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 Primavera parties
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John Heilemann, Elizabeth Rohatyn, Olga Votis, Tony Marx, Shala Monroque, Danielle Ganek, Darcy Rigas, and Danny Strong at New York Public Library's Spring Luncheon. |
Over 350 guests mingled, lunched, and then listened to a political conversation in the Library's Celeste Bartos Forum.
Special guests John Heilemann (national affairs editor for New York magazine) and Danny Strong (Emmy-nominated filmmaker and actor) spoke in conversation with Rep. Herald Ford Jr. about Game Change, John's book about the 2008 election that Danny turned into this year's HBO film with Julianne Moore.
The spring luncheon raised over $600,000 to support the Library's mission to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities.
The New York Public Library gratefully acknowledges Asprey as the sponsor of the 2012 Spring Luncheon. |
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Eleanora Kennedy and Amanda Taylor |
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Frances Schultz and Nina Griscom |
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Tory Burch |
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Nyssa Koursas, Alex Stevenson, and Kristen Krusen |
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Donya Bommer |
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Elle Muliarchyk, Shala Monroque, Stephanie LaCava, and Irina Aleksander |
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Rep. Harold Ford Jr., John Heilemann, and Danny Strong |
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Joan Steinberg and Sue Wachenheim |
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Gayfryd Steinberg and Louise Grunwald |
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Guests from the Spring Luncheon |
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Alexandra Kotur and Anna Carter |
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Alina Cho and Alexandra Lebenthal |
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Olga Votis, Elizabeth Rohatyn, and Darcy Rigas |
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Caryn Zucker and Christine Schwarzman |
| Tuesday night at the Pershing Square Signature Center on 480 West 42nd Street, Venetian Heritage hosted its 2012 Gala with a production of Caro Luchinoabout the life and career of famed director of grand opera and film, Luchino Visconti, performed by Richard Gere and Tilda Swinton with clips of interviews with Visconti as well as from his films. |
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Tilda Swinton and Richard Gere |
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Guido Branca and Lavinia Branca Snyder |
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Wayne Maser and Alexander Vreeland |
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Alba Clemente and Richard Gere |
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Guido Torlonia, Alba Clemente, and Paolo Canevari |
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Archibald Cox and Judy Gordon Cox |
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Scott Small, Alicia Adams, and Daniel Adams |
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Princess Firyal of Jordan and Peter Marino |
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Isabella Rossellini, Ines Theodoli, and Guido Torlonia |
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Mario DeBenedetti, Alessandra Cicognani, Desiree Berggruen, and Olivier Berggruen |
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Barbara Nguyen and Gazelle Emami |
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Sandra Nunnerley, Edith Dicconson, David Epstein, and Wade Tajerin |
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Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni and Mariano Baino |
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Olimpia Pallavicino and Lavinia Branca Snyder |
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Daisy Soros and Adrienne Vittadini |
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Jordan Kisner and Maud Doyle |
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Richard Gere, Bryan Swardstrom, and Andrew Finklestein |
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Grazia D'Annunzio, Tilda Swinton, Stefano Tonchi, and Sandro Kopp |
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Olimpia Possati |
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Lisa Fine and Alessandra Cicognani |
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Maria Antinori and Veronica Bulgari |
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Michel Petruzzillo and Tania Beltrano |
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Isabella Rossellini and Ines Theodoli |
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Steven Harris, Guido Torlonia, and Toto Bergamo-Rossi |
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Micky Camerini and Yolanda Garretti |
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Chloe Malle, Alexander Vreeland, and Candy Pratts Price |
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Leila Heller and Ike Ude |
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Renato D'Agostin and Alessandra De Benedetti |
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Alberto Simone, Roberta Manfredi, Grazia D'Annunzio, and Isabella Rossellini |
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Lynn Nesbit |
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Countess Pierre-Louis de Pourtales and Nicholas Buck |
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Ann Nitze and Phillips Clarke |
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Prisca Franchetti and Lili Rossboch |
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Domitilla Dotti and Sciascia Gambaccini |
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Roberto Bolle and Tilda Swinton |
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Pierpaolo Martiradona, Pina Brianca, and Giuseppe Rossi |
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Caroline and Auke van Scheltinga |
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Vanessa Freedman, Toto Bergamo-Rossi, and Alejandra Cicognani |
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Maria Eugenia Maury and Gaetana Enders |
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Alex Hitz and Liliana Cavendish |
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Elisabeth Muhr, Muffy Miller, and Karlheinz Muhr |
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Maria Teresa Sansalone |
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Marina Galesi, Phillip Warner, and Susan Warner |
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Christopher Ong and Anna Ratman |
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Laura Henson, Richard Farley, Ann Caruso, Darren Henault, and Dini Von Mueffling |
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Sandra Nunnerley and Pierre Durand |
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Peter Marino and Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia |
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| Tuesday night last week, Vanity Fair magazine hosted the Opening Night Party for the Tribeca Film Festival at the State Supreme Courthouse at 60 Centre Street. |
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Chris Taylor, Nancy Armstrong, Tim Armstrong, Desiree Gruber, and Kyle McLaughlin |
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Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict |
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Graydon Carter and Anna Carter |
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Janice and Billy Crystal |
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Veronica and Ray Kelly |
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Judge Judy Sheindlin |
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Amanda Burden, Charlie Rose, Vivi Nevo, Wendi Murdoch, David Rhodes, and Emma Rhodes |
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Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Leelee Sobieski, and Adam Kimmel |
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Michaela Bradbury and Clifford Ross |
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BethAnn Hardison, Charles DeCaro, Helena Christensen, and Rocco Laspata |
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Susan Solomon, Walter Issacson, Boaty Boatwright, Michael Barker, and Nora Ephron |
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Diane von Furstenburg |
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Helena Christensen |
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Donna Karan |
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Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower |
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Jessica White and Nicole Trunfio |
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Ron Meyer, Katie Couric, and Ron Perelman |
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Grace Hightower, Harvey Keitel, and Muffie Potter Aston |
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Desiree Gruber and Kyle MacLachlan |
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Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones |
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Brad Hall and Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
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Tory Burch |
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Anastasiya Siro |
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Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro |
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Alexandra Kotur and Muriel Brandolini |
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Catherine Zeta-Jones and Tommy Mottola |
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Ingrid Sischy, Christine Quinn, Chris Taylor, and Sandy Brant |
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George Wayne and Nicola Vassell |
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Raphael De Niro, John Sykes, and Robert De Niro |
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Amanda Burdon, Charlie Rose, and Jennifer Maguire Isham |
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Suzanne Ircha Johnson, Somers Farkas, and Daphna Kastner |
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Clifford Ross and Boaty Boatwright |
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Ashley Matthau, Charlie Matthau, and Dakota Fanning |
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Dakota Fanning |
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John Forte |
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Faisal and Bana Hassan |
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Drena De Niro and Rachel Roy |
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Lorraine Adams, Richard Price, Cindy Sherman, and Liz Swid |
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Emerson Barth, and Makenzie Leigh |
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Craig Hatkoff, Ann Harrison, Tim Forbes, and Jennifer Maguire Isham |
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Velia Majo and Aida Turturro |
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Dr. Anna Chapman, Alan Patricof, and Susan Patricof |
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Marjorie Gubelmann and Lynn Wyatt |
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Lily Cole and Wendi Murdoch |
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Cary Lowell and Katie Couric |
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Last Wednesday evening, The New York School of Interior Design honored textile pioneer Jack Lenor Larsen with a Lifetime Achievement Award and noted landscape designer Thomas Woltz with the school’s first Thomas N. Armstrong III Award in Landscape Design at its 2nd annual Spring Benefit, held at The Metropolitan Club, in New York. This year’s Benefit co-chairs were Mario Buatta, Ellie Cullman, Philip Gorrivan, Amy Lau, Stephanie Odegard, Campion Platt, and Barbara Slifka. Honorary chairs were Mrs. Thomas N. Armstrong, III, Thomas N. Armstrong IV, Whitney B. Armstrong, Eliot Armstrong Foote, and Amory Armstrong Spizairri. The Vice-chairs included Graham Arader, Jill Dienst, James Druckman, Marina Kellen French, Elliot and Janet Greene, Agnes Gund, Hugh Hardy, Mary Ellen and Richard Oldenburg, Michael and Patricia Sovern, Henriette Suhr, Robert and Lynn Wankel.
Lou Gropp, long-time editor of House Beautiful Magazine and former NYSID trustee, presented Jack Lenor Larsen with the Lifetime Achievement Award. In memory of his father, Whitney Armstrong honored landscape architect Thomas Woltz with the first Thomas N. Armstrong III Award in Landscape Design. |
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Lou Gropp, Jack Larsen, Pat Sovern, and David Sprouls |
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Among those attending: Margaret Russell, Bunty Armstrong, Whitney Armstrong, Amory Armstrong, Patricia and Michael Sovern, Hugh Hardy, Barbara Slifka, Mary Ellen and Richard Oldenberg, Inge Heckel, Cynthia Hazen and Leon Polsky, Marina French, Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, Vicente Wolf, Mario Buatta, Steven Gambrel, Jill Dienst, Ellie Cullman, Agnes Gund, Thomas Kligerman, John Ike, Joel Barkley, David Scott, Christina Juarez, Richard Mishaan, Amy Lau, James Zemaitis, Jay Cantor, Susan Wallace, Alessandra Branca, Geoffrey Bradfield, Philip Gorrivan, Lee Mindel, Julie Dannenberg, Dennis Miller, Pauline Metcalf, Robyn Pocker, Peter Davis, Anne Korman, Ross Francis, Joan Hardy Clark, David Sprouls, Michael Manes, Mark Gilbertson, Barbara Israel, Kathleen Doyle, Matko Tomicic, Miry Park, Henry Neville, Peter Bentel, Paula and Colin Cabot, Tina-Maria Birch, Susan Nagle, Rebecca Bond, Susan Watts, Etelle Higonnet, Guy Regal, Emily Eerdmans, John Danzer, Janet Mavec, Robert Stilin, Elliot and Janet Greene, Gerald Holbrook, Tom Robinson, Lynn and Noel Jeffrey, Inson Wood, Jodie and Bob King, Monica Cheslak, Alexa Hampton, Pamela Banker, Judith Gura, Brian McCarthy, Marilyn White, Sandra Nunnerley, Matthew de Marco, Alison Levasseur, and Lou and Jane Gropp.
The dramatic table decorations for this year’s NYSID Spring Benefit Dinner starred textiles that—very fittingly—were designed by one of the occasion’s honorees: Jack Lenor Larsen. Primavera in Red Ginger, Fiori in Cinnabar, and Nexus in Bronze, Eru and Gold—these are the evocatively named fabrics that sprang from the fertile imagination of Larsen, and that enriched the evening’s festivities thanks to the generosity of Cowtan & Tout.
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Whitney Armstrong and Thomas Woltz |
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NYSID Professor and Alumni Association President Valerie Mead confected the table centerpieces to dialogue mellifluously with the Larsen materials, taking care that each element in the Dutch-style arrangements spoke as a separate visual element and at the same time harmonized with a chorus of other colors. Asiatic and Gloriosa Lilies; Phalaeonopsis (also known as Moth Orchid); White, Green-and-White and Double-Orange Parrot Tulips; Bear Grass; Dusty Miller; and assorted leaves and twigs—those are the names of the diverse ingredients that went into every table’s masterful floral focal-point, each composition attentively and individually assembled by a dedicated troupe of NYSID alumni: Michael Harold, Kathryn Madden, Alejandra Munizaga, Elsie St. Leger, Lori Watts and Missy Wolfe.
The benefit sponsors included Luxe Interiors+ Design Magazine, Lalique, and Cowtan and Tout. |
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Kathryn Madden, Elsie St Leger, and Alejandra Mumizaga |
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Michael Sovern and Pat Sovern |
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Etelle Higonnet and Thomas Woltz |
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Lou Gropp and Jack Larsen |
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Pat Sovern, Jack Larsen, and Thomas Woltz |
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Billy Kenny, Janet York, Bunty Armstrong, Emery Armstrong, and Matko Tomicic |
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Pat Sovern, Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, Inge Heckel, and Jack Larsen |
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Christina Juarez, David Scott, Ellie Cullman, Alison Levasseur, Guy Regal, Allison Davis, and Wendy Landau |
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Vincente Wolf and Matthew Yee |
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Matthew De Marco, Susan Wallace, Margaret Sullivan, and Ellen Fisher |
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Barbara Pierce, Janet York, and Bunty Armstrong |
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Geoffrey Bradfield, Roric Tobin, and Mario Buatta |
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Guy Regal, Patti Lau, Amy Lau, and Julia Noran |
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Julia Noran and Allis Ghim |
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Agnus Gund |
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Dianne Benson |
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Whitney Armstrong |
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Pauline Metcalf and Ross Francis |
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Sandra Nunnerley and Brian McCarthy |
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Lee Mindel and Margaret Russell |
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Lisa Gorrivan, Margaret Russell, and Philip Gorrivan |
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Pat Sovern, Agnus Gund, and Whitney and Emery Armstrong |
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Ross Francis and Alexa Hampton |
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Tara Chapas, Steven Gambrel, Amy Griffin, and James Anderson |
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Bunty Armstrong, Emery Armstrong, Susan Watts, and Janet York |
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Peter Davis and Mark Gilbertson |
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Richard Mishaan, Sandra Nunnerley, and Mario Buatta |
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Monica Cheslak and David Sprouls |
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Barbara Israel, Jill Dietz, Richard Mishaan, and Julie Dannenberg |
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