News from the Scarsdale Bowl, Concordia and the Scarsdale Forum

Invitations Out for the Scarsdale Bowl
The entire Scarsdale community is invited to attend the Scarsdale Bowl on Wednesday, April 22nd at The Fountainhead in New Rochelle, NY. Pictured above are members of the Bowl committee and trustees of the Scarsdale Foundation preparing invitations which will arrive in mailboxes soon in March. This year the Bowl, which celebrates volunteerism and community, will honor former Mayor Peter Strauss. To RSVP and pay online, visit the Scarsdale Foundation website.
Photo credit: Karin Garvey

Concordia Summer Camp Now Accepting Registrations
Concordia Summer Camp offers an exceptional summer experience for children! Located at Concordia College in Bronxville, the camp has been running for over 30 years and is known for their impeccable safety record and extraordinary programs.
New this year, campers can enjoy Water Inflatables every Friday.

Programs are offered for early childhood campers ages 3 to 5 as well as grades 1-9. Programs include Enrichment, Music and Art Programs: forensics, cooking competitions, art, music, robotics, improv, cyberspace, science, literacy, web-page design and blogging, chamber music, band bash, piano, violin, guitar, musical theatre, vocal arts, songwriting and composition, and much more. If sports is your interest, Concordia offers the Slam Dunk Basketball Camp as well as a general Sports Program where campers are rotated through a whole variety of sports.

Concordia Summer Camp offers two 3-week sessions from June 29 to August 7 as well as pre and post camp programs (June 15-26 & August 10-21). Services and discounts offered include early drop-off and late pick-up, sibling, bundle and early-registration discounts, online registration, morning/afternoon snacks and beverage, as well as lunch for all afternoon programs which is included in the cost of the program.

Attend an open house on Sunday March 8th at 2 pm. For more information, visit www.concordiasummercamp.org or call 1-914- 395-4848.

Richard Garwin to Speak at Sunday Speaker Series
Internationally renowned physicist and Scarsdale resident. Dr. Richard Garwin will present a lecture titled "Nuclear Energy – Electrical Power and Vastly Destructive Weapons," as part of the Scarsdale Forum's Sunday Speaker Series on Sunday March 8 at 3 pm at the Scarsdale Women's Club.

Garwin is the winner of the National Medal of Science in both the fields of Engineering and Science and is the author of the design used in the first hydrogen bomb. He has served every U.S. president from Eisenhower to Obama. Dr. Garwin's lifelong commitment to such projects as Global Warming, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Disarmament, and Energy are unparalleled.

Dr. Richard L. Garwin received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1949 under the sponsorship of Enrico Fermi. He has worked in particle physics, nuclear physics, solid state physics and in a wide range of technology such as air traffic control, satellite communications, satellite navigation, touchscreens, laser printers and magnetic resonance imaging. While working at the IBM Research Division at Columbia University, Garwin served as a consultant at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory where he provided the design for the first thermonuclear weapon test (the hydrogen bomb) at Eniwetok on November 1, 1952. Garwin has advised the United States government on many aspects of nuclear power including the disposal of spent fuel. The winner of the National Medal of Science and a prolific author (see: www.fas.org/RLG/), Dr. Garwin is the subject of a documentary which will be shown at the Scott Room of the Scarsdale Public Library on Thursday, March 5 at 8:00 PM.