with special guests

The Honorable & Mrs. Chris Christie

Kent Manahan
Master of Ceremonies

Friday, April 16, 2010
6:30pm

The Westin Governor Morris Hotel
2 Whippany Road, Morristown

Cocktail Attire

 

 

John T. Cunningham, Honoree

John T. Cunningham, a graduate of Morristown High School and Drew University, has been a Morris County resident his entire life. 

He began a career as a journalist, working for the Daily Record and the Newark News, and then embarked upon a second, parallel career as author and historian. Over six decades, he has become New Jersey’s most prolific writer focused on the Garden State, with 52 published titles. Known as “New Jersey’s popular historian” and “Mr. New Jersey,” Mr. Cunningham was a founder of the New Jersey Historical Commission and former president of the New Jersey Historical Society.  

Currently he resides in Florham Park, claiming to be “an accidental historian.”

 

 

 

“Nothing proves the theme of survival better than Morristown, New Jersey, and its surrounding area. There, in four separate winter encampments, the American Army survived a critical smallpox epidemic at Morristown in 1777, a season of short supplies at nearby Middlebrook in 1778-79, the most brutal winter of the war in 1779-80 at Morristown and its nearby Jockey Hollow encampment, and the war’s most dire mutiny at Jockey Hollow on New Year’s Day 1781.”

~ The Uncertain Revolution, page 344.

 

Mr. & Mrs. S. Dillard Kirby
Dinner Chairpersons

 

Dinner Hosts
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ranger
Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Schaenen, Jr.

 

Leadership Committee
Mr. & Mrs. Dean Vaneck
Mr. & Mrs. Ellwood R. Kerkeslager
Mr. & Mrs. Paige L’Hommedieu
Mr. & Mrs. Frank E. Walsh
Mr. & Mrs. Finn Wentworth