SPECIAL REPORT
General Fund Raising Chairman Robert W. Reardon reports an encour­
aging response to his May 15th letter to members soliciting gifts to the
museum fund.
Donors contributing $1,000. or more and exclusive of those who are
sponsoring rooms or other designated areas, include Mr. and Mrs. Robert B.
Allison, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burghardt, John J. Crowley, The Dellwood
Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. W. Arnold Finck, Miss Eleanor Fitch, Mr. and
Mrs. John L. Gibbons, Dr. and Mrs. John F. Hopf, Jr., Leland Rickard
Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. St. Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. Dean B.
Seifried, Mrs. Gustav Svahn, Miss Gladys G. Weber, Mr. and Mrs. John R.
Zehner, Mr. and Mrs. Garret Buchanan, Dr. and Mrs. George R. Sharpless,
Schofield and Colgan, In Memory of Regolo Venturini. Their names will be
listed as patrons on the bronze plaque in the entrance lobby of the new building.
The following have been sponsored or are being reserved by request:
library, map room, three exhibit windows, sales (display), collection preser­
vation and east exhibit on the first floor; kitchenette and vault on the ground
floor.
Miss Gladys G. Weber, chairman of the advance gift committee, will
welcome inquiries about memorial opportunities still available in the new
museum building. Her phone is 634-6970.
*Gifts to the society for endowment HISTORY FOR SALE with accent
or museum purposes through estate on Rockland’s people, places and
settlements will be credited to the events through membership in the
newly established Benefactors Fund. Historical Society of Rockland
The first such gift recorded is from County. Membership includes re­
the estate of Miss Ethel Storms of ceiving the society’s quarterly.
Cost through December 1976 is
Nyack in the amount of $5,000.
When drawing or revising your only $5. Makes a wonderful gift
will, your thoughtfulness can have tre­ for friends or relatives. Mail check
mendous implications for the society’s or money order to the Rockland
permanence and financial well-being. County History Center, 20 Zukor
* Business corporations and profes­ Road, New City, New York
sional offices of attorneys, physicians 10965.
and dentists may join the society as PLOT FOR SALE: residentially
group members for the period from zoned (R22); 100-fqot frontage,
adjoining Orangetown, on the east
October 1, 1975 to September 30,
side of Greenbush Road, West
1976. Dues range from $10 and $25
to $50. Group Members receive the Nyack; approximately one acre;
quarterly, South of the Mountains, owned by Historical Society of
and all notices. Upon request addi­ Rockland
County.
Interested?
tional copies of each quarterly issued Contact the society’s executive
will be forwarded for distribution in secretary, Mrs. Anese Ash, 634their offices.
9629. *
*The County Trust Company has contributed generously to the production of
the 1860’s version of the play, "Rip Van Winkle”, sponsored at Sunnyside of
the Sleepy Hollow Restorations (Washington Irving’s home in Irvington) by
the New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission.
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