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Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island
A community dedicated to fostering ethical humanist beliefs and values and to improving the human condition through individual and collective action
A Brief Review of My Involvement With the Ethical Society
Dr. David Sprintzen
Along with my wife, Alice, and our son, Daniel, I joined the Ethical Society in 1981, and we have been members ever since. Daniel attended Sunday School for several years, and then taught in the Sunday School for four years before he left for college.
We have contributed our services for numerous activities, with Alice providing the art work for many of the Society’s events. We initiated the creation of the Our Times Coffeehouse in 1990, creating a volunteer committee primarily drawing in members of the Society. We have continued to oversee its operations as a project of the Ethical Society ever since.
I have spoken at Sunday Platforms of the Long Island Society on several occasions, as well as at the Bergen County, New York, Riverdale, and Westchester Societies, and served as a member of the Society’s Board of Directors for two 6 year terms. I have also coordinated many of the Society’s social actions, most particularly representing it in its contribution to the work of the NYS Community Equity Agenda since 2018.
Alice has played a major role in attending to the Society’s buildings’s aesthetic and decorating needs, as well as to the development of its major events and festivals.