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Musicians are playing fundraising role
By Mary Ann Cook
IN SYMPATHY WITH SYMPHONY: The San Jose Youth Symphony is in great danger of going under, much like its adult counterpart. So San Jose Symphony musicians will present a benefit concert at 8 p.m. Feb. 9 at the Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $10-$40. Call 408.283.4113.
The phone line is open from 4 to 8 p.m. only. Los Gatos youngsters in the youth symphony are Kelly Johnson, Emelina Choi and Samuel Hage, all seniors at Los Gatos High. From Saratoga are Jonathan Choi, Jessica Deleon, Roy Jang and Joyce Lee.
Los Gatos residents who are San Jose Symphony members and will be performing include Mimi Carlson, flute; Bob Szabo, trombone; Jim Dooley, trumpet; and Laura Caballero, violin. A benefit for the San Jose Symphony will be held Feb. 23, 8 p.m. at CPA with Van Cliburn winner Jon Nakamatsu featured. These days symphony musicians are forced to play a fundraising role along with their instruments.
BEST IN STATE: Saratogan Anna Rainville won the Audrey Sanchez Award for Most Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher in California at the recent California Kindergarten Teachers Conference. Rainville, who was a kindergarten teacher at Lakeside for seven years, now teaches at the Waldorf School in Los Altos.
"She's remarkable, an inspiration," says Lakeside principal Martin St. John. "One of those rare individuals--a child advocate who can get the most out of children."
FAILURE IS IMPOSSIBLE: Los Gatan Marty Kendall's book--Failure Is Impossible--about the history of the women's movement just won the American Library Association award "Best Book for Young Adults" for the year 2001.
Kendall will be honored, along with seven other achievers, by the American Pen Women at its Feb. 9 Celebrity Luncheon. Maxine McGinnis of Los Gatos and Merikay McKenna of Saratoga were cited in an earlier column.
Also being celebrated are Christine Chabiel Dargahim; Susan Landauer, curator of the San Jose Museum of Art; and Cleo McDowell--all in the field of art; Rosie Huber for letters; and Jaci Hall in music.
THE FIREFIGHTING BUG: Part of the current antique toy exhibit at Forbes Mill Museum was contributed by Wayne Sorensen, a professor emeritus from San Jose State University. He taught there for 34 years and was head of the woodwind department.
He and Donald Wood, a retired professor from San Francisco State University, are writing a history of the New York Fire Department. Other books they've collaborated on are Motor Fire Engines of the West, Big City Fire Trucks and Little City Fire Trucks.
Sorensen has collected firefighting memorabilia for years, having amassed perhaps 50,000 photographs of fires. The collection includes firefighting miniatures as well, such as the trucks and cars now on exhibit at the museum. He has been a member of the Fire Associates of Santa Clara Valley for as long as he can remember.
This is the group that supplies canteen services for firefighters working two-alarm or larger fires. An earlier collection of his flutes is now housed in Vermilion, N. D., at the American Musical Instruments Society.
BALLET & CHOCOLATES: Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley's Valentine package is Feb. 14-17 at the CPA. Featured will be Dennis Nahat's Rivulet, George Balanchine's Apollo and David Lichine's Graduation Ball. Free chocolates, free photographs and restaurant coupons are offered. Tickets are $20-$68 at 408.288.2800.
FOR THE HOMELESS: A Valentine Party to Benefit the Homeless will be held Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. at the Opera House, hosted by Leslie Pederson. Cost of admission: cold weather gear for the homeless--clothing, blankets, scarves, mittens. Minimum donation of $20 helps, too.
Half the proceeds go to the homeless in Los Gatos, half to Santa Cruz. Dinner from 7 to 8:30 p.m., hosted bar. The Hitmen will play for dancing. Children welcome; reservations via email: wealthmanagement@msn.com.
STAGED READING: Ten-minute plays from two Los Gatans will be on the bill on Feb. 11, 7 p.m., at City Lights Theater in San Jose--and--in a staged reading. Riva Rubnitz' play, To Save a Flower, is set in the waiting room of a psychiatrist's office. Mary Ann Cook's play DNA, concerns two (deceased) celebrities meeting in a meat market.
INNER WHEEL: President Ann Bull and other Inner Wheel members sold raffle tickets at a recent Los Gatos Rotary meeting for support of the Myoelectric Limb Bank, which helps buy prostheses for children without limbs. Some $750 was raised that afternoon by the club.
Husband Chuck Bull recently flew to Honolulu to meet their son Chip, who is in the Navy, and hitchhiked a ride back to California on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson, debarking at San Diego.
VALENTINE PARTY: Margie and Aldo Binn will provide the musical entertainment for the Seniors Valentine Party at the Neighborhood Center at 11:30 a.m. Feb. 13. Reservations due by Feb. 11 at 408.354.0707.
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