Party Pictures 9/24/04 - Museum of the City of New York's "New York After Dark," sponsored by Gucci, Luncheon at Bloomies for the Southampton Fresh Air Home

Museum of the City of New York's "New York After Dark," sponsored by Gucci

Rachel Hovnanian, Cynthia Lufkin, Mark Gilbertson, Calvert Moore, Susan Henshaw Jones, Andrew Roosevelt, and Allison Rockefeller

Cynthia Lufkin, Anne Grauso, Jill Roosevelt, and Muffie Potter Aston

Rachel Hovnanian, Mark Gilbertson, and Allison Rockefeller

Lauren Duffy and Evelyn Tompkins


L. to r.: Joanne de Guardiola; Andrew Saffir, Daniel Benedict, Georgina Schaeffer, and Andrew Black; Sean and Tenley Black.

Miller Gaphny, Katherine Nedelkoff, and Cornelia Ercklentz

Chappy Morris, Melissa Stanley, and friend

Our favorite Vogue photographer

Alex Kramer surprised

Annie Churchill, Alex Kramer, and Julie Dannenberg

Mia Matheson

Kat Cohen and Gigi Sih

Dan Lufkin and Lise Arliss

Alex Hitz and Amy Fine Collins

Jessica Joffe and Antony Todd in threes

Walking down to the first floor of the museum

Fernanda Gilligan, Francie Leidy, and Minnie Mortimer

Lisa and Lara Meiland with Susie Slattery

Claude Shaw and Jason Hirsch

Mallory and Roy Kean

Jason Hirsch and Melissa Berkelhammer

Kirk Henckels and Fernanda Gilligan

Martha O'Brien, Susan Bodnar, and Amy Hoadley

Joel and Stephanie Harris and friend

Lee Copeland and Joanna Sieghart

Tara and Michael Rockefeller

Antony Todd and Richard Turley tellling secrets

Kat Cohen, Patrick McMullan, and Nina Garcia

The view from below

Helen Lee Schifter

Alvin Valley dancing up a storm

Enter Susan Shin

Lili Bunn and Merrill Hanley

Hadley Scully and Natalie Leeds

Pepe Fanjul and Mark Gilbertson

On the dancefloor

Photographs by Jeff Hirsch/NYSD.com

Luncheon at Bloomies for the Southampton Fresh Air Home

Lucia Hwong Gordon

Gloria Schiff

Victoria Wyman

Whitney Fairchild

A hundred and three years ago out in Southampton, some right-thinking individuals created the Southampton Fresh Air Home – a camp for physically challenged children. The home provides a unique vacation experience for physically challenged youth between the ages of 8 and 16 for two weeks in late August. Similar to sleep-away camps with tennis, swimming, sailing, basketball and hockey on sunny days and arts and crafts, music, drama and games in the evenings and on rainy days, it’s a thrill for the kids. There’s a professionally staffed, state-of-the-art computer center providing opportunities for web-surfing, e-mailing, desktop publishing, graphic arts and use of traditional computer software programs.

The Fresh-air home is one of the few residential camp facilities for physically challenged children in the United States. Wednesday afternoon in New York, they held a luncheon at Bloomingdale’s for the camp. After the lunch, ten percent of the total of any purchases in the store by the guests were donated to the Home.

The Home is a not-for-profit and so campers may apply for financial aid, and donations from individuals and foundations make their many scholarships possible. No child is denied an opportunity to be a camper because of their inability pay, or their race, creed, religion, national origin, sex or handicap. Whenever possible, children are visited in their schools in the winter months, to ensure that the Home is prepared for their special, individual needs. A little bit of paradise for those little ones who suffer fates over which they had no choice.

The butterfly is the symbol of the Home, chosen by the children. Butterflies are free and the children know more about that than most of us. You can give to the cause – anything will be a help and an extension of your heart. You can email them at sfah@hamptons.com. Tell them NYSD sent you.