Richard J. Galvin

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Richard J. Galvin, 81, of Marion, died March 13, 2018 at Sippican Healthcare Center in Marion. He was the husband of Randi J. (Clemishaw) Galvin.

Rich was the first born to Josephine and Frank Galvin in Boston, MA. He grew up in Arlington and moved to Marion when he was 16. After graduating from Fairhaven High School, Rich accepted a full scholarship to Boston University for theater/acting. With his fellow acting classmates in The Actors Company, Rich left BU to act full time and helped to form the Charles Street Playhouse on Charles St. in Boston. In his 20’s Rich moved to New York City where he kept acting, owned a bar, and lived his life out loud for 17 years.

Rich traveled, acted, and lived in California and Florida and eventually came home to Marion. After earning his certification for counseling in clinical social work, Rich dedicated the next 30 years of his life to helping the men and women struggling with addiction. Many of those years were at Gosnold Treatment Center in Falmouth. Rich generously helped many, many souls with his gift for healing the heart.

He is survived by his wife Randi of Marion; his daughter Marci Galvin Cosgrove; his son-in-law Martin Cosgrove, and his grandson Cole Cosgrove all of Cape Cod. His sisters, Sheila Chaberek, and Susan Renee of New Hampshire. Rich was predeceased by his brother the late Donald Galvin.

Relatives and friends are invited to visit at the Chapman, Cole & Gleason Funeral Home, 2599 Cranberry Highway (Rt. 28), Wareham on Mon., March 19, 2018 from 2 to 4 pm. A celebration of life service will follow at 4 pm at the funeral home.

March Programs at Plumb Library

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An amazing magic teapot is the centerpiece of Magician Debbie O’Carroll’s Irish Fairy Grandmother’s Magic Show on Saturday, March 24 from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm at the Plumb Library, 17 Constitution Way, Rochester. Full of enchanting magic, silly comedy and loads of audience participation, the Irish fairy grandmother delights ages 3 to 8 with Irish fun, lore and laughter. Pre-registration is required. Register on the library’s Events Calendar on our website www.plumblibrary.com.

The COA Book Group will discuss Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg on Tuesday, March 20 at 10:15 am at the Rochester COA, 66 Dexter Lane, Rochester. An older woman’s memories help to strengthen the resolve of a younger friend who is suffering a mid-life crisis in the novel that inspired the feature film.

“Just the Facts” Nonfiction Book Group will discuss Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Gann on Thursday, March 15 at 6:30 pm. The best-selling author of The Lost City of Z presents a true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

Café Parlez will discuss Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris on Thursday, March 29 at 6:30 pm. A stirring, sensual novel by the author of Chocolat follows a woman as she returns to the French village where she lived as a girl during the German occupation.

ORRAHOF Annual Hoops Classic

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ORCTV will hold its Annual Meeting and Open House on Saturday, April 28 at noon at the ORCTV studios located at 135 Marion Road, Mattapoisett. The meeting will include the election of members to the Board of Directors. The slate of this year’s nominees is as follows:

– Marion Nominee: Jodie Dickerson, 2-year term

– Rochester Nominee: Linda Mederios, 2-year term

– Mattapoisett Nominee: Danny White, 2-year term

– Membership Seat: Elaine Botelho, 1-year term

Elizabeth Taber Library Artist of the Month

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The Elizabeth Taber Library’s “Artist of the Month” is Corinna Raznikov. With over twenty years experience photographing around the world, she creates beautiful, meaningful images.

Corinna has a B.A. from the University of the Pacific and studied the history of photography at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. A permanent installation of her work, The Baby Project, was installed at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She was awarded Best of Boston Wedding Photographer by Boston Magazine in 2014.

The Artist of the Month series has been an ongoing display for over four years. The artist must live in Marion and have a body of artwork ready to hang along the eastern wall of the library. The exhibit changes every month. This is a celebration of the cultural community of Marion and a way for our local artists to share their talent with our patrons.

Storm Sends Another Blow to Tri-Town

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We’ve got those snow-blowing blizzard-blasting no-lights hurry-up-Eversource stuck-inside bread-and-milk winter-weary enough-of-this-insanity blues again.

Spring in the Tri-Town couldn’t feel any farther away from us than it does right now. Residents in Marion, Mattapoisett, and Rochester have lost their power – again – and, without a doubt, their patience along with it.

Mother Nature has sided with the groundhog sending us not one, but three Nor’easters within two weeks. As tree limbs fall around us so do our dreams of an ending to winter; as wires come down, so do our spirits.

Again, the Tri-Town emergency dispatch radio chatter was constant with reports of trees blocking roads, power outages, and cars stuck in the snow—same situations, only the street names and dates have changed.

Rochester was first to open up an emergency warming station around mid-day Tuesday. By noon, most of Marion was again without power, and half of Mattapoisett and Marion were forced into power-saving mode on their smart phones and tablets. By dark, Marion and Mattapoisett in collaboration had opened an emergency shelter at ORR.

As of press time, 70 percent of Mattapoisett still sits in the dark, 54 percent of Marion is stuck with no Wi-Fi, and over in Rochester 47 percent are still walking into rooms flipping on light switches out of habit and then remembering that they have no electricity.

The storm was still in progress by the time we at The Wanderer ‘put this baby to bed’ Tuesday night, so we have no official wind gust strengths or snow totals to report to you for this week’s edition. But what we can tell you is this: next Tuesday, March 20, is the first day of spring. — just five days away from the release of this week’s print edition.

There are still some hurdles ahead of us next week with some nighttime temps dipping into the teens early on but, even as the snow still falls, Tri-Town is melting into spring. So hold tightly to the sides of this same boat we find each other in as we sail into spring and then into summer, and remember this in August while we’re complaining about the heat and the drought.

“Complain about summer? Not me!” say us all.

Got photos of the storm? Send them to us (along with photo credit information) at news@wanderer.com so we can print them in next week’s edition.

By Jean Perry

 

Tri-County Symphonic Band

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The Tri-County Symphonic Band, under the direction of Philip Sanborn, will continue its 56th season with a program entitled “March Mania” on Sunday, March 18 at 3:00 pm in the Fireman Performing Arts Center at Hoyt Hall on the campus of Tabor Academy, 235 Front Street, Marion, Massachusetts. “March Mania” will be a vibrant collection of band repertoire that celebrates, accentuates and illuminates the month of March. The Resurgam Saxophone Quartet will be the soloists in a program that mixes new music with some venerable favorites.

The concert begins with “Chester” composed by William Schuman. “Chester” is based on the third movement of Schuman’s “New England Triptych,” considered to be his most famous work. Music from composer Frederick Delius will follow with his ode to the changing season, “On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring.” Performed for the third time ever, composer Ted King-Smith’s “Breaking Point” will electrify the audience with its new, unique and energizing soundscape for saxophone quartet as interpreted by The Resurgam Quartet.

The Resurgam Quartet formed in 2015 at the Hartt School in Hartford, CT. Its current members are Harrison Kliewe (soprano saxophone), Colette Hall (alto saxophone), Sean Tanguay (tenor saxophone), and Michael Raposo (baritone saxophone). Recently, the quartet was a semi-finalist at the international Fischoff Chamber Music Competition for the second time. The quartet also won the 2016 Paranov Concerto Competition at the Hartt School performing William Bolcom’s “Concerto Grosso.” Resurgam enjoys an active performing schedule. Dedicated to expanding the saxophone quartet repertoire, the quartets latest commission “Breaking Point” is set to be premiered in March, 2018 at the North American Saxophone Alliance’s Biennial Conference. The Quartet also presented a concert of new works at the Hartford New Music Festival and will continue to create new music for the saxophone quartet. Education is an important part of Resurgam’s mission, which has presented masterclasses and educational concerts in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and Indiana.

A Norwegian march closes out the first half of the program. Johannes Hanssen was one of Norway’s most active and influential bandmasters, composers, and teachers during the first part of the 20th century. He wrote the march “Valdres” as a tribute to the beautiful region in Norway between Oslo and Bergen.

The second half opens with a march for an unlikely group: “March of the Belgian Paratroopers.” It is a delicate, European-style march that is uniquely tuneful and is sure to delight. The next two pieces are a tribute to the Irish who will have celebrated St. Patrick’s Day the day before the concert. “Irish Tune from County Derry” is Percy Grainger’s masterful setting of the traditional folk song we know today as “Danny Boy.” The powerful “Ireland: Of Legend & Lore” is certain to set the Irish blood boiling as tin whistle and bodhran help the full band to portray castles and colorful characters from Irish history and folklore and put their legendary deeds to music.

The concert will close with the Resurgam Quartet joining the band for William Bolcom’s “Concerto Grosso for Saxophone Quartet and Band.” A student of Darius Milhaud, Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and served as chairman of the composition department from 1998 to 2003. Bolcom has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, four Grammy Awards, and the National Medal of Arts. “Concerto Grosso” was written purely as a piece to be enjoyed by performers and listeners. The second movement, “Song without Words,” is a lyrical larghetto and the final Badinerie, a title borrowed from Bach, evokes bebop and rhythm-and-blues.

Since 1962 the Tri-County Symphonic Band has been part of the cultural life of Southeastern Massachusetts. The primary aim of the organization has been to make live performances of quality concert band repertoire available in the community and to give musicians a chance to share their love for the art of making music.

Tickets for the concert are $15 for adults, $5 for students, with children 12 and under admitted for free. Tickets can be purchased at the Symphony Music Shop in Dartmouth and The Bookstall in Marion. Tickets can also be purchased online at www.brownpapertickets.com. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the door.

MAC Presents Barefoot in the Park

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Marion Art Center announces that ticket sales have begun for its spring production of Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park, presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. and sponsored by American Research Management Co., Fieldstone Farm Market, and Barden’s Boat Yard. The romantic comedy, which is perhaps best known for its 1967 movie counterpart starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, tells the story of a newlywed couple in 1963 Manhattan adjusting to married life in a small, walk-up apartment while dealing with the wife’s widowed mother, an eccentric neighbor, and a telephone repairman who gets caught in the middle of the mayhem … and laughter ensues.

Director Pippa Asker leads the production with Steve McManus as Sound & Lighting Director and Dot McCarthy as Stage Manager. The cast of six includes South Coast locals: Kate Fredericks, Annemarie Fredericks, Sue Massey, Tristan McCann, Thom O’Shaughnessy and Harvey Ussach.

MAC will run a total of six shows including: Friday, March 16 at 7:30 pm; Saturday, March 17 at 7:30 pm; Sunday, March 17 at 2:00 pm; Thursday, March 22 at 7:30 pm; Friday, March 23 at 7:30 pm; and Saturday, March 24 at 7:30 pm. Purchasing tickets in advance is highly recommended and may be done in person at the Marion Art Center (located at 80 Pleasant Street in Marion, MA) or by calling 508-748-1266. Tickets are $18 for MAC members and $20 for non-members; payments are accepted by cash, check and credit card. MAC’s recently updated “Anne Braitmayer Webb Theater” offers new theater-style seating as well as cabaret tables (for parties of 4), and guests are welcome to bring their own refreshments.

The Marion Art Center, founded in 1957, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the visual and performing arts.

Academic Achievements

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Ariel Etheridge, a member of the Colgate University Class of 2018, has earned the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence. Etheridge is from Rochester and is a graduate of Tabor Academy. Etheridge’s current major is educational studies.

Students who receive a term grade point average of 3.3 or higher while completing at least three courses earn the fall 2017 Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence.

The following Tri-Town students were named to the 2017 fall semester dean’s list at Simmons College in Boston:

– Jessica Lynne Rush of Marion, majoring in political science

– Sophia J Lange of Mattapoisett, majoring in chemistry

– Lillian Rose McIntire of Mattapoisett, majoring in nursing

– Emily Lucia Josephson of Rochester

To qualify for dean’s list status, undergraduate students must obtain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher, based on 12 or more credit hours of work in classes using the letter grade system.

Galen L. Stone II

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Ambassador Galen L. Stone II, an influential senior diplomat and WWII veteran who in retirement helped direct numerous educational and philanthropic organizations in the greater Boston area, passed away on January 23 surrounded by his loving family.

Ambassador Stone was born on the 4th of July in 1921, the eldest child of Robert G. Stone and Bertha Lea Barnes. He grew up in Brookline, MA, attended The Park School, Milton Academy, and Harvard College, and summered in Marion at his family’s beloved Great Hill property. In 1942, he enlisted in the Army and joined the US Army Corps of Engineers as a second lieutenant. He landed in Normandy while still under fire, and after VE Day was appointed Military Governor at age 24 over some 50,000 people in the greater Leipzig region of Germany. He remained active in the Army Reserve until 1970, and rose to the rank of Colonel.

Amb. Stone joined the Foreign Service in 1947 and served in numerous posts around the world. He became Deputy Chief of Mission in New Delhi, India and also served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Paris, France. He subsequently served as US Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and to the Republic of Cyprus. Amb. Stone was a recipient of the State Department’s Meritorious Honor Award.

After retiring from the State Department in 1981, Mr. Stone’s commitment to public service continued in his private life, as he helped guide and support more than a dozen Boston area educational and philanthropic organizations. He notably served as Chairman of the Board of Overseers of Northeastern University, as Chairman of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, as a Trustee of New England Baptist Hospital and as a Director and Treasurer of United South End Settlements.

Mr. Stone’s son Brewer stated, “My father experienced both the Great Depression and the Second World War, which gave him a deep sense of empathy and lifelong desire to serve. He was born into privilege and spent his life giving back.”

Mr. Stone is survived by his loving wife of 70 years, Anne Brewer Stone, and by his brother Henry, of St. Clair Shore, MI. He is also survived by five children, Diana, of Asheville, NC; Mary Smith of Plainville; Pamela Evans of Marion; Galen III of Marion; Brewer of Mill Valley, CA.; 14 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Mr. Stone loved spending time with his large extended family at Great Hill, taking long swims in the Bay, and cycling throughout the area. A regular participant in the Marion July 4th parade as a WWII veteran, he had a big smile for everyone he met, and was a by all accounts a true gentleman.

A service to celebrate Mr. Stone’s long and wonderful life will be held on May 26, 2018, at 11 a.m. at Great Hill.

Theatre One Productions

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Opening on March 16 for two weekends and closing Sunday, March 25, Theatre One Productions brings to the Alley Stage at 133 Center Street in Middleboro Neil Simon’s hit comedy The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, directed by Dan Groves of Wareham. Tickets are cash only at the door; $18 for Seniors/Students and $20 for General Admission. Show times: Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm; Sundays at 2:00 pm. Doors open ½ hour prior to show. We collect food donations at all our performances for the Middleboro COA Senior Pantry. Info: 774-213-5193.

Barney Cashman (Robert Duquette of Somerset) is a middle-aged, bumbling seafood restaurant owner, married for 23 years. He hopes to experience the excitement of illicit romance before his time runs out. He has chosen his mother’s apartment as a safe place to pursue romantic adventures, as she volunteers one day a week at a local hospital until 5:00 pm.

His first attempt is with a customer from his restaurant, Elaine Navazio (Susan Salvesen of Marion) who is bored with her 280-pound husband and often ventures into affairs.

His second attempt is with Bobbi Michelle (Sheila Kelleher of Plymouth), a psychotic, unemployed nightclub singer who lives with her Nazi vocal coach. “She is not just German,” says Bobbi, “she is actually Nazi, wears black shirts, boots, the whole thing.”

Barney’s third attempt is with his wife’s best friend, Jeanette Fischer (Kathy Bourne of Middleboro). He invites her to a rendezvous for the afternoon after Jeanette came on to him at a recent dinner party. When Jeanette arrives, she isn’t exactly what Barney was expecting at all!        “Delightfully hilarious and witty, filled with wisdom about human nature,” quotes The New York Post. “Mr. Simon has created a great character here … extraordinarily funny and yet also charming,” quotes The New York Times.