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e-newsletter September 8 , 2008 |
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September 8, 2008
Dear Families and Friends,
This e-mail is to confirm the exciting news that former President Bill Clinton will join VOICES for our Day of Remembrance on September 10th at the Marriott Downtown Hotel in New York City. President Clinton will speak at 5:00 p.m., reflecting on the progress that has been made over the last seven years and the global threats that still remain. We are honored to have President Clinton at our event. If you wish to attend on September 10, please register right away by contacting Michelle Doherty at (203) 966-3911, mdoherty@voicesofsept11.org. Click here to view our press release about President Clinton's attendance.
We are also honored this year by the presence of NY Giants Retired Co-Captain George Martin at our annual Commemorative Luncheon on September 11th. We will present George Martin with the VOICES "Building Bridges Award" in recognition of Mr. Martin’s recent historic charitable cross-country walk in support of thousands of ailing rescue and recovery workers of Ground Zero. Click here to view our press release about the event.
Other guests at the September 10th and 11th events include Governor George Pataki. The two day event is a partnership between Voices of September 11th and The National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center. A very special thanks to our donors, John & Margo Catsimatidis and Gov. Pataki and John Cahill with Chadbourne & Parke LLP, who made these events possible.
Among the other events taking place to mark the Anniversary is the signing of steel beams to be used in the construction of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Members of the public are invited to sign the beams on Wednesday and Thursday, September 10 & 11 in Battery Park in Manhattan and on Sunday, September 14 at Meadowlands for the Jets opening home game. On September 10 & 11, the beams will be available for signing from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the north side of Battery Park at Battery Place between Greenwich Street and Broadway, in Manhattan.
We look forward very much to welcoming all of you to the events.
Mary and the Voices Staff
VOICES September 10th and September 11th Events
September 10th Day of Remembrance and September 11th Commemorative Luncheon Below are details for VOICES Seventh Anniversary commemorative events. Both the September 10th Day of Remembrance Information Forum and the September 11th Commemorative Luncheon will be held at the Marriott New York Downton, located at 85 West Street. The Information Forum is open to the public and begins at 10:00 am.
On September 11th, family members, rescue workers and survivors are invited to attend the Commemorative Luncheon. The Commemorative Luncheon will include music, a candlelight service, a keynote speaker and a presentation of the annual Voices of September 11th Building Bridges award. Several special guests will join us to commemorate the day. Space is limited and is filling up fast. Our sponsors have subsidized the event so that we can offer lunch at $20 per person.Please contact Michelle Doherty at (203) 966 - 3911, mdoherty@voicesofsept11.org to make your reservation for both events by September 8th.
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Ms. Greenwald joined the NS11MM in 2006 to oversee implementation of the vision for the NS11MM and for eventual programming and operation. Ms. Greenwald’s prior positions include Associate Director for Museum Programs at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Executive Director of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia; Curator of the Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, and Curatorial Assistant at the Maurice Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago. She holds an M.A. in History of Religions from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and a B.A in English Literature and Anthropology from Sarah Lawrence College.
Dr. Ramirez has worked as a curator of 9/11 collections, most recently as Consulting Curator to the NS11MM, and as Vice President and Museum Director of the New York Historical Society. She oversees the collection’s development, conservation, preservation, documentation, use and analysis. Dr. Ramirez has worked on many interpretive, collections development, and long range planning projects. She has served as Deputy Director, Museum of the City of New York: Chief Curator, Hudson River Museum of Westchester; and Research Associate, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She holds a Ph.D and M.A. in American Studies from Boston University and a B.A in English Literature from Dartmouth College. 
Dave Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and its parent company Sound Portraits Productions. His radio documentary work has won five Peabody Awards, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and the Edward R. Murrow award. Dave has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (1994), a MacArthur Fellowship (2000), and a United States Artists Fellowship (2006). He is the author (or co-author) of four books: Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago (Scribner, 1997); Flophouse (Random House, 2000); and the first-ever StoryCorps book, Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project (The Penguin Press, 2007) 
Galen Tate has led the music ministry at Saint Thomas More Church since 1990. As an accompanist, he has performed with the Mendelssohn Choir of Connecticut, Stamford Chorale, Rockland County New York Choral Society, Lumina String Quartet, Sax In The City, and the Fairfield County Chorale Summer Sings. He serves as accompanist for the United Chorale and Choral Accompanist for Fairfield University. He has worked with Joe Utterback, José Feliciano, Frank Patterson, Metropolitan Opera soprano Betty Jones, and with Broadway tenors David Gaschen and Frank Mastrone. He received his B.Mus. in Organ Performance from the University of Arkansas and M.Mus. in Organ Performance from the University of Tennessee. 
Dr. John Michniewicz has been involved in church, academic, and professional performing ensembles as a singer, accompanist or director. A commissioned composer, his music is published by the Chorister's Guild of Dallas, Texas. His anthem “Honor, Glory” was commissioned by the Connecticut Chapter of the Chorister's Guild for their tenth anniversary festival. Dr. Michniewicz has performed in Europe and America, including recitals on the great organ at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. He is Director of Academic Music at Sacred Heart University. He completed both Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. 
Joan Carlo, mezzo-soprano, has performed for many years in regional, dinner, children’s and community theatre. She has toured nationally with theatre companies and performed in musical comedy, operetta, opera, and cabaret. Joan's favorite roles include Tessa in The Gondoliers, Phoebe in Yeoman of the Guard and Ruth in Pirates of Penzance. She was a featured soloist in Hello Broadway, a cabaret which played at the Rich Forum, Darien Arts Center, and the Sterling Barn Theatre. Joan serves on the music staff of St. Thomas More Church as Cantor for the Children's Liturgies and mezzo-soprano section leader in the St. Thomas More Adult Choir. 
Matthew Thomas, baritone, is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music. During high school, he was a soloist in the school’s vocal groups as well as the Tudor Singers, with whom he traveled to Italy in 2000. Matthew sings regularly for St. Thomas More Church in Darien. He recently performed in a production of La Boheme in Westport, Connecticut, as well as taking on the lead role of Nathan Benedict in Revolution! 1777, an original production at the Crystal Theatre in Norwalk.