| Victoria
Amory; Harry Loy Anderson; Nane Annan; Donna Estes Antebi;
Salvador Assael; Muffie Potter Aston. |
Victoria
Amory. Palm Beach,
married to Minot Amory, hostess, party planner and newspaper
columnist.
Harry Loy Anderson. Palm
Beach native, socialite and banker.
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John
Livesay and Donna Estes Antebi
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Nane
Annan. The beautiful Swedish-born wife
of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, lawyer, artist, half-niece
of the legendary World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg. Mrs.
Annan, who frequently travels worldwide with her husband,
is actively involved in in WASH, an international campaign
promoting the importance of water, sanitation and hygiene
to women and girls in the world. "Access to water
and sanitation is necessarily a community concern, and
the special
needs of women and children have teo be understood at a
political level. Because it is the women and girls who
bear the brunt
of the burden of lack of safe water and sanitation. They
are the ones washing babies and infants, and they are teeeh
ones most intimidated by the lack of sanitation.”
Donna
Estes Antebi. Los
Angeles/Hollywood socialite and activist for children’s
Salvador
Assael. King of the
pearls, retailing and wholesaling in New York (see NYSD
12/3/03). Muffie Potter
Aston. A
lot of socialites hate the label and like to
think of themselves as working girls, or businesswomen or philanthropists. Muffie
Potter Aston, who has a name that drips “socialite” a
la Wodehouse or Patrick Dennis,
actually is authentically all of the above. Before her marriage
to Dr. Sherrell Aston (pictured right),
one of the world’s most prominent cosmetic surgeons,
Muffie was vice-president in charge of public relations for
Van Cleef and Arpels. And she worked, nose to the grindstone,
non-stop indefatigable. In fact when it was announced that
she and Dr. Aston (it is a second marriage for both) would
wed, many worried about who would take care of Van Cleef.
An
East Coast bred and schooled girl, Muffie is one of those “doers” whom
everyone wants to have on their committee because she can bring in the ticket
buyers, raise the millions, organize the party from hiring the hall down to the
putting the place cards on the table (and anything in between), and then show
up looking like she’s done nothing but spend the day getting ready to
look glamorous.
She’s a whirlwind and sometimes that is evident just in her
conversation which covers a vast amount of territory – from culture, books,
to fashion and downright eyebrow raising dish. Intense, curious, easy to laugh,
she’s chaired most of the major gala committees here in New York over the
past few years. Everybody wants her because she’s famous for getting
it done and getting it done right.
On
weekends, she and her husband escape (and with her energy, that
is the applicable word) to their place in Locust Valley where daytimes
are spent in the garden and nighttimes are spent, phone off-the-hook,
invites regretted, putting their feet up, diving into a bowl of
popcorn, absorbing to a couple of good flicks and catching a few
well-deserved Zzzzz’s. For there’s always a very busy
week ahead. |
Albemarle,
Rufus
Aston, Muffie Potter
Basso, Dennis
Benedict, Daniel
Capehart, Jonathan
Cominotto, Michael
Curry, Boykin
Dahl, Tessa
DeWoody, Beth Rudin
Duchin, Peter and Brooke
Duff, Patricia
Eaton, Phoebe
Fales-HIll, Susan
Fekkai, Frederic
THE FULL LIST
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