Swiss Avenue Historic District Association
S A H D
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P.O. Box 140998, Dallas, TX 75214
Volume 39, No. 3
November, 2014
SAHD
Elects New
Officers
and M
Approves 2014-2015 Budget
Message
From
The
SAHDA Officers
President:
Joanna Hampton
[email protected]
Vice President:
Bob Ruckman
Secretary:
Michelle Manners
Treasurer:
Peter Loh
Website:
Bob Cox
www.sahd.org
Occasional:
Larry Waisanen
[email protected]
ENP Officers' Phone:
214-502-3200
What's Inside
2014/15 Officers/Budget
1
2014 Home Tour Sponsors 3
Children's Holiday Party
5
Neighborhood News
6
Virginia McAlester Honors 5
At the annual meeting of residents in
September, new officers were elected for the
2014-2015 fiscal year. Newly elected
officers are:
President: Joanna Hampton
Vice President: Bob Ruckman
Secretary: Michelle Manners
Treasurer: Peter Loh
Parliamentarian: Cameron Kinvig
Directors at Large:
Bob Bracken, Jeff Bryan,
Roger Carroll, Linda
Solomon
Committee chairs for the coming year are:
Planning and Zoning: Tom Bonifield,
Beautification: Marilyn Waisanen, Children's
Committee: Kim McCrea, Social Committee:
Natalie Bodak, Community Outreach: Lanc
Parker and Pauline Mayfield, Website
Committee: Bob Cox, Occasional: Larry
Waisanen. The District is still seeking
committee chairs for Alliance Against Crime
and the 2015 Home Tour and a co-chair for
the Children's Committee.
The Nominating Committee for next year
was also elected by the membership at the
September meeting. Members of next year's
nominating committee are: Jeff Bryan, Linda
Solomon, Bob Ruckman, Debby Rogers,
Jody Bowers, Allan Moore, and Anja
Woodson.
Newly elected President Joanna Hampton
presented a draft of the 2014-2015 Budget to
the membership. The District is in a very
strong financial position as a result of the
financial success of the Mother's Day Home
Tour for the past several years and the
proposed budget for 2014-2015 reflected
significant increases in spending in a number
of areas. The Beautification Committee
proposed that the Budget include $80,500 for
median maintenance, Savage Park
renovations, completion of the landscaping at
the Fitzhugh Gates and tree trimming. Final
plans for Savage Park and the Fitzhugh Gates
landscaping, as well as contractual
arrangements with the City of Dallas, will be
presented to the Board for approval prior to
proceeding with the projects. The draft Budget
also included a provision of $12,000 which is
the estimated cost of retaining a contract
bookkeeper to work under the supervision of
the Treasurer. Community Outreach
(donations) was budgeted at $22,500
including a $6,000 donation to Long Middle
School that was carried over from the previous
year. Other significant items in the Budget
were $4,600 for the SAHD Website and
$10,000 for Alliance Against Crime (to be
supplemented by contributions from SAHD
Homeowners carried forward from the
previous year of $46,000). Total budgeted
expenditures for the 2014-2015 fiscal year are
$153,200. Following discussion of the
proposed Budget, the membership voted
unanimously to approve the 2014-2015 (See
SAHD Elects New Officers on page 4)
2014-2015 SAHD President Joanna Hampton
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SAHD Elects New Officers (continued from page 1)
Dallas Marathon Announces New Route for 2014
Budget as presented.
Officials for the MetroPCS Dallas Marathon recently
announced changes to the course for this year's Marathon
Following approval of the 2014-2015 Budget, President
and Half Marathon which will be run on Sunday, December
Joanna Hampton led a discussion regarding planning for the
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2015 Mother's Day Home Tour. The discussion included a
Highland Park and the M Streets, runners for both races will
brief review of the 2014 Home Tour, and in particular the use
come down Greenville Avenue. At the intersection of Munger
of an event planner who handled fundraising and coordinated and Swiss Avenue (Mile 9.5), the half marathon runners will
all aspects of the tour. The Members were asked to consider continue straight on Munger to Columbia before heading to
whether the District should move forward with an event
the finish line downtown. The marathon runners will proceed
planner for the 2015 Home Tour. The consensus of the
up Swiss Avenue to Lakewood and continue on to the west
Members was that, given the growth of the tour, the
side of White Rock Lake. After returning from White Rock
complexity of the event, and last year's experience with using Lake, full marathon runners will run down Swiss Avenue from
an event planner, the District should engage an event planner La Vista to Munger and will turn left on Munger to follow the
for the 2015 Home Tour. Authority was delegated to the Board same finish as the Half Marathon runners. Historic District,
to select and engage an event planner for the upcoming tour. residents will need to take street closures
Subsequently, the Board met and approved a proposal to
within and around the District into
engage Gaye Jackson as the event planner for the 2015
account when planning their activities
Home Tour. In accordance with the SAHDA Bylaws, a Home for Sunday, December 14.
Tour Chair (or Co-Chairs) who is a resident of the District will
be named to work with and to oversee the work of the event
planner.
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Virginia McAlester Honored by Preservation Dallas and the City of Dallas
At a luncheon held in the Hall of State at Fair Park on November
5, Swiss Avenue resident Virginia McAlester was honored for a
lifetime of professional commitment to the study of American
Architecture and her advocacy for historic preservation. Speakers
at the Tribute Luncheon included, among others, Katherine Seale
(Chair, Dallas Landmark Commission), Mark Lamster
(Architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News) and Willis Winters
(Director, Dallas Parks & Recreation Department).
Kelly-Moore Paint Company sponsored the event and donated
$10,000 to Preservation Dallas to further the organization's work
in Dallas.
At the Dallas City Council meeting on November 12, Mayor Mike
Rawlings presented Virginia with a key to the city in recognition of
her long service to the City, the impact that she has had with
regard to historic preservation both locally and nationally and the
Friends and fellow preservation advocates at the Key to the Ciry presentation.
national acclaim for her recently updated "A Field Guide to
L-R: Tarek Omar, Craig Melde, Daron Tapscott, Katherine Seale, Virginia McAlester,
American Houses". See the presentation at:
Willis Winters, Neil Emmons, Joanna Hampton, Nicky DeFreece Emery, Nancy
McCoy, and Robert Thomas.
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Photo courtesy of Steve Clicque
L-R: Mark
Lamster, Willis
Winters, and
Virginia Savage
McAlester at the
Preservation
Dallas Tribute
Luncheon.
Photo courtesy of
Preservation Dallas
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SAHD Holiday Parties
Children's Party
Sunday, December 14
4-6 PM
5417 Swiss Avenue
Friday, December 5th from 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Join us for pictures with Santa Claus, face painting,
a petting zoo and other family entertainment!
Special performances by Lipscomb Choir,
Woodrow Variations Choir and Restoration Blues!
Presenting Sponsors:
Coming Soon:
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An Invitation to the Adults'
Holiday Party
Marionette
Sponsor
Stage Sponsor
be local
Additional Sponsors:
Bake & Play Cafe • Blow Salon • Dental Center of Lakewood • Frost Bank
Hensley Photography • Lakewood Homeowner’s Association
Lakewood Orthodontics • Patton’s Christmas Trees • Talulah & HESS
Teter’s Faucet Parts • Times Ten Cellars • Unleashed by Petco • Veritex Bank
Share the joy of the season by bringing a new or used children’s book or new children’s pajamas to donate to
Family Outreach, sponsored by Lakewood Service League. To learn more, visit www.lakewoodserviceleague.org
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Neighborhood News
Buckner Park Restoration Moving Forward
In 2006 a group of East Dallas residents came together to form The
Friends of Buckner Park (a 501c3 non-profit) with the objective of
revitalizing Buckner Park, located at Carroll and Worth Streets, across
from the old Davy Crockett School. The idea was to once again make
the park a clean, safe, urban greenspace for the community. Buckner
Park dates back to 1914 when the first land acquisition for the park was
completed. The park opened with a playground in 1915 and by 1923 it
included free outdoor movies, luxuriant shrubbery and flowerbeds,
playground apparatus and a wading pool. As the surrounding
neighborhoods declined after World War II, the park suffered the same
fate and reached a point where it did not serve the surrounding
neighborhoods and had become an attraction for vagrants, prostitutes
and drug dealers. In 2009 SAHD and the three other neighboring
historic districts sponsored A Taste of Swiss, an evening of international
tastings and entertainment in four Swiss Avenue homes. The event
raised $10,000 that has been used to support the development of the
project.
Working with the City of Dallas Parks and Recreation Department, The
Friends of Buckner Park developed a plan for the park. That plan and
the funds required to move forward have been approved by both the
Parks Department and City Council. Final construction drawings are in
the works and the project, which will include a loop trail, tree plantings,
lighting, benches, irrigation and a playground is targeted for
completion in 2016, just in time for the celebration of the park's
centennial. SAHD friend and neighbor Jim Anderson has been
shepherding the project through the aprroval process and deserves a
huge "Thank You" for his tireless efforts to make this project happen!
Original Buckner Park restoration plan that was submitted to the Parks Department for
approval. Minor modifications, including a shrinking of the walking trail oval at the top
of the park and the elimination of the sand volleyball courts, will be included in the
final construction drawings.
SAHD kids had the
opportunity to go Trick
or Treating on a
beautiful Sunday
afternoon at the District
sponsored Halloween
party.
Top photo, L-R: Miers
McCrea, LouLou
McCrea and London
Ezell.
Left photo: Josie
Wohlfeld
Photos coursey of Sherry
Ezell
SAHD residents and former residents enjoyed a night at Theatre Three's production of
Sheer Madness, with a Swiss Avenue twist. Attending the production and meeting the
cast were Joanna and John Hampton, Jean Bainbridge and Mike French, Cassandra
and Arch McColl, Michelle and Jerry Baus, Helen and Craig Rekerdres, Lawrence
Sweeney and Ivy Patrick and Gaye Jackson.
Photo courtesy of Gaye Jackson
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