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'Not Just Leaves in a Teacup'
Celebrating the Legacy of the Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association
When you have belonged to an organization for most of your life, it isn't always easy to remember your first impressions. But for the women of the Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association, this rarely seems to be a problem. The story of their involvement is one they love to tell from the beginning, and the details have only gained significance with the passage of time.
Dorothy Mitchell Zanetti, for example, started attending the association's annual meetings soon after she graduated from Flora Stone Mather College in 1959. Each year, the class celebrating its 50th anniversary would present a gift, usually for scholarships. To a brand-new alumna, those women seemed "really, really old." But then, Zanetti says, "I would look at them and think: They're so active, and they're so smart, and they're so curious. And when we would have teas or luncheons or whatever, these women would come. And they were just filled with knowledge of the contemporary times, even though they had graduated 50 years before."
Zanetti didn't know it then, but the elder generation of Mather alumnae would become her role models. "I have always felt that educated women continue to be active in the world," she explains. "I think that we are involved in a lot of things outside of our own little families." Looking back to her college years, she adds, "I think the type of education we had at Mather was conducive to opening our minds to what was going on in the world—and that just continued. People say we had such limited options. Well, maybe we did have limited options, but we didn't have limited thinking."
For 114 years, the members of the Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association have been proving Zanetti's point. But now, it has fallen to the women of her generation to bring the group's formal history to a close. In June, 260 alumnae gathered at Squire Valleevue Farm for the association's last annual meeting.
By some unspoken compact, everyone agreed this would not be a somber occasion. Members of the Class of '47 presented a musical revue, as if they were reviving a Stunt Night performance from 60 years ago. Women who had never attended an annual meeting mingled with women who had never missed one. Meanwhile, the board members who had spent years preparing for this day remained focused on the task at hand. President Sandra Malek Vodanoff announced parting gifts to several university programs. Patricia Baldwin Kilpatrick called for donations to the association's final campaign: a $1 million challenge grant to endow the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women.
Near the entrance, Harriet Rosenthal Gould, the association's treasurer, had been distributing place cards, and she lingered there even after the presentations started. "Everybody's crying," she confessed. "But it's good to go out strong."
The Mather Way
The history of the association began on February 24, 1894, when five graduates of the Cleveland College for Women at Western Reserve University met and started making plans. (This was only six years after the college itself had been created; it wouldn't be named for Flora Stone Mather until 1931.) The association's first social event was a commencement banquet for the Class of 1894. Three years later, the alumnae established a scholarship fund with $210 in proceeds from a theatrical performance of The Russian Honeymoon.
Soon, the Mather women were supporting efforts to develop the college's physical infrastructure. In 1907, they contributed $17,500 toward the construction of Mather Gymnasium. A few years later, a future association president, Ruth W. Hitchings, led an $80,000 campaign to build the Mather House dormitory. The great Cleveland philanthropists of the day—Rockefeller, Severance, Wade—answered her solicitations with $5,000 checks, and many alumnae made substantial gifts as well.
Yet the association has never relied solely on large donations. A ticket to the formal opening of Mather House on May 22, 1914, cost 25 cents. There were baked goods and jellies for sale in the kitchen, flowers and homemade candies in the dining room. Guests were also invited to help furnish the kitchen by covering the cost of the utensil of their choice. This was the Mather way of doing things. And if you look closely enough, you can find evidence of it even in the alumnae's grandest initiatives.
In February 1929, for instance, the association announced a $1 million endowment campaign. The speeches at the opening banquet were broadcast live over radio station WHK. The Cleveland News reported, a bit condescendingly, that "750 of the girls and 'old girls' ... met to eat, make merry and usher in their campaign." In no time, however, the "girls" mobilized more than 500 volunteers. By April 10, they had secured almost $663,000 in pledges; by mid-October, they were just $60,150 short of their goal. Then the stock market crashed, marking the start of the Great Depression.
The rest of the story is a little elusive. The philanthropist Edward S. Harkness had promised the women $100,000 if they reached their goal. Sometime in December 1929, he apparently decided to drop the condition: His gift suddenly appeared in the campaign total. And the Mather alumnae, who had come so close and then run up against impossible circumstances, declared victory:
We've reached our goal in ten short months. The spring offensive began on February 15th—and what a series of attacks and counter-attacks, skirmishes and ambuscades followed. We've proved old friends and discovered new ones; we've learned many a lesson in loyalty and puzzled over many a problem of indifference. We've talked and walked and slept and dreamed "endowment"; we've sold rubbers [erasers] and rolls of waxed paper and playing cards; we've baked and preserved, and tended babies—and had such a jolly time withal!
This is an aspect of women's philanthropy that the Cleveland News did not fully appreciate. Naturally, the alumnae made merry at banquets: That's part of what an association is for. But once the festivities ended, the Mather ladies worked. And only the tiniest fraction of their efforts ever made it onto the radio or into any annual report.
As general chairwoman for the association's current $1 million campaign, Pat Kilpatrick draws inspiration from the women of 1929. But she takes equal pride in the seemingly endless array of activities that have filled the alumnae's calendars ever since: "Poke 'n' Tote" flea markets in Haydn Hall, lectures and recitals, awards ceremonies, conferences and symposia. "You see," Kilpatrick says, "the Mather Alumnae Association is not just leaves in a teacup." She speaks as though she's been waiting for an opportunity to set the record straight.
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Forging a Vision
The Mather alumnae have pledged $5 million in final gifts to the university. This amount represents the proceeds from their current campaign as well as the endowment they have accumulated over decades of fund-raising, donating, and investing. Approximately $2.6 million of their pledge has been designated for a scholarship fund. Another $1 million has been set aside for the challenge grant: It will be used to match contributions to the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women until May 2012. Out of their remaining funds, the alumnae are making gifts that affirm several of their longtime commitments—to the performing arts, women's athletics, Squire Valleevue Farm, and the study of women's history.
It is no surprise that half of the pledge will go toward scholarships; student aid has always been one of the association's priorities. As early as the mid-1930s, branches in Boston, Pittsburgh, Akron, and Canton had created their own scholarship funds. In the 1940s, the association hosted benefit recitals in Cleveland's Public Music Hall, with soloists such as the Metropolitan Opera's Risë Stevens and film star Jeanette MacDonald. The proceeds from these events were initially invested in war bonds. But as soon as the bonds matured, the money went into the scholarship fund.
Down through the years, individual alumnae and reunion classes made their own contributions. "I was so proud of my classmates," Mary McGuire Eitzen recalls, "when we successfully raised the required $20,000 to establish the Flora Stone Mather Class of 1950 Scholarship Endowment Fund."
Beyond providing support, however, the alumnae always wanted to know the scholarship students. For most of their history, they selected the recipients and held an annual dinner in their honor. In addition, the association sponsored several programs for the benefit of undergraduates in general. These included a seminar series, "Backpack to Briefcase," examining the transition from college to the workplace, and formal banquets where the Mather alumnae would dine with students and "critique their etiquette." As quaint as that may sound, Zanetti says the dinners were a great success: "We had a lot of foreign students come, and they were very interested in learning American ways. They would also criticize them, sometimes; they didn't understand why Americans keep shifting their fork from one hand to the other."
In 1994, Kristen Manter, president of the Association for Women Students, invited the association's board members to tea so that the two generations could exchange stories about their undergraduate experiences. The students were amazed by all the rules and restrictions that governed life in a women's college four or five decades earlier. For their part, the alumnae were surprised to learn that the female students often felt isolated from one another and from other women on campus. There were no spaces or social structures to bring them together—a stark contrast to Mather College. The students also described challenges they faced at an institution where women were very much in the minority. The alumnae had expected to hear how much better things were for the young women of that day. Instead, they became aware of the students' frustration.
From then on, the Mather alumnae assumed a leadership role in founding a center for women at the university. They sponsored a major colloquium, "Woman 2000: Forging a Vision," to promote changes in the culture of the university with respect to women's issues. The Class of 1956, led by Barbara Dale Collins and Roma Cohen Aronoff, celebrated its 45th reunion by starting an endowment fund to support the center's creation. And in 2003, when the center opened, the association made a naming gift of $500,000. Now, having pledged $1 million to endow the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, the alumnae are busy raising funds they will match with their challenge grant.
Following Flora
Flora Stone Mather College graduated its last class in 1972. The following year, the university consolidated Mather, Adelbert, and Cleveland Colleges into Western Reserve College, the immediate predecessor to today's College of Arts and Sciences. But the Mather association did not dissolve or scale back its activities. Instead, it launched an endowment campaign for a new visiting professorship that eventually brought 32 distinguished women scholars to campus. Over time, the alumnae decided that the endowment should support a permanent faculty member, and political scientist Karen Beckwith joined the College as the Flora Stone Mather Professor in 2006.
Since the 1972 consolidation, the alumnae have found many ways to keep Mrs. Mather's name alive. But more than anything, they have tried to remain faithful to her example. Not long ago, the board members learned that the Goodrich Gannett Neighborhood Center on East 55th Street was raising money for renovation and expansion. They knew all about the original Goodrich building: Mrs. Mather financed its construction as Cleveland's first settlement house in 1896, and for years afterward she covered its operating expenses. More than a century later, the Mather women gave $50,000 to Goodrich Gannett's capital campaign; and then, since they have never been content to put up a mere shell of a building, they donated artwork and 200 children's books for the library. The Flora Stone Mather Early Childhood and Family Service Center was dedicated on August 21, 2007. It wouldn't be the colorful, inviting place that it is if the alumnae association had disbanded any sooner.
A distinctive group of scholarship students have equal cause to be grateful for the association's longevity. Beginning in the late 1990s, the Mather alumnae decided to devote their aid to non-traditional students, including women returning to school after years in the workforce. The Mather scholarships provided a much-needed supplement to the financial aid these students were eligible for. At the same time, those selected as scholarship winners felt affirmed in their decision to attend a university that might once have seemed beyond their reach.
Finally, the Mather alumnae say that remaining on the scene has allowed them to enjoy a special privilege: They were on hand to greet and build a relationship with the university's first woman president. Barbara Snyder attended their farewell meeting, and she gave the keynote address at this fall's Women of Achievement and Mather Spotlight Luncheon.
"One of the great pleasures of my first year as president has been getting to know the alumnae of Flora Stone Mather College," President Snyder says. "These graduates are passionately committed to the university and to serving the women who have followed them on our campus. They've contributed to so much progress here, and I look forward to their continued engagement."
Working in the World
Sharon Jordan-Davis, the College's executive director of constituent development, has been interacting with the Mather alumnae for more than a decade. "When you look at the breakdown of groups within the College, the Flora Stone Mather group probably has the highest participation," she says. "And I know it's a direct result of the experience they had here as students of the women's college. It was just ingrained in them that this is something you do: You give back."
Patricia Kilpatrick adds that the college gave these women the practical experience they needed for the tasks ahead. "We had our own student government," she recalls. "We had our own clubs and associations, and the students ran them. Every club in Mather College had an account at National City Bank. So we learned how to manage organizations. We learned how to work in the world."
Kilpatrick went on to have a groundbreaking career at the university—as a dean of women, as faculty secretary, and finally as the institution's first woman vice president. But she still remembers entering Mather College as a transfer student in 1947. "I lived at home," she says, "but I had had that going-to-college environment, and I fell right into it here. I'd sit in Haydn Hall and play bridge; we had a bridge game that never ended. Somebody went to class, and somebody else sat down." It sounds like the strategy that kept the alumnae association alive for 114 years.
Many thanks to university archivists Jill Tatem and Helen Conger; to Jacqueline Greene, a recent graduate of the College who researched the history of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women; and to Richard Baznik, director of the Institute for the Study of the University in Society, for their contributions to this article.
Patricia Kilpatrick (left) and Lydia Bruner Oppmann celebrate the legacy of Oppmann's mother, Pauline "Polly" Bruner, a Mather alumna who served as a university trustee. During Alumni Weekend, the association dedicated the Flora Stone Mather Living Room in Alumni House to Polly Bruner's memory.
Photo: Mike Sands
The Mather alumnae held their final annual meeting in the sheep barn at Squire Valleevue Farm this past June.
Photo: Joel Hauserman
The Mather Alumnae Association's Challenge Grant Campaign
The goal of the Challenge Grant campaign is to raise $1 million for the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women. The leaders of the campaign are Susie Gharib, co-anchor of the PBS Nightly Business Report; Mary Ann Jorgenson, a university trustee and a partner at Squire, Sanders, & Dempsey; and Patricia Baldwin Kilpatrick, a member of the Mather alumnae association's board of directors and a former vice president of the university.
Under the terms of the Challenge Grant, the Flora Stone Mather Alumnae Association will match every dollar raised before May 10, 2012, up to the $1 million total. While the Challenge Grant will be allocated entirely to the Center's endowment, donors to the campaign may direct their gifts either to the endowment or to the Center's operations. For more information, please contact Gary Pillar at (216) 368-3992 or email@example.com.
University President Barbara Snyder (left) and Association President Sandra Vodanoff display a ceremonial check, representing the Mather alumnae's $5 million commitment to the University.
Photo: Mike Sands
Mather Stunt Night, 1926.
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Yes, $345,742 is a lot for a racecar. But it's not really that much considering you're getting a race-spec supercar in which you could compete in the FIA GT3 series. Surely it will only be a matter of weeks before some Saudi Prince wraps one around a camel or Texas oil baron rolls one trying to break the sound barrier on Route 66.
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Face it, you don't have to live very long to discover that people with the courage to follow their convictions are a pretty uncommon breed.
You don't have to look very far either to see that other important species are also becoming equally rare these days, thanks to the unwavering industrialization of the planet and, as a consequence, the steady deterioration of Earth's vulnerable ecosystems.
Famed fugitive from justice and wildlife researcher, Rebecca J. Rubin, was barely in her twenties when she decided to bravely act on her belief that world corporations and their "puppet" governments were wantonly exploiting global resources and inflicting widespread environmental devastation in their wake.
These are the true eco-terrorists in her opinion, not herself or the Earth Liberation Front, an elusive group of skilled arsonists of which she is a card-carrying member.
Sought for over a decade by the FBI for her and ELF's anti-corporate misdeeds and methods, Rubin finally surrendered to authorities yesterday at the Canadian border, thus ending her role in a campaign of economic sabotage that is estimated to have inflicted over $40,000,000 worth of losses on the enemy.
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"Rubin's arrest marks the end of her decade-long period as an international fugitive in the largest eco-terrorism case in United States history," the Justice Department announced with measurable swagger today.
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In 1997, Rubin participated in acts of arson against a wild horse and burro facility owned by the Bureau of Land Management in Oregon because the operators there were abusive and neglectful to the animals. She and her cohorts set all the creatures free from their pens and then firebombed the place, according to a federal grand jury indictment.
Rubin is also accused of participating in a 1998 attempt to burn down the Oregon offices of the U.S. Forest Industries for various ecological offenses.
In the state of Colorado as well, she and associates firebombed the famed Vail ski resort, in order to protect an endangered lynx habitat from being further encroached upon.
And in 2001, she once again took aim at a horse and burro facility being grossly mismanaged by the Bureau of Land Management in California.
A Hundred Years Or More Of Solitude
If convicted on all the charges, Rubin could face hundreds of years in prison, a government spokesman has claimed. No doubt, much of that time kept in isolation.
That's a lengthy sentence and, what with the escalation in global warming of late, probably nothing to worry about anyway. But, even if she's just incarcerated until the end of days, the prisoner would still probably say it was well worth it, in light of all the animals and acreage she helped save.
Although two members of the Earth Liberation Front, Joseph Dibee and Josephine Overaker, are still at large today, ten others have already pleaded guilty to similar counts in 2007. These defendants were only sentenced to 3 to 13 years behind bars though, despite being charged for the very same rebellious acts that Rebecca J. Rubin is alleged to have committed.
This implies that she is regarded by U.S. officials and their corporate sponsors as the group's ringleader, and the government is therefore determined to make an example of her.
To date, however, not one BP oil executive, representative or employee, found to be responsible for the largest, most expensive criminal act against the environment in history, has done a single day in jail.


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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Got Crepes? Make Chicken Cannelloni!
I was going to do a video recipe of some dessert crepe like crepe Suzette, or maybe crepe cherry jubilee, but since bathing suit season is right around the corner, I decided to do a savory recipe. Dessert crepes are delicious, but not recommended when you're trying to squeeze into a Speedo.
This very simple chicken cannelloni recipe can be made with a variety of meats, cheeses (but use real ones, like the Parmesan shown here) and sauces, so watch the technique and then freestyle. By the way, before you ask, the difference between a cannelloni and a manicotti, is the later is an open tube of pasta, and a cannelloni is normally closed up as you see here. Many restaurants, however, use the terms interchangeably. I sure hope you make some crepes, and then give these a try. Enjoy!
6 crepes
2 cooked chicken breast
1/2 cup fresh cheese
4 oz mozzarella
1 egg
2/3 cup grated parmesan
2 tbsp chopped fresh Italian herbs
salt and pepper to taste
pinch of cayenne
splash of olive oil
1 minced garlic clove (my sauce had lots of garlic, so this was not added in the clip)
2 cups tomato sauce
37 comments:
I'd rather have a cannelloni than a dessert crepe any day!!
- June 10, 2008 at 1:27 PM
- noble pig said...
Good idea, I have made cannelloni but never with chicken or crepes. Now you've put ideas in my head!
- June 10, 2008 at 4:21 PM
Luv the Italian!
- June 10, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Journey! I can name that tune in 30notes...
Yes, it is annoying that you made your own fresh cheese... but I am on the EDGE OF MY SEAT waiting for that clip! PLease tell me that it will be less tricky than sourdough starter!
I LOVE this recipe. I am going straight to the kitchen to make it with packaged pre-shredded mozza.
- June 10, 2008 at 9:36 PM
- Chef John said...
its the easiest recipe ever!
- June 10, 2008 at 10:08 PM
Made it tonight and it was great! Used a bit of feta along with the mozzarella for the filling and it seemed to work well with it.
- June 11, 2008 at 12:05 AM
- Loren said...
Hi Chef John,
I'm tagging you for my Five Facts Meme.
- June 11, 2008 at 1:45 AM
- Chef John said...
luuuuvvv feta!
- June 11, 2008 at 2:40 AM
If I make the crepes ahead and freeze them, do I need to put something in between each crepe or will they seperate easily?
By the way, this is my kind of recipe which can be said for most of your recipes.
Also, the orzo risotto is still one of my favorites and I encourage anyone who hasn't seen it to check it out.
- June 11, 2008 at 12:31 PM
- Chef John said...
No, they will not stick to each other. Just don't thaw to quickly and dont pile up to many and they will be fine.
- June 11, 2008 at 12:41 PM
- Joy the Baker said...
Chef John- These look incredible! And you're right- you simply must use the real cheese. There's no faking the real stuff!
- June 11, 2008 at 6:46 PM
- Chef John said...
Thanks! You can't fake the funk(y cheese)!
- June 11, 2008 at 6:57 PM
- Dondon said...
I love chicken...thanks for sharing that recipe...
- June 12, 2008 at 6:05 PM
crepes are the supermodels of the pancake world... LOL...
- June 12, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Oh NO!! This is too delicious!
- June 12, 2008 at 9:26 PM
- foofifofum said...
The photo with Chef John holding the small piece of Parmesan cheese in front of his Chicken Cannelloni (crepes) was featured on Tastespotting.com the very last day the site was up. I remember seeing dozens of Food Wishes recipes featured there. Let's hope it returns, or some form of Tastespotting.com comes forward to fill the void left on the internet.
- June 16, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Tried both, the crepes and the canneloni today. Terrific!!
- July 7, 2008 at 11:01 AM
did you forget to put egg in the ingredients?
- July 7, 2008 at 9:45 PM
- Chef John said...
yes. yes i did. thanks
- July 7, 2008 at 10:05 PM
- Aqimz bin Julayhi said...
Dang thats delicious,you made me hungry,thanks!
- August 13, 2008 at 10:38 AM
looks like a great recipe. I'll try it tomorrow. I don't have any left over chicken, so how would you recommend I cook it? Saute in a pan?
Oh and btw, I'd really love to know what song you used at the end of the video there (if you still remember)...
- September 9, 2008 at 7:56 PM
- Chef John said...
You can use any cooking method, but don't overcook since you'll be baking again. The song at the end is Rebirth of Slick by Digable Planets
- September 11, 2008 at 12:22 PM
can i use cottage cheese?
- January 27, 2010 at 5:49 AM
- Chef John said...
yes, but not as rich (or good)
- January 27, 2010 at 1:15 PM
- Mary Rose said...
Not sure if you'll still check comments from an older recipe. I made the crepes yesterday (and was so proud they came out perfect, just as you said!). Tonight I made the Chicken Cannelloni. It was delicious but my crepes were a little smaller since I used an 8 inch pan to make them.
My chicken filling didn't look as well blended. When you say "fresh cheese," did you mean ricotta? I didn't have mozzarella balls on hand, only shredded. I did use freshly grated Romano, though. It just didn't have that nice thick creamy "gloppiness" that you had. :-)
- September 7, 2010 at 7:38 PM
How did you made tomato sos? Blending can tomatos and spising it up with salt and peper will work ?
- October 24, 2010 at 4:58 PM
which is better for making cannelloni, crepes or pasta? I'm a bit torn of the idea of choosing one ;)
- December 25, 2010 at 2:51 AM
I would have to say thank you very much ive always wanted to learn how to make something new and fantastic by the way your how to vid on crepes absolutely amazing only took 3 trys to get one to look almost perfect thank you very much
- February 9, 2011 at 4:23 PM
- Dallas said...
Thanks Chef John for the crepe and chicken cannelloni recipes. They came out great and tasted good as well.
- May 22, 2011 at 10:45 PM
I made crepes for the first time tonight just so I could make this.
It was simply delicious!
(though I admit to cheating and not using fresh cheese)
- July 21, 2011 at 9:19 PM
i saw the egg
- August 24, 2011 at 4:34 PM
I made this for dinner, and it was a quick, easy, and delicious meal. Definitely, a keeper!
- September 27, 2011 at 5:21 PM
a delightful experience with every bite, magnificent.
BIG thanks to you Chef John!
- October 18, 2011 at 9:19 AM
Made this last week. It was awesome. Love this site, i make 3 or 4 meals a week with a lil help from Chef John. Going to try this with Hot Italian sausage in the crepe batter instead of chicken.
- December 7, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- Lula♥ said...
Wow how great to find someone that does the canelonis with crepes, i ate them like that while growing up, i can't have them any other way. May i recommend Spinach canneloni, filled with red pepper, onions, boiled eggs and spinach, topped with the same tomato sauce and mozarella cheese. My favorite. Just started watching your videos, very short, informative and helpful. Thanks!
- January 18, 2012 at 6:43 PM
- Kimberly Frew said...
Omg chef john I'm so going tomake some of your devine recipes for my wonder love of my life of 16 very happy years filled with so much love of every great blessed day we feel blessed with to have each other and to also make for my dad and step mom who raisede I love to cook. And make them proud of my meals they are all three so very dear to my heart and I feel very blessed to have them every single day with them is a great memory we've created
- April 8, 2016 at 5:24 AM
- Sullivan's Papa said...
No video link!
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UPDATED: Bon Jovi plays free show for Mohegan Sun fans
By RICK KOSTER
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Led Zeppelin can crow all they want about being from the land of the ice and snow. But if it's blizzard-time rock 'n' roll you want, look to Bon Jovi.
The multiple-platinum New Jersey band put on an impromptu free performance Saturday afternoon in the Mohegan Sun Arena before a Sun-estimated crowd of 2,000 fortunate folks.
Bon Jovi was scheduled to open a world tour Saturday night in the arena, but had postponed the show because of the blizzard and a statewide travel ban. The concert was rescheduled for Oct. 25.
As Saturday wore on, though, the band – on-site in the casino after several days of tour rehearsals in the Arena – learned that not only was the travel ban lifted at 4 p.m., but also hundreds of fans were already in the casino in anticipation of the scheduled performance.
After consulting with Tom Cantone, the casino's vice-president of sports and entertainment, Bon Jovi decided to put on the free concert.
"It was a weekend to remember. It was Jon and the band's idea totally," Cantone said. "We'd been discussing the postponement. Jon said, 'We'll do the October date, but why don't we also do a free show tonight for the people who are here and did make it?'
"Which was a great idea," Cantone said. People were already here and couldn't leave. We took a bad situation and put a happy ending on it."
News of the impromptu show was communicated within the casino in a variety of ways. Information was spread door-to-door within the hotel, the facility's PA system made announcements, and staff members went throughout the facility spreading the news. Word-of-mouth and use of social media took the information beyond the parameter of the property. By the time the band took the stage about 5 p.m., original ticket holders, arena staffers and Sun employees, fans nearby who could brave traffic conditions, and casino customers just randomly wandering through the gaming areas and shops gathered in the hall.
They were treated to a complete recitation of Bon Jovi's complete and tightly choreographed tour show. Using a full complement of stage lighting and production effects, Bon Jovi played 23 songs over the course of two hours – including an encore of "Living On a Prayer." The band mixed old favorites and material from their upcoming album, "What About Now," which will be released in March.
A statement on the official Bon Jovi web site said, "The band performed … for snowed-in fans, patrons and employees alike. Bon Jovi recognizes how much preparation it takes for fans to attend a concert and they wanted to honor that the best way that they know how."
"I've never heard a crowd that size sound that loud," said longtime Bon Jovi fan Michael O'Farrell. "This is why people love this band. They didn't have to do this at all. Or they could have come out and played five or even 10 songs and people would have been grateful. But they went full blast for two hours – and they were clearly having as much fun as we were."
O'Farrell, a Norwich resident, spent Saturday alternating between shoveling snow and trying to find out whether the concert had been cancelled. At 4 p.m., a friend called O'Farrell to say he'd heard from a source in the casino that Bon Jovi would in fact perform around 5 p.m.
"My wife Renee gave me an early Valentine's Day present," O'Farrell said. "She told me to go for it. It was like driving through ice-soup to get there, but I made it in time. The lights went down and the band came out and Jon Bon Jovi said, 'You've got to be really big to do a matinee. It's not how we envisioned kicking off a world tour, but it'll be fun.'"
O'Farrell said he was standing on the floor in a very disparate group. Fans from Vermont told him they'd had to leave home really early Saturday to get to the casino on time -- given the weather and travel conditions – and were just hoping the performance wouldn't be cancelled. Others standing next to O'Farrell told him they didn't have tickets and weren't even aware Bon Jovi was playing. They were just visiting the casino. "Believe me, they're fans now," O'Farrell said.
Tickets for the official Saturday concert will be honored at the Oct. 25 performance.
Bon Jovi may have rescheduled his Saturday night concert at Mohegan Sun, but that didn't mean he'd left his fans out in the cold.
"There have been a lot of rumors going around regarding the Bon Jovi concert at Mohegan Sun. I wanted to confirm that they did in fact perform a special, free concert for hotel guests and fans that had made the trek in advance to see the show," said Mohegan Sun spokesperson Cathy Soper in an email. "The group performed their full concert; around 2,000 were in attendance. It began around 5pm this evening."
Saturday's show was rescheduled to Oct. 25.
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- Maria M.February 21, 2012 at 11:14 PM
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Thanks soooooo much for offering this kit! Awesome that it was free even though I would have gladly paid for it! My little man is obsessed with Angry Birds and we are doing a party for him in a few weeks. I just made an invite similar to yours and am going to link you up on Facebook! Love your site! Thanks for sharing! Hugs! ShannaReplyDelete
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- AnonymousApril 10, 2012 at 6:29 PM
I just wanted to thank you for sharing your talent! My 6 year old will think he had the coolest birthday party ever! It must have taken so much time to do these. It is greatly appreciated.ReplyDelete
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Hi. Thanks so much for sharing! I am having some trouble being able to use the font in my invitation. Any suggestions?ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJune 18, 2012 at 2:29 PM
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