A TREE’S HISTORY DOES NOT LIE BUT PEOPLE DO
The great red oak that has grown for more than 350 years at what is today the intersection of Cedar Lane and Palisade Avenue in Teaneck, NJ will be allowed to die a natural death. Through the efforts of Perry Rosentein, as president of the Puffin Foundation provided funding, a semi-circular conservation easement has been established in the area of the tree. The Bergen County Department of Parks will provide maintenance of the tree for the duration of its life.
Perry Rosenstein spoke about some of the remarkable events that this great oak 
had quietly witnessed. “It has been here since the Revolutionary War when George Washington retreated on this route. “It was here during the Civil War when the Emancipation Proclamation gave freedom to African-American slaves and when hundreds of young men and women from Teaneck who went off to fight fascism in WWII.”
Despite all of this the tree was cut down..MONEY VS.MORALITY.
I write to correct for posterity the history of the Puffin Foundation. It was NOT founded by Perry Rosenstein with GLADYS MILLER- ROSENSTEIN, the second wife at his side. Some newspapers had it wrong in Perry Rosenstein’s death notices and obituaries as they were not given the truth of the history of The Puffin Foundation Ltd.
The Puffin Foundation received its Certificate of Incorporation of The Foundation as defined in sub-paragraph (a)(5) of Section 402 of the Not-For-Profit Corporation Law and shall be a Type B corporation under Section 201 On January 17, 1983 by the State of New York Department of State. It then received its 501(c)(3) as is a private not-for-profit. Dorothea Violet Rosenstein, nee Cohn 7/4/24–6/6/81, was President and Founder Perry Rosenstein’s wife who prior to her death joined group of volunteers to work with the National Audubon’s Dr. Stephen Kress to bring 10-14 day old pufflings from Great Island, Newfoundland to Eastern Egg Rock off the coast of Maine. When these young Puffins were ready to fledge, they were banded with the hope they would return in 2-3 years and start a new colony on this island which was once a flourishing colony until 1885 when hunters took the last survivors. The restoration idea was based on the fact that young puffins usually return to breed on the same island where they were hatched. This project was successful. The Puffin Foundation Ltd.’s name was chosen in 1983 in honor and in memoriam of his wife, Dorothea Violet Rosenstein who had died less than 2 years before that. Unlike Captain Kirk’s prime directive to never interfere, Puffin Foundation Ltd. was created with the idea that sometimes you have to interfere to make things right. He had just begin a serious interest in MILLER-ROSENSTEIN in 1985 and they were not married until sometime after that.
