Our Quarterly Journal,
Published Since 1925

Summer 2007

Dear Reader,

In August our office manager and assistant librarian, Sarah Suarez, will be leaving us to have a baby, and she has decided to be a stay-at-home mom. We are thrilled for Sarah and her family, and want to let her know how very much we have appreciated the 14 months she spent with us. She is bright, competent and fun to be around; we couldn't have asked for more! On a scale of 1-10, Elizabeth and I would give her a 20. We will miss her terribly, and send her off with all our very best wishes.

We are most fortunate to have another outstanding young person currently on our staff. Patrick Raftery is our library assistant, and we are delighted to announce that when he receives his master's degree from the Palmer School in August, he will become our full-time Assistant Librarian.

The office manager component of Sarah's job will be assumed by Sara Moller-Christensen, a young woman who is working on her master's degree at Sarah Lawrence College. She is very familiar with Westchester, as she lived in Scarsdale for several years before she enrolled at Sarah Lawrence. She will begin on a part-time basis in August.

The Society has been extraordinarily lucky over the past decade to find exceptionally talented young people who love history! We are grateful to all of them for their service.

Sincerely,
Katie Hite
Co-Editor

In our next issue:

The records of the Women's Institute of Yonkers are part of the WCHS Library Collection. Lisa Dondero researched the documents for her senior thesis at Marymount College of Fordham University in 2006. The Institute was founded in 1880 as the Yonkers Free Circulating Library for Self Supporting Women, and it had a rich history of service to the Yonkers community until its close in 2005.

Read the latest article in our Best of The Westchester Historian series:

Our current article The Isadora Duncan Influence in Westchester, written by Jane Northshield explores the life of dancer Isadora Duncan and her sister Elizabeth, their school, and their performances. This article was published in the Summer 1996 (Volume 72, No. 3) issue of the Westchester Historian.

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