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People and Happenings
Trustee News
In September 2015, we welcomed Franklin A. “Frank”
Reece III (left) and Niels Peetz-Larsen (right) to the
Board of Trustees. Before joining the Board, both served as
non-trustee members
of Mount Auburn
Committees: Niels
on the Investment
Committee and Frank
on our Education &
Outreach and Institutional Advancement
Committees. In 2012,
Frank also served on
the Friends’ Education
Task Force and now
serves as Co-Chair of
our Council of Visitors. Frank and Niels, both Cambridge
residents, bring impressive knowledge and expertise in
finance, management, and strategic planning with them to
Mount Auburn.
Grant News
Mighty at the Dix monument
working on his earth.sky film series
The Friends of Mount
Auburn Cemetery is pleased to
announce a $5,000 grant from
Mass Humanities for artist-in-residence Roberto Mighty’s
ongoing earth.sky project. This grant will help support the
creation of two additional films in Roberto’s earth.sky series
that are focused on Dorothea Dix, the pioneering Civil
War era nurse and early advocate for sufferers of mental
illness, and George Thorndike Angell, a nineteenth-century
Bostonian lawyer and animal rights activist.
Members Week 2015
From September 14 to 19, 2015, the Friends of Mount
Auburn Cemetery held its annual Members Week in
appreciation of the many individuals and families who
support its work. Among various benefits and discounts,
members received free admission to the Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum, plus a complimentary Friends of Mount
Auburn birders’ pocket notebook when they stopped by
the Visitor Center that week. Additionally, almost thirty
members joined Horticultural Curator Dennis Collins on
a walking tour in which he detailed various initiatives in
Mount Auburn’s new Wildlife Action Plan and discussed
how they will be implemented throughout the Cemetery.
Greenhouse Visit
Isabel Dabrowski toured Mount Auburn’s greenhouse on
September 2, 2015, with Greenhouse Manager Maurene
Simonelli. A plaque commemorating a bequest from Isabel’s
sister Alice Dabrowski was recently installed, acknowledging
her generous legacy gift to the Cemetery. Alice died six
years ago, in February 2009 at the age of 91.
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