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The Palisades Newsletter 10964 November 1989 • No. 115

From the Staff:

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Welcome IBM! by Diana Keif

ur new corporate neighbor, Jack Hammond, was established plex computer controls for each 'IBM Palisades Advanced to "increase our customers' abil­ classroom, I felt as though I were OBusiness Institute, is now ity to direct and manage their in­ studying the instruments of a fully operating in its sprawling vestment in information systems space shuttle. The 22 state-of-the- woodland setting here on Route for competitive advantage." In art classrooms range in size from 9W. Since late April, IBM cus­ other words, they teach strate­ 20 to 94 seats, all with fixed birds- tomer executives have been at­ gies rather than keyboard tech­ eye maple desks. There are an tending classes, termed "events," niques so that top executives can additional 21 briefing and break­ in a learning center which re­ understand how their computer out rooms, as well as strategi­ places and consolidates similar systems can help them achieve cally located glass enclosed cof­ IBM programs previously located their marketing objectives. IBM fee pavilions. in five other U.S. sites. customer executives, accompa­ But IBM Palisades is more Connie Nicolosi, local nied by their marketing repre­ than just a schoolhouse. It is a Communications Administrator, sentatives, are treated to a pro­ full service conference center with recently invited me for a tour and gram of "events" lasting from one about 200 Marriott employees brief view of the institute on be­ to five days. The teachers are providing first-class hotel and half of 10964. "We are happy to business professionals with top restaurant facilities for IBM. In be here and look forward to being academic credentials. the windowed dining room over­ good corporate neighbors," com­ The learning center fea­ looking the woods and pond, mented Nicolosi upon welcoming tures the latest advanced tech­ breakfast and dinner are served me. nology including computer con­ formally with silver and linens. I Nicolosi explained that the trolled audio-visual media with was lucky enough to be an in­ Institute, with a current staff of student response keyboards at vited guest for a delicious lunch about 140 under the direction of each desk. Examining the com­ Continued on Page 8 Page 2 try." His perception of the vast pos­ sibilities in those fields—they have provided the basic data for under­ standing both earth history (espe­ cially plate tectonics) and most of our current environmental con­ Forty Years On cerns—proved so fruitful that no one institution could now conceiva­ bly monopolize them. But Lamont "The Lamont-Doherty Geological is very much in the forefront. Observatory" Ewing was lucky in that he had access to much equipment de­ by Roger Jellinek veloped in World War II, and very cheaply. Everyone who went to study at Lamont had to work on gathering data, and Ewing's ships, Many residents may have Lamont as scientists, technicians first the converted yacht Vema, and visited the Lamont campus at the and staff. Many Palisades teenagers then the recently retired Robert D. annual Open House, or they may have worked there in the summer, Conrad (operated by Lamont, but have seen Lamont seismologists and quite a few have cruised aboard owned by the U.S. Navy), ranged interviewed and consulted on net­ Lamont ships. literally millions of miles around work news after major earthquakes. It was quite a few years But many are still somewhat mys­ later, in 1981, that I was introduced Continued Top of Page 3 tified by the arcane sounding to Lamont's new Director, Barry Lamont-Doherty Geological Ob­ Raleigh, and because of my jour­ servatory of Columbia University." nalistic and publishing experience, Why the We asked Roger Jellinek, who is he invited me to produce a bro­ Editor of the Lamont newsletter, chure about Lamont, and after that to write a series of articles on the a quarterly newsletter that is sent Rush? Observatory for 10964. to some 4,000 scientists around the by Patti Katz world. I soon found myself in a I'd probably been living in state of perpetual astonishment— I am quite concerned Palisades a year before I stumbled at my ignorance of a world-class with what seems to me to be the across Lamont, looking for a way institution right on my doorstep, at disregard for speed limits in our to the Skunk Hollow waterfall. Its the range and ambition of its en­ community. After speaking to deeply wooded setting and formal terprise, and at its unique form of other residents who feel like­ landscaping atop the Palisades organizational anarchy. wise, I feel it's time to speak out cliffs made the incongruous black­ To be fair, Lamont's isola­ about the situation. top ribbon connecting a rough mix tion had been purposeful. Its Now that the school year of vaguely military sheds and some founder, Maurice ("Doc") Ewing is well underway, we need to be modern concrete campus architec­ was a driving genius, tremendously extra cautious in the posted 15 ture especially shocking. Embed­ energetic and hugely ambitious; m.p.h. school zones on Wash­ ded in this haphazard 100-acre three-quarters of tiie surface of the ington Spring Road and Oak lunar colony was an older stone globe was unexplored, and he Tree Road. Residents who live mansion with its assortment of aimed to do it all. There simply within these zones say the 15 fieldstone outbuildings set in the wasn't time to be sociable. While m.p.h. limit is usually ignored. remains of a grand estate (the Lamont was part of Columbia Uni­ Please, obey this limit—our "weekend cottage" of the Thomas versity, he thoroughly enjoyed the children's safety depends on it. Lamont family, built in 1928 and independence that distance from I'm sure we all must donated to Columbia University by the Manhattan campus gave him. admit that at one time or an­ the Lamont family in 1948). I didn't In his first annual report in 1950, other we may have been in too give much thought to what it was he wrote, "It is the intention of the much of a hurry. But again I about, and over the years I rarely entire staff of the Lamont Geologi­ ask, why the rush? This is a heard it mentioned by my neigh­ cal Observatory to make this re­ beautiful community—let's take bors. search unit the world center for more time to enjoy it, and avert In fact, many Palisades resi­ geophysical research and study in a possible tragedy. dents have worked and do work at marine geophysics and geochemis­ ===== Page 3 the globe, gathering an incompa­ earthquake. One of Lamont's 400 technical and administrative rable database. Ewing himself de­ founding seismologists was a stu­ staff. The Observatory is somewhat veloped a piston corer with which dent named Frank Press, now loosely organized into four Divi­ to sample the sediments, and President of the American Acad­ sions: Marine Geology and Geo­ Lamont now has the largest archive emy of Sciences. Much of the pio­ physics, Seismology, Geochemistry, of deep-sea sediment cores in the neering work on the use of chemi­ and Oceans and Climates (i.e. an­ world. cal tracers in the sea to research cient as well as modern). The range Lamont benefited from the the long-term movement of ocean of research is global (as well as the Cold War as well. One of Ewing's waters (essential for understand­ Moon and other planets): from the many specialties was the study of ing climate) exploited the fallout synergies in the life of ocean bot­ sound waves underwater—of con­ from nuclear test explosions. tom-dwelling microscopic beasts to siderable interest to the Navy for However, it is important to the workings of climate cycles con­ detecting and hiding submarines; note that Lamont has undertaken trolled by the sun, from the "moun­ sonar waves are one of the princi­ very little direct military research, tains" at the center of the earth, to pal research tools in geophysics, and with few exceptions its scien­ the precise configuration of super- both in the ocean and the conti­ tists have been free to publish their continents hundreds of millions of nental crust. The Navy also fi­ data and interpretations as they years ago, from the modeling of oil nanced the famous first detailed please. What direct military re­ and gas migration to the precise maps of the ocean floor produced search there was spun off during measurement of acid rain via the by Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen. the campus turmoil of 1968 in the evidence of tree rings, from earth­ Gravity measurements (variations form of the Palisades Geophysical quake prediction to the exact dat­ and anomalies indicate geological Institute (based in West Nyack), ing of mass extinctions, and from features in the Earth's crust—of­ and has had no relationship to the modeling of the greenhouse ten totally invisible at the surface) Lamont since. gases to tracing the PCBs in the are vital for guiding intercontinen­ Today Lamont-Doherty Hudson River. tal ballistic missiles. Lamont's seis­ (Doherty was added to the name in mology was given a strong boost 1969, in recognition of a major gift) by nuclear testing in the Aleu­ has a staff of some 600, including Next Time: Earthquake tians—the Government wanted to 110 Senior (postdoctoral) Scien­ Prediction At Lamont know if the blast would set off an tists, 100 graduate students, and

Chicago Divinity School), and had arship. All contributions are tax MEMORIAL FUND just earned a Master's Degree from deductible and should be mailed FOR FAY the Yale School of Organization to: Ms. Phyllis Conley, Develop­ and Management when she was ment Office, Union Theological HOLLINGSHEAD stricken with cancer. She lost her Seminary, 3041 Broadway, New fight against this illness just over a York, N.Y. 10027. ELLISON year ago, dying on September 15, 1988, three weeks short of her 40th Fay, the first woman in the birthday. Presbytery to be called by a con­ Shortly before her death, gregation to be their sole pastor, Fay expressed a wish to those close About 10964 was ordained in the Palisades Pres­ to her that a scholarship fund in byterian Church on June 15,1975, her name be created at Union Theo­ This community news­ and served here as pastor from 1975 logical Seminary where she had letter publishes information, to early 1981. studied and served on the Board of events, problems and concerns A student at Union Theo­ Trustees. Union Seminary has affecting the people of logical Seminary in New York City, agreed to manage and administer Palisades. 10964 needs your she received her Master of Divinity the fund which will go to help sup­ moral and financial support. degree in 1974 and was awarded port women students at Union who Please send a contribution for the Maxwell Fellowship, a valedic­ are first generation professionals. 10964 to Box 201, Palisades, tory prize "For Promise of Excel­ H you wish to contribute in NY 10964. With your help lence in Parish Ministry." Fay also Fay's memory, make your check you'll find 10964 in your mail­ held degrees in Religion and Bibli­ payable to Union Theological Semi­ box every month. cal Studies (Wellesley College), in nary, specifying that it is for The Theology (MA, the University of Fay Hollingshead Memorial Schol- Page 4

raged a returning Moses, who pointed to the first pictograph on his modified wooden tablets, a Camping Out in the golden calf with a line across it (prepared in last year's Sunday School). Into the fire went the Biblical Wilderness of priceless but idolatrous work of art. Sooner than expected, and with very little murmuring, the wil­ Palisades derness campers settled down, and by Chris Iosso, only quiet adults looked out over Sunday School teacher the beautiful moonlit field and sur­ rounding woods. In the morning all awoke to find pancakes already made by chef Dale Prusinowski, Among the forced laborers speeding after the departed, only who gave new meaning to the toiling over the bricks, the entrance to go down in the treacherous (and phrase, "early riser." Suitably for­ of Mr. and Mrs. Pharoah was slightly muddy!) waters of the last tified, and given New Testament greeted with even more forced strip of lawn. encouragement, the group all went kneeling. The Egyptian overseers It all happened so fast down to the River Hudson on the had to sit straighter in their reclin­ Moses Barba barely had time to path behind Lamont, visiting the ing chairs, but all was going well, stretch out his hand, and then all waterfall and vandalized columns until Moses, his brother, Aaron, and were happily plunging into the and garden below it. We then stag­ Miriam, the prophetess, showed up. wilderness of the pasture next to gered back up and down the hill They tried to persuade Mr. and Mrs. the church, where most had, in fact, almost by the appointed time, and Pharoah to free the slaves, but these explored before. This time, though, the Sunday School kick-off camp- haughty rulers were as unmoved there were two campfires and out was over. Most of the time our by the stick that changed into a mown (though not flat!) spaces for activities are not so dramatic, but snake as they were by the groan- tents. Johanna Albin, Jake Bell and they all are designed in some way ings of the slaves. So then the in­ the other cooks were calling the to help us along a pilgrimage we festations and epidemics came, and erstwhile Hebrews up to eat their can share. the groaning was on other lips, and dinners, and so the scrupulous his­ Mr. and Mrs. Pharoah relented— toric reenactment was temporarily just long enough for the children suspended for some stand-up din­ 10964 Deadline with red headbands to get up from ing and fire worship. Then, while The deadline for copy for the the brick patio and run almost to the younger Israelites were taken December issue is November 15. the low bridge crossing the little on a fluorescent manna hunt be­ Please send copy to 10964, Box stream in Arnold and Elizabeth hind the parish house, the older 201, Palisades, N. Y. 10964. The Finck's backyard. But then the pur­ and wiser group made a golden calf December issue will appear in suers in polka-dot sashes were up of cardboard, sticks and cloth pro­ your mail as close to the first of from their Adirondack chairs and vided by Jane Sherman. This out­ the month as possible.

New Books Palisades Free Barry, The Ambition and the Power Palisades Arts Fair Clark, Anastasia Syndrome & Library Other Stories Remember the Arts Fair at Davis, Miles the Autobiography the Palisades Presbyterian Church Circle your calendar for Deighton, Spy Line on Saturday, November 4, from 10 Tuesday, December 5, at 4:15 p.m. Fairchild, Chic Savages a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be per­ for a Holiday Craft Program for Francis, Straight formances by Palisades residents, children ages 5 and up. Grimes, Send Bygraves adults and children, from 12 to 2 Holt, Learning All the Time p.m. Note that the rain date for The Library will be closed Spillane, The Killing Man this event is Saturday, November on November 23 and 24. Tarr, A Woman of Spirit 11. Page 5

history and human history. This breaking and mending adds a whole Palisades Artist in other element to it.. .1 don't know whether I see it as a metaphor for life, or what." Her interest in photographs, Blue Hill Show though more recent than her in­ by Maggie Brown Gundlach volvement with sculpture, goes back to the seventies. "I do a proc­ ess of platinum printing," she ex­ Palisades artist Grace Art and the Victoria and Albert plained. And she paints on the Knowlton has for some time been Museum in London. negatives as well as the surfaces of preoccupied, even obsessed, with 10964 interviewed the at­ the prints. She has been taking boulders, rocks, spheres, shards, tractive sculptor at the sprawling photographs all summer in prepa­ and more recently, culverts. hilltop brown barn which serves as ration for work in the darkroom Her passion for these arti­ her studio/home. There on a rain­ during the winter months. At the facts is expansively documented by swept day we were welcomed not same time she will continue to work a selection of her sculptures and only by Ms. Knowlton but also by a on the wall sculptures and "see drawings on display until January pair of handsome poodles. Dis­ where they go." She seems to be 31 at the Blue Hill Cultural Center. pensing tea amidst an intriguing drawn these days she adds, to "long, Her work is presented by the Blue conglomeration of gables, rafters, stretched-out white shapes." Hill Plaza Associates along with sheer walls and skylights, Ms. She finds that painting is paintings by Herbert Aach and Jack Knowlton explained that after her returning to her work. "I keep Stewart. divorce and the departure of her painting on surfaces and on photo­ "It's almost like a retrospective," five children from home, "I just graphs, and maybe I just have to the slender artist commented on sort of took over all the rooms and face the fact that I want to paint." her work there. Her sculpture is made them into a studio, so I don't But it isn't that simple, she has strewn about the complex's garden feel I'm rattling around in a big, found. "The work is flattening out, atrium, other public places and empty house. One bedroom became and it's probably going to be some grounds. Several of her boulders a darkroom; another a matting combination of sculpture and sit in close proximity to a pond on room." With a laugh she added that painting." She began as a painter which swans swim. These objects, she can really boast of having a but got diverted into sculpture be­ ranging in size from 2 to 6 feet "drawing room." From her com­ cause she wanted to make three- high, embody various materials, in­ fortable and eclectically furnished dimensional canvasses, and in cluding clay, concrete, bronze and living room the visitor looks out throwing pots onto the wheel be­ steel. There are also wall pieces upon fields in which kilns and came intrigued with their shapes. concocted from such media as cal­ sculpture punctuate the landscape. The exhibition's hours are cium-alumina silicate with pig­ Replying to questions about Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. ment, as well as culvert drawings her work, the sculptor noted that a to 5 p.m. The Blue Hill Plaza is combining the artist's photographs ball of clay or cement "is a com­ located on Veterans Memorial with mixed media. mon experience... it is so simple Highway opposite the Pearl River Ms. Knowlton, who holds that what you do to it becomes Hilton. graduate degrees in art and art his­ everything: the content is the proc­ tory from Smith College and Co­ ess and the process is the content." lumbia University Teachers Col­ In making wall pieces, she Announcement lege, has exhibited frequently in is drawn to surfaces of rocks she New York City and most recently finds on the lawn or elsewhere, Brian Warner has been at the Bill Bace gallery in Soho. from which she takes molds. To named Editor-in-Chief of the Locally her work has been shown these she applies a white plaster­ St. Joseph Regional High School at Hopper House and the Rockland like material which enables her to yearbook, Aegis. It is the 25th An­ Center for the Arts. She has also get a good replica of the rock face. niversary edition of the yearbook, exhibited in various parts of the "I then break them," she explains, and any alumni wishing to be part United States and is represented in "and restore them, leaving pieces of the "Nostalgia Section" should the permanent collections of the out in order to fill in as they do in contact Brian in care of 10964, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New­ museum restorations." The result P.O. Box 201. ark Museum, Corcoran Gallery of is "a sort of double message: rock Page 6 Turkey Carving And The Thanksgiving Oyster By Greta Nettleton

Since this is the month and working inwards (see draw­ were expected, and she had to drive when even people who hate to cook ing). all over Rockland County to find have to consider the angles on tur­ Joe also recommends two small replacement birds, which key preparation if they can't man­ throwing a handful of shucked could be cooked in time, using less age to wrangle any relatives into oysters into your regular bread risky methods. taking on the burden, 10964 con­ stuffing to jazz it up, and if you are Simon contributed this rec­ tacted some of Palisades' better ipe for Oysters Casino to be served known chefs for some Thanksgiv­ as a first course: ing cooking tips. A properly carved -Saute as many square turkey is a basic element in a suc­ pieces of sliced bacon as you have cessful dinner, but Joe Hyde warns oysters, until some fat is rendered, that dogmatism about details can but the pieces are still soft; remove lead to some etiquette problems. bacon from the pan and add equal He recalled an incident he knew of parts of finely diced onion, green in which a Thanksgiving dinner pepper, and red pepper (one of each guest took issue with the way that vegetable is probably enough for 3 his in-law, the master of the house, dozen oysters). Heat gently for a was going to carve the turkey, and few minutes and remove from volunteered his services instead. A burner. heated argument developed, and -Open your oysters and ar­ the carver ended the discussion by range them on their half shells on a throwing the entire bird across the baking sheet. Put one tablespoon table at the backseat expert. Per­ really ambitious, add some sliced, of the vegetable mixture and a haps this is the kind of scenario cooked chestnuts for texture. square of the softened bacon on which leads some people to carve Cooking the turkey properly top of each oyster (this can be done their turkeys out in the kitchen, is another arena for disaster. Si­ in advance). where they can really get their mon Gerard recalls that once, when -Just before serving, place hands greasy and dismember the he was rather young, his grand­ your pan of oysters under the carcass without being self-con­ mother hit on a "foolproof" cook­ broiler, and cook until the oysters scious about it. ing method for turkeys from Adele are heated and the bacon is crisp. Joe suggests using a large Davis. The gist of it was, you put platter. Start your carving with re­ your bird in the oven overnight at moval of the wings and drumsticks 180 degrees, and by dinner time Announcement using the knife and fork. However, the next day, it would be trans­ Cristina Biaggi will be ex­ the only easy way to get the second formed into a golden masterpiece hibiting her work at Ariel Gallery, joints off is to tip the turkey on its ready for the carving board. The 470 Broome Street, New York City. side, and wrestle them of with your first year she tried it, it worked The show is entitled "Recent Sculp­ hands. Cutting the breast meat is very well, but the following year, tures: The Nooks and Crannies of usually done on the bias, starting she awoke on Thanksgiving morn­ the Goddess" and will run from from the front, but Joe recommends ing to an awful charcoal smell, and November 25 through December that a better way is to make verti­ found that the turkey had been 16. Opening reception will be Tues­ cal cuts, starting from the wing, reduced to a cinder. Twenty guests day, November 28, from 6 to 8 p.m. Page 7

ration for some ghostly stories which were to be told by resident Bill Murray. Permits had been se­ cured to make the fire from Rock­ The Halloween land County and the Town of Orangetown. But due to an air quality emergency, the Town au­ thorities ordered that the bonfire Festival be put out. The large audience, which was enjoying the warmth by Judith W. Umlas and intimacy the fire provided, booed a bit, but these complain­ ing boos were then transformed There was a real sense of good things for Palisades," she into ghostly Halloween sounds as "community" at the October 28 predicted when this reporter Bill Murray stepped forth and Halloween Festival hosted by the asked about our future. As she began warming the group with Palisades Community Center. Ev­ looked down into her electric his ghoulish humor. He instructed eryone—from newborns to senior crystal ball, her bulbous plastic children on how to turn their citizens—seemed to enjoy the re­ nose fell off, undoubtedly a sign faces into ghosts' faces by saying laxing and fun-fiUed atmosphere. of the veracity of the prediction. the name of the ghost either 47 or Everything was free: no tickets to The pie eating contest was 100 times (nothing else would do). purchase or lines to wait on, won by Zach Zisman according He also said that if a white ghost and even the hamburgers, so­ to the judge, Glyn Frederick spit on them, it was "curtains"— das and hot dogs Nixon, but all participants got a there would be nothing left but were given to the prize. This reflected the spirit of bones. No one looked the slight­ many hungry resi­ the day—giving to the residents est bit scared, but all looked ex­ dents of Palisades of Palisades. According to Presi­ tremely delighted to hear him. who showed up dent John Converse, the Commu­ It was a great day, and for the event. nity Center has been collecting with a bit of gentle nudging the Most of the chil­ rent from the Blue Rock School Board of the Palisades Commu­ dren and quite a few for the past two years and the nity Center might be persuaded adults dressed in costumes for the Board of Directors felt it was time to make it an annual event. occasion, and prizes were given to spend some of this money on Thanks from all the residents of out in such unusual categories as something that everyone in Pali­ Palisades to John Converse, Tony Best Insect (to Jamie Thompson, sades could enjoy. Converse also Gerard, Linda Jouas, Kim Miller, age 6, who was a beautiful but­ hoped that the party would re­ Glyn Frederick Nixon, Andy terfly); Best Boy (coincidentally, mind everyone that the Center Norman, and Kevin Weber. All her brother, Robert Thompson, remains open for residents' use— of these great age 2 won as Superboy); and Best that it is available evenings and folks worked so Grown-Up (Connie Coker won for weekends for meetings, art classes hard to make her great Little Bo Peep costume). and the like. the First An­ Young Ilaina Ferramosca and Palisades resident Jackie nual Hallow­ Allison Goldfarb were judged to Drechsler and the Palisades een Festival a be the prettiest, in their stunning Chamber Players Trio added an memorable organdy dresses and gold crowns. elegant touch as they performed and fun event. Children and teens espe­ classical music between events (Was thul cially loved throwing shaving throughout the day. gentle enough cream pies at the "ghoul" and One of the highlights of persuasion?) See you all next lined up in front of the door of a the Festival was also the only year! miniature house to hear "Gypsy "damper" put on it. At about six Fortune Teller" Irene Frederick o'clock, as it began to get dark, a give her prognostications. "I see lovely bonfire was built in prepa­ Page 8 Map of the Advanced Business institute IBM Continued From Page 1 served elegantly in cafeteria style. Guests can also obtain light snacks and meals in a small lounge. Each of the 206 guest rooms has up-to-date conveniences, including an IBM PS/2 workstation and executive information center. Although there are designated smoking areas, the entire facility is otherwise smoke free, reflecting current health con­ sciousness. A fitness center, featuring a lap pool, racquetball courts, workout machines and jogging tracks, has a professional staff and is operated by Johnson and Johnson Health Management. V J My impression of the entire institute was that of understated elegance and comfort for IBM customers. The atmosphere reminded me that, in spite of the many luxuries, the purpose here is clearly business. From the pinkish kerfed brick Bldg. Lie. # H02-2592 (914) 638-1082 and teak exterior to the mahogany and maple inte­ riors, architect Mitchell Giurgola's building is beau­ JMiMmmL tiful and blends naturally with its wooded envi­ ronment. Artwork, displays, a library and other amenities add to the comfort and business-like at­ mosphere of the surroundings. But nature is not STEVEN AHLF Builder Contractor forgotten, for the day I was there everyone was ad­ Snedens Landing References miring a pair of recently acquired trumpeter swans who have joined ducks and fish in the pond flowing "Quality Built Custom Homes" under the windowed bridge joining the education and residential wings. All of the services are without cost to IBM customers. 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SITUATION WANTED: Warm FOR SALE: Superb Duncan and responsible young lady seeks Phyfe dining table, 113" long, 49" John Converse part-time housekeeping/child- wide, 3 hand carved mahogany Lori DiGiacomo care employment. Excellent ref­ pedestals. Top triple banded, Carol Elevitch erences. Call evenings 365-2192. rosewood veneer. 10 years old. Patti Katz Excellent condition. Phone 359- Boyce Leni CLERICAL POSITION: Part- 9444. Mary Ann Luckman time, flexible hours! 15-20 hrs/ Greta Nettleton wk. Mail literature, catalogs, Diana Reif maintain mail list and inventory. Operate shrink-wrap machine CONTRIBUTIONS David Sanders and postage meter. Call Kathar­ Holly Whitstock Seeger ine Bulwin at (201) 767-7990. Judith W. Umlas Contributions to 10964 were Judy Zehentner FOR SALE: 20-year-old palace- received last month from sized Hamadan rug, 18'xll' in unblemished, unworn condition. Marshall and Irine Davidson. May be seen p.m. Call 359-8295. Thank you very much.