2024 The Cliff Dwellers Annual Members Meeting

2024 – The Cliff Dwellers 118th Annual Members’ Meeting

Editor’s Note: The 118th Annual Meeting of Members of The Cliff Dwellers came and went October 14, 2024. The evening began with exceptional music from two of our talented Artists-in-Residence, Julius Tucker on piano, and Alvin Cobb, Jr. on drums.

Next came Chef Erick Salnave’s dinner production of Lobster Bisque, Beef Tenderloin and Seared Diver Scallops.

Finally came the business of the Annual Meeting and, for the 118th time since the small arts club’s founding in 1907, the affair was accompanied by a raucous habit.  The clanging noise of silverware being dropped on the tables or floor could be heard from the outset of the conclave. As a result, the chairs of the various committees tried to keep their reports short. However, the erratic animus of the crowd is usually disconnected from the length of the reports or the skill of the speakers. Halloween being close by, the animal spirits this year were fully afoot.

Gerry Labedz took over my prior role as the meeting’s emcee. This was in addition to his serving both as Chair of the club’s Communications Committee and Co-Chair of its Program Committee. In sequence, he introduced the evening program below. You can jump to a particular part of the event video by clicking on either the chapter segments on the bottom of the video or the chapter grid icon in the video’s bottom right corner.

                                 The Program

• Call to Order and Welcome – Ben Johnson, President
• Introduction to the Program – Gerry Labedz
• Treasurer’s and 21st Century Fund Reports – Ed Gordon
• Membership Committee – Nick Poplawski
• Artists-in-Residence Program – Eve Moran, Diane Chandler-Marshall, Jennifer Groszek
• Programs & Communications Committees – Gerry Labedz
• Reciprocal Clubs Committee – Penny Wilson
• The Cliff Dwellers Arts Foundation – Trish VanderBeke
• Directors” Nominating Committee – Leslie Recht
  • Election of Board of Director Candidates
    • Isabel Fischbein
    • Gerry Labedz
    • Rick Frendt
• Member Tributes – Eve Moran
  • Bill Drennan
  • Ruth Aizuss Migdal
• Zivio! – Penny Wilson and Jeffrey Strauss
• Adjournment – Gerry Labedz