Grand Marshalls Sash Presentation for Eastchester St. Patrick's Day Parade

Press
Release

Eastchester
Irish American Social Club

NOTE TO EDITORS: Caption for attached photo:  Eastchester Irish American Social Club will
present Parade Sashes on Feb. 8 to, Tom Huvane, left, and Jim Hendry, right, as
Grand Marshalls, and Fr. Eric Raaser, Honoree, for the Eastchester’s 10th
Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade

January
31, 2014

GRAND
MARSHALS AND HONOREE NAMED

FOR
EASTCHESTER’S 10TH ANNUAL ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE

Presenting
of Parade Sashes on Feb. 8

Contacts:

John
Collins, president@eastchesterirish.org, 914-522-7929

Stephen
Huvane, stephenhuvane@yahoo.com, 914-203-249-6032

FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE

EASTCHESTER
—The Eastchester Irish American Social Club (EIASC) has named local residents Tom
Huvane and Jim Hendry as Grand Marshals and Fr. Eric Raaser as Parade Honoree
for this historic 10th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade.  An official sash presentation to the Grand
Marshals and Honoree will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8 at J.C.
Fogarty's in Bronxville. Ticket information for the dinner celebration available
at http://www.eastchesterirish.org/. The
parade, sponsored by EIASC, will take place on Sunday Mar. 16, 2014.

As a
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Eastchester St. Patrick’s Parade, Tom Huvane has guided this
extraordinary event since its inception. 
Raised in Woodlawn in the Bronx, Tom and his family moved to Eastchester
in 1997 and joined the EIASC in 1999.  A
Senior Vice President with UBS, Tom was recently named to the “Wall Street Top
50” by Irish America Magazine.  A
graduate of Fordham Prep and Fordham University, Tom is an active supporter of
the Irish Arts Center in Manhattan and the N.Y. Irish Center in Queens.  For his aides, he has chosen his wife of
eighteen years, Bernadette Enright Huvane along with his son, Thomas, and
daughter, Jackie.

Jim Hendry, Co-Founder and past Co-Chairman
of the parade, is a former NYC Transit and NYPD Officer and currently a Nassau
County Homicide detective.  A resident of
Eastchester since 1993, Jim has been active both civically and politically for
the betterment of the community. He has coached numerous sports teams, served
on the traffic advisory board and was Vice President of the EIASC for six
years.  Together with his wife, Anne
Sullivan Hendry, Jim started the Hendry School of Irish Dance in Eastchester.  With Anne being the Grand Marshal of the 2012
parade, he is proud to note that they are only the second couple to both serve
as Grand Marshal. Jim has chosen Joe Dooley, John Phelan, Steve Doherty and his
son Dan as his aides.

Fr. Eric Raaser was born in Newark, NJ to
Frederick and Clare (nee McGowan) Raaser and has roots in Counties Roscommon
and Sligo.  He attended St. Pius X
College Seminary and St. Joseph's Seminary in Dunwoody and was ordained a
priest in 1985 by John Cardinal O'Connor. 
Fr. Raaser has served numerous seminaries, schools and churches throughout
the Bronx and became pastor of the Churches of Immaculate Conception &
Assumption in 2005.  

The
2014 parade starts at 3:00pm at Immaculate Conception Church in Tuckahoe and
march north on Route 22 to the Lake Isle Country Club. EIASC is a nonprofit
organization founded in 1966 consisting of members from Eastchester, Tuckahoe,
Bronxville and Crestwood. For more information, please visit our web site at
http://www.eastchesterirish.org/.  

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