Blog archive
June 2023
Communications Project with Cal State LA
06/02/2023
Creative Aging
06/01/2023
May 2023
One Villager's Story
05/31/2023
Pasadena Area Literary Arts Center
05/31/2023
Pasadena Village Responds to Rainbow Flag Burning at Pasadena Buddhist Temple
05/31/2023
Plan Ahead - And Be Prepared
05/31/2023
Tuesday, May 23 Pasadena Celebrated Older Americans
05/31/2023
Rumor of Humor #15
05/28/2023
Reparations, Social Justice Activity
05/24/2023
Rumor of Humor #14
05/19/2023
Rumor of Humor #13
05/12/2023
Issue #12
05/09/2023
Science Monday - Review of Meeting on April 10, 2023
05/09/2023
Conversations Re African American Artists Before 1920
05/08/2023
Beyond the Village – Suzi and Phil Hoge
05/01/2023
Congratulations Wayne April! Honored at UNH
05/01/2023
Table Topics
05/01/2023
Volunteer Appreciation at the Village
05/01/2023
“ACCIDENTAL HOST—The Story of Rat Lungworm Disease”
05/01/2023
April 2023
Jumbo Joy
04/24/2023
Pasadenans Recent Experience With Racism
04/23/2023
Recent Events Reflecting Racism
04/23/2023
Fig and Goat Cheese Bruschetta
04/18/2023
Photography for Social Justice
04/11/2023
Issue #8
04/07/2023
BEYOND THE VILLAGE - Catherine Deely
04/06/2023
Creative Writing in Older Adults
04/06/2023
Gifts of Love
04/06/2023
March 2023
Issue #7
03/31/2023
Issue #6
03/26/2023
Great Decisions update
03/14/2023
Dominion Lawsuit, South Africa and 710 Stub
03/08/2023
February 2023
2023 DEI Progress
02/27/2023
BEYOND THE VILLAGE - Doug Colliflower
02/26/2023
CONVERSATIONS WITH ART
02/26/2023
GREAT DECISIONS
02/26/2023
OLDER ADULTS RESOURCE FAIR
02/26/2023
The Important, Influential Books in our Lives - Revisited
02/26/2023
History, Resolution of the 710 Freeway
02/19/2023
Eminent Domain, 710 Highway
02/13/2023
Bernard Garrett, 710 Freeway
02/06/2023
Men's Times Gatherings
02/03/2023
January 2023
Pasadena's Senior Commission
01/30/2023
BEYOND THE VILLAGE - JIM HENDRICK
01/27/2023
GRATITUDE - IT'S GOOD FOR YOU!
01/27/2023
JEFF GUTSTADT - FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST
01/27/2023
Bernard Garrett, Incredible Black Entrepreneur
01/17/2023
What is the "Spirit Talk" Group About?
01/16/2023
Same Ol’ New Year, Brand New Me
01/12/2023
Review of 2022, Consideration of 2023
01/06/2023
BEYOND THE VILLAGE - PATTI LA MARR
01/03/2023
FROM THE CHAIR
01/03/2023
WALK WITH EASE
01/03/2023
BEYOND THE VILLAGE - Catherine Deely
By Susan KujawaPosted: 04/06/2023
BEYOND THE VILLAGE – CATHERINE DEELY
In March 1990, 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The crime remains unsolved, with empty frames on the walls of the museum, reminding visitors of the biggest museum theft in the history of the United States.
Village member Catherine (Cathy) Deely worked at the Gardner Museum for five years beginning in 1993, where she was the Director of Marketing and Public Relations. At a recent Members Connection on Zoom, Cathy treated viewers to a virtual tour of this unique and very personal museum, and shared details about the art theft and its impact on the art world. Watch it here.
Catherine has had a long and varied career, working mostly in large corporate venues, focused on Marketing, Public Relations, and Media Affairs. Her work also included a stint as Director of Marketing for the City of Los Angeles under Mayor Richard Riordan.
Although Cathy has lived on the East Coast, where she has family, she moved “for the last time” to Altadena at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. She joined the Pasadena Village after she noticed a group of people walking down her street one morning – the Urban Walkers group. She participates in the Great Decisions discussion group, the 1619 group, and enjoys the trips to LA Opera.
Not one to sit idle in retirement, Catherine has joined other local groups. She is a member of the League of Women Voters of Pasadena where she is on the policing subcommittee. And as a member of All Saints Church she is a monitor for foster family visits. She also volunteers to recruit more foster families and to support those young people who are aging out of the foster care system.
“I am so grateful to be in Altadena, with its beauty and its diversity. And I’m looking forward to making new friends at Pasadena Village.”