News From Our Members
Member Aaron Kwitten - Compete’s in Triathlon’s
Member Anthony Rudel - Introduces his new book.
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The Saw Mill 8.0 Mixed Doubles Masters team is going to the NATIONALS
This young team (in its second season) made up of older folks (over 50) had a shaky start. We lost our first home match 0-3 against the Mt. Vernon team but we came back strong and full of enthusiasm to win the next match 2-1 at Mt. Vernon. Our final meet started at Mt. Vernon, but after the first set, all matches were suspended due to rain. Six days later, we were able to get the teams together to finish. Saw Mill won this final match with a decisive 3-0 score, beating the team that went to the Nationals last year.
Since we didn’t expect to win the local league, the trip to the SECTIONALS in Albany two days later was especially sweet. We went there to enjoy the moment and do our best. We represented the Southern section and had to play the winners of the Northern section, which
turned out to be their local team. We were tied at 1-1, and the deciding #2 match was still in progress. Isabel and Ken had won the first set 7-6 (in a tiebreaker), and the second set was very close. They won the second set 7-6, with another tiebreaker, thus securing our team’s victory and the Trip to Nationals.
We accomplished our two goals: to try to win and to have fun while doing it!
From left (photo taken after winning in Albany):
Pat and Anne Culhane, Ken Legunn, Isabel Fernandez, Florin Parlia, Ginger Canfield. Not pictured but part of the team: Chris Rigney, Eve Housler, Doug Peters and Steve Foster.
Saw Mill Club Member Aaron Kwittken who once dabbled in triathlons, competing in the club’s indoor triathlon, now finds comfort and a renewed purpose in competing. Read More…
Anthony Rudel, author of Hello Everybody ! : The Dawn of American Radio
When amateur enthusiasts began sending fuzzy signals from their garages and rooftops, radio broadcasting was born. Sensing the mediums potential, snake-oil salesmen and preachers took to the air, at once setting early standards for radio programming and making bedlam of the airwaves. Into the chaos stepped a young secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover, whose passion for organization guided the technology’s growth. When a charismatic bandleader named Rudy Vallee created the first on-air variety show and America elected its first true radio president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, radio had arrived.
With clarity, humor, and an eye for out-sized characters forgotten by polite history, Anthony Rudel tells the story of the boisterous years when radio took its place in the nation’s living room and forever changed American politics, journalism, and entertainment.
About the Author
ANTHONY RUDEL has spent his professional life in radio, including ten years on the air, as well as stints as vice president of programming for WQXR in New York and SW Radio Networks. The author of the novel Imagining Don Giovanni and two books on classical music, he now consults for radio stations across the country and lives in Chappaqua, New York.
