Celebrating the 125th birthday of William Carlos Williams at Rutherford's Labor Day Street Fair with Gov. John Corzine are Della Rowland, WCW Poetry Symposium Chair, and Daphne Williams Fox, youngest surviving granddaughter of the poet-pediatrician.
Photo by Bergen County Freeholder David L. Ganz (9-1-08 Rutherford Street Fair).
St. Mary's Hospital, Passaic has established the “William Carlos Williams Fund” in honor of the 125 anniversary of the physician-poet’s birthday. Dr. William Carlos Williams was an esteemed member of the Medical Staff at Passaic General Hospital, now known as the new St. Mary’s Hospital in Passaic, NJ, for nearly 50 years. He served as Chief Pediatrician for many years and delivered more than 3,000 babies. Donations to the fund will support Maternal-Child Health Services, one of Dr. Williams’ areas of specialty.
“A bronze plaque in our main lobby is dedicated to Dr. Williams and reminds us of how he inspired patients, colleagues and staff,” said Dr. Daniel P. Conroy, Vice President of Medical Affairs at St. Mary’s Hospital. “Considering how intertwined his work and art were we thought this was a fitting tribute on the anniversary of his birth.”
St. Mary’s Hospital is the only hospital in Passaic, and the closest emergency room to many of the surrounding communities in Bergen, Hudson and Essex counties. Last year alone, over 1,400 babies were delivered at the Hospital. Donations made to the William Carlos Williams fund will be used to purchase new technology and upgrade both the labor and delivery and post-partum units. The fund will also be used to help establish a Level II Nursery at St. Mary’s.
“A Level II Nursery is urgently needed by our patient population,” said Diana Durham, RN, Nursing Director of Maternal-Child Health at St. Mary’s. “Pregnant women in Passaic receive prenatal care less often and later than their counterparts in other areas of New Jersey, raising their risk of having pre-term labor, low birth weight babies and other complications. A Level II Nursery would enable the Hospital to provide life-saving care for these newborns closer to their families and in their own community, and without the additional risks of transferring them to another facility.”
A Level II Nursery would also allow the Hospital to offer the rest of its patients the added reassurance of knowing that specialized technology and neonatal experts are available should any emergent situation arise. Ms. Durham concluded, “a Level II Nursery would be a tremendous safety-net for the thousands of babies born at our Hospital.”
Anyone interested in making a donation to the William Carlos William Fund at St. Mary’s Hospital is asked to please call the St. Mary’s Hospital Development Office 973-365-4615.
St. Mary’s Hospital is the primary provider of quality healthcare to the Passaic and Bergen communities, as well as to areas of Essex and Hudson Counties. It is a non-profit acute care hospital offering a broad range of health care services and community outreach programs. St. Mary’s Hospital is a Center of Excellence for Cardiology, Oncology, Behavioral Health, and Maternal-Child Health Services. The Hospital has 307 beds, over 550 physicians and is the largest employer in Passaic. St. Mary’s Hospital is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, NJ.
Support the Williams Carlos Williams Poetry Symposium
The Sponsors and Donor Guide is now available. Those wishing to contribute to the Symposium may send their tax-free donations to the William Carlos Williams Symposium, Inc, 41 Highfield Lane, Rutherford, NJ 07070. All proceeds will benefit the William Carlos Williams’ 125th birthday program in 2008.
2008 Supporters
Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, through grant funds administered by the Bergen County Department of Parks, Division of
Cultural and Historic Affairs.
BENEFACTORS:
Boiling Springs Savings Bank
New Jersey Media Group Foundation
DONORS:
Daphne Williams Fox
The Friends of the Rutherford Library
St Mary's Hospital, Passaic, NJ
Jennifer Williams
FRIENDS:
Jane Fisher
Rod Leith
Kathy Monahan
Leslie O'Keefe
Della Rowland & Tony Fradkin
Patricia & Doug Wester
Van Winkle Realty Co.
IN KIND SPONSORSHIP:
Annabella's Italian American Delicatessan, East Rutherford, NJ
AVCOA
Graytor Printing Company, Lyndhurst, NJ
Post Direct Mail, New York City, NY
Jeffrey Shelly, Carlstadt, NJ
Sweet Avenue Bake Shop, Rutherford, NJ
Varrelmann's Bake Shop, Rutherford, NJ
SUPPORTERS:
Barnes & Noble, Clifton Commons
Historic Preservation Commission
Mayor John Hipp, Rutherford Council & Borough Administration
Meadowlands Museum
Red Wheelbarrow Poets
Rutherford Downtown Partnership
Rutherford Public Library staff
Rutherford School Superintendent's office
WCW Poetry Cooperative
Williams Center
Williams Family members
Public Relations by Loren Kleinman
Event photography by William Neumann
Video documentation by Robin Laverne Wilson & crew
The HOTEL of choice for Symposium attendees and members of the William Carlos Williams family:
Fairfield Inn by Marriott
850 Route 120, East Rutherford, NJ 07073
Ph: 201-507-5222;
Fax: 201-507-0744
Celebrating the 125th birthday of William Carlos Williams at Rutherford's Labor Day Street Fair with Gov. John Corzine are Della Rowland, WCW Poetry Symposium Chair, and Daphne Williams Fox, youngest surviving granddaughter of the poet-pediatrician.
Photo by Bergen County Freeholder David L. Ganz (9-1-08 Rutherford Street Fair).
The 2008 Program Schedule is now available: Download 2008_Program.pdf
HOLD THESE DATES! — September 20 & 21, 2008 — because the town of Rutherford, NJ, will celebrate the 125th birthday of its most famous resident, William Carlos Williams. This world-renowned poet, who died in 1963 at the age of 80, is considered by many to be the father of modern American poetry, achieving a fresh form of poetic language that centered on the daily lives and speech of ordinary people.
NEW! Join us in celebrating the life of Rutherford's most famous citizen by making a tax-deductible contribution to this exciting, memorable event!
Mayor Hipp declares September 2008 "William Carlos Williams Month"!
A pediatrician as well, William Carlos Williams lived in Rutherford his entire life and practiced medicine in his home at 9 Ridge Road for 40 years. Although the world knew him as a pioneering poet, the people in his community knew him as "Doc Williams." He often scribbled down poems and ideas that came to him throughout his workday on a handy prescription pad, producing some 25 books of poetry, including his five-book National Book Award-winning poem Paterson, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning Pictures from Brueghel. He also wrote nine books of short stories, novels and other fiction, a collection of plays, an autobiography, a memoir of his mother, and books of essays.
Organizing the event is the William Carlos Williams Poetry Symposium (WCWPS). The non-profit organization held a day-long symposium in Rutherford on September 17, 2005, WCW’s actual birth date. Hundreds attended this first celebration of the poet here in 22 years, with events at the Williams Center, named for WCW in 1982, and Rutherford’s Public Library, which houses a large collection of Williams’ materials and personal effects. In between panel discussions, slide presentations, and poetry readings, historic bus tours shuttled attendees to important WCW sites in town.
The 2005 Symposium concluded that evening with A Dream of Love, the first full performance of one of WCW’s plays in his hometown. The play was directed by playwright Keline Adams and hosted by 80-year-old Judith Malina, whose avant-garde NYC company, The Living Theatre, ran WCW’s play “Many Loves” in repertoire throughout 1959. Winners of the Symposium-sponsored 4-county HS Poetry Contest read at the event and a week later at Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where Williams attended medical school. Also in conjunction with the Symposium, Rutherford was designated a Literary Landmark.
The success of the 2005 Symposium inspired Rutherford Library Director Jane Fisher, with Wood-Ridge Library Director John J. Trause and others, to form the WCW Poetry Collaborative of Southern Bergen County, which holds monthly poetry readings at the Williams Center. Borough Historian Rod Leith’s historical bus tour and accompanying slide presentation “WCW: Growing up in A Small Town” received a Bergen County Historic Preservation Commendation Award in May 2006.
The WCWPS has held annual events since 2005. In 2006, the WCWPS worked with the Hispanic Heritage Organization to acknowledge WCW’s Spanish lineage on his mother’s side. The event featured Puerto Rican poet Urayanoa Noel reading selections from Williams' Kora In Hell as well as his own works. Actors Ellen Lanese and Anthony Spaldo also performed dramatic readings from Yes, Mrs. Williams, WCW’s biography of his mother and Paterson in English and Spanish.
In 2007, the WCWPS hosted a special poetry reading to commemorate its annual celebration of WCW’s birthday and to acknowledge the 25th anniversary of the renaming of the Williams Center. The reading took place on September 16 on the Terrace of the Williams Center, followed by a champagne reception during which the poets signed books.
Featured poets included Alicia Ostriker and Laura Boss, both of whom read at the WCW Centennial at the Williams Center in 1983; Lewis Warsh, a featured poet at the 2005 Symposium; Urayoan Noel, featured reader for the 2006 WCWPS event; Jim Klein, WCW Poetry Cooperative member and workshop leader; and Tina Kelley, award winning poet and New York Times reporter. Bill Zavatsky, poet and Williams scholar, opened the reading with a discussion and reading of WCW’s works. Several of WCW’s family members attended, notably three daughters of William Eric Williams, WCW's son. Suzy Williams Sinclaire and Erica Williams Gilbert shared reminiscences of their grandfather. Daphne Williams Fox read a poem written by her mother that was published at the time of the Williams Center naming.
For the 125th birthday celebration, the WCWPS Committee intends to mount another play and produce one of WCW’s musically related works, along with poetry readings, panels, and presentations. Youth involvement will include art and music projects as well as more poetry. The popular historic bus tour will be reprised.
The committee is seeking various levels of support and sponsorship. Anyone wishing to donate time or dollars, please download the Sponsor and Donors Guide and/or contact Della Rowland at della.rowland@verizon.net, or Jane Fisher at fisher@bccls.org or 201-939-8600.
Check back for more information as plans unfold. Where else to celebrate WCW’s auspicious birthday but in his hometown, which had its own 125th birthday in September 2006!
At the Tuesday, August 26, 2008 meeting of the Mayor and Council, Mayor John F. Hipp proclaimed September 2008 as "William Carlos Williams Month" in the Borough of Rutherford.
Pictured below (right to left): Mayor John Hipp; Symposium Chair Della Rowland; Symposium Board Members Daphne Williams Fox & Jane Fisher.
The William Carlos Williams Poetry Symposium gratefully acknowledges the support of Rutherford's Mayor John F. Hipp, and the following members of the Governing Body:
Councilman George Fecanin
Councilman John Genovesi
Councilwoman Rose Inguanti
Councilwoman Maura Keyes
Councilman John Sasso
Councilman Joseph Sommer
The Official Proclamation:
— WCW POETRY SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEW (as of 8/15/08) —
COME TO A POETRY SYMPOSIUM
TO CELEBRATE THE 125TH BIRTHDAY OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
IN HIS HOMETOWN OF RUTHERFORD, NJ
September 20 and 21, 2008 at the Williams Center
Download 2008_OVERVIEW.pdf
Download 2008_POSTER.pdf
Download 2008_ARTPOSTER.pdf
Download 2008_DONORS.pdf
In 2006, the WCWPS worked with the Hispanic Heritage Organization to acknowledge WCW’s Spanish lineage on his mother’s side. The event featured Puerto Rican poet Urayoan Noel reading selections from Williams' Kora In Hell as well as his own works. Actors Ellen Lanese and Anthony Spaldo also performed dramatic readings from Yes, Mrs. Williams, WCW’s biography of his mother and Paterson in English and Spanish. The program details are below.
The Hispanic Heritage Organization and the William Carlos Williams Poetry Symposium celebrated William Carlos Williams’ Hispanic Heritage with a Poetry Reading on Sunday, November 12, 2006
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm at the Rutherford Public Library
The Performers
Urayoán Noel is a Puerto Rican poet, performer, and critic, as well as doctoral candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU. He has published two books of poetry, Las flores del mall (Alamala Eds., 2000) and Kool Logic/La lógica kool (Bilingual Press, 2005), as well as a poetry, rock, and performance DVD “Kool Logic Sessions: Poems, Pop Songs, Laugh Tracts” (Bilingual Press, 2005). Boringkén, a book of poems in Spanish with a spoken word CD, is forthcoming. His poems, creative essays, nonfiction, and translations have appeared in New York Quarterly, Terra Incognita, Pavement Saw, Rattapallax, Teachers & Writers, and several anthologies. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Noel lives in the South Bronx where he fronts the rock band, objet petit a, and co-directs the arts organization ‘Spanic Attack. He has been a featured performer throughout the US & Puerto Rico, France, Peru, and the Dominican Republic, and will appear this year at the Modern Language Association conference in Philadelphia. His website is www.urayoannoel.com.
Ellen Lanase is a member of Actors’ Equity, the Screen Actors Guild, and AFTRA. Recent appearances include Barbara in Verbatim, and Roslyn in Gentrification in the Legacy Playwrights’ Festival. NY stage
appearances include The Women of Trachis, Harold Clurman Theatre; The Fool, South Street Theatre; Derek, Mitzi Newhouse Theatre; William’s Last Chance, Blue Heron Theatre; and Sacco and Vanzetti, New Stagecraft Company. Other New York and regional credits include Lina in Misalliance, Jennie in Chapter Two, title role in Hedda Gabler, Desiree in A Little Night Music, as well as All Over, Tartuffe, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Glass Menagerie, The Seagull, Twelfth Night, Our Town, The Little Foxes, Uncommon Women and Others, The Oresteia, The Rainmaker, and The Birthday Party. She is also a professor at Farleigh Dickinson University, where she directs the writing program.
Anthony Spaldo is a member of Actors’ Equity, the Screen Actors guide, and AFTRA. He recently appeared in a reading of Work Work Work at the Legacy Playwrights’ Festival with the Producers’ Club Theatre Company, of which he is a member. His professional stage roles include Telegin in Uncle Vanya, Mr. Gibbs in Arsenic and Old Lace, the Father of Rabbithead, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, King Henry in Henry IV Part I, Vanzetti in Sacco and Vanzetti, Cromwell in A Man for All Seasons, Arvide in Guys and Dolls, Joe Boyd in Damn Yankees, and Peter in The Birthday Party. Recent film credits
include: “The Good Shepherd,” “The Hoax,” “The Producers,” “Catch Me If You Can,” “A Beautiful Mind.” TV appearances include: “Law and Order,” “The Sopranos,” and “The Chief Inspector” (Russian series).
The Program
Introductions — Martha Lozada, HHO President
HHO Arts Scholarship Award — Andrew Ospina, Rutherford High School student
Raquel Hélène Rose Hoheb, William Carlos Williams’ mother — Della Rowland, WCW Poetry
Symposium Chair
“Her Only Poem!” (William Carlos Williams) — Martha Lozada & Ida Borroto
“To Awaken An Old Lady” (William Carlos Williams) — Roberto Bustamante & Ida Borroto
Readings from Williams’ Yes, Mrs. Williams, and Paterson — Ellen Lanase & Anthony Spaldo
Performing his own works & reading from Williams’ Kora in Hell Urayoán Noel
The Hispanic Heritage Organization
The Rutherford Hispanic Heritage Organization (HHO) was formed in 2001 to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, under a proposal from former Councilwoman Martha Lozada and approved by former Rutherford Mayor Bernadette McPherson. September 19, 2001, was proclaimed Rutherford Hispanic Day by Mayor McPherson, Governor Jim McGreevey and President George Bush. Since then, the HHO has held annual festivals, sponsored by the Rutherford Civil Rights Commission and the Mayor and Council.
The purpose of HHO festivals is to acquaint the people of Rutherford and neighboring towns with the diversity of the Hispanic cultures in our communities. Promoting knowledge and awareness of the idiosyncrasy of the different cultures is achieved during these festivals with displays of ethnic food, music, dance, arts, and crafts.
The HHO’s latest FIESTA LATINA, held on May 6, 2006, offered an Arts Scholarship Award to a young talented Hispanic student. The recipient of the Award is Andrew Ospina, a junior at Rutherford High School, who drew a portrait of William Carlos Williams in recognition of the poet’s Hispanic roots and inspired by the William Carlos Williams Poetry Symposium held on September 17, 2005.
In 2007, the WCWPS hosted a special poetry reading to commemorate its annual celebration of WCW’s birthday and to acknowledge the 25th anniversary of the renaming of the Williams Center. The reading took place on September 16 on the Terrace of the Williams Center, followed by a champagne reception during which the poets signed books.
Featured poets included Alicia Ostriker and Laura Boss, both of whom read at the WCW Centennial at the Williams Center in 1983; Lewis Warsh, a featured poet at the 2005 Symposium; Urayoan Noel, featured reader for the 2006 WCWPS event; Jim Klein, WCW Poetry Cooperative member and workshop leader; and Tina Kelley, award winning poet and New York Times reporter. Bill Zavatsky, poet and Williams scholar, opened the reading with a discussion and reading of WCW’s works. Several of WCW’s family members attended, notably three daughters of William Eric Williams, WCW's son. Suzy Williams Sinclaire and Erica Williams Gilbert shared reminiscences of their grandfather. Daphne Williams Fox read a poem written by her mother that was published at the time of the Williams Center naming.
Following are more detailed bios on the WCWPS 2007 guest poets.
Laura Boss is founder and editor of Lips, a poetry magazine established in 1981 that has published Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Alice Notley, Michael Benedikt, Anne Waldman, Alicia Ostriker, Marge Piercy, and Ted Berrigan, among others. An award-winning poet, her books include Stripping, the award-winning On the Edge of the Hudson, Reports from the Front, and Arms: New And Selected Poems. She also leads the Rutherford Library’s young adult poetry workshops.
Tina Kelley’s first book of poetry, The Gospel of Galore, won a 2003 Washington State Book Award. Her upcoming collection is entitled Looking Only for Yes. Her poems have appeared in several poetry journals and on the buses of Seattle, Washington. A reporter for the Metropolitan section of the New York Times, she wrote 121 of the Times “Portraits of Grief” obituaries on 9/11 victims.
Jim Klein, a reader at the renaming of the Williams Center, has published more than 100 poems in such literary magazines as Unmuzzled Ox, Beloit Poetry Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, Oxford Magazine, Footwork, Field, Gandhabba, Onthebus, Poetry Now, Popular Film, Pulpsmith, RT: Journal of Radical Therapy, Journal of New Jersey Poetry, and was featured in Wormwood Review. While a professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University for 14 years, he founded Lunch, a nationally recognized college literary magazine whose contributors went on to found other literary magazines such as The Paterson Literary Review, The Passaic Review, and Lips.
Urayoan Noel is a poet, performer, and critic, with two books of poetry, Las flores del mall, and Kool Logic/La lógica kool, and a poetry-rock-performance DVD “Kool Logic Sessions: Poems, Pop Songs, Laugh Tracts.” His poems, creative essays, nonfiction, and translations have appeared in New York Quarterly, Terra Incognita, Pavement Saw, Rattapallax, Teachers & Writers, and several anthologies. In addition he fronts the South Bronx rock band, objet petit a, and co-directs the arts organization ‘Spanic Attack. His appearances include the 2006 Modern Language Association conference.
Alice Ostriker has published eleven volumes of poetry, including Volcano Sequence and No Heaven. Her most recent prose book is Dancing at the Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Paris Review, Ontario Review, and The Nation. She is a Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University.
Lewis Warsh is author of five books of fiction, three autobiographies, and 18 books of poems, most recently the forthcoming Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005. He has been editor and publisher of United Artists Books for over 28 years. He is Associate Professor of English and MFA creative writing program director at Long Island University in Brooklyn.
Bill Zavatsky has written two volumes of poetry, Where X Marks the Spot and Theories of Rain & Other Poems, as well as a prize-winning translation of Andre Breton. He was director of the independent literary press SUN for some 15 years and currently teaches English, creative writing, and film at Trinity School in NYC.
HOLD THESE DATES! — September 20 & 21, 2008 — because the town of Rutherford, NJ, will celebrate the 125th birthday of its most famous resident, William Carlos Williams. This world-renowned poet, who died in 1963 at the age of 80, is considered by many to be the father of modern American poetry, achieving a fresh form of poetic language that centered on the daily lives and speech of ordinary people.
NEW! Join us in celebrating the life of Rutherford's most famous citizen by making a tax-deductible contribution to this exciting, memorable event!
Mayor Hipp declares September 2008 "William Carlos Williams Month"!
A pediatrician as well, William Carlos Williams lived in Rutherford his entire life and practiced medicine in his home at 9 Ridge Road for 40 years. Although the world knew him as a pioneering poet, the people in his community knew him as "Doc Williams." He often scribbled down poems and ideas that came to him throughout his workday on a handy prescription pad, producing some 25 books of poetry, including his five-book National Book Award-winning poem Paterson, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning Pictures from Brueghel. He also wrote nine books of short stories, novels and other fiction, a collection of plays, an autobiography, a memoir of his mother, and books of essays.
Organizing the event is the William Carlos Williams Poetry Symposium (WCWPS). The non-profit organization held a day-long symposium in Rutherford on September 17, 2005, WCW’s actual birth date. Hundreds attended this first celebration of the poet here in 22 years, with events at the Williams Center, named for WCW in 1982, and Rutherford’s Public Library, which houses a large collection of Williams’ materials and personal effects. In between panel discussions, slide presentations, and poetry readings, historic bus tours shuttled attendees to important WCW sites in town.
The 2005 Symposium concluded that evening with A Dream of Love, the first full performance of one of WCW’s plays in his hometown. The play was directed by playwright Keline Adams and hosted by 80-year-old Judith Malina, whose avant-garde NYC company, The Living Theatre, ran WCW’s play “Many Loves” in repertoire throughout 1959. Winners of the Symposium-sponsored 4-county HS Poetry Contest read at the event and a week later at Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where Williams attended medical school. Also in conjunction with the Symposium, Rutherford was designated a Literary Landmark.
The success of the 2005 Symposium inspired Rutherford Library Director Jane Fisher, with Wood-Ridge Library Director John J. Trause and others, to form the WCW Poetry Collaborative of Southern Bergen County, which holds monthly poetry readings at the Williams Center. Borough Historian Rod Leith’s historical bus tour and accompanying slide presentation “WCW: Growing up in A Small Town” received a Bergen County Historic Preservation Commendation Award in May 2006.
The WCWPS has held annual events since 2005. In 2006, the WCWPS worked with the Hispanic Heritage Organization to acknowledge WCW’s Spanish lineage on his mother’s side. The event featured Puerto Rican poet Urayanoa Noel reading selections from Williams' Kora In Hell as well as his own works. Actors Ellen Lanese and Anthony Spaldo also performed dramatic readings from Yes, Mrs. Williams, WCW’s biography of his mother and Paterson in English and Spanish.
In 2007, the WCWPS hosted a special poetry reading to commemorate its annual celebration of WCW’s birthday and to acknowledge the 25th anniversary of the renaming of the Williams Center. The reading took place on September 16 on the Terrace of the Williams Center, followed by a champagne reception during which the poets signed books.
Featured poets included Alicia Ostriker and Laura Boss, both of whom read at the WCW Centennial at the Williams Center in 1983; Lewis Warsh, a featured poet at the 2005 Symposium; Urayoan Noel, featured reader for the 2006 WCWPS event; Jim Klein, WCW Poetry Cooperative member and workshop leader; and Tina Kelley, award winning poet and New York Times reporter. Bill Zavatsky, poet and Williams scholar, opened the reading with a discussion and reading of WCW’s works. Several of WCW’s family members attended, notably three daughters of William Eric Williams, WCW's son. Suzy Williams Sinclaire and Erica Williams Gilbert shared reminiscences of their grandfather. Daphne Williams Fox read a poem written by her mother that was published at the time of the Williams Center naming.
For the 125th birthday celebration, the WCWPS Committee intends to mount another play and produce one of WCW’s musically related works, along with poetry readings, panels, and presentations. Youth involvement will include art and music projects as well as more poetry. The popular historic bus tour will be reprised.
The committee is seeking various levels of support and sponsorship. Anyone wishing to donate time or dollars, please download the Sponsor and Donors Guide and/or contact Della Rowland at della.rowland@verizon.net, or Jane Fisher at fisher@bccls.org or 201-939-8600.
Check back for more information as plans unfold. Where else to celebrate WCW’s auspicious birthday but in his hometown, which had its own 125th birthday in September 2006!
