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WHEREAS, the Chatham College Summer and Music and Arts Day Camp has been serving the children of the City of Pittsburgh and of this region since 1956 and is celebrating its 50th year; and,
WHEREAS, the Camp was established by Kay and Mihail Stolarevsky and serves children in pre-kindergarten through 8th grade; and,
WHEREAS, Mihail Stolarevsky, a native of Kiev, came to the United States in 1923, conducted theater orchestras in several cities and built a career as a violist with the Cincinnati and Pittsburgh Symphonies, and together with his wife, Kay , whom he met at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and who was the Music Director of the Ellis School for many years as well as an accomplished musician, and who he married in 1945, established the summer camp for music on the campus of Chatham College, and,
WHEREAS, Kay and Mihail, after establishing the Laboratory School for serious students of music in 1949, realized the need for a summer camp devoted to the arts so that young people could become intelligent music lovers; and,
WHEREAS, the philosophy of the Chatham Summer Music and Arts Day Camp is to develop understanding and appreciation for the enrichment of camper's lives, not to emphasize professional ambition but to offer the opportunity to explore, discover, and develop their own relationship with the arts, and to make arts accessible to all, especially to young people; and,
WHEREAS, following Mihail Stolarevsky's death, Kay assumed the position of Director of the Music and Arts Day Camp for the ensuing seventeen years, sustaining her husband's vision and preserving the philosophy and growing the camp to its present day status.
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NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby recognize Kay Stolarevsky for her rich and generous contributions to the quality of life in the City of Pittsburgh and for her compassionate, creative and visionary leadership of the Chatham College Music and Arts Summer Day Camp for the last 50 years.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh declare May 24, 2006, Kay Stolarevsky Day in the City of Pittsburgh and the week of May 22-26, 2006, as Chatham College Summer Music and Arts Day Camp Week in the City of Pittsburgh.