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ALVIN AILEY Opening Night Gala Benefit at the New York City Center / Hilton. |
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| The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Opening Night Gala 2009 was fun. Honorary Chairs and Honored Guests were Pauletta and Denzel Washington. Gala Co-Chairs were Simin and Herb Allison, Kathryn and Ken Chenault, Katherine Farley and Jerry Speyer, Agnes and Gerald Hassell, Gabriella Morris and Dennis Brownlee and Joan and Sandy Weill. Gala Vice-Chairs were Emily and Michael Cavanagh, Linda and Sandy Lindenbaum, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Nicolas Rohatyn, Tawana Tibbs and Bruce Gordon, Janice Savin Williams and Christopher Williams. The evening marked the 20th Anniversary of the amazing Judith Jamison as Artistic Director. Alvin Ailey’s Revelations brought the evening’s finale to a rousing end. There were a 1000 guests for the after party at the New York Hilton. |
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| Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com.
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| This past Wednesday night the Avenue Antiques and Art at the armory opened with a gala preview benefit for the American Cancer Society funded Jerome L. Greene Family Center known as Hope Lodge here in New York. |
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| Michael Haber and Michael James |
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| Wendy and Larry Levy |
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| Susan and Francois Lorian |
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| It’s a wonderful and important charity, assisting family members who need to be in New York with loved ones undergoing cancer treatments. |
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| Photographs by Ann Watt
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| This past Tuesday night the Museum of the Moving Image held a “Salute” to Clint Eastwood at 583 Park Avenue. The star, who has had one of the longest careers in Hollywood, has a new film, “Invictus” which opens next week. Matt Damon, who co-stars with Eastwood in the new picture was there, as were Morgan Freeman, Hilary Swank, Matthew Settle, Marcia Gay Harden, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon, Candace Bergen, Ralph and Ricky Lauren, David Lauren and Lauren Bush. |
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| Monday night at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center there was a gala celebration of the centennial which paid tribute to the late Wilbert “Bill” Tatum, publisher emeritus of The Amsterdam News. His daughter Elinor had succeeded him as publisher in December 1997. Mr. Tatum was a North Carolina boy, born in tiny house in North Carolina in 1933, the 10th of 13 children. He attended segregated schools and worked summers in the tobacco fields. He attended Lincoln University majoring in sociology. He served in the Marine Corp as a DI in Japan during the Korean War. A DI. After the War the attended Yale as a National Urban Fellow and later got his Masters at Occidental where he majored in urban studies. The tenth of thirteen born to a poor family in North Carolina in the depths of the Great Depression. |
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Elinor Tatum, Hon. William Jefferson Clinton, Secretary of State Hon. Hilary Clinton, and Susan Tatum |
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| After college Mr. Tatum worked as an appointee in both the Lindsay and Beame mayoral administrations. In the 1970s he was part of a group that purchased The Amsterdam News, the prominent weekly published especially for the black community. In 1996 he became sole owner. The Tatum personality, like the man’s career, was a force. He was his own man. Period. He was also quite successful in New York real estate, having started by a piece of property he bought in 1967 for a song, $4000, when it was in bad shape. He fixed it up over time it took on a great value and asset in real estate acquisitions that he made in the 1980s. He married Susan Kohn who was a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia. When their daughter Elinor was old enough she was offered the choice of following the religion of her mother or her father (which was Baptist). |
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| Photographs by Margot Jordan Photo 2009
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| Wednesday night over at Rockefeller center there was the famous lighting of the world’s most famous Christmas tree. The lighting included a performance by Jane Krakowski with The Roots as well as an appearances by Michael Buble, Aretha, Alicia Keys, Barry Manilow, Shakira, Taylor Schilling, James Tupper and Brian Williams. The Christmas Tree’s history dates back to the Great Depression when the first tree was erected in 1933. It had 700 lights and was placed in front of the RCA Building which was eight months old. In 1936 they opened the Rockefeller Plaza and the skating rink and moved the tree over there. The first tree lighting was televised there in 1951 on the “Kate Smith Show,” and in 1953 through 1955, it was part of the nationwide network “Howdy Doody Show.” |
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| The tree in Rockefeller Center. |
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| Stefania Fernandez and Stormi Bree Henley | Brian Williams |
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| Jane Krakowski |
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| Jose Feliciano and Michael Buble | Jo Dee Messina |
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| Earlier last month, more than 250 friends and colleagues – including leaders from the worlds of academia and health care – joined together to honor Mary O’Neil Mundinger, who is stepping down next year after twenty-four remarkable years as the dean of the Columbia University School of Nursing. The gala benefit dinner for Dean Mundliner brought a prominent group of New Yorkers, including Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, Representative Charles Rangel, the Honorable Tom Kean, New York-Presbyterian Hospital President Dr. Herb Pardes and American Museum of Natural History President Ellen Futter, along with nursing school alumni and trustees. The dinner, at Columbia University’s Low Library rotunda, was a celebration of Dean Mundinger’s leadership, and as a trailblazer for the entire nursing profession. |
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| Phillip Farley, Phyllis Farley, Donald Jonas, Barbara Jonas, and Mary Mundinger |
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| The event raised more than $2.3 million to endow a professorship in Dean Mundinger’s name, which will be held by the future deans of the School of Nursing. During her tenure, Dean Mundinger has changed the face of nursing education and the profession. She turned Columbia University School of Nursing into the pre-eminent nursing education program in the country, while championing advanced practice nursing and an expanded role for nurses that emphasizes their professional autonomy. Among her many accomplishments is the creation of the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, the first doctoral degree in clinical nursing, which is now offered at more than 200 nursing schools nationwide. |
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| Photographs by Nancy Adler
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