August 26, 2011
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Chautauqua Institution is in line for nearly $700,000 in federal and state grant money, which will be used over the next three years to accelerate development of its natural stormwater runoff filtration systems.
“If good fortune is where preparation meets opportunity,” said Doug Conroe, director of operations, “we can count ourselves fortunate indeed in Chautauqua.”
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August 20, 2011
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They may be scooping ice cream, making your change or serving up coffee at the Refectory. Perhaps they take your bag with a smile as you arrive at the hotel. They may take a note for the newspaper, prepare part of your Athenaeum meal or sit astride one of the Institution’s big mowing machines.
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August 20, 2011
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It’s Thursday night in the Amphitheater, the evening wearing on now, another popular Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert in the books. The audience files out, satisfied, anticipating a good rest in the cooling night air. A nearly full moon illuminates the scene. Quiet replaces hubbub in Chautauqua’s concert center.
Out of sight on the Amp’s busy back porch, Keith Schmitt is thinking about Clint Black, the country superstar who will perform on his stage the following evening. Schmitt, the Amp manager, knows several critical hours lie ahead for him and his stage crew. Final preparations now are in full swing.
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August 13, 2011
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“This is my domain,” Stephanie Holt says, beaming and spreading her arms as expansively as is possible in a 160-square-foot room crammed with thousands of items lost and so far unclaimed by Chautauquans and visitors.
“I love this job. It’s my passion.”
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August 7, 2011
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“The next thing I knew, I was in charge of organizing the world,” recalled John Koskinen with a laugh.
Koskinen, who launches the Week Seven examination of “The U.S. Economy: Beyond a Quick Fix” at 10:45 a.m. in the Amphitheater, was serving as President Bill Clinton’s Year 2000 Conversion Council chairman at the time and soon found himself performing similar tasks for the United Nations, chairing meetings of more than 100 nations.
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August 6, 2011
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Sparks fly when Jane Conroe speaks.
“I’m passionate about our Chautauqua Lake,” she said, with emphasis. “The lake is in danger. The problem is the sum of an enormous number of small things that have been done during the past 100 years of development along the lakeshore and in the lake’s watershed.”
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August 1, 2011
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“I fell in love with Chautauqua’s Miller Bell Tower at the age of 5,” Carolyn Benton said.
Now in her 10th year as the bell tower’s chimemaster, Benton gushes enthusiastically about many things, but especially about Chautauqua’s most prominent symbol.
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July 23, 2011
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The former director of the United Nations Environment Programme has said that “we used to think that energy and water would be the central issues for the next century. Now we think that water will be the critical issue.”
“Water is the oil of the 21st Century,” a former Dow Chemical president told The Economist magazine.
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July 22, 2011
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Chautauqua Institution lost electric power throughout the grounds just before 3 p.m. Thursday on a sweltering and humid afternoon. A transformer at the local National Grid substation failed, and power was not restored until 6 a.m. Friday.
George Murphy, vice president and chief marketing officer, described the scene on the second floor of the Colonnade after initial word reached President Thomas Becker’s office that the blackout might last for 24 hours.
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July 16, 2011
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The Athenaeum Hotel general manager kept calling, but Michele “Mickey” Murray wouldn’t return his calls.
This went on for several weeks in 1993, the GM calling, Murray suspecting he wanted to offer her a job at the Institution. For her, having a summer vacation that year was more important.
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Greenhouse to take audience on her journey out of Christian Science
Hoffman fights for women’s rights inside secular Judaism, at Western Wall
Gergen: Millennials should learn from the World War II generation
President Roosevelt: ‘I Have Seen War. I Hate War.’
Audubon Quartet to perform final concert
Fish: Value of arts, humanities found in pleasure we take in them
Dybul: Eliminate preventable diseases for ‘a more perfect world’
Through his photography, Reza ‘shakes the hearts of people’
Writers’ Center workshops help Chautauquan get published
BTG seeks historical input for 100th anniversary in 2013
138th assembly draws to close with Becker’s Sunday address
Hillcrest Concert Band brings worldly program to Amp
Holbert to preach on season’s final Sunday
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