Lockport College Women's Club Megaphone Online

 September 2025 

Please join us on October 2, 2025, at 6:00 PM at 80 Main Street, Lockport for our first meeting of the year! Our speakers will be William Patti and Leah Sobrieski from the Kenan Center. Mr. Patti is the Executive Director of the Kenan Center and Ms. Sobrieski is the Sports and Recreation Manager at the Kenan. Mr. Patti is a Lewiston native and has a long history with theater and the Arts; he has a BFA in Theater and BA in English from Niagara University and MFA from Kent State. He has served as a teacher, Arts Administrator and Producing Artistic Director for other organizations before returning to Western New York. Before arriving at the Kenan Center, Mr. Patti served as the General Manager at Shea’s in Buffalo. Ms. Sobrieski is a graduate of LHS, SUNY Geneseo and has a Masters Degree from Daemen College. She has served as the Academic and Operations Coach for the Women’s Basketball team at Canisius College. Both are delighted to speak to us about the upcoming construction at what will be the new Kenan Amphitheater and the plans for the future of the Kenan Center and its programming as we move into the future. The meeting will be a dinner meeting with a menu of turkey, mashed potato, vegetable, tea and coffee. The cost is $30.00 and includes coffee, tea and soft drinks together with the room reservation and gratuity. Hostesses are Mary Beth Caswell and Barbara Feidner. Reservations must be made by Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM by calling the telephone committee. Sue Grigg has agreed to continue to take email reservations as well and her email address is smmgrigg@aol.com. 

The Budget will also be presented at this meeting for the approval of the club. 

Treasurer, Anna Beth Kinyon will be accepting payment of Dues at the meeting. Dues are $40.00 and will increase to $50.00 after December. Dues can also be mailed to Anna Beth Kinyon, 7259 Clarkview Drive , Lockport, New York 14094.  

Please note that Madelene Angelo has a new phone number and is no longer using the land line number in the directory. The new number is – 716-471-3451 

If you have an email address, we would like to send the Megaphone to you through email to save postage. Please provide your email address to Judy Johnson-Paonessa (jljgesq@aol.com) or to any Board member. 

We are in need of volunteers to act as the Co-Chairs of the Spring Fundraiser! Not much work there, but lots of fun – the primary duty is to set the menu for the Luncheon. We are also looking for two people willing to be Co-Chairs for the Basket Raffle - duties to include setting up the baskets on the day of the Luncheon, deciding what to do with the Door Prize raffle tickets, announcing ticket and basket winners and delivering the baskets to the winners. Any Board member would be happy to take your name! 

And speaking of volunteering, there is always room for new volunteers to serve on the Board of Directors. An important job is that of our Program Coordinators. This person or persons considers what programs and speakers would be of interest to the Club. It always is nice to have people willing to work on developing interesting programs for our meetings. 

The next Board Meeting is scheduled for October 9, 2025 at the home of Mary Beth Caswell 5886 Marion Drive, Lockport, New York. Please contact her if you will not be attending.