Scarsdale Residents Greet Hillary's Return to Westchester at 3am on Election Day Morning
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About 500 fans stayed up late – or perhaps woke up very early – to greet Hillary Clinton's plane when it touched down at Westchester Airport at 3:30 am on Election Day morning, November 8. Hillary had completed her final campaign tour and was returning to her home in Chappaqua to watch the returns.
Greenacres resident and Hillary supporter Michelle Lichtenberg was in the crowd and braved the dark and cold to see Hillary. She said, "I wanted to be there to see the Westchester resident who will hopefully be our first female president."
With Michelle were BK Munguia, wife of 
Scarsdale Mayor Jon Mark, former Scarsdale Mayor Carolyn Stevens and Paula Wittlin. Also at the airport were former school board members Mary Beth Gose and Suzanne Seiden as well as Jeff and Susie Stern and Diane Greenwald. Former Scarsdale resident Anna Decker actually shook Hillary's hand and forwarded us this photo of Clinton in her signature red pantsuit. All had worked hard for the campaign.
Village Calls for Candidates to Serve on the Board of Architectural Review
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The Personnel Committee of the Village Board of Trustees has announced two vacancies on the Board of Architectural Review (BAR); one vacancy as a regular member and one vacancy as an alternate member.
Appointments to the Board of Architectural Review are for a three-year term. The BAR's basic purpose is to preserve the character and appearance of the Village. The BAR reviews all applications involving construction of buildings, or additions to, or reconstruction of existing buildings affecting the exterior appearance.
Trustee Jane Veron, Chair of the Personnel Committee, encourages residents to apply for these positions by submitting their names, together with a listing of community service and relevant professional background. Architects and design professionals are preferred.
Applications may be submitted in one of two ways:
• Via the Village Website – Click on this link:
• Via Village Hall – Applications are available in-person or online here and should be directed to Trustee Jane Veron at Village Hall, 1001 Post Road, Scarsdale NY 10583.
To review the guidelines for membership, terms of office, and member responsibilities for Scarsdale's Citizen Boards, Councils, and Committees, click here:
Please contact the Village Clerk, Donna Conkling, at 914-722-1175 or via e-mail dconkling@scarsdale.com for further information.
Local Spanish Professor Publishes Book that Answers 101 Questions About Spanish
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Scarsdale native and Spanish Professor Judy Hochberg has published a new book, "¿Por qué? 101 Questions about Spanish" for anyone who wants to understand how Spanish really works. While standard textbooks and grammars describe the "what" of Spanish - its vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and pronunciation, Hochberg's book "¿Por qué," explains the "why." Why are so many Spanish verbs irregular?
Hochberg draws on linguistic principles, Hispanic culture, and language history to answer questions such as: Why does Spanish have different ways to say "you"? - Why is h silent? - Why doesn't Spanish use apostrophes? - Why does Castilian Spanish have the th sound?
Hochberg and her husband are both graduates of Scarsdale High School (1978) and married just days after their graduation from college in 1982. She earned her BA from Harvard and her PhD at Stanford, both in linguistics. She initially focused on how children learn to speak Spanish as a first language and then spent several years researching computational linguistics topics like automatic translation and speech recognition.
She worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and then for one year at a start-up in NY and three years at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, In 2004 she retrained as a Spanish teacher and taught at SHS from 2004 to 2009, and since then as an adjunct at Fordham University. She began work on the book in 2011 as a way to share her special perspective on Spanish as someone who is both a research linguist and a classroom teacher. She also blogs at Spanishlinguist.us.
She moved back to Scarsdale in 2000 and her three children graduated from SHS. The oldest two are married, and she has two grandsons in Philadelphia.
¿Por qué? is an accessible study guide that is suitable for Spanish students, instructors, native speakers, and the general reader. It is a valuable supplementary text for serious students of Spanish at all levels, from beginning to advanced. ¿Por qué? also covers topics usually left to specialized books, including the evolution of Spanish, how children and adults learn Spanish, and the status of languages that co-exist with Spanish, from Catalan to Spanish sign language to the indigenous languages of Latin America.
The book will be published on October 20th. Order your copy now.
Scarsdale Bowl Committee Seeks Recommendations
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The 2017 Scarsdale Bowl Committee will begin its work in early December to select the 2017 recipient of the Scarsdale Bowl and is seeking recommendations from the community for a possible honoree. The Scarsdale Bowl, under the sponsorship of the Scarsdale Foundation, has been awarded annually since 1943 to an individual, or in rare instances, to a husband and wife, who has given "unselfishly of his/her time, energy and effort to the civic welfare of the community." The founding donors of the Bowl believed that "many who serve generously and voluntarily, without office, honor or publicity, are those deserving of having their names permanently inscribed on the Scarsdale Bowl."
David Lee is serving as chair of this year's Scarsdale Bowl Committee. The members of the committee serve staggered two-year terms. The newly appointed Class of 2018 consists of Norman Alterman, Diane Baylor, Kate Conlan, Lee Fischman, Mona Longman, Suzanne Seiden, and Margaret Smith. The continuing Class-members of 2017 are Beth Ehrich Berkley, Jonathan Bradlow, Fran Galloway, Gary Katz, Janet Korins, Eli Mattiolli, and Jyoti Ruta. Evelyn Stock, Scarsdale Foundation trustee, will serve on the committee as the liaison, and Robert Jeremiah is serving as secretary/treasurer. Emily Sherwood, president of the Scarsdale Foundation, is an ex-officio, non-voting member.
The Scarsdale Bowl will be awarded at a dinner on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, at The Fountainhead in New Rochelle. The ceremony will pay tribute to the 2017 honoree and to the spirit of volunteerism, central to the civic life of the Scarsdale community.
The Bowl Committee enthusiastically welcomes community input. It will hold its first meeting December 4, 2016 and requests that residents contact any member of the committee with suggestions of potential recipients. Recommendations are requested by November 18, 2016, although suggestions will be accepted at any time prior to the Committee's December meeting. Suggestions should be emailed to the Committee at: scarbowl@gmail.com. Questions may be directed to David Lee at (914) 725.3240.
Additional information about the Scarsdale Foundation and the Scarsdale Bowl can be found at www.scarsdalefoundation.org.
Scarsdale Boys Volleyball Teams Builds Skills and Confidence in their First Season
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Going into his first ever school sanctioned volleyball game, Sophomore Charlie Quill said he felt "less experienced than [he] expected to feel on the court." This feeling was mutual among all of his teammates, as the Scarsdale Boy's Volleyball season opener was the first official boy's volleyball game played in the school's history. Although practices are similar to game situations, and according to Quill the team "takes [their] time developing as players seriously", game experience in invaluable when it comes to team camaraderie and overall confidence. The team is led by Senior Captain Jeremy Wolfe, whose interest for the sport peaked while managing the Section 1 Champion Girl's Volleyball team last year.
Unlike many other Scarsdale fall sports teams with up to 8 teams in their respective leagues, Boys Varsity Volleyball has a four team league including teams from Scarsdale, Clarkstown South, Clarkstown North, and Suffern. This means that the teams get the opportunity to play one another more frequently than in a larger league. As this year is Scarsdale's inaugural season they are the least experienced in the league. Quill noted that "The more games we complete, the more confident we will become on the court". So far this season, the team is 0-9. Although the boys' record doesn't seem impressive, their improvement from the beginning of the season is noticeable. In their first game against Clarkstown South on September 9th, Scarsdale lost 3-0. On October 5th, Scarsdale lost by just one set to the same Clarkstown South team, with a final score of 3-2. As the season continues, the Raiders are building their confidence and unity as a team. With 7 more games to play this season, they have plenty of opportunity to display their hard work and progress.
With their losing record, from an improvement standpoint, there's nowhere to go but up for the Scarsdale Boy's Volleyball team. Their next game is Monday, October 17th 4:00 pm at Suffern. The team's next home game is Friday, October 21st at 4:00 pm against Clarkstown North. Come to the games to support a historical inaugural season for Scarsdale Boy's Volleyball.
