66 The Queens Courier • buzz • OCTOBER 30, 2014 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com Send us your announcements & pictures to: The Queens Courier c/o making a buzz: 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 • [email protected] subject: making a buzz CELEBRATE s people making a buzz NEWLY JOINED In September, Avé McCracken joined Transitional Services for New York Inc. (TSINY) as its director of public affairs and development. TSINY is a multiservice mental health agency providing residential and outpatient services since 1975 to individuals with serious mental illnesses in New York City. Before joining TSINY, McCracken founded Aging with Dignity Senior Services LLC, a consulting firm that provides evaluation and comprehensive care planning for seniors. “I am excited to have Avé on board full time and look forward to introducing her to the Queens community as she moves TSINY’s mission forward,” said Dr. Grubler, CEO of TSINY. WORKSHOP The Broadway-Flushing Homeowners Association celebrated a half-century of service to the community when members, friends, guests and past presidents filled the auditorium of The Church on the Hill in Flushing, the site of hundreds of BFHA meetings over the past 50 years. The event included the presentation of several citations by elected officials and a ceremonial cake-cutting by nine presidents. There have been 28 uninterrupted terms of office since the association was founded in 1964. Officers have included lawyers, accountants, teachers, judges and homemakers — all volunteers concerned about their neighborhood’s quality of life. Association meetings have featured representatives from the police, fire, buildings, city planning, sanitation and parks departments, the Botanical Gardens, Queens Quiet Skies, Community Board 7 and Borough Hall as well as members of the U.S. Congress, NY State Senate and Assembly and the NYC Council. The organization’s primary mission is the preservation and protection of the Broadway-Flushing community from illegal conversions and zoning violations. On Sunday, Oct. 26, Temple Beth Shalom in Flushing held an adult education breakfast lecture and workshop presented by The Anti- Defamation League on “Coping with Anti- Semitism — Imagine a World Without Hate.” There was a main lecture and smaller workshops according to age groups. Nine presidents of the Broadway-Flushing Homeowners Association cut a 50th Anniversary cake at a recent gala meeting at The Church on the Hill in Flushing. (l-r) John Kearney, Robert Hanophy Sr., Janet McCreesh, Robert Hanophy Jr., Mel Siegel, Marianne Giacalone, Sandi Viviani, Anne Mullaney and Arthur Viviani. During its 50th anniversary celebration, several new citations were added to the very large collection that the Broadway-Flushing Homeowners Assn. has earned since 1964. (l-r) Maria Becce, BFHA Officer; Ed Braunstein, District 26 NYS Assembly; Ron Kim, District 40 NYS Assembly; Tony Avella, District 11 NYS Senate; Robert Hanophy, Jr., BFHA President; and Paul Vallone, District 19 NYC Council. honored At the New York Foundation for Eldercare (NYFE) Recognition Dinner, held to honor leaders in the field of training geriatric psychiatry fellows on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 6:30 p.m. at The Yale Club in New York City, the focus was a training program that addresses the critical need to train geriatricians to care for the baby boomer generation. The event celebrated the 25th anniversary of Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine professionals in the Bronx, working collaboratively with the Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, in Jamaica Hills, Queens, to run a distinctive geriatric psychiatry training program. More than 120 guests attended the event. NYFE will direct the funds raised to programs that serve the elderly population and Holocaust survivors in the New York metropolitan area, especially those residing in nursing homes or other long-term care institutions. NYFE also directly funds a variety of other programs that provide targeted services, bringing caring and dignity to older New Yorkers since 1966. City Council member Rory Lancman (District 24) presented the award for Community Leadership to representatives of the Margaret Tietz Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. (l-r) Michael F. Tietz, president of the New York Foundation for Eldercare; Michael Fassler, president and CEO, CenterLight Health System; Council member Lancman; Yoel Lichstein, executive director, Margaret Tietz Nursing & Rehabilitation Center; and Tanya Figelman, executive director, New York Foundation for Eldercare. Dr. Kennedy and Margaret Tietz table
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