Monday, February 9, 2009

Luncheons, Galas, and Generosity

Students at The Lycee Francais de New York's 10th annual Gala.

Oscar de la Renta and Van Cleef & Arpels featured their beautiful fashion and jewelry lines last week at The Boys’ Club of New York’s 6th annual luncheon and fashion show at Mar-a-Lago down in Palm Beach. This annual event hosted by The Boys’ Club’s Women’s Board benefits the nation’s oldest youth development organization for inner-city boys.

Pauline Pitt and Hilary Geary Ross chaired the luncheon, with Melania Trump serving as Honorary Chairman.


	Pauline Pitt and Hilary Geary Ross

Boys’ Club supporters and friends were among the guests, including Hillie Mahoney, Muffy Miller, Allie Hanley, Mia Hallingby Harrison, Friederike Biggs, Jeanne Jones, Jay Keith, Elaine Langone, Betty Sherrill, Carol Mack, Candy Hamm, Diana Eccelstone, Robert Janjigian, Karol Hamel, Mildred Syron, Nancy Corzine, Barrie Vanderpoel, Jessie Araskog, Mary Ourisman, Kitty McKnight, Emilia Pfeifler, Lourdes Fanjul, Marilyn Whims, Patricia Patterson, Zosia Rogers, Audrey Gruss, Clelia Zacharias, John Francisco Andreu, Elizabeth Stevens, Barbara Cleveland, and Women’s Board president, Monique Merrill with her daughter Lily.

Don Miller hosted the annual “men’s table” for Bill McKnight, Jerry Seay, Wilbur Ross, Rand Araskog, Lee Hanley, Prescott Miller, Robert Sterling, Tom Quick, and Brad Zervas, Executive Director of The Boys’ Club of New York.

Paul O’Regan represented Oscar de la Renta and Yvonne Lynam hosted on behalf of Van Cleef & Arpels.

Oscar de la Renta presented its Spring and Summer collection. The models glittered with the exquisite jewelry Van Cleef & Arpels had chosen to complement each design. At the end of the luncheon guests were presented with Oscar de la Renta African batik tote bags.

The Boys Club operates three clubhouses in New York City and a summer camp in New Jersey where the boys can enjoy the outdoors. The Boys’ Club has developed model programs for literacy development and academic enrichment, the exploration of creative arts, the nurturing of musical talents under the direction of professional, performing musicians, trophy winning sports teams, and the placement of deserving boys in the top private schools of the country.

Pauline Pitt and Hilary Geary Ross

Otta Schmitt and Hilke Brinkmann

Rand Araskog and Clelia Zacharias

Lee and Ali Hanley with Brad Zervas

Audrey Gruss

Hon. Mary Ourisman

Donald and Prescott Miller

Betty Fisher

Jackie Cowell, Jeanne Jones, Freiederike Biggs, and Sigrid vanEck

Laura McCloy and Pat Patterson

Susan Collins, Sally Marks, and Nancy Corzine

Clare Brinkley and Missie Rennie Tayler

Mila Mulroney, Jackie Drake, and Cynthia Boardman

Judy Wilson, Merry Kessler, and Jennifer Owensby

Frani Ridder, Kathy Moore, Lee Hanley, and Penny Antonini

Jackie Brown and Lis Waterman

Barrie Vanderpoel and Kristi Witker Coons

Muffy Miller and Alyne Massey

Linda Hickox, Suzette Smith, and Robin Reardon

Helena Martinez, Barbara Bancroft, and Baroness Shaun De Gunzburg

Joan Johnson and Elaine Langone

Hillie Mahoney, Mai Harrison, and Jessie Araskog

Luce Churchill and Kate Khosrovani

Sky Field with Bill and Kitty McKnight

Stephanie Kemp, Pat Lentz, Nancy Calcagnini, and Joyce Calcagnini

Pamela O'Connor and Dan Drennan

Hillie Mahoney, Monique Merrill, and Lily Merrill

Jerry Seay and Wilbur Ross

Emilia Franjul, Emilia Fanjul Pfeifler, Helena Martinez, and Lourdes Fanjul

Candy Hamm, Anna Mann, and Robin Gaudieri

Frances Hayward and Brad Zervas

Dale Coudert and Diana Ecclestone

Nancy Corzine and John Andreu

Sally Phillips

Elizabeth Stevens, Yvonne Lynam, and Carol Pressler

Lesly Smith

Renee Wood and Mary Freitas

Mai Harrison and Jessie Araskog

Sandy Krakoff and Toby Horowitz

Carol Mack

Van Cleef Table

Lee Hanley and Rand Araskog

Jerry Seay and Tom Quick

Danielle deBenedictis, Dan Drennan, and Dragana Connaughton

Leigh Larmoyeux, Jacquie Togut, and Danielle deBenedictis

Hon. Mary Ourisman and Luce Churchill

Brad Zervas and Bill McKnight

Bill McKnight, Robert Sterling, and Donald Miller

Monique Merrill, President of The Women's Board

Greer Taylor

Victoria Amory

The UJA-Federation of New York’s annual Generosity event gathered nearly 700 Jewish philanthropists in their 20s and 30s for an evening to support the critical services funded by UJA-Federation on at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

The Generosity division, chaired by Peter Stern and Aaron Zises, is for community-involved, socially conscious Jewish adults in their 20s and 30s. Through exclusive events, programs, and trips, Generosity creates positive, meaningful, and lasting changes in the lives of those most in need.

These emerging leaders of UJA-Federation of New York, the world largest local philanthropy, successfully launched the text-to-pledge technology at their sold-out event last year. Similar to last year’s event, the cutting-edge donor-pledge technology was featured again with the technology will be taken a step further.

Not only are attendees able to instantly text-message gifts from their cell phones or PDAs, to be broadcast in real time on multiple screens in the event space, but the pledge technology reached beyond the room, allowing those unable to attend the event to participate via a live feed, broadcasted on the Internet at www.texttopledge.com/ generosity.

Friends, families, and those unable to physically attend Generosity could phone, e-mail, and text their pledges that night and watch online as the pledges were broadcast across the walls at Cipriani. The new technology, soon to be a trend in fundraising, will help Generosity meet their fundraising goals during this troubled economy.

Abby Levin, Jerome Shapiro, and Peter Stern chaired the event.

Jerome Shapiro, Abby Levin, and Peter Stern

Mike and Janna Stern

Justin Baer and friend

Aaron Zises

Tracy Leiken, Marissa Sloan, and Jay Chernikoff

Evan Weinberg and Shanna Weinberg

Pamela Wohl and Abby Levin

Keith Rosenbloom, Brooke Milstein, and Ari Ackerman

Peter Stern and Aaron Zises

Andrew Waranch and Adrienne Bavar

Lee Brodsky, John Schulman, and Evan Weinberg

Lindsay Crames and Julia Shapiro

Michael Baron and Christine Pope

Michael Lewittes and Ben Prusky

The Lycee Francais de New York celebrated its 10th annual Gala at 7 World Trade Center this past Friday night.

Olivier Sarkozy and Ginevra Caltagirone Guarducci

Alejandra and Jeffrey Kluger

Alex de Betak and Charlotte Sarkozy

Janie and Marc Moyers

Beatrice Pei and CC Pei

Jenny Oughourlian and Melissa Meeschaert

Camille and Jacques Roizen

Assouline and Martine Prosper

Emilie Bosak and Manuel Asensio

Elsa Berry, Katia Toledano, Sidney Toledano, and Charlotte Sarkozy

Magalee Laguerre Wilkinson

Susan Fales-Hill

Cristine Rashmanis, Elsa Berry, Fabrizio Freda, Maryane Freda

Eddie Stern, Jocelyne Stern

Eric and Sandra Ripert

Kerri Lee Carroll, Martin Russo

Charlotte Sarkozy, Yannick Noah, and Olivier Sarkozy

Francois Sarkozy, Nathalie Sann, and Ted Sann

Jennifer Oughourlian and Selma Soussane

Saskia and Terrance Keeley

Sandra and David Armstrong

son Levasseur, Roya Heidari, and Carole Marshi

Benedite Fournier, Olivier Bialobos, and Charlotte Sarkozy

Mina and Yan Saquet

Olivier and Laurence Stip

Stacey Bronfman and Bernard Malandrino

Laura Brit Lobos, Catherine Godbille-Koechlin, and Nicholas Koechlin

Nastassja O'Bradaigh and Veronica Bulgari

John Oliver, from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart was host of the 61st Annual Writers Guild of America Awards this past Saturday night at the Hudson Theater in New York. Presenters included Sam Waterston, John Slattery, Talia Balsam, Jack McBrayer, Judah Friedlander, Susie Essman, Linus Roache, Alana De La Gareza, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, Paul F. Tompkins, S. Epatha Merkerson, Marshall Brickman, Gilbert Gottfried, Shari Springer Berman and Ana Ortiz.