Invitations all around

Grand Prize winner Leslie Burr Howard at the third annual Coole Park Farm Invitational Horse Show.

The third annual Coole Park Farm $25,000 Invitational Horse Show and Kentucky Derby Party was held a couple of Saturday’s ago at Coole Park’s state-of-the art equine facility in Millbrook.

Proceeds from the event will support Preservation League of New York State workshops, specialized training, and strategic grants in the Hudson Valley.

Presented by GREY GOOSE® Vodka, the event featured an exhibition of invited riders and horses, with a final jump-off worth $25,000 in prize money which went to Leslie Burr Howard. Chairs were Connie Clapp, Gloria Callen, Deban Flexner, Karen Klopp, Debbie Montgomery, Zibby Tozer and Cynthia Tripp.

Zibby Tozer, Guy Peyrelongue, and Sarah Baker

Second Place winner Eric Hasbrouck

Jay DiLorenzo, John Hoffee, Gregory Long, Marian Haskell (Mrs. Andrew), and Larry Condon

Kirk Henckels and Fernanda Kellogg

Jane and Peter Elebash

The crowd

Jose Guerra and Florence Peyrelongue Guerra with Vanessa

Helena Bienstock

Emily Jean and Chris Spitzmiller

Susan Krysiewiez and Monica Gerard-Sharp Wambold

Deborah Montgomery and Connie Clapp

Felicitas Thorne and Marie-Laure Collins

girls on the fence

Carol Beller wins a prize

Barry and Karen Cord

Tim Bontecou and Everett Cook

Stacy Adams

In Barry Cord prize earrings MC Roberts

Daniele Bodini and Clair Glover

Carol Beller and friends

Jay DiLorenzo with Peter and Deborah Krulewitch

Thursday May 10th, Safe Horizon held its 12th annual Champion Award luncheon at the 68th Regiment Armory at 26th Street and Lexington Avenue. The event was hosted by Marilu Henner and they honored North Fork Bank, John Adams Kanas, President and CEO; and Joann Lang, Advocate, philanthropist and Safe Horizon Board member who helped create Lang House, a safe harbor for victims of domestic abuse and violence. They raised $1.1 million for Safe Horizon and all of its services.

Matthew David Events designed the space with the themes of Safe Horizon's new public awareness campaign which broke nationally this Spring. The luncheon was catered by Great Performances and more than 900 people attended.


Linda Fairstein and Stephanie March

Stacey Morrison

Ms. Henner, the actress and author became involved with Safe Horizon last November when she took part in its gala 10th Anniversary performance of "Chicago", of which Safe Horizon was the beneficiary. Other celebrities and notables who turned up to show their support were film and theatre star Hugh Dancy, Lisa Rinna, Malaak Compton-Rock and Stephanie March, two long time Safe Horizon Board Members, Broadway producer Fran Weissler and best-selling author and former DA, Linda Fairstein.

Liz Claiborne, Inc gave the Champion Award to Albery Abreu, a Bronx native and Harry Truman High School student. He received the award for his work as a peer educator in Safe Horizon's Relationship Abuse Prevention Program (R.A.P.P.) During the past year, Albery has facilitated 10 classroom presentations on teen dating abuse to approximately 300 students, facilitated a workshop to 20 college students at Pace University, and has been a mentor to his best friend, who is now also a peer leader for the program. Albery started with peer counseling four years ago through the Latino Youth in Action project, communicating with kids his age about how to prevent AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. This is the 4th year that Liz Claiborne Inc. has presented this award.

The task of raising awareness, of exposing the reality of abuse, sexual, physical or otherwise, is ongoing and challenging. It is so terrible that many who are aware of it shun addressing it, even run from it. It is a subject that is prevalent in all walks of life and all strata of society. It is the dirty secret in many family relationships. Because of that it exacts a terrible toll from which many of us may not only never recover but it also exacerbate by continuing the cycle in their personal relationships all our lives.

Safe Horizon is committed to helping people break those cycles, to expose these realities to the light and give people a chance to lead full, rewarding lives. None of this is easy to accomplish and very often even victims need encouragement just to address their personal situations of abuse. It is worse for the children however, who really are helpless victims, and because of that it is burden to all of us, even those of us who are safe from the problem in our personal lives.

Safe Horizon through its supporters, leaders and volunteers, however, are making seriously successful inroads into helping others change their lives and helping the children. It deserves all the support it can get from the rest of us. It is a problem as terrible as hunger and its victims are legion and everywhere.

Linda Faistein, Jane Rivkin, and Pam Hootkin

Marilu Henner, Gordon Campbell, and Joann Lang

Lisa Rinna and Maile Zambuto

Gabriela Villareal and Tisa Nance

Carolyn Drexel and Maile Zambuto

Hugh Dancy, Marilu Henner, and Albery Abreu

Malaak Compton-Rock, Deleon Sheffield, and Paula White

Eugene Pickens, Stephanie March, and David Patterson

Jane Randel, Albery Abreu, and Donald McPherson

Joan Cusack and Marilu Henner

Malaak Compton-Rock and Albery Abreu

Leah Zepel

Brooke McMurray, Jose Raul Perez, Marilu Henner, and Gordon Campbell

Steve Cuijanovich, Stephanie March, and Andrew Catapano

Jessica Kaye and Joann Lange

Michael Paladino and Michelle Philips

Tim Gunn and Jane Randell

Stephanie March, Gordon Campbell, and Emme Aronson

The luncheon

The ASPCA celebrated its 10th annual Bergh Ball “Tails of Time” sponsored by Chopard and hosted by Isaac Mizrahi on May 10th at the Mandarin Oriental. Chopard, celebrating its second year as sponsor of the evening, created an exclusive limited-edition “Happy Paws” charm bracelet which is available at their Madison Avenue boutique and from which a percentage of sales will benefit the ASPCA.

This years’ “Tails of Time” auction featured artwork donated by some of the world’s most notable photographers including David LaChappelle, Bruce Webber, Roberto Dutesco and Ross Bleckner.

Among those attending were Matt and Annette Lauer, Chuck and Ellen Scarborough, Andrea Roth, Lake Bell, Nicole Miller, Kate and Andy Spade, Cindy Adams, Richard Meier, Hana Soupkova, Jonathan and Somers Farkas, Ben and Linda Lambert, Nerik Lundqviset of the New York Rangers, Silvana and Marisa Marchetto, Dixon and Arianna Boardman, James Nederlander and Margo McNabb, Lonneke Engel.

The ASPCA was founded 141 years ago and was the first humane organization established in the Western Hemisphere. Today it has more than 1 million supporters. But as large as that number is, the work of the society in helping, rescuing, caring for and placing animals is enormous. You can help even with a small donation, or by adopting one of the beautiful pets they are harboring, or volunteering or by all three ways. Animals in your life bring you love, the likes of which many of us go without almost all of the time.

Alison Minton

Melissa Berkelhammer

Cathy Burton and Justin Georges

Matt and Nina Berkshadker

Lake Bell and Pooch

Henrik Lundqvist

Cindy Adams and Margo McNabb

Caitlin DiStefano and Therese Anderson

Darlene Nederlander

Susan Duffy

Karen and Barry Kiselstein-Cord

James Nederlander and Margo McNabb

Isaac Mizrahi and Kate Spade

Leonneke Engel

Somers Farkas

Lake Bell

Hana Soukupova

Marc Hruschka, President of Chopard

Ellen and Chuck Scarborough

Isaac Mizrahi petting ASPCA dog

Amy Lau and Bruce Ferguson

Krista Krieger, Jill Gradin, and Jennifer Kennedy

Marcia Levine and Will Ryman

Linda Lambert

Ed and Michelle Sayres

Nicole Miller

Nicole Miller and Andy Spade

Bruce and Elaine Sargent, and Muriel Siebert

The 2007 Tribeca Ball took place last week at Skylight with Eva and Michael Chow and Olatz and Julian Schnabel serving as Dinner Chairs. Vice chairs were Justine and Jeff Koons and Honorary Chairs were Simone and David Levinson, Eileen Guggenheim and Russell Wilkinson.

The Ball helps to raise financial support for the New York Academy of Art, a not-for-profit educational and cultural institution dedicated to the advancement of figurative painting, sculpture and drawing. It is the only graduate school in the United States devoted to the study of the human figure.

Gucci designed this year’s Ball, taking its inspiration from the Academy’s commitment to the human figure.

Among the guests attending: Ali Larter, Monet Mazur, Becki Newton, Ellen Pompeo, Mickey Rourke, Gena Rowlands, Ziyi Zhang, Fabiola Beracasa, Debbie Bancroft, Stacey Bronfman, Louise and Vince Camuto, Lauren Davis, Charles De Gunzberg, Vincent Desiderio, Zani Gugelmann, Stephen Hannock, Valesca Hermes, Christine and Richard Mack, Gigi and Averell Mortimer, Heather and Steven Mnuchin, Ulla and Kevin Parker, Meryl Poster, Jill and Andrew Roosevelt, Jacqueline and Mortimer Sackler, Fiona Scarry, Helen and Tim Schifter, Kelly Sugarman, Rory Tahari, Barbara Wilhelm, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Rachel Zoe and Caryn Zucker.