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Angus
Miller, Christopher Meigher, and Tom Quick
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Cindy
Jamieson and Coralie Charriol
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Ben
Bourgeois, Michael Murdoch, Ann Marie Alexander, and Mark
Freitas
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The
bedroom communities of New York, specifically
the white-hot epicenter of Greenwich, Connecticut and its environs,
have long been the source of much interest and, at times,
parody. From Lucy and Ricky’s flight to fictitious Danfield
to Carrie Nye’s renovation-crazed housewife in The
April Fools to the two versions of The Stepford Wives — us
city folk tend to view “up there” as the land of
willowy blonde soccer moms, golf-obsessed investment bankers
and gaggles
of towheaded kids in Range Rovers.
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Paul
Callahan, Alisa Callahan, Justin Callahan, and
Mitchell Callahan
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The reality is that these
suburbs represent one of the largest concentrations of wealth in
this country. Once conservatively scratchy in a moth-eaten cardigan
and butter churn lamp kind of way, Greenwich is now rather high-stylish.
And lately, its residents are referring to Greenwich as “BT” and “AT” —
as in “before Tricia” and “after Tricia”.
The Tricia in question is Tricia Quick deVisscher — daughter
of the late financier Leslie Quick and baby sister of Tommy
Quick — a well
documented
denizen of this website. She’s a pretty, petite brunette with an
irascible joie de vivre, and has followed in her father’s footsteps
as a champion of worthy causes.
Last Saturday night, she and her Belgian-born husband Francois gathered
all their buddies in support of Shake-A-Leg, the legendary organization
that assists in independent living for those with spinal cord and neurological
injuries. One of their most visible efforts is a disabled sailing program
in Newport, Rhode Island that has provided an amazing sense of freedom
and mobility to those who’s basic abilities have been taken from
them.
Tricia organized the Belle Haven Challenge Cup — a 12-meter race
out of the Belle Haven Yacht Club followed by an evening lobsterfest at
the DeVisscher
home. There was cocktails, dinner, and a heartfelt address by Shake-A-Leg
CEO Paul Callahan, himself a disabled sailor. Tommy Quick expertly conducted
a live auction of Bulgari and Chopard jewelry, a Dennis Basso chinchilla
wrap and a snazzy VW Bug convertible from Mark Brentlinger’s Midwestern
Auto Group. More than $100,000 was raised in fifteen minutes before guests
crowded the dance floor in a 70s disco frenzy.
There: Pauline Pitt, Chris and Grace Meigher, Susan Gubelmann,
Marjorie Gubelmann Raein, Peter Hallock, Greg Yale, LA event king Ben
Bougeoise, Catharine and Fred Adler, Angie Sall, Dennis Basso, M.E. and
Goomie Kjernested,
Danielle and David Ganek, Bonnie and Brian Copp, Holly and Michael McClusky,
Cynthia Frank, Reggie Olmsted, Steven Stolman, Jack Young and hundreds
more from the New York-Greenwich-Palm Beach triangle.
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Dennis
Basso, Peter Hallock, and Victor McLaughlin
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Fred
Adler, Paul Callahan, and Catherine Adler
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Greg
Yale and Mary Quick
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Grace
Meigher and Pauline Pitt
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Mark
Freitas and Paul Callahan
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Francois
DeVisscher, Dawn Wiesen, and Pat Wiesen
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Kathleen
Wasfon, Alease Tallman, and Pamela Tell
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Marjorie
Gubelmann Raein and Dennis Basso
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Walter
Ullrich, Elaine Ullrich, and Tricia DeVisscher
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Renee
Guercia and Suzette Guercia
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Marna
Davis and Paul Callahan
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Steven
Stolman
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Keith
Langham and Alease Tallman
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Craig
Gibson and Brett Price
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