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 Benefit luncheons, screenings, and birthdays
| The guests at Le Cirque for an intimate luncheon in honor of HRH Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia. |
This past Tuesday, The Associates Council of The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center hosted The Associates Council Lunch at The Oak Room in the Plaza. They honored Dr. Michael La Quaglia, Chief of the Pediatric Surgical Service. The luncheon also recognized The Associates Council, a group distinguished by their incredible dedication to the organization and its mission of supporting patient care, research and education programs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The event was sponsored by Shoshanna, the women’s wear designer, and was co-chaired by Leslie Coleman, Melanie Holland, Anne Grauso, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Suzie Kovner, Christina Smith, and Leslie Stevens.
Proceeds from the lunch will fund a special Pediatric Family Housing Endowment, which pays for overnight stays at nearby accommodations when children and their families come from out of town for treatment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s renowned Pediatric Department and are unable to afford this expense themselves. Guests also got an exclusive preview and chance to shop the Shoshanna Pre-Fall and Fall 2010 Collection before it hits stores in June, along with a 30% discount with 15% of the sales benefiting The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering. |
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Melanie Holland, Christina Smith, Leslie Coleman, Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, Dr. Richard O'Reilly, Dr. Michael La Quaglia, and Suzie Kovner |
| Among those attending were: Heather Leeds, Leslie Heaney, Leslie Coleman, Melanie Holland, Anne Grauso, Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Suzie Kovner, Christina Smith, Leslie Stevens, Shoshanna Gruss, Eugenie Niven Goodman, Lauren Santo Domingo, Gretchen Gunlocke Fenton, Ferebee Taube, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Valesca Guerrand Hermes, Allison Aston, Veronica Beard, Fabiola Beracasa, Charlotte Ronson, Rebekah McCabe, Celeste Boele, Catherine Carey, Eleanora Kennedy, Jenny Kennedy, Shelley Carr, Dee Dee Ricks, Shafi Roepers, Chiara Edmands, Lisa Errico, Annabelle Fowlkes, Alexandra Lind Rose, Paige Hardy, Laura Harris, Marianna Rounick Olszewski, Natalie Leeds Leventhal, Stephanie Loeffler, Leslie Jones, Lisa McCarthy, Claudia Overstrom, Lisa Selby, Marcie Pantzer, Nina Rennert Davidson, Hilary Dick, Kim Flaster, Jenny Galluzzo, Eleanor Ylvisaker, Judy Gordon Cox, Vaughn Dorrian, Rory Hermelee, Robyn Joseph, Shirley Maytag King, Mary Kathryn Navab, Betsy Pitts, Donya Bommer, Pia Ledy, Nina Pickett, Jane Bowling, to name only a few. |
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Allison Aston and Gretchen Gunlocke Fenton |
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Annette Rickel |
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Coralie Charriol Paul |
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Emilia Fanjul Pfeifler |
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Charlotte Ronson, Fabiola Beracasa, and Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss |
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Alexandra Kotur and Alexandra Lind Rose |
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Christina Smith, Melanie Holland, and Heather Leeds |
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Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, and Ulla Parker |
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Leslie Coleman, Melanie Holland, Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, Christina Smith, and Suzie Kovner |
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Elizabeth Tyne and Eliza Nordeman |
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Dani Stahl, Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, and Natalie Leeds Leventhal |
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Ferebee Bishop Taube and Leslie Heaney |
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Leslie Coleman, Dr. Richard O'Reilly, Dr. Michael La Quaglia, and Suzie Kovner |
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Eugenie Goodman and Leslie Heaney |
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Ghislaine Maxwell |
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Heather Leeds and Polly Onet |
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Melissa Morris |
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Martha Sharp |
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Lisa Errico and Julie Miller |
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Rebecca McCabe, Stephanie Coleman, and Eleanor Ylvisaker |
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Lisa Selby and Amy Hoadley |
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Ruth Fleischmann |
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Sloan McClure |
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Stephanie Winston Wolkoff and Nina Rennert Davidson |
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Anne Grauso |
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| Photographs by Patrick McMullan
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This past Monday at Le Cirque, Jean Shafiroff hosted a luncheon for HRH Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia, and honored the princess’ favorite charity, Lifeline, which she created 20 years ago to help the women and children of Serbia. Serbia has the largest number of breast cancer deaths, infant mortality rates, and the largest refugee problem in Eastern Europe.
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The luncheon guests ... |
| Friends attending included Fe Fendi, Sharon Handler, Ann Rapp, Christine Schott, Victoria Wyman, Yaz Hernandez, Amelia Ormenglisi, Margo Catsimatidis, Lyn Paulson, Catherine Saxton, Larry Kaiser, Cornelia Bregman. |
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Amelia Ogunlesi, Sharon Handler, Leila Heller, and Jean Shafiroff |
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Myra Weiser and HRH Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia |
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Roger Webster and Christine Schott |
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HRH Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia, Victoria Wyman, and Cornelia Bregman |
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Lucia Hwong Gordon, Larry Kaiser, Lyn Paulsin, and Tom Gates |
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Catherine Saxton |
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Jean Shafiroff, Larry Kaiser, Patricia Shiah, and Craig Dix |
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Jean Shafiroff and Mario Wainer |
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Frederico Wasserman, Ann Rapp, and Mitzie Purdue |
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Christine Grey, HRH Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia, and Yaz Hernandez |
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HRH Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia, Lyn Paulsin, Jean Shafiroff, and Fe Fendi |
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Margo Catsimatidis |
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Last Monday night in the Allen Room of the Frederick P. Rose Hall of Jazz at Lincoln Center in the Time Warner complex Henry Louis Gates Jr. hosted the premiere screening of “Faces of America,” the four part documentary that utilizes geneology and genetics to uncover the ancestral pasts of 12 prominent Americans. To their astonishment, Meryl Street and Mike Nicholas, and Yo-Yo Ma and Eva Longoria discovered that they are distant cousins.
How did the immigrant experience shape America? How did our ancestors shape who we are? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series. Professor Gates unravels the American tapestry, following the threads of his guests’ lives back to their earliest origins around the globe.
Among those attending: Alan Alda, Michael Bacon, Mario Batali, Gerry Byrne, AJ Calloway, Ron Claiborne, Steven Colbert, Maurice DuBois, Harry Evans & Tina Brown, Geoffrey Fletcher, Thelma Golden, Jeff Greenfield, Warren Hoge, bob Jamieson, Gayle King, Vicky Mabrey, S. Epatha Merkerson, Soledad O’Brien, Stone Phillips, Al Roker and Deborah Roberts, David Remnick, Rosanna Scotto, Rev. Al Sharpton, Bob Simon, Anna Deavere Smith, Martha Stewart, Gigi Stone, Veronica Webb, Brian Williams. |
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Bob Simon |
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Brian Williams |
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Geoffrey Fletcher |
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Dan Abrams |
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Harry Evans and Tina Brown |
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Deborah Roberts |
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Dr. James Watson |
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
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Maurice DuBois |
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Jami Floyd |
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Jack Ford and JuJu Chang |
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Elizabeth Alexander |
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Michael Bacon |
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Rosanna Scotto |
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S. Epatha Merkerson |
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Mario Batali |
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Malcolm Gladwell |
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Ron Claiborne |
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Vicki Mabrey |
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Soledad O'Brien |
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Stone and Debra Phillips |
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Veronica Webb |
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| Photographs by Patrick McMullan
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Native New Yorker and real estate broker for Warburg Realty Partnership Christine Miller celebrated her 40th birthday with more than 200 friends and family at a black tie party at The Burden Mansion, which was transformed into a nightclub for the occasion. Guests were greeted in spectacular royal fashion by the 50-member Saffron United Pipe Band organized by close family friend Sir Roy Lindsay Morrow.
The venue has special significance for the hostess as the building by day is part of Convent of the Sacred Heart which Christine attended as a child, and where her daughter Phoebe is now enrolled and is the fifth generation of the family attending a Sacred Heart school.
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Christine Miller Martin at entrance to Burden Mansion |
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The Ballroom |
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Yaz and Valentin Hernandez |
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Christine Miller Martin with architect Jonathan Marvel |
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Christine Miller Martin with her daughter Phoebe Martin |
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The guest list was made up of mainly Ms. Miller’s former classmates, as well as friends and colleagues and clients from Middlesex School, Wellesley and Harvard, Shelter Island, the White House (she was an intern for George H.W. Bush’s administration) and Warburg Realty. As the former Chair of younger members at the Cosmopolitan Club, there were many members of the Cosmopolitan, Colony, Union and Racquet & Tennis Club in attendance.
A single mother and former trusts and estates attorney, Ms. Miller has been an active member of the community and serves on the alumni boards of Convent of the Sacred Heart and Middlesex School, is active at Wellesley, and sits on the Advisory Council for Lighthouse International and on the Visionary Circle for the 9/11 Memorial. |
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Christine Miller Martin with Sir Roy Lindsay Morrow |
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Jane Andrews, Alexandra Peters, Warburg President Fred Peters, and Jane Bayard |
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Anne Bevis Detwiler, Mark von Kreuter, John Richter, and Nina Ford Richter |
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The party was catered by Anstice Carroll Catering, the music provided by society DJ Christopher Ford, lighting provided by Levy Lighting NYC and photos taken by Andrew Bicknell.
Among the guests attending were: Laurie and Jeffrey Ferris, Anne Bevis Detwiler, Christopher and Kate Allen, Alexandra and Fred Peters, Jane Bayard, Christine Cachot, Susan Shin, Jonathan Marvel, Victoria and Douglas Larson, Brin McCagg, Nina and John Richter, Emily and Richard Leonard, Lizzie and John Robertshaw, Stephanie and James Loeffler, Martha Burke-Hennessy, Mona Maine de Biran, Mark von Kreuter, Julie and Jason Miller, Molly and Alex Scott, Lewis Canfield, Jennifer and John Argenti, Anne Igelbrink, Leslie and Kevin Coleman, Andrew Bolton and Lady and Sir Roy Lindsay Morrow. |
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Christopher and Kate Allen |
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Christine Cachot with daughter Allegra Williams |
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Emily and Richard Leonard |
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Sacred Heart alumnae: Jennifer Adams. Leslie Coleman, Christine Miller Martin, Caroline Thomas, and Susan Burke-O’Neal |
| Photographs by Andrew Bicknell
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