Pictured: Florence Larkin, Green Brook resident and one of Somerset County’s 20 outstanding women award winners
Somerset County Freeholder Deputy Director Patricia Walsh, liaison to the county Commission on the Status of Women, joins the commission in announcing the 2015 Outstanding Women in Somerset County award winners.
“We have many women in Somerset County doing amazing things every day,” said Freeholder Walsh. “It is most appropriate that during Women’s History Month, we take the time to publicly recognize them and say thank you.” The Outstanding Women in Somerset County awards dinner was held March 27 at The Imperia in Franklin.
“This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Somerset County Commission on the Status of Women,” she added, noting it was founded in January 1985 with the support of then-Freeholder and later Governor Christine Todd Whitman.
Honorees are women who live in Somerset County. Among this year’s award recipients is Green Brook resident, Florence Larkin recognized for her work in arts and entertainment. She has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Watchung Arts Center (WAC) for 13 years and currently serves as vice-president of education. As a former school teacher who always advocated for the arts, she has used her insight in overseeing the WAC’s very successful children’s art classes and children’s art summer camp. Working with a fellow trustee, she has been instrumental in developing a relationship with the Watchung Hills Regional High School Art Department to showcase the works of advanced arts students and their faculty in a month-long art exhibition at the WAC. She also is coordinator and host of the Meet the Performers Reception held with each WAC concert and event.
For more information and events from the Watchung Arts Center, visit their website at http://www.watchungarts.org/index.htm
Submitted by Lynn Sjurset
