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PAST
EVENT ARCHIVES
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Are
We Home Yet?
Thursday,
May 6, 2010: Guests spent half a day with us touring
these lovely historic homes and then lunching at the Waterworks
Restaurant. Proceeds of the event support agencies working
to help today’s homeless.
Lemon
Hill
Robert
Morris, one of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence, became homeless when he went
to debtors prison in the early 1800s. He lost
his beautiful summer villa to Henry Pratt, a wealthy
merchant who lived there with three wives and
15 children.
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Sweetbriar
Samuel
Breck, one of the founders of the Philadelphia
Public School system, built this elaborate country
retreat in order to protect his family from the
various epidemics plaguing the city. Sadly, his
only child died of typhoid.
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Picasso
and
the Avant-Garde in Paris
Event
was sponsored by
Cigna
Foundation, Duane Morris, LLP, and Ecker Seamans
Exhibition
was made possible by GlaxoSmithKline
Additional
funding was provided by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
and The Pew Charitable Trusts. Promotional support provided
by NBC 10 WCAU; Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau
(PCVB) and the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation
(GPTMC); The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, and Philly.com;
and Amtrak.
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Three Musicians, 1921.
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (A.E. Gallatin Collection) |
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Thank
you for making this a successful event.
Proceeds will benefit Anti-Violence programs
in Northwest Philadelphia.
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THANK
YOU!
The
Annual Women's Golf
Outing has been a huge success for yet another year thanks
to all that participated and supported our efforts.
We
would like to specially thank the LPGA golfers that helped
with our clinic and gave pointers on the links ~ Jean Platt
Spencer, jpslpga@comcast.net
and Stephanie Grubb, stephanieglpga@aol.com.
If you are interested in lessons please contact either of
these professionals. We look forward to next year!
Proceeds
will be used
to provide maternal
care for
uninsured women in
Northwest
Philadelphia
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Pictured
(left to right): seated - Kathie Evans (Lower Gwynedd),
Barbara Forde (Chestnut Hill), Joan Mattoon (Lafayette
Hill). standing - Nancy Brewer (Lafayette Hill),
Marjorie Pearson (Wyndmoor), Beth Thorp (Wyndmoor),
Joyce Shumaker (Lafayette Hill).
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Mural Arts
Tour Committee:
Joyce
Shumaker, Mural Arts Tour Event Chair, is sharing the invitations
with the Friends Executive Committee.
The
Mural Arts Tour of West Philadelphia took place on Wednesday,
May 14, 2008.
For
more information about the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts
Program please click here - www.muralarts.org.
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Girl’s Night
Out
More than
150 women attended this Friends-sponsored shopping event held
November 1, 2007, at Whitemarsh Valley Country Club. Thirty artisans
and boutiques, including Foundation grantee BREAKFREE Youth Design,
participated. BREAKFREE uses sewing, design and youth entrepreneurship
to educate, mentor and empower Philadelphia teenagers. Fourteen
hand-crafted bags from students at the HOPE Charter School in
Germantown were sold at the event. Students received 100 percent
of the proceeds of the sale of their work.
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Pictured
are BREAKFREE founder and director Andrea Coffey (left)
with daughter Dahlia Wigfall, program coordinator and sewing
instructor, talking with Foundation board member Charlotte
Betancourt.
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Girl’s
Night Out Committee:
Front row (L to R): Laura Brewer, event co-chair,
Fort Washington; Candise McAllister, Fort Washington; Peggy
Jones, Lower Gwynedd; Frida Walton, Flourtown. Top row
(L to R): Sandy Olson, Lower Gwynedd; Kathie Evans,
Lower Gwynedd; Betsy Whiteside, event co-chair, Erdenheim;
Pam Altman, Ambler. Not pictured: Judy Campbell,
Lafayette Hill; Lynn Clinefelter, Oreland; Barbara Frazier,
Blue Bell; Frances Hanscom, Blue Bell; Nancy Koltes, Roxborough;
Esther Kurtz, East Falls; Kristin Lawton, Fort Washington;
Alou Paff, Lafayette Hill; Dottie Sheffield, Roxborough;
Cameron Soroko, Chestnut Hill.
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Fore the Benefit
of the Foundation
Dr.
Ronnie Florence McPherson of Mt. Airy takes a swing at the
golf clinic preceding the Annual Women's Golf Outing, held
May 23, 2007 at Sunnybrook Golf Club.
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Dream
Find on the Hill
A bride from Spain finds the dress of her dreams at a
Chestnut Hill thrift shop.
Something
old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
The traditional guideline a bride follows when putting together
her wedding day ensemble, and although Marta Bordonada's
wedding was anything but traditional, her wedding dress
managed to fit into three of those categories in a unique
way.
Click here to read the entire story.
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The
Friends of the Foundation contributed $30,000 to the scholarship
fund in fiscal year 2006-2007
From
left, nurses Beth Dailey and Anna Grasela, both Elissa
Messori Jacobsen scholarship winners, join Beth Thorp;
a member of the Friends, Dr. Divo Messori; father
of Elissa Messori and founder of the scholarship fund;
Susan Hansen, Executive Director and CEO of the Foundation;
Tine Hansen-Turton, chairman of the scholarship committee;
Betsy Whiteside, Jean Alsentzer, Marjorie Pearson and Joyce
Shumaker, members of the Friends; and Gina Genesio
and Katrina Hargrove, also nurses and scholarship winners.
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The
Annual Friends of
Green Tree Community Health Foundation's Golf Outing
Co-Chairs
- Barbara Frazier (left), Blue Bell and Judy Campbell
(right), Wyndmoor are Swinging into action for the annual
Friends of Green Tree Community Health Foundation's Golf
Outing which was held at Sunnybrook Golf Club on Wednesday,
October 4, 2006. This year's outing benefited the Elissa
Messori Jacobsen Nursing Scholarship Fund.
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Abzoolutely
Chestnut Hill
Monkey Business, the retail consignment
store operated by the Friends of the Foundation, has joined
the Chestnut Hill Business Community's efforts to raise
funds through Abzoolutely
Chestnut Hill.
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Welcoming
their newly adopted chimp, which will be painted by local
artist Laura Pritchard, are (from left), Monkey Business volunteers
Kitty Broderick, Irene Schindler and Haru Solomon; Susan Hansen,
Executive Director and CEO of the Foundation; and Rose
Malley, Manager of Monkey Business.
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Gathered
to enjoy the day at the annual women's golf outing are Friends
Board members (from left and counter clockwise):
Barbara Frazier, Kathie Evans, Joyce Shumaker, Jan Maguire,
Nancy Brewer, and Bright Judson.
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Opportunity
Shop & Used Clothes
The
Shop is a non-profit thrift shop staffed by volunteers.
It is under the reigns of the Friends of Green Tree Community
Health for which it raises funds.
We
welcome donated items of used clothing, household goods,
jewelry, garden and sports accessories, etc. (no books).
Articles are moderately priced for sale to the general public.
We also feature items for holidays.
Hours:
Tuesday's - 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Telephone: 215-248-8002
Directions:
Enter the driveway by the Women's Center building, 8800
Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. The shop is in a carriage
house (first floor) at the end of the driveway.
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Photo
identifications (left to right): Susan Colton, Lafayette
Hill, PA, Ruth Kirrstetter, Manager, Glenside, PA,
Edith Clinton, Philadelphia, PA, Gwen Meyer, Oreland,
PA, Ellen Gallagher, Plymouth Meeting, PA, Marion
Mackel, Dresher, PA, Ruth Lester, Wyndmoor, PA
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Workers
at Monkey Business,
benefit and consignment shop
located at 8624 B Germantown Ave.,
Phone number for Monkey Business is 215-248-1835.
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From
left, Rose Malley, Manager, of Philadelphia; Joyce
Schumaker, Oreland, Betty Carey, Fort Washington,
Lydia Waters, Philadelphia, Barbara Culbert, Philadelphia,
and Barbara Lee, Philadelphia.
Monkey Business has been in existence since 1955.
All proceeds benefit the Green Tree Community Health Foundation.
To learn more about
Monkey Business, click here. |
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