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Officers Andrew Mollison Alicia Juarrero Mary Jo (Jody) McPherson Other Directors MaryAnn Griffin Benjamin M. Rowland Rose E. Sahm News From Our Neighborhoods When We’re Hot, We’re Hot Palisades Village’s “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” contingent was hot, hot, hot in this year’s 4th of July parade. We were double-winners when prizes were awarded by the Palisades Citizens Association’s judges. Congrats to our marchers and riders, who tossed 2,000 lollipops to the kids, and coped with splendid aplomb when a loudspeaker on our float caught fire during the parade. 'Washington Area Villages' Is Launched In July, 14 DC, Maryland and Virginia villages – some open, others developing -- formed Washington Area Villages to help each other out. PV President Andy Mollison represents DC on the 3-member steering committee .
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Palisades Village Officers and DirectorsPresidentAndrew Mollison Andy and his wife Char have lived for thirty years in their Sears bungalow in the Palisades, which they share with their cats and books. They are members of the Palisades Citizens Association and supporters of the Community Council for the Homeless at Friendship Place . Andy is also a volunteer with the MacArthur Beautification Group. In September 2007 Andy retired from freelance education writing for magazines and nonprofit organizations. He was a political reporter and editor for thirty-one years for the Washington Bureau of the Cox Newspapers chain. Prior to that he was a reporter for Newsday and The Detroit Free Press, and news editor of The Suburban Record in Silver Spring, Maryland. Andy has held leadership positions with several professional organizations, including the National Press Club, where he is a former board chairman and president, and the Washington Press Club Foundation, where as a board member he raised funds for and chaired the executive committee of its project for recording the life stories of women journalists. He is a member of the the Committee to Protect Journalists. Vice PresidentAlicia Juarrero ajuarrero@palisadesvillage.org Alicia was born in Cuba and earned BA, MA, and PhD degrees in philosophy at the University of Miami (FL). For thirty-one years she taught philosophy at Prince George's Community College, where she received the school's first Outstanding Faculty Member award. In 2002 she was named U.S. Community College Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. She received a presidential appointment to the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities, where she served as chair of the Committee on State Programs that distributed $31 million to state humanities councils from 1992 to 2000. She is currently on the board of the Maryland Humanities Council. She has written one book, edited two anthologies, and published more than two dozen professional papers. Alicia has lived in Foxhall Village since 1994. Secretary/TreasurerMary Jo (Jody) McPherson Jody moved to the Palisades in 1966. She was born in Indiana and grew up and graduated from college in Ohio. Then she spent a year each in Missouri and New Jersey before coming to Washington. Jody was Key School PTA co-president (with her then-husband) the year parents and teachers combined the Six Schools complex. She served as president of the PTA the following year. Jody has lived in the Palisades house she is trying to remain in since December 1970. She recently retired from the Air Line Pilots Association, where she worked on the magazine staff since 1977. She is an active member of her church and has produced the church's monthly newsletter for all but one and half years since 1979. In 2010, her volunteer work for Palisades Village led to her recognition as a Super Senior of the Year from Iona Senior Services. Jody has three children, three grandsons, and a granddaughter.
Other DirectorsAnne Allen Anne retired as Executive Director of the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation after fifteen years of service. She is still a member of the Foundation Advisory Board. Her late husband George was a journalist and a founding board member of Palisades Village, with Anne at his side. The couple was featured in a New York Times front-page story on aging-in-place organizations in August 2007. Anne joined the Cafritz Foundation in 1989 and worked on 3,500 grants totaling $166 million. Before that she was a program officer with the Public Welfare Foundation. She was a founding member of the Washington Foundation Roundtable and helped establish Funding Friends, a precursor of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (WRAG), on whose board she served for many years. Anne organized and was the first Executive Director of Washington Independent Writers (WIW), now one of the largest groups of freelance writers in the U.S. Washingtonian magazine twice named her one of the “one hundred Most Powerful Women in Washington ” and in 2005 tapped her as a Washingtonian of the year. For eighteen months during 1967-1968, Anne worked in Vietnam as a freelance journalist for the North American Newspaper Alliance and other news organizations. She is a 1963 graduate of Columbia University and has written three books. She and her late husband have two sons they adopted from Vietnam and two grandchildren.
Janet Bullinger Janet is a native of a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and arrived in Washington, DC, in 1965. She has lived in the Palisades since 1976 and formerly worked as a legal assistant in law firms and then part-time until retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court Reporter's Office. Currently she is a docent at the U.S. Supreme Court, a volunteer at Sibley Hospital , and the treasurer of the Widowed Persons Outreach Service through Sibley Seniors. She is also actively involved with a lawyers' wives group on a local and national level. For fun and exercise she enjoys walking her Tibetan terrier, Mickey Mouse, through the streets and pathways of the Palisades . Her other interests include reading, gardening, and needlepoint. Janet is very dedicated to making the Palisades Village work and believes it is a great concept for someone like herself who has no children and no immediate family in the area.
Director, Alexandria Office of Aging & Adult Services Foxhall Road NW A resident of the Foxhall neighborhood, MaryAnn currently serves as the Director of the Office of Aging and Adult Services for the City of Alexandria. She has held senior-level positions in health and human service settings for more than three decades. No stranger to the ideas that sparked the creation of Palisades Village, she describes herself as “a total supporter of aging in place for anyone who chooses to do so and can do so safely.” She notes that “Ninety percent of seniors say that they want to remain in their neighborhoods,” and creating a ‘village’ and putting services in place is an important mechanism to afford them the chance.” MaryAnn’s extensive and diverse experience includes working with children, adults, seniors, and persons with disabilities, and she has worked in multiple environments such as inpatient hospitals, ambulatory care clinics, and in home health, hospice, and physician practices throughout the United States. In the Washington metro area she has held senior administrative posts at Georgetown University Medical Center, Pentagon City Hospital, Hospice of Northern Virginia, and Hospice and Home Health at the Washington Home. She holds an MSW degree in Social Work Administration from the University of Pittsburgh and a BS degree from the College of Health and Human Development of Penn State University. She also earned graduate certificates in Gerontology, Executive Healthcare Management, and Social Work in Labor and Industry.
Judith Shepard Rosenfeld Judy was born in New Jersey . She worked as a reporter and married a fellow journalist in 1947. Her three children were all born overseas during their father's assignments as a foreign correspondent. Judy has lived in Washington since 1972, and in Palisades since 1984. She was one of the pioneer organizers of Palisades Village. Judy was a founder and later President of the Institute for Property Assessment Studies, a watchdog nonprofit that published an annual handbook on appealing DC property assessments, helped applicants appearing before city appeals boards, and worked to improve the system governing residential assessments. As a freelance writer, Judy authored a travel book and many feature stories.
Retired, World Bank Independent Consultant Macomb St. NW Washington DC 20016
Ben, his wife, Julia, and their two children, Katie and Ben, moved to the Palisades 19 years ago from New York City. Ben holds a B.A. from Yale and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Before moving to Washington he spent 15 years as a senior international investment banker for two major Wall Street firms. From 1989 -1995 he was a part of the founding management team of the Inter-American Investment Corp., the private-sector arm of the Inter-American Development Bank. From 1995 until his retirement in 2001, he managed the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) program of the World Bank Group’s Foreign Investment Advisory Service, FIAS. Ben divides his time between his consulting practice – advising governments in the LAC region on private-sector policy matters, as well as writing and painting. Current projects include writing and illustrating a children’s book, and editing (and contributing to) a collection of scholarly essays on Charles de Gaulle. Ben is also the author of two books, editor for two essay collections, and has written numerous articles on international economic and financial policy issues.
Aquatic Exercise Instructor Sherier Place NW Washington, DC 20016
Rose has lived in the Palisades for over 30 years with her husband, Billy. They’ve raised two “Key School” children in their house on Sherier Place. While her kids were at Key, Rose co-chaired the PTA and served on the Local School Restructuring Team. In 2004, Rose left Stockton, Inc., a direct mail management firm (that had its beginnings on Garfield Street, right off Arizona!), and expanded her second career as an aquatic exercise instructor at the Bethesda/Chevy Chase YMCA.
When she’s not in the pool, she remains extremely active with her family and with the Kingsbury Day School parent association, and prepares and delivers meals each week for Food & Friends. Rose has raised thousands of dollars over the years for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society by participating in the Annual MS Challenge Walk. You’ll frequently find Rose walking her dog around the neighborhood (or being pulled by her dog, more accurately).
Rose is thrilled to volunteer for the Palisades Village and feels strongly that a vibrant community needs the presence of all ages; we lose an important component if we lose our older citizens to far flung “assisted” living options.
Art Watson Art recently retired from the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he worked as an attorney in the area of international trade and investment. His family’s move to the Palisades in 1983 was prompted by the imminent birth of his second daughter. “Our little rowhouse near Dupont Circle was about to become too small,” he says, and “we were looking for grass and trees for our kids.” Living adjacent to Battery Kemble Park, they have found both in abundance. Both daughters went to Key School and on to Hardy Middle School, which at that time was on Foxhall Road. As he and his family put down roots in the neighborhood, Art got involved with the Palisades Citizens Association, eventually serving as President, and later as President of the Palisades Community Fund. He currently is editor of the PCA newsletter, The Palisades News. Art recalls helping his parents move into a retirement facility. “It’s perfect for them,” he says, “but Carol and I knew right away that that it was not the situation for us. We want to stay right where we are in our own little house, in the middle of this wonderful neighborhood.” His degrees include a BA from Harvard College and a JD from Stanford University School of Law. His awards include his selection as Department of Commerce Attorney of the Year in 2005.
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