Hello friends, First and foremost, I send you and all your families my warmest wishes for a healthy and inspiring 2022. As I write this, many of our Ebell friends and family are grappling with breakthrough cases of COVID. I am grateful that most of us have had our vaccinations and our boosters to help protect us… Read more »
The west parking lot at the Ebell was busy Saturday, December 18, with volunteer elves passing out Christmas cheer to veterans and their families. The collaboration with The Ebell allows the Mindful Veteran Project to help families who would normally attend their Christmas event, which, like so many others, has been cancelled for the last… Read more »
Please welcome Julie Barkan as our new Director of RCA (Rest Cottage Association). Here are a few words from Julie to introduce herself: “Seven years ago I became a member of the RCA, the same day I became a member of The Ebell. It was important to me to be hands-on in one of the… Read more »
Ladies of The Ebell! The Governance Committee is a standing committee that works on Ebell governance issues. Last year we rewrote the Conflict of Interest policy. This year we organized and ran the first annual orientation training session for the new Board members. We have the second annual orientation training session for next year’s newly… Read more »
The Social Service Committee (SSC) is a group of Ebell members who actively engage with Rest Cottage Association (RCA) grant recipients. We are a link to The Ebell for each of these well-deserving nonprofits who have been reviewed by the RCA grant committee and awarded grants due to their continuous work in improving the lives… Read more »
Learn how to paint to echo the style of great artists with Maxine Cohn, mother of Meredyth Deighton and long-time art teacher. For some time now a group of Ebell members has been meeting with Maxine on Zoom for “Art to the Max” lessons. Usually, Maxine chooses an accessible artist and then talks the… Read more »
Sheryl Lee Ralph, who kicked off the 2021-22 Ebell season by performing her one-woman show for Ebell Opening Day in October 2021, and who is also an Ebell member, stars in a new ABC mockumentary sitcom, Abbott Elementary. The single-camera comedy created by Quinta Brunson follows a small group of teachers at a chronically underfunded… Read more »
Why not support our recent Ebell Program speakers who are also authors, or our Ebell club members who have written new books during this stay-at-home time? You’ll find some inspiring gifts on this list of books that run the gamut of titles for learning, for reading pleasure and for personal resolution-keeping! By Greg Dobbs Life… Read more »
January is award-winning fiction. Here’s a Pulitzer prize-winner: Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad. Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does,… Read more »
On Wednesday, December 15, Ebell members and their guests traveled to the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, home of the Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams, for a fascinating tour and behind-the-scenes look around the amazing new state-of-the-art sports venue. Guests were shown to the private viewing suites and were even let loose on the… Read more »
