People and Places
| Melissa A. Chadwick
After several months of searching, a 10-foot tall, 5-ton statue has a new home.
North Potomac resident Reni Malloy’s search for a place to move her husband’s sculpture was featured in the May 12 issue of The Gazette.
Malloy’s husband, Cy Malloy was a lobbyist who strived all his life to become a sculptor. He worked on ‘‘Family in Distress,” for 20 years, and on the day he finished, he died.
Since that day, March 23, 2004, his sandstone statue had stood at the Friends-a-Plenty Farm in Boyds, where Malloy liked to work. But after the farm was sold on Feb. 29, the sculpture needed a new home and new owners.
After reading about Reni Malloy in The Gazette, Cindy and John Petrella of Boyds contacted her with an offer.
‘‘It is placed on a seven acres farm in Boyds,” Reni Malloy wrote to The Gazette last week. ‘‘It looks absolutely beautiful and I am so thrilled about it.”
Her husband’s statue now stands between two huge trees with a lake in the background. The Petrellas ‘‘even put a spotlight on it, so they can see it in the evening,” Malloy said. ‘‘I am at peace now and I am sure that my husband would have been very happy as well.”
Malloy helped the new owners decide where the statue should stand, Cindy Petrella said.
‘‘I think it really speaks that she loved her husband a lot that she took such an effort to find his statue the right resting place,” she said. ‘‘It makes us happy every time we look at it.”
Malloy and her children and grandchildren are ‘‘welcome any time.”
Share your fair memories
Remember the first time you had funnel cake or the first blue-ribbon you won at the county fair? Remember your child’s reaction the first time he touched a sheep’s wool or rode the Tilt-A-Whirl? Tell us about it!
The Gazette wants to hear about all the fun times you had as a kid, and as an adult, at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair, which celebrates its 60th anniversary next month.
So send your photographs and share your favorite fair story with us. Photos and stories will be considered for print and online. E-mail us at memories@gazette.net or write to The Gaithersburg Gazette, 9030 Comprint Court, Gaithersburg, MD, 20877.
Fun for all ages
There’s plenty of summer fun still to be had at Plum Gar Community Center in Germantown.
The annual free community festival is 1-6 p.m. Friday at the center, 19561 Scenery Drive.
There will be food, a moonbounce, cheerleading, dancing, music, a karate demonstration and other activities.
The center’s Post-Summer Camp program is Monday through Aug. 8 at the center for children ages 5 to 13.
The camp is 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and includes free play time, gym, computer, crafts and more activities. Campers will also visit the Germantown Library. Campers must bring a bag lunch and drink. The weeklong camp is $70.
For more information, call Hercules Twine Sr. at 240-777-4919.
Campus Congratulations
Several upcounty students made the spring dean’s list at the University of Delaware. They include: Jaclyn Kelly Brunn of Boyds, a sophomore dietetics major; Paula Beth Sosin of Boyds, a freshman fine arts⁄visual com interest major; and Sara Jo Jamison of Dickerson, a senior communication and foreign languages & literatures major.
Others on the dean’s list are Evelyn Anne Hayman of Clarksburg, a freshman English major; Charles Clifton Veirs of Darnestown, a junior management major; and Haley Michelle Brightman of Darnestown, a freshman English major.
Germantown residents who made the spring dean’s list are Megan Kathleen Barr, a freshman nursing major; Kara Dengler, a sophomore university studies major; Sarah Elizabeth Duyer, a sophomore university studies major; Andrew William Harmon, a senior biological sciences major; Ethlynne Olabisi Thomas, a junior human services major; and Lisa Michele Williams, a freshman university studies major.
*D.J. Connelly, a 2004 graduate of Seneca Valley High School, son of Randy and Patti Connelly, graduated from Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C., with a bachelor’s in business administration marketing and a bachelor’s in business administration management.
Class reunion
Seneca Valley High School class of 1988 reunion is at 7 p.m. Aug. 16 at the Willow Tree Inn at Montgomery Village Golf Club, 19550 Montgomery Village Ave., Montgomery Village.
Tickets, which include dinner, dessert and music, are $55. There will be a cash bar. For more information, call Jeanette Chambers at 301-613-4725.
OWL comes to county
OWL, a national grassroots organization that focuses exclusively on issues unique to aging women, has formed a Montgomery County chapter of the Midlife and Older Women’s League.
The nonprofit organization has chapters across the country that conduct research, education and advocacy activities to improve the status and quality of the lives of midlife and older women. For information, call 301-951-3920.
Sound it out, volunteer
The OASIS Intergenerational Tutoring Program is looking for tutors at its 27 Montgomery County Public Schools. OASIS, a national senior organization, provides volunteer tutors for students in kindergarten through third grade reading.
Call OASIS Tutor Coordinator, Kay Meek at 301-588-5416 or e-mail at krm5416@aol.com or call Marge Feldman at 301-869-1638 to sign up for training or for more information.
Submissions for People and Places must be received by 10 a.m. Thursday. Send submissions to Melissa A. Chadwick via e-mail at mchadwick@gazette.net, fax at 301-670-7183 or mail to The Gazette, 9030 Comprint Court, Gaithersburg, MD 20877. Photos will also be considered.
