Faces & Places

1. Fourteen Ulster County area students were awarded $2,000 scholarships from the Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation in recognition of their outstanding personal achievement and community involvement. Initiated in 2001, the scholarship program celebrated Ulster Savings Bank’s 150th anniversary and became part of the bank’s foundation, which was formed in 2003. Scholarship recipients pictured (from left, back row) are: Emily Turck, Melissa Koczaja, Jane Mari Brown, Ashley Crinieri, Jesse Ewald, Rebecca Chance and Christian Tiani. From left, front row, are: Cassandra Rosado, Ava Kreider-Mueller, Katherine Weber and Anthony Alvarez. Not pictured are: Nestor Hernandewz, Jamie Kravetz and Dawn Russell.

2. The recent Putnam Hospital Center Golf Tournament, sponsored by Northeastern Anesthesia Services and held at Ridgewood Country Club in Danbury, Conn., raised more than $210,000 for the hospital. Pictured, with a team score of 59 (from left) are: Howie Busse, Joe McCloskey, Ryan Kellogg and Paul DiNardo. From left (photo 2a), with a team score of 66, are: Brian Miles, Greg Bidwell, John Tully and Ben Melahn.

3. Houlhan Lawrence Inc., one of the largest privately owned real estate firms in the region, was recently honored for its commitment and support of the Miles of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation, a nonprofit organization established to fund support services for people fighting breast cancer in the Hudson Valley. The honor was bestowed upon the firm at a brunch held in The Grandview Hotel in Poughkeepsie. Pictured (from left) are: Barbara Dudley, branch manager, Houlihan Lawrence, East Fishkill office; Pari Forood, foundation executive director; and Lisa Arnoff, brunch chairperson.

More than 200 people attended the Orange County Chamber of Commerce breakfast at Newburgh’s Ramada Inn July 10 to hear Robert Dennison, chief engineer, New York State Department of Transportation (DOT). Here are some faces in the crowd.

1- From left: Bill Gordon, design engineer, Region 8, DOT, Poughkeepsie; Joseph Izzo, HDR, Inc., White Plains; and Chris Boylan, director of client relations, Ethan Allen Personnel Group, Poughkeepsie and Fishkill.

2- From left: Robert Dennison with Dr. Arthur Anthonisen, president, Hudson Valley International Trade Association, New Windsor.

3- From left: Caren Fairweather, executive director, Maternal Infant Services Network, Central Valley; Rhett Weires Esq. of Tarhis, Catania, Liberth, Mahon & Milligram, P.L.L.C., Newburgh; Paul Telch and Lori DeGroff, financial representatives for Northwestern Mutual in Newburgh.

4-TD BankNorth was well represented at the breakfast (from left) are: Toni Greco, regional vice president; Kathy Kirshner, assistant vice president, Central Valley; and Kevin Porter, assistant vice president, Monroe.

5- From left: James Manley, agent, State Farm Insurance; George Woolsey Sr., town of Newburgh councilman; and Chris Tighe, mortgage consultant, P.J. Fogarty Mortgage Services, Newburgh.

6-From left: Michael Valentino, community relations coordinator, Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union; Paul Daubman, principal, Daubman Corporate Interiors; and Kathy Ferrusi, community relations coordinator, Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, all from Poughkeepsie.

The Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce held a “meet and greet” party for its new executive director, Michael Johndrow, a retired school superintendent, whose wife Jacqueline chose Warwick as the place to live in their retirement. Now Warwick has chosen Johndrow to lead its growing chamber. Here are some of the chamber’s members and friends at the party held in The Eclectic Eye, July 10.

7- Michael Johndrow, new executive director for the Warwick Valley Chamber of Commerce, had an opportunity to mingle with chamber members and meet the public.

8- From left: Cheetah Haysom, president of the Pine Island Chamber of Commerce; Daniel Mack, Rustic Furnishing Inc., Warwick; Pamela Arace, Arace & Company Consulting, Warwick; and Robert Krahulik, president of the chamber and attorney at Bonacic, Krahulik & Associates, L.L.P., Warwick.

9- Betsy Mitchell, Track 7 Postal Center, Warwick with Duane Albro, president and chief executive officer, WVT Communications, Warwick and village of Warwick Mayor Michael Newhard.

10- From left: Carole Rogers, director of sales for Warwick Grove; Mike Baglione, member of the band Tin Roof, who performed for the gathering; and Janine Dethmers, Corporate Impressions, Warwick, designer of the chamber’s tourism guide and annual Apple Fest brochures.

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