Remote Patient Monitoring in Scarsdale

Scarsdale became the subject of national controversy in the 1950s when a “Committee of Ten” led by Otto Dohrenwend alleged “Communist infiltration” in the public schools.[9] A thorough investigation by the town rejected these claims. This same group, known as the Scarsdale Citizens Committee, sued to prevent a benefit for the Freedom Riders from taking place at the public high school in 1963 because some of the performers (Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Pete Seeger) were allegedly “communist sympathizers and subversives.”[10] Another controversy enveloped the town in 1961, when the Scarsdale Golf Club, headed by Charles S. McCallister, refused to allow a young man who had converted from Judaism into the Episcopal Church, Michael Cunningham Hernstadt, to escort a young woman, Pamela Nottage, to her debut at the club. At the time, it was the club’s policy to prohibit Jews from the premises.[11] In response, the Rev. George French Kempsell of the Church of Saint James the Less announced that he would ban any supporters of the club’s decision from receiving Holy Communion.[11] The event marked a turning point toward the decline of anti-Semitism in the town.[11] Scarsdale’s public library, which had been housed in historic Wayside Cottage since 1928, moved to its present structure on the White Plains Post Road in 1951.[12] The driving force behind the library was New York City publisher S. Spencer Scott, who raised $100,000 for the project after the village rejected a bond issue to fund the building in 1938. The new library opened with 27,000 books and Sylvia C. Hilton serving as the first librarian.[12] The last of the town’s five elementary schools, Heathcote School, opened in September 1953. The $1,000,000 architectural landmark was designed by Perkins & Will of Chicago. Walter B. Cocking, the president of the New York State Committee for the Public Schools, delivered the dedication address.[13] In 1967, U.S. Secretary of State and former longtime resident Dean Rusk returned to Scarsdale at the height of the Vietnam War to receive the town’s Man of the Year Award and was greeted with a silent protest.[14] Scarsdale was the subject of a landmark United States Supreme Court decision, ACLU v. Scarsdale (1985), that established the so-called “reindeer rule” regarding public nativity scenes and upheld the right of local religious groups to place crèches on public property. Scarsdale was involved in another United States Supreme Court case in 1985, Board of Trustees of Scarsdale v. McCreary, concerning the display of privately sponsored nativity scenes on public property. The Caleb Hyatt House, Scarsdale Railroad Station, Scarsdale Woman’s Club, United States Post Office, and Wayside Cottage are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[15]pper Manhattan.