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RINGING HOME ONEONTA HISTORY

TURNING THE CORNER

ON ONEONTA’S HISTORY

By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA

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he tile floor from the heyday of Laskaris’ Candy Store was one of few hints of what was to come on Dec. 2, 2003, when a group of local history enthusiasts and officials gathered, sitting on folding chairs, in the dim, cavernous first floor of 189 Main St. The 1950s aluminum false front still covered the façade.

Kathleen LaFrank, a state historic preservation analyst, now the state’s National Register coordinator, was there to present a certificate to the Greater Oneonta Historical Society: Main Street, Oneonta, The GOHS removed Gallins was being Jewelers aluminum front. placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Dad Bill Weber and son John served the main dish, flanked by twins Chris, left, and Tom Hogan at last year’s St. Patrick’s Day dinner at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake.” It is cancelled this year due to frozen pipes, but check below for alternatives.

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elebrate St. Patty’s Day with food and music around Otsego County. ►The Ryan Clan Irish-American Family Band plays 7-11 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at the Red Jug Pub, 195 Main St. in Oneonta. ►St. James Church in Oneonta offers a corned beef & cabbage dinner with musical entertainment, 4-7 p.m. Sunday, March 15, to benefit teen mission trip to Ireland. $8 adults. St. James Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 305 Main St., Oneonta; Info, (607) 432-1458. ►Davenport United Methodist Men offer a corned beef & cabbage dinner 4:30-7 p.m Saturday, March 21, at Davenport Methodist Church, 15696 State Hwy. 23, Davenport. $11 adults; Info, (607) 432-5850.

The Knights of Columbus St. Patrick’s Day dinner with Irish dancing, set for March 14 at St. Mary’s church in Cooperstown, was cancelled at press time due to a frozen water line into the church.

RINGING HOME ONEONTA HISTORY

he GOHS is seeking to raise $40,000 by April 15 – matching an anonymous donor’s $40,000 – so its collection of thousands of items that bring Oneonta history to life may be brought back to the History Center, 183 Main St., where they will be more accessible to the history-loving public.

To “Bring Oneonta History Home,” there are several ways to donate: • Send checks to GOHS, Box 814, Oneonta, NY, 13820. Make checks payable to GOHS, with “Bring Oneonta History Home” in the memo line.

• By credit card, at the History Center, via PayPal on www.oneontahistory.org, or on Facebook, accessible through the website.

• Through stock donations, through the GOHS account at Wells Fargo, 433-0333.

Call GOHS Executive Director Bob Brzozowski at 432-0960 if you have any questions or are interested in naming rights to parts of the 183 Main St. facility.

PTA CARNIVAL: Crayon Carnival & Parade of Nations to benefit Cooperstown PTA. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Saturday, March 14. Public welcome.

Food, raffles, games, inflatable rides, facepainting, etc. Jr./Sr. High School Gym, 39 Linden St., Cooperstown.

Info, (607) 437-8761.

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A generation of GOHS leaders inspired by Sally Mullen (inset photo, upper right) include, from left, Executive Director Bob Brzozowski, President Janet Potter, Grace Smith, president during the transition, and Loraine Tyler, chair of the committee that found 189 Main.

STAR WARS

HARTWICK CHILI FEST: 1-3 p.m. Hartwick Historic District hosts a Chili Contest 1-3 p.m. Sunday, March 15. Live bluegrass trio, awards for best chili, free Cooperstown Brewery tastings. $5 donation to sample contestants’ creations. Hartwick Community Center, County Rte. 11, Hartwick.

Info, (607) 293-7530.

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saw ‘Star Wars’ 26 times,” he said.

“But when the prequels came out, that’s when I got involved.”

OTEGO It was the “thrill of the chase” that drew him in, hunting down hard-tohey’re some of the most recognizfind collectibles. “Target had excluable faces in movie history. Yoda. sives on the Wampa and Luke twoHan Solo. R2-D2. pack,” he said. “We got there at 4:30 And at Hesse’s Auction on Fridaya.m. and started running for the door.

Saturday, March 20-21, they could go It was so juvenile, but we were the home with you. “It’s been fun collectfirst ones in!” ing them, but this is the end of the road,” And it paid off. “Word got around said auctioneer Buzz Hesse. “I’ve got to that I had one, and someone offered sell all this off.” me $300 for it,” he said. “I sold it!”

Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.life He admits he wasn’t a fan of the films Buzz Hesse will be saying ’bye to his pals.

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, march 12-13, 2015 Buzz Hesse shows off his Naboo fighter from “Episode One: The Phantom Menace.”

STARS WARS Treasure Trove Coming On Market STAR WARS, From B1 cates and make a diorama, but soon the collection began to take over his life. “It got so I couldn’t go in a store without going straight to the toy section,” he said.

Soon, regular action figures wouldn’t cut it, and he began seeking out rarer items. “I had a box of AT-AT walkers in the shipping crate with the FAO Schwarz packing tape still sealed,” he said. “But when

we sent it down to Georgia to be graded, they busted open the tape!”

He estimated he had over 1,000 pieces of “Star Wars” merchandise, including lifesized figures of Darth Maul and Jar-Jar Binks, a replica Y-Fighter that stands almost as tall as he does. “I have Queen Amidala’s starship in the box,” he said. “I’ve never even seen it!”

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is the life-sized replica of Han Solo in carbonite from “Return of the Jedi.” “This is graded 9 by the Action Figure Authority,” he said. “A 10 is impossible. This is the first of that figure to receive this grading.”

But even that has to be sold.

“My daughter is begging me not to sell it, but it’s all gotta go,” he said.

He originally tried to sell the collection to a museum for as little as $10,000, but the offer

was declined. “I just wanted someone to take it off my hands,” he said.

And he won’t just be selling his “Star Wars.” 161 lots of toys and collectables from “Star Trek” “Jurassic Park” “Godzilla” and even sets of G.I. Joe figures will also be sold.

“It’s not about the money for me,” he said. “It’s about sharing it. I want these items to go to people who will enjoy them.”

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SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2015, 7:30 P.M. SUNY Oneonta Alumni Field House Headlined by jazz artist HILARY KOLE in a Judy Garland program.

The evening also includes a salute to Richard Rodgers.

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Tickets: $40 Table of 8: $320 cso@oneonta.edu 607/436-2670 www.catskillsymphony.net

This concert is generously sponsored by Tom Morgan and Erna McReynolds and the Morgan McReynolds Group at Morgan Stanley, in Loving Memory of Wendy Brown.

Additional Support Provided by Benson Agency Real Estate, LLC. This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

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Upper Susquehanna Society Pioneered Concept ORIGINS/From B1 the GOHS, modernizing it, focusing its vision, helping craft a strategy for success and expansion that continues until today and will into the future.

Cooperstown’s Jessie Ravage had done the research for the new district, but Sally did the salesmanship, “the work of going to property owners and getting them on board – it was her friendliness and power of persuasion that won them over,” said Bob Brzozowski, former GOHS board president and now its executive director. “She 21st CENTURY was somePRESIDENTS body who was OF GOHS very difficult 1999-2000 to say no to.

GRACE SMITH Some of them 2000-2003 may have had SALLY MULLEN reservations, 2003-2007 but she was BOB BRZOZOWSKI very persuasive.”

2007-2008 After the DORY BROWN ceremony 2008-2009 at Deitz and BOB BRZOZOWSKI Main, Brzo2009-2011 zowski and JOHN CARNEY Carol Evans 2011-2015 carried a JANET POTTER copy of the certificate to their leader, bedridden in her Brigham Avenue home. Even in her frail state, it was evident “she was thrilled that it had happened,” said Brzozowski. Barely a month later, age 68, she passed away on Jan. 8, 2004.

What Sally Mullen, a long-time and honored local educator, had wrought would have thrilled her even more today. The aluminum shell has been removed at 189 Main and the smart brick façade restored. Fresh exhibits of local history – “Lost Oneonta,” a tribute to Old Main, the Stanton Opera House (at Chestnut and Main, where Bassett’s office building is now), the roundhouse and so much more is the current one – are installed quarterly.

Frequent lectures, seasonal activities like the gingerbread contest and Christmas-time train installation, and a shop featuring books and artifacts fill the building with life. (Tom Heitz staffs the shop on Saturdays: Ask him to demonstrate the Oneonta-made player piano.)

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International Night! with executive chef, Michael Gregory

Now 86, Oneonta native Arline Pickens, now living in Morris, remembers having a cherry soda 82 years ago at the counter at Laskaris’ Candy Store, now the Oneonta History Center. Her grandmother had a pineapple one. Pickens stopped by the other day to view “Lost Oneonta,” an exhibit of city landmarks now demolished.

Pillars installed in the basement and first floor ensure the building can withstand whatever weights it may have to.

A elevator shaft was recently completed, and the elevator itself is due to be installed in mid-April, opening the second floor and the third – one of several upper floor Main Street ballrooms that were centers of the city’s lively social life at the turn of the 20th century – to the public.

On the second floor, the Sally Mullen Research & Reading Center is planned, its creation sped along by a surprise gift of $40,000 in stock, presented on the spot by visitors Brzozowski was showing through the facility in January.

At a secret location elsewhere in the downtown – secret, to ensure its safety – a team of archivists – Fiona Dejardin, who chairs the GOHS Collections Committee, Shelly Wallace and Whitney Birkett – is indexing the collection, preparing for its installation in the Mullen Center, where it will be fully accessible to scholars and the public for the first time.

The Bringing Home Oneonta History fund drive, now under way, is seeking to match that $40,000 gift by mid-April. So far, donations have ranged from $2,000 in stock, to $100 handed to Bob after church the other Sunday.

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Two decades ago, little of this was envisioned.

The future GOHS was founded in 1939 as the Upper Susquehanna Historical Society. Its original mission was to serve Oneonta, Cooperstown and “all the little bitty towns” in between and beyond, according to retired SUNY Human Ecology professor Loraine Tyler, a GOHS member since the 1970s and board secretary for years. As local historical societies flowered, the state Board of Regents asked the society to narrow its reach and its name, and the Greater Oneonta Historical Society emerged in the 1980s.

Then and into the ’90s, Norma Hutman, Hartwick College professor of comparative literature, was “the mover and shaker behind keeping it alive,” said Tyler. It was comparatively low key, compared to today. Membership was $5. The board – “people who would be donors, not people who would be doers” – met twice a year.

And programming was limited.

There were issues. While fondly considered, the society “had faltered for quite a while,” Sally’s husband, Jim Mullen, Endicott, retired SUNY Oneonta dean of Humanities & Fine Arts (the Martin-Mullen Gallery is named in his honor), remembered.

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A St. Patrick’s Day Meal & Music for The Teen Mission Trip to Ireland Sunday, March 15 St. James’ Episcopal Church Parish Hall 305 Main Street, Oneonta (Enter off of Elm Street) Dinner is served from 4 to 7 pm Take-out starts at 3:30 pm Dinner includes: Corned beef and cabbage potatoes, carrots, bread, and dessert Adults $8 ~ Children ages 3 to 5 ~ $5 Children under 3 ~ Free

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BIRDER TALK -- 6:30 p.m. Pat Szarpa, expert birder, returns with presentation on crows & ravens, “some of the most intelligent creatures on earth.�

Free. Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 5470600 or www.woodesidehallcooperstown.com

Friday, March 13

ART OPENING -- 5-7 p.m.

Opening reception for Congressional Art Competition exhibit of works by Otsego County high school students; also solo show of acrylic paintings by Mary Ann Thomas. Free. Through April 10. Hours daily 11 a.m.-4 p.m. (closed Tuesdays) & Sundays 1-4 p.m. Cooperstown Art Association, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

Info, (607) 547-9777 or www. cooperstownart.com.

YMCA ‘BOAT NIGHT’ -- 6 p.m.

Family event; build a life-size cardboard boat, and race in the pool. Supplies provided. Build boats 6-7 p.m.; race 7-8 p.m.

Members free; non-members $5 per person/$15 per family.

Oneonta YMCA, Ford Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0010 x302.

THEATER -- 7 p.m. Oneonta High School Drama Club presents the musical “Footloose.� (also 6 p.m., Mar. 14; 2 p.m Mar. 15) $10 admission; $5 students and seniors. Oneonta H.S. Auditorium, 130 East St., Oneonta.

Info, www.oneontacsd.org.

SQUARE DANCE -- 7:3010 p.m. Doubleday Dancers Western Square Dance Club of Cooperstown hosts a St. Patrick’s dance. Ray Taylor will call; Emma Taylor will cue. No experience or partner needed. $5 admission at the door. Info, (607) 264-8128 or (607) 547-8665.

CONCERT -- 8 p.m. (also March 14. Note: nearly sold out.) Fly Creek Philharmonic annual concert. Tickets $10 at Riverwood and Fly Creek General Store. Public reception after concerts. Fly Creek United Methodist Church, 852 Cty. Hwy. 26, Fly Creek. Info (607) 547-5681.

Saturday, March 14

GARAGE SALE BENEFIT -- 9 a.m.1 p.m. Garage, craft & vendor sale fundraiser for Tenfold Plus “women supporting women� nonprofit. Krispy Kreme doughnuts;

light lunch. Vendors welcome, $30 per table. Carriage House (formerly Frazier’s Gables), 790 Southside Dr., Oneonta. Info, Bobbie Harlem (607) 434-0103.

CRAYON CARNIVAL -- 11 a.m.3 p.m. Crayon Carnival & Parade of Nations to benefit PTA. Public welcome. Food, raffles, games, inflatable rides, facepainting, more. J r./Sr. High School Gym, 39 Linden St., Cooperstown. Info (607) 437-8761.

POMONA GRANGE MEET -- 11 a.m. Otsego County Pomona Grange meeting, with reports from local granges. Lunch at noon; 1 p.m. guest speaker Shannon Russo. Free. Worcester Grange Hall, 143 Main St., (Rte. 7), Worcester. Info, (607) 5613526.

MET OPERA IN HD -- 12:55 p.m. “La Donna del Lago.� Tickets $20 adults; $18 seniors; $10 students. Tickets day of performance at the door, or through box office, (607) 431-2080.

Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www.foothillspac.org

THEATER -- 6 p.m. Oneonta High School Drama Club presents the musical “Footloose.� (also 2 p.m., Mar. 15) $10 admission; $5 students and seniors. Oneonta H.S. Auditorium, 130 East St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontacsd.org.

CONCERT — 8 p.m. (Note: nearly sold out). Fly Creek Philharmonic annual concert. Tickets $10 at Riverwood and Fly Creek General Store. Public reception after concert. Fly Creek U.M. Church, 852 Cty. Hwy. 26, Fly Creek. Info (607) 547-5681.

Sunday, March 15

SUGARING OFF SUNDAYS -- 8:30 a.m.–1 p.m. full breakfast with maple syrup; 9 a.m.–2 p.m. activities. Admission $9 ages 13 and up; $5 ages 7–12; 6 and under free. Reservations not required. Farmers’ Museum, 5775 Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www. farmersmuseum.org.

HARTWICK CHILI FEST -- 1-3 p.m. Hartwick Historic District’s Chili Contest. Live bluegrass trio,

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THEATER -- 2 p.m. Oneonta H.S. Drama Club final performance of “Footloose.� $10 admission; $5 students and seniors. Oneonta H.S. Auditorium, 130 East St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontacsd.org.

LIBRARY TALK -- 3 p.m.

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BOY SCOUT DINNER -- 5-7 p.m. Troop 1254 spaghetti dinner fundraiser. Homemade sauce, meatballs, sausage, salad, garlic knots, dessert, beverage. $8 adults; $5 ages 12 and under.

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ST. PATRICK’S DAY MEAL & MUSIC -- Dinner 4-7 p.m.; takeout 3:30 p.m. Traditional corned beef & cabbage dinner with dessert. Benefits church teen mission trip to Ireland. $8; ages 3-5 $5; under age 3 free. St. James Episcopal Church, Parish Hall, 305 Main St., Oneonta. (Enter off Elm St.) Info, (607) 432-1458.

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Oneonta Women Join Together To Help Others Who Need A Hand TENFOLD/From A1 by referral from agencies or because one of our members saw they had a need,” said founding member Carol Blazina, whose Tenfold Plus colleagues were among 200 celebrants who gave her two standing ovations at the Otsego Chamber’s annual Celebration of Business Thursday, March 5, at SUNY Oneonta’s Hunt Union Ballroom.

“If one of our girls is aware of something, we see if we can help,”

said Blazina, who received the Eugene A. Bettiol Jr.’s Distinguished Citizen Award, named in honor of Betty and Gene Bettiol’s son.

Tenfold Plus packed two carloads of food to donate to Foothills “Day of Giving” in 2014.

They baked Christmas cookies and sang carols at nursing homes.

When a member is ill, they pack up a gift basket. “It’s the small gestures that count,” said Bettiol.

“If someone’s pipes freeze, we tell them who to call. If someone

needs a ride, we get one for them.”

It’s also the big things. “A woman came to us when her daughter was really sick, and we helped her get her car fixed so she could take her to a doctor in New York City,” said Bettiol. “When it was her birthday, we bought her presents and a party dress.”

At Christmas, they adopted a family and bought them presents, and took it one step further, having two people dress up as Santa and Mrs. Claus to deliver them to the

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Tuesday, March 17

AUTHOR VISIT -- 7:30 p.m.

Local author April L. Ford at The Writers Salon. Ford will read from her award-winning short story collection, “The Poor Children.” Free. Salons begin with an open mic, where guests are invited to read, followed by featured author. Community Arts Network of Oneonta (CANO), Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave.,

Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-2070 or www.canoneonta.org/events.

Thursday, March 19

AGRICULTURAL RECYCLING -- 7 a.m.-1 p.m. (also Sat. April 18, 8-11 a.m.) For Otsego County residents. Free drop-off of clean silage wrap, bunker covers, bale wrap, greenhouse/hoophouse covers, wood-pellet bags. Please avoid mud and manure, and

separate plastics types. No PVC. Collection Station at 75 Silas Lane, Oneonta. Pre-registration required. Call (607) 282-4087.

FINANCIAL WORKSHOP -- 9 a.m.-noon. Family Service Association of Oneonta hosts session on family budgeting and financial goals. Free. Learn about cultural expectations and money rules.

First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Register at (607) 432-2870.

family. “That was as important as the gifts,” said Bettiol. “I want to build memories for people.”

Though anyone is welcome to join, Tenfold Plus is in the process of putting together an application for interested members. “A lot of our members don’t have a lot of money,” said Bettiol. “But what they give is time. That’s what it’s really about.”

To continue the good they do, the group will host a garage sale fundraiser Saturday, March 14 at

CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE -- 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Oneonta Community Christian School open house for 2015-16.

Tours and registration materials for Universal Pre-K -12th grade available. Oneonta Community Christian School, 158 River St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0383.

QUILTING MEET -- 6:30 p.m.

Susquehanna Valley Quilting Guild meeting & sharing of winter projects & round-robin of teaching techniques. Free; all welcome. Little Red School House Community Center, 516 County Hwy. 11, Oneonta. Info, email dlawagner4@gmail.com.

PLANETARIUM SHOW & OBSERVATORY NIGHT -- 7 p.m. (also April 16 & May 7.) SUNY Oneonta Dept. of Physics & Astronomy public planetarium show in upgraded digital planetarium on-campus, followed by public viewing at College Camp Observatory on Upper East St., weather permitting. Free. Seating limited.

Register at www.oneonta.edu/ planetarium/publicshow.asp COOPERSTOWN HIGH PLAY -- 7 p.m. Cooperstown juniors and seniors will present “Meet the Creeps!”, a spooktacular comedy for all ages. Also Friday, March 20 and Saturday March 21 at 7 p.m. $5 for students and $10 for adults. Jr./Sr. High School auditorium, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info (607) 547-8181.

AUTHOR VISIT -- 7:30 p.m.

SUNY Oneonta Red Dragon Reading Series presents Graham Foust, poet, essayist, and writer.

Free. Craven Lounge, Morris Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta.

Info, ruth.carr@oneonta.edu or (607) 436-3446.

the Carriage House. “You can’t believe what will be there,” said Blazina. “The members bring in all kinds of things!”

And Bettiol still remembers what Jeannie’s late husband, John, told them when the group started.

“He told her, ‘Jeannie, this might be the most important thing you and Betty have ever done’,” she said. “And I still remind her of that. But we’re not looking for fame – just smiles, cuddles and warm fuzzies.”

Friday, March 20

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COOPERSTOWN HIGH PLAY -- 7 p.m. “Meet the Creeps!”, spooktacular comedy for all ages. $5 students, $10 adults.

Jr./Sr. High School auditorium, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown.

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AUTHOR RECEPTION -- 11 a.m. Book launch & reception for Megan Viera, of Sherburne, N.Y., who will unveil book “Viera Strong: My Struggle With Traumatic Brain Injury.” Free.

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ONGOING HAPPENIN’S FREE TAX HELP -- By appointment. Huntington Memorial Library hosts free tax-filing help sessions at the library. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call Catholic Charities at (607) 432-0061 for appt.

PET TREATS SALE -- through March. Otsego County 4-H youth sell healthy pet treats to benefit county 4-H programs and the Susquehanna Animal Shelter. $4 each dog, cat, or horse package.

To reach a 4-H member or to order, call Otsego 4-H at (607) 547-2536 or email otsego@ cornell.edu ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays. Municipal parking garage hallway, on Main Street. Market continues indoors Saturdays January-May, then returns outdoors Tuesdays and Saturdays on Muller Plaza.

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– 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays.

Pioneer Alley (behind Key Bank), rain or shine. Market continues 10 a.m.-2 p.m. January-April, then 8 a.m.-2 p.m. May-Labor Day. Info, (607) 547-6195, www. otsego2000.org LIFEGUARD, CPR, FIRST AID TRAINING -- Red Cross recertification classes March 13-14 & April 3-4; first-time training classes Mondays & Fridays starting April 6. YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave, Oneonta. Info and course

fees, call (607) 432-0010 x302.

HEALTHY LIVING WORKSHOPS -- 9:30 a.m.-noon Thursdays, March 26-April 30. Free sixweek “Living Healthy” workshop for ages 18 and up & caregivers dealing with chronic or limiting health conditions. Registration required. Focus Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Otsego, 128 Phoenix Mills Crossroad, Cooperstown. Info, Ida Baker, Bassett Center for Rural Community Health, (607) 547-3464.

HD FILMS AT SUNY ONEONTA -- College offers spring series of public HD cultural screenings. Tickets $8 ($5 with SUNY Oneonta ID). Red Dragon Theater, Hunt Union, SUNY Oneonta.

Schedule, tickets at Hunt Union or www.oneontatickets.com.

TEACHERS’ GRANTS -- Applications through March 13.

Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society offers applications for area teachers to add new environmental activities to classroom. Info, www.doas.us (click on Education). Or call Susan O’Handley at (607) 643-5680.

‘LOST ONEONTA’ EXHIBIT -- through April 25. Photos, artifacts, stereo cards celebrating bygone buildings of Oneonta.

Free. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Hours, info, www.oneontahistory.org or (607) 432-0960.

WRITERS’ WORKSHOP -- Saturdays through May. 1:30-3:30 p.m. Free workshop will include time for writing and supportive peer review. All welcome. Registration preferred. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call (607)-432-1980 to register. Info, www.hmloneonta. org

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THURSDAY-FRIDAY, march 12-13, 2015

Local Athlete Runs Boston Marathon For Charity

RUNNER/From A1 running after the attack on April 15, 2013, where two homemade bombs exploded at the finish line, killing three and injuring 264.

“Ever since then, I made it a goal to run the Boston Marathon,” she said. “But I’d rather run for a charity than qualify in a time trial. I want to give back.”

While following the Facebook page of the book “Stronger” by bombing survivor Jeff Bauman, she learned of the Heather Ab-

bott Foundation. “She lost one of her legs in the bombing, and now helps women and young girls get prosthetics they would otherwise be unable to afford,” she said.

“Perfectly healthy, young people who lose limbs to unexpected incidents are denied, by insurance companies, what are considered privileges or non necessities like prosthetic devices that allow them to run, swim, bike or have the appearance of a real leg through cosmetic technology,” Abbott

wrote on the foundation’s blog page at www.heatherabbottfoundation.org.

She was selected to join the team and has begun fundraising efforts. “I’ve raised $650 so far,” she said, and is still collecting donations. A link to her fundraising site can be found at www.allotsego.com.

And when she runs through the streets of Boston, the victims of that tragic day will be at the front of her mind. “I dedicate my run to those victims,” she said.

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March 17

AUTHOR VISIT -- 7:30 p.m.

Local author April L. Ford at The Writers Salon. Ford will read from her award-winning short story collection, “The Poor Children.” Free. Salons begin with an open mic, where guests are invited to read, followed by featured author. Community Arts Network of Oneonta (CANO), Wilber Mansion, 11 Ford Ave.,

Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-2070

or www.canoneonta.org/events.

Thursday, March 19

AGRICULTURAL RECYCLING -- 7 a.m.-1 p.m. (also Sat. April 18, 8-11 a.m.) For Otsego County residents. Free drop-off of clean silage wrap, bunker covers, bale wrap, greenhouse/hoophouse covers, wood-pellet bags. Please avoid mud and manure, and separate plastics types. No PVC.

Collection Station at 75 Silas

Lane, Oneonta. Pre-registration required. Call (607) 282-4087.

FINANCIAL WORKSHOP -- 9 a.m.-noon. Family Service Association of Oneonta hosts session on family budgeting and financial goals. Free. Learn about cultural expectations and money rules.

First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Register at (607) 432-2870.

CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE -- 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Candidates’ Forum Launches Snowshoveling Raid 20 CITED/From A1 begged off, saying, “I don’t know who to complain to.”

But incumbent Cindy Falk suggested, call 5472411. “Citizens helping us out is always appreciated,” she said.

Someone acted on that advice, For Tuesday morning, March 10, 20 residents woke up to a harsh reminder to clear their walks or face a steep fine.

“I received a complaint from a resident this morn-

ing,” said Brian Clancy, Public Works superintendent. “So I sent the department out to leave notices.

Wednesday morning, we’ll go around and see which ones have been taken care of.”

Any of the cited homeowners who had not cleared their sidewalks by Wednesday, March 11, would have faced a $100 fine.

“Village law says that homeowners have to shovel their sidewalks within 24

Oneonta Community Christian School open house for 2015-16.

Tours and registration materials for Universal Pre-K -12th grade available. Oneonta Community Christian School, 158 River St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-0383.

QUILTING MEET -- 6:30 p.m.

Susquehanna Valley Quilting Guild meeting & sharing of winter projects & round-robin of teaching techniques. Free; all welcome. Little Red School House Community Center, 516 County Hwy. 11, Oneonta. Info, email dlawagner4@gmail.com.

PLANETARIUM SHOW & OBSERVATORY NIGHT -- 7 p.m. (also April 16 & May 7.) SUNY Oneonta Dept. of Physics & Astronomy public planetarium show in upgraded digital planetarium on-campus, followed by public viewing at College Camp Observatory on Upper East St., weather permitting. Free. Seating limited.

Register at www.oneonta.edu/ planetarium/publicshow.asp COOPERSTOWN HIGH PLAY -- 7 p.m. Cooperstown juniors and seniors will present “Meet the Creeps!”, a spooktacular comedy for all ages. Also Friday, March 20 and Saturday March 21 at 7 p.m. $5 for students and $10 for adults. Jr./Sr. High School auditorium, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown. Info (607) 547-8181.

AUTHOR VISIT -- 7:30 p.m.

SUNY Oneonta Red Dragon Reading Series presents Graham Foust, poet, essayist, and writer.

Free. Craven Lounge, Morris Conference Center, SUNY Oneonta.

Info, ruth.carr@oneonta.edu or (607) 436-3446.

Friday, March 20

hours of a snowstorm,” said Mayor Jeff Katz.

“We leave it up to residents to report if a sidewalk isn’t shoveled,” said Katz.

“We don’t have the manpower to check all 26 miles of sidewalk in the village.”

During the particularly brutal winter just ending, Clancy said he issued between 50-75 tickets before this latest round of citations, many of them repeat offenders.

Robynwood Center, 43 Walnut St., Oneonta.

COOPERSTOWN HIGH PLAY -- 7 p.m. “Meet the Creeps!”, spooktacular comedy for all ages. $5 students, $10 adults.

Jr./Sr. High School auditorium, 39 Linden Ave., Cooperstown.

Info (607) 547-8181.

AUTHOR RECEPTION -- 11 a.m. Book launch & reception for Megan Viera, of Sherburne, N.Y., who will unveil book “Viera Strong: My Struggle With Traumatic Brain Injury.” Free.

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ONGOING HAPPENIN’S FREE TAX HELP -- By appointment. Huntington Memorial Library hosts free tax-filing help sessions at the library. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call Catholic Charities at (607) 432-0061 for appt.

PET TREATS SALE -- through March. Otsego County 4-H youth sell healthy pet treats to benefit county 4-H programs and the Susquehanna Animal Shelter. $4 each dog, cat, or horse package.

To reach a 4-H member or to order, call Otsego 4-H at (607) 547-2536 or email otsego@ cornell.edu ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays. Municipal parking garage hallway, on Main Street. Market continues indoors Saturdays January-May, then returns outdoors Tuesdays and Saturdays on Muller Plaza.

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– 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays.

Pioneer Alley (behind Key Bank), rain or shine. Market continues 10 a.m.-2 p.m. January-April, then 8 a.m.-2 p.m. May-Labor Day. Info, (607) 547-6195, www. otsego2000.org LIFEGUARD, CPR, FIRST AID TRAINING -- Red Cross recertification classes March 13-14 & April 3-4; first-time training classes Mondays & Fridays starting April 6. YMCA, 20-26 Ford Ave, Oneonta. Info and course

fees, call (607) 432-0010 x302.

HEALTHY LIVING WORKSHOPS -- 9:30 a.m.-noon Thursdays, March 26-April 30. Free sixweek “Living Healthy” workshop for ages 18 and up & caregivers dealing with chronic or limiting health conditions. Registration required. Focus Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Otsego, 128 Phoenix Mills Crossroad, Cooperstown. Info, Ida Baker, Bassett Center for Rural Community Health, (607) 547-3464.

HD FILMS AT SUNY ONEONTA -- College offers spring series of public HD cultural screenings. Tickets $8 ($5 with SUNY Oneonta ID). Red Dragon Theater, Hunt Union, SUNY Oneonta.

Schedule, tickets at Hunt Union or www.oneontatickets.com.

TEACHERS’ GRANTS -- Applications through March 13.

Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society offers applications for area teachers to add new environmental activities to classroom. Info, www.doas.us (click on Education). Or call Susan O’Handley at (607) 643-5680.

‘LOST ONEONTA’ EXHIBIT -- through April 25. Photos, artifacts, stereo cards celebrating bygone buildings of Oneonta.

Free. Oneonta History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta. Hours, info, www.oneontahistory.org or (607) 432-0960.

WRITERS’ WORKSHOP -- Saturdays through May. 1:30-3:30 p.m. Free workshop will include time for writing and supportive peer review. All welcome. Registration preferred. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Call (607)-432-1980 to register. Info, www.hmloneonta. org

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IN MEMORIAM Jeanette B. Hansen, 93; First Majorette At OHS COOPERSTOWN – Oneonta native Jeanette Baldwin Hansen, 93, passed away Thursday, March 5, 2015, in Cooperstown, where she had resided at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home.

She was born Feb. 24, 1922, in Oneonta , the daughter of Edna and Paul Baldwin. Jeanette grew up on East Street and graduated from Oneonta High School in 1940. She was a member of the National Honor Society, voted most popular in her class and was Oneonta High’s first drum majorette.

In 1941 Jeanette graduated from business school in Binghamton and became a secretary at A. O. Dailey & Sons in the Southern Tier, where she met and married her first husband, Harry G. Lampman, Jr. They lived in Albany and Rensselaer before moving to Modesto, Calif. When he passed away suddenly in 1950 Jeanette moved back to Oneonta.

Jeanette married Wilbur L. Hansen in 1952 and raised their children on Irving Place, spending summers at their camp on Arnold’s Lake. In 1969, Jeanette and Bill moved to Cooperstown, purchasing the Greenough house, now known as the 1819 House.

He died in 2002.

Jeanette was very active in the community.

She was a member of the Cooperstown Women’s Club and modeled for their fashion shows in the 1970s. She was elected to and served on the Hartwick Town Board. Jeanette was active at the Atonement Lutheran Church while living in Oneonta, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hartwick Seminary after moving to Cooperstown.

She also served as an election volunteer at the polls for many years and sold daffodils for the American Cancer Society.

Jeanette and Bill hosted old-fashioned croquet parties at their home over the years, benefitting Pathfinder Village. They swam early in the mornings at Arnold’s Lake and Clark Gym for many years. Jeanette also

enjoyed playing golf, bowling, playing bridge-which she played with clubs in Oneonta and Cooperstownand dining out with the Dinner Belles.

Jeanette also researched the history of the Greenough house.

Jeanette led a full, happy life Jeneatte and always Hanson put her family first, before anyone or anything, including herself. Most of all she will be remembered by her children as a great mom, a strong, gracious woman with a positive attitude, and a wonderfully supportive grandmother and great-grandmother. “Eat dessert first, life is so uncertain” was a favorite saying that reflected in her love of chocolate.

At the time of her death, Jeanette was a resident of the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home. She enjoyed many activities with the residents and staff. The family extends their gratitude to the staff and residents for being a second, loving family.

Jeanette is survived by her four children: Harry G. Lampman of Schenectady, and his sons, Henry (and wife Krystal and their children Sierra and Henry) and Ernie; Paula Lampman Henrich of Cincinnati, Ohio, and her children, Kristin, Paul and Shelley; Jon Hansen and his wife, Maureen, of Oneonta; and Bryn Ryan and her husband, Chuck, of Southington, Conn., and their children, Shawn (and her daughter Jordan Rosado) and Billy.

Jeanette is also survived by her sister Thelma Sternberg of Oneonta; and brother, Wallace Kelley, of California. and several nieces and nephews.

The funeral was Tuesday, March 10, at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hartwick Seminary, with the Rev. Paul R. Messner, pastor, presiding.

Arrangements were with the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

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Nyhla Beth Strong, 90; State ‘Woman of Distinction’ ONEONTA – Nyhla Beth Strong, 90, a founding member of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Otsego County, passed away Monday, March 2, 2015 at Focus Rehabilitation in Cooperstown.

She was born Aug. 8, 1924, in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of William Kenneth and Ella (McMullen) Yates.

She married Jerome C. Strong on Dec. 27, 1947 in Lake Geneva, Wis. He predeceased her on Sept. 3, 1994.

Beth graduated from Grinnell College in 1946 and Columbia University Library School in 1951. She worked as a librarian at the University of Wisconsin, Columbia University, Princeton

University, SUNY Oneonta and was a librarian at The Daily Star from 1977 to 1991 when she retired.

Beth was a long-time member of the League of Women Voters of the Oneonta Area, serving on the board for many years. She was also a founding member and president of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Otsego County, an advocacy and support group for families and friends of those with a mental illness.

In 2004 she was honored to be named a Woman of Distinction by state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, in the state Senate “Women of Distinction” Program.

She was also the vice president of Country Horizons Otsego, Inc., an organization providing residential and vocational programs for adults suffering from mental illness.

Beth is survived by her daughter, Jennifer Strong Blasetti, of Otego; her son, Douglas William Strong, of Binghamton; a granddaughter, and three great grandchildren; a sister-inlaw, Sylvia Strong of Olympia, Wash., and a nephew.

A memorial service will take place in the spring, as will burial in Glenwood Cemetery.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home.

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THURSDAY, march 12, 2015

Madalyn A. Cimino, 82; Dartmouth Administrator, Village Trustee

COOPERSTOWN – Former village trustee Madalyn A. Cimino, who in 1972 the first woman to be named an administrative officer at Dartmouth Medical School, died Thursday morning, March 5, 2015, at Bassett Hospital. She was 82.

A native of Cooperstown, Madalyn was born June 14, 1932, at Bassett, a daughter of Jack and Maria née Falzarano Cimino.

She first attended Cooperstown schools and later the Knox School for Girls, graduating from there in 1953. She then moved to Albany, where she was an administrative assistant to the neurologist-in-chief at

Albany Medical College.

In 1972, she was named registrar of Dartmouth Medical School. She served in this position for 25 years until retiring in 1997.

At her retirement in July of 1997, the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees and Dartmouth Medical School honored Madalyn for her “distinctive personal and professional services to the Dartmouth Medical School community” by appointing her registrar emerita of Dartmouth Medical School.

The citation read: “You were a central figure in the life of the school and its students and that your interest in the students, both as

Jeanette B. Hansen, 93; Oneonta Native Raised Family In 1819 House COOPERSTOWN – Oneonta native Jeanette Baldwin Hansen, 93, who raised her family in the landmark 1819 House in Index, passed away Thursday, March 5, 2015, in Cooperstown, where she had resided at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home.

She was born Feb. 24, 1922, in Oneonta , the daughter of Edna and Paul Baldwin. Jeanette grew up on East Street and graduated from Oneonta High School in 1940. She was a member of the National Honor Society, voted most popular in her class and was Oneonta High’s first drum majorette.

In 1941 Jeanette graduated from business school in Binghamton and became a secretary at A. O. Dailey & Sons in the Southern Tier, where she met and married her first husband, Harry G. Lampman, Jr. They lived in Albany and Rensselaer before moving to Modesto, Calif. When he passed away suddenly in 1950 Jeanette moved back to Oneonta.

Jeanette married Wilbur L. Hansen in 1952 and raised their children on Irving Place, spending summers at their camp on Arnold’s Lake. In 1969, the Hansens purchasing the Greenough house, now known as the 1819 House.

He passed away in 2002.

Jeanette was very ac-

tive in the community.

She was a member of the Cooperstown Women’s Club and modeled for their fashJeanette ion shows Hansen in the 1970s. She was elected to and served on the Hartwick Town Board.

Jeanette and Bill hosted old-fashioned croquet parties at their home over the years, benefitting Pathfinder Village. They swam early in the mornings at Arnold’s Lake and Clark Gym for many years. Jeanette also enjoyed playing golf, bowling, playing bridge – which she played with clubs in Oneonta and Cooperstown – and dining out with the Dinner Belles.

Jeanette is survived by her four children: Harry G. Lampman of Schenectady, Paula Lampman Henrich of Cincinnati, Ohio, Jon Hansen and his wife, Maureen, of Oneonta; and Bryn Ryan and her husband, Chuck, of Southington, Conn., also by her sister Thelma Sternberg of Oneonta; and brother, Wallace Kelley, of California. and nieces and nephews.

Arrangements are with Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

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individuals and professionals in training, made you a very important person in their lives.” Further, “your participation in the ever changing administrative and academic programs has been invaluable.”

Upon returning to her native Cooperstown, Madalyn became actively involved village life. A communicant of St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Roman Catholic Church, she also served a three-year term on the Village of Cooperstown

Board of Trustees and was a member of the Glimmerglass Opera Guild.

She was a member of the Lake & Valley Garden Club, and was justifiably proud of the flower gardens at her home at 16 Maple St. that she devotedly and carefully tended, and which garnered several Clark Foundation awards and letters of commendation for her efforts.

Since 1966, Madalyn also found time to travel extensively throughout Europe.

Madalyn is survived

by four nieces, Elizabeth Lochte of Spokane Valley, Wash., Susan Lochte of Charlottesville, Va., Jane Barry and her husband Paul of North Bend, Wash., and Cynthia Zacharchuk and her husband Michael of Cherry Valley; four great nieces and four great nephews; and cousins.

She was predeceased by two sisters, Mrs. Stella Vagliardo and Mrs. Lucy Lochte, and her god daughter, Charlene Vagliardo.

A funeral mass is planned

at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 21, at St. Mary’s, with Father John P. Rosson, pastor, presiding.

Interment will be in the spring at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Index, where she will be laid to rest near her parents.

Memorial contributions may be made to Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care, 1 Birchwood Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820.

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AllOTSEGO.life B-7 After 26 Years, Fox’s Remillard To Retire At Year’s End RETIRING/From A1 feel good to be part of such a compassionate organization.”

After 26 years, Remillard will be leaving that compassionate organization. He announced Monday, March 9, that he will be retiring as CEO of Fox Hospital, effective Dec. 31. “I hope people will say I was able to improve patient care for people

in and around Oneonta,” he said. “I’m honored to have been a part of it.”

He arrived in Oneonta from Plattsburgh in 1988 when his children, Sarah, Jack and Adam were 7, 5 and 4. “Oneonta became our home,” said Remillard, whose wife died young.

“And now I have grandchildren here!”

And in the two decades since he took office as CEO, both Fox Hospital and the practice of medicine have changed dramatically. “In the early ’90s, there was a shortage of primary care doctors,” he said. “So we established hospital-affiliated primary care facilities.”

Among those were the Oneonta Family Practice, Susquehanna Family Practice and Fox Internal Medicine, and a pediatrics operation. “Those practices are still thriving today,” he said. “And we’re very proud of that.”

Those practices – and several others – were gathered in the old Pyramid Mall to form the FoxCare Center in 1997. “We wanted to create a pleasant, efficient place for outpatient services,” he said. “We have primary care, a cancer center, a dentist, labs, a pharmacy and a gym all under one roof.”

And in response to the rapidly changing healthcare field, Remillard negotiated Fox’s affiliation with Bassett Healthcare in 2010.

“We felt that establishing a cooperative environment, rather than a competitive one, would help us better serve our patients,” he said.

“There’s been several areas

where we’ve been able to operate more efficiently, and our future is one of more fully integrating our services.”

The integration allowed the purchase of a new linear accelerator for the Cancer Center at FoxCare in 2012.

“This linear accelerator allows for more precise radiation treatment,” he said.

But perhaps the largest piece of his legacy is the “Gold Standard of Patient Care” fund drive, which in 2012 raised $2 million locally, the local share of a state grant for at $10 million upgrade, the first major

renovation since the 1960s.

“We wanted to build all new private rooms” in place of doubles, he said. “And last March, we completed the final phase in One North.”

Now, 53 private rooms offer a quiet place to recover from surgery or illness, with 14 new observation beds, built to centralize patient observation. He even donated funds for one of the rooms.

“These changes have been a result of me being able to work with a team,” he said. “I didn’t accomplish anything by myself.”

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AllOTSEGO.life B-7 Harvey Gurian, 88; Bassett’s First Chief Of Psychiatry

COOPERSTOWN – Bassett Hospital’s first chief of psychiatry, Harvey Gurian, died Feb. 14, 2015, in Cambridge, OBITUARY Mass., of complications following surgery. He was 88.

He was born April 5, 1926, in Toronto, Canada, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants affiliated with

the socialist Jewish organization, the Workmen’s Circle.

He grew up in poverty in the midst of the Depression, but did well in school, excelling in math and physics.

He went on to the University of Toronto, from which he graduated with a degree in medicine in 1947.

After completing an internship in remote and frigid Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, he entered a psychiatry residency at Brooklyn State Hospital. He worked in several hospitals, including Middletown State, before becoming the first chief of psychiatry at Bassett Hospital in 1959.

Along the way, the two defining events of his life occurred. He was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 28 and given 12 years to live, and he met the love of his life, Helen Supple, who agreed to marry him in spite of his grim prognosis.

They were married in 1956, and went on to enjoy 58 happy years together, and to have four children and five grandchildren, all of whom they cherished.

A psychiatrist who stayed abreast of his specific field and general medicine – and, when he started at Bassett, the only psychiatrist between Albany and Binghamton –Harvey revealed himself to be a gifted administrator as well.

He developed and headed the residency training program in psychiatry at Bassett, as well as the psychiatric training for interns.

The methodical approach to all challenges that made

Photo courtesy M.A. Whelan

Helen & Harvey Gurian

Harvey such a good head of department undoubtedly extended into his life as well.

He monitored and managed

his extremely refractory diabetes with unflagging care, keeping up to date with each improvement in technique as it came along. He was awarded the Joslin Medal for “50 Courageous Years with Diabetes” and, as what is called, in medical terms, an “extreme survivor” took part in research studies.

Diabetes made its mark on Harvey’s life — necessarily a constant concern — but he did not allow it to limit him. He was an expert swimmer and a graceful dancer, and he led his family on dozens of strenuous hikes in the Adirondacks.

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AllOTSEGO.life B-7 After 26 Years, Fox’s Remillard To Retire At Year’s End RETIRING/From A1 feel good to be part of such a compassionate organization.”

After 26 years, Remillard will be leaving that compassionate organization. He announced Monday, March 9, that he will be retiring as CEO of Fox Hospital, effective Dec. 31. “I hope people will say I was able to improve patient care for people

in and around Oneonta,” he said. “I’m honored to have been a part of it.”

He arrived in Oneonta from Plattsburgh in 1988 when his children, Sarah, Jack and Adam were 7, 5 and 4. “Oneonta became our home,” said Remillard, whose wife died young.

“And now I have grandchildren here!”

And in the two decades since he took office as CEO, both Fox Hospital and the practice of medicine have changed dramatically. “In the early ’90s, there was a shortage of primary care doctors,” he said. “So we established hospital-affiliated primary care facilities.”

Among those were the Oneonta Family Practice, Susquehanna Family Practice and Fox Internal Medicine, and a pediatrics operation. “Those practices are still thriving today,” he said. “And we’re very proud of that.”

Those practices – and several others – were gathered in the old Pyramid Mall to form the FoxCare Center in 1997. “We wanted to create a pleasant, efficient place for outpatient services,” he said. “We have primary care, a cancer center, a dentist, labs, a pharmacy and a gym all under one roof.”

And in response to the rapidly changing healthcare field, Remillard negotiated Fox’s affiliation with Bassett Healthcare in 2010.

“We felt that establishing a cooperative environment, rather than a competitive one, would help us better serve our patients,” he said.

“There’s been several areas

where we’ve been able to operate more efficiently, and our future is one of more fully integrating our services.”

The integration allowed the purchase of a new linear accelerator for the Cancer Center at FoxCare in 2012.

“This linear accelerator allows for more precise radiation treatment,” he said.

But perhaps the largest piece of his legacy is the “Gold Standard of Patient Care” fund drive, which in 2012 raised $2 million locally, the local share of a state grant for at $10 million upgrade, the first major

renovation since the 1960s.

“We wanted to build all new private rooms” in place of doubles, he said. “And last March, we completed the final phase in One North.”

Now, 53 private rooms offer a quiet place to recover from surgery or illness, with 14 new observation beds, built to centralize patient observation. He even donated funds for one of the rooms.

“These changes have been a result of me being able to work with a team,” he said. “I didn’t accomplish anything by myself.”

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sunday, March 15

9:15 am—Discipleship Hour with Keely Sawyer, Charles & Jenny Brett, and Fred Farrokh.

10:30 pm—Worship Service …featuring Grace Fabian Grace has served with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Mexico and for 35 years in Papua New Guinea.

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New Building Creates Opportunity For Exhibits, Research, Community ORIGINS/\From B3 Angie Nielsen, then selling real estate for the “They had not filed the paper for non-profit staBenson Agency, rounded out the cadre. tus and other things like that. So she got behind The Eastlake brick house at 97 Main, just the effort.” up from the OPD, was attractive, but – since Of particular concern to Mullen and others renovated – it was in “horrible condition” at was the collection, which was being stored in the time, and it lacked parking. The Dr. Geer the attic at one of Hartwick College’s older House, now a parish house for the Unitarian buildings – Arnold Hall (since razed and reUniversalist Society, was broken up into too placed by the Hartwick-Arnold Ran Garden) or many small rooms. The committee “drooled” neighboring Bresee Hall. To access it required over the historic Octagon House on Grand crouching and clambering through a low Avenue, home to Oneonta’s first superintendent doorway. Of particular worry were two pipes of schools, but – again – lack of parking ruled that ran across the top of the collection – a leak it out. Jim Mullen said the Chestnut Street would have ruined everything.

School was in the running for a while.

“Parts of the collection were being stored, “The last building we looked at was the one not only in Hartwick, but in different places on Main Street,” said Loraine. “We didn’t – people’s homes and other nooks and cranreally want a building on Main Street. Main nies,” said Brzozowski. “The status of collecStreet didn’t want us, either.” tion management and collection cataloguing Yet, the Bissell Block was historic – the first were pretty rudimentary. File cards had very brick commercial building in the downtown. little information on them.” Part of it was on The committee walked through the first floor, the second floor of a cigar shop, where Rose then the rabbit warren that was then the second & Laurel books is now; an original painting floor, broken up into offices – the old state of the historic Deitz Street massacre was in a ABC agency, Alcoholic Beverage Control, had member’s home. been in an office vacant since the 1970s.

An exhibit case on the first floor of 31 Maple Then the third-floor ballroom, with its high – then home of the now ceiling and tall windefunct Rowe Foundadows looking out on tion, now to the Future the fancy brick parapets for Oneonta Foundation of the downtown: “We – was identified as conjust fell in love with taining GOHS artifacts, the third floor. It was but no one was sure just beautiful. And we how that came about. could envision proAnd the origins of an grams, and places to Indian head statue, perstore the collection.” haps from a cigar store, So the deal was was a mystery. hatched, for $200,000.

“It was a collection “Somehow,” Tyler waiting for a place to recalled, “Sally Mullen, When the GOHS bought Galinns Jew- who said, ‘don’t worry be – and someone to elers, a 1950s aluminum false front about the money,’ came love it,” said Tyler.

This led Sally Mul- covered the brick facade. up with the money.” len, in particular, to “It just shows what one conclude a permanent home was necessary. But person, who really has passion, can do,” said the society, as constituted, and Norma Hutman, Janet Potter, retired director of SUNY Oneonby then retired from Hartwick, were unwilling ta’s Milne Library and GOHS board president to take such a dramatic step. since 2011. Former mayor Jim Lettis helped That led to the climactic annual meeting of in that fundraising piece.

1999, hosted in Grace Smith’s then home in Much has happened since then, much with the Walnut Street Historic District. Norma was guidance of Randy Crawford of Crawford nominated. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, & Stearns, the Syracuse-based historic presGrace was also nominated, from the floor, and ervation architectural firm. Oneonta’s Mike elected. The surprise was total for the longMurphy, an engineer with Gilbane, the Albanypresiding Hutman. “I felt guilty about it then; based engineering firm, has done yeoman’s I feel guilty about it now,” said Smith, who had service as chair of the Building Committee. been approached by Mullen and agreed to take More than $350,000 has been spent on the the presidency for a transitional year. building so far, and an estimated $350,000 will Subsequent events bore out the opportunities be needed to finish it. That money comes in of change. Walking tours blossomed. The first, steadily from “four legs” – fundraisers like the organized by Loraine Tyler, was of the Parshall annual auction, memberships (starting at $25), House, Oneonta’s first hospital, on Deitz Street appeals and the shop. “Our financial conservajust past Center Street School. Lynn Bissell tism works in our favor,” said Brzozowski. began his periodic tours of historic cemeteries, Fifteen years from that transformational anwhich continue today. nual meeting, the role of an energetic historical Grace put together “The Only Historical society can play in a community has become House Tour of the 20th Century in Oneonta” increasingly evident to the architects of the – since the 20th century was almost over, she change. chose the label with some assurance. The “We learn from history,” said Tyler in a then-Frazier Greenhouse donated potted plants round-robin discussion the other day that infor doorsteps; someone else donated flags. cluded Smith, Potter and Brzozowski. “It helps “Hundreds” participated, Grace remembers. “It to hold a community together if they know went off without a hitch.” Enough was raised what their roots are.” to purchase the plaques you see on the Walnut Among other things, the GOHS is now planStreet homes today. ning its first off-site permanent exhibit, at the The Gingerbread House Contest was operating room at the former Homer Folks TB launched, one of the first featuring a woman Hospital, where the Oneonta Job Corps is now.

– from Sharon Springs, Grace remembers OJC Director Chris Kuhn believes local history – who had designed such houses at the White will strengthen the bond between the corps and House. Deb Bruce called upon her father, community, Tyler said.

John, to upgrade the web site – oneontahisWhat will success look like? The gathertory.org. Nancy Murphy took on membership: ing was asked. “It think it’s going to be a long “She was willing and passionate – and I think time before we can sit down and say we are she had a computer,” Smith said. finished,” Brzozowski reflected. “Wouldn’t it Almost immediately, Loraine Tyler was be wonderful, at our ages, to jump forward 50 tapped to chair a committee to find a buildyears and see what it is like?” ing. Sally, Grace, Loraine’s husband Rich and

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