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English Edition Friends of Sulgrave Manor 1539 Volume 10, No. 1 Greetings Ladies, celebratory viewing at our Annual Meeting and at Biennial, the DVD will be available for sale in It is September and your Board is working both a long and short version. Kitten Ford, Hon- hard to finish up details for the Annual Meeting ! orary Trustee, has driven this project. Our job We have been discussing everything –agendas, now is to make the best possible use of our siza- menus, bus arrangements, flower arrangements ble investment by getting it in schools, in homes and most of all, our stressful hotel and on the airwaves. (See the back arrangements. All is in order at page of this newsletter for infor- last and we are planning a special mation on how to order it.) treat for those who are staying at Sulgrave Day was memorable. the Marriott instead of the Ritz!! A group of 65 Dames, family and My first year as the Sr. Repre- friends were greeted with delight- sentative to Sulgrave Manor has ful weather, a Manor in good or- been a learning one. The gentle der and gardens lovelier than ever. prodding and encouragement of I wish that every Colonial Dame Cotton Hubard, Treasurer, and the could visit Sulgrave Manor, the constant energy of Bess Fuchs, place for which you work so hard. Junior Representative, have com- The trips surrounding Sulgrave bined to shape me up for a strenu- Day were a huge success. An im- ous but absolutely delightful job. portant decision we will make at Clearly the best part of the job is Laura Rutherford, (right) Sr. the Meeting in October will be working with each of you, the Representative to Sulgrave what trips to offer in two years. cream of the NSCDA. Manor with the Baroness Jill Join us in 2012. Sulgrave Manor is standing the Knight of Collingtree, Chair- We have a great success to man of the Sulgrave Board, test of time well. With a dedicat- and Bess Fuchs, Jr. Repre- report at the Manor. The view ed staff and Board, the House sentative, prior to opening the shed at Sulgrave Manor was under serves to both educate and inspire. new exhibition space. serious threat. There was a plan to Its well respected and popular build a wind farm with nine tur- school program continues as it bines in the open country between welcomes approximately 17,000 visitors a year. the villages of Sulgrave and Weston. These We have worked diligently this year to raise things would tower over the tiny villages and one funds for such exciting extras as a new garden, would be ½ mile from Sulgrave Manor! The vil- mounting a new exhibit and the continuing con- lages formed an action committee and Jane servation of the collection. As a result we were Treadway, former Senior Representative and Ad- able to present the Manor with a check for visory Board Member, coordinated an American $50,000 at Sulgrave Day. letter writing campaign in support of the commit- The long anticipated documentary, “The tee’s efforts. Thanks to your response and that of Washingtons of Sulgrave Manor” is at last com- those supporters in England, the plan to build a pleted by Ken Winber! This beautiful production wind farm at the edge of Sulgrave has been can- brings alive the Washington family as it makes celled! its way to Sulgrave and on to America. The We, The Friends of Sulgrave Manor will join DVD and the research that went into it will pro- the English Board of Sulgrave Manor to host the vide an excellent educational tool for the Dames first American Watson Chair Lecture and Dinner and it will also preserve the shared history and on October 14, 2010 in Washington, DC. The unique values of England and the US. After a (Continued on page 8) Friends of Sulgrave Manor Northern Ireland, June 2010 BOARD OF TRUSTEES President, Mrs. John Schley Rutherford ALABAMA The leprechauns were in full force during our enchanted trip Vice-President, Mrs. David C. Fuchs NEW YORK Recording Secretary, Mrs. William E. Chilton, III WEST VIRGINIA through Northern Ireland. The flowers, they were incredible. Our Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Edgar M. Rea, III LOUISIANA incredible guide, Alistair Fitzger- Treasurer, Mrs. John B. Hubard MARYLAND ald, said that the rhododendron Assistant Treasurer, Mrs. Richard M. Baty ARIZONA bushes of all colors were “pests”. Mrs. Norman J. Asher DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Mrs. James R. C. Cobb ARKANSAS Can you imagine! Our hotels were Hilary Field Gripekoven OREGON makeovers of castles or mansions, Mrs. Thomas W. Houghton TEXAS giving us lots of ambience. For Mrs. David Thomas Moody FLORIDA the sites seen, the Giant Causeway Mrs. Charles Steven Paul INDIANA Mrs. William S. Tasman PENNSYLVANIA remains outstanding for me (Google, whether or not you are HONORARY TRUSTEES familiar with it). I keep wanting to repeat “incredible”. Mrs. H. Taylor Morrissette ALABAMA Mrs. Donald J. Gerzetic ARIZONA The ancestral homes of our presidents Arthur, Grant, Jackson, Mrs. Katherine T. Ford CALIFORNIA and Wilson were visited with much interest. They are, for the Miss Ruth Uppercu Paul MARYLAND most part, simple structures with varying memorabilia, but it is Mrs. Robert B. Field, Jr. NEW HAMPSHIRE Mrs. David G. Holdsworth NEW JERSEY really humbling to think our former leaders came from this mod- Mrs. Julian M. Marshall PENNSYLVANIA est heritage. Mrs. C. Richard Treadway TENNESSEE We were lunched and dined in Mrs. Everett D. Bohls TEXAS lovely old, old homes with cuisine Mrs. S. Spencer N. Brown TEXAS often made by wife or mother. ASSOCIATE TRUSTEES These hosts have maintained their homes, one for 300 years, and Mrs. Lucian Newman, Jr ALABAMA Mrs. Charles F. Breed ARIZONA seemed to enjoy our company. Mrs. Harry D. Loucks ARKANSAS Some of their libraries would make Mrs. Peter M. Nelson CALIFORNIA one envious. Ms. Deanna Lee Speer COLORADO We stopped at the seaports of Don- Mrs. Samuel D Parkinson CONNECTICUT Mrs.W Latimer Snowdon, Jr. DELAWARE egal, Belfast and Groomsport from Mrs. Ian Glenday DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA which so many of our ancestors Mrs. Walter Smithwick, III FLORIDA emigrated. Mrs. Marvin Sparks Singletary GEORGIA Many other sites were seen. Faith Mrs. Thomas M. Culbertson HAWAII and begorra, it’s a fair land. Mrs. Rudolf E. Knepper ILLINOIS Mrs. Richard M Tempero INDIANA Mrs. Loren Ted Sloane IOWA Mary Bohls Mrs. Paul Murray Buchanan KANSAS Mrs. William H. Schaaf, Jr. KENTUCKY Mrs. Donald Walter LOUISIANA . Mrs. Harold Edwards, Jr. MAINE Mary Bohls, TX enjoying Mrs. John Landon Reeve, IV MARYLAND the “Giants Causeway” in Mrs. Thomas E. Melican MASSACHUSETTS Northern Ireland on one of Mrs. Russell A. McNair, Jr. MICHIGAN the Dames Sulgrave Trips. Helen Waldron MINNESOTA Mrs. Guy Thompson Vise, Jr. MISSISSIPPI Ms Joan F. Langenberg MISSOIJRI Mrs.Wm Laird McNichols NEBRASKA Mrs. Jonathan P. Trace NEW HAMPSHIRE Mrs. Wenllian J. Stallings NEW JERSEY Mrs. Mathias C. Zeri NEW MEXICO Mrs. Hynson Brown NEW YORK Mrs. Lucius M. Cheshire, Jr. NORTH CAROLINA Mrs. Michael D. Connelly OHIO Mrs. Stephen G. Soloman OKLAHOMA Mrs. James Hamilton Clarke OREGON Mrs. Michael D. Milone PENNSYLVANIA Mrs. John Bartram RHODE ISLAND Mrs. C. Stuart Dawson, Jr. SOUTH CAROLINA Mrs. John H. Nading TENNESSEE Mrs. Marvin E. Bradshaw TEXAS Mrs. J. Robert Maguire VERMONT Mrs. George T. Williamson VIRGINIA Mrs. Nathaniel Blodgett Page WASHINGTON Mm William E. Chilton, III WEST VIRGINIA Mrs. Harland W. Huston, Jr. WISCONSIN Mrs. Warren Morton WYOMING The Sulgrave Day speaker talking with The Baroness Jill Knight of Collingtree and Laura Rutherford. 2 Traveling with the Dames Sulgrave Manor Interlude Cruising the Dalmatian Coast and Sulgrave Day What could be better than starting a trip in Venice., leaving the The Sulgrave Manor Interlude was a delightful airport by high speed water taxis, cruising the Laguna Veneta and four day visit to gardens of the Cotswolds. Two arriving at our hotel by the water door. We were in original Danielli favorites were High Grove, the home of HRH rooms, fusty, old fashioned, furnished with pieces from an old Drac- Prince Charles and Bowood, home of Lord Lans- ula movie complete with the requisite squeaking floors. It was won- down and his stunning rhododendron garden. The derful. A perfect setting for the start of a trip. group spent three nights at the new hotel at There is the immediate recognition factor and greetings as we Bowood before heading to Sulgrave Manor for a see old friends and meet full day of festivity and ceremony. what soon become new Sulgrave Day 2010 began with a service at St. ones. On a Sulgrave trip James the Less, then all walked to the Manor for coffee and tours of the house and garden. Mrs. Da- you have plenty of time vid Fuchs, new Junior Representative, opened the to get to know members new exhibition space near the garden and their guests from all which features an early history of the creation of over the country. It is Sulgrave great fun to be part of it. Manor as a In the evening you Museum. That multiply your experience was followed by talking with fellow by a tradition- travelers. We all saw dif- Kay Glenday surrounded by Ro- al Pimms Cup ferent aspects of things as man guards at Diocletian’s Palace. and a buffet well as the same ones. lunch with our Imagine being in a Roman coliseum in Istria and seeing a man in English mountain climbing gear 100 feet off the ground, on a ledge spraying friends and weed killer on the growth in order to prevent the roots from destroy- members of ing the walls.