Arthur Ross, Riverkeeper, and MacDowell

Roy Zeluck, Bunny Williams, Michael Imber, Peter Hodson, Arthur Ross, Viggo Rambusch, Bonnie Burnham, Barry Cenower, Anne Fairfax, Paul Gunther, and Kevin Zeluck

Two weeks ago the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America held its 26th annual dinner at the University Club, and presented the 2007 Arthur Ross Awards for Excellence in the Classical Tradition.


	Thomas Hubbard, Adeke Chatfield-Taylor, and Arthur Ross

Arthur Ross is a very prominent New York real estate magnate who is very active in philanthropy having to do with arts and culture in New York.

The winners were: for Architecture, Michael G. Imber Architects of San Antonio; for Artisanship, The Rambusch Company of Jersey City; for Education, Peter Hodson of Portsmouth, U.K.; Acanthus Press for Publishing, and the World Monuments Fund, of New York, for Stewardship.

This year the Board of Directors, as recommended by the 2007 Ross jury which is chaired by Bunny Williams, decided to recognize Robert A. M. Stern for his “far-reaching contributions in architecture, education and publishing.”

Elizabeth Gerschel, Hope Annan, and Amanda Haynes-Dale

Suzanne Santry, Barbara Sallick, and David Cohen

Gilbert Schafer III and Robert A.M. Stern

John Rosselli and Bunny Williams

Mark Ferguson and Kathryn Herman

Marsall Allan, Inga Rubinstein, and Keith Rubinstein

Katie Ridder, Bill Irvine, and Will Zeckendorf

Alvin Holm and Emily Frick

William vanden Heuvel

Alexa Aron and Aidan Mortimer

Susannah Beams, Warren Fixmer III, and Kate Wiberg

Stewart Manger, Isabelle Bosquet-Morra, and John Bosquet-Morra

Charles D. Warren and Alexander Gorlin

Victor Deupi and Susan O'Brien

Arthur Ross and Anne Fairfax

James Hanley, Susan Henshaw Jones, Shar Taylor, and Donald Albrecht

William H. Harrison, Mary Jo Riddle, Deborah Hodge Harrison, and Francis Morrone

Dominique Browning, Jamie Gould, and Wendy Goodman

Rhett Butler and Roy Zeluck

Erik Evens, Robin Evens, Jennifer Rimlinger, and Marc Appleton

Justine Kalb and Jacob Collins

Gene and Barbara Kohn

Bunny Williams and Michael Imber

Suzanne Santry and Helen Tucker

Margaret Halsey Gardiner

Richard E. Cohen, Barbara Eberlein, and Suzanne Santry

Barbara Sallick and Paul Gunther

Peter Pennoyer

Gene Kohn and Sue Ann Kahn

Elizabeth Fondaras and Andrew Walker

Max Imber, Mariann Imber, Michael Imber, and Sari Imber

Edwin Rambusch, Catha Rambusch, Viggo Rambusch, and Reverend Boniface Ramsey

Betty Dowling, Leonard Porter, and Eric Osth

Riverkeeper hosted a star-studded gala benefit dinner honoring the Hearst Corporation at a gala held at the Chelsea Piers. Christie Brinkley was the evening’s emcee and Lenny Kravitz performed, and Hearst was honored for its “majestic, thoughtful and environmentally sustainable” new addition to Manhattan’s skyline—the Hearst Tower.

The environmentally sensitive design and construction of Hearst Tower, boasting significant reductions in pollution, outstanding use of recycled materials and significant conservation of water and electricity, has set a precedent in New York City and a higher standard for green building around the world. “Hearst Corporation is a true pioneer in environmental sustainability and extremely deserving of this honor,” saidHudson Riverkeeper and President Alex Matthiessen.

Guests attending included: Christy Turlington and Ed Burns, Donna Dixon, Gayle King, Nicole Miller; Riverkeeper’sChief Prosecuting Attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,his wife Mary Richardson Kennedy and Alex Matthiessen; Anne Hearst McInerney, Jay McInerney and Amanda Hearst; and Hearst Corporation’s Victor F. Ganzi (President/CEO), Frank A. Bennack, Jr. (Vice Chairman) and Gilbert C. Maurer (Trustee/Director).

L. to r.: Amanda Hearst; Laura Franklin and B. Cooke; Andy and Taly Russell.

Lois Cahall and Maxine Demko

Jayni and Chevy Chase

For more than 40 years, Riverkeeper has defended the ecological integrity of the Hudson River. It has led the battle to wrest control from polluters and is widely credited for having safeguarded New York City and Westchester’s drinking water supply.

Riverkeeper has established internationally recognized standards for waterway and watershed production through its reliance on law, science, and its unique brand of hard-hitting grass-roots advocacy. Today, Riverkeeper is the model and mentor for more than 150 other “waterkeeper” programs across the globe and is living testimony to what democracy in action can achieve. The Hearst family’s long and generous support of Riverkeeper has played a critical role in helping it rescue the Hudson and transform the organization into an international success story.

L. to r.: Lenny Kravitz; Mike Richter; Ethel Kennedy; Katie Ford and Bruce Livingston.

Dalia Oberlander and Andrew Freston

Diane Passage and Kenneth Starr

Ed Burns, Christie Turlington, and Alex Matthiessen

Dolly Russell and Peter Goldstein

Nicole Miller and Daphne Zuniga

Charmaine and Carter Burden

Alex Acquavella, Winston Lapham, Jamie Johnson, Nell Rebowe, and Alex Meija

George Hornig, Lindsay Johnson, Susan Fales-Hill, Sharon Handler, and Karl Adams

Chris Barish and Michelle Manning Barish

Cynthia Fitzgerald

Eva Dubin

Alex Stevenson

Donna Karan and Edie Falco

Debbie Bancroft, Ron Delsener, and Ann Dexter-Jones

Frank A. Bennack Jr., Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Anne Hearst, and George Soros

Justin Rann, Emily Rann, Erica Gunderson, and Bryan Ascher

L. to r.: Deborah Barrow, Tom Plagemann, and Eileen Schwagerl; Patricia Goldstein and Bob Pittman.

Karen Kopp, Mary Richardson Kennedy, Paul Polizzotto, and Annie Costner

Robert Klein

The MacDowell Colony, America’s first and leading artist residency program, premiered Seasons of MacDowell, a suite of four films by award-winning Colony Fellows Michael Almereyda, George Griffin, David Petersen, and Elisabeth Subrin. Each of the short films, which were specially commissioned by MacDowell on the occasion of its Centennial, provides evocation of the experience of artists at the Colony.

Seasons of MacDowell premiered at the MoMA, where it was introduced by Robert MacNeil, MacDowell Chairman and noted broadcast journalist, and writer and the filmmakers. It headlined Filmmakers at MacDowell:The Studio System Reconsidered, a special series of 25 films and videos by Colony Fellows that ran from May 2nd through the16th. Following its New York showing, the series—including Seasons of MacDowell—will travel to venues across the United States, including the Wexner Center for the Arts, in Columbus, Ohio; The Walker Arts Center, in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and The National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C.; among others.

Founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, Marian, The MacDowell Colony, located on 450 wooded acres in Peterborough, New Hampshire, is based on the simple idea that creative people work best when they have time, space, privacy, and the opportunity to interact with fellow artists. MacDowell has for the past century provided all of these, as well as room and board for the duration of a residency, to more than 6,000 exceptionally talented writers, visual artists, composers, playwrights, filmmakers, architects, and interdisciplinary artists, many of whom have gone on to chart the course of the nation’s artistic life.