06/13/2025
HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY, ETHEL LENNEK!
Our Activities Team threw a 100th Birthday Party for
Ethel Rusat Lennek, who was born on June 11, 1925, in College Point, Queens, NY. While working in the Bursar's Office at Columbia University in NYC, she met and married the love of her life, Nicholas Lennek. They married in 1952 and moved to Nick’s home town of Lansingburgh. Shortly after, they moved to Wantagh, Long Island, where they raised their children, Bob, Donna and Ann.
When Ethel became a travel agent, she and Nick began to travel the world, visiting Europe, Russia and China. She went parasailing in the Mexican Riviera and took over 30 cruises to Bermuda and the Caribbean. They also loved traveling the USA, including her trip to Alaska where she helicoptered to the top of a glacier and, with the tour, slid partway down!
Eventually, Ethel and Nick moved back to Troy to be closer to their children, who had all moved off the Island. Ethel lost her beloved “Nicky Boy” in 2009 after 57 happy years of marriage. In addition to her three children, she has 10 grandchildren and one on the way. Happy Birthday, Ethel!
