Scholars Gild
A gild of the Arden Club, the Scholars Gild explores topics of interest to members such as community, utopia, the Arts & Crafts Movement, and the Garden City Movement, all of which strongly influenced the creation of the Village of Arden, Delaware in 1900 and remain strong today.
Call 302 475-3333.
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Next Meeting:
"How Art Gives Shape To Cultural Change"
Tuesday, June 15, 7:30 p.m.
Lower Gild Hall
Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent exhibits that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The "post-black" artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race and culture -- and about the meaning of art itself.
Our first meeting was on March 15, 2010.
Nineteen people met in Lower Gild Hall on Monday, March 15, 2010, the inaugural meeting of the Scholars Gild. Present were: Edmond Bischoff, Jane Claney, Roger Garrison, Fred Hartman, Hardy Hoegger, Allan and Sharon Kleban, Rhys McClure, Ron Meick, Ken Morrison, Jim Schwaber, Danny Schweers, Lilian Shah, Pat Toman, Steven Threefoot, Laura Wallace, Jan Westerhouse, Tom Wheeler, and Mary Brent Whipple.
Roles
- Steven Threefoot, who had organized the Gild, was elected Scholars' Chair.
- Danny Schweers offered to take notes. Later in the meeting he was elected in proper fashion to the lofty position of Scholars' Scribe.
- Allan Kleban was elected to serve as Scholars' Spokesman to Arden Club board meetings on second Thursdays.
- Any funds we raise or spend will be looked after by Roger Garrison, Keeper of the Purse (the Scholars' Dollars).
- Mission Statement and Bylaws will be developed slowly by Laura Wallace, Allan Kleban, and Mary Brent Whipple.
Hamburger Community Lecture Grant
The Scholars Gild accepts the responsibility to fulfill the Arden Club’s role as as described by the Hamburger Community Lecture grant jointly given to the Arden Club and the Village of Arden. The purpose of the grant is to present lecture series at least every two years to promote community.
First Lecture: Eye Witness, Haiti
We hope our first public presentation will be a panel discussion by our neighbors who went to Haiti in recent weeks to work on medical relief. This will be organized by Ken Morrison, Jim Schwaber, Bill Theis, and Steven Threefoot. Roger Garrison hopes the presentation will begin with a brief history of Haiti and of the earthquake.
Contact Us
Interested in the new Scholars Gild? Click here to send us an email or call Steven Threefoot at 302 475-3333.
A New Gild
In February, 2010, the Arden Club Board unanimously approved the creation of the new Scholars Gild. Some people don’t see this as the creation of a new gild but the resurrection of an old one. The Club had a Scholars Gild in the 1940s and 1950s.
As a quick summary, the village of Arden was founded on three pillars: Arts & Crafts, planned community, and Henry George’s single tax. The Georgist Gild covers the latter; the Scholars Gild will (as currently conceived) explore the ideas, concepts, and thinking on arts, crafts, and community as they impact the Ardens and our broader community today. This concept represents our starting point. We expect the gild to evolve over time.
The creation of the new Scholars Gild was easy. Some 35 members in good standing signed a petition that was presented to the Arden Club Board of Directors at their January meeting. (Only 15 signatures were required.) The petitioners confirmed their support of the gild and their willingness to sustain it. Also presented was a statement of purpose, goals and objectives, and financial responsibilities.
- Purpose: The purpose of the New Scholars Gild is to promote scholarly dialog among members of the Gild, the Arden Club and the broader community, by bringing in learned people on subjects of interest and importance to the community.
- Goals and Objectives: The New Scholars Gild will produce and promote lectures open to the general public on subjects and by lecturers selected by Gild members. These lectures will increase participants’ knowledge and awareness of the selected topics and provide a basis for future dialog.
- Financial Responsibilities: The Scholars Gild accepts the responsibility to fulfill the Arden Club’s role as as described by the Hamburger Community Lecture grant jointly given to the Arden Club and the Village of Arden. Additional funding for programming sponsored by the Gild will be raised by soliciting grants, charging admission to programs, or by charging Gild members dues.
Interested in the new Scholars Gild? Click here to send us an email or call Steven Threefoot at 302 475-3333.
Previous meetings:
- 3/15/2010 - Organizational Meeting
- 4/20/2010 - Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article about how different cultures drink alcohol, "Drinking Games," April 20, 2010.
- 5/25/2010 - video lecture by Esther Duflo, "Social Experiments to Fight Poverty."