000. If you want A. Not that I remember. $100,000, you have to find Q. Did you see any rock$900,000. If you want $1 ets being set up from the million, you have to find ship? $9 million more. Sobering. A. Yes, when we were In addition, many of these on the boat deck they were grants come with provisions sending up rockets then; there was a very great list on that you guarantee a certain number of new permanent the ship. employees. After all, the Q. When did you first notice there was a list on the baseline of these grants is to create jobs. If you do not ship? A. That was the first time, deliver on that promise, when they began to send up New York State can recover the grant it gave you. That’s rockets, when we were up the good news. on the boat deck. The bad news is the Q. When was that after completely opaque process the ship stopped? the state uses to choose A. I couldn’t tell you who gets these grants. You – must have been after one submit your project through o’clock, because I said to my husband “They wouldn’t the CFA process to the Mohawk Valley regional send those rockets – unless office, which rates your it was the last.” project. That sounds like Q. You rescued some great bottom-up, local-conmen? trol economic development. A. Yes. They rate your project from Q. Did you also take on 0 to 20. Here’s the catch. some men from the overIt then goes to Albany turned collapsible boat? where the Empire State A. Yes. Q. You reached New York Development Corp. (or some other Albany body) afterwards, on the Carpathrates your project from 0 ia, did you? A. Yes.
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hat was the first thing you knew of the accident, Mrs. Ryerson? A. I felt the ship stop – the engines stop. Q. What did you do then? A. I got up and looked out, down the corridor, there was no sound, I opened the window in our room, and there was still no sound, and I put on an extra wrapper because it was bitterly cold, much colder than it had been. When we went to bed it was bitterly cold, I couldn’t get to sleep I was so cold. I looked out a second time and saw some people going on deck, and wondered why that was, and a man passenger ran up and said “Put on your life – belt and come up on the boat deck.” I said, “Where did you get those orders?” and he said, “From the Captain.” Q. When you looked out of the window, was the weather clear then? A. It seemed to me so, perfectly clear. Q. Could you see the stars? A. Stars were shining, and everything perfectly quiet. Q. You finally did go on the boat deck, Mrs. Ryerson? A. Yes, I waked up all the children and my husband, and Miss Bowen and my daughter next door were awake, and we went up on A deck, enclosed deck, and later we were ordered to go up to the boat deck by Stout, second steward in the diningroom, whom I knew. He was the only one I saw that night I knew of the ship’s officers and company. Q. Were you able to see anything of any icebergs when you were on deck after the accident? A. Nothing. Q. You finally embarked from the A deck? A. Yes, we were ordered down the stairs again. Q. You remember the lifeboat you went in? A. Yes, perfectly. Q. What was its number? A. Number 4. Q. In command of whom? A. A man named Perkis – he seemed to be just a sailor, he wasn’t an officer. Q. Did you have any difficulty in getting the boat lowered to the water? A. It seemed to stick, and somebody said we were going to upset, and I thought we had a tremendous drop, but we were so near the water, and finally the davits got loose and we dropped a short distance. Q. Where did your boat go after your got her in the water? A. It didn’t go anywhere particularly. Q. It remained near by? A. It remained near by. But nobody had any orders, and didn’t know what to do. Q. Did you find any gang-
IF YOU GO: The display, “Titanic: A Springfield Family’s Night To Remember,” is open to the public daily at Hyde Hall through Oct. 31. Details at www.hydehall.org way beyond? A. We didn’t go, for people said “don’t go there” and “the ship is going down,” and nobody seemed to know what was to be done, so we floated by a little, up from the ship, as I remember. Q. When you went down into the water, from the boat, did you notice anything about the portholes in the side of the ship? A. Yes, a great many were open. Q. Did you notice anything in particular about the portholes on the water? A. Yes, the water was washing in the portholes, and later I think some of the square windows seemed to be open, and you could see in the cabin and see the water washing in and the gold furniture and decorations, and I remember noticing you could look far in, it was brilliantly lighted – which deck I couldn’t tell. Q. Did you notice any of the lines of portholes disappear after you got in the boat? A. Yes, she was sinking very rapidly then, we saw two lines and then we saw only one; it was very brilliantly lighted and you could see very distinctly. Q. Did you have any lights or compass in your boat, so far as you could see? A. No. Someone said afterwards they were there;
ly we couldn’t find them. Q. Did the weather continue cold while you were in the boat? A. Yes, very cold. Q. Did you see anything of any ice or icebergs after you were in the boat? A. Not until dawn we saw a great field of ice and icebergs pink in the dawn, and ice very near, it was in close around us. Q. Were they in one direction, or around you? A. They seemed to be around us, so far as I can remember. Q. When did you see the Carpathia? A. Just about the same time, at dawn. Several lights we had seen, people kept saying it was a ship, and then we saw her. Q. Was a lookout being kept during the night to see
Emily Borie Ryerson and son Jack, both of whom survived the Titanic’s sinking. The testimony that was the basis for the Hyde Hall presentation demonstrated her formidable personality, according to Jon Maney, the mansion’s executive director.
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to 80. Albany’s 80 and our region’s 20 comprise the 0 to 100 rating. The implications of this system are staggering. It means that you can get a top-20 rating regionally, and not get a grant because Albany gives you a low rating. More shocking, you can get a dismal regional rating, and Albany can give you a grant. That is hardly the bottom-up, local decisionmaking this system alludes to being. In the best circumstance, Albany can follow the recommendations of local regions It explains why Ommegang and Chobani received grants and why Amphenol and Bassett might get one the next time around. They are bonafide companies capable supplying funding for 90 percent of their project and creating permanent jobs. It also speaks to the limited value of these multiple economic meetings being held associated with state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford. These grants are not about self determination and targeting sectors. They are about getting the other 90 percent yourself and then guaranteeing jobs. It may be prudent to note that James Seward has been our region’s state senator for 26 years. That’s a long time to help our area’s economic development. During his tenure our region’s economic well-being has steadily declined. Now he is leading the charge. Too little, too late? JOHN KOSMER Fly Creek County Representative District 8
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‘League Of Their Own’ Heroines Return To County On Movie’s 20th By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN
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t’s been 20 years since “A League of Their Own,” 40 years since Title IX gave girls the chance to earn sports scholarships to college and 70 years since Philip K. Wrigley got the idea to form the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. On Sept. 21, “the girls” – 50 are expected; in all, 550 women played, but many have passed on – will reunite at the National Baseball Hall of Fame to tell stories, catch up and fondly recall the old days among photographs and team relics. At 79, Lois Youngen is
one of the younger members of the league. She was the catcher for the Fort Wayne Daisies and then for the South Bend Blue Sox over the years 1951 to 1954, when she also played left field. “Halfway through the season the Blue Sox lost their catcher, so I had to go fill in,” she said. The league’s annual reunion will be in Syracuse, with a banquet. An exhibition game on Sept. 22 will feature associate members, such as reunion coordinator Shelley McCann, as well as a few members of the AAGPBL. “Some of them could outplay me any day,” Shelley said. Though Lois will not play in the exhibition game, she says she can still pitch and catch “pretty
well.” The day before – the 21st – the Hall of Fame will host the league for a private tour of the museum, including the permanent exhibit that commemorates the episode in baseball history. “Every girl who ever played for us – even for one day – was listed there,” said Lois. “Our song had the line ‘one for all and all for one’.” The women’s league had been a largely forgotten piece of baseball history before “A League of Their Own,” a huge hit that starred Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell and others. The final scene, a league reunion, was filmed in Doubleday Field. The movie was inspired
“A League of Their Own,” the 1992 hit movie with Tom Hanks, Geena Davis and Madonna, put the AAGPBL back in the public eye.
by the “Girls of Baseball” exhibit that went up at the Hall of Fame in 1988 to a record crowd. Movie director Penny Marshall saw the exhibit, and that inspired her
to do the movie. Marshall’s son attends Syracuse University and will be interning at the Alliance Bank field where the game is planned, but
no word on whether she or the other film stars of will attend. Marshall did attend the San Diego reunion in 2011 and was given an honorary membership. Youngen’s claim to fame was catching a perfect game, one of only two played in the league’s history, on Sept. 3, 1953, against Kalamazoo. “Jean Faut, the pitcher, she did all the work, all I had to do was hang onto the ball” Lois said. “Every time I see Jean at a reunion I refer to her as the girl who made me famous. And I can still vividly see a ball headed to right field that Betty Wagner caught – that’s what gave us a perfect game over a shutout. No one got to first base.”
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Building On Malhotra’s Success, Gujarati Government Builds High School By LIBBY CUDMORE
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month before Nina Malhotra died of cancer in 1996, she said to her husband Ashok, “You will forget me.” “I responded, ‘I will not forget you,’” said Malhotra. “I cannot give you the Taj Mahal, but I can give you schools.” After she died, he sold a property he owned for $50,000 and used the money to start the Ninash foundation in her memory. Now, 16 years later, Malhotra, SUNY Oneonta philosophy professor, his partner Linda Drake, executive director of SUNY Oneonta’s Center for Social Responsibility & Community, and the Ninash Foundation have built six schools and countless houses in India. Students from the “Learn and Serve” program at SUNY Oneonta are also active in the Foundation, raising money and donating time. The first school, in Dundlod, was in two rooms donated by a local landowner. “The local com-
SUNY Oneonta Philosophy Professor Ashok Malhotra points to the sign, “Donated by Empire Toyota of Oneonta, New York, USA,” on a well he dedicated during his latest trip to his native India.
munity, they got upset because these children who were supposed to do work were in school,” Malhotra said, “They had the woman who gave us the school padlock the building and kick the children out.” And, like in a fairy tale, a prince came to their rescue. “Prince Raghu Venra and his wife, Ganga, they got very upset,” said Malhotra. “He moved the school to the four rooms in the back of his castle.” After the 2001 earthquake in Gujarat, the Ninash Foundation stepped in. “200 houses had to be rebuilt,” Malhotra said. “The local government said it would take up to five years, and I said ‘no, it has to be done now.” He gave them a check for $5,000, enough to build 10 houses. But when Malhotra saw that they had no school, he approached the government again. “They had no tradition of school,” he said. “So I insisted they build a school.” The 10-room school cost the foundation $9,000. “I told them they have to build it before June
26, when the monsoon season starts. The water comes down like ping-pong balls, it is so hard, and they needed shelter.” The government was so impressed by how well the school children did in their new school that they built a $100,000 high school, complete with a library, computers and a water filtration plant. The first class, many of whom have come up through Ninash’s other schools, start July 1. “It’s fantastic,” he said. “We’re finally getting the government to help.” Kahle Harris, whose family owns Empire Toyota, took a few classes with Malhotra at SUNY Oneonta and did research into Toyota’s matching-grant program. The family gave $5,000 towards a new well in the original school in Dundlod, and Toyota matched the grant to complete the well’s purchase. But it’s not just school children who benefit from Ninash’s generosity. While visiting one of the children at home, Drake noticed the extreme poverty all around
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Annual Sports Banquet – And NFL Players – Brought To Oneonta NFL/From A1 Thursday, June 21, at Foothills Performing Arts Center’s Atrium. “We have a tradition of winning,” said Chaplick. “We place kids in A-1 schools and that gets them into the NFL.” Horne was in foster care in Albany and in need of higher SAT scores to get into a top football college when he came to the former New Berlin High School. “He had a lot of rough edges, but we polished him up,” said Chaplick. “When he came up here, he trusted no one, but I watched him grow from a young man into a man. He got his life together – that’s what we do here.” The Milford Academy was founded in 1906 in Milford, Conn., as Yale Preparatory School. When it moved to New Berlin, its focus shifted to athletes who
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Chaplick welcomes a new recruit Matt Diaz, a lineman who came up from New Jersey. “There are only three spots left in the Academy for the upcoming year.” said Chaplick. “And he really wants in.”
have the potential to play football at the college level. “Our main objective is to get them into college so they can play and get their
education,” said Chaplick. But, often, that’s not the end of it. For instance, runningback (and Milford grad) LeSean McCoy last
month signed a five-year, $45 million extension of his contract with the Philadelphia Eagles, $21 million guaranteed. The school receives up to a thousand applications a year, and each class consists of 65 students. “You have to be good to be able to come here,” Chaplick said. Oneonta High School senior Marcus Delgado will be one of those lucky 65 when he starts this August. At first, locals were skeptical when Milford Academy moved to town. “It was rough in the beginning,” said Chaplick. “Small towns don’t like change, and no one understood what we did. Now they can’t turn on their TVs from Thursday to Monday without seeing one of our players.” After high school, the student/athletes enter Milford Academy in August for five months of rigorous training,
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then start college in January. While here, they have a day that makes regular students thankful for the 8-3 schedule. They get up at 6 a.m. and hit the weight room, then shower, dress in their school uniforms – ties included – and are in class until 2:30. Practice runs from 3 to 6, with meetings and tutoring until 9. There’s an hour of free time, and lights out at 11. Meals are mandatory, and disciplinary infractions – not doing homework or forgetting to wear a tie – are punished with runs up the steep hillside. It pays off. In addition to Horne and McCoy, Brendan Washington was a sixth round draft pick for the Philadelphia Eagles. Wayne Dorsey signed as a free agent with the Oakland Raiders. Shonn Green, of the New York Jets, ran a 1,054 yard season in 2011.
New England Patriot Niko Koutouvides, Class of 1999, will also be at the Oneonta banquet. “He invited me to see him at the Super Bowl,” said Chaplick. “He was my first NFL player.” 2005 graduate Adam Rosner, who Chaplick nicknamed “Snuggles” returned to coach at Milford Academy in 2011 after an injury in his senior year at Syracuse marred his chances to play semi-pro. “Why not do something you love?” Rosner said. “This is a stepping stone for my coaching career.” With the season over and new recruits lining up outside his office to take the tour, Chaplick rose from his desk to greet them. “I’m looking forward to getting back to football,” he said. “I’m always sad to see my players go, but that’s what we do here.”
ONEONTA STALLIONS WIN HOME OPENER Oneonta City Stallions running back Kevin Gregory muscles forward for a few more yards in the team’s 24-13 victory Saturday, June 2, against the Cortland Bulldogs in the season opener at Hartwick College’s Elmore Field. The next home game is at 5 p.m. Saturday, June 25, against the Glove City Colonials.
Christie M. Meno, a 2006 graduate of Sidney Central High School, received her master’s in higher education administration from Vanderbilt University on May 11, graduating with a 3.97 cumulative GPA. She has accepted a full-time position with New York University, beginning in July. She is the daughter of Regina and James Meno of Sidney. Cheryl Clough/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
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MLS#81281 - Western side of Otsego Lake, Contemporary Style MLS#81852 - Great location for a perfect fixer upper. Make this Cedar Built 7200+/-SqFt home w/5 bedrms, 4 full baths & a 3 house a home with a little paint and elbow grease. Convenient Car Garage. Soaring walls of glass, 2 ½ stories high. 1000+SqFt location on rt 20 for easy access to Cooperstown, Utica, Otsego of gleaming wood flr, full length fireplace & spacious wrap lake, Canadrago Lake, and The Baseball Hall of Fame. around decking. Chef’s dream kitchen, w/culinary island, granite $58,000 Call Adam Karns @ (607) 244-9633 countertops & stainless Jenn Air appliances. 24’x15’ family rm, 24’x18’ home theater/media rm & a 28’x16’ game rm!! 24’x21’ master suite w/a 14’x11’ bath w/Jacuzzi tub, shower & double sinks, a 12’x12’ closet w/laundry & secluded balcony. Mostly wooded 21.50+/-acres. $895,000 Call Kathy @ (607) 267-2683
MLS#84524 - Calling All Buyers! Priced to Sell! Remodeled 1900s Victorian, 3 bedrms 1 ¼ bathrms, an oversized kitchen, dining rm for entertaining, spacious yard, detached garage, & much more. Located near local bookstores, coffee shops, Covidien (Tyco), ski mountains, bike & hiking trails. NEW hot water heater & furnace. Updated plumbing & electric. $145,000 Call Gabriella Vasta for showing @ (607) 267-1792 MLS#82197 - Beautiful country setting for relaxed living. Owner financing available, close to Stamford and near Oneonta. Reduced $74,000 Call Adam Karns @ (607) 244-9633
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(7353) Treat yourself to this terrific, 3-bedroom home with panoramic lake views on a full acre w/100’ of private lakefrontage. Nicely-kept, one-owner residence providing a bright open floorplan, den and woodstove, lower level basement. Modern kitchen w/oak cabinets. Laundry room, Sliding glass doors to large wrap-around covered deck, metal dock, storage shed. It shows off beautifully! Hubbell’s Exclusive. $625,000
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Main Street Cooperstown (6447) Business block on Main Street. Four 2 BR apartments. 2 commercial spaces. 2,500 sq ft total commercial space. New windows, new hot water furnace. Storage space in cellar. Well-kept stone and brick building. Good income producer. Hubbell’s Exclusive $525,000 Cooperstown Otsego Lake Lot (7185) Lake View vistas! Last of the lake lots in the Village. 100’ of lake privileges directly in front. Beautiful beach and dock area. Village water & sewer hook-ups. Good road access. Once in a lifetime opportunity to build the house of your dreams. Hubbell’s Exclusive $225,000
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1. The Comps. 2. Days on the Market. 3. List price vs. Sales price. 4. Competition Level. 5. Timing. 6. Motivation Levels. 7. Agent and Market Feedback. Once you have the information listen to it and factor it in, along with other factors that you may have.
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(7504) A delightful discovery near Clark Sports Center, shops, & schools. Make a great move to this spotless, tastefully remodeled 3BR/2+BA home. Ideal features include walk-up attic suite, oak flooring and ceramic tile baths. Secluded den, newer windows, newer kitchen with oak cabinets and cork flooring. Formal dining room. Nice private yard, Newer siding, Deck, Front porch. Reflecting pride of place! Hubbell’s Exclusive. $299,900
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