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Cooperstown Hawkeye phenom Tyler Bertram, a junior, broke the news this week he plans to spend his senior year in prep school, either Cushing Academy in Massachusetts or Vermont Academy, to sharpen his hard court skills to better compete at the college level.

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BUDGET ENVOY: RoAnn Destito, state Office of General Services commissioner, will detail the governor’s State of the State speech and budget address for Otsego countians at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, at Foothills Performing Art Center in Oneonta.

HAPPY 99TH! Homer Osterhoudt, CCS’ oldest alumnus and attendee at the first Hall of Fame induction in 1939, turned 99 Tuesday, Jan. 17.

By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

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either cold, nor rain – not even an injured foot – will keep Anne Atwell from walking in the Women’s March on Washington D.C., this Saturday, Jan. 21.

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Because of the anticipated rainy weather and plans for a long march, Atwell, the Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal former Otsego town superviCooperstown’s Margaret McGown, a member of First Presbyterian Church’s Knitting2Gether, sor, bought a clear backpack – required by police for the knits a symbol of women’s objections to Donald Trump’s remarks to Billy Bush that surfaced protest – to fill with plastic Please See CON, A6 during the campaign.

WHO RULES COMMITTEES?

County Atty. Finds For ‘Past Practice’ COOPERSTOWN

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fter county Board of Representatives’ committees began voting on their own chairs, County Attorney Ellen Coccoma issued an e-mail saying longstanding “past practice” justifies keeping the power in hands of board chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego.

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Young Republicans’ chair Bobby Walker, right, will watch Trump’s inauguration from the stands, while Young Democrat chair MacGuire Benton will walk the parade route. The two are driving to D.C. together.

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ooperstown’s Tony Walker’s friend and counCasale, the retired ter-foil, Otsego County assemblyman, will Young Democrats chair be watching Inauguration McGuire Benton, will be 2016 in the comfort and rubbernecking as the inauluxury of The gural parade passes Newseum’s top along Pennsylvania floor.

Avenue to the CapiBobby Walker, tol. who chairs the Casale, who Otsego County serves as a senior Young Republiadviser to state GOP cans, will be “at Chairman Ed Cox, the actual cerwill be among New emony,” thanks York Republicans Tony Casale who have leased The to a ticket from Congressman John will watch Newseum’s seventh from the Faso, R-19. floor, with a clear Newseum’s Meanwhile, Please See PRO, A6 top floor.

Research Details Slavery In County CGP students Christian Stegall and Amanda Berman reenact the 19th century debate on abolition.

Dozens Of Blacks In Captivity Here, CGP Students Report On MLK Day

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n July 4, 1827, 60 of Cooperstown’s emancipated slaves met at the First Presbyterian Church of Ian Austin/The Freeman’s Journal Cooperstown, “with music

and their banner flying,” to celebrate the abolition of slavery in New York State.

This year is 190 years later, and 250 people gathered in the same meeting hall Monday, July 16, Martin Luther King Day, to celebrate with readings, Please See SLAVES, A7

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eah Carpenter, DMD, has been appointed Bassett Healthcare’s first chief dental officer, responsible “for quality oversight and integration of various dental programs offered in the region,” said Dr. Steven Heneghan, chief clinical officer.

Heretofore, Bassett’s dental services at Hamilton-Madison Health Center, O’Connor Hospital Dental Clinic in Delhi, FoxCare Dentistry in Oneonta, and school-based services have Jim Kevlin/The Freeman’s Journal operated independent of Student Pete Hochbruleckner, center, shakes hands with Dr. William Crank- each other, he said. shaw, the new Cooperstown Central School superintendent, during a wel“Bringing these services come reception on Wednesday, Jan. 11. At right is Elliot Thomas. The together under one departreception line was steady for the full 90 minutes. ment and the leadership of

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Dr. Carpenter will help enhance the delivery of care and assure a consistency of quality standards,” Carpenter Heneghan said.

Carpenter joined Bassett in 2013 in school-based services, plus per diem at O’Connor. Previously, she was in private practice in Fly Creek.

A graduate of Bennington College, she received her M.D. at St. John’s College, Annapolis, Md., and her doctor of dental medicine degree at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in

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“Dr. Carpenter is loved by her patients and their families,” said Jane Hamilton, who manages the school-based program, “and will be a great chief of the network’s new dental department.”

Scott Buchanan To Attend Oxford University In Fall

HVCC HONORS: Two Cooperstown students at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy are on the first instructors. the Dean’s List for the fall COOPERSTOWN Scott is the son of semester: Alicia McArdle, Margaret Fitzgerald of who is studying in the Early cott F. Buchanan, Cooperstown and Francis Childhood, and Kristofer a graduate of Buchanan of Edinburgh.

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A-4 THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2017

EDITORIAL

To Succeed, Trump Must Take Page Out Of Herzig Playbook

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nder the charter, the mayor has no power,” Oneonta’s somewhat self-effacing mayor, Gary Herzig, said in an interview the other day.

He’s not city manager, but has been acting effectively as city manager for the past year. He doesn’t have a vote on Common Council decisions. He isn’t even a member of the city-manager search committee (although he is sitting in as “liaison” for the Common Council).

And yet, who can argue Herzig has been anything but a very effective chief executive – rather, chief non-executive – for what was an embattled City of the Hills when he assumed office in the fall of 2015?

First, he calmed everyone down. He didn’t start ordering people around, but let his influence evolve. He was polite and considerate in his dealings with pretty much everybody (although it’s said he is a tough negotiator

behind closed doors on the city’s behalf). He showed real leadership and, an essential adjunct, enthusiasm.

Prime example of the latter: His unveiling of the “Authentically Oneonta” concept last spring, which captured not just local imaginations, but Governor Cuomo’s, too. Over the summer, the Cuomo Administration granted the whole $10 million designated for DRIs (downtown redevelopment initiatives) in the Mohawk Valley region toward Oneonta’s “tipping point.”

• Of course, history proves titles have limited meaning.

Post WWII through the 1960s, the state’s mega planner and implementer, Robert Moses, held the title of chairman of the Triborough Bridge Authority. Yet, the master builder’s reach was statewide, from the hydropower projects at Massena and Niagara, to the nuclear plants at Oswego, to

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every major bridge and highway, to the state park system we love and use and take for granted.

Or Edith Bolling Galt Wilson.

Or Rasputin. Or, contrarily, King John: All powerful, his overreach provoked the Magna Carta.

And so it is as the inauguration of Donald Trump arrives: Whether he is a successful president depends on him, whether he can adjust – he does have a nimble mind – and show restraint, build coalitions, unite Americans – not totally (close to impossible), but sufficiently.

In the days leading up to the inauguration, some promising

news broke.

One, that Ford will invest $1 billion in the U.S. and create 1,000 jobs. Since NAFTA, U.S. corporations have been shipping jobs overseas with no demurral from three White Houses. Thank goodness that’s ending.

Two, that the incoming president is concluding some form of universal healthcare is really the only option going forward: Obamacare, or Romneycare, as pioneered in Massachusetts, isn’t working well. In effect, too many moving parts.

• At base, what voters said on Nov. 8 was The Establishment, in all its manifestations, isn’t taking care of Americans. Occupy Wall Street first shouted that out in 2011, but police and their K9s broke up the encampments and life went on as usual.

The Trump victory, in retrospect, was no surprise and a long time coming. Let’s repeat it: At the Glimmerglass Fest last summer, Attorney General Schneider-

man observed the financial status of 75 percent of Americans – 75 percent! – still hadn’t rebounded to pre-2008 levels.

Polls! Haven’t we learned? In recent days, CNN’s poll (as others) is showing only 40 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s transition, compared to 84 percent for Barack Obama.

Even if true, the Obama presidency, begun with such high hopes and support, failed. Instead of hope and change, voters got caution and fruitless efforts at compromise, and voters rejected it Nov. 8.

Maybe, as Nixon could with China, Trump will have the cred to topple Republican and Democratic pieties. The dangers that he can’t or won’t, judging from the campaign, are manifest.

But Gary Herzig brought back confidence to Oneonta and is on the route to “making Oneonta great again.” He’s done it by focus and restraint. The new president might take a page out of the mayor’s playbook.

SLAVERY IN OUR MIDST Coopers Freed Servant Joseph Stewart, Who Remained With Family For Rest Of His Life Editor’s Note: On Martin Luther King Day, “Confronting Slavery and Racism in Otsego County,” researched by Cooperstown Graduate Program students, was the centerpiece of a commemoration at First Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown. This is an excerpt. Slavery was abolished in New York State 190 years ago this year.

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ecause of his association with the Cooper Family, Joseph Stewart is the best documented of the enslaved people who lived and worked in Cooperstown.

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The Coopers rented the enslaved Stewart from Abraham Ten Broeck between 1799 and 1802. (He was freed, but remained as the Cooper butler and valet for 20 years until his death in 1823. ) Stewart may have chosen to stay out of loyalty, or because he felt it was his best and safest option in New York’s prejudiced climate.

The Coopers’ sentiments

and actions toward Stewart lend themselves to multiple interpretations.

While the family caricatured his dignified manner by calling him “the Governor,” William Cooper provided Stewart and his wife, Harris, with a house on Pine Street (today’s Pine Boulevard).

This house explains Stewart’s presence in the 1820 census as a free black head-of-household, living Joseph Stewart appears in the portrait of Elizawith a free black woman. beth Stewart, wife of Cooperstown’s founder, in Of the Coopers’ several black servants, Stewart the Fenimore Art Museum collection. alone was featured in the Cooper (in the collection of That the family was using background of the 1816 por- the New York State Histori- a black servant as evidence trait of Elizabeth Fenimore cal Association). of their wealth and power

is obvious. However, the decision to choose Stewart also reflects his favored and central position among the Coopers’ servants.

At the same time, his position in the background, in servant dress holding a pitcher, indicates that the Coopers did not place him on an equal footing with white members of the household.

Similarly, Stewart is buried in the Cooper family’s private plot at Christ Episcopal Church. Nevertheless, measures were taken to signal a divide between Stewart and the Coopers.

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ISSUE & DEBATE: Regulations Are Laws, And Congress Should Double-Check Them To The Editor: In his recent Letter to the Editor, Adrian Kuzminski slammed Congressman John Faso, R-19, for his support of legislation curbing the power of federal agencies.

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been home with the flu the week they taught the Constitution in junior high. As I remember it, the core concern of The Framers was checks and balances of power. The legislature makes the laws, the executive branch carries

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them out (or doesn’t) and the judiciary decides if the laws and presidential actions are consistent with the Constitution.

Mr. Kuzminski differentiates between “laws” and “regulations” saying, in essence, laws are broad guidelines and regulations are the specifics. These specifics, he feels, are best left to the bureaucracy under the control of the executive.

Nice try on the differentiation, Mister K. However, if you’re ever caught in violation of the regulations of the IRS, OSHA, the SEC,

or any other federal agency, I’m guessing you’d call a lawyer. Regulations are law.

In voting for House Resolution 22, Congressman John Faso and his colleagues reestablished the primacy of Congress in making laws. For too long Congress has bowed down to the Imperial Presidency, be that president a Democrat or a Republican.

Mr. K’s fear that all regulations are in jeopardy is overblown. Regulations aren’t going anywhere.

Last year the IRS had over 70,000 pages of them. And

that doesn’t count the commentaries. Put all the agencies and all the regulations together and you could fill libraries.

It’s only common sense that those regulations that don’t pass muster of the representatives of We, The People, should be eliminated or modified. And don’t worry about “paralyzing the executive wing.” The power of the presidency offers lots of options for response.

Mr. K. is right in one respect. The derivation of the word “regulation” comes from the Latin word

for “king” – rex, regis, etc.

Back in the day, the king made the laws. Famously, King Louis XIV’s motto summarized royal attitude toward the law – “One king.

One Law.” The United States ended that kind of royal thinking with a Revolution and a Constitution.

Nice work, Congressman Faso. Do your job protecting that Constitution. If you agree, give Mr. Faso a call at (202) 225-5614 or (607) 746-9537. Let him know how you feel.

DICK DOWNEY Otego

Despite Delays, Elected Officials, Not Bureaucrats, Should Rule To The Editor: Adrian Kuzminski contributes an impassioned letter (“Legislate, Don’t Regulate,” Jan. 12, 2017) criticizing John Faso and the Republicans for passing legislation “to strip executive branch agencies of their independent regulatory authority.”

That is not the case. What HR 22 does is gives Congress the authority to review regulations passed by federal agencies to make sure that those regulations are in conformity with the powers granted by Congress to the agencies.

It is said that there are four branches of government, the three granted in the Constitution, plus the regulatory agencies. The U.S. Government Manual lists 316 agencies, the Federal Register lists 440. While not all of them have authority to issue regulations that have the binding effect of law, many of them do and therefore are quasi legislative.

“All legislative Powers – shall be vested in a Congress of the United States,” Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution. Many of the regulations are not consistent with the intent of

Congress. Therefore, it is not inconsistent to allow Congress oversight of the regulatory authority of the Federal agencies.

I grant that H.R. 22 could, and probably will, create a slowdown in the regulatory process, but I would rather have our elected officials review regulations rather than delegate that power to appointed bureaucrats. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

WILLIAM W. DORNBURGH Cooperstown

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BOUND VOLUMES Compiled by Tom Heitz with resources courtesy of The New York State Historical Association Library

200 YEARS AGO

Hamilton College – Mr. Spaulding of the faculty, who has been severely sick of typhus fever, and in whose case his friends and the public generally felt much concern, as we are very happy to state is nearly recovered, and has the prospect of a speedy and perfect restoration. No death has happened except the lamented one of President Backus; and the few who have been attacked are convalescing. We trust that the remarkable healthfulness will soon be restored to the institution for which it has, and also Clinton village, been heretofore distinguished.

January 16, 1817

75 YEARS AGO

50 YEARS AGO

Mrs. James H. Yule will discuss “The Book of Job and ‘J. B.’” at the next meeting of the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship on Sunday evening, January 22. The meeting will begin in the Woman’s Club rooms of the Village Library Building. Mrs. Yule, who teaches senior English and creative writing at Cooperstown Central School, will show parallels between Archibald MacLeish’s “J.B.” and the biblical story of Job. J.B. is, in a sense, a 20th century Job; the basic dilemma and theological questions are the same in both pieces. Mrs. Yule will provide mimeographed summaries of the MacLeish play and of the bible story.

Paul A. Donnelly, 28, Assistant Administrator of the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital for the past three years has been named Director of the Outpatient Department at the Albany Medical Center Hospital.

January 18, 1967

175 YEARS AGO

Advertisement: Farm for Sale. The subscriber offers for sale his Farm on which he now lives, containing about 245 acres of land; fifty acres of first rate timbered land; the rest under good cultivation; two good framed houses; two forty feet barns, with a hay Barn; a good cheese house, besides other out buildings; three first rate orchards; a good cider mill; two running brooks, and ten or more never-failing springs; and two good stone quarries opened last Spring for the purpose of enlarging the Academy. Said farm is situated about half a mile from Hartwick Seminary. For further particulars enquire of the subscriber. Eliphalet Stickney.

Hartwick, January 15, 1842.

January 17, 1842

150 YEARS AGO

The Gambling Mania – The growth of passion for gambling in this country has spread so extensively that it may almost be said to be universal. It enters into our business and our pleasures, and even the Church tolerates it as an auxiliary to its charitable efforts. One can scarcely open a newspaper without finding several tempting programs of art unions and gift enterprises, offering chances to secure prizes ranging from one dollar to half a million upon the payment of a small sum although several of these have proved outright swindles, no prizes at all being distributed.

How does it happen that we Yankees, who are supposed never to part with a dollar unless we are sure of its full value in return, are so easily duped? Has some strange transformation occurred to us, eradicating our inherited sagacity and thrift?

January 18, 1867

125 YEARS AGO

Lunacy – The report of County Judge H.D. Nelson to the Board of Supervisors shows that he has made orders for commitment to the asylum, from November 11, 1890 to November 9, 1891, from this county, of 24 persons, 15 of the number being females. During the past week two more persons have been adjudged insane: Clarence A. Cox, age 37 years, of this village, and Sarah L. Brainard, aged

25 YEARS AGO

The Village Library has been given approval by the Village of Cooperstown Board of Trustees to expand and use a vacated room on the second floor of the Village Office Building. The decision made Joan Tripp, the librarian, very happy. “You have no idea. We really feel good about it,” she said. “We can use this extra space.” Tripp said the Librarian’s desk would be moved into the new room, which will include areas for reading and studying, reference material and a micro-computer that will be available for public January 14, 1942 use. Renovations will be needed for the room, Tripp said.

The costs of installing book cases, rugs and furniture will be covered by the Friends of the Library. The extra room 23 of Burlington. The number of cases in this county, we became available last December when the Soil Conservaregret to report, has materially increased during the last 15 tion Service moved out. months. The judge’s report to the Board a year ago numJanuary 22, 1992 bered 13 persons of which 9 were males.

January 21, 1892

100 YEARS AGO

10 YEARS AGO

In Our Town – The Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital and Pathological Laboratory, plans for which are being altered and enlarged, will in all probability be located on the old ball grounds on Fair Street. The construction will be of stone rather than of brick as was at first planned.

Beginning January 21, Sunday mail will be received at the Cooperstown Post Office by the trolley arriving at 11 a.m.

This mail will bring the New York papers and the general mail from both east and west to Cooperstown two hours earlier than formerly.

The organization meeting of the directors of the Cooperstown National Bank was held Monday afternoon and the following officers re-elected: President, W. Scott Root; vice-president, Frank M. Smith; cashier, Robert M. Bush; assistant cashier, Edward. Lindsay.

January 17, 1917

A Cabaret Performance and fundraiser sponsored by the Friends of Music & Art (FOMA) will be held Friday, January 19 in the high school cafeteria beginning at 5 p.m.

Performers include Karl Loewenguth and Anna Sams (guitar and vocal); Ben Resnick and Kyle Hohensee (percussionists); Patty Van Kampen and Amber Rumberger (flute duet); and Molly Meyer (vocal) accompanied by Virginia Ofer. Also performing will be Rotary Exchange students Wojtek Nowak and Bia Vrecchi Nicholeti. Tom Craig will play a piano solo. The Middle School Jazz Band and Harmonia, the high school jazz vocal group will also entertain.

Other students performing include Alison Bieber and Quinn Bernegger, Jessie Gill, Peter Coccoma, Morgann Clark, Greg Giovine and Chloe Strange. Last year FOMA awarded 10 summer music camp scholarships totaling $1,800.

It also awarded $450 in prizes at FOMA’s annual art show and $1,000 for the Cooperstown summer music camp.

January 19, 2007

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THURSDAY, january 19, 2017

Pink-Capped Protesters Due At Washington March Pomp, Ceremony Await For President’s Backers CON/From A1 ponchos, hand-warmers and cheese sandwiches. “I’ll have extras in case anyone needs them,” she said.

Atwell is just one of at least 110 Otsego County women going to the Women’s March on Washington, scheduled for one day after Donald J. Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States.

“As soon as I saw the results of the election, I knew I had to go,” said Ashley Cooper, the Cooperstown artist. “I’ll meet up with friends down there and we’ll all march together.”

“We’re marching to tell the president and the Republican-controlled congress that the things they want to do – that will disproportionately affect women – they won’t be able to do because we are here to stop them,” said Melinda Hardin, who convened a meeting of like-minded people in Cooperstown after Trump’s election to consider what to do. “They’re trying to send us back to the 1950s.”

Cooper and Hardin will be proudly sporting a “pussycat hat,” knitted for her by the Knitting2Gether group at the First Presbyterian Church.

“Ginger Heitz brought in the pattern,” said Margaret McGown, a member of the group. “We’ve knit at least 40 hats. We put them in the basket for people to take, and they’re all gone!”

The “Pussyhat” project, started online by Krista Suh and Jayna Zweiman, is intended to “provide the

Freed, Slave Remained In Cooperstown SLAVERY/From A4 His grave is in the far corner of the plot, clearly separated from the existing burials at the time, and his gravestone faces east. His burial in proximity to the prominent family may be evidence of genuine affection, intended as an honor in recognition of his years of loyal service.

The inscription on Stewart’s headstone describes him as “a much loved & faithful FREE servant.” The emphasis on his freed status, underscored by the capitalization, is interesting. This distinction was undoubtedly significant to Stewart and a reminder that his actions and choices were his own, that he had individual agency.

There is also a more selfinterested explanation for the Coopers’ actions. Stewart’s inclusion might reflect the family’s paternalism and desire for status. Being buried with a servant could project the Coopers’ prominence even in death.

Regardless of the Coopers’ intentions, it is clear that Stewart’s choices in life were constrained by the racism of northern communities and a racially unequal labor system and that, in death, he continued to be held apart from his white neighbors.

Oneonta artist Lisa St. Onge has been involved in organizing the 1 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 21, march from Muller Plaza in sympathy with the Women’s March on Washington.

A vigil at 4:30 p.m. in front of the county courthouse in Cooperstown is planned that same day.

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people of the Women’s March … with a unique, collective visual statement which will help activists be better heard,” according to their website.

The hats harken back to the Billy Bush interview, McGown said: “These hats are a way to say ‘We don’t accept this’.”

“There was a lot of disrespect for women in this election,” said Cooper.

And for those who can’t make it to D.C., a “sister rally” is being planned in Cooperstown at 4:30 p.m. that same afternoon in front of the Otsego County Courthouse. “It’s one of 600 planned across the country,” said organizer Lynne Mebust. “Ours will be a rally, not a march, with a candlelight vigil and speakers.

A similar one is planned at 1 p.m. in Oneonta’s Muller Plaza.

In Cooperstown, speakers include Mayor Jeff Katz, Dr. Mark Heller, Yasmine Montes DeOca of the SUNY Oneonta’s Fabulist Oneonta Feminists, and Debra

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Donations will also be taken for Family Planning of South Central NY. “It’s really important that we have these locally,” said Hardin.

And the rally is also a way to remind the people of Otsego County that they too

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“They’re going to the parade and getting good seats while I go to the ceremony,” said Walker.

For Casale, the inauguration is part of a four-day affair, including the GOP National Committee meetings to be held TuesdayWednesday, Jan. 17-18 to elect the new national chair to replace Reince Priebus.

There will also be a breakfast and, later, a cocktail reception on Thursday, Jan. 19. “It’s a social gathering,” he said.

Though he has attended inauguration ceremonies in the past – including Richard Nixon in 1973 – the heavy security and lack of freedom of movement have made them a little less fun. “Once you get into the actual ceremony and sit down, you can’t leave,” he said. “It’s a much different era. I heard this one is going to have very heavy security.”

And although they’ll all be in separate places, Walker has a plan for everyone to get back together in the end.

“We’ve agreed on if some of us get mixed up, we’re going to take the metro back and either wait at the car or wait at the metro station for everyone else,” he said.

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“We all have First Amendment rights to free speech and to peacefully assemble,” said Marcus. “We are standing in solidarity for all who are marginalized by the coming administration – people from different religions, diverse populations and low-income families.

Inclusion and tolerance are American values. People wring their hands and say ‘what can I do?’ but you do have a voice.”

Unable to attend the march in D.C., McGown will be part of the Cooperstown rally. “I’ll be there with my pussyhat on,” she said.

PRO/From A1 view of Donald J. Trump taking the oath just three blocks away.

“We took over the entire seventh floor!” he said.

“We’ll be on the parade route. It’s an opportunity to be witness to history, mingle with old friends and make some new ones.”

Meanwhile, Walker may be sitting in less comfort – rain is predicted by noon Friday, although temperatures may hit 50 degrees – but in closer proximity, with a ticket in hand, a reward for his volunteer efforts in the recently completed campaign of Otsego County’s new congressman.

“Members of congress can offer tickets to people to sit at the actual ceremony,” said Casale.

“I had reached out to Faso first via email,” Bobby recounted. “But one day when I was in Stagecoach with my friend I got a call from an Albany number. I answered it and it was John Faso calling me from his personal number; so I went outside and we had a 20-25 minute conversation.”

As for Benton, he may stay over an extra day to join the Women’s March on Washington Saturday, Jan. 21. “I’m more concerned about making progress,” he said. “Right now it’s very likely I will march. It’s just hard to decide.”

Walker and Benton plan to make the trip – leaving

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Research Details Slavery In Otsego County

SLAVES/FromA1 song, and a candlelight vigil. “It’s important for our history to be in here,� said Will Walker, Cooperstown Graduate Program associate professor. “This is not the South. This is Otsego County’s history.�

The history was researched and compiled by

CGP students, many of whom were on hand to read from their research paper, “Confronting Slavery and Racism in Otsego County.�

The full report was distributed to all in attendance. “New York was a major player in the slave system during the colonial and early national periods,� said Sarah Phillips in her reading.

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“The institution permeated small, Upstate communities, including Cooperstown.�

At the peak, in 1810, there were 74 slaves and 133 free blacks in Otsego County. By 1825, two years before emancipation, there were 54 slaves in the county.

Several slaves are buried in local churchyards, including Scipio, whose March 27, 1799, epitaph was read by Elizabeth S.F. Cooper: “Oft I have dropped a tear to see his furrow’d face cast smiles around, on those whose feeling hearts had, for a minute made him forget the hardness of his fate.�

Hayden Waters, a free African-American farmer from Middlefield, spoke at the original Fourth of July

event, and three years later, also gave an address at the Otsego County Courthouse, expressing his opposition to colonization, which sought to send all free blacks back to Africa.

And even James Fenimore Cooper had his say, speaking in opposition of nationwide abolition during a meeting at the courthouse in 1838. The Freeman’s Journal reported that the audience remained “more firmly established in their previous views of the unprofitable and impractical nature of the efforts and designs of modern abolitionists.�

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Rev. Elsie Rhodes, First Presbyterian Church, lights the candle of Omonike Akinyemi and daughter Simone Sprague as they sing “We Shall Overcome� at the close of the commemoration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monday, Jan. 16.

ment. On Feb. 9, 1855, Susan B. Anthony visited the Presbyterian Church in Cooperstown to help set up a Women’s Rights Committee for Otsego County. “It is really laughable to think that women should express any such position,�

Georgia Whitney read from an editorial in the Cherry Valley Gazette. “What a figure they would cut at the polls of an election, peddling tickets for their favorite candidate and dealing out nut-cakes to the electors.

Oh! Women, why canst thou not be contented with thy lot!� The sentiment drew a laugh from the audience.

And to tie everything into the modern context, testimony was given by Church in the Hood founder Ms. LaDana Clark, aka “La-

dyjam,� a visiting hip hop minister from New Jersey. “In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., let us rise and help others do the same,� she said. “We, all together, can build new possibilities for America.

I know our ancestors are smiling with pride at our spirits.�

And in the end, everyone formed a circle around the church and lit white candles, singing “We Shall Overcome.â€? “A candle says to the dark, ‘I beg to differ’,â€? said Rev. Elsie Rhodes. “We got a crazy thing going on,â€? said Clark. “But I believe that it will bring people together like they’ve never been together before‌and it’s gonna be a good thing.â€?

County Board At Odds Over Committee Chairs

CHAIRS/From A1 But not all county representatives appeared to be aboard.

County Rep. David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Middlefield, who raised the concern as 2017 committees began to convene last week, said Tuesday, Jan. 17, after receiving Coccoma’s opinion, “I think it’s better for committees to choose their own chairs.�

He said that, as specified in Robert’s Rules of Order, he had committees pick their own chairs during his 20year tenure as Middlefield town supervisor.

At Bliss’ initiative, the county board’s Health & Education Committee took a formal vote on its chair when it met for the first time Tuesday, Jan. 10. Bliss, who Clark had named Health & Ed chair, was confirmed in that position, but the point was made.

The next day, at the Performance Review & GoalSetting Committee, where Bliss serves as a member, a motion was made and passed confirming Clark’s choice of Jim Powers, R-Butternuts, as chair, but again the point was made.

After that meeting, Andrew Marietta, DCooperstown/Otsego, asked Coccoma for a ruling, which she completed over the three-day Martin Luther King Day Weekend so committees meeting this week would have her opinion in hand.

The matter is more than simply procedural, since Clark removed Len Carson, R-Oneonta, as chair of the Public Safety & Legal Affairs Committee after he challenged her for the chairmanship at the reorganization meeting on Jan. 4.

Bliss raised the issue after finding nothing in the county board’s bylaws giving its chair authority to name committee chairs. In such cases, questions are referred to Robert’s Rules of Order, which gives the authority to committees.

Coccoma’s e-mail, which was not immediately made public, apparently reaches a different conclusion, according to people who have seen it. She said the most

recent edition of Robert’s Rules gives the power to name a committee chair to the person with the power to appoint the committee – in this case, Clark.

By now, most of the committees have met and chosen their chairs, which may settle the situation for 2017. However, if the Coccoma e-mail isn’t generally accepted, a showdown may be in the offing when the powerful Administration Committee meets at 9 a.m.

Thursday, Jan. 19.

Its Clark-appointed chairman, Craig Gelbsman, R-Oneonta, could still face a challenge from his members.

Administration is a key committee, the equivalent of Ways & Means, which reviews all expenditure resolutions before they go to the full board.

In a comment on www.allotsego.com, Dan Wilber, RGarrattsville, remarked, “If this time honored practice was in contention, shouldn’t it be brought to the floor of the full board?�

In a Facebook post, Marietta concluded, “The committees electing their chairs allows for a check and balance to the county board chair and her committee-appointment actions. “As we look to the future,� he continues, “this process change will bring a focus on the big picture rather than embracing a reactionary and punitive standard. I envision (hopefully in the near future) our county committees being populated by skill set (wouldn’t that be novel?) and chairs elected because they have a vision and plan of action.�

Coincidentally, Carson included committees voting for their chairs on a list of action steps he intended to implement if he had toppled Clark.

Board Vice Chairman Ed Frazier, R-Unadilla, said last week there was no challenge when he assumed chairmanship of the Public Safety Committee. However, at the meeting’s end, Keith McCarty, R-East Springfield, who is also on the Performance Review committee, raised the issue for discussion, Frazier said.

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Hank Phillips, top left, was the original Cooperstown Winter Carnival chair, but Charlotte Koniuto and Ed Hobbie soon followed suit.

Winter Carnival Featured Car, Dogsled Races On Lake, Lots More

By LIBBY CUDMORE COOPERSTOWN

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ifty years ago, there were cars on Otsego Lake.

“For the first few years we held the Gymkhana races on the ice,” said Hank Phillips, chairman of the first two Cooperstown Winter Carnivals, 1967 and 1968. “You drove down Pioneer Street and out The original carnival committee included, from left, Ed Hobbie, Gus Chiareffo, Jane Huber, Angus Mackie, onto the lake!”

For the event to be a go, the Charlotte Koniuto and Hank Phillips. ice had to be 13 inches thick, ers had to make it around a was a lot of sliding, a lot of and only one car was allowed twisting, turning, icy track in controlled skids,” said Phillips. on the lake at a time. Raca bid for the best time. “There “It was a huge event.”

And though the Gymkhana is long gone, the Winter Carnival lives, and its 50 years will be celebrated with a week of contests, dancing, parties and more, Friday, Jan. 27, to Saturday, Feb. 4.

“It was novel,” said Phillips.

“There’s not much to do here in the winter, so this was something for the residents.”

The Carnival started in 1967 as a joint venture of the Lions Club, the Ski Club and the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce. “We made buttons that we sold for $1,” said Phillips. “They gave you a certain See FIRST FEST, B3

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nce upon a time, companies that telemarketed eyeglass frames nationwide flourished across Otsego County – perhaps as many as 10.

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ART RECEPTION: Meet Janet Wentworth Erikson, the artist behind the second installment of the “Local Heroes” exhibit. 5-7 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 19, Project Space Gallery, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta.

Theater: Enjoy Sumner Arthur Long’s comedy “Never Too Late,” brought to you by Stuff of Dreams Production, about a family that has its comfortable world upturned by an unexpected pregnancy. Friday Jan. 20, and Saturday Jan. 21, 8 p.m. and Sunday Jan. 22, 2 p.m. at the Production Center of the Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta.

FAMILY FILM: “The Secret Life of Pets.”

Refreshments available with proceeds benefiting Susquehanna Animal Shelter. 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Jan 21. Clark Sports Center, 124 Cty. Hwy. 52, Cooperstown.

Opera: Bring your friends to weep over the tragic tale of ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ live streaming from the Metropolitan Opera House, Saturday Jan. 21, 12:55 p.m. at the Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta.

Forum: The Greater Oneonta Historical Society will be holding a public meeting to share your thoughts and opinions on how the $10 million Downtown Revitalization plan should use the city’s history to contribute to its future economic development, 1 p.m.

Sunday Jan. 22. History Center, 183 Main St., Oneonta.

Panel: Come out to discuss the impact of the arts and organizations on the local economy with Elizabeth Horvath. 3 p.m. Sunday Jan. 22. Village Library meeting room, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

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1800 Presidential election, the first election after George Washington’s final term, in a lecture presented by Village Trustee Richard Sternberg at 2 p.m., Tuesday Jan. 24, Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown.

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OPERA – 12:55 p.m. “Roméo et Juliette.” The Met streaming live in HD. Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Cost $18/seniors, $20/adults, 10/students. Season pass $200. Box Office: (607) 431-2080, http://foothillspac. org/index.php/shows/metropolitan-opera-in-hd/ WRITERS PROGRAM – 1:30-3 p.m. Local Author, Sharon Delaney, shares her writing process and journey through publication.

Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/calendar/ LWV MEETING – 2-4 p.m. Join the League of Women Voters as they plan for 2017. Frances Rowe House, 31 Maple St., Oneonta.

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She also sent letters to But racing wasn’t the Congressman Sam Stratton only thing on the lake. and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, “There would be 100 shanwho sent their best wishes, ties for ice fishing,” said although they couldn’t attend.

Ed Hobbie, the 1969 chair.

She still has all the letters in “We’d have a golf tournaa scrapbook. “I thought, why ment on the lake, with red not invite them?” she said. balls so you could see who Though the formal ball, the hit the furthest in the snow! dog sledding and the GymWe did everything out on khana are gone, a few original the ice that year.” events still remain, including In the early days, skiing the snow sculpture contest. was a huge part of the event, “People would work on with races and a ski-tow at those sculptures all week, all Mount Otsego in Pierstown. up and down Main Street,” “We gave away prizes for said Philips. “At night, you’d Mothers and Fathers races, Ian Austin/ OTSEGO.com spray them with water from men and women, kids of all Hank Phillips, left, demonstrates how thick the ice had to be in order to host the Gymkhana car races the hose so they’d turn to ice, ages,” said Phillips. “I was on Otsego Lake – 13”, to be precise. At right, Charlotte Konuito hoists the engraved mug given to then you’d build on that. We the president of the ski club, every Winter Carnival chair. made a mortar and pestle for so we really pushed that.”

The dog race was a 12-mile loop from “People would be there until 5 a.m.,” said the pharmacy, and everyone “Back them, the weather the Main Street flagpole, down Pioneer, Phillips. “Then you’d go to the diner for would taunt their competitors across the was more cooperative!” said Charlotte Koout onto the lake, up the east side past Five breakfast.” street.” “We had an enormous sculpture of niuto, chair in 1970.

Mile Point, and down the west side to the “People would wear tuxes and long Frosty the Snowman in Pioneer Park,” said There was even a dog-sled race. “This finish line. gowns,” said Koniuto. “When I was chair, Koniuto. group would bring down sled dogs for And although there are still parties I invited the assemblyman, Pete Dokuchitz, The chairs credit the event’s longevity sale, and they’d have them out the morning and his wife to go to dinner and then the with the intense support of the community. before the race so you could pet them,” said throughout the festival, all three former chairs lament the loss of the Susquehanna ball with us. We went out for dinner, then “They really took hold,” said Phillips. “EvPhillips. “They’d sell the dogs too. They Ball, held at The Fenimore Art Museum. for cocktails, but by the time we got to the eryone had a lot of fun.” made a lot of money, did it for years.”

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PUBLIC FORUM – 1 p.m.

Share your thoughts on how the $10 million Downtown Revitalization plan should take advantage of the cities history to contribute to economic development. Greater Oneonta Historical Society, 183 Main St., Oneonta.

Info, http://www.oneontahistory. org/upcomingevents.htm#More THEATER – 2 p.m. Stuff of Dreams presents “Never Too Late.” Tickets @ Green Toad Book store or by calling (607) 432-5407. Cost $15 adult, $12 senior and students, and $10 children 12 and under. Production Center of Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta.

LIBRARY LECTURE – 3 p.m.

“Arts and the Local Economy” with Elizabeth Horvath. Village Meeting Room, Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown. Info @ Sunday Programs page villagelibraryofcooperstown.org.

Monday, January 23

ART EXHIBIT – “Celestial/Terrestrial” featuring the works of Alexandra Davis and Jill Parisi opens. Runs thru March 17 Martin-Mullen Art Gallery, Fine Arts Gallery, 106 Fine Arts, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy.,

Oneonta. Info, https://www. oneonta.edu/academics/art/gallery/gallery.html SPAGHETTI DINNER – 5-7 p.m. Enjoy homemade sauce, sausage and meatballs, and more. Take out available. Adults $10, Children $12. Support Boy Scout Troop 1254. Cooperstown Vets Club, 60 Main St., Cooperstown.

STRESSBUSTERS – 6:307:30 p.m. Monthly class giving you the tools for self-care and empowerment. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/calendar/ DRAWING GROUP – 7-9 p.m.

Come practice drawing with a live model. $10 donation. To attend call the Cooperstown Art Association, (607) 547-9777.

Tuesday January 24,

CYBERMOBILE – 9:30-9:50 a.m. The Four County Library System brings the mobile, computerized library system. Town Hall Assembly room, 3966 St. Hwy. 23 West Oneonta. Info, http://4cls. org/cyberinfo.html CYBERMOBILE – 10:10-10:50 a.m. The Four County Library System brings the mobile, computerized library system. Little Lambs Children’s Center, 383 Cty. Rte. 11, Oneonta. Info, http://4cls. org/cyberinfo.html

CYBERMOBILE – 12:2012:45 p.m. The Four County Library System brings the mobile, computerized library system.

Methodist Church Lobby, 811 Co Rd Cty. Rte. 26, Fly Creek. Info, http://4cls.org/cyberinfo.html CYBERMOBILE – 1:15-1:35 p.m. The Four County Library System brings the mobile, computerized library system. Methodist Church Lobby, 2343 NY-205, Mt. Vision. Info, http://4cls.org/cyberinfo.html KNITTING GROUP – 1:30-3:30 p.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St., Cooperstown, http://www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar HISTORY – 2 p.m. Learn the story of the American Presidential Election of 1800 and how it changed the United States with Dr. Richard Sternberg, Village of Cooperstown Trustee at Woodside Hall, 1 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, call (607)5470600

Wednesday, January 25

CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR – 10:30-11:30 a.m. Cooperstown Village Library, 22 Main St, Cooperstown. Info, http://www. villagelibraryofcooperstown. org/calendar DISCUSSION GROUP – 35 p.m. Discussion of current events. Cooperstown Village Li-

brary, 22 Main St., Cooperstown.

Info, http://www.villagelibraryofcooperstown.org/calendar MINECRAFT – 3:30-5:30 p.m. Open hours, no registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/youth-programs/ SCRABBLE CLUB – 5-7:45 p.m. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Info, http://hmloneonta.org/calendar/ FILM SERIES – 5:45 p.m.

“Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of St. Brian Wilson.”

Includes a vegetarian meal and childcare. No charge. RSVP requested. Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta, 12 Ford St., Oneonta. Info @ uuso@uuso.org, (607) 432-3491.

WINTER GAMES – 6-8. p.m. Teens can have access to PlayStation 4 video games such as FIFA, NBA, Guitar Here, and Rock Band as well as Board and Card games. Richfield Springs

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Rick and Christine Hulse present “Our Great Big Tiny Life - A Brief Testimonial” about creating a mobile tiny home. Fly Creek United Methodist Church, 811 Cty. Rte. 26, Fly Creek. Info, mboyer@ nysw.com or call (607)547-2555 ext. 250 FILM SERIES – 7 p.m. Winter Wednesday’s film series showing of “The Princess Bride.” Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, http:// foothillspac.org/

Thursday January 26,

CONFERENCE – 8:30-10 a.m.

Local manufacturers and training providers meet to discuss goals to ensure there is a trained workforce in the county to meet employers needs. Reservation required. Foothills Performing Arts Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta.

Info, Barbara Ann Heegan, President/CEO Otsego County Chamber of Commerce, (607) 432-4500, Ext. 202 or email baheegan@otsegocc.com PICKLEBALL – Noon-2 p.m.

Come learn the sport. Gym floor, Clark Sports Center, 124 Cty. Hwy. 52, Cooperstown. Info, http://www.clarksportscenter. com/ MINECRAFT – 3:30-5:30 p.m. Open hours, no registration required. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, http://hmloneonta.org/youth-programs/ ART RECEPTION – 5-7 p.m.

Meet the artist behind the exhibit titled “Celestial/Terrestrial” with a gallery talk by the artists at 6 p.m. Martin-Mullen Art Gallery, Fine Arts Gallery, 106 Fine Arts, SUNY Oneonta, 108 Ravine Pkwy., Oneonta. Info, https:// www.oneonta.edu/academics/ art/gallery/gallery.html

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Certificate filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/30/2016. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Louis W. Allstadt, 18 Main St., Cooperstown, NY 13326. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Term: until 12/31/2065.

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SSNY shall mail process: Robert A. Gouldin, Esq., 93 Main Street, Oneonta, New York 13820. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

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We stand for innocent life.

The legal protection of the right to life of innocent human beings is the basic issue upon which all other issues of human rights and justice depend. It is the pivotal human rights issue today, because once we abandon the basic democratic principle of equality—that ALL human beings deserve the protection of the law no matter what their size, their age or their degree of dependency—then the rights of all of us are less secure.

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OBITUARIES Christian T. Kepner, 55, Judge’s Son COOPERSTOWN – Christian Taylor Kepner, 55, died Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, after a series of health issues.

He was born June 18, 1961, at Fox Hospital in Oneonta, to Susan Noakes Kepner and George S. Kepner, Jr., a retired Otsego County Surrogate Court judge.

After graduating from Cooperstown High School, Chris attended school to

become a farrier. He worked for Aufmuth’s in Fly Creek for a few years and then went to Bruce Hall Corp. in Cooperstown while in his 20s, and stayed with them for the rest of his working career.

Chris is survived by his nephew, Taylor Kepner; sister-in-law Tassha Rathbone; stepmother, Claire Kepner; stepsister, Rachael Demsker, and her husband, Robert, and son, Theo; stepbrother,

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Jay Crossman and his wife, Danya, and children, Lauren and Hunter; Uncle Donald Noakes and his family; his good friends Mark Althiser and Bill Fort; and his work family at Bruce Hall Corp.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Susan N. Kepner, who died Dec. 28, 1988, his father, George S. Kepner, Jr., who died Oct. 30, 1993, and his brother, Matthew Donald Kepner, who died July 6, 2015.

Arrangements are entrusted to Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

Angelina S. Schlesier, 81; Dairy Farmer

HARTWICK – Angelina S. Schlesier, 81, Hartwick, who with her husband raised four daughters and operated a dairy farm, died unexpectedly on the evening of Jan. 9, 2017, in her home.

Angie was born Aug. 18, 1935 in Wyandanch, on Long Island, the ninth of 12 children to Guido and Lucy Cioffi. After graduating from Huntington High School, she was employed as the manager of Conservative Gas Co. of Wyandanch.

On June 2, 1957, Angie married Anthony G. Schlesier in a ceremony at Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Mission Chapel in Wyandanch.

Tony and Angie were blessed with four daughters and have spent the past 50 years on their farm in Hartwick.

Angie was an integral part in the successful operations of the dairy farm, as well as the numerous businesses that she and Tony have owned throughout the years.

In her later years, Angie was a member of the Hartwick Senior Aerobics Group, which she truly enjoyed and loved her companions who joined her each week. Angie was well known for her engaging smile, contagious laughter and pure soul that positively impacted every person who was blessed to know her.

Angie was the keeper of the flame for the Schlesier family and her legacy of love will live on with all of her family members.

Angie is survived by her husband of almost 60 years, Tony, of Hartwick; their four daughters, Elizabeth Flaska (Scott) of Albany; Lucy Dubray (Robert) of Ossining; Theresa Davis (Gary) of Camp Verde, Ariz.; and Mary DeNike (Chris) of Hartwick.

Six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. She is further survived by one sister, three brothers, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Angie was pre-deceased by three sisters and four brothers.

The funeral service was Saturday, Jan. 14, at the funeral home. Burial was Tuesday, Jan. 17, at the Saratoga National Cemetery in Schuylerville.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

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Nancy Waller, 98; Retired In County For 35 Years, Wrote Memoir Of China COOPERSTOWN – Nancy Waller, 98, of Roseboom, author, mother and beloved member of the greater Cooperstown community, died peacefully Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 10, 2017, at the Thanksgiving Home with her daughters and minister at her side.

Nancy Thomson Waller (born Anne Bigelow Thomson) was born in 1918, the eldest daughter of Margaret and Claude Thomson, American educational missionaries who served in China. In 1937, Nancy left China to attend college for a year in Switzerland and then finished at Smith College in Massachusetts. She graduated in 1940.

In 1939, on a blind date, she met Jerry Waller, and in April 1943, the two married

in Kearney, Neb. Soon after the wedding, Jerry shipped out for England with the 8th Army Nancy Air Corps.

Waller Between 1940 and 1945, Nancy worked at United China Relief in New York; completed the Harvard-Radcliffe Program for Business Administration in Cambridge, Mass.; and worked at Time-Life, Inc. in New York City.

When World War II ended in 1945, reunited, Nancy and Jerry spent a year in Cooperstown, and then settled in South Kent, Conn. for the next 35 years.

There they raised their three daughters Anne, Sydney,

and Peggy. Jerry taught foreign languages at South Kent School and later, Nancy taught French at Kent Center Elementary School.

In 2010, she published her memoir “My Nanking Home 1918-1937,” about her childhood in China as Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Army moved in.

Survivors include three daughters, Sydney Waller of Cooperstown, and Anne Seabury Waller Auerbach and Margaret Waller Burhoe, both of Brookline, Mass.

A funeral service will be offered at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017 at her church, the First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown.

Arrangements are entrusted to the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home.

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FRAMES/From B1 to children, younger adults and, in particular, “the woman in her late 30s to mid 40s who wants more of a fashion frame – that’s the world that Calvin Klein goes after, that Vera Bradley goes after,” Bliss said.

As the team of sales reps expanded the company’s market – today, frames from the local distributor may be found from Puerto Rico to Hawaii – it also became clear to Bliss, his wife (and vice president) Nancy, and their executives a change was necessary.

Among other concerns, customers were confused by the term, “Silver Dollar,” and why it would be applied to eyeglass frames. “Does it exude ‘fashion’? Probably not,” Bliss offered the other day during an interview in a large be-windowed office that looks out on 1-88 and the Catskills beyond.

Guided by the reactions its team of sales reps were receiving out in the field, the company began a two-year process to replace the company’s brand with a sleeker one, SD Eyes, a 21st century audience, being introduced nationwide this month.

Silver Dollar, founded by Frank Sullivan and Ron Russ in 1982, on the second floor of a commercial block across Main Street from what was then Wilber Bank’s headquarters, was part of a little-recognized market sector that flourished for years around here.

Telemarketing eyeglass frames nationally from Otsego County was introduced by Dr. Bill Lusk, then of Gilbertsville, now of Cooperstown. (At 81, he is still an active optometrist, managing Walmart’s department at the Southside store.)

Lusk’s salespeople would break away from his Brillen Optical and start undertakings of their own – Minuteman Optical on Southside was one of them. Bliss estimates at one point there were almost a dozen such operations locally.

The sector was low-profile, and the future company president wasn’t even aware of it when he graduated from SUNY Oneonta in 1982. (His mother is Josie Bliss, The Otesaga’s famed maitresse d’; his brother is Terry, retired county planning director.)

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the way when he ran across a buddy who was selling for Silver Dollar.

Enticed by a regular salary, Bliss was soon telemarketing eyeglass frames as Silver Dollar moved to a former mansion on Elm Street, then to Pony Farm on acquiring the former Pope & Talbot diaper factory in 1995.

That same year, a pivotal decision was made: “We need to get a direct sales force,” Bliss, by then vice president of sales, advised. “Those people” – sales representatives in the optical industry already established nationwide – “took our business and it just took off. “ As Silver Dollar expanded, the telemarketing business contracted. With Silver Dollar out of telemarketing, Oneonta’s Priority Eyewear is the one such business remaining.

The future Nancy Bliss – Dr. Lusk’s daughter was one of her Gilbertsville classmates growing up – joined the company in the early 1990s, and rose to vice president/distribution. The two married and in 2008 bought the company from Ronald Russ.

The operation represents nine national eyeglass-frame manufacturers. At any time, 250,000 sets of frames are on the warehouse shelves, and the company promises a “98 percent fill rate,” with orders shipped in the same day.

Taking over the business, the Blisses continue to expand their marketing efforts, and full-page ads

routinely appear in 20/20 and VP (formerly Vision Plus), glossy magazines little known to the public but staples in the optical industry.

Still, the just-completed rebranding was something new.

“I’m a sales-driven guy,” said Bliss. “This took me to a different area. I had to look at our company from a different perspective.”

The company contracted with Art School, a Los Angeles rebranding consultant, and a two-year process ensued.

“They called reps. They called accounts,” said Bliss, and contracted with an IP firm – patent and trademark lawyers. Sampling among 11,000 customers, the consultants found, “They knew who we were. They liked us,” Bliss said.

At first, the idea was to abandon “Silver Dollar.”

Bliss was partial to “Marquee.” But when tested, customers said, “Who are you now? I know who SD is.”

It turns out when customers made an appointment, they would write on their calendars, “SD.” “I went full circle,” said Bliss, who concluded, “I need a concept that will take us forward. But it has to be tied to the past.”

The result, a modern sanserif type, “SD EYES,” is being introduced to clients this month. And 35 years of heritage is recast in a snappy tagline, “Our Focus Is Our Frames.”

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