MARCH 2007 DCCA MEMBERSHIP MEETING

The meeting will begin at 7:30 pm. Attendees are invited to tour Anderson House after the speaker portion of the meeting. The Society will have just completed the first phase of a major conservation project to restore H. Siddons Mowbray's reception room murals, so attendees will have the opportunity to be the first members of the public to see the ceiling mural fully restored.

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty was elected Washington's youngest-ever mayor in November 2006, carrying every precinct in the city in both the primary and the general elections and winning the general election with 89% of the vote. He began his electoral career on the DC Council in 2001, winning a hard-fought battle against the four-term Ward 4 incumbent. Councilmember Fenty focused on constituent service, attracting new jobs and homes, fighting against nuisance properties, heightening police responsiveness, and expanding community policing. In his second Council term, Councilmember Fenty served as Chairperson of the Committee on Human Services. He led the introduction and adoption of the School Modernization Act. In 2003, he was one of two original sponsors of legislation to ban smoking in nearly all indoor workplaces, including bars and restaurants.

Mayor Fenty was born in the District and raised in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College and holds a Juris Doctorate from Howard University School of Law. He lives with his wife Michelle, a corporate attorney, and their twin sons, Matthew and Andrew, in the Crestwood neighborhood of Northwest.

Councilmember Jack Evans first elected DC job was Dupont Circle Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Chair (1989-90). He was first elected to the DC Council in a 1991 special election and was reelected in 1992 and every four years since. In addition to Dupont Circle, Ward 2 includes Chinatown, Shaw, Mount Vernon Square, Logan Circle, Blagden Alley, Sheridan-Kalorama, Foggy Bottom/West End, Georgetown, Burleith, Hillandale, and Downtown Washington. Councilmember Evans serves as Chair of the Council's Committee on Finance and Revenue, which oversees the District's finances and tax policy. In this position, he has sought to be a tough budget and tax steward and to secure approval of legislative tax reforms such as reduced tax rates, simplification of DC's Tax Code, tax breaks for working families, and establishing incentives for businesses. He also serves on two standing Council committees: Economic Development and Public Safety and Judiciary.

Councilmember Evans is a native of Pennsylvania. He received an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1978. He began practicing law at the Securities and Exchange Commission and currently serves as Of Counsel at Patton Boggs law firm. Jack and his triplets live in Georgetown with their two golden retrievers. His wife, Noel, passed away in September 2003 after a long battle with cancer.

Built in the Late Renaissance Revival style between 1902 and 1905 as the winter home of Isabel and Larz Anderson III, Anderson House is widely regarded as the best work of the architectural firm of Little and Browne of Boston. The Andersons furnished their home with fine and decorative European and Asian art. Larz Anderson III had a distinguished career as a diplomat. (He was Second Secretary of the American Legation and Embassy in London, First Secretary of the American Embassy and Charge d'Affaires in Rome, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Brussels, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Tokyo.) Following his death in 1937, his widow presented Anderson House, along with much of the building's original art and furnishings, to the Society of the Cincinnati. Today, Anderson House serves as the headquarters and meeting place for the Society. It also houses the Larz and Isabel Anderson Collection (which includes decorative and fine arts acquired by the Andersons in their extensive travels), the permanent museum collection of the Society of the Cincinnati (which includes artifacts from the Revolutionary War as well as objects related to the history of the Society), and the Society of the Cincinnati Library.

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