Joreta Speck will be the next person featured on Chautauqua People.
The program will air at 1:30 and 7:30 PM each day beginning on July 25, with the last airing on July 31.
Joreta grew up on a farm in Western Oregon. She graduated from the University of Oregon and found her way to Western New York when her husband was called to serve as pastor of a church in Tonawanda, NY. Joreta earned a master’s degree from the University of Buffalo and spent the bulk of her 20-year academic career as a 5th grade teacher in Niagara-Wheatfield. She was invited to Chautauqua by parishioners from her husband’s church and readily fell in love with it.
She soon began remodeling existing housing on the Chautauqua grounds, the largest existing-housing project being the conversion of the Aldine from rooming house to 9-condos. She completed several smaller projects on Waugh.
Her greatest project was development of the current St. Elmo where she acquired the existing St. Elmo Hotel. She managed it for one year, demolished it after condemnation, and built a new 67-unit building which opened before the 1988 Chautauqua-season. She currently manages about 50-rental units at Chautauqua Institution and is an astute observer of the Chautauqua housing market.
Joreta will be interviewed by Chautauqua People Producer John Viehe
Access Channel 5 (QAM channel 21.4 without a converter) is available to cable viewers in the Mayville, Chautauqua, North Harmony, Sherman, Westfield and Portland areas.
The program may also be viewed after the initial airing at the station's web site http://ac5.weebly.com/
Joreta grew up on a farm in Western Oregon. She graduated from the University of Oregon and found her way to Western New York when her husband was called to serve as pastor of a church in Tonawanda, NY. Joreta earned a master’s degree from the University of Buffalo and spent the bulk of her 20-year academic career as a 5th grade teacher in Niagara-Wheatfield. She was invited to Chautauqua by parishioners from her husband’s church and readily fell in love with it.
She soon began remodeling existing housing on the Chautauqua grounds, the largest existing-housing project being the conversion of the Aldine from rooming house to 9-condos. She completed several smaller projects on Waugh.
Her greatest project was development of the current St. Elmo where she acquired the existing St. Elmo Hotel. She managed it for one year, demolished it after condemnation, and built a new 67-unit building which opened before the 1988 Chautauqua-season. She currently manages about 50-rental units at Chautauqua Institution and is an astute observer of the Chautauqua housing market.
Joreta will be interviewed by Chautauqua People Producer John Viehe
Access Channel 5 (QAM channel 21.4 without a converter) is available to cable viewers in the Mayville, Chautauqua, North Harmony, Sherman, Westfield and Portland areas.
The program may also be viewed after the initial airing at the station's web site http://ac5.weebly.com/
