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Habitat Annual Meeting
Habitat for Humanity of Martha’s Vineyard will hold its annual meeting on Thursday, Dec. 4 at 5:30 p.m. at the Vineyard Housing Office, 346 State Road in Vineyard Haven. The meeting is open to the public.
Clare Stuart McLean and Peter Caleb Hedley were married on Saturday, Sept. 6 at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown. The Rev. John D. Schule presided.
Dr. Elaine Cawley Weintraub has been appointed to an elite education think tank, the only teacher among a group that includes principals, superintendents and executives in private industry, such as IBM.
The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School history teacher and West Tisbury resident already has attended her first meeting of the Global Education Advisory Council, after her recent three-year appointment by the commonwealth commissioner of elementary and secondary education, Mitchell D. Chester.
On Oct. 26 the late Claire Belcher Thompson was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Okla.
She was born Gladys Emmons in Mansfield in 1902, the granddaughter of David and Frances Harding. She spent much of her childhood in Mansfield with her grandmother and her aunt, Mabel Harding Barnes. She became an experienced horsewoman.
W e had committed to spending the last week of May along the New Jersey side of Delaware Bay, on the beaches that stretch north from Cape May. One of my two partners in this project, Porter Turnbull, had set up our first meeting at a service stop far down the Garden State Parkway. Our discussion was with a longtime fisherman who has been an advocate for commercial horseshoe crab harvesters. The meeting outlined the complexities of balancing the interests of crab fishermen, shorebird researchers and the wildlife that served both.
Corr-Panek
Michael and Judy Corr are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Colleen S. Corr to Edward J. Panek. A March, 2009 wedding is planned in Florida.