Celebrating
Sandy
On September 18, 2021, over 150 people gathered in New Haven's East Rock Park to celebrate the life and work of Sandy Malmquist, the heartbeat behind New Haven's Connecticut Children's Museum and Creating Kids Child Care Center, and to renew our commitment to continuing the work. Clips of individual presenters are below.
For easier phone viewing, the full playlist is on YouTube.
Many, many thanks to Melissa Rivera for Spanish translation and Lisa Kinsman for ASL interpretation.
Welcome
Songs by Kelsey Guggenheim, former Creating Kids teacher. Welcome from Peg Oliveira, Gesell @ Yale.
The Children's Building
Paul Wessel
Creating Kids - the beating heart
Filomena "Filly" Zarra, Creating Kids teacher
Pam Miller, Creating Kids teacher
Anna Brathwaite McGregor, former Yale workstudy student and Creating Kids staff.
Angela Russell, Creating Kids parent
Marsha McCoy, Creating Kids parent
In the Museum
Yanerys Aziz, Family child care provider
Felicitas Castellano,
Allison Batson, Hamden Public Schools Pre-K
Lizzy Rockwell, children's book author.
Betty Baisden, Director
Anne Olcott
Mae Gibson Brown, Early childhood teacher
In the World
Jennifer Heath, United Way and New Haven School Readiness Council
Jessica Sager, All Our Kin
Myra Jones Taylor, Zero to Three
Dual Language Project
Elaine Zimmerman, Gina LeVon Simpson, Donna Thompson Bennett, Children's Leadership Training Institute
Katharine Goodbody, Connecticut Children's Museum Board
Kesley Guggenheim, former Creating Kids Teacher
Peg Oliveira, Mindfulness Moment and Closing
Bina Williams, childhood neighbor
Karen Klein
