GREAT SWAMP WATERSHED ASSOCIATION Fall 2000 |
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Support GSWA, Attend the November 15 Annual Dinner Members and friends are invited to the Watershed Association's annual meeting and dinner, to take place beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, November 15, in the Westin Hotel, Morristown. At the event, this year's Marcellus Hartley Dodge Award will be presented to longtime local environmentalist Candace McKee Ashmun. The award is named after one of the driving forces in the 1960s grassroots effort to prevent construction of a jetport in Great Swamp. It is given annually "to a person or group whose contributions toward the preservation and protection of the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, its watershed, and the watershed's natural, historic and public resources, have been extraordinary." This year's featured speaker will be freelance writer Robert Sullivan, author of The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City, which was a New York Times notable book of 1998. Sullivan, a contributor to The New Yorker and other periodicals, spent part of his boyhood in Madison, NJ, and became attracted to the environment in part because of his explorations in Great Swamp. The 7:30 p.m. dinner will be preceded by a 6:00 annual meeting. Also beginning at six will be a cash-bar reception and a silent auction, which will feature such items as dinners at local restaurants, sports memorabilia, donations from local shops, and weeklong stays at friends' and members' vacation homes. (Last year's silent auction, GSWA's first, raised $10,000 to support the Association's projects and programs.) Ashmun is the eighth recipient of the Dodge Award. Past recipients have included the Hon. Maureen Ogden, former NJ Assemblywoman and staunch champion of environmental preservation; John Gottschalk, former director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service; Hellie and Estey Stowell, longtime local environmental volunteers; Helen Fenske, another leader of the battles to create and protect the Wildlife Refuge; and the New Jersey Audubon Society's Pat and Rich Kane. Cost of the dinner is $65 per person. Members who have friends interested in local environmental issues are especially urged to invite them to attend as well. Reservations can be made by calling GSWA at 973.966.1900, by Friday, Nov. 10 at the latest. |
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