The Bronxville Women's Club, Inc.

Co-sponsored by the Bronxville Women's Club and the Tuckahoe-Eastchester Lions Club, the program held on Sunday, September 11 at the Bronxville Women's Club was a fitting tribute for the tenth anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Towers and a thank you to our own first responders:  Bronxville, Eastchester, and Tuckhoe police, firemen, and EVAC.  $4200 was raised and will be given to the organizations.

We thank the following performers for the Concert.

William Anderson, guitar    Joyce Rasmussen Balint, violin and mandolin

Sal Casabianca, voice and guitar  Pat Faranga, voice    Oxana Mikhailoff, piano

Lanny Paykin, cello   Rachel Maria Petite, violin   Michele Zanky, viola

The Manhattan College Pipes & Drums are quartered on the campus in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The band was formed in 1981 under the guidance of Brother Kenneth Fitzgerald, FSC, and the musical training of Captain Robert Hogan, ’82, of the Pipes & Drums of the NYPD Emerald Society.  Bagpipers:

Michael Cleary   Denis Drew   Thomas Fitzmaurice

The following was the Introduction before the program:

INTRODUCTION

Bagpipes and Drums:  Members of The Manhattan College Pipes & Drums

Presentation of the Colors: Lt. Col. Sam DiRienzo VFW Post 2285

Pledge of Allegiance

National Anthem

Retiring the Colors

Invocation:  The Rev. Carl Maiello, The Good Shepherd Assembly of God Church

Welcome:  Freya Ruegsegger, President, Bronxville Women’s Club

MC:  Lion Peter H. Pergolis, MJF, two-term past president of the                                     Tuckahoe-Eastchester Lions Club

New York Assemblywoman Amy Paulin

Westchester County Legislator Sheila Marcotte

Recognizing our local first responders:  police, firemen, EVAC

The Reading of the names of residents of the Town of Eastchester                         who perished on 9/11

Below are two pictures from the September 11 event. 

$4200 was given to the Eastchester, Bronxville, and Tuckahoe Police, Fire, and EVAC departments.  In the picture, left to right:  Joyce Balint, BWC events chair and performer; Tuckahoe Police Officer Andrew Zirolnik; BWC president Freya Ruegsegger; Eastcheser Police Officer John Yanni, and Lion Peter H. Pergolis, MJF, events chair and past president of the Tuckahoe-Eastchester Lions.