Welcome Susie & Stuart Hirshfield
Susie and Stu Hirshfield have resided in Stockbridge for the last 30 years, first as a second home and then, in 2012, as full time residents, when Stu retired from the practice of law in New York City. For many years, both Stu and Susie have been involved in cultural activities in the Berkshires. Susie was a board member of the Berkshire Opera Company and Stu is a current member of the Board of Advisors of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a past board member of the Colonial Theatre Association and the Berkshire Theatre Group. Susie and Stu look forward to their membership in the Stockbridge Golf Club, joining old friends and making new friends there.
Joined December 2022
Welcome Ira Brind & Stacey Spector
Ira Brind and Stacey Spector reside in Philadelphia, but love spending time in Monterey, MA. Ira is looking forward to playing golf at SGC, and Stacey pickleball. Stacey is an avid hiker and biker, and serves as a docent at the Barnes Foundation. Ira is active in science, arts, and educational non-profit boards in Philadelphia.
Joined October 2022
Welcome Dean Cimini, Liz Strand, & Olivia Cimini
Dean Cimini and Liz Strand currently live in McKinney, TX, with their college-age daughter Olivia, but they eagerly anticipate making a full-time move to Stockbridge in the coming years after Olivia finishes school. The family’s Berkshires roots run deep – Dean grew up in Lenox, he worked at the Red Lion Inn as a cocktail waiter and bellhop during college, and he has much family in the area. Liz fell in love with Stockbridge when she and Dean were married at the Norman Rockwell Museum, and they’ve been enjoying regular visits to the Berkshires ever since. Dean is a director at Microsoft, and Liz is a professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She also serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations in North Texas. The family enjoys spending time together volunteering throughout the community, and they’re excited to get involved at SGC!
Joined September 2022
Welcome Mike Sternschein & Susan Frank
Mike and Susan are both physicians who grew up, lived, and worked in the NY/NJ area until 3 years ago when they moved their permanent residence to Lenox. Prior to that, they had a vacation home in West Stockbridge and have enjoyed the Berkshires for many years. In addition to practicing radiology, Susan is a artist/painter. They are both looking forward to playing golf and tennis and making new friends at SGC.
Joined July 2022
Welcome Ellen Levy
Ellen's first career post-graduate school, was as an Environmental Designer, designing sensory stimulation environments for multiply handicapped individuals: Her second career was in Capital Goods Sales, working for one of the two largest hospital equipment companies in the world; her third career was as an executive for a Clinical Research Company that performed research for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, from which she retired. And, finally, Ellen returned to her love of design when she studied Jewelry Design at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, the Taos Institute of Art in Taos, New Mexico, and from many Master Jewelry Artists in Denmark and throughout the United States. She presently teaches intermediate jewelry at the Armory Art Center and beginning jewelry in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
As an Art Jeweler, Ellen's vision is to provide her students and clients with small objects of wearable art that accentuate their individual personalities and enriches their lives.
Joined July 2022
Welcome Ryan Berg
Ryan ("Ry") Berg is a Brooklyn-based Art Director with a lifelong love of golf. After growing up in Baltimore and attending The University of Texas at Austin, Ry has since gone on to build his career in Los Angeles and New York City where he has created visual content for notable brands including NBCUniversal, Toyota, Saatchi & Saatchi, MOSCOT, Deer Valley Resort, and Steve Harvey Global
. He is looking forward to meeting other members out on the golf course this summer.
Joined May 2022
Welcome Robert Lloyd
After owning a gallery in Manhattan for 21 years, Robert was looking for a change of lifestyle and moved to western Massachusetts July of 2019. He opened his gallery, Robert Lloyd Vintage Barware on Railroad Street in Great Barrington November 2019. Robert plays tennis as well as golf and is looking forward to meeting Stockbridge members this spring.
Joined March 2022
Welcome George Cain
The Stockbridge Country Club is George’s first venture into country club membership. Living nearby the Club and passing it on a regular basis acted somewhat as a magnet towards the opportunity to play more golf in the hope that more golf could lead to better golf. Time will tell, but he is not taking bets on that end result. When not spending time trying to be a better golfer, George enjoys his work as a realtor and business consultant.
Joined March 2022
Welcome Nancy Hill & Rendall, Theo, & Taylor Howell
The Howells. Rendall, Nancy (Hill), and Theo (age 10). Taylor, will also visit from time to time. They reside in Cambridge MA but spend as much time as possible in Stockbridge, all year. In Stockbridge, they live at 1 Mohican Road, in Mahkeenac Heights. They are looking forward to playing tennis, learning to golf, and enjoying good food and meeting new friends.
Joined September 2021
Welcome Nick Turczak
Raised in Housatonic, Nick was a junior member at Wyantenuck CC for 9 years. Nick worked in the pro shop and cart barn here at SGC during his high school years. Nick attended Endicott College, North of Boston, where he connected with his eventual wife. Nick recently moved back to the Berkshires and bought a house in Lenox. They are excited to be back close to family with two young boys, Brayden (5) and Ryan (4). Nick is looking forward to reconnecting with certain long time members at Stockbridge while also meeting some of the "new guard”.