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Montecito Miscellany
from Reports of Montecito Being Exclusive to the Newly Wed and Nearly Dead Turn Out to Have Been Greatly
At the YMCA, Leis is More
by Richard Mineards
George Leis, president of Montecito Bank & Trust, is having a new lease on life!
George, who is also a board member of Santa Barbara Zoo, the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, and the Channel Islands YMCA, becomes chairman of the national YMCA in February, succeeding CiCi Rojas , the first Hispanic to hold the position in the organization’s long history.
“I learned to swim at the Y on Long Island, when I was six or seven years old in Deer Park in Suffolk County and have been part of the Channel Islands Y since 2008, serving on the committee and the board,” says George, who is also a regular at the Y on Hitchcock in our Eden by the Beach.
He joined the national board in 2019 and will serve a two-year term as chairman.
The organization, founded in Boston in 1851, has 2,700 clubs across the
Lintu the Groove
Montecito’s Music Academy wrapped up its 76th Summer Festival in splendid style when Hannu Lintu conducted the Academy Festival Orchestra at the Granada.
The entertaining show featured Richard Strauss’ 1898 “Ein Heldenleben” and Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet” with Lintu, 55, conductor of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, at the top of his game.
The conclusion of the eight-week-long festival with nearly 200 performances of one kind or another on the Miraflores campus and the Lobero also marked the end of president Scott Reed’s tenure after 14 years.
I wish him well...
On the Waterfront
Social gadabout Rick Oshay and La Boheme Dancers founder Teresa Kuskey really put the “ship” in sponsorship as the tony twosome hosted a harborside bash for 75 guests on the 100-foot replica of the 1542 Spanish galleon San Salvador country with 200,000 staff and 500,000 volunteers in 10,000 communities nationwide.
