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The 2007 Smart Living Awards
Judson at University Circle is pleased to announce the recipients
of its 2007 Smart Living Awards.
The Smart Living Awards honor older adults
and their young “up-and-coming” counterparts
who have dedicated their lives to the dynamic vitality of
University Circle. The Smart Living Awards recognize individuals
in five categories: Arts, Education, Healthcare, Philanthropy
and Volunteerism. Judson culled nominations from its fellow
University Circle institutions and the general public. Be
sure to look for a 2008’s “call for nominations” in
February 2008. For more information, contact Rob Lucarelli,
(216) 791-2321.
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Jane Kessler, Ph.D.
Education
Jane Kessler, Ph.D. was the first staff psychologist
appointed to University
Hospitals. She
also chaired the psychology department
and directed the Graduate Clinical Training
Program at Case Western Reserve
University.
In 1958 she established the Mental Development Center to serve
children and adults with developmental disabilities and wrote
a landmark text, “Psychopathology
of Childhood.” Today Kessler owns Appletree Books at
Cedar and Fairmount in Cleveland Heights.
She serves on the board at Magnolia Clubhouse. “I never
thought I should be limited,” she says of her career. “My
husband and family were very supportive – this made
it easier.”
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Scott R. Inkley, M.D.
Healthcare
Scott R. Inkley, M.D. served as chief of staff
and as the first CEO of University
Hospitals of Cleveland. He created the first pulmonary
function lab at UH; led a hospital-wide
effort to help patients and families
feel more comfortable at UH; and led the hospital’s
expansion efforts into the suburbs. “We wanted to make
it more like a community hospital, make
it friendly,” he
says. As chairman of the board of University
Circle Inc. in the early 1990s, Inkley
led a campaign that raised $8 million for the University Circle
Inc. endowment fund. He remains an active life trustee and
executive committee member of the Cleveland
Museum of Natural History.
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Frances Prindle Taft
Arts
Frances Prindle Taft continues to teach art history
at the Cleveland Institute of
Art (CIA),
a position she’s
held for 55 years. She has received many
honors — Cleveland
Institute of Art Medal of Honor, the
first Outstanding Service to Vassar College
awarded by alumnae and alumni, the YWCA
Women of Achievement and a Special Citation for Distinguished
Service to the Arts from The Cleveland Arts Prize. While she
could make more money as an artist, she feels her personal
mission is education. “One
of the things many kids in visual arts
forget is that art isn’t just
putting hands into clay or paint—we must attach selves
to the history.”
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Hope and Stanley Adelstein
Philanthropy
Hope and Stanley Adelstein live their philosophy
of giving back what you earn. They have
sponsored scholarships for students at
Cleveland Institute of Music and provide
funding for inner-city children to attend
the Cleveland Orchestra’s
Saturday morning Rainbow Concerts. They
created the fund for new and emerging
playwrights at the Cleveland Play House,
are involved in the capital fund at Magnolia Clubhouse and
were appointed honorary life trustees at the Nature
Center at Shaker Lakes. They fantasize about having a second studio
apartment in University Circle so they could spend an entire
weekend there. “Wouldn’t
it be wonderful?”
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Martha Hickox
Volunteerism
Martha Hickox still visits the Cleveland
Museum of Art once a week to work in its library
She also attends weekly Cleveland Orchestra
concerts. Her volunteerism began in 1939
when she graduated from college. After
World War II, she volunteered as a nurse’s
aide and worked in the Rainbow Babies
and Children’s
Hospital clinics. She was on the board
at the Cleveland Music School
Settlement and on its music therapy committee. She served on the board
at Rainbow Babies and Children’s
Hospital and on the board of Hanna Perkins
Center. “I’ve
live here all my life. I have my friends
and activities that I still participate
in,” she says.
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Helen Goldenberg
Volunteerism
Helen Goldenberg () is native Clevelander who
believes that in life if you find something
you love you absolutely must do it. A retired executive director
of the American Cancer Society in Lake County, she currently
volunteers for the Cleveland
Sight Center. She also ushers
for the Cleveland
Orchestra and the Cleveland
Play House.
Goldenberg urges others to get out and do something even if
it’s only once in a while. “You
cannot survive as a vegetable. It’s not a matter of
patting yourself on the back, but you really feel better if
you think about someone other than yourself.”
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Robin Van Lear
Arts
Robin Van Lear always wanted to be an artist. Today,
most people know her as the organizer
and mastermind of Parade
the Circle,
a visually spectacular event held each
June in University Circle. It’s more than surface-deep.
Parade the Circle pairs professional
artists with the public to create its
visual power. “So
many people feel the arts are fluff,
but I believe it’s
the most necessary part of education,” says Van Lear,
who has stayed in Cleveland for more
than 18 years. “I
fell in love with the artists and the
community. There are many talented people here who aren’t
afraid of being individuals.”
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Lori D’Angelo
Healthcare
Lori D’Angelo is executive director of
Magnolia Clubhouse, she now helps adults
with mental illness find the comprehensive
support needed to reconnect with the
community. Magnolia’s
model seeks to reduce the sense of isolation
felt by those with mental illness by
providing a place where they can create a community, find
employment or return to school. She credits her role model,
mentor and fellow Smart Living honoree Jane Kessler, Ph.D.,
with inspiring her to a leadership position in such an organization. “She
inspired me to feel capable. I give her
the majority of the credit for that,” says D’Angelo.
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Brenda Pickett Watson
Volunteerism
Brenda Pickett Watson believes her work at
the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM)
and elsewhere is a calling—to help others. Three of
her sisters are cancer survivors. She
wanted to do something to make them feel
good so she organized and performed a concert of gospel music
at Church of the Covenant to benefit the Ireland Cancer Center
of University Hospitals of Cleveland. Pickett Watson also
performed in a jazz presentation with the Distance Learning
Department at CIM which was viewed by local soldiers stationed
in Iraq. To many CIM students, however, she is like a second
mother, “I’m able
to connect them with people who can help,” she says.
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