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Dinner in Four Season's Pool Room for the Cancer Research Institute's 27th Annual “Through the Kitchen” dinner and auction benefit. |
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| Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts, kicking off its 50th Anniversary year long celebration, held a Leadership Breakfast yesterday gathering together trustees from all twelve Lincoln Center resident organizations to honor the role civic leadership has played in the continued vitality of Lincoln Center as it enters its 50th year. |
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Lincoln Center celebrates 50 years. |
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| Horn section outside Alice Tully. | Peter Martins and Lisa Schiff arrive. |
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The gathering in the lobby of Alice Tully Hall. |
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The breakfast. |
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The cake. |
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| There was a special program commemorating Lincoln Center’s original groundbreaking ceremony with President Dwight D. Eisenhower held in the newly revitalized Alice Tully Hall with performances paying tribute both to the past 50 years, as well as to the next generation of Lincoln Center’s artists and audiences. The event was attended by top elected officials, performing artists, civic and community leaders, and representatives from all 12 Lincoln Center resident organizations. |
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| Paul LeClerc | Lillian Vernon and Paolo Martino | Bill Thomas, Sr. VP Philharmonic |
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| Zarin Mehta, Executive Director New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Peter Gelb, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera | Martin E. Segal and Marina Couloucoundis |
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| Daisy Soros and Karlheinz Muhr, Managing Director of Credit Suisse | Mark Heiser, Managing Director of the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center | Tom Brokaw |
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| Linda and Steve Horn | Charlotte Chandler, Board of Film Society, Tom Gates, and Vera Fairbanks |
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| Richard Peña, Film Society of Lincoln Center's program director | Paul Guenther, Chairman of the New York Philharmonic | David Rockefeller and Reynold Levy, President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts |
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| Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer of Lincoln Center Theater, and Margie Vandercook, School of American Ballet | Efrom Greenberg, Kathy Cramer, Andrea Miller, and Ronnie Planalp |
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| Janice Williams, Midge Woolsey, and Eleanor Applewhite | Jerry Zecastro (Director of Concert Hall) with Sally and Nick Webster, retired manager of the New York Philharmonic |
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| Two Sundays ago at the Four Seasons, the Cancer Research Institute held its 27th Annual “Through the Kitchen” dinner and auction benefit. The theme was “A Salute to the Museums of New York,” which mean that the tables were all decorated accordingly. It’s an amazing dinner because basically it’s you going into the kitchen of the Four Seasons and helping yourself to every imaginable dish both hot and cold, both meat and fish, and pasta and rices and oyster bars and salads beyond, and you think you’d like to eat everything in sight. It’s also one of those “eyes bigger than your stomach” experiences because it’s impossible. And then there’s dessert. |
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Cancer Research Institute Staff |
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| And then there was the auction with the ebulliently focused Jamie Niven from Sotheby’s auctioning off a dinner for six at Rao’s, donated by Charles Gargano (Leonard Lauder got it for $9000). Two people won an internship at Bloomberg Media ($45,000) – Ernesto Cruz and Dailey Pattee. Mr. Cruz also won for $7000 the NBA Ball Kid Experience (donated by CRI trustee Heidi Ueberroth). There were 225 at the dinner. They raised $505,000 for the cause including ticket sales and auction items. Perri Peltz and Eric Ruttenberg were the Event Chairs and Margaret and Andrew Paul, and Lara and Remy Trafelet were Co-Chairs. A very good and delicious feast and good time was had by all. Lucky all. |
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Lee and Jamie Niven with Evelyn Lauder |
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| The Cancer Research Institute (CRI) is the world’s only non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to the support and coordination of scientific and clinical efforts that will lead to the immunological treatment, control, and prevention of cancer. Guided by a world-renowned Scientific Advisory Council that includes five Nobel Prize winners and thirty members of the National Academy of Sciences, CRI supports cutting-edge cancer research at top medical centers and universities throughout the world. The Cancer Research Institute is ushering in a new era of scientific progress, hastening the discovery of effective cancer vaccines and other immune-based therapies that are providing new hope to cancer patients. |
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| Last Tuesday evening at the Metropolitan Club between 6 and 8 pm, Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr, Chairman of the George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom, with the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, hosted a party to celebrate the publication of “An American Experience; Adeline Moses Loeb and Her Early American Jewish Ancestors." |
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| NARAL Pro-Choice New York and the National Institute for Reproductive Health held its annual Champions of Choice luncheon at the Mandarin Oriental -- New York City’s premiere reproductive health fundraising event. The Champions of Choice award, which honors an individual who has fearlessly and incomparably impacted the field of reproductive rights, was given this year to Mexico City Mayor Ebrard for his work legalizing abortion in Mexico City. Past honorees include President William Jefferson Clinton, Glamour magazine Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive, designer Lisa Perry and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. |
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| Clockwise from top left: Isaac Mizrahi and Fiona Rudin; City Council Speaker Christine Quinn; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Margaret Munzer Loeb and Fiona Rudin. |
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| Event participants included Kelli Conlin, President of NARAL Pro-Choice New York and the National Institute for Reproductive Health, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, keynote speaker Linda Greenhouse, co-chairs Lorna Brett Howard and John Howard, Margaret Munzer Loeb and Daniel Loeb, Fiona Howe Rudin and Eric Rudin, Michael Wolkowitz and Hope Holiner, and chairs emeritiate Lisa Perry, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Ann Tenenbaum. |
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Jodi Leib, Arielle Haves, Kara Feigeles, Saranna Biel-Cohen, Diana Bass, Marissa Purcelli, and Josh Lafer |
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Flora Collins, Amy Fine Collins, and Nazee Moinian |
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| Guests included Jessica Seinfeld, Caroline Kennedy, Isaac Mizrahi, Diana Taylor, Liza Lerner, Gayle Atkins, Somers Farkas, Aimee Bell , Stacey Bendet, Sharon Handler, Rachel Roy, Karenna Gore Schiff, Priscilla Ratazzi Whittle, Nazee Monian, Flora Collins, and Amy Fine Collins. |
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| Last Thursday night at the Waldorf, Education Through Music held its 8th annual Children’s Benefit where they honored virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell for his longtime support of music education. |
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Joshua Bell and students |
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| Mr. Bell performed solo pieces as well as playing a song accompanied by children from Education Through Music’s partner schools. |
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| The 2009 Tony Awards’ “Meet the Nominees” press reception was held last Wednesday at the Millennium Broadway. |
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| The New York Junior League (NYJL) presented its 14th Annual Spring House Tour this past Saturday. The one-day, self-guided tour showcased eleven spectacular townhomes and apartments in Manhattan¹s chicest neighborhoods. 600 guests toured residences designed by the renowned architects and designers Campion Platt, David Scott Parker, Sara Story, Todd Merrill, Dawn Sandoval, Fawn Galli, Laura Bohn, Anthony Baratta and William Diamond of Diamond Baratta Design. Also featured were the palatial residence of Christopher Hyland, purveyor of luxury textiles, and the art and antique filled studio loft of the artist Hunt Slonem. |
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New York Junior League Volunteers |
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| The tour began with a continental breakfast at the NYJL Headquarters for Training and Leadership and included a buffet lunch at the MacKenzie-Childs flagship store. Guests also enjoyed a post-tour cocktail reception and lively panel presentation by Christopher Hyland, VERANDA Editor at Large Carolyn Englefield, and Dawn Sandoval of DMS Interiors. Event sponsors included MacKenzie-Childs, VERANDA, and Stribling and Associates. Lori Silverstein and Joni Grossman co-chaired the event, and Amy Sabo served as Vice Chair. All proceeds raised from the Spring House Tour benefit the many community impact programs realized by the NYJL. |
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Hunt Slonem with New York Junior League Volunteers at his studio |
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| The New York Junior League (NYJL) is an organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable. As one of the largest volunteer service organizations in New York City, the NYJL has 3,000 volunteers. More than 60 committees support the community needs of New York City as well as the institutional needs of the organization. Its purpose is improving the lives of women and children in Manhattan by working with 30 community-based organizations and public agencies to deliver services and assistance directly to those in need. For more information, please visit www.nyjl.org [3]. |
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