ALBANY ROUNDTABLE
civic luncheon series P.O. Box 7101 • Albany, NY 12224 FOUNDED 1979 WWW . ALBANYROUNDTABLE . COM WWW . ALBANYROUNDTABLE . BLOGSPOT . COM ALBANY ROUNDTABLE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Colleen M. Ryan President James Dennehey Vice President Lori Harris Secretary Mark Patten Treasurer Paul Bray Founding President Al De Salvo Chair, Good Patroon Committee Elizabeth Griffin Chair, Friends Committee Felton McLaughlin Chair, Nominating Committee
Guy Alonge Chris Betts Nancy Burton James Carr Mary Darcy Mark Eagan Christopher Hawver Catherine Hedgeman Paul Larrabee Justin Priddle Marcus Pryor Daniel Sanders Jeff Sherrin Ruth Walters Tim Welles
The Albany Roundtable is on hiatus through September, but luncheon meetings will resume in the fall. October 14 : Kirby White, a founder of the Capital District Community Loan Fund and author of mystery novels including The Long Stair and Wilder Pond November 11: Kevin O’Connor, CEO, Tech Valley Communications The Albany Roundtable is an all‐volunteer, not‐for‐profit group. Our luncheon sponsors, as well as membership contributions to the Friends of the Roundtable, allow us to offset the cost of honoraria and travel expenses for occasional special speakers, sponsor the Good Patroon Award, and invite students from Albany High School’s International Baccalaureate Programme to attend as our guests. Please visit our website to join us! 200809 Luncheon Sponsors: Hiscock & Barclay , KeyBank N.A., M&T Bank, O’Connell and Aronowitz, Tech Valley Communications
The Albany Roundtable CIVIC LUNCHEON SERIES Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Capital Region’s premier forum for civic engagement with an exciting cocktail reception featuring a visionary speaker.
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Special Thanks to our New Urbanist Sponsor
Honorary Committee List as of April 21 Patroon Community Preservation Corporation Conti Appraisal & Consulting Peter Pryor Jim Reeks, Jr. & Susan VanDeWater‐Reeks F. Michael Tucker
Shaker Paul & Barbara Bray Assemblyman Ron Canestrari James J. Carr Hon. Richard Conti James Dennehey Al DeSalvo Philip Hansen Mayor Gerald D. Jennings Chuck Liddle & Sally Mott Carter Kathryn & Robert J. Linhardt, Ph.D. Mark Patten Eric Peterson Colleen Ryan & Eric Hoppel Daniel Sanders Ruth Walters
Knickerbocker Dr. Sylvia Barnard Carrie Barown Nancy Burton Jane Graham Elizabeth Griffin Christopher Hawver Catherine Hedgeman, Esq. Doug Melnick Tracy Metzger Jeffrey Mirel John Oberlander Dick & Patsy Patrick Bill Picotte Marcus Q. Pryor, WCP Robert & Roberta Redmond Elliot Rosen Frances Tarlton Erin M. Tobin
The Albany Roundtable endorsed the ideals of new urbanism and sustainability long before these were common buzzwords. Previous Visiting Speakers have included Stan Eckstut (NYC architect, Battery City Project); Tony Hiss (Project for Public Spaces); Robert McNulty (Partners for Livable Places); Paul Pritchard (National Parks and Conservation Association); Richard Bradley (proponent of Downtown business dis tricts); Ray Oldenburg (The Great Good Place); James Howard Kunstler (author and new urbanist); Jane Holtz Kay (architecture critic, author of Asphalt Nation); Joseph P. Riley (Mayor, Charleston, South Carolina); Richard Reinhart (Buffalo Place); Shel ley Poticha (Center for Transit Oriented Development) and others.
The Albany Roundtable was founded in 1979 to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information among people active in business, the arts, not‐for‐profits, governments, neighborhoods and other urban activities.
Help us celebrate 30 years of civic discourse as we welcome Visiting Speaker Jaime Correa
Thursday, May 28 6:00 8:00 p.m. The University Club of Albany 141 Washington Avenue at Dove Street Mr. Correa is a planner, architect, and professor at the University of Miami, and a respected authority in the fields of architecture, town design, and sustainable development. He is author of Seven Recipes for the New Urbanism, published January 2009, and SELFSUFFICIENT URBANISM: A Vision of Contraction for the NonDistant Future.