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20 Historic, Beautiful New York Buildings That Were Demolished

City Hall Newspaper Row Buildings (l-r) World Building (aka Pulitzer Building), Sun Building, Tribune Building - all demolished. New York Times and Potter Buildings are still extant

City Hall Newspaper Row Buildings (l-r) World Building (aka Pulitzer Building), Sun Building, Tribune Building – all demolished. New York Times and Potter Buildings are still extant

New York City real estate developers will always knock down a building if a buck can be made. So it really should come as no surprise that these buildings were demolished because they outlived their usefulness or more often than not, the land they sat upon was deemed more valuable than the building itself.

Nathan Silver’s must-own book, Lost New York (1967) Houghton Mifflin, was the first book to explicitly point out what New York City had lost architecturally over the years. If you have never read it, you should.

For our short postcard essay, there are hundreds of examples we could have chosen from and we picked 20. We omitted places of worship, theatres and restaurants which are the most transitory of buildings.

We’ve covered hotels before, and we could do another story on all the historic hotels that have been torn down, but we’ve included a few in this retrospective.

Rather than comment extensively on the buildings, a brief summary will suffice and the images should convey what we have lost. These postcards have been scanned at 1200 dpi in high resolution, click on any postcard to enlarge.

Singer Building hresSinger Building – 149 Broadway (corner Liberty Street), A gem by architect Ernest Flagg, built 1908. Once the tallest building in the world. The Singer Building was elegant and sleek. Demolished 1967-68 and replaced by a ugly box of a building built by the Unites States Steel Corporation.

Produce Exchange hresProduce Exchange – 2 Broadway between Beaver and Stone Streets. Architect George B. Post’s splendid work of grace was constructed between 1882-84, and demolished 1957.

Gillender Building 2 hresGillender Building – northwest corner Wall Street and Nassau Street. Architects, Charles I. Berg and Edward H. Clark, built in 1897 at a cost of $500,000. The Gillender Building was the tallest office building in the world for a brief time. The 20-story tower lasted only 13 years. In 1910 it was the first modern fireproof building to be demolished and it was done at breakneck speed, in under 45 days. The Gillender Building was replaced by the Bankers Trust Tower.

St. Paul Building hresSt. Paul Building – 222 Broadway corner Ann Street at end of Park Row. Architect George B. Post, built 1895-1898. Personally one of architect’s George B. Post’s least favorite buildings. Called “ugly” by some contemporary critics, but hundreds of thousands of visitors came to marvel at it. Demolished 1958.

World Building hresNew York World Building (aka Pulitzer Building) (center with gold dome) – 63 Park Row corner Frankfort Street. Another George B. Post architectural masterpiece, built 1890. Demolished in 1955-56 along with 20 other buildings the city purchased in the immediate vicinity to widen the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge.

Tribune Building hresNew York Tribune Building – Park Row corner Nassau and Spruce Street. Architect Richard Morris Hunt, built 1875. Demolished 1966 to expand Pace University’s campus.

Herald Square Herald Building hresNew York Herald Building – Broadway and Sixth Avenue between 35th and 36th Streets. Architect, Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White architects, built 1893. While the area still carries the name Herald Square after the newspaper and its building, the ornate three story Herald Building was demolished in two stages one in 1928, the other in 1940 and replaced by two extremely mundane buildings.

Madison Sqaure Garden hresMadison Square Garden – Madison and Fourth Avenue 26th to 27th Streets McKim, Mead and White, architects, built 1890. When Madison Sqaure Garden was actually located on Madison Square. Demolished 1925. Replaced by the New York Life Insurance Company Building.

Pennsylvania Station hresPennsylvania Station – Entire block Seventh to Eighth Avenues and 31st to 33rd Streets. Architects, McKim, Mead & White, 1901 – 1910. McKim’s masterpiece and the most significant single loss of a public building. Its destruction brought about the creation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Demolished 1963-65. Replaced by the hideous mouse maze called Penn Station beneath the Penn Plaza office complex and Madison Square Garden.

Waldorf Astoria Hotel hresThe Waldorf-Astoria – Fifth Avenue 33rd to 34th Streets. Originally two separate hotels The Waldorf built 1893 and The Astoria built 1897 both by architect Henry Hardenbergh. Demolished 1929. One of the modern landmarks of New York City now stands on the old Waldorf-Astoria site, The Empire State Building.

Astor Hotel hresAstor Hotel – 1507 – 1521 Broadway west side between 44th and 45th Streets. Architects Clinton & Russell built the original portion of the hotel in 1904 and completed the second section in 1910. This beautiful landmark hotel was torn down in 1967. A boring boxy skyscraper now occupies the site.

Hotel Savoy hresHotel Savoy – 709 Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. Architect Ralph S. Townsend, built 1891-1892. Demolished 1925-1926. Replaced by The Savoy Plaza Hotel which was also torn down in 1966.

Hotel Netherland Hotel Savoy together hresHotel Netherland – Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. W.H. Hume architect, built 1890-93. Demolished 1926 replaced by the Sherry Netherland Hotel.

Hotel Majestic hresMajestic Hotel – 72nd Street & Central Park West. Architect, Alfred Zucker, built 1894. Demolished 1929. Replaced by the art deco Majestic Apartments.

Clearing House hresThe Clearing House – 77 Cedar Street north side between Broadway and Nassau Street. Architect Robert W. Gibson, built 1894-96. Demolished 1964 for a Skidmore, Owings & Merrill acclaimed nondescript glass office tower 140 Broadway (1968).

John Wanamaker hresJohn Wanamaker’s Department Store – Broadway between 9th and 10th Streets. Architect John Kellum, built 1862. Originally constructed for department store magnate A.T. Stewart, Wanamaker’s expanded to a second annex building in 1905 on Broadway between 8th and 9th Streets connected by a bridge of sighs to the original building which is shown above.

Wanamaker’s closed its doors permanently on December 18, 1954. Wanamaker’s was in the process of being demolished to be replaced by an apartment building, when on July 14, 1956, one of New York City’s most spectacular fires broke out at around 5:45 pm. Fortunately no one was killed but 187 firefighters were hurt, mostly with smoke inhalation, as they fought a blaze for 25 hours which consumed the original building. The Stewart House apartment building which replaced Wanamaker’s, was completed in 1960. The Wanamaker annex still stands.

Hippodrome hresThe Hippodrome – 756 Sixth Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets Frederick Thompson and Jay H. Morgan architects, built 1904-05. Demolished 1939.

Claremont Inn hresThe Claremont Inn – Riverside Drive and 124th Street. Originally built as a private residence sometime between 1783 and 1807, architect unknown. Wealthy navigator and owner Michael Hogan named the estate Claremont after his birthplace County Clare, Ireland. Claremont became a popular roadhouse and restaurant which was acquired by the city in 1872. As the New York Times wrote in 1949, “By the simple expedient of “doing nothing” the Board of Estimate has converted historic Claremont Inn from a picturesque addition to the Riverside Park landscape into a ‘not very attractive’ boarded-up structure.” As the building was being demolished in 1951, two separate fires a week apart destroyed it.

Vanderbilt Mansion hresVanderbilt Mansion – 1 West 57th St and 742-748 Fifth Avenue between 57th & 58th Streets. Cornelius Vanderbilt II mansion, original portion by architect George B.Post 1883, expanded in 1893 by architect Richard Morris Hunt. The largest private house ever built in New York City. Demolished 1926. Bergdorf Goodman Department Store now occupies the site.

Charles M Schwab residence hresCharles M. Schwab Mansion – Riverside Drive between 73rd and 74th Streets. Architect Maurice Hebert, built 1902-06. Demolished 1948. The apartment building Schwab House occupies the site.

https://stuffnobodycaresabout.com/2015/06/10/20-historic-buildings-that-were-demolished/

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The Charlotte M. Tytus House - 10 East 77th Street

Not only was Richard W. Buckley a partner with Robert McCafferty in the development firm of McCafferty & Buckley; he was the firm’s architect—a significant cost savings. In 1895 the partners started construction of seven high-end homes at Nos. 4 through 16 East 77th Street. Unlike the nearly identical high-stoop brownstones erected a generation earlier; McCafferty & each of Buckley’s handsome neo-Renaissance style residences, completed in 1897, was given its own personality. Perhaps to compensate for the sloop of the street, the two eastern-most houses were designed on the English basement plan, which provided them with high stone stoops.

Like its neighbors, the central house, No. 10, was 25-feet wide and rose five stories. An American basement dwelling, its entrance was just two steps above sidewalk level. The ground floor was clad in a seemingly random arrangement of small, rough-cut blocks. The understated entrance and the service doorway flanked a window. Directly above a wide, curved oriel all but engulfed the second floor where planar-faced limestone was interrupted by bands of undressed stone. The upper three floors were faced in sandy-colored Roman brick and trimmed in limestone. A pretty frieze of bows and swags ran below a band of egg-and-dart molding under the bracketed cornice.

No. 10 is the centerpiece of the odd-numbered row. Record & Guide, April 11, 1896 (copyright expired)

In 1897 McCafferty & Buckley sold the house to Charlotte Mathilda Tytus, widow of Edward Jefferson Tytus who had died in 1881 at the age of 35. Tytus had been a partner in the wholesale paper business Tytus, Van Buren & Company. Moving into the new house with Charlotte was her 20-year-old son, Robb de Peyster Tytus, who graduated from Yale that same year.

It was not long before Charlotte addressed what she apparently felt was a lack of light within the house. On November 18, 1898 architect W. H. Whittal filed plans for a "new glass and iron skylight." It was no small project, costing Charlotte the equivalent of more than $28,000 today.

An accomplished artist, Robb's sketches appeared in magazines. Many of them depicted scenes he captured while traveling abroad with his mother. He became fascinated with Egypt and, subsequently, archaeology. Before long the Tytuses visited that country annually. The Washington Times mentioned in 1903 that Robb "is not connected in business in any way in Egypt, but has a dahabieh, on which he and his mother take their winter excursion up the Nile."

The year 1903 was momentous for Robb de Peyster Titus. The New-York Tribune reported that Yale University "gave him a degree of A. M. for research work in Egypt" and on May 19 he was married to Grace Seeley Henop in Grace Church. The New Haven, Connecticut newspaper The Daily Morning Journal and Courier called it "one of the largest church weddings of the season." The New-York Tribune chimed in saying "The church was crowded with friends and acquaintances, among whom the old Knickerbocker element was largely represented." Indeed, among the families mentioned were Livingstons, Barnes, Stokes, Schieffelin, Gallatin, Duncan, and Potter.

Newspapers nationwide picked up on a detail of Grace's wardrobe. The South Carolina paper The County Record noted "The buckles on the bride's shoes were of rhine stones, the same worn by Dolly Madison at her wedding." The New-York Tribune reported "A part of the honeymoon will be spent at the bridegroom's camp in the Adirondacks, and afterward the couple will visit China and Japan, proceeding by way of India and the Red Sea to Egypt for a trip up the Nile next winter."

Robb de Peyster Tytus would go on to have a celebrated, if relatively brief career. With an English archaeologist he made several excavations in Egypt. The New York Times later recalled "he obtained from the Khedive of Egypt a concession to make explorations at Luxor, where he found, among other things, that King Amenhotep had built eight bathrooms of cement, with tubs twelve feet long, six feet wide and eighteen inches deep, for the use of the royal family." In 1907 he was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. He and Grace purchased a 1,500-acre estate in Tyringham, Massachusetts where he built a country villa costing more than $2.5 in today's dollars. He died of tuberculosis of the throat in August 1913.

In the meantime, with her son gone, Charlotte left the East 77th Street house, selling it to J. Horace Harding in March the following year. In reporting on the sale on April 2, 1904 the Real Estate Record & Guide noted "One of the fixtures of the house is a large pipe organ."

Born in Philadelphia, Harding had entered the banking profession at the age of 20. In 1898 he married Dorothea Barney, and was taken into her father's banking firm, Charles D. Barney & Co. (it would later become Smith-Barney). By the time the couple moved into the 77th Street house he was a partner with J. P. Morgan, the chairman of the board of the American Express Company, and a director in two dozen others.

He and Dorothea had four children, Charles, Catherine, Laura, and William Barclay. The couple were close friends with Henry Clay Frick and his wife and traveled with them to Europe on art-buying trips. The 77th Street house was filled with irreplaceable masterpieces and antique objets d'art.

Harding was an early automobile enthusiast. On March 24, 1905 The Sun reported on a shocking turn of events--the Morris Park raceway, long a haunt of the fashionable horse set, would be the scene of an automobile race. "In the wake of the horse comes the motor car," the article said. "The tracks of the famous ground where thousands have watched the thoroughbreds is to become a new home for automobile racing this summer."

Highly involved in the revolution was Harding, who had helped form the Morris Park Motor Club earlier that year. The Sun reported "J. Horace Harding, the Wall Street broker, and J. S. Bunting, both members of the Automobile Club of America, will be vice-president and treasurer, respectively."

His love of mechanized transportation had gotten him in trouble for speeding earlier that year. On February 20 The Sun reported "Bicycle Policeman Rensselaer saw a machine in which J. Horace Harding, the banker, and a chauffeur were riding. After a short chase they were overtaken and Mr. Harding went to the station and bailed out the driver, George Sailor."

It would appear that Harding had always intended his family's stay at No. 10 to be temporary. On November 15, 1905 The Evening Post had reported that construction had begun on a six-story mansion on Fifth Avenue designed by C. H P. Gilbert. Now, on March 7, 1908 the Record & Guide reported that Harding had sold No. 10. "He moves around the corner to 953 5th av, a beautiful modern residence." As an interesting side note, the couple escaped almost certain death by a caprice of fate four years later. Having toured Egypt with the Fricks, J. Horace and Dorothea took the parlor suite on the new R. M. S. Titanic after J. P. Morgan, who had initially booked the massive space--Suite B 52/54/56--changed his plans. But nearly at the last minute J. Horace was able to book an earlier ship. Their suite was then given to the White Star's director, J. Bruce Ismay.

In the meantime, stock broker Edmund Q. Trowbridge, senior member of Trowbridge & Co., was the buyer of the 77th Street house, title to which was put in his wife's name. He and his wife, the former Gertrude Harrison, had been married in London on July 1, 1901. Edmund had graduated from Yale University two years earlier. They had two daughters, Nancy and Barbara Harrison Trowbridge. The family maintained a summer house in Guilford, Connecticut.

The Trowbridges would remain at No. 10 for years. Barbara attended the exclusive Foxcroft School and was introduced to society in the fall of 1923 at the Colony Club. On May 15, 1925 her mother hosted a luncheon during which her engagement to Joseph Potter Murphy was announced. The wedding was held in the 77th Street house on November 4, 1925 with Nancy acting as her sister's maid of honor. The New York Times noted "Autumn foliage, palms and chrysanthemums decorated the house."

On July 8, 1927 The New York Sun reported that Gertrude had sold the house. The purchaser was John Howie Wright, president of the Dry Goods Credit Adjustment Corporation and editor of the magazine Postage. The family's summer home was Seaside Cottage at East Hampton, Long Island.

The Wright's daughter, Anne, enjoyed a privileged upbringing. On August 26, 1932 The East Hampton Star reported "Forty young summer residents were the guests of Miss Anne Wright on Saturday, at a party arranged by Mrs. John Howie Wright at the Devon Yacht Club, in celebration of her daughter's 12th birthday."

The house was the scene of a society wedding on September 4, 1937. The Mount Vernon, New York newspaper The Daily Argus reported that Betty Devine, Mrs. Wright's niece, would was married to George Byron Smith, 2nd, here. Both of their families lived in Pelham. Anne was a bridesmaid.

As Anne grew the social spotlight turned to her. Her coming out was celebrated in the fall of 1938. On November 14, 1938 The New York Sun reported, "Miss Anne Wright, debutante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wright of 10 East Seventy-seventh street...will participate in the cavalcade of dances to be staged by Ned Wayburn as the feature of the Miami-Biltmore fashion show and ball to be held on December 16 at the Waldorf-Astoria as a benefit for the Goddard Neighborhood Center."

And a month later, on December 6, the newspaper wrote, "Miss Anne Wright, member of the junior committee for the Caucasian Allaverdy Ball to be held at the Plaza on December 9, agave a tea yesterday at her home, 10 East Seventy-seventh street, for the other members of the committee."

The Wrights sold No. 10 in July 1943, and in 1950 it was purchased by Daniel Saidenberg and his wife, Eleanor Block. Although Saidenberg's career had been as a cellist and conductor, and Eleanor had been a professional dancer in Chicago, they were now focused on modern European art. Eleanor had been working as a private art dealer since soon after moving to New York in 1943. Now the ground floor of No. 10 became the Saidenberg Gallery.

Theirs was a significant venue. In December 1955 they opened a Picasso exhibition, and they showed the works of artists like Paul Klee and George Braque. On November 10, 1959 The New York Times' John Canaday wrote "Picasso is with us again, this time in an exhibition called 'Faces and Figures' at the Saidenberg Gallery, 10 East Seventy-seventh Street. For some reason the master's social aplomb is more apparent than usual. The seventeen paintigs are dominated by half a dozen of such witty elegance that the charging bull of modern art appears to have been caught in a moment of atypical amiability."

Among the Picasso paintings in the 1959 exhibition was the 1909 Portrait of Manuel Pallares (from the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts)

The Saidenbergs sold No. 10 in January 1964 to the Government of the Union of Burma for use as its Permanent Mission to the United Nations. The New York Times reported the $300,000 price was paid in cash. Now the Permanent Mission of Myanmar, it continues to own the property.

Source: http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-charlotte-m-tytus-house-10-east.html

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Top 100 Books 1850-1900

Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy

Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Les Miserables (1862) by Victor Hugo

War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll

Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde

Middlemarch (1874) by George Eliot

The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker

The War of the Worlds (1898) by H.G. Wells

Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott

Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert

Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens

Black Beauty (1877) by Anna Sewell

Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville

Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Time Machine (1895) by H.G. Wells

The Woman in White (1860) by Wilkie Collins

Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) by Jules Verne

David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain

North and South (1855) by Elizabeth Gaskell

Three Men in a Boat (1889) by Jerome K. Jerome

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne

Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling

Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy

Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche

Little Dorrit (1857) by Charles Dickens

Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) by Thomas Hardy

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) by Mark Twain

Sister Carrie (1900) by Theodore Dreiser

Lorna Doone (1869) by R.D. Blackmore

Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James

Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) by Jules Verne

Sentimental Education (1869) by Gustave Flaubert

Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum

Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Germinal (1885) by Emile Zola

Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad

Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James

The Island of Dr Moreau (1896) by H.G. Wells

Villette (1853) by Charlotte Bronte

Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot

A Study in Scarlet (1887) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) by Leo Tolstoy

Our Mutual Friend (1865) by Charles Dickens

Notes from the Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Possessed (1872) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mysterious Island (1874) by Jules Verne

Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau

Prince and the Pauper (1881) by Mark Twain

Through the Looking Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll

Hard Times (1854) by Charles Dickens

King Solomon's Mines (1885) by H. Rider Haggard

Beyond Good and Evil (1886) by Friedrich Nietzsche

Adam Bede (1859) by George Eliot

The Sign of Four (1890) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) by Charles Dickens

Invisible Man (1897) by H.G. Wells

Pinocchio (1883) by Carlo Collodi

Bel-Ami (1885) by Guy de Maupassant

She: A History of Adventure (1887) by H. Rider Haggard

Demons (1872) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ben-Hur (1880) by Lew Wallace

Barchester Towers (1857) by Anthony Trollope

Flatland (1884) by Edwin A. Abbott

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) by Mark Twain

Interpretation of Dreams (1899) by Sigmund Freud

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler

The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Way We Live Now (1875) by Anthony Trollope

Daniel Deronda (1876) by George Eliot

Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) by Thomas Hughes

Quo Vadis (1895) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) by Herman Melville

Golden Bough (1890) by Sir James George Frazer

Return of the Native (1878) by Thomas Hardy

News from Nowhere (1890) by William Morris

Gray's Anatomy (1858) by Henry Gray

Cranford (1853) by Elizabeth Gaskell

Washington Square (1880) by Henry James

El filibusterismo (1891) by Jose Rizal

Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) by Edward Bellamy

On Liberty (1859) by John Stuart Mill

Capital (1894) by Karl Marx

House of the Seven Gables (1851) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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newyorktheater · 4 years

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Below is the complete list of the 70th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Honorees. This year all the shows and artists listed in each of the 27 categories are winners. Multiple honorees include David Henry Hwang (Soft Power book and score) and Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop book and score) The titles are linked to my reviews.

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY

Grand Horizons Written by Bess Wohl Produced by Second Stage Theater Developed in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival

The Height of the Storm Written by Florian Zeller Translated by Christopher Hampton Produced by Manhattan Theatre Club, Simon Friend, Mark Goucher, Harold Panter, and Scott Landis

The Inheritance Written by Matthew Lopez Produced by Tom Kirdahy, Sonia Friedman Productions, Hunter Arnold, Elizabeth Dewberry & Ali Ahmet Kocabiyik, 1001 Nights Productions, Robert Greenblatt, Mark Lee, Peter May, Scott Rudin, Richard Winkler, Bruce Cohen, Mara Isaacs, Greg Berlanti & Robbie Rogers, Brad Blume, Burnt Umber Productions, Shane Ewen, Greenleaf Productions, Marguerite Hoffman, Oliver Roth, Joseph Baker/Drew Hodges, Stephanie P. McClelland, Broadway Strategic Return Fund, Caiola Productions, Mary J. Davis, Kayla Greenspan, Fakston Productions, FBK Productions, Sally Cade Holmes, Benjamin Lowy, MWM Live, Lee & Alec Seymour, Lorenzo Thione, Sing Out, Louise! Productions, AB Productions/Julie Boardman, Adam Zell & Co./ZKM Media, Jamie deRoy/Catherine Adler, DeSantis-Baugh Productions/Adam Hyndman, Gary DiMauro/Meredith Lynsey Schade, John Goldwyn/Silva Theatrical Group, Deborah Green/Christina Mattsson, Cliff Hopkins/George Scarles, Invisible Wall Productions/Lauren Stein, Sharon Karmazin/Broadway Factor NYC, Brian Spector/Madeleine Foster Bersin, Undivided Productions/Hysell Dohr Group, UshkowitzLatimer Productions/Tyler Mount, and The Young Vic

Linda Vista Written by Tracy Letts Produced by Second Stage Theater and Steppenwolf Theatre Company, in association with Center Theatre Group

The Sound Inside Written by Adam Rapp Produced by Jeffrey Richards, Lincoln Center Theater, Rebecca Gold, Evamere Entertainment, Eric Falkenstein, Salman Vienn Al-Rashid, Spencer Ross, Filmnation Entertainment/Faliro House, Iris Smith, Jane Bergère, Caiola Productions, Mark S. Golub and David S. Golub, Ken Greiner, Gemini Theatrical Investors, LLC, Scott H. Mauro, Jayne Baron Sherman, Czekaj Productions, Wendy Morgan-Hunter, Kristin Foster, Brian Moreland, Sonia Mudbhatkal, Jacob Soroken Porter, and Williamstown Theatre Festival); Associate Producer: Haley McIntosh

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL

Jagged Little Pill Music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard Lyrics by Alanis Morissette Book by Diablo Cody Produced by Vivek J. Tiwary, Arvind Ethan David, Eva Price, Caiola Productions, Level Forward & Abigail Disney, Geffen Playhouse-Tenenbaum-Feinberg, James L. Nederlander, Dean Borell Moravis Silver, Stephen G. Johnson, Concord Theatricals, Bard Theatricals, M. Kilburg Reedy, 42nd.club, Betsy Dollinger, Sundowners, The Araca Group, Jana Bezdek, Len Blavatnik, BSL Enterprises, LLC, Burnt Umber Productions, Darren DeVerna & Jeremiah Harris, Daryl Roth, Susan Edelstein, FG Productions, Sue Gilad & Larry Rogowsky, Harmonia, John Gore Theatrical Group, Melissa M. Jones & Barbara H. Freitag, Stephanie Kramer, Lamplighter Projects, Christina Isaly Liceaga, David Mirvish, Spencer B. Ross, Bellanca Smigel Rutter, Iris Smith, Jason Taylor & Sydney Suiter, Rachel Weinstein, W.I.T. Productions/Gabriel Creative Partners, Independent Presenters Network, Jujamcyn Theaters, and The American Repertory Theatre

Moulin Rouge! Book by John Logan Based on the 2001 Twentieth Century Fox Motion Picture written by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce Produced by Carmen Pavlovic, Gerry Ryan, Global Creatures, Bill Damaschke, Aaron Lustbader, Hunter Arnold, Darren Bagert, Erica Lynn Schwartz/Matt Picheny/Stephanie Rosenberg, Adam Blanshay Productions/Nicolas & Charles Talar, Iris Smith, Aleri Entertainment, CJ ENM, Sophie Qi/Harmonia Holdings, Baz & Co./Len Blavatnik, AF Creative Media International Theatre Fund, Endeavor Content, Tom & Pam Faludy, Gilad-Rogowsky/InStone Productions, John Gore Organization, MEHR-BB Entertainment GmbH, Spencer Ross, Nederlander Presentations/IPN, Eric Falkenstein/Suzanne Grant, Jennifer Fischer, Peter May/Sandy Robertson, Triptyk Studios, Carl Daikeler/Sandi Moran, DeSantis-Baugh Productions, Red Mountain Theatre Company/42nd.club, Candy Spelling/Tulchin Bartner, Roy Furman and Jujamcyn Theaters; By special arrangement with Buena Vista Theatrical

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical Book by Katori Hall With Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins Produced by Stage Entertainment, James L. Nederlander, Tali Pelman, Feste Investment B.V., David Mirvish, Nattering Way, TEG Dainty, Katori Hall, Mark Rubinstein LTD, Warner Chappell, Peter May, Eva Price, No Guarantees, Caiola Productions, Jamie deRoy, Wendy Federman, Roy Furman, Independent Presenters Network, John Gore Organization, Marc Levine, Carl Moellenberg, Al Nocciolino, Catherine Adler, Tom Perakos, Iris Smith, Candy Spelling, Anita Waxman, Daryl Roth, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing Group; Produced in association with Tina Turner

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY

Cambodian Rock Band Written by Lauren Yee Produced by Signature Theatre Company

Greater Clements Written by Samuel D. Hunter Produced by Lincoln Center Theatre

Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven+ Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis Produced by Atlantic Theater Company and LAByrinth Theater Company

Make Believe Written by Bess Wohl Produced by Second Stage Theatre

Seared Written by Theresa Rebeck Produced by MCC Theater

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL

Darling Grenadine Book, Music, and Lyrics by Daniel Zaitchik Produced by Roundabout Theatre Company

Octet Book, Music, and Lyrics by Dave Malloy Produced by Signature Theatre Company

The Secret Life of Bees Book by Lynn Nottage Music by Duncan Sheik Lyrics by Susan Birkenhead Based on the novel by Sue Monk Kidd Produced by Atlantic Theater Company

Soft Power Book and Lyrics by David Henry Hwang Music and Additional Lyrics by Jeanine Tesori Produced by the Public Theater and Center Theatre Group

A Strange Loop Book, Music, and Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson Produced by Playwrights Horizons in association with Page 73 Productions

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Betrayal Written by Harold Pinter Produced by Ambassador Theatre Group, Benjamin Lowy Productions, Gavin Kalin Productions, Glass Half Full Productions, Annapurna Theatre, Hunter Arnold, Burnt Umber Productions, Rashad V. Chambers, Eilene Davidson Productions, KFF Productions, Dominick LaRuffa Jr., Antonio Marion, Stephanie P. McClelland, Richard Winkler/Alan Shorr, and The Jamie Lloyd Company

Fires in the Mirror Written by Anna Deavere Smith Produced by Signature Theatre

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf Written by Ntozake Shange Produced by the Public Theater

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune Written by Terrence McNally Produced by Hunter Arnold, Debbie Bisno, Tom Kirdahy, Elizabeth Dewberry & Ali Ahmet Kocabiyik, Broadway Strategic Return Fund, Caiola Productions, FedermanGold Productions, Invisible Wall Productions, John Gore Organization, Mike Karns, Kilimanjaro Theatricals, Peter May, Tyler Mount, Seriff Productions, Silva Theatrical Group, Cliff Bleszinski/GetterLazarDaly, Jamie deRoy/Gary DiMauro, Suzi Dietz & Lenny Beer/Sally Cade Holmes, Barbara H. Freitag/Ken Davenport, Barry & Kimberly Gowdy/Mabee Family Office, Kayla Greenspan/Jamie Joeyen-Waldorf, John Joseph/Broadway Factor, Tilted Windmills/John Paterakis, and The Shubert Organization

A Soldier’s Play Written by Charles Fuller Produced by Roundabout Theatre Company

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Little Shop of Horrors Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman Music by Alan Menken Produced by Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens, Hunter Arnold, Mickey Liddell, Caiola Productions, Curt Cronin, John Joseph, DDM Productions, DeSantis-Baugh Productions, Elizabeth Dewberry & Ali Ahmet Kocabiyik, Wendy Federman, Roy Furman, Deborah Green, Kayla Greenspan, Marguerite Hoffman, Sally Cade Holmes, Latitude Link, Seriff Productions, Silva Theatrical Group, Eric Gelb/Oliver Roth

The Unsinkable Molly Brown Music and Lyrics by Meredith Willson Book and New Lyrics by Dick Scanlan Based on the Original Book by Richard Morris Music Adapted by Michael Rafter Produced by Transport Group

West Side Story Music by Leonard Bernstein Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Arthur Laurents Based on a Conception by Jerome Robbins Produced by Scott Rudin, Barry Diller, David Geffen, Eli Bush, Adam Rodner, and James L. Nederlander

JOHN GASSNER AWARD

(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)

Georgia Mertching Is Dead by Catya McMullen

Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery

Our Dear Dead Drug Lord by Alexis Scheer

Paris by Eboni Booth

OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL (Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Diablo Cody, Jagged Little Pill

David Henry Hwang, Soft Power

Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop

Lynn Nottage, The Secret Life of Bees

Mark Saltzman, Romeo and Bernadette

OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Susan Birkenhead and Duncan Sheik, The Secret Life of Bees

Ross Golan, The Wrong Man

Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop

Dave Malloy, Octet

Jeanine Tesori and David Henry Hwang, Soft Power

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY

David Cromer, The Sound Inside

Stephen Daldry, The Inheritance

Kenny Leon, A Soldier’s Play

Jamie Lloyd, Betrayal

John Ortiz, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL

Stephen Brackett, A Strange Loop

Michael Mayer, Little Shop of Horrors

Diane Paulus, Jagged Little Pill

Alex Timbers, Moulin Rouge!

Ivo van Hove, West Side Story

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER

Sidi Larbi Cherakoui, Jagged Little Pill

Raja Feather Kelly, A Strange Loop

Sonya Tayeh, Moulin Rouge!

Anthony Van Laast, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical

Travis Wall, The Wrong Man

OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS

Tom Kitt, Jagged Little Pill

Alex Lacamoire, The Wrong Man

Justin Levine, with Matt Stine, Katie Kresek, and Charlie Rosen, Moulin Rouge!

Christopher Nightingale, A Christmas Carol

Duncan Sheik and John Clancy, The Secret Life of Bees

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY

Ian Barford, Linda Vista

Edmund Donovan, Greater Clements

Raúl Esparza, Seared

Tom Hiddleston, Betrayal

Will Hochman, The Sound Inside

Jonathan Pryce, The Height of the Storm

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Eileen Atkins, The Height of the Storm

Judith Ivey, Greater Clements

Joaquina Kalukango, Slave Play

April Matthis, Toni Stone

Mary-Louise Parker, The Sound Inside

Portia, Stew

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY

David Alan Grier, A Soldier’s Play

John Benjamin Hickey, The Inheritance

Paul Hilton, The Inheritance

Samuel H. Levine, The Inheritance

John-Andrew Morrison, Blues for an Alabama Sky

Chris Perfetti, Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Liza Colón-Zayas, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven

Montego Glover, All the Natalie Portmans

Marsha Mason, Little Gem

Krysta Rodriguez, Seared

Lois Smith, The Inheritance

Jennifer Van Dyck, The Confession of Lily Dare

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE

David Cale, We’re Only Alive For a Short Amount of Time

Laura Linney, My Name Is Lucy Barton

Aedin Moloney, Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom

Deirdre O’Connell, Dana H.

Michael Benjamin Washington, Fires in the Mirror

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Jonathan Groff, Little Shop of Horrors

Joshua Henry, The Wrong Man

Adam Kantor, Darling Grenadine

Larry Owens, A Strange Loop

Isaac Powell, West Side Story

Aaron Tveit, Moulin Rouge!

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Beth Malone, The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Janelle McDermoth, We’re Gonna Die

Karen Olivo, Moulin Rouge!

Shereen Pimentel, West Side Story

Elizabeth Stanley, Jagged Little Pill

Adrienne Warren, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Christian Borle, Little Shop of Horrors

Danny Burstein, Moulin Rouge!

Gus Halper, Sing Street

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Liza Colón-Zayas, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven

Montego Glover, All the Natalie Portmans

Marsha Mason, Little Gem

Krysta Rodriguez, Seared

Lois Smith, The Inheritance

Jennifer Van Dyck, The Confession of Lily Dare

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE

David Cale, We’re Only Alive For a Short Amount of Time

Laura Linney, My Name Is Lucy Barton

Aedin Moloney, Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom

Deirdre O’Connell, Dana H.

Michael Benjamin Washington, Fires in the Mirror

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Jonathan Groff, Little Shop of Horrors

Joshua Henry, The Wrong Man

Adam Kantor, Darling Grenadine

Larry Owens, A Strange Loop

Isaac Powell, West Side Story

Aaron Tveit, Moulin Rouge!

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Beth Malone, The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Janelle McDermoth, We’re Gonna Die

Karen Olivo, Moulin Rouge!

Shereen Pimentel, West Side Story

Elizabeth Stanley, Jagged Little Pill

Adrienne Warren, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Christian Borle, Little Shop of Horrors

Danny Burstein, Moulin Rouge!

Gus Halper, Sing Street

Jay Armstrong Johnson, Scotland, PA

Francis Jue, Soft Power

Daniel J. Watts, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Eisa Davis, The Secret Life of Bees

Kathryn Gallagher, Jagged Little Pill

LaChanze, The Secret Life of Bees

Judy McLane, Romeo & Bernadette

Lauren Patten, Jagged Little Pill

Saycon Sengbloh, The Secret Life of Bees

OUTSTANDING SCENIC DESIGN

(Play or Musical)

Rob Howell, A Christmas Carol

Tim Mackabee, Seared

Derek McLane, Moulin Rouge!

Clint Ramos, Grand Horizons

Anthony Ward, The Height of the Storm

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN

(Play or Musical)

Vanessa Leuck, Emojiland

Jeff Mahshie, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Mark Thompson, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical

Rachel Townsend & Jessica Jahn, The Confession of Lily Dare

Catherine Zuber, Moulin Rouge!

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN

(Play or Musical)

Isabella Byrd, Heroes of the Fourth Turning

Heather Gilbert, The Sound Inside

Justin Townsend, Moulin Rouge!

Hugh Vanstone, A Christmas Carol

Hugh Vanstone, The Height of the Storm

OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN

(Play or Musical)

Luke Halls, West Side Story

Brad Peterson, Broadway Bounty Hunter

Lisa Renkel and Possible Productions, Emojiland

Aaron Rhyne, The Sound Inside

Hannah Wasileski, Fires in the Mirror

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN

(Play or Musical)

Simon Baker, A Christmas Carol

Mikhail Fiksel, Dana H.

Peter Hylenski, Moulin Rouge!

Lee Kinney and Sanae Yamada, Is This A Room

Daniel Kluger, The Sound Inside

Productions with Multiple Honors

11: Moulin Rouge!

8: Jagged Little Pill

7: The Secret Life of Bees, The Sound Inside

5: The Inheritance, The Height of the Storm, A Strange Loop, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, West Side Story

4: A Christmas Carol, Little Shop of Horrors, Seared, Soft Power, The Wrong Man

3: Greater Clements, Fires in the Mirror

2: Betrayal, The Confession of Lily Dare, Dana H., Darling Grenadine, Grand Horizons, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Linda Vista, Octet, Romeo and Bernadette, The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Artists with Multiple Honors:

David Henry Hwang (Soft Power book and score)

Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop book and score)

Hugh Vanstone (lighting for A Christmas Carol and The Height of the Storm)

Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons, Make Believe)

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Outer Critics Circle 2020 Honorees (not nominees) Below is the complete list of the 70th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Honorees. This year all the shows and artists listed in each of the 27 categories are winners.

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The Committee of 100, Premier U.S. Organization of Chinese-American Leaders, Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Top Influencers in Business, Government, Academia and the Arts at 2019 Annual Conference

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NEW YORK, April 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The Committee of 100 (“C100”), a non-partisan, premier U.S. organization of Chinese-American leaders in business, government, academia and the arts, today announced its 30th-anniversary Annual Conference will be held on April 5-7, 2019, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. This year also marks the 40th anniversary of normalized relations between the United States and China. Founded by I.M. Pei, the renowned architect, and Yo-Yo Ma, master cellist, among others, C100 began under the encouragement of Dr. Henry Kissinger, the 56th U.S. Secretary of State, to address issues of international concern between the U.S. and China, and promote the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society.

This year’s conference theme, “The U.S. and China: New Visions,” will focus on the current geostrategic dynamics, how to bridge the strengths of both China and America, the economic importance of collaboration, and the positive future that cooperation can bring to both countries.

“C100 is in a unique and even ideal position to enhance the relationship between the United States and China,” says H. Roger Wang, Chairman of C100. “We have long focused on the many connections between the two countries, whether in business, education or culture. Instead of regarding each other with mistrust, we take the best of each other in order to grow a shared community. Through constructive dialogues, exchanges and initiatives, C100 has become an influential bridge-builder between the world’s two largest economies, and is helping to cultivate the next generation of leaders committed to continuing positive U.S.-China relations.”

At this year’s conference, C100 will recognize four honorees who embody the organization’s values and who have contributed to the legacy of strengthening U.S.-China relations and friendship, as well as Chinese-American inclusion and patriotism:

I.M. Pei, globally renowned Chinese-American architect and C100 co-founder, will be awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award for Global Architectural Design”

Morris Chang, founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and known as the father of the semiconductor industry, will be awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award for Global Technology Innovation”

Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr, a global insurance industry icon, top adviser to important American and Chinese leaders, and a noted philanthropist, will be awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award for Advancing U.S.-China Relations”

Peter Wang will receive a posthumous award for embodying the best of American ideals and heroism, as a 15-year-old Chinese-American freshman who gave his life while saving his classmates in the Parkland shooting last year. Wang was a member of the U.S. Army Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and aspired to attend West Point.

Various activities open to the press will be held on April 5, including a press conference with C100 Chairman H. Roger Wang; a press conference with C100 honoree Maurice R. Greenberg; an exclusive C100 CEO & Leaders Forum debate on China’s role as a leading global economy, with participation from SupChina, the Rhodium Group, Albright Stonebridge Group, and the University of Chicago; and C100’s signature Awards Gala Dinner for the evening at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. A full-day conference will take place on Saturday, April 6. The weekend will conclude with a C100 Town Hall on Sunday, April 7.

The full-day conference panel discussions on “The U.S. and China: New Visions” include:

Reflections and Outlook from Former U.S. Ambassadors

The Rise of China BioPharma: Opportunity, Threat or Both?

Fintech or Techfin? What’s Next for Global Financial Services

The Human Connection: China and America in Culture and Entertainment

New Engines for U.S.-China Economic Prosperity

Global leaders across business, government, academia and the arts providing new visions at the Conference include:

Ambassador Craig Allen, President, U.S.-China Business Council

Chong-En Bai, Dean, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

Former U.S. Ambassador to China Max S. Baucus, Co-Founder, Baucus Group LLC

Yu Gong, CEO, iQIYI

Fei-Fei Li, Co-Director, Human-Centered AI Institute, Stanford University; Former Chief Scientist of AI/ML, Google Cloud

Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist

William McDermott, CEO, SAP

Tom McInerney, President & CEO, Genworth Financial

Former U.S. Ambassador to China Stapleton Roy, Founding Director Emeritus, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States

David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group

The Honorable Kevin Rudd, President, Asia Society Policy Institute; 26th Prime Minister of Australia

Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus of Harvard University; Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

C100 builds understanding around shared interests between American and Chinese peoples, develops economic, educational and cultural platforms for collaboration, and leads on issues of critical importance to Chinese Americans while providing a global, nuanced point of view on U.S.-China relations. C100 is the only U.S. leadership organization focused on the U.S. and Greater China business connectivity as well as Chinese-American civic engagement.

For the latest program details and confirmed speakers, please visit: https://www.committee100.org/2019acny/. Follow C100 on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn for C100 news and highlights, and use the official conference hashtag #C100NewVisions to join the conversation.

ABOUT C100

C100 is a non-profit U.S. leadership organization of prominent and extraordinary Chinese Americans in business, government, academia, and the arts. Founded by world-renowned architect I.M. Pei and internationally acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, among others, it is an institution of U.S. citizens of Chinese heritage. For 30 years, C100 has served as a preeminent organization committed to the dual missions of promoting the full participation of Chinese Americans in all aspects of American life and constructive relations between the United States and Greater China.

CONFERENCE AGENDA INFORMATION

For the full program or for more information about C100’s 2019 Annual Conference, please visit: https://www.committee100.org/2019acny.

MEDIA REGISTRATION

The Committee of 100 welcomes media who are employed by accredited news organizations to apply for complimentary media credentials to cover the three-day events. Media registration requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. To register, media must submit requests to attend the press conferences, CEO & Leaders Forum Debate, and/or the Annual Conference via the media registration form here. On-site media registration will not be available.

MEDIA CONTACT

Christina Lu, National Program [email protected], 212-371-6565

SOURCE Committee of 100

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Amazing Moments in Super Bowl History

Follow the history of the Super Bowl’s most exciting moments with these captivating images, and explore this all-American event’s place in the larger scope of U.S. history.

Since the first game on January 15th, 1967, the Super Bowl has become more than just a sporting event. In recent years, more than 100 million people have tuned in to watch on television. They rooted for their favorite teams, waited for half-time shows, and laughed along with much-anticipated commercials. In some of our most trying times, the country has turned to the Super Bowl for comfort, motivation, and strength.

Every decade, the game comes to mean something new to the American public. But, one thing remains the same: Super Bowl Sunday is a time for families to come together and celebrate. As one excited fan told once told BBC reporters, “There’s Christmas, there’s the birth of my first born child and then there’s the Super Bowl.” Let’s take a look at just a few of the games that helped shape the last half-century, as well as some of the news stories that dominated the headlines right before they aired.

Super Bowl III

On January 12th, 1969, the New York Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts 16-7 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.

New York Jets Joe Namath (12) hands off to teammate Matt Snell (41) during Super Bowl action against the Baltimore Colts, at the Miami Orange Bowl, Florida – 1969. Photo by Anonymous/AP/Shutterstock

Prior to this historic game, Joe Namath of the New York Jets made a bold claim by stating, “We’re gonna win the game. I guarantee it.” The Jets were major underdogs at the time, but the team proved their quarterback correct; for that reason, this Super Bowl is widely considered to be “pro football’s greatest upset.” In this photo, Namath passes off to Matt Snell.

Meanwhile…

President Lyndon Johnson, right, confers with President-elect Richard Nixon in the White House – 1968. Photo by Charles Tasnadi/AP/Shutterstock

On November 5th, 1968, Richard Nixon was elected President of the United States, securing a victory over Hubert H. Humphrey. He spoke about reuniting a nation during times of upheaval, as the country struggled with tensions both in Vietnam and at home, where the battle over civil rights had reached a fever pitch.

Charles Tasnadi began his career at the Associated Press Washington bureau back in 1964. He captured this photo of Nixon with then-President Lyndon Johnson on December 12th. The inauguration took place just over a week after the Super Bowl on January 20th.

Apollo 8 Astronauts, left-to-right, James Lovell, command module pilot; William Anders, lunar module pilot; and Frank Borman, commander, pause in front of mission simulator prior to training in exercise for their scheduled six-day lunar orbital mission in Kennedy Space Center, Florida – 1968. Photo by AP/Shutterstock

This photo of Jim Lovell, Frank Borman, and Bill Anders dates to December 18th, 1968, just three days before the astronauts would launch into space as part of the Apollo 8 mission. On the 24th, they orbited the moon, marking a turning point for all of mankind.

Super Bowl XIII

On January 21st, 1979, the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw goes up in the air to watch his pass during the XIII Super Bowl against the Dallas Cowboys, in Miami, Fla. Looking on are his teammates Ray Pinney (74) and Sam Davis (57). The Steelers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 to win the title – 1979. Photo by Kathy Willens/AP/Shutterstock

In what NFL Media analyst Elliot Harrison dubbed “the greatest Super Bowl of all time,” a few unforgettable things happened, including a dropped pass from Jackie Smith, a controversial tripping call, and an MVP performance from Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw. In fact, upon seeing his statistic sheet, Bradshaw himself asked, “Did I do all that?”

Meanwhile…

Superman, Christopher Reeve. Photo by Moviestore/Shutterstock

On December 10th, 1978, Superman: The Movie premiered, setting the stage for generations of superhero productions. As Kathleen Carroll wrote for the Daily News at the time, the film provided audiences with a healthy dose of both “pure escape” and “good, clean, unadulterated fun.” With the iconic Christopher Reeve in the title role, this film sparked the imagination and the hopes of a nation emerging from transformative events like the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.

MILK San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk in San Francisco’s seventh annual gay freedom parade – 1978. Photo by AP/Shutterstock

On November 27th, California’s first openly gay elected official, Supervisor Harvey Milk, was assassinated, along with George Moscone, the Mayor of San Francisco. In addition to advocating for LGBTQ rights, Milk had addressed everything from gentrification to income inequality during his brief time in office. His life was cut short when Supervisor Dan White fatally shot him and Moscone.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, then President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, found Milk in his office. “It was clear he was dead,” she told NPR decades later. “And that changed the world.” Milk himself had considered the possibility that he might be killed and had made a recording in case of such an event. “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country,” he proclaimed. Decades later, his legacy continues to inspire Americans to join the political sphere and affect positive change.

Super Bowl XXIII

On January 22, 1989, the San Francisco 49ers defeated the Cincinnati Bengals 10-16 at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida.

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana (16) and wide receiver John Taylor (82) clasp hands after Montana’s pass to Taylor at the end of the fourth quarter resulted in a 20-16 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals at Super Bowl XXIII Jan.22, 1989 in Miami. Photo by Rusty Kennedy/AP/Shutterstock

By the fourth quarter of this tight game, fans were on the edge of their seats. With three minutes left, Cincinnati was in the lead, but everything changed when San Francisco scored their winning touchdown. The next day, The Washington Post described the game as “the most dramatic Super Bowl since 1971.” In this photo, we can see quarterback Joe Montana and wide receiver John Taylor, who completed that final pass with just 34 seconds remaining on the clock.

Meanwhile…

A Miami policeman squats behind a police car holding a rifle, as a vehicle burns in the background in the Overtown section of Miami, Florida. Disturbances broke out after the death of a young motorcyclist who was being chased and fired on by police – 1989. Photo by AP/Shutterstock

Rioting broke out in Miami the week of the Super Bowl after a police officer named William Lozano shot 23-year-old motorcyclist Clement Lloyd, leading to the deaths of both Lloyd and Allan Blanchard, a passenger on his bike. It was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and the killing of two black men reignited long-standing fears over the treatment of African Americans by police. The aftermath of that event, and the legal proceedings that followed, continue to reverberate throughout the city and the country in general.

President George Bush raises his hand Jan.20,1989 as he takes the oath of office as president of the United States outside the Capitol. Vice President Dan Quayle watches from behind. Photo by Ron Edmonds/AP/Shutterstock

Two days before the Super Bowl, George H. W. Bush took the oath of office, stepping in as the 41st President of the United States. At the time, the nation was contending with a federal budget deficit. During his inauguration, Bush spoke about bridging the gap between the country’s political parties, easing tensions that lingered still from the days of the Vietnam War, and tackling issues like poverty and homelessness.

Super Bowl XXXIII

On January 31, 1999, the Denver Broncos defeated the Atlanta Falcons 34-19 at Pro Player Stadium in Miami, Florida.

In the final game of his career, Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway (7) stiff-arms Atlanta Falcons linebacker Cornelius Bennett in the third quarter of Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami. Elway earned MVP as he led the Broncos to a 34-19 win for their second consecutive Super Bowl championship. He passed for 336 yards with one touchdown and carried the ball himself for another score – 1999. Photo by Doug Mills/AP/Shutterstock

This second consecutive Super Bowl win for Denver was also the last game for quarterback John Elway, who is now the team’s general manager. As Thomas George of The New York Times put it at the time, the MVP had “saved his best for last.” Mark Kiszla of The Denver Post chimed in too, writing, “Elway was the oldest quarterback to start a Super Bowl. And he made winning look easy.”

Meanwhile…

Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan laughs as his wife Juanita answers a question during the announcement of his retirement – 1999. Photo by Morry Gash/AP/Shutterstock

Michael Jordan announced his second retirement from the NBA on January 13th. Though he would later return to basketball, the retirement of one of the greatest athletes of all time rocked the sports industry and the world beyond, with President Bill Clinton making a statement in his honor. In this photo from that day, he laughs with his wife Juanita as reporters ask questions. Tellingly, the basketball star would not commit definitively to leaving the game behind. He explained that he was 99.9% sure he wouldn’t come back. As he put it, “I never say never.”

Robert Iler, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Edie Falco, James Gandolfini. The Sopranos – 1999. Photo by Hbo/Kobal/Shutterstock

On January 10th, a new TV show premiered on HBO: The Sopranos. The series told the story of the New Jersey mobster Tony Soprano and his family. While the producer David Chase initially had trouble landing a network, it was nothing short of a sensation. In 2007, as the show was in its final season, the cultural critic Peter Biskind described it as “perhaps the greatest pop-culture masterpiece of its day,” and later, Rolling Stone named it as the number one greatest television show of all time, with the journalist Rob Sheffield claiming that the series “changed the world.”

Super Bowl XLIII

On February 1st, 2009, the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Arizona Cardinals 27–23 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.

Pittsburgh Steelers Wide Receiver Santonio Holmes (l) and Arizona Cardinals Cornerback D Rodgers-cromartie (r) grab each other’s facemasks in the third quarter of Super Bowl XLIII at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, USA. 01 February 2009. Photo by Justin Lane/EPA/Shutterstock

With this game, the Steelers became the first team in history to win six Super Bowls. Wide-receiver Santonio Holmes, pictured here, was named MVP after a game-winning touchdown catch in the nail-biting final minute. In fact, Pittsburgh had tried the very same play earlier in the game but hadn’t made the touchtown, making that last moment all the more dramatic.

Meanwhile…

Airline passengers wait on the wings of a US Airways Airbus 320 to board a ferry to be rescued. The jetliner safely ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River in New York, after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines. All 155 people on board survived. Plane in River, New York, USA – 15 Jan 2009. Photo by Steven Day/AP/Shutterstock

On January 15th, US Airways Flight 1549 left LaGuardia airport in New York en route to Charlotte, North Carolina. The plane lost its engines when it hit a flock of birds. In order to save the 155 passengers, the pilots Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles made the choice to land on the Hudson River.

The incident could have echoed the traumatic events of September 11th, 2001, still fresh on the minds of American citizens. But, all aboard Airbus A320 pulled together to achieve what would later be termed the “Miracle on the Hudson.”

Everyone, passengers and crew included, survived. “This is a potential tragedy that may have become one of the most magnificent days in the history of New York City agencies,” Governor David A. Paterson told the media at a news conference.

Inauguration Ceremony of United States President, Barack Obama. Barack Obama takes the oath as the 44th US President. His wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha accompany him. – 20 Jan 2009. Photo by Shutterstock Large crowds gather along the National Mall for the inauguration of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States. – 20 Jan 2009. Photo by Shutterstock

On January 20th, Barack Obama made history when he was sworn in as 44th President of the United States. The country grappled with an uncertain future, plagued by the Great Recession and by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But as an estimated 1.8 million people flooded into the National Mall for the inauguration of our nation’s first African American President, there was cause for hope. “Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America,” Obama urged in his inaugural address.

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A memorial service was held at First Methodist Church of McAllen, Friday, November 16.

As originally published in Texas Border Business newsprint edition December 2018

Special to Texas Border Business

Glendon (Glen) Edward Roney was born October 29, 1930, in St. Elmo, Freestone County, Texas. His childhood job as a paperboy in Corsicana, Texas delivering the paper to Texas Governor, Beauford H. Jester, was his first experience with a Texas Governor, but it would not be his last.

While he devoted his life to banking, he would go on to serve other Texas governors, both Democrat and Republican – Governors John Connally, Dolph Briscoe, Bill Clements, Mark White, Ann Richards, George W. Bush, Rick Perry, along with Lieutenant Governors Ben Barnes and Bill Hobby. His service to both Texas and the Rio Grande Valley was a key aspect of his life’s work.

Glen attended school through sixth grade in St. Elmo in a wood frame schoolhouse; however, his first day of first grade was brief as he ran away from school to his uncle’s candy store.

Glen went on to junior high and high school in Corsicana, Texas. In 1946 his family moved to San Benito, Texas. Glen started his banking career in 1947 at the San Benito Bank and Trust Company. He began as a file clerk and often said that if the janitor’s position had been open, he would have started there.

Taking a leave of absence in 1951, Glen enlisted in the United States Air Force to serve in the Korean War. His service career from 1951 to 1954, included 18 months in the Far East Command (Japan) – as a Sergeant in the Air Weather Service. Glen attended Chillicothe Business College in Chillicothe, Missouri, along with various banking schools over the years. Upon discharge, Glen returned to San Benito, continuing a banking career that would span over 60 years. He worked in all areas of operations and lending and was promoted to Vice-President and was a member of the Board of Directors.

In 1961 Glen accepted a position with McAllen State Bank as Chief Operations and Lending Officer and was elected to the Board of Directors. Later he was elected Executive Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer, then promoted to President. During the 1970s, he also served as a director on several bank boards, First State Bank and Trust Company in Edinburg; University State Bank in Austin, and First National Bank in Harlingen. At the same time, he worked closely with Harlingen business leaders to open a new bank in 1974 – Harlingen State Bank.

In 1979 McAllen’s skyline changed when Glen moved McAllen State Bank into its new 17-story building. Today it is still a Valley landmark and the centerpiece of McAllen’s downtown business district.

In 1981 Glen and a group of McAllen business leaders opened Texas State Bank in McAllen. Soon Harlingen State Bank and Texas State Bank grew into a state-wide banking organization led by Glen, with his wife Rita K. by his side. He was a member of the Board of Directors of both banks at that time. These banks merged in 1983 under a holding company – Texas Regional Bancshares, Inc. (TRBS). In the meantime, First City Bancorporation of Texas acquired McAllen State Bank in 1982, electing Glen as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer in 1983. He was also elected to the Board of Directors of First City Bancorporation, Inc., in Houston. In 1985 he resigned from his positions with First City and McAllen State Bank and moved to lead TRBS.

Glen Roney with Jesse Trevino, and Marie Lou Trevino

Mr. Roney and McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez

Glen Roney with Michael A. Fallek

Glen Roney, Rita K and Tony Garza, former U.S. Ambassador in Mexico

Hollis Rankin, Glen Roney, and Julie Rankin

Glen Roney, Kay Linn and Robert Norman, RGV Region Chairman of Plains Capital

Mid-Valley Bank in Weslaco was acquired in 1991 by TRBS, and a 13-lane motor bank at Texas State Bank in McAllen opened, along with the bank’s own computer center. In 1992 the banks in McAllen, Harlingen, and Weslaco merged and consolidated into Texas State Bank. In McAllen, TRBS purchased Kerria Plaza in 1993 to house the headquarters of the holding company. Two more branches opened: at Twenty-third Street and Nolana Avenue and at South Jackson Avenue and Expressway 83.

One of the high points of Glen’s banking career took place on March 15, 1994. He took TRBS public, selling its stock in the financial center of the country – the NASDAQ stock exchange. He and Rita K. rang the bell that opened the stock exchange that day at NASDAQ’s location in Times Square, New York City. TRBS, the holding company’s stock symbol rolled across the NASDAQ marquee for the first time, and in one day the entire issue sold out.

Glen and Rita K. traveled around the country, telling major stock brokerage firms about Texas State Bank, the Rio Grande Valley, and Texas. Glen often talked about the investment bankers who helped take TRBS public and continued to help him promote Texas State Bank and the Rio Grande Valley to investment firms nationwide, including Hill Feinberg, then Chairman and CEO of FirstSouthwest Securities, now Hilltop Securities, Inc., in Dallas,and Roger Powell of Alex Brown and Sons in Baltimore.

One of their friends, Charles V. “Chick” Lord,also with Alex Brown and Sons was a frequent visitor to the Valley. Glen and Rita K. remembered that he always stopped by and visited with Dolia Gonzalez, mother of the Valley’s Vietnam war hero and U.S. and Texas Medal of Honor recipient – Marine Sergeant Alfredo “Freddy”Gonzalez. Chick credited Sergeant Gonzalez for saving his life in Vietnam.

From 1995 to 1998 other banks were acquired with more locations in Rio Grande City, Roma, Mission, Hidalgo, Brownsville, Raymondville, and Harlingen. Another highlight of the 1990s was the opening of the 11-story Texas State Bank tower in 1998, Glen’s second bank tower project impacting McAllen’s skyline.

Glen and Rita K holding hands as they tour an industrial warehouse. With them, extreme right former and legendary McAllen Mayor Othal Brand Sr.

Dan Patrick, Lieutenant Governor of Texas, and his wife Jan Patrick, with Glen Roney.

Douglas Bready, Rita K, Glen Roney, and Elaine Bready

Guy Bailey, UTRGV President, Glen Roney, and Val LaMantia Peisen

John Gillespie, Glen Roney, and Jeanine Gillespie

Glen Roney, Paul Moxley and Rita K

Into the year 2000 Glen and Rita K. crisscrossed the country educating investors about the growth that the region was experiencing. However, on September 11, 2001, like New York City and the entire country, they were devastated by the terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Glen and Rita K. lost many friends in the disaster – investment bankers, brokers, and investors that had become close.

Many New York and East Coast colleagues visited them in the Valley to see something positive – the upward economic growth in the Rio Grande Valley.

From 2002 into 2006, Glen led the TRBS expansion throughout the state of Texas with new locations in Houston (Riverway and Main-Downtown), Eagle Pass, Sugar Land, and expansion of the data center to Grapevine. The holding company also acquired Corpus Christi Bancshares, Southeast Texas Bancshares, Port Arthur Abstract and Title, Valley Mortgage Company in McAllen, and Mercantile Bank & Trust in Dallas. New branches opened in Edinburg, San Juan, Silsbee, Lumberton, Weslaco, The Woodlands, and Houston-Montrose. By 2006 there were five locations in Dallas and five locations in Houston. Texas Regional Bancshares, Inc. had grown from its humble beginnings of a few assets to a $7 billion banking organization with 73 locations throughout Texas, and the common stock on NASDAQ enjoyed success.

Glen was contacted by a representative of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (BBVA), a multinational banking group based in Spain. He had visited with them on previous occasions where they expressed an interest in purchasing the bank, but this time they proposed buying TRBS, Inc. and its subsidiary Texas State Bank for cash.

The organization was sold to BBVA on November 6, 2006, for $2,165,000,000 cash. This was reported to be the largest cash transaction ever made for a bank in Texas. Morris Atlas, long-time friend of Glen and director of TRBS, Inc., and Texas State Bank, said that Glen Roney’s bank sale made more millionaires in the Valley than any other investment in history. Stockholders from around the nation, as well as bank employees, officers, and directors who were also stockholders, benefited from the bank sale.

BBVA went on to buy Compass Bancshares, Inc., and all of the Texas State Bank branches merged into BBVA Compass Bancshares, Inc. Glen served as a director for BBVA Compass for 10 years. Upon resigning he was offered an office suite with Plains Capital Bank in north McAllen.

Many former customers still credit Glen for believing in them and making the loans that first kicked off their businesses. Glen was known for finding ways to make things work, searching for solutions to problems, and helping customers succeed in their businesses.

While Glen worked tirelessly to build Texas State Bank and TRBS, at the same time he was a strong supporter of public, charitable, and political organizations. Besides being a paper delivery boy to Governor Jester, his work with the State of Texas and its governors started again through a close business relationship with Governor John Connally.

He was appointed by Governor Dolph Briscoe and re-appointed by Governors Bill Clements and Mark White to the Texas Water Development Board. He served on the water board for 14 years and was Chairman of the Texas Water Resources Finance Authority for 3 years.

Glen was a member of the Texas Research League, the Texas Political Action Committee, and director of the Texas Bankers Association. He also served as co-chairman of the Governor’s Task Force Committee on Border Economic Development in 1986 under Governor Mark White.

Governor Ann Richards appointed Glen as a founding member of South Texas College Board of Trustees in 1993. It opened with 1,000 students, and today it enrolls over 34,000. For 12 years he served in such positions as Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, Chairman of the Finance, Resource and Facility Committees.

Under Governors George W. Bush and Rick Perry, he served on the Governor’s Business Council.

Glen E. Roney during his regular corporate meetings. This was his field of operations as the Chairman, President or CEO. This photo was taken at the Plain Capitals Bank 2nd floor of Nolana and 10th St. after Mr. Glen Roney finished his tenure with BBVA Compass Bank

Jan Klinck and Glen Roney

Mr. Roney and Veronica Gonzales, UTRGV Vice President for Governmental and Community Relations

Mr. Alan B. White, Chairman and Chief Executive Offices of Plains Capital Corp, and Glen Roney.

Glen Roney and Paul J. Schwab

John David Franz, Glen Roney, Rita K, and Ricardo Hinojosa, Federal District Judge.

In 1973 he worked closely with McAllen city leaders and other colleagues to obtain approval of the McAllen Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ). He gave President George H.W. Bush, Sr., then a U.S. Congressman, credit for helping them gain approval. It was the first inland non-seaport Foreign Trade Zone in the United States. Today it consists of over 775 acres, and more than 400 companies are located in the FTZ, representing 42 countries across the globe.

Joe Kilgore, Glen’s close friend, business associate, and a former U. S. Congressman for South Texas, invited him to join the Scott & White board. He had worked with Glen on the TRBS and Texas State Bank boards. Glen faithfully served in various capacities at Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas, for 33 years. In January 1984, Glen was elected to the Scott, Sherwood and Brindley Foundation Board of Trustees at Scott & White. In January 2010, he was elected as Vice Chairman of the Scott & White Healthcare Board, where he served with Drayton McClane, Chairman.

In October 2013, Glen and Rita K. participated in the opening of the Roney Bone and Joint Institute, a 75,000-square-foot medical facility on the Temple campus. In November 2013, he was elected as Chairman of the Scott & White Healthcare Board and served for three years (2013-2016). During his tenure, he served as Chairman of the Staff Compensation Committee, Governance Committee, and Finance Committee. He also was a member of the following committees: Development/Endowment, Investment, Audit and Insurance, Executive, Scott and White Assurance LTD, Quality and Safety, and the Foundation Board.

As a leader in South Texas, Glen served many organizations for a combined 42 years, from1975 through 2017. He was a Director of the South Texas Higher Education Authority Board (STHEA) and the Council of South Texas Economic Progress (COSTEP).

He and other community leaders opened Chapel by the Sea, a Christian fellowship at South Padre Island. They oversaw the planning and construction of the chapel, and the first service was held Easter Sunday, April 6, 1980. Glen and Rita K. continued to serve on the board of directors.

Glen was a founding member of the Vannie E. Cook, Jr. Cancer Foundation in McAllen, established in 1977. It was named for Glen’s friend and colleague Vannie E. Cook, Jr. He served for 40 years as an executive board member and treasurer. The Vannie E. Cook Jr. Children’s Cancer and Hematology Clinic, and the City of McAllen recognized Glen for his service by proclaiming May 16, 2017, as Glen E. Roney Day.

From 1989 through 1993, he served on the Board of Directors of McAllen Affordable Homes. He was board president from 1991 to 1993.

Glen realized the importance of helping young people succeed through education. He joined the Board of Directors of the South Texas Academic Rising Scholars (STARS) Scholarship Fund, founded by his friend and business leader, Joe LaMantia, Jr. and the LaMantia family. STARS awarded scholarships to students in South Texas to help them attend college.

Glen and Rita K. were elected to the Board of Governors of the McAllen Boys and Girls Club, where they continued to serve. In 2004, they were honored when the club built the Glen E. and Rita K. Roney Center.

In 2008 Glen was named a Texas Business Legend and inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame. He received additional awards, including: 1990 Hidalgo Chamber of Commerce Border Texan of the Year, 1991 University of Texas-Pan American Founder’s Day Honoree, 1992 Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Citizen, 1994 American Heart Association Heart of Gold, 1997 South Texas Symphony Cultural Leader of the Year, 2001 McAllen Chamber of Commerce Man of the Year, 2001 Masonic Community Builders, 2003 Anti-Defamation League’s Torch of Liberty for the Southwest Region, 2007 Boy Scouts of America Silver Beaver, 2008 Leadership McAllen award, and the 2015 McAllen Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award.

Over the years Glen and Rita K. enjoyed ranching both in South Texas and in the Texas Hill Country, raising cattle and exotic animals. They especially loved having friends to the ranch, watching the beauty of the roaming wildlife, and the peacefulness of being outdoors. He saw it as a wonderful place to reflect on life and God’s blessings. He and Rita K. cherished those quiet moments at the ranch.

Sandra Darling, Glen Roney and McAllen Mayor Jim Darling

Joe Brown, Steve Alhenius, and Glen Roney receiving the Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement award in 2015.

Glen Roney and Dr. Kenneth Landrum

Glen Roney and Gary Gurwitz

Paul Moxley, Carroll Sturgis, and Glen Roney

Sam L. Susser, Vice president of Susser Holdings Co. and Glen Roney.

Bob Boggus, Mr. Roney and Frank Boggus.Bob Boggus, Mr. Roney and Frank Boggus.

Mario Reyna, Mr. Roney, and Larry Fallek

Kathe Tavarez, Dr. Hiram Tavarez, and Glen Roney

Glen E. Roney will always be remembered as a leader in the generation that made the Rio Grande Valley great. Glen passed away November 10, 2018, from pneumonia. Interment was at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas with the family attending.

A memorial service will be held at First Methodist Church of McAllen, 4200 N. McColl Road at 2 p.m. on Friday, November 16.

He is survived by his loving wife of 39 years, Rita K. Robertson Roney. He is survived by his three children, Elaine Roney Bready (Doug), Stephen Roney (Patricia), Mark Voss (Brandy), by four grandsons and six great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his brother, Ernie L. Roney (Louise), along with nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Clyde and Jewell Roney. Pallbearers are Ernie Roney, Doug Bready, Stephen Roney, Mark Voss, Colin Bready, Jason Bready, Dillon Thomison, Glendon Voss, Westly Keating, Hill Feinberg and Drayton McLane. Honorary pallbearers are Frank Boggus, Bill Davis, David Embry, Dr. Al Knight, Joe LaMantia, Jr., Dr. Ken Landrum, John Martin, Bill Moschel, David Rogers, Joaquin Salinas, Paul Schwab, Jim Spence and Paul Veale, Jr.

In lieu of flowers, the Roney family suggests that memorial contributions may be sent to the McAllen Boys and Girls Club of McAllen-Glen E. and Rita K. Roney Center Foundation, P. O. Box 5910, McAllen, TX 78502, or the Baylor Scott & White Roney Bone and Joint Institute, P. O. Box 5910, McAllen, TX 78502.

Glen E. Roney, the Icon of Banking and Philanthropist Passed Away A memorial service was held at First Methodist Church of McAllen, Friday, November 16. Special to Texas Border Business…

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Huguette Clark

Born: June 9, 1906, Paris, France;

Died: May 24, 2011, New York City, New York, United States;

Parents: William A. Clark;

Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City, New York, United States;

Education: Spence School;

Grandparent: William Andrews Clark Jr.

Huguette Marcelle Clark was a painter, an heiress and philanthropist, who became well known again late in life as a recluse, living in a hospital for more than 20 years while her mansions remained empty. She was the youngest daughter of United States Senator and industrialist William A. Clark. Upon her death at 104 in 2011, Clark left behind a fortune of more than $300 million, most of which was donated to charity after a court fight with her distant relatives. A feature film of her life is planned, based on the bestselling book Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune.

Huguette Clark was born on June 9, 1906, in Paris, France. She was the second daughter of William A. Clark, from his second wife, the former Anna Eugenia La Chapelle (1878–1963). Her father was a former U.S. Senator from Montana and businessman involved in mining and railroads. In addition to her older sister, Louise Amelia Andrée Clark (1902–1919), she had five half-siblings from her father's first marriage to Katherine Louise Stauffer:

Mary Joaquina Clark (1870–1939); married Everett Mallory Culver, Charles Potter Kling, and Marius de Brabant;

Charles Walker Clark (1871–1933); married Katharine Quin Roberts and Cecelia "Celia" Tobin;

Katherine Louise Clark (1875–1974); married Dr. Lewis Rutherford Morris;

William Andrews Clark, Jr. (1877–1934); married Mabel Foster and Alice McManus;

Francis Paul Clark (1880–1896).

She was educated at the Spence School in Manhattan. Following the death of her father in 1925, Clark and her mother moved from a mansion at 962 Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, to a twelfth-floor apartment nearby at 907 Fifth Avenue. She later purchased the entire eighth floor of the building.

In 1928, she agreed to donate $50,000 (equivalent to $697,000 in today's dollars) to excavate the salt pond and create an artificial freshwater lake across from Bellosguardo (34.418376°N 119.660664°W), her family's 23-acre (93,000 m2; 9.3 ha) estate on the Pacific Coast in Santa Barbara, California. She stipulated that the facility would be named the Andrée Clark Bird Refuge, after her sister, who had died of meningitis.

Bill Dedman, an NBC News reporter who investigated her life, quoted a cousin of Huguette describing her as "quirky."[8] The daughter of a former staff member described both Clark and her mother as not "odd or strange" but rather "quiet, loving, giving ladies." Over the years, she developed a distrust of outsiders, including her family, because she thought they were after her money. She preferred to conduct all of her conversations in French so that others were unlikely to understand the discussion.

She was a musician and an artist who, in 1929, exhibited seven of her paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, located in Washington, D.C. The last photograph of her to be published during her lifetime was taken in 1928, though later photos are published in the book Empty Mansions. She reportedly had a very small group of friends. Her closest friend and former employee, Suzanne Pierre, died of Alzheimer's disease in February 2011.

Clark owned three apartments at 907 Fifth Avenue, where she lived until her hospitalization. She also owned a 52-acre (210,000 m2; 21 ha) estate in New Canaan, Connecticut, referred to as Le Beau Chateau. After her mother's death in 1963, Clark was the sole owner of the Bellosguardo estate in Santa Barbara.

On August 18, 1928, in Santa Barbara, she married law student William MacDonald Gower, a Princeton University graduate who was a son of one of her father's business associates, William Bleakly Gower. The couple separated in 1929 and divorced in Reno, Nevada, on August 12, 1930.

She died at Beth Israel Medical Center, in New York City, two weeks short of her 105th birthday. She had been moved a month earlier to an intensive-care unit and later to a room with hospice care. She had been living at Beth Israel under pseudonyms; the latest was Harriet Chase. The room was guarded and she was cared for by part-time private nurses. Her room on the third floor had a card with the fake room number "1B" with the name "Chase" taped over the actual room number. A criminal investigation into the handling of her money was ongoing at the time of her death.

She was entombed on the morning of May 26, 2011, in the family mausoleum in section 85 of Woodlawn Cemetery, located in The Bronx, New York City, before the cemetery gates were open to the public. Her attorney said she had specific instructions that no funeral service or mass be held. In 2008, Clark's representatives had obtained consent from other Clark family members to alter the mausoleum originally commissioned by her father. It was not until early 2011 that the mausoleum was altered to accommodate her entombment.

In yet another unusual twist, it was reported by NBCNews.com in March 2012 that shortly after Clark moved to a hospital, a valuable pastel, Danseuse Faisant des Pointes (Dancer Making Pointes), by Edgar Degas, was taken from her Fifth Avenue apartment. The painting was sold to Peter Findlay Gallery and later acquired in 1993 by H&R Block co-founder and art collector Henry W. Bloch. The Peter Findlay Gallery indicated that it acquired the piece from a "European gentleman, seemingly from a good family, who visited New York from time to time" and who claimed to have inherited the work. It was not until 2005 that the FBI made Bloch aware that it was investigating the painting, and in 2007, it told Bloch that the painting had been reported stolen from Clark.

Under an October 2008 deed of gift, Clark agreed to donate the pastel, valued at $10 million, to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, of which Bloch was a major benefactor. After making the gift, Clark made a request that the pastel be lent three times in 25 years to the Corcoran Museum of Art, that it be listed as from an anonymous donor, and that Clark personally receive a full-sized color photograph of the work. The museum kept the matter confidential, acknowledging ownership in a 2012 written exchange with NBCNews.com, which was doing an investigative report on Clark.

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Meet Temple’s Board of Trustees

Patrick J. O'Connor, Chair

'13 Honorary Degree

Cozen O'Connor

- Chairman of the Temple Board of Trustees since 2009

- Vice chairman at law firm Cozen O’Connor, which provides union-busting and tax-evasion consulting for corporations and developers

- Defended Bill Cosby against allegations of sexual assault of a Temple University employee (Patrick O’Connor did not think this was a conflict of interest)

- Stated that Cosby, “admitted to nothing more than being one of the many people who introduced Quaaludes into their consensual sex life in the 1970’s”

- Chairman of the Board of BNY Mellon Funds Trusts, an investment bank that owns 2.46 million shares (worth over $63 million) in the Corrections Corporation of America (the largest for-profit prison company in the US)

- Recently the University spent 3.5 million to rename Founder’s Garden (where Russell Conwell’s grave is located) after O’Connor

- The O’Connor Plaza project went $700,000 over budget without Board authorization

Christopher W McNichol

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

- Managing Director and Regional Head of Mid-Atlantic Public Finance at Citigroup

- Citigroup Bank played a major role in the 2008 financial crisis, putting forward policies that led to massive foreclosures and debt, especially among people of color and the elderly

- When their stock price dropped below a dollar, Citigroup was bailed out, but working class people lost their homes and livelihoods

- Citigroup invested $521,808,456 into Dakota Access Company (the DAPL pipeline)

- As the manager of Temple’s endowment and retirement plans, McNichol moved them from RS Investments to Van Eck, who has 73% of their holdings in energy sector investments (primarily fossil fuels, which are a leading cause of the environmental crisis)

- Donated $9,500 to republican political campaigns in 2012

J William Mills III

Retired

-PNC Bank’s president of the Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey region 2001-2014

-During the 2008 financial crisis, PNC’s policies disproportionately affected the elderly and people of color causing them to lose their homes

-A PNC bank employee was the only person found criminally liable and sentenced to 30 months in jail; the judge said it was only “a small piece of an overall evil climate within the bank”

-PNC invested $270,000,000 in Sunoco Logistics, Energy Transfer Partners, Energy Transfer Equity, all companies responsible for the DAPL pipeline

-PNC funded mountaintop removal coal-mining until 2015, which has destroyed or damaged more than one million acres of forest and almost 2,000 miles of streams in Appalachia (despite long standing pressure from activists, including a 2011 sit-in at the Temple campus branch of PNC which resulted in the arrest of three Temple students)

-PNC has lent an estimated $210.5 million in 2013 and $687.5 million in 2012 to companies that do mountaintop removal coal-mining

Joseph F. Coradino

'74 College of Liberal Arts

PREIT Services, LLC

-Chairman of the Board and CEO of PREIT Services, a big mall developer

-PREIT owns and operates over 22.5 million square feet of retail space

-When criticized over its purchase of famous foreign estates, Coradino said that risky overseas investments by a public entity with public funds are “not unreasonable”

-PREIT bought The Gallery at Market East in 2003/2004 and is now redeveloping it

-In 2015 the School Reform Commission (SRC) and City Council approved a “tax-increment financing (TIF) district” (freezing the Gallery’s liability for property and other taxes in the area surrounded by 8th, 11th, Market and Filbert streets until 2036) that would save the mall’s owners (PREIT and Macerich) $55 million in property taxes over a period of 20 years

-Because Philly schools are funded with property taxes, this is a loss of tens of millions of dollars for the school district over the next 20 years

Richard “Dick” J. Fox

'93 Honorary Degree

The Fox Companies

- Fox School of Business

- Co-founded Fox Companies, a property construction, development and management firm in Eastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey

- Pennsylvania State Chairman for Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign in 1980

- On the Board of Trustees since 1967

- Chairman of BOT from 1982-1999

- Founder of Republican Jewish Coalition

- Funded Freedom's Watch, a Washington D.C. based lobbying organization that was supportive of the Bush administration's positions in the War on Terror and of Republican Congressional candidates

Lon R. Greenberg

Retired

-UGI Corporation CEO from 1995-2015

-UGI Corporation is responsible for the Penneast pipeline: a proposed pipeline that would transport natural gas, fracked from the shalefields of northern PA, to NJ and is currently being fought by residents along the route because pipeline projects can poison water, endanger the ecosystem, and often seize land through eminent domain

-Twenty-four townships in Pennsylvania and New Jersey have passed resolutions opposing the PennEast Pipeline

-The 115 mile long pipeline would transport fracking shale natural gas from PA into NJ and cross through 88 waterways

-Greenberg is also on the Board of Directors of Aqua America, a company that provides water to fracking operations

-In 2008 he made $5.7 million as CEO of UGI Corporation (18th highest paid CEO within the Utilities sector)

-Aqua America is also responsible for the eviction of low income residents to make way for their water lines to service fracking installations

-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Temple University Health System

Bret Perkins

‘91 Fox School of Business

Comcast Corporation

-Governmental Affairs Representative at Comcast since 2001

-Writes the policies that enable Comcast to avoid paying taxes to the city and the state

-Comcast spent $108,000 to fight the law requiring paid sick days

-Comcast also advocated for the 2013 Philly public school closures including William Penn High School, which Temple bought at a discounted rate and turned into a sports field

Dennis Alter

'66 College of Education, '99 Honorary Degree

Tourist

-Made $4,189,342 as CEO of Advanta Bank in 2006 and spent an estimated $80 million to build and furnish his 40,000-square-foot house in Fort Washington

-Worked at Advanta between 2008 and 2009 & hiked up interest rates on credit cards from 7.99% APR to 37% APR during the Recession

- sued by FDIC for $219 million, and settled for 23.5 million for hiding Advanta failures from investors

-As a part of this settlement the FDIC closed Advanta and had their assets sold off

-Donated $15 million to Temple for Alter Hall

Michael J. Stack, III

Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania

-Member of PA State Senate 2001-2015

-His wife allegedly flipped off and threw soda on State Rep Kevin Boyle

-Accused of verbally abusing his staff and telling state troopers in his security detail to use lights and sirens to get him through traffic faster

-Stack billed $20,000 for travel reimbursements to the state including thousands in Philadelphia hotel stays despite the fact that he owned a home there at the time

-He also unsuccessfully attempted to write off tickets to an IndyCar race in the Poconos as a travel expense

Leonard Barrack

'65 Fox School of Business, '68 Beasley School of Law

Barrack, Rodos & Bacine

Joseph “Chip” W. Marshall, III

'75 College of Liberal Arts, '79 Beasley School of Law

Stevens & Lee/Griffin Holdings Group

Mitchell L. Morgan

'76 Fox School of Business, '80 Beasley School of Law

Morgan Properties

-Morgan Properties is a real estate investment company with 38,162 apartments

Stephen “Steve” G. Charles

'80 School of Media & Communication

Retired

Paul G. Curcillo, II

'84 College of Science & Technology

Fox Chase Cancer Center

Theodore Z. Davis

'58 Fox School of Business, '63 Beasley School of Law

Retired

Nelson A. Diaz

'72 Beasley School of Law, '90 Honorary Degree

Dilworth Paxson LLP

Ronald R. Donatucci

'70 College of Liberal Arts

-Ward leader in the 26th ward (South Philly)

-“In his capacity as counsel to the firm, Mr. Donatucci provides special advice and counsel regarding estate planning and administration, administrative procedure, government relations, and real estate transactions, including zoning and land use planning.”-Mattioni Law

-Super-Delegate at the 2008 Democratic National Convention representing PA

Loretta C. Duckworth

'62 College of Liberal Arts, '65 College of Liberal Arts, '92 Tyler School of Arts

Retired

Judith A. Felgoise

'87 College of Education

The Abramson Family Foundation

Lewis F. Gould, Jr.

'62 School of Pharmacy

Duane Morris, LLP

Tamron Hall

'92 School of Media & Communication

Sandra Harmon-Weiss

'71 College of Liberal Arts, '74 Lewis Katz School of Medicine

Retired

-Former executive at Aetna

Drew A. Katz

Interstate Outdoor Advertising

Patrick V. Larkin

'74 Fox School of Business, '82 Beasley School of Law

AJG Risk Management Services

H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest

'02 Honorary Degree

The Lenfest Group

-Formed Lenfest Communications in 1974 and sold it to AT&T in 1999, who then sold it to Comcast in 2000 for $6.7 billion

-Owns the Philadelphia Inquirer

Solomon C. Luo

Progressive Vision & Surgical Institute

Anthony “Tony” J. McIntyre

'80 Fox School of Business

AJG Risk Management Services

Leon “Lonnie” O. Moulder, Jr.

'80 School of Pharmacy

TESARO, Inc.

-In 2016 he made $5,655,848 as CEO of TESARO Inc, a Pharmaceutical Company

Daniel H. Polett

'98 Honorary Degree

Lexus of Chester Springs, Wilkie Lexus

Michael H. Reed

'69 College of Liberal Arts

Pepper Hamilton, LLP

Phillip C. Richards

'62 Fox School of Business, '16 Honorary Degree

North Star Resource Group

Jane Scaccetti

'77 Fox School of Business

Drucker & Scaccetti

Samuel H. Smith

Retired

-Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 66th District from 1987-2015

-Appointed himself to the Board of Trustees in 2014, forcing Pat Eiding, Philadelphia AFL-CIO (largest federation of labor unions in the US) President to step down

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O’Connor

https://www.cozen.com/

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https://www.temple.edu/secretary/sites/secretary/files/documents/committee-meetings/board-of-trustees/FY-2017/03142017_PS_BOT_MINUTES..pdf

McNichol:

https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/news/who%27s-banking-dakota-access-pipeline

http://temple-news.com/news/trustees-vote-investment-firm/

https://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/christopher-mcnichol.asp?cycle=12

https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/news/who%27s-banking-dakota-access-pipeline

Mills III:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/magazine/only-one-top-banker-jail-financial-crisis.html

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/the-latest/30653-three-temple-students-arrested-during-pnc-bank-sit-in

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20150303_PNC_Bank_to_cut_financing_of_MTR_coal_companies.html

http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/201604_cfpb_Fair_Lending_Report_Final.pdf

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Coradino:

http://planphilly.com/articles/2015/04/16/src-approves-55-million-tax-incentive-for-gallery-mall-redevelopment

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/06/18/phila-city-council-finalizes-legislation-to-allow-gallery-makeover/

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20120531001342

Fox:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson-and-james-boyce/watching-freedoms-watch-t_1_b_86274.html

https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/board/richard-fox.php

Greenberg:

https://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/12/best-boss-09_Lon-R-Greenberg_ZH3I.html

https://www.stoppenneast.org/

http://ir.aquaamerica.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=175596

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20160501_An_artifact_of_Marcellus_drilling_s_disruptive_glory_days.html

Perkins:

https://www.metro.us/local/advocates-comcast-is-trying-to-block-philly-s-paid-sick-leave-law/tmWmcl---90UfUZFeM3K2

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Thats-funny-I-dont-remember-voting-for-David-L-Cohen-for-education-czar.html

Alter:

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/09/dennis-alters-modern-mansion-in-suburban-philadelphia/244627/

http://temple-news.com/news/alter-appointed-to-bot-after-case-with-fdic/

http://www.phillymag.com/articles/dennis-alter-and-the-tragedy-of-advanta/?all=1

http://temple-news.com/news/alter-trusteeship-safe-pending-fdic-lawsuit/

https://www.law360.com/consumerprotection/articles/566179/fdic-nears-accord-in-219m-suit-against-ex-advanta-execs

Morgan:

http://morgan-properties.com/who_we_are.asp

Donatucci:

http://www.mattioni.com/R_Donatucci.aspx

Moulder:

http://www1.salary.com/Leon-O-Moulder-Jr-Salary-Bonus-Stock-Options-for-TESARO-INC.html

Smith:

http://temple-news.com/news/state-rep-sam-smith-appoints-board-trustees/

Stack:

https://billypenn.com/2017/04/25/mike-stacks-terrible-horrible-april-all-the-bad-headlines-plaguing-the-lt-gov-of-pa/

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/State_lawmaker_Pa_Lt_Gov_Mike_Stacks_wife_flipped_me_off_and_threw_soda_on_me.html

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-state/2017/04/12/Mike-Stack-pa-lt-governor-apologizes/stories/201704120199

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2017/04/15/Pennsylvania-Lt-Governor-Mike-Stack-wife-complaints/stories/201704150109

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/state/Mike-Stack-Wolf-feud-politics-Couloumbis.html

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PHL / Anachronism and Liberation

Anachronism and Liberation Curated by Mary Henderson and Jane Irish August 4 - September 17, 2017 Artists’ Reception: Thursday, August 10

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Anachronism and Liberation presents nine artists, ranging from emerging to established, creating work that engages with social and/or political issues in subtle and surprising ways. The artists involved are all committed makers, whose approaches offer an expanded vision of what political art pieces that consider issues of imperialism, political oppression, labor rights, environmental justice, race, gender and sexuality can look like. The work deliberately connects to traditional practices and engages in dialog with art history; at the same time, it is powerfully responsive to the urgency of this political moment.

The show’s title refers to the notion of artists simultaneously looking backwards and forwards in their practices, employing the “anachronistic,” the aggressively handmade and historically informed, in service of “liberation,” both in the political sense of the word, and in a more personal, aesthetic sense. The artists’ connection to art history and traditions of making becomes a freeing component in their work, adding layers of complexity and allowing it to transcend beyond sloganeering or propaganda. Their art is suspended between traditional forms and liberatory meanings, in which forms of the past are celebrated, undermined, and re-construed in the effort to construct new futures. They return to traditional media with new purpose, using old resources to open possibilities for reconfigured identities, making 'nonce' forms mean something again.

New Orleans-based artist Ana Hernandez is confronted by the architecture of the oil industry on the bayous, gentrification legacies of Katrina, and the destruction of aquifer. We selected The Utica to reveal that our own region is on her mind. Ana’s compassionate reaction to ICE round-ups and fracking of central PA is one in a series Altering Internal Landscapes: In pursuit of unearthing bodies of Energy. She says that it is “a visual representation of ecological trauma; it aims to highlight the dissection and destruction of a physical and psychological landscape, whose vulnerable and shifting body print can be traced and mapped by the scars of injury left on the environment and all who inhabit it.” Ana Hernandez is a founding member of Level Artist Collective, New Orleans. She recently exhibited her work at The Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, A Studio in the Woods, The New Orleans Museum of Art and she was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundations 2016 Artist-in-Residence Program.

Roberto Lugo lets us see that Graffiti tagging and American pot throwing are connected. Lugo grew up in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. He is an American potter, social activist, spoken word poet, and educator. Lugo's work here draws together hip-hop, history and politics into formal ceramics. It is commemorative, like a 19th century Tucker Factory pitcher, but represents both an ending and a beginning, honoring the worker instead of the owner. Lugo has been featured at multiple exhibitions, including SOFA Chicago, solo shows at Eutectic Gallery in Portland, Oregon and Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia. He received the United States Artist Barr Fellowship and the Emerging Artist award for the National Council on Education in Ceramic Arts.

We admire Rebecca Ness’ activism as well as her connected artistic practice. She uses the politically charged imagery to empower both the artist and the viewer. Her work is remarkably straightforward, humorous and biting. It is both a report on our current political climate and a crystallization of a liberating feminism with a long arc. Rebecca Ness is a founding member of the web activist site, In Residence. She has exhibited at Field Projects Gallery, NY; Copeland Gallery, London; Distillery Gallery, Boston; Bergen Street Studios, Brooklyn among many others. She is currently enrolled in the MFA program in painting and printmaking at Yale University.

Odili Donald Odita orchestrates color interaction in pure and visionary leaps. Transformative routes of his palette and shapes begin as a catalog of abstract color that may signify contexts as in flags or represent the visible emanations of the exterior world, architecture of an unsettled, colonized culture. As his new formalism explores figurative historical and sociopolitical realities, his work emerges into a charged coexistence and physical presence. Odita was born in Enugu, Nigeria and lives and works in Philadelphia. He has been the recipient of grants from the McCall Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. In 2007, his work “Give Me Shelter” was featured prominently in the 52nd Venice Biennale exhibition, Think With the Senses, Feel With the Mind, curated by Robert Storr. He is represented by The Jack Shainman Gallery.

We experience Robert Pruitt’s portraits as a guide to peace. Pruitt draws with charcoal on paper. He selects this medium for its accessibility, its connection to the maker and hand, but also to the viewer's haptic experience: most of us have had the experience of drawing on paper. His emphatic choices of imagery from science fiction and comic books, together with the history of political and social struggle suggest that we need to change everything, to think in terms of the history of science or fantasy to guide us beyond the killing of each other. Robert Pruitt has exhibited his work at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, the 2006 Whitney Biennial, and at the Studio Museum of Harlem. He has held residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ArtPace, Fabric Workshop Museum, and Brandywine Printshop. He has received numerous awards including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, the Joan Mitchell Artist Grant, a project grant from the Creative Capital Foundation, and the William H. Johnson Award.

This small wood and paint construction by Lisi Raskin is part of a series of love tokens that the artist has been making since 2015. While the artist spent fifteen years traveling to the Arctic Circle, former East German and Yugoslav Atomic bunkers, and the American west exploring the intersection of nuclear-age fears and utopian mythologies of the Cold War, she now focuses on liberatory practices that attempt to produce and represent the occurrences in the world that she wishes to see, including radical love, collaboration across difference, and redistribution of resources. Raskin has exhibited internationally at institutions including Kunsthaus Graz, Casino Luxembourg, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, the Blanton Museum of Art, the Center for Curatorial Studies/Hessel Museum at Bard College, and the Rubin Museum of Art. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Guna S Mundheim Berlin Prize at the American Academy in Berlin, a Quimby Foundation Grant, Mayer Foundation Grant, and the Hayward Prize from the American Austrian Foundation.

Han Wang’s ceramic art presents multiple overlapping anachronisms. Wang is a Chinese artist who is living in Philadelphia, PA. Her artistic practice embodies the phenomenon she named “cultural grafting.” Her work explores the history of other cultures using Chinese techniques, and she refers to her new work as contemporary Chinoiserie. Her craft is at such a high level she is able to comment on the history of export porcelain, seduction of the copy, the autonomous artist directly articulating the misconceptions, stereotypes and bigotry with a light, freeing mirror of humor. The chickens on display in this show play with gender stereotypes as well as cultural ones, referencing both the notion of “Three Ages of Women,” and “chicken” as derogatory Chinese slang for woman. Han Wang is an artist in residence at the University of the Arts and at the Clay Studio, and has exhibited at Marginal Utility Gallery, Philadelphia and Gatov East Gallery, Los Angeles.

We see Charles Edward Williams' paintings as investigations of our inner life. Confrontation III references the human hands that display the request for trust. Concepts for this exhibit were drawn from recent and past incidents of police brutality from corrupt police officials and officers around the United States, and include the inspiration of Artist Gerhard Richter’s The October 18, 1977 series. This image is digitally manipulated from the Death of Eric Garner 2014 and used as a reference for creating the piece. This painting focuses on highlighting hands using oil paint on panel and combining elements of abstractions. This invites the viewer to be challenged and to question the relationship between the subject matter; from the reality to its abstraction. This painting is conceptually referencing German painter Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977 series and theoretically responding to archived incidents based on photographs of the arrests, deaths and funerals of members of the radical left-wing German terrorist gang. Recent solo exhibition of Williams’ work have been at Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; Winthrop University Art Gallery, New Gallery of Modern Art \Charlotte; Central Piedmont College Art Gallery and Morton Fine Art Gallery, Washington, DC.

Alexi Worth’s subtle and coherent paintings using trompe l’oeil and cubist space are insistent on an idiosyncratic first-person point of view. A small body of work depicting the Arab Spring uprising comes from his comprehensive grasp of crucial political events and personal connections that his journalist brother Robert recently published: “The Middle East in Turmoil, From Tahrir Square to ISIS.” Alexi shares his own experience both visually and viscerally. Crafted with care and humility, the painting here establishes through a human connection to the viewer and our own efforts at freedom. Alexi Belsey Worth has had solo exhibitions with the Elizabeth Harris, Bill Maynes, and DC Moore galleries, among others. He has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, and the New England Foundation for the Arts. As a writer, Worth’s exhibition reviews and articles have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, The New Yorker, T Magazine, ARTnews, Art New England, etc. Guest Curator and Essayist: Jane Irish Irish’s work is in the collections of Philadelphia Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia has presented numerous solo exhibitions since 2007. She has been the recipient of awards from Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, Independence Foundation, Creative Artist Program Service (NYFA), and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Crispin Sartwell Crispin Sartwell is a writer and philosopher, teaching philosophy at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Publications include Act Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity (1998); Six Names of Beauty (2004); Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory (2008); Political Aesthetics (2010); How to Escape: Magic, Madness, Beauty, and Cynicism (2014); and Entanglements: A System of Philosophy (2017).

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The SPLC: Race-baiting hucksters or terrorist sponsors?

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The Southern Poverty Law Center rakes in millions of dollars each year claiming to be a “watchdog” that “monitors” so-called “right-wing hate groups.” In reality, they’ve been sued for racially abusing what few black employees they ever hired, and their hate-filled rhetoric has been tied to two assassination attempts. In 2012 a SLPC supporter shot his way into the headquarters of the Family Research Council, after seeing an SPLC attack piece labeling the FRC a “hate group.” In reality, the FRC is largely nice little church ladies.

Now, the mass shooter who attempted to assassinate Republican Members of Congress has been linked to the nasty, racist, organization. Is it time for the FBI to infiltrate the SPLC like they did the KKK? – Editor

The Granny Warriors are a dangerous hate group. Just ask Mark Potok and his crack staff of investigators at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Just one problem. Try finding the Granny Warriors. There is a website with that name; a fashion blog of sorts that has not been updated since 2015. There is another one-page website that shows pictures of an RV with the name Granny Warriors on the side. When the Granny Warriors first appeared on Mark Potok’s list, CNN was able to find the woman who founded the group who at the time was 74, making a quilt and suffering from congestive heart failure.

The richest poverty group in history

What is the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)? They fashion themselves as the protector of America from hate. They issue reports on “hate groups”, and occasionally sue one of them, usually those so poor they can’t muster a defense. And they have gotten fabulously wealthy doing it. Charlotte Allen, writing in the Weekly Standard, called it “the richest poverty organization in the history of the world.” The group is sitting on cash reserves of $350 million and raises upwards of $50 million every year, mostly from direct mail, making northern liberals believe we still live in a world where black men are lynched with impunity and KKK riders-in-the-night burn crosses and even houses.

There is obviously a large dollop of hucketerism in what SPLC does. Morris Dees, who founded SPLC in 1971, got rich long ago on direct mail selling “everything from doormats to cookbooks,” says Allen. Dees is even in the Direct Mail Hall of Fame. Like any good carnival barker, he must scare the rubes into the tent and shake the shekels out of their pockets. He does this by making them think the dark night of fascism is upon us at every moment. Hence, even Granny Warriors are a threat.

Skeptics to the right of them, skeptics to the left of them

There are many SPLC skeptics, certainly on the right, but many on the left as well. Leftist Alexander Cockburn went after Dees et al at Counterpunch saying they were taking advantage of Barack Obama’s election to frighten “trembling liberals” into thinking “millions of extremists [were] primed to march down Main Street draped in Klan robes, a copy of Mein Kampf tucked under one arm and a Bible under the other.” Left-leaning Harper’s ran a 2000 piece called The Church of Morris Dees” charging that most of those on the SPLC list were fringe groups that perpetrated no violence and that most of the examples of violence cited by SPLC were lone wolves associated with no groups whatsoever.

When SPLC’s new list came out in 2013, the one with Granny Warriors, no less than Foreign Policy Magazine asked, “is American really being overrun by right-wing militias.” That year, SPLC claimed to have identified an all-time high 1360 hate groups, up from 1007 the year before. Foreign Policy questioned SPLC’s motivations and their methodology. SPLC is not an “objective purveyor of data,” they reported. “They’re anti-hate activists….their research needs to be weighed more carefully by media outlets that cover their pronouncements.”

Foreign Policy charged SPLC with using tricks to drive up the numbers. They do this by not making a distinction between national groups and local chapters. American Third Position Party, for instance, something you have certainly never heard of, is listed 17 times in SPLC’s 2012 report. The American Nazi Party is listed six times and the Council of Conservative Citizens is listed 37 times. Foreign Policy says when you eliminate multiple listings, the 1007 groups in 2012 becomes 358.

And among the remaining 358 are a blog called Crocker Post, a website/podcast called The Political Cesspool, and an anti-Islam cite called Silver Bullet Bun Oil. Foreign Policy scoffs at the notion that these are “groups” at all.

‘Hate’ labeling is not harmless

The charges made by Mark Potok and his colleagues are far from harmless even if some of their targets are. Charles Murray was targeted as a hater by SPLC and this caused the now famous riot of students who attacked him and a Middlebury College professor who hosted him.

To this day, you can visit the downtown Washington DC offices of the Family Research Center and see the bullet holes left by Floyd Corkins who invaded the office 4 years ago with the intent of mass murder. He testified under oath that he decided to attack FRC based on Potok’s listing of FRC as a hate group. The attack came only months after the release of SPLC’s 2013 report.

Potok himself has said the intention of his group is not to simply monitor hate groups but to “destroy them.” Given the propensity of the left to resort to violence these days, this is of increasing concern to the other Christian groups who are in the crosshairs of Mark Potok and his chief “investigator” Heidi Beirich. It is reported the shooter of Congressman Steven Scalise on a ballfield in Northern Virginia had “liked” SPLC on Facebook.

SPLC’s campaign against the Center for Family and Human Rights

Of the many problems when considering SPLC’s hate list is how any group lands on the list. What is the criteria and methodology? How did the Granny Warriors land on Potok’s list? Frankly, it’s hard to tell.

The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam), the group I run, landed on the list a few years ago. In the report issued at the time, SPLC accused us of having “lauded” Scott Lively. You would be forgiven for not knowing Lively’s name. Hardly anyone does. He runs a tiny organization with a miniscule budget. He’s an Evangelical pastor who has worked with Christian groups in Uganda against what Pope Francis has called “ideological colonialism.” The left says Lively is responsible for the Ugandan “kill the gays bill”, a charge that is laughable on its face. Nonetheless, how did we “laud” him? In a news story about a federal lawsuit brought against him by a group of Ugandan homosexuals, we described his ministry in Massachusetts of giving out coffee and bibles to homeless men. That makes us a hate group, according to SPLC.

The SPLC report also cited our legal work in Belize when there was a national debate about their sodomy laws. We were asked for our expert legal opinion on Belize’s obligations under international law regarding sodomy and informed them they were free to decide the issue on their own, that international law did not require them to change their laws. My group did not take a position for or against sodomy. We never have. Giving legal advice on international law makes you a hate group, according to SPLC.

The goal: ‘destroy them’ – with the help of the media

SPLC likes to portray itself as a neutral referee, merely involved in calling balls and strikes when it comes to “hate.” But in a 2008 speech, Mark Potok let slip the mask when he said, “Sometimes the press will describe us as monitoring hate crimes and so on…I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, to completely destroy them.”

The problem here is that the media gives SPLC a free ride. Whenever my group is covered in the press, or FRC, or Alliance Defending Freedom, or American Family Association, or any of the many other conservative Christian groups, the report inevitably tags us “designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.” No reporter that I know of has ever done his own research to determine if this label fits or is fair. Consider also the word “designated”, as if SPLC is a governmental entity with the authority to determine such things.

The media is not the only group utilizing SPLC’s hate-labeling. So does Wikipedia. Every article in Wikipedia about a Christian group on the SPLC list also mentions their “designation” as a hate group. Keep in mind that Wikipedia is among the very first places anyone goes to research a group they are interested in.

Amazon is in on it, too. It does not allow “hate groups” to participate in its affinity “Smile” program whereby a piece of every purchase can be earmarked for a designated charity.

Within the past few weeks the non-profit monitor/reporter Guidestar has incorporated SPLC’s “designation” into its listing of charities. Guidestar is often the first stop for donors when considering a gift because it has complete tax information for every non-profit in the United States. So now, when you turn to the Guidestar page for Family Research Council, blazoned across the top is SPLC’s logo and the warning that FRC is a hate group. Stay away donors.

Suing the defenceless

Besides their hate list, one of SPLC’s specialties is suing small groups or individuals who barely have the wherewithal to defend themselves so when SPLC inevitably wins, they get to claim once more to have beaten back fascism. Even though they sit on a mountain of cash, they also get to ask their donors to fund the suit, which they almost certainly do.

Two years ago, SPLC sued Arthur Goldberg who then ran a New Jersey-based psychological referral service for those wishing to leave the homosexual life. SPLC sued under the New Jersey consumer fraud law accusing Goldberg of duping his clients with the bogus theory that they could stop acting out sexually with men. Goldberg was well-represented with pro-bono attorneys from California. At any one time, however, SPLC had 15 attorneys working on the case. To give you an idea of what Goldberg was up against, the judge wouldn’t even allow expert testimony on change therapy since he said it was a crackpot theory. Goldberg lost and now owes millions. SPLC now goes around with Goldberg’s scalp and extracts beaucoup bucks from grateful gays.

It is a neat trick to be able to label your political opponents “hate groups” and get the media and major corporations to go along, and to get rich doing it. The purpose, of course, is to silence free speech, to end debate, and in the words of SPLC’s Mark Potok “to completely destroy them.” Many are asking how this has any place in our modern political discourse.

Austin Ruse is president of C-Fam (Center for Family & Human Rights), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council. He is the author of “The Littlest Suffering Souls: Children Whose Short Lives Point Us to Christ” (Tan, 2017) and the upcoming (Fake Science: Exposing the Left’s Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data” (Regnery, 2017).

This article by Austin Ruse was originally published on MercatorNet.com under a Creative Commons Licence. If you enjoyed this article, visit MercatorNet.com for more. See more at: https://www.mercatornet.com/features/view/splc-a-poverty-project-whose-aim-is-to-destroy-christian-pro-family-groups#sthash.qaQllIie.dpuf

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The SPLC: Race-baiting hucksters or terrorist sponsors?

Photo source: Pixabay, TheDigitalWay, CC0 Public Domain, https://pixabay.com/en/criminal-police-reaction-force-1577887/

The Granny Warriors are a dangerous hate group. Just ask Mark Potok and his crack staff of investigators at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The richest poverty group in history

Skeptics to the right of them, skeptics to the left of them

‘Hate’ labeling is not harmless

SPLC’s campaign against the Center for Family and Human Rights

The goal: ‘destroy them’ – with the help of the media

Amazon is in on it, too. It does not allow “hate groups” to participate in its affinity “Smile” program whereby a piece of every purchase can be earmarked for a designated charity.

Suing the defenceless

#morris dees #southern poverty law center #SPLC #Trump Protesters

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