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The log-jam was broken when I persuaded G. Harold Welch to join the Reconvened Bicentennial Commission. He was then 84, but still very active as New Haven's most prominent real estate investor . (He owned the the Century Building and property on which sat Macy's in the Chapel Square Mall complex) and Hamden's wealthiest resident. |
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The Hamden Chronicle failed to
note that these "friends" of
Thornton Wilder were the artist
and his wife, Clarence A Brodeur,
who painted and donated the
portrait of Wilder (immediately
behind him on the wall in
this picture) to the Hamden
Bicentennial Commission.
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