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April & May 2020
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Second Vice President - Benefit
Jill Fosselman
Hello everyone - let me assure all of you that we will present the Arcadia house as the 56th Showcase House of Design! The path we're taking this year is not conventional, but we are on track and see a light at the end of the road once we get though the "Safer at Home" order.
We are truly in uncharted waters as we strive to adjust to the changing situation on the ground with COVID-19 -- how it impacts completing the house, ticket sales, the program, and volunteers at the site. Although things seem to change on a daily basis, at present we are treating the house as a construction site (rather than event), thus we are classified as an "Essential Business." What this means is that we are allowed to continue work at the site, and as the Benefit Chair, I have to manage it to maintain a healthy and safe environment (meaning limiting the number of people, maintaining the 6' social distance, and overseeing the health/sanitary procedures we've already put in place).
To ensure that we maintain our healthy site and the comfort and safety of all who work here (volunteers, designers and trades), I am continuing our restricted work environment by limiting the number of trades and workers we have on site at any given time. People may work 1) if they are NOT SICK and 2) if THEY ARE COMFORTABLE. This is very important for me to convey to you. Although no one is required to work, almost all WANT to work. To maintain a healthy and safe environment for everyone, priority design spaces (meaning they have a lot of construction that needs to be completed) are getting priority on scheduling their trades. Others are being allowed in around the work being completed in the priority spaces.
At this time, pre-staffing continues to be on hold and we are managing the site with the Core team and with the help of our caretaker, Kristin Anderson. We all look forward to bringing our pre-staffers back, which also will be an indication of an improvement to the overall COVID-19 situation.
On behalf of our extended team - designers, trades, vendors, and Core members - THANK YOU for staying with us. We are eager to complete our beautiful house and welcome the public when permitted.
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Fourth Vice President - Gifts & Grants
Marsha Seyffert
The Gifts & Grants Committee met for deliberations on February 18th at the Shakespeare Club. The Board approved its recommendations and the recipients were announced at the March General Meeting. Our outstanding committee included President Vikki Sung, Immediate Past President Dana Marevich, Last Year’s Benefit Chair Barbara Damerel, Immediate Past Gifts & Grants Chair Christine Upton, Treasurer Kathryn Hofgaarden, Committee Chair Marsha Seyffert, and PSHA members Yolonda Hamilton, Lisa Loeffler, Jan Wiles, Cathy Hilton, Judy Tsai, Barbara Lake, Chini Johnson-Taylor and Helen Gipson. We are able to give $430,000 this year. This includes three gifts that will go to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Fulcrum Arts and the La Canada Library Children’s Reading/Music program. We also are funding 54 Grants.
I would like to thank Christine Upton for bringing us into the 21st century by getting us into the Common Grant Application system to make the Gifts & Grants application and review process efficient. I also thank Kathryn Hofgaarden for her assistance with spread sheets and accounting.
2020 GIFTS & GRANTS RECIPIENTS
A Noise Within
Academy for the Blind
Alhambra Educational Foundation
Altadena Arts Magnet Elementary School
American Youth Symphony
Angelica Center for Arts and Music
Arcadia Music Club
Assistance League of Los Angeles
Blair High School
California State Summer School for the Arts
Charter Oak High School Bank Boosters
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
Classical Notes
CoachArt
Colburn School
Don Bosco Technical Institute
Dunsmore Elementary School Foundation
Education Through Music Los Angeles
Eliot Arts Magnet Academy
Five Acres
Freemont PAC for John C. Freemont Elementary School
Friends of San Marino High School
Hillsides
Huntington Middle School
LA Opera Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Los Angeles Children’s Chorus
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Foundation
Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Monte Vista Elementary PTA
Muse/ique
Musyca Children’s Choir
Neighborhood Music School
Olympia Philharmonic Society
Optimist Youth Home & Family Services
Pacific Opera Project
Pasadena Conservatory of Music
Pasadena Master Chorale Association
Pasadena Senior Center
Pasadena Symphony Association
San Gabriel Education Foundation
San Gabriel Valley Music Theatre
Santa Cecilia Orchestra
Saturday Night Bath Concert Fund
South Pasadena Educational Foundation
The Harmony Project
The Marianne Frostig Center
The Theater at Boston Court
Therapeutic Living Centers for the Blind
Verdugo Young Musicians Association
VOX Femina Los Angeles
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Washington Elementary STEM Magnet School
Washington Middle School Glee Club
Please plan to attend the Gifts & Grants Reception
at 2:00 PM on Wednesday, June 10 at the House.
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Membership
Cathy Hilton
You should have received your Dues Notice in the mail by now. Please note any roster and status change on the notice and return it with a check for your dues in the enclosed envelope. Should you prefer to pay by credit card, you now have the ability to pay for dues and season tickets on our new website. If you pay online but have changes or corrections to your contact information or are requesting a status change, you'll still need to return the dues notice to me by mail. The deadline for payment of dues is June 3rd, after that there is a $50 late fee. Contact Cathy Hilton, Membership Chair, with any questions at
hilton.cathy@gmail.com
or 215-622-3201.
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Please note the following changes and additions:
Mary Cologne
Mr. & Mrs. Knox Cologne III
885 S. Orange Grove Blvd., #12
Pasadena, CA 91105
H: 626-765-9192
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Holly Shearer
Mr. & Mrs. Jim Shearer
949 Stuhr Drive
San Gabriel, CA 91175
C: 562-761-9840
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Change your contact information?
Please notify Cathy Hilton at
hilton.cathy@gmail.com
or you'll miss out on all the good stuff!
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Advisor / Parliamentarian
Dana Marevich
2020 – 2021 ELECTED OFFICERS
Approved by the Board on February 19, 2020
and voted on by the Membership on March 4, 2020
President - Barbara Damerel
1st Vice President - Jill Fosselman
2nd Vice President (Benefit) - Susie Aguirre
3rd Vice President (Finance) - Suzanne Hart
4th Vice President (Gifts & Grants) - Marybeth Rehman-Dittu
Membership - Lydia Rubin
Secretary - Matt McIntyre
Advisor/Parliamentarian - Vikki Sung
Benefit Chair Elect - Jan Wiles
Hospitality - Lynne Graves
Instrumental Competition - Sally Hazen
Music Mobile - Lani Moore
Youth Concert - Barbara Lake
Provisional - Chini Johnson-Taylor
PR/Marketing - Dotty Ewing
Publications - Cathy Hilton
Season Tickets - Irma Miller
Treasurer - Jenny Chiang
2020-2021 STANDING COMMITTEES
Approved by the Board on March 18, 2020
and to be voted on by the Membership
at the next General Meeting
FINANCE COMMITTEE
Marilyn Anderson
Christina Louie
Jan Wiles
GIFTS & GRANTS COMMITTEE
Alice Lacara
Barbara Lake
Barbara Lyle
Christine Upton
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
Yolanda Hamilton
Michele Lembo
Ying Ying Lin
Lani Moore
Debra Qurtman
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Jenny Chiang
Patricia Kent
Undine Schwarz
Marsha Seyffert
Judy Tsai
POLICIES & PROCEDURES COMMITTEE
Marilyn Anderson
Cathy Hilton
Merian Stewart
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Punch & Lunch
Tea & Tour
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
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General Meeting at 10:00 AM
Tour at 11:00 AM
Lunch & Presentations at 12:00 PM
(Please be mindful that the times may be slightly fluid)
$35 per person
Make checks payable to PSHA
Checks should be mailed to
Barbara Lyle
2043 Canyon Road
Arcadia, CA 91006
Please mail payment and
RSVP by link on the invitation
by May 18
Parking is at Santa Anita Race Track - Gate 5
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Instrumental Competition
Susan Bermingham
An enthusiastic audience extended a warm welcome to nine exceptional young musicians, who took the stage to perform in the finals of the 34th Pasadena Showcase Instrumental Competition, on February 15, 2020. A panel of judges from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra adjudicated the event, which took place at the prestigious Pasadena Conservatory of Music’s Barrett Hall.
This year, the Grand Prize for Exceptional Talent and Musicianship was awarded to Elena Mateo Sáez. Elena, a 19-year-old bassoonist is pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree at Colburn Conservatory of Music. One judge called her performance “captivating” with a “beautiful style” and “great dynamics and lots of character”.
The youngest of the finalists, 18-year-old Khoi Dinh, received the Jack Smith Memorial Award for Most Promising Talent. He is currently studying for a Bachelor of Music in flute performance at UCLA.
Other prizes awarded to competitors include Sooyoung Kim who took the woodwinds 1st prize; Ángel Martín Mora and Chi Ting tied for 2nd prize in the woodwinds category; Riley McGinn and Vivian Kung were each awarded 2nd prize in the brass category; Zachary Brandon took 2nd prize in strings; Martin Mangrum received Honorable Mention in brass.
A total of $24,500 in prize monies was awarded from the proceeds of PSHA’s annual benefit, the Pasadena Showcase House of Design.
A big thank you to all the PSHA volunteers who worked behind the scenes to deliver another successful Showcase event.
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2020 Instrumental Competition
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L to R: Finalists Chi Ting, Zachary Brandon,
Ángel Martín Mora
, Elena Mateo
Sáez
, Martin Mangrum, Sooyoung Kim, Khoi Dinh, Vivian Kung and Riley McGinn
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Zachary Brandon, Second Prize, Strings
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L to R: President, Vikki Sung, Grand Prize Winner, Elena Mateo Sáez & Instrumental Competition Chair, Susan Bermingham
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Chi Ting, Second Prize, Woodwinds
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Grand Prize Winner, Elena Mateo Sáez
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Youth Concert
Salpy Pontrelli
Well, this is how I was going to start this year's Youth Concert re-cap…
WOW! How much fun was that! This year I had the pleasure of chairing one of my personal favorite PSHA events of the year, the Pasadena Showcase House Youth Concert. Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts marked its 66th annual performance at the world famous Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles this year on March 25th. Almost 4,000 fourth graders and their teachers from 58 schools in and around the San Gabriel Valley attended this event, which is a field trip that they look forward to year after year.
This year, the Youth Concert was extra special for me because my daughter and her friends who actually attended this memorable event when they were in the 4th grade, and who are now seniors in high school, got to “pay it forward” and volunteer their time to help with this year's 4th graders.
However, this is reality…
Unfortunately, due to the unforeseen circumstances of the Coronavirus, all performances at the Walt Disney Concert Hall have been cancelled including our beloved Youth Concert. Thank you to ALL of our wonderful members who had signed up to volunteer and help me out for this event. We had been gearing up for another fun and successful Youth Concert.
On the bright side, there was one event that was performed prior to all of the cancellations. This was the Symphonies for the Schools concert, “Power to the People”. This is the same concert that was going to be performed for the PSHA Youth Concert on March 25th. The concert was videotaped; so, now we have the opportunity to take a peek. The link is below…enjoy.
This link will be available until April 26, 2020
Password: SFS2020
This year, the very talented Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra performed a musical production: “Power to the People”. Music moves us. It can help us see the world through another person’s eyes or rally us all together. The Pasadena Showcase House Youth Concert celebrates the musicians and artists who help us to imagine the life and experiences of others and pays tribute to the music that gives us the strength to persevere when times are hard. Composers, musicians and poets, representing a variety of musical traditions and social movements, gathered to give “Power to the People”, a concert about finding your voice and using it to preserve the dignity and rights of all people.
Thanks again to our members' tireless efforts in all we do for Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts.
Mark your calendars for the NEXT Youth Concert on December 2, 2020!
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Provisional
Annelise Dachel
The Provisionals are keeping connected via Zoom “happy hour” videoconferencing. We trade recipes, memes, workout ideas…we keep our spirits up with a glass of wine and lots of laughter. It’s a fun easy way to stay connected—give it a try!
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Publications
Christina Louie
IMPORTANT
Have you set your new password on the PSHA website?
Between 4/1 and 4/3 you received an email from wordpress@pasadenashowcase.org with instructions to set a new password. Your new username is the email you have given to PSHA. It was included in the email on the third line, but if you are unsure of it, you can check with either me at louie.christina@gmail or Kaytie Watkins at kaytiewatkins@hotmail.com and we can look it up for you.
If you have not received the email by now, please check your junk mail folder just in case your email filters identified it as spam.
Please be sure to follow through or you will not be able to schedule shifts on STARS and have access to the Members Section and will miss important updates.
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Associate Representatives
Marybeth Rehman-Dittu & Eileen Reilly
Have we used the phrase “A good time was had by all” yet this year? Because if we haven’t, it certainly applied to the Associates Sneak Peek event held on March 7 at the 2020 Pasadena Showcase House. Over 30 Associates, their guests, designers, our current Benefit Chair Jill Fosselman, and some of her Core Team members, as well as our incoming President, Barbara Damerel, were in attendance. It was great fun, which involved: a tour of the house including input from some of the designers about their design spaces; sparkling water and tea, as well as champagne and several different kinds of wine; and appetizers heavy enough to satisfy any construction worker! Beautiful floral arrangements made by Erin Dundee added a touch of elegance to what is, at this time of year, a construction site. Thanks to Kaytie Watkins, the badges, which carried out the “during construction” theme by having a hammer printed above everyone’s name (except for Marybeth’s badge that had a plunger…say what?), were a big hit with the attendees. Many of the Associates told us how much they enjoyed the Sneak Peek and thought this party should become an annual event. In fact, one sent an email after the event saying: “Thank you so much for a fabulous sneak peek! I wish we had been doing this for years!” So, if you missed it this year and it is one of the Associate events for next year, you should add it to your calendar and plan to come!
We look forward to seeing a great turn out of Associates at the combined Punch & Lunch and Tea & Tour on its new date of June 3 at the Showcase House!
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Associate Members' Sneak Peak
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L to R: Elsa Balding, Barbara Little
& Brian Balding
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L to R: Marybeth Rehman-Dittu
& Eileen Reilly
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L to R: Suzette Cummings & Elsa Balding
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L to R: Joan Vienna, Barbara Washington, Eileen Reilly
& Beverly Muench
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L to R: Kerri Terrill, Karen Daroca
& Jill Fosselman
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Website Liaison
Katherine Watkins
Can I get a Hallelujah?
On March 31
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we finally launched the new website.
Undoubtedly it is unseemly to be celebratory when we are in the midst of the world turned upside down with so much suffering and loss. But for many of us this day has been hard won and a long time coming. We learned a new vocabulary, we struggled to understand the technology, we suffered through feeling stupid and asked the “dumb” questions that we needed to in order to educate ourselves about the nuances of websites so we could make informed and thoughtful decisions.
There were some hiccups. Not Iowa Caucus size, but annoying nevertheless. We tried to avoid this, but in the end it was not possible given the way we had to McGyver STARS to keep it functioning. Everyone will need to reset their passwords. (Sorry!) Everyone has received an email (from wordpress@pasadenashowcase.org) with instructions to log in to the Member Section and set a new password. The email address you have given PSHA to use is your username.
The Members Section should be familiar and easy to navigate. There is also a password-protected section for Designers with their own calendar and a place to upload the Designer Handbook and all of the forms they use. There is a section for Shops Vendors, as well. While not as detailed, it also has its own calendar, a place to upload the Vendor Handbook and the various documents relevant to them. Because it was not finished in the fall, the documents have not been uploaded except in the Members Section, but it is built and ready for next year’s team to utilize it.
One of the primary reasons this agency was selected was their strength in messaging and content strategy. Extraordinary care was devoted to the copywriting and marketing aspects of the text with the intention to make it more dynamic and compelling. If you take the time to read it, there is much that is clever and fresh. It’s not your mother’s Showcase.
Early on, many members encouraged us to give more attention to PSHA’s contributions to the community. Finding the balance between the mission (music) and the means (house) has been a constant teeter-totter of concern. We think that the pages on the Supporting the Arts menu represent PSHA’s impact quite well. And for all of you who complained that the pop-up blocks people from seeing deeper into PSHA, you should be happy with the new structure. For one thing, we noted that we have an off-season of July through October when we are not promoting the Showcase House. We have tried to create off-season content that eliminates the stale information from the previous year and for those months reorient the focus to PSHA’s contributions. No, it’s not a high traffic time, but it is an effort.
We hope you will take some time and stroll through the public sections, hopefully on a computer and not your phone at least once to do it justice. Be sure to look at the Press Room in the About Us menu. It is a giant leap forward with a small library of images (Press Photos) available to the Media. Personally, it is one of my favorite features.
Under Recent Houses, back to 2010, the programs and videos have been uploaded making it very easy to revisit former Showcase Houses while reducing the website by literally hundreds and hundreds of pages. This keeps it to a much more manageable size and format. Plus, our expensive programs live on online.
Like everything, it is not going to appeal to everyone, but I think we all can appreciate that it reflects enormous progress and much effort, care and a couple years of work by many members. I’d like to thank Marilyn Anderson, Rebecca Mikkelsen, Marybeth-Go-Sharpen-Your-Pencil-Rehman-Dittu, Linda Polwrek, Karen Butcher, Dana Marevich, Kathryn Hofgaarden, Eileen-Eagle-Eye-Reilly and Vikki Sung. They all contributed in unique ways at various times throughout this project and without their knowledge, support, guidance and humor, we’d never have made it to the cyber finish line.
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Staffing
Chairs
Christina Louie & Lani Moore
Important Update: Pre-staffing is cancelled until further notice.
Staffing is holding off sign up dates for future Pre-staffing and Showcase shifts at this time. Stay positive and safe.
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Important Dates
- JIS articles due - May 6, 2020
- JIS distributed - May 20, 2020
- Dues deadline - June 3, 2020
- Punch & Lunch - June 3, 2020 - 10:00 AM
- Tea & Tour - June 3, 2020 (Associate Members) - Combined with Punch & Lunch
- Captain & Co-Captain Training - TBA
- Front Door Training - TBA
- Ticket Manager Training - TBA
- Shops Manager Training - TBA
- Premiere Night - June 6, 2020 - 5:00 - 8:30 PM
- Opening Day - June 7, 2020 - Please remember to use shuttles.
- Gifts & Grants Reception - June 10, 2020 - 2:00 PM - Showcase House - Membership Invited
- Prospective Members Meeting - TBA
- Closing Party - June 28, 2020 - 5:00 - 8:00 PM
- General Meeting - End of the Year Celebration - TBA
- Incoming & Outgoing Benefit Committee Meeting - TBA
- Incoming & Outgoing Board Meeting - TBA
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APRIL BIRTHDAYS
4/1 Cindy Kelly
4/2 Dana Marevich
4/2 Joy Sullivan
4/2 Maureen Whitman
4/3 Kathy Martin
4/3 Claire Slaught
4/8 Linda Chang
4/9 Cynthia Legato
4/11 Susan Dachel
4/12 Roberta Cope
4/12 Jennifer Higginbotham
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4/12 Mona Mapel
4/13 Mary Haltom
4/18 Louise Crawford
4/18 Anne Rothenberg
4/18 Rebecca Mikkelsen
4/25 Helen Gipson
4/25 Marilyn Conzonire
4/26 Anne Blomstrom
4/27 Coralia Handayan
MAY BIRTHDAYS
5/1 Kay Quinn
5/6 Lynn Mehl
5/8 Cathy Hilton
5/9 Linda Seiter
5/13 Meredith Brucker
5/13 Beverly C. Marksbury
5/14 Pam Ragus
5/15 Susan Bermingham
5/19 Joannah Smith
5/20 Diana deNoyelles
5/21 Margaret Sheehy Collins
5/23 Michelle Nomura
5/23 Toni Bird
5/24 Jan McEachern
5/26 Nancy Claff
5/27 Collette Schweitzer
5/29 Joy Ingoglia-Bonacci
5/31 Patricia Grant
Wishing all of you a very happy birthday!
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Not getting PSHA emails?
Please be sure these are included in your email contacts:
president@pasadenashowcase.org
psha@pasadenashowcase.org
emailadmin@pasadenashowcase.org
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Stay safe, stay well, stay home.
We look forward to seeing you
again on the back side.
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