Central Park Bench

Last year, due to the efforts of many fans and friends of Guy Williams, and the tenacity, spirit and hard work of Mary Sheeran, who came up with the idea, got it started, and followed it through, a bench in Central Park was dedicated as a memorial to Guy Williams. (Please see the Central Park Bench pages in this site.) In January, 2003, a member of the GWfriendslist mentioned that benches could be purchased in memory of deceased loved ones and friends at the Mission San Luis Rey. (For more information on the Mission San Luis Rey, click on the link.) Mary Lou Houck and I were instantly intrigued by the idea. What better places to have memorials like that? In Central Park, in the city that Guy was born and grew up in, and in the Mission San Luis Rey, in California, where some of the first episodes of Zorro were filmed. Mary Lou did the paper work, I contacted Guy's family, and Mary Lou and I are both worked on the fundraising, with help from so many of you. The money was raised within a few months of the start of our project and the bench was dedicated on August 2nd, 2003, on the second anniversary of the dedication of Guy's star on the HWOF. (For more information on the Hollywood Walk of Fame star dedication, please go to the HWOF pages.)

A short history of the development of the mugs follows:

During the time that the HWOF star money was being raised, I had thought that the drawings of Guy Williams by Patricia Crumpler would look wonderful on mugs, but other fundraisers brought in enough money for that event. When the CP bench project came up, Pat and I felt that this Central Park project was the perfect time to do something like this. With the help of another list member, Sue Schuck, I had the mugs printed, ordering 180 of them. As you can see, (poor though those scans are), they are still exquisite.

Sue Kite