Wednesday, August 22, 2007

MEMBERSHIP

Bernie Park
341-9747
bernie_mcgovern@hotmail.com

What an exciting year ahead!! We are fortunate to be celebrating our 35th Anniversary! Our membership is truly the backbone of this organization. All our members bring such talent and commitment to all our community service and philanthropic activities and we hope you will continue to support our purpose again this year.

Our goal for the 2007-8 year is to recruit 35 new members! And to give us all a little incentive…our 35th member who recruits a new member and our 35th new member will receive a prize. Thanks to all our members who have already started to recruit friends and neighbors as we had 9 new members join over the summer.

Please remember to renew your WWL membership! To ensure that you are included in the WWL Directory, I need your renewal information today. The new directories will be available at the September Supper.

Ali Melito has graciously agreed to stay on as Friendship Chair. Ali did an amazing job assisting those WWL members who had new babies and those who experienced difficult circumstances in the family this past year. I am thrilled to have her on board again this year.

SUMMER LUNCHEON

Once again, Jackie Kupper graciously opened her home for the Annual Summer Luncheon on July 11th. It was a wonderful event and those present had the pleasure of welcoming 8 of our newest members. Thank you Jackie!!!

NEW MEMBERS

Please join me in welcoming our new members:

Teresa Augustyn Teresa moved into town in June with her husband, Eric and 2 children, Sam and Catherine from Charlotte, NC. She has a background in finance. She is very interested in doing community service.

Jen Bennhoff
Jen is originally from San Diego. She moved from Greenwich and currently lives near school with her husband and 3 children Mallory, Hadley and Delaney. She was a Freelance Writer for several magazines and films prior to motherhood. She is now one of our Brownie troop leaders!

Lisa Bigelow
Lisa moved to Weston last summer from Long Island with husband Frank and 3 children Ryan, Lauren and Matt. She was a financial analyst prior to being a full time mom.

Tiffany Davidson
Tiffany has lived in Weston since 2001 with husband, Andy and son, Jordan. She has recently launched Femme Fatale Fitness a personal training business focusing primarily on kickboxing.

Francine English
Francine is originally from Montreal, Canada. She moved from Nyack, NY with husband Andy 4 years ago. They have 3 girls Ellie, Abby and Maddie. She is currently working in Technology Sales.

Linda Gelfand
Linda is originally from California. She moved in May from Millburn, NJ with spouse Jonathan and 2 children David and Rachel. She was an environmental consultant.

Lyndsay Howard
Lyndsay is the Senior Partner in a strategic PR communications firm. She moved to Kettle Creek Road with husband, Ken and two children, Alexander and Theo from NYC in March. She is very eager to co-chair the Ragamuffin Parade!

Kristin Rudolph
Kristin and her husband, Rich have just had their 3rd child Theodore Christian in July. The 2 big sisters are Sadie and Amelia. Kristin has lived in Weston for a few years and is originally from Pittsburg. Her career background is in social work and law firm administration.

Melissa Walker
Melissa has recently moved with her newlywed husband, Doug from the Washington DC area in April. She is presently enjoying her daily commute into NYC where she is a Security Litigation lawyer.

WELCOME BACK!

Deb Prister
Deb is one of our sustaining members who has decided to become active again this year. Deb has lived in Weston with her husband Tim for over 13years. They have 3 children Maddie, Emily and Timmy. She was a NICU nurse prior to staying at home.

Lisa Luft
Lisa is also a seasoned member who has rejoined. Lisa lives with her husband, Harvey and has raised 3 children Glenda, Carly and Jordan here in Weston. Her background is in education administration.


NEW BABIES

Annika Grace Cicale-Moskal
After only one hour and a half in the hospital (Lisa was cutting it close!), Annika entered our world on Monday, July 15 @ 10:20 pm. She weighed 7 lbs 2 1/2 oz at birth and was 19" long. Congratulations, Lisa, Eric and big brother, Daniel!

Theodore Christian Rudolph
Theo decided to grace us with his arrival 12 days late on Saturday, July 28 at 4:16 PM! He is the first boy for proud parents Kristin and Rich and big sisters Sadie and Amelia. He weighed 9 lbs 4 ozs and was 21 1/4" long.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
July- September Birthdays
July
Monica Cuevas 1
Mary Louise 2
Carolyn Mariyappa 4
Sarah Margulies 4
Dena Tunney 7
Kristin Rudolph 7
Tami Campos 9
DianeSather 10
Jennifer Orr 18
Andrea Diamond 19
Lisa Luft 21
Jackie Kupper 24
Dawn Egan 27
Kristin Brooks 27
Lynn Wang 28
Lindsay Duggan 31

August
Georgia Gurren 2
Monica McCall 2
Mary Louise Santacaterina 2
Terry Cho 4
Sarah Margulies 4
Lisa Zhang 5
Lori Barshop 7
Katherine DeSousa 14
Ali Melito 18
Patricia Gosnell 23
Liz Waltzman 29

S
eptember
Caroline Schreder 1
Lisa Bigelow 14
Mary Allen 15
Deb Prister 16
Julie Baisley 18
Allison Wysota 18
Liz Menke 20
Meg Young 20
Michelle Sperry 24
Candace Halpern 25
Kathleen O’Connell 28
Pam Toft 30


BOOK-A-BABY

The Weston Women’s League honored 5 babies born to members during the 2006-7 year and one high school graduate with a donation of one book in honor of each child to the Weston Public Library.

The babies honored were:

Lilly Barshop, 10/23/06 mom Lori Barshop

Grace Lord, 1/16/07 mom Liz Menke

Lilliana Philomena Sperry, 9/1/06 mom Michelle Sperry

Sarah Zwack, 9/27/06 mom Michelle Zwack

Katherine Daisy Waltzman, 3/8/07 mom Liz Waltzman

Oliver Patrick Velasco, 1/19/07 mom Jen Velasco

Claire Frances Zhang, 9/30/2006 mom Lisa Zhang

Scarlett Elaine Cofsky, 10/15/2006 mom Bridgett Barry


High school grad:

Sean Michael Bruce, June 2007 mom Tammy Roberts


Five Year Members Honored

We had 4 members celebrate 5 years with the WWL. We honored Carolyn Holt, Pam La Fontaine, Sarah Margulies and Monica McCall at the June Installation Dinner. All were given a beautiful Cross pen with their name and WWL engraved on it. Congratulations!