In 1950, two years after sculptor Boris Blai founded the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies, the New Jersey Senate adopted a resolution praising Blai’s “splendid enterprise” and thanking him for his “substantial contribution … to the cultural and intellectual life of the state of New Jersey by the founding of the LBIF.”

Current Executive Director Daniella Kerner read from the historic document in her remarks at Saturday night’s 75th anniversary celebration, a…