2026 ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING & DINNER

Join us to elect our 2026-2027 officers and announce the 2026 Meriden Hall of Fame Inductees. 

6:00pm Social Hour  |  6:30pm Business Meeting  |  7:00pm Dinner

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Featured Inductee

Mollie Stickles Katz (Community Service)

1917 – 1965

Mollie Stickles Katz, wife to Irving and mother to David and Richard, was born in 1917 and raised in Waterbury, graduating from Wilby High School in 1935. She worked at Loews Poli Palace from an early age and by 1941 was the first woman in the country to manage a Loew’s theater. She was also a manager at Waterbury’s Poli Strand Theater and in 1943 became the first woman to win the motion pictur...

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U.S. POSTAL SERVICE STAMPS HONORING HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Rosa Ponselle
Inducted: 1977   |   Stamp released: 1997


Thomas Anthony "Tomie" dePaola
Inducted: 1985   |   Stamp released: 2023

 

 

 

 

2023 U.S. Postal Service stamp honoring 1985 inductee Thomas Anthony “Tomie” dePaola and his Caldecott Medal–winning children’s book Strega Nona.