Bridge
Peggy Mendes is a member of the Westchester Contract Bridge Association and a Life Master player.  This is her 26^th year with the Bronxville Adult School.

We are delighted to welcome Mike and Sylwia McNamara, popular, well-known bridge professionals. They are ACBL accredited teachers, ACBL certified directors and accomplished tournament players.

Career • Finance
Sharon Good is president of Good Life Coaching. She is a Life, Career and Creativity Coach with over 10 years experience helping people of all ages, with all types of career backgrounds, creatively find fulfilling new life and career paths. See www.goodlifecoaching.com

Neil Lubarsky, a Harvard Law graduate with an L.L.M. in tax law, has over 25 years of experience in estate planning, tax, and elder law and practices in White Plains.

Rob Sciglimpaglia is a successful voice-over artist whose clients include PBS, TGI Fridays, AMD,the Marines and Reebok.

Jane Staunton, a Financial Advisor with Bernstein Global Wealth Management, has more than 25 years of experience in financial services at companies including Salomon Brothers and Morgan Stanley. Jane enjoys helping individuals and families realize their financial goals.

Mark G. Young is a writer, editor and public relations professor whose books include Dr. Young’s Guide to Demotivating Employees: How to Dispirit, Dishearten and Demoralize Your Workers. He has taught public relations and journalism at the Sydney Institute of Technology and School of Journalism.

Computers
Laura Balsam is a digital artist and computer consultant with more than 15 years of teaching experience and an M.B.A. from Cornell. View her work on-line at www.laurabalsam.com.

Claudia Boyle has been involved with computers for more than 20 years, teaching levels from college to elementary after-school classes.This is her 7th year at Bronxville Adult School.

Alison Larkin is a local resident and former Bronxville School parent with a professional background in systems.

David Sherwin, CPA, is a partner in the Public Accounting Firm of Pellegrino & Sherwin LLP in Hawthorne, New York.

Cooking
Pam Carey runs the successful catering business Serving Thyme. She has been teaching popular classes for 20 years.

Nancy Contessa’s long-time passion for cooking is well-known to all those who still use the 1997Bronxville School Cookbook she helped to produce. Nancy’s favorite place to be is in the kitchen cooking for family and friends.

Michael Dolan has been Executive Chef at the Bronxville Field Club for the past 23 years (he was discovered in a basket on the Club’s doorstep).

Sheila Landsberg, a local resident and former Bronxville parent, enjoys cooking for family and friends and is committed to using only the freshest local and seasonal ingredients available.

Wende Sasse, a local resident and former Bronxville parent, is well-known for her delicious pies with crusts that never fail.

Dance
Carol Sundquist (McCarthy), a popular teacher for more than 20 years, has a background in all styles of social dance, including competitive, fad, and period, and is an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Golf/Fitness/Paddle Tennis/Tai Chi
Mary Beltran, LMT, RYT, is a registered Yoga teacher certified in Kripalu Yoga with over 5,000 hours of experience, a certified Feldenkrais practitioner, and a certified Pilates and breathing-work teacher. She is also a licensed massage therapist and is certified by the American Council for Exercise as a personal trainer and group instructor.

Kevin Chin has been a teaching professional at Lake Isle Country Club for the past seven years. He is a TGS certified instructor who has passed the PGA Playing Ability Test. He has also produced and been featured in instructional golf videos for Westchester County public access television.Visit www.kevinchingolf.com for more info.

Master Domingo Colon, Director of the Tai Chi School of Westchester, has over 42 years of Tai Chi experience and is the author of Seniors’ Tai Chi Workout and Teaching Tai Chi to Special Populations.

Sugar Genereaux is the Head Instructor of the Bronxville Village Paddle Courts, a member of the Village Paddle Committee and a long-time paddle tennis player.

Hobbies/Leisure
Felicity Bhagwat is an artist and professional jewelry designer. Her designs are both contemporary and classical, featuring pearls, semi-precious stones, sterling silver and gold-filled components.

Joe DeMauro is a Correspondence Chess Grandmaster who has played First Board for the United States Team in the Correspondence Chess Olympiad.

Liz Edwards is a professional musician with a BS in music and over 20 years of teaching experience.

Barbara Gill, a former Bronxville school parent, has been designing and making beaded jewelry for more than 10 years.

Norma La Vecchia has two beautiful little boys. She makes jewelry and teaches to breathe and stay sane. Visit Norma’s website at www.FeriaAccessories.com to see her work.

Laurita Marshall is a certified knitting instructor and popular knitting teacher whose enthusiasm for knitting inspires beautiful creations by her students.

Lou Sabini is a noted film historian and archivist who has spent a lifetime collecting, studying and preserving rare and classic films from Hollywood’s Golden Age. He is also a long-time film teacher, and his vast film knowledge has been the subject of numerous articles in publications including The New York Times. He is currently working on a book on the ‘pre-code’ era of Hollywood.

John D. Williams, the Executive Director of the National Scrabble Association, is the co-author of Everything Scrabble (Simon & Schuster), the author of the Daily Scrabble Calendar (WorkmanPublishing) and the syndicated Scrabblegrams featured in many newspapers. He is a rated Tournament Player and appeared in the Emmy-nominated documentary Word Wars.

Home/Garden
Leonard Pouder, a well-known landscape designer, has managed and operated Lieb’s Nursery for more than 15 years. Lieb’s has been a family-run business for more than 90 years.

Robin Rosen is an experienced prop stylist who has styled the homes of celebrities and public figures including former Vice-President Al Gore and Katie Couric. She is the founder of Stageffect, a home design and staging company. Visit www.stageffect.com to see Robin’s work.

Michael Wiener, FASID, CID, is a professional interior designer who has taught at Parsons School of Design, the New York Institute of Technology and Fashion Institute of Technology. He is the former president of the NY chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers. His work has appeared in numerous publications including House Beautiful.

Health • Safety
Margaret Sewell, PhD, is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Mt. Sinai Medical Center. She is the director of education for the Memory and Aging Center and is also the director of the Memory Enhancement Program.

Laura Sanford, MS, RD, CDN, is a Registered Dietitian at Montefiore Medical Center with an MS in Clinical Nutrition at NYU.

Daria Ventura, MS, RD, CDN, is a Registered Dietitian at The Gym in Armonk with an MS in Clinical Nutrition at NYU.

Languages
Almira Bubesi teaches Italian and French at the Thornton-Donovan School.

Michele Celestino has taught French and Spanish in middle and high schools and has been teaching at the Bronxville Adult School for more than 7 years.

Jacqueline Considine is a teacher, a native of France and a local resident.

Nathalie Dunn, Paris native and popular private tutor, joins us for her fourth year.

Susanne Servin, a native of Vienna, is a cross-cultural consultant for German speaking countries.

Personal Development
Elizabeth Frayne, is a Health Counselor, certified by The Drugless Practitioners of America, a nationwide organization certifying health care professionals who do not work with pharmaceutical companies.

Wendy Packer is a registered nurse, consulting hypnotist and a NGH certified instructor. She maintains a private practice in New Rochelle working with adults and children. For more info,visit www.hypnonurse.com. CDs to reinforce Wendy’s instructions will be available for purchase.

Mary Reilly Nichols began the study of meditation in 1976, and spent five years in residence in meditation ashrams both in India and the United States. She has taught yoga, meditation,stress management and visualization since 1982.

Kim Plumridge has been a professional actor for more than 25 years. She has a B.S. in psychology and has taught people from all walks of life the basics of acting and speaking in public. Kim has appeared in Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions, on television, in films and commercials.Visit www.kmpcreative.org for more info.

Jennifer Warren, CSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Scarsdale and Manhattan specializing in the treatment of stress, anxiety and relationship issues. She received her CSW from Columbia University and was a staff member at the Payne Whitney and Westchester Divisions of New York Presbyterian.

Reading/Writing
Susan Sperling Baiter is the author of five books, including the best-selling Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words, and of numerous articles on the joys of digging into language.She received her liripoops from Barnard College and Boston College Graduate School and has taught as an adjunct asst. professor at Manhattanville College. She is currently preparing more Fun with Words Volumes for All Ages.

Jean Geiger writes grants for a living and reads mysteries to keep sane. She has picked up her pen to continue working on the mystery novel she began ten years ago!

Martin Keefe, local resident and former Bronxville school parent, has had a professional career in international marketing and consulting and a life-long interest in languages and poetry. His passion for Dante led him to spend three years studying Dante’s works in the original archaic Italian – just for the pure joy of it!

Madora Kibbe, author of a book of essays entitled A Few Things I’ve Noticed, has been a professional writer for over 30 years. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The Christian Science Monitor and Working Woman Magazine. She is currently working on her second book of essays It’s A Slippery Slope.

Studio Art
Bonnie Cotnoir is an experienced teacher who has won numerous awards for her work.

Joseph Fama, an award-winning artist, often captures inspiration from scenes in nature and from history. His “Western Collection”, detailed oil paintings of the Old West, has been widely exhibited.He has been an advertising agency art director, a designer for Christopher Radko and an adjunct art professor at Westchester Community College. See www.josephfama.com.

Rita P. Lenn has worked as a fine artist and a decorative artist and teacher for many years. Her hand-built porcelain has been exhibited in galleries and commissioned by architects and interior designers. Her hand-painted silk wearable art has been shown in galleries and boutiques and appears in Fiberarts Design Book Five and in The Best of Silk Painting. She currently concentrates on privates commissions of major pieces of silk wall art.

Jean Vincenza Liggio is listed in Who’s Who of American Women. A long-time teacher, she has received numerous awards and has staged numerous exhibitions of her work throughout the NY Metropolitan area.

While volunteering at the Mt. Vernon Animal Shelter, artist Carol Hall started painting pet portraits to attract attention to the plight of the shelter’s many homeless dogs and cats waiting for adoption. Her privately-commissioned pet portraits have been sold at a local Bronxville store.