A look at seven extraordinary mausoleum doors at Woodlawn Cemetery—the patrons who commissioned them (including U.S. Senator William Andrews Clark, John Warne “Bet a Million” Gates, Edward and Mary Harkness, Moritz and Jane Peterson Philipp, the Isidor Straus family, and F.W. Woolworth), the artists and artisans who designed and produced them (including Robert Ingersoll Aitken, Paul Weyland Bartlett, Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company, Julius C. Loester, Jr., Samuel Yellin, and Marie Zimmermann), their materials, styles, and motifs, and the symbolism to be read from them.
About the presenterSusan Gladfelter Butterick
Born 1945, Yonkers, NY. Lived in Berkeley CA; Vancouver BC, Canada; Ghent, Belgium; Austin TX; returned to NY in 1999. Educated at Hunter College (B.A., English, Sociology, Elementary Education—employed 7 years as a school teacher); University of Texas Law School (J.D.—employed 20 years as an administrative lawyer for the State of Texas); Long Island University (B.S.—employed 10 years as a physician assistant for Planned Parenthood). Retired in 2016, have volunteered for Woodlawn Cemetery ever since.