[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 181 (Thursday, December 19, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1900]
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                            ELAINE CHAPNICK

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                          HON. ELIOT L. ENGEL

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, December 19, 2013

  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, Elaine Chapnick arrived in Larchmont in 1968 
with her husband David and their two children, Adam and Melissa. She 
joined the League of Women Voters and volunteered to become Executive 
Director of the New York Council on Children's Television, working with 
the networks to promote better programming with less commercialism. She 
also spoke with parent groups throughout the Metropolitan area on how 
to manage television in their children's lives.
  After teaching English for a year at a special fifth grade program at 
the Murray Avenue School she joined Caroline Silverstone to form a 
video production company. Their documentary projects included taping 
the Arts in the Schools program which Lincoln Center had introduced in 
the Mamaroneck schools. She then ran an after school video club at 
Chatsworth School.
  When her children were in school full time she worked at Newsweek 
Broadcasting where she developed a pilot children's public affairs 
program called Periscope. From there she went to the American Lung 
Association, initiated their anti-smoking campaign and became the 
Executive Director of Communications.
  During this time she served on the Board of the Emelin Theater, on 
the Board of Larchmont Temple chairing the Adult Education Committee, 
the Board of LMC-TV that negotiated the original community cable 
agreement, the Board of Continuing Education, the School Board 
Selection Committee, and the Hispanic Resource Center, serving as Fund 
Chair and newsletter editor.
  She represented the Village of Larchmont on the county's Community 
Development Block Grant Committee and was a member of the Board of 
Trustees of Barnard College where she chaired the Student Life 
Committee.
  More recently she was a reporter covering the Larchmont Village Board 
meetings for the Larchmont Gazette, was a member of the Human Rights 
Committee which planned the last five Martin Luther King, Jr. events, 
serves on the Planned Parenthood Luncheon Planning Committee and is the 
President of the Larchmont/Mamaroneck Local Summit.
  I congratulate Elaine Chapnick on receiving this year's Sunny Award, 
created in honor of former LMC-TV President Sunny Yeddis Goldberg, and 
given to individuals for their dedication and their outstanding 
contribution to our community.

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