Members A-F

Publications
Reading and Learning Disabilities: Research and Practice (Garland Press)
“The Hawthorne Elementary School Primary Assessment Chart” in Preschool Assessment (Gilford Press); Language Arts Curriculum K-12; Academic Intervention Services Program K-12 (New York State Dept. of Education); Keys to Planning the Day (New York City Board of Education); Learning to Read (CD ROM); Articles in Professional Publications

Recognition/Awards
Adjunct Associate Professor Psychology and Education, Teachers College Columbia University; Adjunct Professor Psychology and Reading, Manhattanville College; Presenter at State, National, International Reading and Special Education Conferences; Educational Lecturer and Consultant to School Districts on Diagnosis and Treatment of Complex Reading and Learning Cases
Recipient of Kelly Medal for Teaching Methods; Dr. Marie Amoruso Scholarship established by parents given annually to a student who demonstrates significant academic growth despite challenges in learning

Professional Memberships
Pi Sigma (Biology Research Honors Society)
Kappa Delta Pi (Education Honor Society)
Council for Exceptional Children
International Reading Association
NYS United Teachers/ American Federation of Teachers
Irvington Faculty Association

Musical experience
Apprentice Conductor, New York Grand Opera
Director, New York Grand Opera Chorus
Soprano soloist, regional opera companies
Guest appearances have included the Metropolitan Museum of Art and WQXR

Recognition
At 12 years old, the youngest of four contestants chosen by the National Federation of Music Clubs and the University of North Carolina as the state’s ''most promising'' musical talents

Education
North Carolina School of the Arts, Peabody Conservatory, Indiana University and The Juilliard School, studying with Vincent La Selva, Konrad Wolff, Elaine Bonazzi and Margaret Harshaw.

Selected Exhibits
Solo Shows: Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich Hospital, 2007
“Flowers” at Gertrude White Gallery, 2006
“Ventanas” at Gertrude White Gallery, 2005
Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich Arts Council, 2002
General Reinsurance Co.; Gallery Kandinsky; Silvermine; Madrid, Spain Guild of Arts; Hurburt Gallery, Greenwich Library

Selected Recognition/Awards
Awarded "Lifetime Membership" at Silvermine Art School, New Canaan, CT, 2009
Elected to Advisory Board, Silvermine Guild, 2006
Judge of annual Greenwich Art Society Exhibit, Flinn Gallery, 2006
Board of Trustees, Silvermine; Vice-president of Greenwich Art Society
Elected to Silvermine in two categories, painting and sculpture
Many First Prizes in Art exhibits

Professional Memberships
Greenwich Art Society
Old Greenwich Art Society
Silvermine School of Art

Selected Publications
Poems in volumes of Prairie Schooner, The Midwest Quarterly, Arts Alive, Rhino, Willow Review; “The Clock Shoe” anthologized in Best of Prairie Schooner (University of Nebraska Press) 2001
Reprints in Whetstone, Northwest Cultural Center Spotlights, Alzheimer’s Association Greater Nebraska Newsletter and on Russian-Globe/American Poetry website
“high coo-coo” selected for harpsichord composition

Selected Recognitions/awards
1982-2000 co-editor, Whetstone, awarded eleven Illinois Arts Council/NEA awards and American Literary Magazine Award, 1995, for editorial excellence; Recipient of Hugh J. Luke Poetry Award, 1996, for poems in Prairie Schooner; Finalist for Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, 1996, Inkwell’s Poetry Competition, 2001, and “The Look of Love” International Poetry Competition 2007; Honorable Mention, Nonfiction, New Millennium Writings, 2005, 2006

Professional Memberships
Poetry Society of America
American Academy of Poets

Tina A. Bishop

Publications
Fisherman's Creek (iUniverse)
The Heiress of Newfield

Recognitions/Awards
Despite long years of writing and long years of
life have had not one whiff of recognition or rewards of any sort.

Grace Boyle

Publications
Think, series of five books for Random House Publishers
The Neuroexplorers, series of five books on educational material for gifted children for Baylor Medical School; several stories in science series for Silver Burdett Publishers. Started, wrote, designed, and maintained own publishing company
Capabilities: Unlimited Projects for the Promising

Recognition
Creator, Director, and Teacher of gifted and talented program in Hempstead, New York school system for 20 years

Selected Exhibits
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Art Students League, Concours Exhibit, New York
Annual Members Juried Exhibit: Flinn Gallery, Greenwich
Annual Juried Student Exhibit: Silvermine Guild
Spring Juried Exhibit: Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich

Selected Awards
2008 Owl Award, Greenwich Branch, NLAPW
Fortune Brands, First Place award in Oils, Greenwich Art Society
First Place award for Prints, Pastels, Drawings, Rowayton Art Society
Chesebrough-Ponds Foundation Purchase Award

Best in Show Award, Silvermine Guild
First Place award, Essex Art Association, Open Show

Professional Memberships
Art Society of Old Greenwich
Rowayton Art Society
Greenwich Art Society (former president, advisory board)

A Year of Haiku, 17 Haiku poems edited by Joanna Herman
Lecture on "The Art of Political Speech Writing," Telluride Writers Guild in Telluride, CO
Wrote several columns for The Greenwich Citizen entitled "Life on the Greenwich Waterfront."

Professional Memberships
Republican Round Table
Republican Town Committee
Representative Town Meeting (elected since 2000)

Publications
Don’t Stop Loving Me: A Reassuring Guide for Mothers of Adolescent Daughters (HarperCollins)
Strong Mothers, Strong Sons: Raising the Next Generation of Men (HarperCollins)
Mothers to Daughters: Searching for New Connections (Henry Holt)
Articles in magazines
Columnist for Greenwich Citizen

Recognition
Lecturer and workshop leader for parents of adolescents throughout the country.
Frequent guest on television and radio, including Oprah Show, Today Show, and others

Professional Organizations
Authors’ Guild, American Society of Journalists and Authors

Publications/Exhibits/Performances
Photographer, Writer, Lecturer
Images published in American Vision: Images by the Best of Today’s Nature Photographer; in North American Gardener, Nature Conservancy; in calendars; and in collection of Vassar College
Writing published in The NewYork Times, Woman’s Day, Garden Magazine, AOPA Pilot and agricultural trade magazines
Illustrated lectures on nature photography and abstract photography
Solo shows at Bendheim Gallery, CT; PEPSICO; Saks Fifth Avenue

Recognitions/Awards
2006 Owl Award, Greenwich Branch, NLAPW.
Salmagundi Award, Salmagundi Club, NYC, First Place Photography
Three Artists’ Award, New Art Annual Show, Stamford Museum, CT
Randolph Chitwood Award, Greenwich Art Society, Black and White
Award, Old Greenwich Art Society, The Blues, Flinn Gallery, CT

Professional Memberships:
National Association of Women Artists
Photography Club of Lower Fairfield County
National Association of Photoshop Professionals

Publications
Rescuing Memories (with Bebbie Chickering and Arlene Mark)
Writing Down the Years: A Family Cookbook

Publications
The Writer’s Muse, writer’s coach, editor, writer, and photographer
The Nature of Joy by Alexander Platt with Joanne Dearcopp (Xlibris)
To Finish First by Phil Kerr, 2007 (photographs)
Can-Am Photo History by Pete Lyons, 1999 (photographs)
Whose Names Are Unknown by Sanora Babb (editor)
Enigma in Many Keys:The Life and Letters of a WWII Intelligence Officer by Col. Robert E. Button (coach and editor)
“Wall Street East” article in Greenwich Magazine
British Airways “Privileged Traveller” Newsletters

Awards
Greenwich Pen Women Owl Award

Publications
The Steinway Library of Piano Music
Piano Stylings of the Great Standards (Volume 1)

Recordings
A Touch of Jazz, Anstu Records – all arrangements
Moment to Moment, Seaside Recordings – all arrangements
Freelancin’, Seaside Recordings – all arrangements, original title composition
Love Letters, InPulse Records
Sunrise Lady, InPulse Records

International Performances
Kennedy Center – Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival
Kennedy Center Jazz Club
Syracuse Jazz Festival
Litchfield (CT) Jazz Festival
Guinness Jazz Festival – Cork, Ireland
Andria Jazz Festival – Andria, Italy
Southampton Jazz Festival – UK
Appearance on NPR’s Piano Jazz, hosted by Marian McPartland
Mexico, Chile and US tours as pianist for international vocalist, Donna Summer

Recognition/Awards
Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities
Outstanding Young Women in America

Professional Memberships
Tri-M Music Honor Society
International Association of Jazz Education (CT Chapter Treasurer – 2000 – 2008)

Kathleen Dooley DiGiovanna

Selected Publications
All Greenwich Publications: Greenwich Time, Greenwich Citizen, Greenwich Post, Greenwich Magazine; various publications from Greenwich Hospital, local corporations, and many nonprofit and charitable functions

Verbier, Switzerland. New York Virtuoso Singers, James Levine, conductor.
Czech Republic, Germany. Musica Viva, Walter Klauss, conductor
Nation-wide tours with the Waverly Consort, Michael Jaffe, director;
San Fransisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor;
Voices of Ascension. Dennis Keene, conductor.

New York Virtuoso Singers
Musica Sacra
Musica Viva
Vox Vocal Ensemble
Bang on a Can Festival
Sacred Music in a Sacred Space
Mark Morris Dance Company
New York City Ballet
Early Music New York
Voices of Ascension
Bard Music Summerscape
Professional Memberships
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)
American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA)

Selected Commissions
Adieu, Comment, Common Bill, Hallelujah, Iʼm a Bum, I dreamʼd in a dream, Christmas
Peace. For Charis Chamber Voices, Susanne Peck, director.
A Song for Yule. For the New York Gay Menʼs Chorus.
Woods. For the Society of Universal Sacred Music.
Vuestra Soy. For the Church of Saint Teresa de Avila.
Lake Isle of Innisfree. For Carroll College Department of Music.
Millenium. For Westchester County Parks and Recreation.
Stone Soup. For Cerddorion, Kristina Boerger, director.
Final Dove. For the Sorel Organization Medallion Competition.

Professional Memberships
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP)
American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA)

2011 ColorSoundGrammar, New Art Center, New York, NY. Serge Gregorian, curator.
The Reverse Color Organ, Premier Performance, New Art Center, New York, NY, in collaboration with interactive digital media artist Judson Wright.
2010 SQUARDI SONORI, The Reverse Color Organ, Performance Video, Planetario, Museo della Civita, Rome, Italy. Ennio Morricone, Guest Conductor.
{SONIK}, SYNTHETIC ZERO, The Reverse Color Organ, Interactive version. BronxArtSpace, New York, NY.
EINSTEIN, EPHEMERA & CRANK, Fearless Explorers in Alternative Surfaces, Glazes and Ceramic Installation. Casa Frela Gallery, New York, NY. Ellen Hackl Fagan, Curator.
THE WESTCHESTER BIENNIAL, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY.

Recognition/Awards

Greenwich Historical Society, Community Artists Series, Solo Exhibition 2011.
Creative Contraptions, Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Stamford, CT, exhibition and $2000 grant.
Radius, Professional Practice Exhibition and Series for Emerging Artists. AldrichContemporary Art Museum and the Ridgefield Guild of Art, Ridgefield, CT.

National League of American Pen Women, Greenwich Chapter, Executive Board, Treasurer.
American Synaesthesia Association
Art & Science Collaborations, Incorporated. National.

Beaux Arts Gallery solo show
Multiple juried shows for paintings and sculpture in the Flinn and Bendheim galleries
1998 to present – exhibit in Annual Members show at the Belle Haven Club

2008 Pen Women Owl Award
Greenwich Art Society and Art Society of Old Greenwich awards for sculpture and paintings in Flinn and Bendheim Gallery exhibits
Art and Nature shows, two Honorable Mentions
Top raffle prize for 'Puttin' on the Dog’ Show
Raffle prizes for Hortulus, Greenwich Riding & Trails, and Garden Education Center

Publications
Reading and Study Skills in the Secondary School (Garland Publishing, Inc)
Adult Literacy: A Source Book and Guide (Garland Publishing, Inc)
Teaching Thinking Skills: Theory and Practice (Garland Publishing, Inc)
Reading and Learning Disabilities: Research and Practice (Garland Publishing, Inc)
Articles in professional journals

Recognitions/Awards
Greenwich Pen Women Owl Award, 2009
Lecturer at national and international conferences
Presenter at workshops for teachers and parents
Director of Teacher Education Department, Manhattanville College
Visiting professor, Teachers College Columbia University