Newsmakers - 08/31/2010
On the Right - Glenn Pearsall of Johnsburg (left), Trustee of The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake and Chairman of its Hochschild Award Committee, and Museum Director Caroline Welsh of Tupper Lake (right) were among those who paid tribute to Peter Paine Jr. of Willsboro when he received the 2010 Harold K. Hochschild Award on August 19, 2010 at the Museum. The Award is named for the Museum’s founder, whose passion for the Adirondacks, its people and environment inspired the creation of the Adirondack Museum, and since 1990 it has been presented to intellectual and community leaders throughout the Adirondack Park, highlighting their contributions to the region’s culture and quality of life. This year’s recipient has devoted much of his life to exemplary public service as a member of the Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks (chaired by Harold K. Hochschild) from 1968 to 1970, as a Commissioner of the Adirondack Park Agency from 1971 to 1995, as the principal draftsman of the Adirondack State Land Master Plan and New York State Wild Scenic and Recreational Rivers Legislation, a founding member and long-time General Counsel of the Lake Champlain Committee, a founding Trustees of what is now Environmental Advocates, a leader in the preservation as a bird sanctuary of the Four Brother Islands in Lake Champlain, the addition of the Split Rock Mountain Range to the NYS Forest Preserve, the Noblewood Park and Nature Preserve project and the Coon Mountain Preserve project. A retired partner of the international law firm, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, he has served as Chairman of Champlain National Bank in Willsboro, is a Trustee and former Chairman of the Adirondack Nature Conservancy, Trustee of the New York State Nature Conservancy, currently serves as President of the Board of Trustees of the Fort Ticonderoga Association and as a Trustee of the Adirondack Community Trust. He is a hunter, fisherman, horseman and wilderness expedition leader, and with his family, donated conservation easements to the Adirondack Nature Conservancy starting in 1978, protecting five miles of shoreline on Lake Champlain and the Boquet River and some 1,000 acres of farmland and forest. Northern Insuring Agency, Champlain National Bank, the Lake Champlain Committee, the Adirondack Park Agency, The Nature Conservancy, the Vermont Historical Society, Fort Ticonderoga Association and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Region 6 were among the many friends and organizations that paid tribute to him at the award ceremony.
Michael Clark of Mayfield, Hudson River Area Administrator for the Hudson River – Black River Regulating District, was named to assume the duties of the Executive Director of the Regulating District. He joined the District three years ago and prior to that was City Engineer for Amsterdam for two years and spent six years before that as Johnstown’s City Engineer. A Civil Engineer and Professional Engineer, he earned his engineering degree at Union College. Glenn LaFave of Brownville, who retired this month from the Executive Director post that he held since 2005, had been the Black River Area Administrator from 2003 to 2005. The Regulating District is a public benefit corporation established by the New York State Legislature with a mission is to regulate the flows of the Hudson River and Black River for the purposes of flood protection and flow augmentation.
Michael Komanecky, Chief Curator of The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, ME, will deliver a lecture, The Art of The Wyeths at The Farnsworth, at The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls on Sunday September 5, 2010 at 2 p.m. to discuss The Farnsworth’s pictures that are featured in The Hyde’s current exhibition, Andrew Wyeth: American Legend. In addition, he will discuss the Wyeth Family legacy at The Farnsworth and how the works came to be a part of that Museum’s distinguished collection.
Bob Philipson of Old Forge got a Hole-In-One on the 170-yard #15 at Inlet Golf Club on August 17, 2010 using a ping three wood. Margy Lind of Inlet was the witness.
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