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May 2019
College Club of Buffalo Monthly Newsletter
The College Club of Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14222
716-885-4404
Mission Statement
The College Club of Buffalo is a community of women
who promote the advancement of education through programming,
scholarship endowment, charitable activities, and social interaction.
Greeting College Club Members,
It’s May, the lovely month of May. I believe that is a line from a Camelot song. Hopefully it will be a lovely month. Here are a few interesting facts about the month of May. Truth be told they come from Google. May is the fifth month of the year. There are 31 days and three notable holidays that are observed during the month: Cinco de Mayo, Mother's Day and Memorial Day. Cinco de Mayo, Spanish for the "fifth of May," is the celebration of Mexico's vic-tory over France in the Battle of Puebla. Mother's Day is the celebration of mothers. It was made an official holiday in 1914 and is observed on the second Sunday in May. Memorial Day is the celebration of the men and women who died while serving in the United States military. It is observed on the last Monday in May. Other events during the month include May Day, Haitian Heritage Month, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. We will have two very interesting speakers. May 6 will be Cheryl McDonald from Explore Buffalo and May 13, will feature Marilyn Deighton from Niagara University’s Theater Department. Our Wednesday entertainment will feature Valerian Ruminski from Nickel City opera. The Opera La Traviata by Verdi will be performed on May 24 and 26 at the Villa Maria College Theater. Monday, May 20 is the bridge/scrabble luncheon. Movie nights are Thursday, May 2 and 16. There are the other three bridge days and the blanket brigade takes place on the second and fourth Thursdays. Please remember that we are still collecting baby items for Harvest House. We are very busy and I thank you for all your time and effort you give to the College Club. I do ask that you support our lunches and evening entertainment. Please remember we must have 15 for our caterer. Tom’s menu selections have been wonderful. Happy Mother’s day to all you fine ladies; be you a mother, step-mother grand-mother, aunt, godmother or simply a supportive friend.
In friendship,
Betty
Officers and Board
President…Betty Kulpa; 1st Vice President…Beverly Thomas; 2nd Vice President...Mary Ellen McGowan
Treasurer…Lillian Gondree; Assistant Treasurer…Carolann Besch; Corresponding Secretary and Newsletter
Editor…Rosina Alaimo; Recording Secretary...Pat Krims
Directors: Bonnie Botsford; Nancy Davidson; Barbara Kuvshinoff; Mary Vacanti
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Monthly Bridge Activities
Party Bridge May 1 Party Bridge is the 1st Wednesday of the month. Please sign up for this event with Since play begins at 11:00 AM, plan to arrive by 10:45. Bring your smile, your quar-ter and your lunch. Goodies will be provided. Mark your calendar; Make a sandwich; Bring Mike’s bridge les-sons, if needed!!!!
Duplicate Bridge: May 8 Duplicate Bridge is the 2nd Wednesday of the
month at 10:45 AM. Please be on time.
$25.00 is due, paid to Nancy Thomas.
Call Clare if you cannot play. Otherwise you are
expected to be there. Desserts are welcome— Just
let Clare or Betty know what you plan to bring. If
you cancel the morning of bridge you will be ex-
pected to provide a sub..
Dear Duplicate Players, Please realize that if you do not come, and we don’t have complete tables, we can’t play Duplicate. This is what occurred this past week, and we ended up playing Party Bridge. Also, if players leave ear-ly, we can’t have a fair score. Before resuming Duplicate for next year, we will have a meeting to ensure that everyone is partnered. I will be hostess for the May game and provide des-sert.
Fondly, Bev
Bridge Luncheon: May 20 12 noon $17.00
Lunch is served at 12:00. Sign-up sheet is available at the Club. Please reserve your seat at a table and for lunch by the Friday before the event. If you need to cancel, call Ca-mille Beecher (at 862-9517). This is important both for an accurate lunch count and to insure that we have 4 players per table. Scrabble: A dedicated group of scrabble players will play on the 3rd Monday of the month. They promise to play quietly so as not to distract the bridge players! We welcome new players. Join us—the more the merrier—-oops—we’ll be silent, I promise.
Kitchen Bridge May 29
11:30 AM Lesson 12:15 PM Play Bridge Kitchen Bridge is played on the last Wednesday of each
month. Play begins at 12:15; If a lesson is planned, the
lesson will begin at 11:30. Remember to bring a lunch
and a quarter. Treats will be provided.
Hallie will call potential players to confirm.
Call Hallie Howell at 885-4190 if you wish to sign up or
if you cannot play.
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Cultural, Literary, Educational, and Social Activities
Book into Movie Night 1st Thursday Evening of the Month The next meeting for Reading between the Wines is Thursday, May 1st at 6:30 PM. The group will discuss To Kill a Mockingbird based on the book by Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Horton Foote is based on Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. It stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Mary Badham as Scout. To Kill a Mockingbird marked the film debuts of Robert Duvall, William Windom, and Alice Ghostley. The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics and was a box-office success, earning more
than six times its budget. The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Peck, and was nominated for eight, including Best Picture.
Fun Movie Night May 16th at 6:30 PM
This evening you will enjoy a wonderful vintage film. With great dialogue and broad, acid-tongued characters, this film is funny, sophisticated, and delightful to watch. THE WOMEN was a ground-breaking movie in 1939. It's about women, written by women, with an all-female cast (not a single man appears on-screen). The movie takes a brash look at the lives and manners of a group of gossipy, catty "friends" in New York City. They're rich; they're self-centered. Some are social-climbers; some are saintly. Its simple plot is accompanied by a number of fully drawn set pieces evoking the world of the very rich in 1939: the beauty salon, the exercise studio, department store fitting rooms and, though the rest of the movie is in beautiful black-and-white, a lengthy fashion show in bright Technicolor that dazzles with the fabulous costumes of the day.
The stellar cast, which includes Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, and Joan Fontaine in addition to Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford, bring charm and wit to the already sparkling written word.
New Newsletter monthly feature!
Our College Club family is very important to us. We meet for lunch, for Bridge, for book clubs, for entertainment and
for dinners. And yet, we don’t know very much about each other. We are mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and aunts.
We have children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews that are “bragworthy.” Heck, we have pets that are
“bragworthy.” So, with your help, I would like to use this space for us to brag! For instance, as a tease, do you know
that Betty Kulpa has a very good reason to brag about her son? Do you know that Lillian Gondree and I have been
friends or over 50 years? So, my email is [[email protected]]. Feed me your “brag” and I will print it! Deadline for
inclusion in the March newsletter is February 9th! I want to hear from you!
**I haven’t heard from anybody! Does this mean that there is no interest in this type of information? I’ll give it one
more month—if your silence is very loud, I will abandon the idea.
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Monthly Program Dinner: Wednesday, May 16th
Our monthly program dinners are scheduled for the- 3rd Wednesday of every month. The cost for the dinner is $25.00. Reservations must be made by noon on the Monday before the dinner by calling Carolann Besch at 883-4482. AND, if you must cancel, you MUST call Carolann with that information to avoid being charged for your dinner. **Reservations and cancellations must be made with Carolann Besch at 883-4482.
Wednesday, May 15—Cost $25.00
5:15 PM Wine And Hors d’oeuvres
6 PM—Dinner and Program
Program: Nickel City Opera Speaker: Valerian Ruminski
Nickel City Opera Founder and Artistic Director Valerian Ruminski brings his passion for opera to Western New York audiences through NCO, but he also has a long and acclaimed history as a professional opera singer and performer. “I want to break the notion that opera is stuffy and only for the rich,” said Ruminski. “The sto-ries are timeless and the music will stick with you. Our shows are very ‘come as you are,’ wheth-er it’s in an evening gown or jeans. We want audiences to walk away being proud they can expe-rience such quality entertainment, right in their own backyard.”
A native of Cheektowaga, N.Y., Valerian Ruminski is a graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and of SUNY-Buffalo. A true basso cantante, his bold and powerful vocal lyricism and remarkable coloratura have garnered him many accolades. An excellent musician and creative interpreter, he has performed with many of the great opera companies in the US and abroad including The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Dallas Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, Miami Opera, Minnesota Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera Ireland, Opera de Montreal, Opera de Monte Carlo,
Dinner Menu:
Salad
Chicken Marsala OR Seared Scallops
Brownie Cheesecake
Dr. Seuss Quotes on Life
“They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”
“I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends. ...
“Teeth are always in style.”
“Don't give up. ...
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.
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***May 13th (There will be a Board
Meeting at 10:00 AM for all officers and board of directors.) Luncheon program speaker: Marilyn Deighton from Niagara University Marilyn holds an MFA in costume technology from the Uni-versity of North Carolina School of the Arts. Currently, she teaches stagecraft, costume construction, pattern drafting, corsetry, dancewear, supervises the student workforce in the costume shop and is the Draper/Tailor for all of the theater department’s productions. Previously, she was a lecturer and Draper/Tailor at the University of Maryland – College Park and an Assistant Professor of Costume Technology at the University of Mississippi. Professionally, Marilyn has been the Costume Shop Director for Paper Mill Playhouse in their New York City Costume Shop, Costume Director for Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Costume Shop Manager for North
Carolina’s Shakespeare Festival and a freelance Men’s Tailor for The Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage and Wolf Trap Opera in the Washington, D.C. area. In addition, she was a tailor for the Broadway version of Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk designed by Paul Taswell and a draper for the Robert Altman film “Cookie’s Fortune” starring Glenn Close and Julianne Moore. She has designed and built over 200 productions in the Florida Tampa Bay area for various Dinner Theatres and community theatres. In 2011, she created the costumes and unique lightweight fat suits for the French-language touring company Le Theatre de la Chandelle Verte’s production of La Farce de Maitre Pathelin. Marilyn has designed and built the costumes for 1776 that was performed with the Eight O’clock Theatre at the Largo Performing Arts Center in Largo, Florida.
Monday, May 6 Speaker: Cheryl McDonald
Program: Working Women at the Turn of the Century Before retiring in 2011, Cheryl worked as a human resource manager at Chicago Title for twenty years. After retirement she took a training program to be a Buffalo tour guide; that led to being a founding member of Explore Buffalo. Cheryl now works in the Explore Buffalo office two days a week, serves on the Volunteer Committee and Marketing Advisory Committee, and gives the Delaware Avenue Mansions Tour. In a previous life, Cheryl served as the president of the General Federation of Women’s Club-Aurora’s Women’s Club for two years. Recently, Cheryl won the Explore Buffalo Best of “Booffalo” Costume Contest for her costume as Lafayette Square! The thing that Cheryl loves most about Buffalo is obviously the people. Description: The influx of Irish immigrants and the Industrial Revolution changed the lives of women, especially single women, between 1870 and 1920. Although it was the Gilded Age in Buffalo, not everyone was a millionaire living on Delaware Avenue. What kind of work were women doing and where were they doing it? From domestic servants to ground-breaking professionals, hear the stories of Buffalo's working women - their struggles and their successes.
Program Luncheons
This month we have three program luncheons planned: May 6th and May 20th. We will be closed on May 27th in observance of Memorial Day. Our tasty lunches are catered by Chef Tom O’Keefe and served by Jerimiah. **Lunch is served at 12:00 PM immediately followed by the program. Carolann Besch is our very capable luncheon reservation manager. Please sign up with Carolann by phone (883-4482) or at the Club by noon on the Friday immediately before the luncheon so she has an accurate count for the caterer. The cost of the luncheons is $20.00. We encourage you to pay by check.
Luncheon Menu: Salad
Stuffed Shells with Meatballs Birthday Cake—Tropical Cake
Luncheon Menu: Salad
Shrimp OR Chicken Kebobs with rice
Cappuccino Crème Brulee
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Membership Information
Nominating Committee
Ex-Officio: Camille Beecher
Chair: Kathy Kubala
Members: Kathy Howels, Bev Thomas, Elaine K, Mary Ellen Shaughnessy
The Nominating Committee works hard to insure that the College Club has good leadership. If asked to
stand for office, please say YES!
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Please welcome Claudia Walsh to the College Club! Please add her
contact information to your directories.
Claudia Walsh 837-4044
836 Parkside Ave [email protected]
Buffalo, NY 14216
Medaille/Buffalo State
Retired Buffalo Teacher
Enjoys gardening
Birthday Is March 7
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Are you planning a special event such as a wedding shower, a baby
shower, a birthday celebration , a retirement celebration? Do you dread the high
costs of booking a restaurant? Do you dread the work involved in using your own
home? Well, the College Club has the solution for you.
You can book our gracious house and have your celebration catered. Many of our
members have done this and they have had great reviews. Just think about it:
no heavy cleaning; no shopping; no cooking; no clean-up!
Just select the date; send the invitations; drive up; greet your guests; no fuss;
no mess! And the savings are huge!
Call our House Manager Susan Davis at 885-4404 for information and availability.
The College Club’s gracious living room
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Just a reminder that we have a website where you can find pictures, newsletters, information and
other wonderful “stuff” about our College Club. Your monthly newsletter is either sent to you via US
mail or via your email address. But sometimes we misplace things. Now, if you have access internet
access, you can go the College Club website and find newsletters dating back to 2016. You can find our
calendars and sometimes corrections or updates to the newsletters. Just copy and paste the following
web address into your email browser and enjoy!
https://collegeclubofbuffalo.com/
The Blanket Brigade Goes On!
A group of your fellow Club ladies started a “blanket
brigade” to further our involvement with the babies at Harvest
House. We met at the Club on the 2nd Thursday of April.
We brought our yarn, our knitting needles, our crochet hooks. We brought a sewing
machine and an iron and a variety of fabrics. If you do not have a particular skill, you can
still help by cutting fabric squares, pinning squares, ironing seams,
etc. Also, yarn and pieces of quilting fabric (child
appropriate designs, please) are welcome. We even offer
simple tutorials. We had such a productive and fun morning that
we are doing it again on April 25th. All are welcome! Come and
join us. This is another chance to help those less fortunate than we are and have fun at
the same time! Mark your calendars—May 9th and May 23rd.
The Buffalo Federation of Women's Clubs has issued a philanthropic challenge to all of its' member clubs,
including the College Club of Buffalo. BFWC is calling on all its' clubs to donate new or very gently used
Dr. Seuss books in an effort to collect and distribute 1000 Dr. Seuss books by March of
2020. All books are to be donated locally in the Buffalo and WNY area.
College Club members can take part either by bringing in books and giving them to
Barbara Kuvshinoff or Betty Kulpa OR by donating funds ($5 per book). Any donation
checks for the Dr. Seuss challenge should be made out to BFWC with Dr. Seuss/CCB in
the memo line. BFWC will track donations from each of its' member clubs and post
monthly updates toward the collection total, so let's make College Club of Buffalo proud
and plan to donate either books or funds toward this initiative! For more information,
call Barbara Kuvshinoff at 553-5722.
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May 2019 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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10:45 AM
Party Bridge
2 6:30 PM
Book into
Movie Night
3 4
5 6
12:00 PM
Program
Lunch
7 8
10:45 AM
Duplicate
Bridge
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10:30
Blanket
Brigade
10 11
12 13
10:30 Board
Mtg
12:00
Program
14 15
5:15 PM Wine
And Hors
d’oeuvres
6 PM—Dinner
and Program
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6:30 PM
Fun Movie
Night
17
18
19 20
12:00 noon
Bridge
Luncheon
21 22
23
10:30 AM
Blanket
Brigade
24 25
26
27
Memorial
Day
Closed
28 29
11:30 Lesson
12:15 Play
Kitchen
Bridge
30
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Happy Birthday to all our birthdays!
May 4………..Rosina Alaimo
May 5………..Marcia Bergmann