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President's Message “Honouring the Connection” On behalf of our members, we welcome you to this beautiful building in the shadows of America’s Capitol dome and the Canadian Embassy we continue the wonderful relationship between our respective nations – friends enduring with unfortified borders, mutual respect, and trust. We congratulate all Canadians on their superior organization and management of the recent Winter Olympics, a marvelous demonstration of Canadian grandeur and resourcefulness open for the world to see. As a temporary arrangement, an exchange of diplomatic notes prevents discussion of the hockey (both men’s and women’s) here tonight. That should reduce violence considerably. American should have known better than to attack Canada. We should have learned that in 1812. The famed Embassy entrance, just outside to you left, still echoes the roar of Canadian Olympic victories. Commonly, your joint sponsors, the New York State Society and the Province of Quebec exceed one hundred years in age. That reality gains added emphasis and renewed vigor as we celebrate together in this grand venue. I hold deep appreciation for that kind of longevity. Special thanks to our Society Committee members Beverly Ann Frey, Electra Zolotas-Anest and Joan Neiman. They contributed so much of their time and effort to assist the Government of Quebec and the Embassy of Canada to organize things for you. My appreciation goes to the Embassy staff and representative of Quebec as well for their professionalism and boundless hospitality. They permit the Society to present both the newest members of the New York State Congressional Delegation to the 111th Congress and Mr. John Parisella, Delegate General of Quebec in New York City in a lovely setting. All honorees receive NYSS Honorary Membership certificates. Your program tells you about the Society. A quick visit to our web site opens membership to you for most reasonable cost. You’ll join n elite and active organization that promotes New York State. Lifetime friendships, social contacts, special event participation and business networking follow. Thank you for joining us this evening. Charles Barenthaler Special Thanks to NYSS
Corporate Sponsors Thank You!
Thank you to the New York State Society members who donated Wizards tickets to Walter Reed Hospital for our recovering military personnel. NYSS thanks all those who serve in the military keeping America safe. Also, thank you to everyone who supported Toys for Tots this year. NYSS is proud of our affiliation with this organization that helps so many! Honouring the Connection Reception
3 March 2010 | 6:00-8:00 p.m. To become a corporate sponsor of this event, please click here for more information.
A new exhibit will open Nov. 20, 2009 at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Step into the office of Tim Russert, a Buffalo, New York native and one of the country’s most respected journalists and longtime moderator of NBC’s Sunday-morning interview programs, “Meet the Press”. Russert’s office at NBC's Washington Bureau is reassembled as it was on June 13, 2008, his last day at work. Mr. Russert died of a heart attack while recording voiceovers for the show. His office is where he prepared for interviews and breaking news, and is filled with his favorite books, photos, and memorabilia of his beloved Buffalo Bills! For more information, visit newseum.org.
The USS New York will be arriving in NY harbor on Nov 1, 2009 and commissioned in the US Navy Nov. 7. If you are planning a trip to NY, you will be able to tour the ship during that week. She was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center. It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft. Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite, LA to cast the ship's bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept 9, 2003, “those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence,” recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. “It was a spiritual moment for everybody there.” Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the 'hair on my neck stood up. “It had a big meaning to it for all of us,' he said 'They knocked us down. They can't keep us down. We're going to be back.” The ship's motto? 'Never Forget'
Honoring America’s fallen in Afghanistan and Iraq including those men and women who returned from the war zones and lost their lives to physical and emotional wounds of war.
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The Embassy of Canada
together with the
New York State Society of Washington, D.C.
and the
Québec Government Office in Washington, D.C. Cordially invite you to the “Honouring the Connection” Reception
