E THE DATE V A S
THE NEW LEAF
55th Annual Awards
SPRING 2019
Sunday, September 29th “Pathways to Community”
2019 Officers President: Penny Haberman 1st Vice President: Duke McPherson 2nd Vice President: Jeffrey Sipress Treasurer/CFO: Nina Dunbar Secretary: Lori Kari
Board of Directors Jacqueline Dyson Suzanne Fairly Santos Escobar David Gress David Jacoby
A Message From The President
W
elcome to the first issue of our And, it is important to note what has renewed Newsletter. This has been made these wonderful things happen. We an exciting time for Santa Barbara are fortunate to have a fully engaged board Beautiful. In 2018, we provided a record with active committees that have thoughtfully number of grants completing one of our most pulled our organization forward. Many thanks successful years ever! As you look go to the leadership team, our hard through these pages, check out working past President Jacqueline the many projects we helped bring Dyson, and to our active volunteers. to fruition. For example, during As we look toward 2020, new a time of incredible resilience, pathways and strategies are being we were eager participants in developed in our Fundraising and providing support during the Publicity Committees as Santa follow-up to some of Santa Barbara Beautiful is set to move Barbara’s worst disasters. forward with great enthusiasm! Penny Haberman It was this kind of We would like to include you commitment that helped propel our in this new direction as you are interested organization and set the stage for 2019 with and able participate. We invite you to renew many new programs while, at the same time, your membership, donate, and/or join in one reinvigorating longstanding commitments or all of our gatherings and events this year such as partnering with the City of Santa — especially our annual awards held annually Barbara to fund trees for planting now that on the last Sunday of September. the drought has been officially lifted. See you there! Photo by Jeffrey Sipress
See you in September!
Kate Kurlas Laurie MacMillan Jo Ann Mermis Kerry Methner
Meet the Board of Directors
Caroline Rutledge Deborah Schwartz Leslee Sipress Nathan Slack Mark Whitehurst
Santa Barbara Beautiful www.sbbeautiful.org Info@sbbeautiful.org 805-965-8867 A 501(c)(3) Corporation Tax ID# 23-7055360
Suzanne Fairly, Kerry Methner, Nina Dunbar, Jeffrey Sipress, Deborah Schwartz, Santos Escobar, Laurie MacMillan, Caroline Rutledge, David Gress, Penny Haberman, Lori Kari, Nathan Slack, Leslee Sipress, Duke McPherson, David Jacoby, Mark Whitehurst, and Jacqueline Dyson Not pictured: Jo Ann Mermis and Kate Kurlas
Mission Statement The purpose of Santa Barbara Beautiful is to stimulate community interest and action toward the enhancement of Santa Barbara’s beauty as a complement to current and future government and private activity. Santa Barbara Beautiful is an organizations of volunteers dedicated to beautifying our area in a variety of ways not only by working independently but also by cooperating with city departments, neighborhood association and other agencies. Formed in 1965 by concerned civic leaders, Santa Barbara Beautiful is a non-profit, taxexempt corporation. Contributions are tax-deductible.