For reservations, call Shelly Giangrant, Otsego County Chamber, (607) 432-4500 ext. 207 or e-mail [email protected] • $77.50 per person • $750 for table of 10 ADMISSION INCLUDES YOUR PANCAKE BREAKFAST! ST. PADDY’S FEAST: Corned Beef and Cabbage with the Knights of Columbus #10968. Entertain- ment by the Irish Step Danc- ers. Free, donations accepted. 4-7 p.m. Satur- day, March 17. St. Mary’s Parish Center, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-7524. Sunday, March 18
THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL • HOMETOWN ONEONTA FOR DAILY NEWS UPDATES, VISIT www. All OTSEGO.com EVERY DAY THURSDAY-FRIDAY, MARCH 15-16, 2012 PAGE B-1 All O TSEGO.business WEEKEND’S BEST BETS For reservations, call Shelly Giangrant, Otsego County Chamber, (607) 432-4500 ext. 207 or e-mail [email protected]• $77.50 per person • $750 for table of 10 First, Identify Opportunity, Then Seize It Honorees’ Secrets of Success Find Right People, Train Them, Set Goals, Leave Them Alone MAYOR MILLER EUGENE A. BETTIOL JR. DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN SPRINGBROOK NBT BANK DISTINGUISHED BUSINESS Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.business Businesses, whether non-profit or for-profit, must pursue opportunity to succeed, Springbrook Executive Director Patricia Kennedy believes, so it was no surprise to find her at Senator Seward’s Economic Development Summit Thursday, March 8, at The Otesaga. At right is Seth Haight, Springbrook COO. Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller, who rose to the presidency of a national printing company before going into academic administration, facilitates a discussion group at the Seward Summit. L ate Oneonta artist La- vern Kelly’s carved log trucks and drawings will be on display at Sydney Waller’s Garage Gallery, 689 Beaver Meadow Road, Cooperstown. The opening reception is 5-7 p.m. Friday, March 16. The Gallery is open noon-4 p.m. Saturday, Sunday. Free. Info, (607)547-5327. Lavern Kelly’s Carved Trucks In 3-Day Show CABARET CONCERT: The Catskill Symphony Orchestra and Susquehanna String Band perform and all- Celtic concert at 8 p.m. Sat- urday, March 17, at SUNY’s Alumni Field House. At intermission, vote for a guest conductor to direct “Stars and Stripes Forever.” Tickets $30. Info, (607) 436-2670, [email protected], catskill- symphony.net ST. PAT’S FETE: Enjoy Irish dancing, Celtic music, fire spinning 5-7:30 p.m. Friday, March 16, at Muller Plaza. In- cludes scavenger hunt; grand prize, two tickets to see Lunasa at Oneonta Theatre. WINNING PLAY: “The Oracle,” 2011 winner of the Playwright Project Competi- tion, performed by Orpheus Theatre 8 p.m. Friday-Sat- urday, March 16-17, SUNY Oneonta’s Goodrich The- atre. Info, (607) 432-1800, orpheustheatre.org SWEETS AND PLAYS: Little Victory players pres- ent short plays and dessert samplings 8 p.m. Friday-Sat- urday, March 16-17, at Uni- tarian Universalist Society, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. $15 adults, $8 students. Tickets and info, Anne Ray (607) 432-8575. ST. PADDY’S FEAST: Corned Beef and Cabbage with the Knights of Columbus #10968. Entertain- ment by the Irish Step Danc- ers. Free, donations accepted. 4-7 p.m. Satur- day, March 17. St. Mary’s Parish Center, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-7524. HEN’S TOOTH: Band debuts at The Autumn Cafe, Oneonta, St. Pat’s evening. Lavern Kelly’s carving of a 1953 C.O.E. (Cab Over Engine) Chevrolet. Local maple products will be for sale. • todd’s General store and the farmers’ museum store will be open. sponsored in part by and the otsego county maple Producers. farmersmuseum.org • 888.547.1450 • 607.547.1450 5775 state highway 80, Lake rd. • cooperstown SUGARING OFF Sundays! March 18 & 25 Sweet Fun for Everyone! Pancake breakfast, maple sugaring, blacksmithing demonstrations, and more. Breakfast: 8:30am – 1:00Pm • activities and shoPs oPen: 9:00am – 2:00Pm ADMISSION INCLUDES YOUR PANCAKE BREAKFAST! AGES 13 ANd up: $8.00 • 7 – 12: $4.00 • 6 ANd uNdEr: FrEE Step back in time! TM Sunday, March 18 Native American educator and storyteller Mike Tarbell tells stories of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) maple sugaring. 2012 ANNUAL DINNER & CELEBRATION OF BUSINESS 5:45 p.m., Saturday, March 24, SUNY Hunt Union Ballroom By JIM KEVLIN MILFORD CENTER W hy would a non-profit be honored by a business organization? A few minutes of conversation with Patricia Kennedy, Springbrook executive direc- tor/CEO, erases such questions. “We would be suc- cessful if we were a for-profit busi- ness,” Kennedy said matter-of-factly during an inter- view in the original Upstate Home for Children, a few hundred feet from where a $15 million renewed campus is under construction. Which is no doubt why the Otsego County Chamber is honoring Springbrook, the former Upstate Home, as its 2013 NBT Bank Distin- guished Business. Under Kennedy’s watch, the institution, renamed the more upbeat Springbrook in the past decade, has grown from 200 employees to 800, and soon will reach 1,000, making it the third-largest employer in the county. Its annual budget is $40 million. She credits the success on a three-point ap- proach that’s relevant to any business. “One, set a vision, a vision that is shared,” said Ken- nedy. “It has to be congruent with your mis- sion and the values of the organization. Two, you have to be able to respond to a changing climate. Three, you have to take advantages of opportunities that present themselves.” Today’s Springbrook grew out founder Please See KENNEDY, B2 By JIM KEVLIN ONEONTA G rowing up in Rochester’s suburbs, “the only thing I liked to do was play golf – and ski in the winter,” Dick Miller remembers. So when the time came to pursue a career, he considered two voca- tions – doc- tor or salesman. Off he went to Middlebury Col- lege in the ‘60s, but pre-med “was more of an academic challenge than I was willing to take on.” So after post-graduate training in Vietnam, Miller joined the Case- Hoyt Corp., the high-end Roch- ester printing concern, as a sales trainee. As it happens, he met his first boss, Bill Frame, and Bill Case, son of the company’s owner, at the Monroe Golf Club of his boyhood afternoons. On first running for office, often politicians declare their intent to run government like a business. When Richard P. Miller, Jr., ran for mayor in 2009, city voters may have thought they were choosing an academic in the former Hart- wick College president. (Before that, he had been the SUNY sys- tem’s chief financial officer and, before that, an aide to the Univer- sity of Rochester president.) Voters were soon disabused of that notion. With his five-year financial pro- jections, his focus on revenues and cost, his ability to unblinkingly make decisions like scaling back the Oneonta Municipal Airport, Please See MILLER, B4 Typical Irish fare.
For reservations, call Shelly Giangrant, Otsego County Chamber, (607) 432-4500 ext. 207or e-mail [email protected] • $77.50 per person • $750 for table of 10
First, IdentifyOpportunity,Then Seize It
Honorees’ Secrets of Success
Find Right People, Train Them,Set Goals, Leave Them Alone
MAYOR MILLEREUGENE A.BETTIOL JR.DISTINGUISHEDCITIZEN
SPRINGBROOKNBT BANKDISTINGUISHEDBUSINESS
Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.businessBusinesses, whether non-profit or for-profit, must pursue opportunity to succeed, Springbrook Executive Director Patricia Kennedy believes, so it was no surprise to find her at Senator Seward’s Economic Development Summit Thursday, March 8, at The Otesaga. At right is Seth Haight, Springbrook COO.
Oneonta Mayor Dick Miller, who rose to the presidency of a national printing company before going into academic administration, facilitates a discussion group at the Seward Summit.
Late Oneonta artist La-vern Kelly’s carved log trucks and drawings
will be on display at Sydney Waller’s Garage Gallery, 689 Beaver Meadow Road, Cooperstown.
The opening reception is 5-7 p.m. Friday, March 16. The Gallery is open noon-4 p.m. Saturday, Sunday.
Free. Info, (607)547-5327.
Lavern Kelly’sCarved TrucksIn 3-Day Show
CABARET CONCERT: The Catskill Symphony Orchestra and Susquehanna String Band perform and all-Celtic concert at 8 p.m. Sat-urday, March 17, at SUNY’s Alumni Field House. At intermission, vote for a guest conductor to direct “Stars and Stripes Forever.” Tickets $30. Info, (607) 436-2670, [email protected], catskill-symphony.net
ST. PAT’S FETE: Enjoy Irish dancing, Celtic music, fire spinning 5-7:30 p.m. Friday, March 16, at Muller Plaza. In-cludes scavenger hunt; grand prize, two tickets to see Lunasa at Oneonta Theatre.
WINNING PLAY: “The Oracle,” 2011 winner of the Playwright Project Competi-tion, performed by Orpheus Theatre 8 p.m. Friday-Sat-urday, March 16-17, SUNY Oneonta’s Goodrich The-atre. Info, (607) 432-1800, orpheustheatre.org
SWEETS AND PLAYS: Little Victory players pres-ent short plays and dessert samplings 8 p.m. Friday-Sat-urday, March 16-17, at Uni-tarian Universalist Society, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta. $15 adults, $8 students. Tickets and info, Anne Ray (607) 432-8575.
ST. PADDY’S FEAST: Corned Beef and Cabbage with the Knights of Columbus #10968. Entertain-ment by the Irish Step Danc-ers. Free, donations accepted. 4-7 p.m. Satur-day, March 17. St. Mary’s Parish Center, 31 Elm St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 547-7524.
HEN’S TOOTH: Band debuts at The Autumn Cafe, Oneonta, St. Pat’s evening.
Lavern Kelly’s carving of a 1953 C.O.E. (Cab Over Engine) Chevrolet.
Local maple products will be for sale. • todd’s General store and the farmers’ museum store will be open.sponsored in part by and the otsego county maple Producers.
farmersmuseum.org • 888.547.1450 • 607.547.1450 5775 state highway 80, Lake rd. • cooperstown
S U GA R I NG O F FSundays! March 18 & 25Sweet Fun for Everyone! Pancake breakfast, maple sugaring, blacksmithing demonstrations, and more. Breakfast: 8:30am – 1:00Pm • activities and shoPs oPen: 9:00am – 2:00Pm
ADMISSION INCLUDES YOUR PANCAKE BREAKFAST!AGES 13 ANd up: $8.00 • 7 – 12: $4.00 • 6 ANd uNdEr: FrEE
Step back in time!TM
Sunday, March 18 Native American educatorand storyteller Mike Tarbell tells stories of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)maple sugaring.
2012 ANNUAL DINNER & CELEBRATION OF BUSINESS5:45 p.m., Saturday, March 24, SUNY Hunt Union Ballroom
By JIM KEVLIN
MILFORD CENTER
Why would a non-profit be honored by a business organization?
A few minutes of conversation with Patricia Kennedy, Springbrook
executive direc-tor/CEO, erases such questions. “We would be suc-cessful if we were a for-profit busi-ness,” Kennedy
said matter-of-factly during an inter-view in the original Upstate Home for Children, a few hundred feet from where a $15 million renewed campus is under construction.
Which is no doubt why the Otsego County Chamber is honoring Springbrook, the former Upstate Home, as its 2013 NBT Bank Distin-guished Business.
Under Kennedy’s watch, the institution, renamed the more upbeat Springbrook in the
past decade, has grown from 200 employees to 800, and soon will reach 1,000, making it the third-largest employer in the county. Its annual budget is $40 million.
She credits the success on a three-point ap-proach that’s relevant to any business. “One, set a vision, a vision that is shared,” said Ken-
nedy. “It has to be congruent with your mis-sion and the values of the organization. Two, you have to be able to respond to a changing climate. Three, you have to take advantages of opportunities that present themselves.”
Today’s Springbrook grew out founderPlease See KENNEDY, B2
By JIM KEVLIN
ONEONTA
Growing up in Rochester’s suburbs, “the only thing I liked to do was play golf –
and ski in the winter,” Dick Miller remembers. So when the time came to pursue a career, he considered two voca-tions – doc-
tor or salesman.Off he went to Middlebury Col-
lege in the ‘60s, but pre-med “was more of an academic challenge
than I was willing to take on.” So after post-graduate training in Vietnam, Miller joined the Case-Hoyt Corp., the high-end Roch-ester printing concern, as a sales trainee.
As it happens, he met his first boss, Bill Frame, and Bill Case, son of the company’s owner, at the Monroe Golf Club of his boyhood afternoons.
On first running for office, often politicians declare their intent to run government like a business.
When Richard P. Miller, Jr., ran for mayor in 2009, city voters may have thought they were choosing an academic in the former Hart-wick College president. (Before that, he had been the SUNY sys-tem’s chief financial officer and,
before that, an aide to the Univer-sity of Rochester president.)
Voters were soon disabused of that notion.
With his five-year financial pro-
jections, his focus on revenues and cost, his ability to unblinkingly make decisions like scaling back the Oneonta Municipal Airport,
Please See MILLER, B4
Typical Irish fare.
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Enjoy a traditional menu of Classic Corned Beefand Cabbage with Red Bliss Potatoes. All for o’nly $14.95 per person. The delicious regularO’Hawkeye Grill menu is also available.
For more information and reservations, please call Lori O’Patryn at (607) 544-2524.
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SPRINGBROOK/From B1Harriet Smith’s original vision that grew out of a loss of a 2-year-old child. Seeking to adopt in the wake of her loss, Mrs. Smith discovered that, in 1920s, there was a crying need for orphanage space.
And so she founded the Upstate Home to help provide such space, with the mission of “providing ser-vices to those children most in need. That’s consistent throughout our history,” said
Kennedy.Fast forward 40 years.
In the boom-boom ‘50s, orphans – most were never actually parent-less children but children abandoned be-cause their parents could no longer support them – disap-peared as the nation’s rising prosperity enabled families to remain intact.
By 1958, there was so little demand, the Upstate Home actually closed for two years of soul-search-ing. “There’s not a need,”
Kennedy imagined the then-board of directors saying. “Where’s our mission and vision?”
At that time, many or-phanages were converted into homes for the elderly, or homes for unwed mothers – the latter need disappeared in the 1960s with the devel-opment of The Pill. A third possibility was a home for intellectually and develop-mentally challenged chil-dren. As happened, Charles Belden, then-chairman, had a developmentally disabled son, as did another board member.
“They found there were not services except institu-tions – large institutions,” Kennedy said. And thus the future Springbrook began a new chapter of serving “children in need.”
Kennedy, a cheerful, high-energy executive – she is married to James Schluep and has a son in law school and two step-children – ar-rived here in 1985 as school administrator. Raised on Long Island, she received an education degree from SUNY Oswego, then a master’s in special-ed, with an administrative twist, from Syracuse University, then an advanced certificate from S-U.
At the time, the Upstate Home was still fulfilling its Belden-era role but, when Kennedy assumed the institution’s helm in 1995, things began to happen in a hurry.
There was a general need for daycare. There was no daycare locally that tended both special-needs and “typical” students. Kennedy and Joanne Currie, a physi-cal therapy with an inter-est in preschool, had soon established the program that is still thriving today.
That same year, a state initiative sought to move clients who outgrew places like the Upstate Home into community residences, and Springbrook had soon opened its first three – in West Oneonta, Milford and the Town of Milford’s Kelly’s Corners section. That’s grown to 15 homes today, in Otsego County and beyond.
In 2005, an RFP – request for proposals – arrived from Albany: 1,000 New York-ers with autism were being tended out-of-state at great expense to in-state taxpay-ers. Could the Upstate Home and facilities like it do so cost-effectively closer to home?
More and more, Spring-brook’s traditional popula-tion was being tended at home and mainstreamed. This, Kennedy, her board of directors and their manage-ment team determined, would be a way to extend the mission, “serving children in need,” into the decades ahead.
About this time another of Kennedy’s signature ideas
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WIN-WIN/From B2began to come into fo-cus – leveraging income streams from the state and community support to al-low Springbrook to move forward more fully and quickly.
Soliciting a $5 million matching grant from Tom
Golisano, the Paychex founder and Republican gubernatorial nominee from Rochester, raising money from the community and using the per-pupil income stream from Albany, Ken-nedy was able to take an institutional plan and turn it into a first-class one, the
first major expansion of the campus since the 1960s.
The achievement should be evident to all in the next few months, when the com-munity will be invited in to tour the expanded school, the new gym and the town-homes for autistic clients atop the hill at the back of
the property.Just the other week,
Springbrook announced it would buy the former St. Mary’s School, closed last June by the Catholic Diocese of Albany. Again, Kennedy created an income stream by consolidating satellite offices in one place, expanded daycare and tak-ing advantage of the current 3.2 percent interest rates. Same money; more bang for the buck.
Certainly, leadership plays a role in this. And Kennedy believes in leader-ship. She recalls how, in her pre-Springbrook days,
she would regularly visit all 35 elementary schools in the Syracuse district. Same curriculum. Same budget. Same teacher salaries.
Still, “you would go into each building and see a dif-ferent level of engagement in the staff. And that was relative to leadership,” Ken-nedy said, “directly related to leadership.”
Still, she appreciates the structures, policies and varied skill sets that make an organization work – HR, benefits, financial report-ing. And before acting on ideas that cross her desk, she’s seeks out advice from
experts from every field.Ask her about finding the
financing for the new cam-pus, and for St. Mary’s. It’s quite a story, and it involved seeking advice, processing it and acting on it in such a way that vendors who didn’t get one piece of business knew why, and got another piece in their areas of prime expertise.
“We’re a very good busi-ness,” she said with some pride. “The profit goes back into the services and programs. But that does not make us any less effective and forward looking.”
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MILLER/From B1his thorough house-clean-ing at the Oneonta Police Department after a second scandal one year, it was quickly made it obvious this was no paper-shuffling bureaucrat.
So two years into his first term, there must have been much head-nodding in the business community when it surfaced that Dick Miller is this year’s choice for the Otsego County Chamber’s 2012 Eugene A. Bettiol Jr. Distinguished Citizen Award.
Miller was a sociology major, so he had no sales training, much less business training.
He’d learn to read an income statement and a balance sheet, to maintain cordial relations with the
unions, to negotiate con-tracts. But, first, he had to learn to sell under Bud Frame’s wing, helping service accounts like IBM (Think magazine), Exxon (Lamp magazine) and Nei-man Marcus’ Christmas catalogue and Tiffany’s.
The first account he clinched was John Mans-ville – the printing quality of its promotional literature had to reflect a “fair repre-sentation” of 64 different colored and patterned tiles – and Bud Frame put him through sales boot camp.
When he proudly arrived back in Rochester, Frame asked him, “Did you get the purchase order?” No. Miller flew back to New York.
“Did you get the art work?” He flew back to
New York again.“Have you shipped the
job yet? Have you billed the job yet? Has the invoice been paid?” Miller recalled. Frame was teaching him: “You haven’t sold the job until the invoice has been paid.”
He had “great mentors. Everybody who makes it has great mentors.”
And what characters. “These people were so quick and so funny,” he continued. “You learned to be quick and light and funny and irreverent – or you were
eaten alive.”There was Bob Rohde,
a great impersonator. He posed as a priest at a bach-elor party – ask Miller about that.
When Bob King, the former Monroe County executive, became SUNY
chancellor and recruited Miller to Albany, Miller – King was complicit – ar-ranged for Rohde to pose as the chancellor’s Austrian psychiatrist, complete with eye-patch, and deliver the keynote at dinner for SUNY
Please See MILLER, B11
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Recipient of the Eugene A. Bettiol, Jr. Distinguished Citizen Award
SpringbrookNBT Bank Distinguished Business Honoree
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For more information, call 286-7038Greater Milford Historical AssociationNorth Main Street • Milford, New York
The Greater Milford Historical Association
Sunday, March 18 • 1pm
presents
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on the NY Frontier
Come hear the story of Joesph Brant, a Mohawk military and political leader who operated
alongside the Mohawk in the New York Frontier.
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Join us as we welcome Cooperstown native and bestselling author Lauren Groff back to the shop
to sign copies and read from her recently published novel Arcadia. Set in western New York in the
1970’s, Arcadia tells the story of a unique group of people who form a commune on the grounds of an
old, decaying mansion named Arcadia House.Arcadia is available for purchase now!
Lauren Groff author of
The Monsters of Templeton and Delicate Edible Birds
Local Author Book Signing Friday, March 23 at 7:00 pm
Thursday, March 15
WORKSHOP -- 9:30 a.m.-noon. Session on childhood growth and development. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta Info, (607) 432-2870.
BEE KEEPERS – 7 p.m. Bee-keeping club, every third Thursday. Hartwick Community Center, 450 Cty. Road 11 (East Main), Hartwick. Info, Mark Johnson, (607) 282-0190.
CAN-DIDATES NIGHT -- 7-9
p.m. Meet, discuss issues with Cooperstown village mayoral candidate Jeff Katz, trustee candidates Jim Dean and Cindy Falk. Sponsored by The Free-man’s Journal and the League of Women Voters. Cooperstown Village Meeting Room, 22 Main St. # 1, Cooperstown.
BEETHOVEN — 7:30 p.m. Guest artist Dr. Kim Hayashi performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Also Hartwick College String Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and College Choir with selections from Dvorak’s Requiem Mass. Anderson Cen-ter for the Arts Theatre, Hartwick College, Oneonta. Free, all wel-come. Reception follows. Info, Jason Curley, (607) 431-4800.
CONCERT -- 9 p.m. James Wesley and special guest Dustin Lynch, acoustic evening. Oneon-ta Theatre, 47 Chestnut Street, Oneonta. Info, (607) 643-4022, oneontatheatre.com.
SHAMROCKIN’ CELEBRATION -- 5-7:30 p.m. Main St. Oneonta presents live entertainment in Muller Plaza: Irish dancing, Celtic music, fire spinning and Main St. scavenger hunt with a grand prize of two tickets to Oneonta Theatre Lunasa perfor-mance. 7:30 p.m. Lunasa -- Irish wind and string quintet, Ireland’s hottest acoustic supergorup -- performs at The Oneonta The-atre, 47 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 643-4022 www.oneontatheatre.com
LOG ART -- 5-7 p.m. Lavern Kelly’s unique interpretations of the logging industry in carved log trucks and drawings. Sydney Waller’s Garage Gallery, 689 Beaver Meadow Rd, Cooper-stown. Free. Info, (607)547-5327.
FILM -- 7-9 p.m. “Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and Land Ethic
for Our Time.” Instructional Resource Center, Lecture Hall 4, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta. Info, (607) 547-2366
DESSERT THEATER -- 7:30 p.m. Little Victory players eve-ning of short plays and dessert samplings. $15 adults, $8 students. Unitarian Universalist Society, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta, Tickets and info, Anne Ray (607) 432-8575.
COMEDY – 8 p.m. “The Oracle,”
by Ellen D’Acquisto, win-
ner, 2011 Playwright Project Competition, performed by Orpheus Theatre. $15 general, $12 students/seniors. Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Tickets, (607) 432-9392. Info, (607) 432-1800, orpheustheatre.org
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COOP WINTER MARKET – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Seasonal fruits and veggies to all cuts of local meats and poultry. Local eggs, cheese, more. Pioneer Alley (behind Key Bank), rain or shine. Info, (607) 547-6195, www.otsego2000.org
G.I.R.L.S -- Noon. “Self-Pro-tection” Learn about issues of violence, awareness, accidence, de-escalation and physical response (when necessary). Open to women and girls of all ages. Free, registration recom-mended. Richfield Springs Community Center, 6 Ann St., Richfield Springs. Info: (315) 858-3200.
DRAMA – Noon. Orpheus Theatre Playwright Project 2012 finalist readings. “Off the Hook” by V.J. Bauer; ‘The Return of Morgan Sloane by Marilou Trask-Curtin; and “Other People’s Ghosts” by Barbara Salvatore. Free, all welcome. Foothills Per-forming Arts & Civic Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-9392, orpheustheatre.org
TAI CHI – 4-5 p.m. Green Earth Community Room, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-6600.
IRISH DINNER -- 4-7 p.m. Knights of Columbus #10968 annual St. Patrick’s Day corned beef and cabbage dinner. Irish Step Dancers perform. Free, donations accepted. St. Mary’s Parish Center, 31 Elm St., Coo-perstown. Info, (607) 547-7524.
DINNER DANCE -- 5 p.m. dinner, 8:30 show. “The Love Dogs” blues band and St. Patrick’s buffet dinner. Pre-sale tickets, $25, Show only, $10, Dinner and show at door, $30. Holiday Inn, Southside, Oneonta. Info, www.hioneonta.com
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the reso-lution published here-with has been adopted by the Board of Educa-tion of the Cooper-stown Central School District, Otsego County, New York, on March 7, 2012, and the validity of the obliga-tions authorized by such resolution may be hereafter contested only if:
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SaturdayMarch 17
(contd.)BOOKS TO WATCH – 6:30
p.m., “Double Indemnity” (1941). Film/novel coupling discussion in “Books We love to Watch” film series. Free, all welcome, regis-tration required. The Smithy, 55 Pioneer St., Cooperstown. Info, register, Smithypioneer.org, (607) 547-8671.
ST. PAT’S DANCE – 7-9 p.m. The Arc Otsego presents St. Patrick’s Day Dance featuring special guest Flame. Free admission, free punch! Donations always gratefully accepted. SUNY Oneonta, Hunt Union Ballroom, 108 Ravine Parkway, Oneonta. Info, www.arcotsego.org, (607) 432-8595.
DESSERT THEATER – 7:30 p.m. Little Victory players pres-ent an evening of short plays and dessert samplings. $15 adults, $8 Students. Unitarian Universalist Society, 12 Ford Ave., Oneonta, Tickets and info, Anne Ray (607) 432-8575.
AUDUBON PROGRAM – 7:30 p.m. Montezuma Birding Habitats by Frank Moses, Direc-tor, New York State Audubon Center at Montezuma. Free, all welcome, donations gratefully ac-cepted. Oneonta DOAS program. Elm Park Methodist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, El-eanor Moriarty, (607) 435-2054, www.doas.us/page0002.html
SYMPHONY CABERET – 8 p.m. Catskill Symphony Orchestra Cabaret Concert. Susquehanna String band performs the rousing Celtic Suite and the GUEST CON-DUCTOR COMPETITION! Tickets $30, includes light refresh-ments. Dewar Arena, Alumni Field House, SUNY Oneonta. Info, (607) 436-2670, [email protected], catskillsymphony.net
CONCERT – 8 p.m. Montana Skies at The Oneonta Theatre, 47 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneontatheatre.com
Sunday,March 18
SUGARING – 9 a.m.-2 p.m.; pancake breakfast 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Sugaring Off Sundays. His-toric and contemporary sugaring demonstrations, maple-related family activities, pancake break-fast, and Empire State Carousel. No reservations required. $8 ages 13 and up; $4 7-12, 6 and under free. The Farmers’ Museum, 5775 NY Rte. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.farmers-museum.org, (607) 547-1450.
BREAKFAST -- 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Pancakes breakfast to benefit Center St. School’s Safety Patrol-lers Class Trip to Washington D.C. $8 per person, $3 for children under 5. Oneonta Elk’s Club, Chestnut St., Oneonta.
HISTORY -- 1 p.m. “Joseph Brant: His Loyalist Volunteers on the New York Frontier.” Greater Milford Historical Association, North Main St., Milford. Info, (607) 286-7038.
FILM -- 1 p.m. “Windfall” by Delaware County resident Laura Israel, shows all sides of the wind turbine debate. Discussion to fol-low. Mount Markham High School auditorium, 500 Fairground Road, West Winfield.
FILM -- 1-4 p.m. “The Cup,” 1998 comedy. Four young monks determine to view World Cup final despite a monastery lacking a TV. $5 donation suggested, free to members. Rangjung Yeshe Gomde Medita-tion Center, 412 Glimmerglen Road, Cooperstown. Info, 9607) 547-5051, [email protected]
COMEDY – 2 p.m. “The Oracle,” by Ellen D’Acquisto, winner, 2011 Playwright Proj-ect Competition. $15 general, $12 students/seniors. Orpheus Theatre at Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, 24 Market St., Oneonta. Tickets, (607) 432-9392. Info, (607) 432-1800, orpheustheatre.org
RECITAL -- 3 p.m. Oneonta chapter of American Guild of Organists annual organ recital. First United Methodist Church, 73 Main Street, Unadilla.
MondayMarch 19
SCREENINGS -- Breast Cancer screenings through Bassett’s mobile screening coach. Richfield Springs Health Center, 8550 State Hwy. 28. Info and appoint-ments, 1-888-416-3409.
STORIES – 7 p.m. “Up-state Stories with Big Chuck D’Imperio.” Free, all welcome. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, Dolores Noonan, [email protected].
TuesdayMarch 20
DIABETES – 2-4 p.m. Bassett
Healthcare diabetes manage-ment training, seven self-care behaviors. Tuesdays, through March. Little Falls Hospital, 140 Burwell St., Little Falls. Physician referral, pre-registration required. Info, register, (315) 867-2786, (607) 435-1289.
MEDITATION – 5:15-6:15 p.m. Buddhist view and medita-tion. Green Earth, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 527-5185.
Wednesday, March 21
CLASS -- 5:30-7:30 p.m. Breastfeeding Class. Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown, 3rd floor Inpatient Conf. Room. Info, (607) 547-4593.
Thursday, March 22
TAI CHI – 4-5 p.m. Green Earth Community Room, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-6600.
SUPPORT -- 7 p.m. Deal-ing with Diabetes. Fellowship Hall, Elm Park United Method-ist Church, 401 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Info, Sharon Wheeler (607) 432-7052.
BASEBALL SLEEPOVER – Ex-tra innings Overnights Program. Children age 7-12 and parents sleep in the HOF Plaque Gallery. $49.95 kids, $39.99 adult guard-ians. Baseball Hall of Fame, Main St., Cooperstown. Info, (607)547-7200, baseballhall.org
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Available April 1st fully renovated Victorian home in the center of Cooperstown. 3 bedrooms, 1 ½ baths, 2 car garage. Walk to everything. $1400.00 plus utilities. Year round lease. (607) 643-1931.3ClassMar16
3 bedroom house. First floor living in the village of Laurens. $800 plus utilities. Solid references required. (607) 437-7866.3ClassMar23
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(contd.)IMPACT PANEL – 7 p.m. Vic-
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“Hunting the Whitetail Rut.” Main Street Baptist Church, Corner, Main and Maple sts. Oneonta. Info, (607)432-5712.
AUTHOR – 7 p.m. Lauren Groff, Cooperstown native and bestselling author of “The Mon-sters of Templeton,” discusses and signs copies of her new novel, “Arcadia,” The Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-8898, www.greentoadbookstore.com
CONCERT -- 7:30 p.m. Bos-ton Chamber Music Society, presented by Oneonta Con-cert Association. First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta. Tickets $20, $6 students at door; or at The Green Toad Bookstore, and The Eighth Note, Oneonta. Info, www.oneon-taconcertassociation.org
DANCE – 7:30-10 p.m. Doubleday Dancers Western Square Dance Club St. Patrick’s Day Dance. Ray Taylor calling, Elma Taylor cue. $5. Cooper-stown Elementary School, Walnut St. Info, (607) 264-8128.
CONCERT -- 8 p.m. The Fly Creek Philharmonic “Money Mat-
ters.” Tickets at Augers and Fly Creek General Store. Fly Creek United Methodist Church, Fly Creek.
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ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET – 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Oneonta Winter Farmers Market, 2nd and 4th Sat., through May. Wide selection of area goods. Main St. Garage walkway. Main St., Oneonta. Info, (607) 437-0158, www.OneontaFarmersMarket.com
WORKSHOPS -- 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cornell Cooperative Extension presents Ag Day 2012 workshops on livestock and field crops. $5, for morning sessions, afternoon session free. Registration, info, (518) 234-4303, www.cce.schoharie. cornell.edu or www.cobleskill.edu.
POSTCARD SHOW -- 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. GOHS 8th annual Postcard & Emphemera show. $2, includes coupon for 10% off at the Autumn Cafe. St. James Episcopal Church, corner of Elm and Main St., Oneonta. Info, John Carney, (607) 432-5360.
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It was 10 minutes into the speech, and Rohde was deep into dissecting King’s paranoia and schizophrenia, before the presidents recog-nized the joke.
“Our society is not mak-ing characters any more,” said Miller. “I worked around a lot of characters.”
When it became clear Bill Case wouldn’t succeed
his father, Bud Frame was promoted to run the sales department, and turned out to be a terrible manager. So Miller was promoted over his mentor’s head as vice president “for” sales with Frame, vice president “of” sales, reporting to him.
“It says a lot about both of us that we could pull it off in a way that was invis-ible,” said Miller. “We remain very close friends
today.”The $15 million company
of 1967 had become a $120 million company by 1983. Case-Hoyt was up to four printing plants in Rochester, and plants in Charlotte, At-lanta and Newport News. In 1979 Miller was promoted to president of the compa-ny’s dominant Rochester division.
But the closely held com-pany had 350 stockhold-
ers, some of whom were getting itchy. There were inklings of the technology revolution to come. About that time, Bell Canada was deregulated and was looking for investments. It bought Ronald’s Feder-ated, a phone-book printer, and Ronald’s approached Case-Hoyt about buying its packaging division.
“We won’t sell you the packaging division,” they were told. “We’ll sell you the whole company.”
The deal was hatched. Bell Canada paid twice book. And in six months, everyone’s stock had doubled. “It was good for our employees,” said Miller. “Bell and Ronald’s had the capital to invest.” Miller ended up as president.
Two problems. One, the digital barbarians were at the pressroom gates. And Case-Hoyt had a way of operating that was hard to change. For decades, Kodak had been the biggest customer, and everything had to be perfect: “Do it un-til you get it right and send us the bill” was Kodak’s philosophy.
Said Miller, “We knew how to do it until it was per-fect. We didn’t know how to make it perfect AND cost effective.” And so, feeling the squeeze, in 1984 Miller took a “copper parachute” – a golden parachute, he said, means you never have to work again – and joined U of R in the office of the president, Tom Jackson. Then came SUNY. Then Hartwick.
After 15 years in aca-deme, Miller is in City Hall, applying many of those same business lessons from long ago, adjusted to municipal governance. But some things are the same: “You need people around you who are strong profes-sionals in their fields.” He cited Finance Director Meg
Hungerford, HR director Kathy Wolverton and City Attorney David Merzig, among others.
Vs. the business world, working in government “is all about job security, not performance.” There’s life-time healthcare, a pension plan and, conversely, a rela-tively low salary. “If you do a terrific job, where are we going to promote you to?”
That calls for a different approach to personnel man-agement and motivation: “If you can’t make economic incentives, you have to make it fun to go to work. People have to feel part of something.”
Still, there are “oppor-tunities” to problem solve in what other people might consider crises. Concerned about the Oneonta Police Department when he took office in 2010 after a scan-dal the summer before, he was nonetheless reluctant to reexamine that situation out of concern for morale in the department. “By the time I got to office, that was pretty much dead and gone,” he said.
But then a police-brutality case surfaced. “As the in-vestigation went on and we learned more, it was an op-portunity to shake the tree.” After a year with an interim chief tightening procedures, a new chief from within the department is due to take office at the end of April.
Generally, Miller tries to follow the creed in Sam Walton’s 1993 “Made In America”: Hire the best people you can, train them, set goals, then stand back and play a supportive role.
“As a general statement, I’m patient to a fault,” he said, describing his manage-ment style. “I cut people more slack than I should ... If somebody who works for me fails, I consider it a personal failure of mine.”
He continued, “but I didn’t learn it in a book. I didn’t learn it in a class-room. I didn’t learn it on the job. Experience is the best teacher. If by 69, you haven’t figured it out” – his birthday is Tuesday, March 20 – “you probably aren’t going to.”
Miller: Government Requires Different Personnel Management Approaches
After being sworn in on Jan. 1, 2010, Mayor Miller shows a grand-son around City Hall. He has three grown children and three stepchil-dren through wife Andi.
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