Jane Veron to Chair Scarsdale Bowl Committee

Jane Veron has been named Chair of the 2013 Scarsdale Bowl Committee. The appointment was announced by Richard Toder, President of the Scarsdale Foundation.  As Bowl Committee Chair, Veron will head the Scarsdale Bowl nominating committee and the community celebration dinner to be held on Wednesday evening, April 17, 2013 at Lake Isle Country Club. The Scarsdale Bowl is awarded annually each spring to a Scarsdale resident in recognition of his or her outstanding voluntary public service to the community. This year’s Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the Scarsdale Bowl Committee is Deborah Pekarek.

Veron has been active in a range of community and volunteer organizations. Appointed to a second term as Planning Board Chair, Veron was President of the League of Women Voters of Scarsdale, President of the Fox Meadow Neighborhood Association, and Chair of the Scarsdale Neighborhood Association of Presidents (SNAP). As SNAP representative, she participated on the Citizens Nominating Committee, Procedure Committee and School Board Nominating Committee. She also served as Vice President of the board of the Scarsdale Edgemont Family Counseling Service and Chair of the Scarsdale Advisory Council on Youth. She was a member of the Scarsdale Bowl Committee, the Scarsdale Historical Society Advisory Board and the Youth Athletic Coalition Steering Committee. Veron is also active in the schools, having served on the Fox Meadow School executive committee, the Principal Search committee, the Bond Issue committee and chairing a myriad of PTA committees.

Veron is co founder of The Acumen Partnership (TAP), a not-for-profit organization which deploys local professional women to assist local small businesses in need of strategic and tactical advice. Prior to TAP, she worked as a strategy consultant and marketing executive. A 15-year resident of Scarsdale, she and her husband Andrew Feldstein have three children. Julia and Anna attend the Scarsdale schools, and Emily is a freshman at Yale University.

The Scarsdale Bowl is administered by the Scarsdale Foundation which operates as a not-for-profit community foundation to promote the civic welfare. It does so by supporting institutions and individuals in a manner that encourages educational and human development in the community. The Foundation provides need-based financial aid to Scarsdale High School graduates who are entering their sophomore, junior and senior years in college and to children attending the Recreation Department summer day camp. It also administers a number of special purpose funds, and makes grants for various community needs which have included the Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Corps and the Scarsdale/Edgemont Family Counseling Service.