It was standing room only at the National Art Club for a memorial to honor community activist Wilber Allen “Will” Weder earlier this summer. More than a half dozen judges, an assembly member and a city council member present helped fill to capacity a Sculpture Court room at the National Arts Club.
It was standing room only at the National Art Club for a memorial to honor community activist Wilber Allen “Will” Weder earlier this summer. More than a half dozen judges, an assembly member and a city council member present helped fill to capacity a Sculpture Court room at the National Arts Club. ( Photo: Facebook)

The SRO ceremony for the longtime community activist drew more than a half dozen judges as well as the newly nominated Democratic Congressional candidate Micah Lasher and City Council member Virginia Maloney.

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It was standing room only in the Sculpture Court Room at the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park earlier is summer for the Memorial to influential community leader Wilbur Allen “Will” Weder.

Known to all as “Will,” he was a longtime community activist. He was married to Gregory L. Lambert in 2011 at...

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