As executive director and head coach of Handi-Racket
Tennis at the Longfellow Club, Wayland,
Massachusetts, Sylvia Hoffman Swartz '66 has received several awards recognizing
her more than 20 years' service in bringing tennis
to physically and mentally challenged or impaired
children and adults. In February, at
the annual USTA Community Tennis Development
Workshop in Hilton Head the club received the 2008 USTA
(United States Tennis Association) Adaptive Tennis
National Community Service Award.
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Founded in 1977 by the owner of The Longfellow
Club, Handi-Racketeers is
New England's longest running instructional program for
people with disabilities and comprises the largest
group of tennis athletes at the Massachusetts
Special Olympics. The program held its first
national tournament in 2005 and drew participants
from
Florida,
Texas
and
Massachusetts. Continuing to expand, the tournament will be held
this year on June 11-13. Rather than "tennis,
anyone?" Sylvia's philosophy is "tennis everyone." Sylvia attended Western from 1962 to 1964 and as a
freshman was a member of Dolphins, but not
the tennis team! She and her husband, Richie,
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On November 1,
Leslie Greene Bowman '78 began her tenure as
president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, owner
and steward of Jefferson's beloved estate, Monticello, a Historic National Landmark with the dual mission
of preservation and education. Since 1999, Leslie had served as director and
chief executive officer of Winterthur Museum &
Country Estate in
Delaware's
Brandywine
Valley, the former home of Henry Francis du Pont and one
of the world's leading museums of American
decorative arts.
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She is the author of American
Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design and
co-author of several other books. At Western, her
advanced coursework roughly amounted to a major in
American history and a minor in art history; her
senior thesis focused on American sculptor Daniel Chester
French. Leslie's arrival
at Monticello
coincides with the launch of the
Thomas
Jefferson
Visitor
Center
and Smith
Education
Center, one of the most
important initiatives in the Foundation's 85-year
history. Thrilled with her appointment,
she says, "This is a watershed moment in the history
of Monticello, as we prepare to open the new visitor center and
expand the power and reach of the Foundation's
mission." She is a skilled equestrian, married to
Dr. Cortland Neuhoff, a doctor of chiropractic and
an equine chiropractor; they have a 12-year-old
daughter, Haley.
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