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TIM MEAD NEW HALL OF FAME PRESIDENT

Hail To The Chief! Tim Mead, the Baseball Hall of Fame’s new president, is nothing if not approachable. Here, he poses with fans from Hartford, Conn., after they asked him to snap a photo of them in front of the scoreboard in front of 25 Main St., which he gladly did. From left are Luis Garcia, his wife Carmen and daughter Glendaly. In front is granddaughter Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal Macci, 8.

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Since last Induction, Matt Hazzard changed caps from Cooperstown Chamber executive director to entrepreneur. The Leatherstocking Trolley proprietor has made his two-trolley fleet available to supplement the Village of Cooperstown’s three this weekend to ferry a possible record-breaking crowd into downtown.

Induction, Yes; But Don’t Miss Famers’ Parade COOPERSTOWN

e all know about Induction 2019, which begins at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at the Clark Sports Center. But don’t miss a more recent highlight; The Parade of Legends, your best chance to get a close look at the 50plus Hall of Famers in town this weekend. It starts at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 20, and runs from the fire hall down Main Street to the Hall.

im Mead is anything if not approachable. Walking by that display board of standings in front of the Hall of Fame the other day, Glendaly Garcia of Hartford, Conn., called out to the new president of Baseball’s Mecca: “Can you take our photo?” Unhesitatingly, he did, then posed with the family, now thrilled at meeting the man who holds one of the highest-profile jobs in the National Pastime. That kind of personal touch is important, the Garcias can tell you: A decade ago, dad Luis was diagnosed with cancer, and the family brought him to Cooperstown to fulfill a lifePlease See MEAD, A7

D OUBLEDAY has a FRIEND Many Friends Aim At Raising $800K To Complete Redo By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

SABR MEETS: The local chapter of the Society of American Baseball Research meets at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at Tillapaugh Funeral Home, 28 Pioneer St., and features three baseball writers, Jane Leavy, Erik Sherman and Jay Jaffe. Members, non-members welcome. NEW THIS YEAR: Fans, plan to take in the Hall’s latest exhibit, “Shoebox Memories,” a display of the best and rarest of the 200,000 samples in its baseball card collection, including the most valuable, of Honus Wagner.

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Jeff Katz, former mayor and new Friend of Doubleday president, said the organization aims to raise $800,000 for next year’s centennial of the historic site.

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here some people saw scraps, Jeff Katz and Quinton Hasak saw a fundraising opportunity. “When the demolition of the third-base bleachers started, the question arose about what we were going to do with them,” said former mayor Jeff Katz, now president of the Friends of Doubleday. “They’re not the original bleachers, but they’re still a thing from the field.” Someone offered to buy the entire pile for $1,000. “It wasn’t ours to sell, but even so, not for that little,” said Katz. “It’s worth more than fill.” Though they had toyed with the idea of benches, Katz thought they might be too Please See FRIENDS, A9

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LOCALS Dr. Franck Honored By Valegos College With Service Award

Fly Creek Unveils Five Historic Markers

Youngest Paul Harris Fellow Honored At Cooperstown Rotary

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r. Walter Franck, a former clinician and teacher at Bassett Hospital, was honored with the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) Distinguished Service Award Dr. Franck in Clinical Science. “I’m very grateful and I feel incredibly honored. It is not something I expected to happen at this stage of my life,” said Dr. Franck, Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal professor emeritus of clinical Mike Ainslie, Fly Creek starts unboxing the North Tin Shop, one of medicine, VP&S. “ five new historical markers that was put on display during the Fly Dr. Franck retired from Creek Historical Society’s annual BBQ on Sunday, July 14. In addiBassett in 2015 after 42 years tion to the North Tin Shop, markers commemorating the one-room as a rheumatologist, physiSprague School house in the Fly Creek Valley; the nearby home of cian leader, researcher and Hezekah Sprague, a Revolutionary soldier who donated the school teacher. During his tenure, he house; and the pitchfork factory on Fork Shop Road. Another marker, served 28 years as Bassett’s commemorating David Shipman, partial inspiration for Cooper’s Leatherstocking, is on order and will be placed by Shipman’s grave. physician-in-chief and was co-director of the ColumbiaDONNELLY LAUDED: Bassett Medical Program LESKO LISTED: FRANCK TOPS: Jack Donnelly, Cooperstown, and senior associate dean at Sophia Lesko, Cooperstown, Katherine Franck, was honored as one of the Columbia. a freshman at the University Cooperstown, has been The Empire 8 Conference The Distinguished Service of Connecticut, was named named to the Dean’s List honoring 77 Elmira Award is the highest award to the Spring 2019 at Nazareth College for the College student-athletes on the college gives. Dean’s List Spring 2019 semester. its President’s List.

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William Dina, seen here with his mom, Kate, became the Cooperstown Rotary Club’s youngest Paul Harris Fellow on Tuesday, July 16, after a contribution was made in his name.

7 Named To SUNY Delhi Dean’s

va Baker, a nursing student from Cooperstown, was one of nine local students named to the SUNY Delhi Dean’s List for the Spring 2019 semester. Also on the list were: • Rebecca Baker, Fly Creek, Nursing. • Carmen Booan, Cooperstown, Mechatronics

Design. • Avalon Kubis, Cooperstown, Liberal Arts & Sciences: General Studies. • Neil Palmatier, Hartwick, Information Technology Management. • Alisia Pierce, Cooperstown, Nursing. • Amy Townsend, Cooperstown, Nursing.

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THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019

COOPERSTOWN AND AROUND

WILL EYESORE BE LANDMARK AGAIN?

CVS Listed For Sale Dwayne Heeter and Keith Burkland, visiting from Danville, Pa., pass the CVS shortly after it went up for sale this week.

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he most prominent available property in Cooperstown’s downtown – the former CVS pharmacy at 100 Main St., vacant for two years now – went on the market for $1.4 million in the past few days. “I’ve already shown it,” said Nancy Angerer, who has the listing The Freeman’s Journal with Lamb Realty. Artist housing – The Lofts on Dietz – will transform downtown Oneonta, Parkview Development & Construction principal Ken Kearney of Peekskill tells Common Council Tuesday, July 16. He was due before the city Planning Committee the next night. Full article at:

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ven before the Herb Ritts exhibit arrived from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to The Fenimore Museum, the institutions shared a commonality. “Ahmet Ertegun, Harris who co-founded the Greg at gala. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, was Gene Thaw’s roommate in college,” said Greg Harris, president. The Herb Ritts photography exhibit, on loan from the Rock & Roll Hall through Labor Day, is on display across from the Thaw collection. Please See GALA, A13

ive building owners in downtown Oneonta applied for $400,000 in Downtown Revitalization Funds aimed at creating affordable upper-floor housing. The deadline was Friday, July 12. Next, said Mayor Gary Herzig, the selection committee will meet and Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal review the applications. “I Micah Strauss, Sidney videographer, above, hope we can fund them all,” prepares to record the arrival of a Viscose he said. Co. steam locomotive Saturday, July 13, in

NEW AT CENTERS: A long-time administrator with Centers Health Care, Kelly Ann Anderson, has been appointed administrator at Cooperstown Center, the former Focus. She succeeds Jeff Emhoff, who joined Fox Nursing Home as administra-

PANEL PLUMBS RITTS

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NEW HQ: State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, has relocated his campaign headquarters up the block to 75 Dietz St., Oneonta. Hours are 9 a.m.-noon, MondayFriday, or by appointment at 437-0030 or friendsofsenatorseward@gmail.com. The senator is next up for reelection in 2020.

The property went on the market just days before Induction Weekend, when tens of thousands of visitors, some no doubt in the real-estate investment business, will be in the village. Back-up material prepared for potential buyers reports the building contains almost 10,000 square feet of space, 4,914 for retail on the first floor and 4,738 for storage in the basement. But in a tour of the property Tuesday, July 16, Angerer noted zoning allows the property to be built up 42 feet above Please See CVS, A13

Cooperstown, part of the Leatherstocking Railroad Historical Society’s 150th anniversary celebration of the Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad. At right, LRHS President Bruce Hodges confers with the crew.

New Provosts On The Job At SUNY, Hartwick With Olympics, Kahanov Tutored In Diversity By JENNIFER HILL ONEONTA

efore becoming a faculty trainer, Dr. Leamor Kahanov was a trainer of Olympic

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women athletes. But her first career with the U.S. volleyball, bicycle and archery teams in the mid to late 1990s helped form her second one. “I got to see interesting parts of the world and the Please See KAHANOV, A13

Ehmann Focuses On Gen Z’s Characteristics By JENNIFER HILL ONEONTA

ill Ehmann believes students will guide the school’s future as much as the faculty will guide theirs.

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“Students are always changing because economic forces are always changing,” said Hartwick College’s new provost and vice president/ academic affairs, who arrived on campus July 1. “We have to keep adapting to them.” Please See EHMANN, A13

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Fans, Cooperstown Spent $10-15 Million Preparing For You

elcome, Induction attendees! Will there really be more than a record-breaking 84,000 of us? Excitement. If you’ve been here before, look around: You will see many changes and improvements to Cooperstown’s downtown that have occurred since the last record-setter, when Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn were inducted in 2008. If you came then, you might be astonished by what you see now. Then, all the sidewalks were cracked. Main Street needed paving. The whole downtown had a bit of a well-worn sense about it – endearing, yes, but still… People like you – baseball fans, Dreams Park families and other visitors – made it possible. • Beginning in 2012, that began to change quickly. Now-Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh Kuch remembers being a bit nonplussed at her first Village Board budget meetThe Freeman’s Journal ing after being elected a trustee in March 2011. Mayor Tillapaugh stands in Pioneer Park, the next focus “The budget wasn’t balancing very well,” of Village of Cooperstown improvements.

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hile the 2019 our country LEGALLY or state legislative had close family members session concluded who have gone through several weeks ago, discusthe process. They were sion continues to swirl among the most offended. around one of the more They are now proud United controversial new measures States citizens, who approved this year – the so- followed the law, and take called “Green Light” law. it as a personal affront that The new law, others are exploiting which formally a shortcut. takes effect on Dec. The New York 14, 2019, would Association of permit illegal/unCounty Clerks fordocumented immimally opposes the grants to apply for legislation, saying standard driver’s they lack the proper licenses using training or experiforms of foreign ence in recognizing identification. The STATE SEN. foreign documents. majority of New The change would JIM SEWARD Yorkers are against be a substantial the idea and prior unfunded mandate to the Senate vote on the from the state, leaving bill, I heard from a great counties to pick up the number of constituents who tab for hiring and training voiced strident opposition. employees to deal with an • influx of applicants. I voted NO on the bill New York also uses because the thought of the DMV to enroll voters, giving a driver’s license, a creating new concerns over secure identification docuvoter fraud. New York does ment, to someone who is not have any voter identifiintentionally breaking the cation laws, unlike 35 other law is inconceivable. This states. The states that measure is bad public permit illegal immigrants policy that could put lives in to obtain licenses require danger, rewards lawbreakers, substantially tighter proof and sends the wrong mesof identification and may sage to those who take the impose limitations on legal path to citizenship. driving to incentivize As I said, a number of naturalization. None of my constituents expressed those states relies solely their thoughts to me regard- on foreign documents for ing this bill, including sevidentification purposes. eral who recently came to Please See SEWARD, A6

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AM, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING Sam Nader is presented with a 100th-birthday cake Saturday, July 13, at ceremonies at Oneonta’s Damaschke Field to celebrate the former mayor and team owner’s centennial, and also the 50th anniversary of bringing the Oneonta Yankees to the City of the Hills. Cutting the cake is Heather Mann of Mann Made Cakes, flanked by husband Tim and Eileen Mugford. Behind Nader is son John, also a former mayor and SUNY Farmingdale president. Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’ s Journal

Pausing before entering Damaschke’s infield, Sam pauses with granddaughter, Mayor Gary Herzig, state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and Sam’s son John, also a former mayor.

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she recalled the other day. “There was a big surplus in the Water Fund, and $400,000 had to be shifted from Water into the General Fund” just to stay even. “That was maintenance level,” she said. The next year, the village trustees made a decision after the most angrily debated local issue in decades: In the face of a sharply divided electorate, they voted to extend paid parking to all downtown streets between Labor Day Weekend and Columbus Day Weekend. Almost immediately, Village Hall’s financial picture brightened. The first year, paid parking added $250,000 to the $5 million village budget, and that’s continued to grow in the years since to $400,000 in the fiscal year that ended May 31. Village taxes haven’t gone up in five years. • At the same time, a freshman Village Trustee (now Deputy Mayor) Cindy Falk, began developing prowess in grantsmanship. Successes soon followed: Please See EDITORIAL, A5

To Sell, First, Sell Yourself

any years ago, when Earth was still cooling, I was a young professor teaching rhetoric. That study had been greatly advanced by Aristotle. He was not long dead then, so the topic was still fresh. Aristotle said that rhetoric is “the art of effective, persuasive speech.” The crassest form is used by the usedcar salesman who scuttles across the lot with wide eyes and lockjaw grin, as if his best friend had just shown up. But simultaneously, the salesman is scanning you like a laser, looking for a personal link. And then he spots your lapel, and claps a hand to his heart. “A

fellow Rotarian! ‘Service above self!!’ “Great organization!” Well, this pigeon was too easy a target, but I couldn’t resist. “Uh,” I mumbled, “I’m pretty sure JIM that’s the Lions’ ATWELL motto.” And then he really squirmed! Well, shame on me, picking on this poor guy! Probably the only Aristotle he knows is Ari who runs the corner

store. But if the original Aristotle had been around, I’ll bet he would have snorted and punched me in the shoulder. But let me wrench myself back to my topic. Again, Aristotle defined rhetoric as the art of effective – that is, convincing – speech. (He also gives a great definition for “art”: the rational control of any natural human capacity. Good stuff! – but maybe for some other time.) Here’s the real skinny: If your language is going to be convincing, you must recognize that you must juggle a three-part dynamic. The three Please See ATWELL, A6

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Died at Jerusalem, Ontario, on the 8th inst. – Jemima Wilkinson, commonly called the “Universal Friend,” aged 66 years. Her complaint, we learn, was the dropsy. A few moments previous to her death she placed herself in her Chapel, and called in her disciples one by one, and gave each a solemn admonition, then raised her hands, closed her eyes and gave up the ghost. Thus, the second wonder of the western country has made her final exit. We have not as yet learned whether she will have a successor to speak to her people, or whether, after having lost their religious head, will continue united or not. Much curiosity has been excited since her departure. The roads leading to her mansion were for a few days after her death literally filled with crowds of people, who had been, or who were going to see the Friend. Her mansion stands on a barren heath amidst the solitudes of the wilderness, at some distance from this settlement. (Ed. Note: Jemima Wilkinson (November 28, 1758 – July 1, 1819) was a charismatic American Quaker and evangelist. After suffering a severe illness and fever Wilkinson reported having the experience of death and returned from heaven, reincarnated as a prophet known as “The Universal Friend” who was neither male nor female.) July 19, 1819

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For President: James K. Polk, of Tennessee; For Vice-President George M. Dallas, of Pennsylvania. Otsego is highly complimented by the democratic press generally for her show of strength on July 4, which she is adding to every day, particularly among the young men who desire to do the right thing in politics, having no narrow-minded prejudices to overcome. The watch fires are being lighted up on every hilltop, and the valleys are illuminating so that every man shall see his way clearly when the horn is sounded and her sons march to battle and to victory, as they will do, claiming the State

100 YEARS AGO

Purely Personal: Miss Gertrude Birdsall, who has been visiting relatives in New York, arrived last night to spend the remainder of the summer with her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. A.W. Cooke at Edgewater. Jas. Fenimore Cooper and son Linn Fenimore Cooper, returned yesterday from Albany, where they spent a few days on a business trip. Dr. M. Imogene Bassett was a dinner hostess at her home on Fair Street, Thursday night. Her guests numbered nine and the evening was spent at bridge. Miss Elizabeth Ellsworth of New Britain, Conn., is a guest of her mother, Mrs. Mary Ellsworth for a short time. F. Ambrose Clark spent the weekend at his summer home, Iroquois Farm. Mrs. Flad and daughter, Miss Flad of St. Louis have arrived at Otsego Hall for the remainder of the summer season. July 10, 1919 July 19, 1894 Banner as the reward of their patriotism. July 22, 1844

150 YEARS AGO

Business on the Cooperstown Railroad starts off well and the receipts fully meet the expectation of the Directors. On Saturday, the Company’s first locomotive, the “Ellery Cory,” brought in the afternoon train, its first run over the road. It is a fine machine, and came in decked with flags and wreaths of flowers, and has on the front part an excellent likeness of the worthy citizen for whom it is named. The large crowd of men and women who had congregated on the depot grounds to welcome the E.C.’s arrival gave emphatic endorsement of the compli-

Americans Invade France To Cheer Women’s Team Editor’s Note: Cooperstown’s Bill Waller, whose son Scott played for CCS, took Scott’s daughter – and aspiring soccer player – Kira to see World Cup play in France. By BILL WALLER COOPERSTOWN

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Bill Waller and granddaughter Kira at the scene of history.

2019 World Cup. While heavily favored, the U.S. women ran into a tough Dutch squad, ending the half with the score 0-0. My granddaughter Kira and I Please See WALLER, A6

75 YEARS AGO

First Lieutenant Alexander O. Jones, Jr., son of Mrs. Alexander Ogden Jones of Cooperstown, 15th AAF P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot who was reported missing in action on March 28, 1944, over Italy, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement in aerial flight according to a dispatch received Monday from the 15th AAF in Italy. The citation states: “Lieutenant Jones led his flight on an escort mission providing cover for heavy bombers attacking a rail center in Italy when the formation was suddenly attacked by 40 enemy fighters. Although outnumbered four to one, the P-47s engaged the enemy, broke up the attacking formations, destroying six fighters and damaging several more. Lieutenant Jones intercepted a number of enemy

aircraft and in the ensuing engagement, destroyed one before the fire of two other enemy fighters destroyed his plane.” July 19, 1944

50 YEARS AGO

Dr. M.M. Jastremski of Bowerstown was re-elected president of the Cooperstown Central School Board of Education at its annual reorganization meeting held Tuesday night of last week. Dr. William H. Mook of Cooperstown was re-elected vice-president. Other members of the Board include Webb J. Weaver of Hartwick, Mrs. John H. Schneider of Cooperstown, and Roy K. Swatling of Fly Creek who was re-elected to a five-year term on the board last week. Donald J. Pier of Hartwick was re-appointed District Treasurer. July 16, 1969

25 YEARS AGO

Parents Choice Foundation Award winner Skip West was the star of the show at a midday concert on the lawn at Global Traders on Saturday, July 16. West delighted youngsters with a variety of songs each of which gave the audience a chance to participate. West is a music educator and the time he has spent with young children is evident in his ability to connect with youthful audiences. Some of his songs and sing-alongs integrate the children’s names. Skip West also plays trombone, five-string banjo, mountain dulcimer, piano and synthesizers. July 19, 1994

10 YEARS AGO

Elsewhere, Brian Collis of Latham is known as “Mr. Ding-a-Ling. Here, let’s just call him “Mister.” On July 20, the Cooperstown village trustees issued a “hawking, soliciting and peddling application for the Collis Good Humor Ice Cream Truck to ply local streets this summer. But, T. Margaret Oakley, who will driving the truck, was told she couldn’t be ringing the bell, as it would violate the noise ordinance. July 24, 2009

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SA, USA, USA.” Over 30,000, more than half of an enormous new Lyon, France Olympic soccer stadium’s crowd are screaming their support for the U.S. Women’s soccer team. Flags waving everywhere, chants of “USA, USA” drowning out the soccer songs of the orange-clad Dutch fans; this was Lyon and the scene at the finals for the 2019 Woman’s World Cup. • This final game pitting the European Champion Netherland against the three time world champion American women would decide the

ment bestowed on one who on all hard work has always been a “motive power” in this village, and whose deserved popularity no man envies. July 23, 1869

The Cost Of A Free College Education

ou might read the headline and ask, “How can something that is free have a cost?” First of all, nothing is really free. That includes the free lunches at school, the free grants the City of Oneonta receives from time to time to pay consultants or deploy flower pots, and free college education. A public school education is free to the students who attend grades one through 12 yet, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, New York spent an average of $22,366 per pupil at its public schools in 2016 – 90 percent above the MIKE national average. ZAGATA Are those things really free? Governor Cuomo is running a $2 billion budget deficit this year alone and the federal government has accumulated a national debt of $82 trillion ($60 trillion of which is tied to unfunded pensions). Why is the government spending that money? Much of it goes to fund entitlements – programs whereby people get free money. Someone has to pay for those expenditures if the government is going to have a balanced budget – revenue coming in must equal money being spent.

Where does that revenue or money the government must take into its coffers come from? It comes from the taxpayers – you and me. • You see, those free things aren’t really free. Taxpayers – not always the ones receiving those free things – pay for them. They pay with various forms of taxes, including, but not limited to, Federal Income Tax (Fed), Corporate Income Tax, Gasoline Tax, Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA), Property Tax, Social Security Tax, Sales Taxes, Medicare Tax, State Income Tax, State Unemployment Tax (SUTA), Vehicle License Registration Tax, Vehicle Sales Tax, Building Permit Tax, CDL License Tax, Cigarette Tax, Dog License Tax, Fishing License Tax, Food License Tax, Fuel Permit Tax, Hunting License Tax, Inheritance Tax, Inventory Tax, IRS Interest, Charges (tax on top of tax), IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax), Liquor Tax, Luxury Tax, Marriage License Tax, Real Estate Tax, Service Charge Taxes, Road Usage Tax, Recreational Vehicle Tax, School Tax, Telephone Federal Excise Tax, Telephone Federal Universal Service

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Cooperstown Creates Setting For What May Be Record-Setting Induction EDITORIAL/From A4 • In 2013-14, a $600,000 state Green Innovation Grant paid for “rain gardens” around newly planted trees. In part, the idea was to slow runoff into Otsego Lake and the Susquehanna River. The first brick sidewalks were also installed. • About the same time, the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded $2.2 million for downtown enhancements, from repaving, to sidewalks, to redone and new lampposts (with LED lights), to street furniture, on Main but also on Pioneer. • The final expenditure from that grant will come this fall: Narrowing the Main and Chestnut intersection, adding walk/don’t walk signs, and generally making it less scary to pedestrians.

(If you’ve tried to cross there, you know what we mean.) • Local money, $1.2 million, was used for more routine projects, albeit important: the replacing of water lines and sewerage under Pioneer Street dating back to the 1880s. • A $5.8 million renovation of historic Doubleday Field, the symbolic – if not actual – Birthplace of Baseball is now underway. Go and take a look. • Throughout this period, nowretired Trustee Lou Allstadt led the charge on upgrading the historic Village Hall, including those beautiful new pillars on the front. Stop by there, too, and take a look, and stop in at the library and Cooperstown Art Association gallery while you’re at it.

No one has a ready tally of all this. $5 million. $10 million. Maybe more. Whatever, a lot for a village of 1,769. • There’s more still to come, particularly at Pioneer Park (Main and Pioneer), where initial work – a bike rack and water fountain – has already begun. A stage is planned against the Tunnicliff Inn side wall for the popular “Music on Main” programs during the summer. Brick pavers will add handicapped accessibility. And landscaping – a London plane tree and birches – will be added, three lampposts and new furniture. “We all recognized new sources of revenues were needed, and aggressive grant application, to take care of infrastructure that was just

going to deteriorate,” Tillapaugh said. She was fully involved in all of this as deputy mayor to Jeff Katz, who retired from office a year ago April 1, and now as mayor herself. She also pointed out that merging village court into Otsego Town Court, and repositioning the municipal library as a schooldistrict library, paid for by a separate levy, further helped the village’s financial picture. In all, Deputy Mayor Falk estimates $10-15 million has been spent to make this village of 1,769 people more welcoming to a halfmillion visitors a year. • The free-wheeling nature of the 2008 Ripken-Gwynn weekend is no more. Everywhere you’ll see high-security measures: from

temporary iron fences to such additions as $4,000 trash cans that can be locked during the Legends of Baseball parade Saturday evening. You’ll also notice a much greater police presence. Regrettably, that’s the nature of our post-9/11 world, intensified after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. It can’t be helped for now; maybe in a better world to come. We can at least be assured that state-of-the-art measures are in place to ensure the security of the at-least 84,001 of us this weekend. Enjoy – the Induction of Mariano Rivera, Roy Halladay, Edgar Martinez, Mike Mussina, Harold Baines and Lee Smith will likely be one for the record book. In beautified downtown Cooperstown this weekend, we may be participating in history.

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SEWARD: No ‘Green Light’ Law As Loose At New York State’s SEWARD/From A4

While advocates claim that states freely grant licenses to illegal immigrants, that claim is patently false. Twelve states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico offer driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. However, what is left unspoken in the “Green Light” argument is that eight states require illegal immigrants to provide their state’s Department of Motor Vehicles with a tax identification number,

tax returns, or proof that the applicant is a dependent of a taxpayer residing in the state. For example, Utah only allows illegal immigrants to obtain licenses for a period of one year; the District of Columbia offers limited purpose licenses; and Connecticut requires that an illegal applicant file for citizenship. The New York “Green Light” law does none of those things and creates

a disincentive to naturalization when coupled with other initiatives passed this year, like free college tuition for illegal immigrants. It also does nothing, as advocates claim, to ensure that someone here illegally will remain at the scene of a serious accident if it could involve a potential felony charge that could lead to deportation. Perhaps the people of Oregon got it right on this topic. According to the National Conference of State

Legislatures, Oregon lawmakers passed legislation in 2013 allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. The measure proved to be so unpopular with the public that voters suspended the law 67 percent to 33 percent in a referendum the following year Recently, Erie County Clerk Mickey Kearns filed a federal lawsuit challenging the law and he may not be alone. Several other county clerks around the state are considering joining Kearns’ suit

or filing separate actions. One of the main reasons the clerks are opposed to the state law is that it would force them to break federal law. I stand with the clerks and fully support their efforts. It is time we reprioritize in Albany and focus on jobs, lowering taxes, repairing our infrastructure, and putting law-abiding citizens first. Senator Seward, R-Milford, represented Otsego County in the state Legislature.

Half Of 30,000 Fans Dutch, The Rest Cheering USA! USA! WALLER/From A5 were glued to our seats hoping for a U.S. score. We went to Lyon to be part of the Women’s World Cup effort and had seen the U.S. beat England and a tough Dutch team win over the taller and “blonder” Swedish squad. Now we were ending our week by screaming for a goal by the U.S. I had thought a great birthday gift to my newly 13-year-old granddaughter from Alexandria, Va., would be the opportunity to see the Women’s World Cup in person. Kira is following – or rather, ahead of – her father’s footsteps as she is part of the U.S. Olympic Development Program, the prelude to the U.S. Women’s team. Her father Scott Waller was a CCS soccer star.

So off to Lyon it was. • “USA, USA”, England vs U.S. Our half of the stadium waving American flags. First, we had spent a couple of hours at the “fan experience” at the entrance. There really wasn’t much to do, as the organizers underestimated the American attendance and our propensity to “tailgate” before an event. This underestimation was evident the whole week. Restaurants were scrambling to deal with the onslaught of steak, hamburgers and other typical American orders which ran out in many places. Uber was overloaded, with wait times going to 30 minutes and in some cases, “no driver available.” English was sometimes the dominant dialog in the squares, but fans

weren’t into breaking out in soccer songs in spontaneous fashion, as Dutch, Swedish and other supporters often did. We even had some beerholding orange supporters rocking our train car in song during one evening trip back. Chants of “Pay Them” and “Equal Pay” also rocked the stadium once during the match, alluding to the pay inequity between the Men’s and Women’s soccer teams from the U.S. Many we talked to in Lyon expressed the feeling that the U.S. was the best environment for woman athletes and sport employment. One French lady vendor with her Master’s Degree in Sports Admin told me her only place for a job was in the U.S. and she planned to return to Texas as soon as her Visa was approved.

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Cooperstown’s Bill Waller and granddaughter Kira witnessed 30,000 cheering fans in the Lyon stadium. All of a sudden, Alex Morgan is taken down in the box. Calls and shouts alerting the officials to the foul, as if they weren’t watching a

championship match; shouts turning to chants and then sudden silence as we all realized the call was under “review.” The referee trots out from under the cover at the center of the field, draws the box with her hands indicating review results and then signals for a US penalty kick. The entire stadium shakes and roars with the screams of fans as Megan Rapinoe walks calmly to the spot. Bang, she kicks to the right and it’s 1-0, U.S. over the Dutch. Intense play and then a pass to midfielder Rose Lavelle as she works her way towards the goal, then left foots a bullet into the back of the net, past the outstretched hands of the Dutch goalie; it’s 2-0. Everyone knows the match is over.

ZAGATA: Under Free-Tuition Plans, You Pay Your Debt, Then Keep On Paying ZAGATA/From A5 Permit Tax, Workers Compensation Tax, etc. • As of the June 2019 headcount, there are 392,072,188 people in the U.S. If you divide that number into the national debt of $82 trillion, the result is $209,145.16. That’s the debt burden on every US citizen as a result of our government spending more than it takes in. That debt is “sold” to investors like China and Japan and you and I pay interest to them via income taxes every day they hold the Treasury notes. What would happen right now if China, our arch competitor, decided to call its notes in and demand their value in cash? The portion of our taxes

that is being used to service this debt represents money that is not providing any benefit in the form of infrastructure improvement, better schools, etc. Providing free college education and health care will only add to that debt and more of our tax dollars will have to go to servicing that higher debt at the expense of better roads, schools, etc. Sometimes the government decides to use money they promised us would be kept in a special account and invested so that it would grow, and then they break their collective word and spend it. That’s what happened with our Social Security money. A prior president decided to impound it and use that money

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to offset the national debt. When that was done, the pot of money, our money, was no longer there and growing. Instead, it is now treated as a debt and we are paying, not collecting but paying, interest on our money because our government “borrowed” it. No wonder it’s going broke. Let’s take another look at that free college education being promised by the Democratic candidates for President. The way it works now, you and your parents decide if you

want to spend the time and money it takes to get a college education. If you decide that it is, you apply to college and, if accepted, agree to pay for tuition, books, and room and board. You may get some help from your family and you may work to help pay part of the costs. It may be that you will need to borrow some of the money as a student loan that you pay back after you graduate and get a job. Once you’ve paid it back, you’re done paying for your

education. How does this differ from the free college education being proposed? The initial differences are slight in that the books and room and board may not be free and thus you may still have to come up with some of the money. The biggest difference is that once you graduate and pay back whatever money you may have had to borrow for books and room and board, you’re not done paying. You see, others who will

come after you are also getting a free education and it will be the tax dollars the government can extract from you for the rest of your life that will be paying for someone else’s education. Does that sound like a good deal to you now? Socialism does have its costs. Mike Zagata, DEC commissioner in the Pataki Administration and a former environmental executives with Fortune 500 companies, lives in West Davenport.

ATWELL: Want To Sell? Aristotle Can GuideYou ATWELL/From A4 are speaker (that’s you), subject matter, and audience. Audience awareness will make you adjust your speech accordingly: You’ll fine-tune your vocabulary, your complexity of sentences, your degree of repetition and clarification. • For example, if you’re talking to a 4-year-old, you may very well bend over or even (if your knees will take it) squat down to the child’s height. And you will do a similar thing with your capacities as a speaker. You will lower your volume, soften your tone, and automatically simplify your vocabulary. If you don’t, your booming warmth, whatever your intent, will only terrify the child, and perhaps make him scream, pee,

and scuttle away, leaving a trail of piddle on the parquet floor or, worse, on his mother’s prize, hand-tied Persian rug. Now, set aside the kid and his sticky residue, and note that you make exactly the same kind of adjustments in speaking to adults. After a quick, even unconscious appraisal of their age, likely education and employment, and their potential interest in your subject, you shift gears and begin to sell – no, not your subject, but yourself. • Why, because, best beloved, if you get them convinced that you’re bright, ethical, and on their side, you’ll be able to sell them anything, whether a product, a political platform or a sermon topic, the value of calculus in one’s education, or, damn it, the Brooklyn Bridge. Don’t believe me? Ask Aristotle. He

says that the speaker’s credibility is the rock-bottom base for effective speech. If your audience buys that you are bright, ethical (at least by their standards), and ready to back them up, then, friend, you’ve got ‘em. Reel them in! EXCEPT, what if you’re not those things? What if you’re just a good fake? Wait, here comes our Aristotle, and he’s frowning. He wants to talk to you. “Friend, if you’re a fake and realize it, then there’s hope for you. But turn away from my “Rhetoric” and go to another of my works called “Ethics.” “Study that first. Because, before you start working on swaying others, you have some work to do on yourself.” Jim Atwell, a Quaker minister and retired college administrator, lives in Cooperstown.

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New President Experience Makes Him Ideal Ambassador To MLB MEAD/From A1 long dream. He recovered, and a month ago was diagnosed with brain cancer. Meeting Tim Mead made their visit that much more special. For now, the former long-time vice president/ communications at the Los Angeles Angels, who started his new job June 24, is focused internally, he said in an interview leading up to Induction Weekend. Spending much of his time so far getting to know the organization at 25 Main St. and, in particular, the people who run it, he’s concluded, “Four weeks in, you know you’re around some special people.” His predecessor, Jeff Idelson, who held the job for 11 years, left him with a well-run operation, judging from his description of the

ere are the presidents of the National Baseball Hall of Fame: ►Stephen C. Clark, Sr., founder (1939-61) ►Paul Kerr (1961-78) ►Edward W. Stack 1978-93) ►Donald C. Marr Jr. (1993-98) ►Dale A. Petroskey (1998-2008) ►Jeff Idelson (2008-19) ►Tim Mead (2019-) Hall’s internal workings: The administrators, curators and staff there are intensely interested and focused on the task at hand. Some new presidents of sizeable organizations – the presidents of SUNY Oneonta and Hartwick, for

instance – immediately begin strategic-planning processes when they arrive on the job. Mead’s taking a different approach: He said he’s impressed by the focus in a weekly meeting of the Hall’s top administrators, where strategic discussions, planning and allocation of responsibilities are already taking place. For now, that’s enough: “Ultimately, you have to learn the system before you adjust and tinker with it,” he said. The initial assessment in Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal & HOMETOWN ONEONTA the community to his arrival The Hall of Fame’s president, Tim Mead, outside has been good. his new domain: 25 Main St., Cooperstown. “He’s a very personable well. “I wish him all the individual,” said Mayor Ellen outside that world.” While Dale Petroskey best,” Katz said. Tillapaugh Kuch. “I find him (1999-2008) was credited A native of Athens, Greece, very engaging.” Mead was raised in southern Her predecessor, Jeff Katz, with increasing the care and tending of Hall of Famers, California, graduating in 1980 a baseball writer and Friends from Cal Poly in Pomona. of Doubleday Field president, Idelson (2008-2019) was of that world, Katz said, coming He soon joined the Angels, said Mead’s familiarity to the Hall from a top job playing various administrawith the MLB community – with the New York Yankees, tive roles, including vice the hierarchy and the and spending nine years as president/communications players – from his decades vice president/communicafor the past 22 years. at Anaheim, is necessary tions before being elevated to For now, he will continue to lead the Hall. the top job. to maintain his home on the Given the growing ties He predicted Tim Mead West Coast – son Brandon’s in recent years between the will fill that role of ambaswife has just had their first MLB and the Hall, “you grandchildren, and wife can’t bring in someone from sador to the Major Leagues

Carole wants to remain nearby – and is staying at the Clark Sports Center director’s former residence on Susquehanna Avenue. As he gets comfortable with his new responsibilities, his first month hasn’t been uneventful, even beyond being in charge of an Induction Weekend for the first time. He joined MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred (of Rome, the one in Oneida County) as the Red Sox played the Yankees at London Stadium, the first series of a two-year agreement to help familiarize the English with the U.S. National Pastime. And he represented the Hall at the All-Star Game July 9 in Cleveland. Asked what visiting fans should be sure to see this weekend in the Hall Fame – beyond the Hall of Plaques – he quickly answered, “the holy grail” – “Shoebox Memories,” the new exhibit that features the best and rarest of baseball cards from the Hall’s collection of 200,000. “That’s where it all begins,” he said.

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► Roberto Alomar, TBA Tunnicliff Inn ►Jeff Bagwell, TBA Tunnicliff Inn ►HAROLD BAINES, Noon Monday, July 22, Tunnicliff Inn ►JESSE BARFIELD, 2-4:30 p.m., 6-9 p.m. Thursday, July 18, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 2-4:30 p.m., 6-9 p.m., Friday & Saturday, July 19 & 20, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 3:30 p.m.-close, Sunday, July 21, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday, July 22, Cooperstown Bat Company. ► Johnny Bench, TBA Tunnicliff Inn ► Craig Biggio, TBA Tunnicliff Inn ► Wade Boggs, TBA Tunnicliff Inn ►Rod Carew, TBA Tunnicliff Inn ►STEVE CARLTON, TBA Tunnicliff Inn ►ORLANDO CEPEDA, 2-4 p.m.

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orders for seven,” said Katz. “One couple, whose wedding I officiated as Mayor, is coming up this fall to pick up theirs!” Katz joined the Friends of Doubleday following his tenure as mayor, where he helped secure $5 million in funding to take on a $5.8 million renovation of the historic field. “It was one of the few things I wanted to do in my post-mayor life,” he said. “Knowing the history of the Friends and of the field, it helps.” Of the total, $3 million came from The Empire State Development Corp., and $1 million each from former Assemblyman Bill Magee, D-Nelson, and state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, leaving only $800,000 for the Friends to raise. “Doubleday Field needs a fundraising arm,” said Katz. “In addition to projects, there are annual costs. For example, bird netting costs $20,000 – the Village raised it, but the Friends can help when the Village needs help with their fundraising.” Though the Friends started in the early 1990s, the effort stalled for a time, before interest in Doubleday Field

Jeff Katz, Friends of Doubleday president, points out an artist’s rendering of what $5.8 million in upgrades will look like at the historic ballpark’s third-base line.

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revived in 2010. The Friends operate independent of the village, made up of volunteers and a board that includes Landmark Inn owner Fred Schneider, Hall Vice President/ Communications Jon Shestakofsky; Travis Chock, CEO of Baseballism, the high-end retailer; and Jeffery T. More of The Alpine Group, a national recruiter for the medical sector. The renovations to the field are underway, and Katz believes they are on target for completion by Induction 2020, the 100th birthday of

the field’s completion. “The new bleachers are gorgeous,” he said. “They’re more in line with what people expect nowadays from a baseball field.” The top tier, he said, will be a pavilion for people to host parties. Additionally, the bleachers will be built to ADA accessibility standards. Raising $800,000 to close the final funding gap “is not insurmountable,” said Katz. Victor Salvatore’s “Sandlot Kid” sculpture, now next to Key Bank, will return home to the grassy area planned for the front of Doubleday Field. “If you look back at

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This Original ‘Friends of Doubleday’ May Finally See Dreams Come True This spring, a crew overseen by Delaware Engineering demolished Doubleday Field’s cement third-base bleachers, which had been cordoned off for years. Fans of the field, like John Rudy, have been fighting for it for decades.

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lifelong love for everything baseball. That’s why a small group of men started the Friends of Doubleday in the early 1990s, according to John Rudy, a retired lawyer and now Cooperstown Baseball B&B proprietor, who was present at the creation. The story of the Friends’ founding began in the summer of 1985 when Rudy, still practicing law in New York City, and 30 other men from all over the country enrolled in a fantasy baseball camp in Cooperstown. “We got our own teams and uniforms. We stayed at The Otesaga. And we all got to play on teams with these former Major League players for three days on Doubleday Field,” he said. “It was incredible.” Rudy didn’t go to the 1986 camp, but he enrolled in the 1987 one with 50 other guys. That summer, though, things went awry. “Three weeks before it was to happen, we received a letter from the man who started the camp, Max Shapiro, saying he couldn’t do the camp that summer,” said Rudy. “He had gone bankrupt – and, furthermore, would not be able to return our money.” The men decided they’d do the camp, anyway. “We already had our airfare, we found umpires, booked rooms, and we put together teams and games,” Rudy said. “And we had a blast again.” Three who put together the 1987 camp, Bob Wagner, an ophthalmologist in Florida, Ed Berchich, a coroner in Ohio, and Ralph Lock, a cardiac surgeon, also in Ohio, went on to form “The Legends of Baseball” camps in 1994 modeled after Shapiro’s fantasy camps. Around that time, the men noticed Doubleday was looking worn. “We thought it would be good if Doubleday had a tarp,” Rudy said. “We’d pass the hat and collect money for one.” The field belonged to the Village of Cooperstown, so they spoke with Joe Harris, then manager of the field. “Harris asked what people would want in return for buying a tarp,” Rudy said. “Bob told him, they want their names on plaques in Cooperstown. The joke was just not saying where the plaques were placed.” It worked. Doubleday got a tarp. The men then noticed Doubleday had structural problems. Ralph Lock and his son, Tom, decided to form a foundation and to collect funds for repairs. Rudy joined, lending his expertise in establishing legal contracts and helping to get Friends’ incorporated and 501(c)3 status quickly. The Friends’ members had

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This is what Doubleday’s third-base bleachers are supposed to look like when $5.8 million in renovations are complete, perhaps in time for the historic ballpark’s centennial in 2020.

Retired lawyer and Cooperstown Baseball B&B proprietor John Rudy was a member of the original Friends of Doubleday, who in 1994 were foiled at every turn. little trouble locating funding sources, but they confronted resistance and recalcitrance from village leaders when they presented funding proposals for Doubleday, Rudy recalls. “They had legitimate skepticism in the beginning,” Rudy said. “They wanted to know if we were out to take it over from them. We told them, ‘We don’t want anything out of it. We just love baseball.’” But the village kept throwing obstacles up. First,

they would not allow companies to advertise at the field. “They wouldn’t let CocaCola put signs up even when Coca-Cola was ready to give funding for Doubleday,” Rudy said. “So, we couldn’t get funding from them.” Then, the village set up strict contractual requirements “with protracted times” of approving the Friends’ fulfillment of them. “It also made it tough because everyone involved lived elsewhere in the country and we all had full-time jobs,” Rudy said. “I would get a phone call from Tom in Ohio asking if I could go to a village trustees’ meeting in the middle of winter that Tuesday night.” The Friends’ did raise some money from setting up “pavers,” bricks at Doubleday with names of people and organizations who donated funds. Rudy bought two, one with “The Rudys” on it, the other with the name of his Cooperstown’s inn, “Baseball Bed and Breakfast.” Frustrated, Rudy eventually resigned, and the other members effectively stopped their fundraising efforts. “It sort of withered on the vine,” Rudy said. “But fortunately, Jeff Katz has reconstituted Friends of Doubleday now. It’s great for the town.”

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Lois F. Warrell, 89; Retired Teacher Served On Pathfinder Board COOPERSTOWN – Lois F. Warrell, 89, a teacher who retired to Cooperstown with her superintendent husband in 1989 and became fully involved in community life, died Friday evening, July 12, 2019, at the Eddy Memorial Geriatric Center in Troy. Born Sept. 24, 1929, in Queens, Lois was the daughter of Edward P. and Doris (Whiting) Robinson.

She was raised in Lynnbrook and graduated from Lynnbrook High School in the Class of 1947. She attended and graduated from Hofstra University and thereafter received her master’s degree in education from the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. While at Hofstra Lois met fellow student Chris Warrell. They were married on Jan. 26, 1951, and shared

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THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL & HOMETOWN ONEONTA A-13

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GALA/From A3 Harris was on hand for this year’s rockthemed Fenimore Museum Gala on Friday, July 12, where he gave a keynote speech about the relationships between music and art. “He went back in time and touched on a lot of things,” said Todd Kenyon, director of marketing. The gala also included a live auction with auctioneer Don Raddatz, with grass-fed beef items from the Green Cow, Templeton Hall rentals and Bump Tavern dinner parties. Silent auction items included several paintings by Robert Schneider, now Stamford mayor, and Susan Jones Kenyon, a Glimmerglass Festival 2020 VIP Package, and five items donated from the Thaws’ private collection. The “Paddle Auction” was also revived, where bidders, prompted by Paul D’Ambrosio – in Paul McCartney’s Sgt. Pepper costume! — raised paddles to show how much they were willing to donate

to The Fenimore’s educational program scholarships, which helps students who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford to visit the museum. In all, both auctions raised $50,000. “Last year, the paddle auction raised $9,000,” said Kenyon. “This year, it was $15,000.” And then, of Paul D’Amcourse, there was brosio welrock & rolling to comes gala be done. guests. “There was a lot of spirited dancing,” said Kenyon. “We had a photo booth where people could pose with guitars, and when the final photo came out, it looked like the cover of a magazine.”

The next afternoon, Harris moderated a panel, “Herb Ritts and the Image of Rock Music,” featuring Laurie Kratochvil, former Rolling Stone director of photography; John Covach, director of University of Rochester’s Institute for Popular Music, and Rory Ritts, Herb Ritts’ younger brother. “Herb brought magic to a shoot,” said Kratochvil. “He could equalize everybody. I was accused of having a five-card Rolodex, but Herb really was my favorite. He was so easy to work with.” Ritts shot 45 Rolling Stone covers, and, according to Kratochvil, and only “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer Sinead O’Connor ever gave him a problem. “She was very shy and not all that engaging,” she said. “But he got the close-up of her face and bleached it out, and that was the cover.” “A photographer has to decide if they’re taking a photograph or making a photograph,” said Kratochvil. “Herb could do both.”

Ehmann Sees Understanding Gen Z As Key To Future EHMANN/From A3 To adapt quickly to change, Ehmann said, students need to have a liberal arts education, allowing them “to dive deep into a discipline and become an expert” and to acquire practical skills. That combination makes students and Hartwick “agile, resilient, and empathetic.” “With those softer skills, students can meet people where they’re at,” Ehmann said. Ehmann has proven to be agile himself throughout his career, most of it teaching and administering liberal arts colleges, three in Upstate New York.

He began as a geologist for the U.S. Department of Interior. After four years, he decided to pursue an academic career and earned a Ph.D. in Biology, with a focus on Ecology, at Utah State University. He then taught at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, before joining Seattle University as associate provost, as well as teaching biology. He then served two tenures at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry. Beside Mercy, he served at Empire State College’s associate dean, and assistant to SUNY Plattsburgh’s to the provost

Olympics Forged Kahanov KAHANOV/From A3 diversity of ideas in treating athletes,” said SUNY Oneonta’s new provost and vice president/ academic affairs, who arrived July 8. “For instance, different countries have different ways of treating sprains. We use ice for sprains and in Japan, they put herbal packs on the sprain, not ice.” “I learned there are many diverse ways to come to a solution and we need to respect that. I apply that to my work with students and faculty,” she said. Kahanov’s changed career paths shortly after, as an athletic trainer at San Francisco State, she was asked to cover a faculty member’s class. “I loved teaching,” she said. “After a while, I found myself thinking more about teaching rather than treating athletes.” She studied for her Ed.D. at University of San Francisco while continuing to work at SFSU and helping her husband, an athletic trainer himself, raise their son Yohah and daughter Noam, now 19 and 16. The experience gave her insight into and empathy for students who work and/or care for families while going to school. After earning her Ed.D. in 1998, Kahanov joined San Jose State as director and part-time faculty member of its athletic training program, where she stayed 11 years. In 2009, she got a phone call from Indiana State University in Terra Haute, asking her to start an Applied Rehabilitation Sciences program there. “I was lucky to have family willing to move there in 2009,” she said. “So, I took the leap.” Over five years at ISU, Kahanov created five accredited health programs, but she decided someone else should manage them. When the position of dean of Health Sciences

and Education at Misericordia University, a small liberal arts college in Dallas, Pa., opened, she applied for it. “It was the first time I made a calculated move in my career,” she said. During five years at Misericordia, 2014-19, she helped grow the student body 1,000 to 3,000 by setting up online programs and recruiting students nationwide. “Misericordia was an amazing training ground for provost,” said Kahanov. “At a small institution, I had access to the president and vice president.” As for SUNY, Kahanov is impressed with the sense of community both on campus and off. “The pride in Oneonta is palpable,” she said. “I’m also impressed with people’s relationship to the environment. I see concerted efforts for sustainability.” In her new job, Kahanov said, “I’m there to work with faculty to create a place for discussion and contemplation, for students to have an excellent experience in education at SUNY and to spread the good word.”

& vice president/academic affairs, moving into that job at Marymount University in Arlington, Va., before accepting the Hartwick post. In each of his administrative positions, Ehmann said, he developed curriculum or programs that reflected the changing needs of liberal arts’ undergraduates. At Empire State, for instance, he developed new nursing programs, advanced graduate education, and helped assure quality in online courses,” according to Hartwick’s Dec. 17 announcement of his hiring. At Marymount University, he implemented measures that led to increasing freshman and graduate student enrollment. Ehmann believes liberal arts are at a crucial “institutional moment” because the next generation of college students have different needs from previous ones. “The incoming freshman class this fall will be members of Generation Z, who are similar to Baby Boomers,” he said. “They realize they have to roll up their sleeves, that things won’t just be handed

to them. They want more practical skills, a toolkit, to pursue their futures.” Generation Z members are also “very socialized and can talk easily about their experiences,” he said, “but they haven’t yet stitched all their experiences together. “In college, we want to guide and mentor them in thoughtful ways, for them to learn it’s not just a grab-and-go experience.” Faculty will guide Hartwick students to “outside-the-school” opportunities as well, such as internships, studying abroad, and honors programs. Hartwick alumni have proven to be excellent role models as well, demonstrating to students how they have put their degrees to work. As Hartwick’s provost, he sees his role as a facilitator, “to help provide conditions for faculty to teach and for students to learn, develop new programs, and hire excellent faculty.” “I’m here to help Hartwick go where it wants to go,” Ehmann said.

The Freeman’s Journal & HOMETOWN ONEONTA

Realtor Nancy Angerer is having a structural engineer explore how easy it may be to convert the CVS basement into a parking garage.

2 Years Vacant, CVS On Market

CVS/From A3 the sidewalk, meaning two stories of “mixed uses” – apartments or offices – could be added to the structure. Walking out the back, she pointed to the west-side rear wall, which she said might be opened up to allow cars to park in the basement. That would further enhance the value of the upper floors. The realtor said she is bringing in a structural engineer to determine the basement’s capacity. The original stone building on the site was occupied by The Stone Jug, the only establishment on the block to survive the 1860s fire that destroyed most of the downtown, Angerer said she discovered in researching it at The Fenimore Research Library. In 1931, the building was razed to make way for a Newberry’s, and originally included a full center staircase leading shoppers to basement-floor offerings. It later was occupied by an A&P supermarket. In the 1980s, the Gilson family of the Greater Boston Area, which owned the building, leased it to CVS, which ran a pharmacy there until two years ago, when it moved into a new building with a drive-thru pharmacy window near the village’s south entry.

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According to Deputy Mayor Cindy Falk, the property is zoned “business,” which allows stores, personal service shops, banks, offices, restaurants, theaters, auditoriums and gymnasiums there. Also allowed would be “mixed occupancy” – stores on the ground floor in combination with businesses and apartments above, she said. “If there are exterior changes,” said Falk, “they would have to go through the H-PARB,” the village’s Historical Preservation & Architectural Review Board. If construction, such as two additional stories, was contemplated, or if the building were razed to build something new, the site plan would have to be reviewed by the village Planning Board. Falk said Village Hall had made queries with the owners about “about whether it was going to go on the market, before we knew it was going on the market.” As she understands it, CVS’ long-term lease with the owners expires in September. Asked if Village Hall plans to play a role in the property’s redevelopment, the deputy mayor said, “We’re watching, but at this point it’s a private business transaction between the owner and the potential buyer.”

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