The Oil Can The Award Winning Newsletter of the Cooperstown Rotary Club Vol. 87, No. 15— October 20, 2009 He designed our village library building... Ernest Flagg, architect extraordinary

veryone here, Iʹm certain, has walked down Main Street in Cooperstown, and admired the beautiful Village Li‐

brary Building, which also houses the Cooperstown Art E Association and the Village Offices. But have you ever wondered who designed it? Somehow, I never did until very re‐ cently, when I learned that its architect was named Ernest Flagg. What I found surprised me. Ernest Flagg was not just a gifted ar‐ chitect, who designed important American buildings. He was also a social reformer, who helped improve the lives of New York Cityʹs urban poor. He was a city planner, who influenced todayʹs New York City skyline. And he designed what was at the time the tallest building in the world. So what was he doing in a small vil‐ lage in upstate New York? Ernest Flagg was born in Brooklyn in 1857, the son of an Episco‐ pal clergyman who had become an itinerant portrait painter, as well as a speculative land developer. The family was not without its connections. One of Ernestʹs aunts had married Cornelius Van‐ derbilt; his sister Louise married Charles Scribner, the publisher. In 1872, at the age of fifteen, Ernest left school to become an office boy on Wall Street, and two years later ‐‐ with his older brother Jared ‐‐ he opened a small business selling salt codfish at New Yorkʹs Fulton Fish Market. For a time he lived in some of the filthy, ill‐lit, badly ventilated tenements of the Lower West Side. But after a few years, in 1881, the fish business failed. Ernest then joined with his father and brother Jared in promoting what was then a new idea in New York City real estate ‐‐ the cooperative apartment house. He gained practical experience in both the planning and construction of city buildings. Then, in 1888, his rich uncle Cornelius Vanderbilt, ʺtold me that I ought to become an architect and that if I would go to Paris and enter the Ecole des Beaux‐Arts, he would pay the cost.ʺ Ernest Flagg was 31 years old, but he accepted the offer gladly. The Ecole des Beaux Arts, in Paris, was the leading school of architecture at the time, and many aspiring American architects were going to France to study there for at least a short time. Flagg spent three years in France; two of them studying for the Ecoleʹs difficult entrance exams, and one year at the school itself. Like most other Americans he did not remain long enough to earn a degree. But he came home in 1891 filled with the new ideas being taught by the Ecole. ʺEvery true architect,ʺ Flagg later wrote, ʺmust have two natures, the practical and the artistic.ʺ The right combi‐ nation of these, or what he called the ʺparti,ʺ or ʺchoiceʺ is ʺthe logical solution of the problem from his dual stand‐ point as constructor and artist. The ability to grasp the right parti is a gift of nature.... It is the characteristic of genius in architecture.ʺ The good architect, Ernest Flagg believed, has at his disposal the entire repertory of historical styles, and should draw upon it freely as artistry and the situation demand, but he is not an archaeologist, and must use this history in combination with the open presentation of evolving materials and methods of construction. This combination is often apparent in the buildings, large and small, that Flagg designed over his long life. Cont. on p. 2 The Oil Can October 20, 2009 Page two

Ernest Flagg (Continued from page 1) Today’s Program October 20 n his return to America in 1891, “A Bad Day for the Yankees” Ernest Flagg plunged into several Gabe Schechter decades of frenetic work. His first important commission was to design Forthcoming Programs O the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, October 27 which remains one of our capitalʹs most impor‐ The Otsego Land Trust tant buildings. Flaggʹs name was suggested for Executive Director Peter Hujik the project by a sculptor, John Quincy Adams Ward, whom we know here as the creator of the November 3 Indian Hunter statue in Lakefront Park ‐‐ which is General Election Day a copy of the original erected in New Yorkʹs Cen‐ Polls Open 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. tral Park in 1864. Over the next years Ernest Flagg designed public buildings, mansions, commercial November 3 buildings, churches, and even tombs. They include Saint Lukeʹs Hospital on New Election Day Pancake Feast York Cityʹs Morningside Heights, the United States Naval Academy buildings in Cooperstown Veterans Club Annapolis, the Scribner bookstore building on Fifth Avenue, and a number of luxurious mansions in New York City and elsewhere. November 10 But other aspects of Ernest Flaggʹs life and work were, I think, even more impor‐ WW II Veterans Honor Flight tant ‐‐ and form a part of the history of our Library Building. Greg Furlong In 1894 Ernest Flagg published an article in Scribnerʹs Magazine called ʺThe New York Tenement‐House Evil and its Cure.ʺ Ernest had lived in lower West Side November 17 tenement buildings when he was selling codfish at Fulton Fish Market years be‐ Springbrook Update fore, and he never forgot the experience. Patricia Kennedy The long rectangular blocks that cover most of Manhattan had been laid out in standardized lots 25 feet wide and 100 feet deep. On them New Yorkers built November 24 their town houses side by side, with gardens at the back. By the mid‐19th century, New Member Profile—Angie Ehrway however, wealthier New Yorkers had moved uptown, and their original homes

had been chopped up into tenement apartments, often paired with so‐called rear December 1 tenements at the back of the lot, with windows only in those few rooms at the Cooperstown Rotary Foundation front or rear. Ellen Tillapaugh-Kuch In 1879 the Board of Health made what Flagg called ʺfeeble efforts at reform,ʺ

and launched the creation of so‐called dumbbell houses, ninety feet long, which December 8 were built in great numbers throughout the City. Each floor was divided into two Christmas Outreach Gathering or four ʺrailroad styleʺ apartments of three to seven rooms, reached by un‐lit inte‐

December 15 rior stairways, and with narrow halls on each floor with communal toilets and CCS Kindergarten Angels washing tubs. They were called ʺdumbbell housesʺ because a four by forty foot air well was placed between each pair of buildings. This created, in Flaggʹs words, House Committee Schedule ʺwells or shafts of stagnant air at the sides, acting as conductors of noise, odors, (Meeting Set-up & Breakdown) and disease from one apartment to another. The bedrooms of one family have [ \ their windows directly opposite, and four feet distant from, the windows of the Carl Good — October 6 house adjoining. Each family has generally a cooking‐stove in one of the rooms Will Green — October 13 which open on to this same slit or well.... Very little imagination is required to Tom Heitz — October 20 picture to oneʹs self the wretched condition of people forced to live under such Jim Howarth — October 27 circumstances, and the great dangers arising therefrom to the health and morals John Irvin — November 3 of the community. By far the greater number of the inhabitants of this city live Jim Kevlin — November 10 in such homes. From sixteen to twenty families to a single lot.ʺ Tom Lieber — November 17 Continued on The Oil Can Insert…. John Ramsey — November 24 The Oil Can Insert Page One October 20, 2009

Earnest Flagg, Architect Extraordinary (continued)

his, Flagg continued, was as uneconomical as it was terrible: ʺGreat sums of money are yearly squan‐ dered upon making the structures unfit to live in. Then other great sums are contributed by charitable people to relieve the distress which these horrible structures engender. Hospitals are kept full, chil‐ dren die, misery, disease and crime flourish, because the people are huddled together without light Tand air.... All this is accomplished at a vastly increased expense over what the same rentable space, well lighted, might be obtained for.ʺ Instead, Ernest Flagg designed a new kind of building, built around an open court on a 100 foot square lot, and two years later Elizabeth Scriven Clark gave him the opportunity to build it. The Alfred Corning Clark Buildings on West 69th Street opened in 1898. Many of you will recall the name of Jacob Riis, whose writing and photography around the turn of the 20th cen‐ tury did more than anything else to awaken America to the plight of our urban poor. In 1899, he visited the com‐ pleted project, and wrote ‐‐ in an Atlantic Monthly article on ʺThe Tenement: Curing its Blightʺ, as follows: ʺThe Alfred Corning Clark Buildings, as they were called in recognition of the support of this public‐spirited woman, have been occupied a year. When I went through them, the other day, I found all but five of the 373 apartments they contain occupied, and a very large waiting list of applicants for whom there was no room.... The plan of the buildings, for which Ernest Flagg, a young and energetic architect, with a very practical interest in the welfare of the Other Half, has the credit, seems to me to realize the ideal of making houses under a common roof. The tenants appeared to take the same view of it. They were a notably contented lot.... The houses are built around central courts, with light and air in abundance, with fireproof stairs and steam‐heated halls. There is not a dark passage anywhere. Within there is entire privacy for the tenant; the partitions are deadened, so that sound is not transmitted from one apartment to another. Without, the houses have none of the discouraging bar‐ rack look The architecture is distinctly pleasing.ʺ And, Riis might have added, each apartment had its own pri‐ vate toilet ‐‐ and the buildings paid their owners a five percent dividend. Continued on the reverse…. The Oil Can Insert Page Two October 20, 2009

rnest Flaggʹs connection with the Clark family would last for many years. He designed a series of commer‐ cial buildings and homes for Frederick Bourne, who from 1889 to 1905 was President of the Singer Sewing Machine Company ‐‐ as well as a luxurious New York City mansion for Elizabeth Scriven Clark herself. In 1896 Flagg designed the 10‐story Singer headquarters at 149 Broadway. And in 1897 he planned the Li‐ Ebrary building which we know today. The Cooperstown site, at the corner of Main and Fair Streets, had once been occupied by the Otsego Hotel, which had burned in the great fire of 1862. From 1868 to 1889, it was occupied by a huge, unfinished, decaying building known popularly as the Skeleton Hotel. Parts of it were used to store hops until its remains were bought by Alfred Corning Clark and the haunted monstrosity was demolished. After Alfredʹs death in 1896, his widow Elizabeth Scriven Clark engaged Ernest Flagg to design a building for the local Young Menʹs Christian Association, a library, and a museum. The YMCA, in those days, was primarily a club; the squash courts behind the Library, now the Coo‐ perstown Art Association, were not added until 1914. Flagg wanted his building to be beautiful and indeed striking, but at the same time to blend in with its historical and visual surroundings. He used the same local stone from which many other Cooperstown buildings are built, adding a Greek‐revival facade of columns that reflect those on the 1830 Otsego County Bank Building across the street. The viewerʹs eyes were also directed upwards by the balustrade that originally decorated the roof on all sides ‐‐ and that I for one hope may one day be restored. Excavations began on April 13, 1897. Local papers record at least two visits to the site by Ernest Flagg ‐‐ in July and October. As autumn ended, the giant wooden columns, produced by Cooperstownʹs Pioneer Mills on Grove Street, were being erected. The following spring, in May 1898, the scaffolding came down, and on August 17, 1898, Eliza‐ beth Scriven Clark held a lavish ball on the upper floor, officially opening the building and celebrating the 21st birth‐ day of her son, Robert Sterling Clark. As originally laid out, the room to the right of the entrance was a library; that on the left had the YMCA Pool Ta‐ bles. Behind were rooms for playing cards, and for the building manager. In 1932 Robert Sterling Clark presented the building to the Village of Cooperstown. It was not one of Ernest Flaggʹs largest projects, but surely one of his finest. In 1906 Flagg began to build, next to the Singer Building on Broadway, a 612 foot tower, that would become the tallest building in the world. Construction took over two years, with a steel frame clad with brick and limestone, and a very decorative top looking out over all of New York City. The Singer Tower was completed in 1908, and re‐ mained one of the most beautiful buildings on the New York skyline until it was demolished in 1968. By this time Flagg was already much involved in questions of New York City Planning. In 1904 he had proposed a great 1,000 foot wide greenway, running down the middle of Manhattan Island from one end to the other, and pro‐ viding grass and trees and recreation within the reach of every New Yorker, as well as easing the cityʹs traffic prob‐ lems. The plan was never adopted. In 1907, as construction of the Singer Tower was beginning, Flagg made the following proposal in the New York Times: ʺI would permit owners to cover any desired portion of their land equal to once...the width of the street on which the buildings face, but [no higher than] 150 feet. Then I would give the further right to carry a portion of the building, which should not cover more than one‐quarter of the area of the lot, to any desired height, but this part should be set back from the street line...say twenty or thirty feet.... We should soon have a city of towers in‐ stead of a city of dismal ravines...and the picturesque sky line so dear to our hearts...would be made tenfold more attractive.ʺ After prolonged discussion, much of the Flagg proposal was adopted by New York City in 1916. Throughout his long life Ernest Flagg was both an architect and an active real estate developer. He strongly be‐ lieved that a combination of regulation and good planning could provide decent and affordable housing for people of all income levels, and business and public buildings that would adorn small towns and cities alike, ‐‐ and at the same time earn reasonable profits for those who planned and built them. Of Flaggʹs personal life we know comparatively little. In 1899, when he was 42 years old, he married Margaret Bon‐ nell, who was 25 years younger. and they had one daughter, Betsy, born the next year. According to family tradition, Mrs. Flagg would read novels aloud to the family every evening at 7:45 p.m.; the favorites were the romantic stories of Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Fenimore Cooper. Flagg lived well. His home on Staten Island employed, in 1900, nine domestic servants; another house, on 40th Street in New York, employed half a dozen and was valued in 1930 at $150,000. Continued on page 3 of The Oil Can Insert... The Oil Can Insert Page Three October 20, 2009

eginning about 1910, Flagg began to plan, and promote, deceptively simple modular stone houses for or‐ dinary people, making use of innovative construction methods and materials ‐‐ some of which he had pat‐ ented. They were inexpensive and designed for comfortable living. Today they sell for large amounts. In 1922 he published a book, Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction ‐‐ which is still in print. BThis is, in brief, some of what I have been able to learn about Ernest Flagg, the architect, social reformer, and city planner, to whom we owe the magnificent library building which we admire today. But there is one important postscript. Ernest Flagg had for many years a pupil and associate named Frank Whiting. Like his mentor, Whiting attracted the attention of the Clark family, and was commissioned to design many Coo‐ perstown buildings: the Cooper familyʹs house at Fynmere, the original part of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, the stone buildings of the Fenimore Art Museum and Farmersʹ Museum, the old Clark Gymnasium on Main Street, and the original Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1932 Whiting settled in Cooperstown, and lived on Nelson Avenue until his death in 1972. In many ways he carried on the Flagg tradition, combining architectural flair with an appreciation of Cooperstownʹs history and rural environment.

Bibliography Bacon, Mardges, Ernest Flagg: Beaux‐Arts Architect and Urban Reformer. New York: Architectural History Foundation, 1986. The only published biography of Flagg, concentrating on architectural matters. Cooper, James Fenimore [grandson], Legends and Traditions of a Northern County. New York: G.P. Putnamʹs Sons, 1921, p. 130. The haunted Skeleton Hotel. [on‐line, Google books] ʺErnest Flagg (1857‐1947),ʺ New York Architectural Images, at http://www.nyc‐architecture.com/ARCH/ARCH‐Flagg.htm Web‐ site with images of Flagg projects, etc. Flagg, Ernest, ʺThe New York Tenement‐House Evil,ʺ in Scribnerʹs Magazine, Vol. XVI, July 1894, pp. 108‐117. Horrors (and unnec‐ essary costs) of New York City tenements, and proposal, with plans, for their remedy. [on‐line, Google books] Flagg, Ernest, ʺThe New Naval Academy,ʺ in Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, Vol. XXV, 1899, pp. 865‐873. Flaggʹs plans. [on‐line, Google books] Flagg, Ernest, ʺThe Plan of New York, and How to Improve It,ʺ in Scribnerʹs Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, August 1904, pp. 253‐256. Flaggʹs proposal for a greenway down the center of Manhattan. [on‐line, http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/flagg.htm ] Flagg, Ernest, ʺIs New York Becoming a City of Canyons and Ravines?ʺ in New York Times, December 29, 1907. Flaggʹs proposals for height requirements in New York City [on‐line, New York Times Archives] Flagg, Ernest, ʺPublic Buildingsʺ in Proceedings of the Third National Conference on City Planning, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 15‐17, 1911. Boston, 1911, pp. 42‐52. [on‐line, Google books] Flagg, Ernest, ʺStatement by Mr. Ernest Flagg, Representing the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, May 29, 1913,ʺ in Report of the Heights of Buildings Commission to the Committee on Height, Size and Arrangement of Buildings of the Board of Estimate And Apportionment of the City of New York, December 23, 1913.pp. 223‐228. Flaggʹs proposals on the New York City skyline. [on‐line, Google books] Flagg, Ernest, Small Houses: Their Economic Construction and Design. New York: Charles Scribnerʹs Sons, 1921; reprinted Dover Publications, 2006. Designs for modular stone, houses for ordinary folks. ʺFrank Whiting, Noted Architect, Passes,ʺ in Otsego Farmer, Feb. 1, 1952. Obituary. [on‐line at Fulton County Post Card website] Gray, Christopher, ʺOnce the Tallest Building, but Since 1907 a Ghostʺ in New York Times, Jan. 2, 2005. The rise and fall of the Singer Tower. [on line, New York Times archives] Mulhern, Barbara, ʺCooperstown Chronicles,ʺ in The Freemanʹs Journal, June 24, 2008. History of Cooperstown Library Building. [on‐line at The Freemanʹs Journal website] The Otsego Farmer, April 30, July 30, Oct. 8, 22, 29, 1897; Feb. 25, May 20, July ?, Aug. ?, Aug. ? 1898. Contemporary news notes on construction of Library Building [on‐line Fulton County Post Card website ‐‐ exact dates cannot always be easily deter‐ mined] Riis, Jacob A., ʺThe Tenement: Curing its Blightʺ in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. LXXXIV, July 1899, pp. 18‐27. Visit to Alfred Corn‐ ing Clark Buildings (pp. 22‐23) [on‐line, Google books] ʺSesquicentennial of Village Library Is Being Observed,ʺ in Otsego Farmer, March 11, 1945. History of Cooperstown Libraries. [on‐ line Fulton County Post Card website] Weber, Nicholas Fox, The Clarks of Cooperstown, New York:Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Especially Chapter III ‐ Elizabeth, on Elizabeth Scriven Clark, pp. 97‐108. The Oil Can October 20, 2009 Page three

President Bill noted that our fellow Rotarians, Andy Squirts from The Oil Can Marietta, Donna Shipman and Dion Wade have been Announcements & Miscellany named Chair (Marietta) and board members (Shipman Summary of the October 13th Business Meeting and Wade) respectively of the Cooperstown Chamber. Scott Barrett briefed us on plans for the forthcoming e take this opportunity to insert the text of an in‐ November 3rd Election Day Pancake Day at the Coo‐ vocation presented at our October 6th meeting by perstown Veterans Club. Every Rotarian is obligated to Hugh MacDougall. We quote: “Today we are account for at least $32 in ticket sales. Please pay in ad‐ meeting at The Farmers’ Museum, devoted to W vance. Work shift sign‐up sheets are in circulation at showing Americans of today what rural life was like in 1845, our tables. Additional volunteers are needed for table when most New Yorkers were producing their own food from the duty and clean‐up. Sign‐up at Rotary meetings or go to plants and animals on their family farms. Perhaps they lived a the club’s web site and sign‐up there. simpler, more wholesome life. But, when crops failed, or animals President Bill read a letter from Eleanor Hamilton, died, they faced hunger and the uncertain charity of others. secretary of the Conklin Rotary Club. We quote: “Dear Nowadays, we tend to take the production of food for granted; Fellow Rotarians: We wish to express our deepest grati‐ it’s something we get in packages at the Great American. Our chil‐ tude for your generous support in helping our Conklin dren are likely to assume that milk was created in bottles, that Rotary get started. It is through your generosity that we meat started life wrapped in plastic, and that vegetables were have learned of the dedication of the Rotary family. We born frozen. It is one function of The Farmers’ Museum, and of have learned so many things about Rotary and its or‐ institutions like it, to remind us that this is not the case — and ganization, in this, our formative year. Contributing to show us how our ancestors lived closer to the sources of the food our new Rotary club was so meaningful. It shows us that keeps us alive. For many people around the world today — that Rotarians truly believe in Rotary and are enthusias‐ as with our ancestors of 1845 — food still comes from the fields on tic about helping new clubs get started. Thank you for which they and their children labor. When crops fail or animals remembering what it takes to begin a new Rotary club die, from drought, or floods, or global warming, they too face and welcoming us into the Rotary family.” hunger and the uncertain charity of others. Our nostalgia for our Dion Wade set about collecting our happy dollars and own past — often forgetting its miseries as we seek to relive its had a dollar of his own for the undefeated and highly joys — should not let us forget those for whom the miseries are ranked Texas University Longhorns football team. Carl still all too real.” Goode was not so terribly happy that Colgate Univer‐ At our meeting on Tuesday, October 20th, Jim High offered the sity had defeated his alma mater Princeton University following thoughts. We quote: “The mission of the Rotary Foun‐ on the gridiron and losing a wager on the game to Col‐ dation of Rotary International is to enable Rotarians to advance gate alumnus Chuck Carrier. Chuck, who was trying world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improve‐ hard not to gloat, added that Colgate had also defeated ment of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of Cornell University. Scott Barrett paid tribute to the poverty. It’s good if we dig the wells, build the schools and equip aforesaid Chuck Carrier whose work on behalf of the the hospitals. But, if the wells are destroyed and the schools and Friends of Bassett Healthcare has been “an enormous hospitals are burned, what have we accomplished? What we help” to Scott and others. spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Give us the Bruno Talevi predicted that the New York Yankees resources and knowledge to build anyway — and to rebuild if will win the American League pennant in four games, necessary. Many people really need help and some may even at‐ sweeping the California Angels. Alas, it was a “bad tack us if we do help them. Give us the strength and wisdom to day” for the Yankees on October 19th as the Angels help people anyway. Look beyond yourself.” won Game 3 of the ALCS by a score of 5‐4 in the bottom Sergeant‐at‐Arms Charles Ellsworth reported that there were no of the 11th inning. guests to introduce at last Tuesday’s meeting (October 13th), a Ellen Tillapaugh‐Kuch had a dollar to honor Frank rare circumstance. Miosek, Ryan Miosek’s father, who logged his 300th Admitting it was at best an oblique reference to Ernest Flagg, the soccer victory as a high school coach. topic of Hugh MacDougall’s program, songmistress Vicki Gates Bob Birch reported that son Jon was at McGill Univer‐ tuned us up for a rendition of You’re a Grand Old Flag (Keep your sity in Montreal enjoying the Canadian Thanksgiving eye on the grand old flag). The musical interlude concluded with holiday. Ellen Tillapaugh‐Kuch won the 50/50 draw. For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow (Which nobody can deny). Tom Heitz, Editor Rotary Club of Cooperstown (Revised 10/20/09)

Membership Roll Chuck Newman, PHF a. 03/02/04; b. 09/04 The Rotary Club Of (By Date of Affiliation) Betsy D. Jay, a. 05/18/04; b. 08/02 Cooperstown Hon. = Honorary Member; PHF = Paul Harris Fellow; Martin Tillapaugh, PHF; a. 09/07/04; b. 11/29 P.O. Box 993 SPH = Sustaining Paul Harris; PDG = Past District Governor David Vaules, PHF; a. 10/05/04; b. 02/14 Cooperstown, New York 13326 a. = Affiliation Date b. = Month/Day of Birth Sundar Samuel, a. 09/20/05; b. 11/16 Web Site: cooperstownrotary.org Howard Talbot, Hon; PHF; a. 12/51; b. 10/06 Ted Peters, PHF; a. 12/59; b. 05/12 Donna Shipman, PHF; a. 10/04/05; b. 09/25 Will Green, a. 01/24/06; b. 01/29 Rotary International President Ed Badgley, Hon; a. 06/61; b. 07/07 John Kenny (Scotland) Cliff Kachline, Hon; PHF; a. 07/70; b. 07/25 Stephen Elliott, a. 02/07/06; b. 08/20 Scott Barrett, a. 02/14/06; b. 09/14 Doug Walrath, PHF; a. 10/70; b. 12/11 District 7170 Bob Schlather, PHF; a. 01/79; b. 05/03 Teri Barown, a. 05/16/06; b. 04/17 Sam Koury, District Governor Will Monie, PHF; a. 09/80; b. 11/21 Jim Kevlin, a. 07/25/06; b. 03/15 (Oneonta) George Cade, PHF; a. 12/80; b. 12/18 Lyn Edinger, a. 10/03/06; b. 07/29

Roger Smith, Hon. a. 01/12/82; b. 04/28 Jake Maijala, a. 10/31/06; b. 06/22 Club Officers: Jeff Woeppel, a. 03/02/82; b. 08/05 Ray Holohan, a. 01/09/07; b. 09/21 2009-2010 Ferd Thering, Hon; PHF; a. 05/82; b. 02/12 Jeff Katz, a. 03/20/07; b. 09/14 William “Bill” Glockler, President Mike Jerome, PHF; a. 08/13/85; b. 07/23 Ben Novellano, a. 02/20/07; b. 11/03 President-Elect: Open Bob Birch, PHF; a. 09/23/86; b. 12/30 Marjorie Landers, a. 05/01/07; b. 07/22 Vice-President: Open Jim Woolson, PHF; a. 03/87; b. 10/05 Mary Earl, a. 07/31/07; b. 11/28 Paul Kuhn, Past-President Hugh MacDougall, PHF; a. 04/87; b. 08/30 Frank Capozza, a. 11/13/07; b. 11/27 Margaret Savoie, Secretary John Ramsey, PHF; a. 06/87; b. 03/03 Ralph Snell, a. 12/18/07; b. 11/23 Assistant Secretary-Cathy Raddatz Chuck Carrier, PHF; a. 01/88; b. 06/19 Richard J. Blabey, a. 03/18/08; b. 03/11 Jake Maijala, Treasurer Bruno Talevi, PHF; a. 04/88; a. 08/16 Charles A. Ellsworth, a. 03/18/08; b. 11/19 Jamie Stegman, a. 03/18/08; b. 10/18 Charles Ellsworth, Sgt.-at-Arms Doris Holdorf, a. 01/02/90; b. 07/04 Joan Badgley, a. 05/22/90; b. 06/07 Tabetha Rathbone, PHF; a. 05/13/08; b. 04/09 Tim Wiles, a. 05/20/08; b. 06/28 Directors: Catherine Black, Hon; PHF; PDG; a. 01/22/91; b. 04/22 Marjorie Landers 2008-2010 Frank Leo, a.06/17/08; b. 03/28 Ellen Tillapaugh‐Kuch, PHF; a. 10/01/91; b. 02/16 Donna Shipman 2008-2010 Cathy Raddatz, PHF; a. 12/29/92; b. 03/02 Irene Fassett, Hon; PHF; a. 06/24/08; b. 01/20 Chad Welch 2008-2010 Tom Heitz, PHF; a. 03/02/93; b. 12/20 Jim Howarth, a. 09/09/08; b. 07/02 Frank Capozza 2009-2011 Bill Coleman, PHF; a. 04/13/93; b. 02/16 Nancie Apps, a. 11/18/08; b. 10/28 Ralph Snell 2009-2011 Teri Barown 2009-2011 Pati Grady, a. 01/11/94; b. 03/07 Bruce Markusen, a. 12/16/08; b. 01/30

Jim Gates, PHF; a. 02/20/96; b. 03/09 Ryan W. Miosek, a. 04/21/09; b. 12/09 The Oil Can Editor Michael Otis, PHF; a. 05/28/96; b. 07/17 John M. Mason, a. 04/21/09; b. 07/09 Tom Heitz Carol Waller, PHF; a. 05/28/96; b. 08/19 Diana Nicols‐Dilorenzo, a. 05/05/09; b. 11/14 Andrew R. Marietta, a. 05/12/09; b. 10/02 [email protected] Susan Streek, PHF; 11/19/96; b. 04/04 Angie L. Erway, a. 05/12/09; b. 07/01 Mary Jo McPhail, a. 12/09/97 b. 01/03 Inbound Exchange Students: Anne Geddes‐Atwell, PHF; a. 01/27/98; b. 07/01 Amanda May, a. 07/28/09; b. 12/29 Daniel Gille Saldaña (Mexico) Carol Cade, PHF; a. 02/16/99; b. 02/23 Dion Wade, a. 09/08/09; b. 11/09 Hubert Szmigiel (Poland) Tom Lieber, PHF; a. 11/16/99; b. 07/15 Catherine Andrews, 09/08/09; b. 07/13 Carola Neri (Italy)

Margaret Savoie, PHF; a. 12/07/99; b. 05/20 82 Active Members; 8 Honorary Members 2009-2010 Francis May, PHF; a. 07/25/00; b. 04/02 90 Total Members / 59 Men / 31 Women Outbound Exchange Students: Patricia Donnelly, PHF; a. 05/29/01; b. 02/24 Inbound Exchange Students: 3 Emily Davidson (Belgium) Jim R. High, PHF; PDG; a. 09/04/01; b. 04/03 Outbound Exchange Students: 6 Anna Weber (Belgium) Michael V. Coccoma, a. 12/18/01; b. 03/30 Ryan Davine (Germany) First Paul Harris Fellows: Mary R. Wright, PHF; a. 02/19/02; b. 07/01 Krystal Tandle (Germany) Joe Vidosic Marj. Tillapaugh (Hon) Julia Nelson (France) Vicki Gates, PHF; a. 02/26/02; b. 11/06 Chelsea Moakler (Argentina) Dave Bliss, a. 04/30/02; b. 10/28 Non‐Rotarian Paul Harris Fellows: Chad Welch, a. 09/17/02; b. 08/14 Donna Lamb High Walter Rich Santa Claus Mary Leonard, a. 09/17/02; b. 01/13 Barbara Harman Anita High Martha Vaules Karine Rich Virginia Heitz Marianne Bez Carl Good, a. 04/01/03; b. 02/12 William Waller Lois Warrell, PHF; a. 04/08/03; b. 09/24 John Irvin, PHF; a. 04/08/03; b. 11/20 Rotary Club of Cooperstown (Club No. 4868) Bill Glockler, PHF; a. 08/05/03; b. 10/18 www.clubrunner.ca/cooperstown Paul Kuhn, PHF; a. 08/05/03; b. 05/14 District 7170 Web Site: www.district7170.org Jane F. Clark, Hon; PHF; a. 01/08/04; b. 05/11 Cooperstown Rotary Website: www.clubrunner.ca/cooperstown Doug Geertgens, PHF; a. 03/02/04; b. 01/04 “Service Above Self” Dennis Jakubowicz, a. 03/02/04; b. 07/05