Committee members visit the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On Friday, May 30, 2008 Capably Disabled Committee members took pre-arranged guided touch tours of select exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. The ninety minute tours were arranged with the needs of people with disabilities in mind, and the reaction was overwhelmingly positive.
Capably Disabled Committee members assemble prior to meeting the tour guides:
Front row seated from left: Andrea
Solomon; Committee members Beverly Warmbrand and Phaedra
Damianakos. Standing from left: Carolyn Herbst, Committee Chairperson; Bonita
Gibson, Barbara Miller, Abbe Nosoff, and Grace
Witko.
Tour guides Pamela Lawton (left) and Deborah Lutz (right) provide overview of tour to committee members including Carolyn Herbst, Committee chairperson.
Ms. Lawton and Ms. Lutz get a point across in discussion with committee members prior to tour
“Food and Fun”
prevail at the Committee’s annual end of term dinner. On Monday, June 9, 2008 committee members celebrated the end of another successful school year of providing valuable assistance to UFT members with disabilities. The large gathering included active committee members and staff members. The annual occasion affords diligent committee workers the opportunity to take a moment to relax and share good times.
Left photo: Committee members Beverly Warmbrand and Lou Weber, and Gene Rubin, UFT Liaison to the Committee.
Right photo: Committee member Phyllis Kahn, Carolyn Herbst, Committee Chairperson, and Beverly Warmbrand.
