Louisa Thomas Hargrave was the co-founder of the Long Island wine industry, planting the first wine grapes on the North Fork in 1973. Her Hargrave Vineyard wines won numerous awards and accolades before she sold her winery in 1999 and became a writer, columnist, wine judge and consultant.
In July, 2005, Louisa was named Director of the Stony Brook University Center for Wine, Food and Culture.
Louisa is a founder and a member emeritus of The Long Island Wine Council. She has served on the New York State Governor’s East End Task Force, the Blue Ribbon Commission to Preserve Agriculture in the Town of Southold and the East End Economic and Environmental Institute. Furthermore, she is a member of the Long Island Regional Planning Board and Les Dames d’Escoffier International. She has been a trustee of both the Oysterponds Historical Society and the Cutchogue Library, and is currently a trustee of The Old House, Cutchogue (a national historic landmark).
Louisa frequently speaks on and writes about the wine industry. She is the wine writer for the Suffolk Times and The News Review, and a columnist for the Wine Press. In 1986, she authored “The History of Wine Grapes on Long Island” for the Long Island Historical Journal. Her memoir, The Vineyard was published by Viking Penguin in May, 2003.
Louisa’s business, Winewise, LLC, does consulting for the wine industry.
Louisa received her B.A. in 1969 from Smith College and Harvard University and her M.A. in education from Simmons College in 1971. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by Dowling College in 1998.
Ginny Clancy, now at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, has over 28 years of experience at Stony Brook University, including 10 years of administrative support in the Office of the President, and Special Projects Coordinator for the Vice President for Entrepreneurial Programs.
She was part of the lead administrative team which launched the academic programs at the Southampton Campus. She served as Assistant to the Dean for Southampton, and the Operations Manager for the Center for Wine, Food & Culture at Stony Brook from 2006-2010.
Milton Glaser, an American designer, was born in New York City on June 26, 1929. He was educated at the High School of Music and Art, New York (1944-47); The Cooper Union Art School, New York (1948-51); and later, via a Fulbright Scholarship, the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy (1952-53). In 1954, he and a number of classmates founded Pushpin Studios. For twenty years Glaser, together with Seymour Chwast, directed the organization, which exerted a powerful influence on the direction of world graphic design, culminating in a memorable exhibition at the Louvres Museum of Decorative Arts.
In 1968, Glaser and Clay Felker founded New York Magazine, where he was president and design director until 1977. The publication became the model for city magazines, and stimulated a host of imitations. In 1983, Glaser teamed with Walter Bernard to form WBMG, a publication design firm also located in the city. Since its inception, WBMG has redesigned the following magazines: L’Espresso (Rome), Alma (Paris), Rizzoli’s Journal of Art, Magazine Week, The Washington Post, La Vanguardia (Barcelona), Manhattan, Inc., Family Circle, Adweek, U.S. News, The New York Law Journal, Fortune, Barron’s, Lire, The Village Voice, l’Expresso, Jardin des Modes, Modern Maturity, Money and The Nation, as well as numerous others.
Milton Glaser, Inc. was established in 1974. The work produced at this Manhattan studio encompasses a wide range of design disciplines. In the area of print graphics, the studio produces identity programs for corporate and institutional marketing purposes — including logos, stationery, brochures, signage, and annual reports. In the field of environmental and interior design, the firm has conceptualized and site-supervised the fabrication of numerous products, exhibitions, interiors and exteriors of restaurants, shopping malls, supermarkets, hotels, and other retail and commercial environments. Glaser is also personally responsible for the design and illustration of more than 300 posters for clients in the areas of publishing, music, theater, film, institutional and civic enterprise, as well as those for commercial products and services.
Mr. Glaser’s graphic and architectural commissions include the I♥NY logo (which has been described as ‘the most frequently imitated logo design in human history’), commissioned by the state of New York, 1976; the design of a 600-foot mural for the New Federal Office Building in Indianapolis, 1974; the complete graphic and decorative programs for the restaurants in the World Trade Center, New York, as well as the design of the Observation Deck and Permanent Exhibition for the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, 1975. He has also designed a number of architectural projects including Sesame Place, a children’s educational play park in Pennsylvania, 1981-83. For a period of fifteen years, Milton Glaser was involved with the re-design of a principal American supermarket, The Grand Union Company, a project that included all the company architecture, interiors, and packaging. He was responsible for the interior design and concept for the 1987-88 Triennale di Milano International Exhibition in Milan, Italy, on the theme of “World Cities and the Future of the Metropolis”. In 1987, Mr. Glaser was responsible for the graphic program of the Rainbow Room complexes for the Rockefeller Center Management Corporation, New York. Also in 1987, he designed the World Health Organization’s International AIDS Symbol and poster. From 1986–1989, he was responsible for the graphic design, theming, and signage for Franklin Mills, a retail mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and in 1988, he completed the exterior, interior, and all graphic elements of Trattoria dell’Arte, one of several New York restaurants he has designed. In 1990, Milton Glaser, Inc. was responsible for the overall conceptualization and interior design of New York Unearthed, a museum located in Manhattan’s South Street Seaport. In 1993, he designed the logo for Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Angels in America. Milton Glaser is at present design consultant to Stony Brook University, Screaming Media, Schlumberger Ltd., Brooklyn Brewery and a number of other businesses.
In October 1999, Mr. Glaser’s illustrations of Dante’s Purgatorio were exhibited at the Nuages Gallery in Milan, Italy. A retrospective of Milton Glaser’s work sponsored by the Berilaqua Foundation opened in Venice during the 2000 Carnevale.
Mr. Glaser’s new book on design, Art is Work, was published in November 2000. Two concurrent exhibitions were held at The American Institute of Graphic Arts and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.