Party Pictures 7/15/05 - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Women’s Partnership for Science luncheon; Animal Rescue Fund benefit; Parrish Art Museum Midsummer Party

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Fourth Annual Women’s Partnership for Science Luncheon and Lecture

Clockwise from top left: Event Co-Chairs Cristina Mariani-May, Blair Husain, Kate Seligson Friedman, Kristina Perkin Davison, Nancy Tilghman, and Deborah Norville; Blair Husain and Kristina Perkin Davison; Meredith Olt and Terry Smith; Julie Tell, Kate Seligson Friedman, Lisa Edelstein, Lisa Kaylin, and Jina Eckstein.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory held their 4th annual Women’s Partnership for Science luncheon and lecture on Sunday, June 26 at the Peacock Point estate of Katusha and Danny Davison in Lattingtown.

140 guests enjoyed the lush setting on Long Island Sound as they learned about neuroscience at the Laboratory from Sandra Kuhlman, Ph.D. whose research focuses on schizophrenia, and ‘The Science of Beauty,’ from Nancy Etcoff, Ph.D. of Harvard who conducts research on the perception of beauty, emotion and the brain.

Kristina Perkin Davison, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Trustee who launched the Women’s Partnership Program in 2002, welcomed guests and thanked her co-chairwomen who included: Kate Seligson Friedman, Blair Husain, Cristina Mariani-May, Deborah Norville, and Nancy Tilghman.

The Luncheon raised $45,000 in support of women post doctorate researchers, graduate school students, undergraduate research students, and high school participants in DNA Laboratory research classes at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

CSHL President, Bruce Stillman and Fanny Luke

Nancy Etcoff, CSHL neuroscientist, Sandra Kuhlman, CSHL Trustee, and Kristina Perkin Davison

The Laboratory is a private, non-profit basic research and educational institution, founded in 1890 and has been home to several Nobel prize-winning scientists including Barbara McClintock, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Former Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientist Susan Hockfield, recently named President of MIT, said in a New York Times article on May 3, that working at Cold Spring Harbor was like “having a black bag full of jewels and putting your hand in and pulling them out one by one.”

Today, under the leadership of President Bruce Stillman, Chancellor James D. Watson, and Director of Research Holly Cline, the Laboratory is a world leader in genetic research, the war on cancer, neuroscience, and the growing bioinformatics field. Nearly 350 scientists work in six locations in Nassau and Suffolk counties. The bucolic main campus, 112 acres on the western shore of Cold Spring Harbor, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

This spring Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory received a top ten rating on a list of 4000 U.S. charities for organizational efficiency and capacity. The rating was designated by an independent charity rating service, Charity Navigator, based on statistics accumulated over the past five years.

Barbara Candee, Janet Connolly, and Connie Silveri

Kate Gellert, Linda Garnett, and Paula Hornbostel

Kristina Perkin Davison and Jennie Fortunoff

Chantal Pauporte, Caroline van der Meijden, Magdalena Gierszewska, and Vatsala Thirumalai

Liete Eichorn, Meg Braff, Jill Roosevelt, and Betsy Pitts

Kate Seligson Friedman and Edith Seligson

Diane Fagiola, Missie Taylor, Mary Lindsay, and Cynthia Stebbins

Simone Mailman, Blair Husain, and CSHL Chancellor Jim Watson

Jenny Vandeventer, Liz and Jim Watson, and Joy Kestenbaum

Ginny Coleman, Carol Large, and Liz Watson

Carol Large, Edith Seligson, and Fanny Luke

Valerie Post, Anne Byers, Mary Snow, and Kathleen Rice

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons held a dinner dance to raise funds for ARF

Moira Chowdhury and Frances Hayward with Saddletooth (who came from the Bahamas during
Hurricane Frances for adoption)

Jay and Susan Kuhlman with Sparky (a Silky)

Ivana Lowell and Christopher Mason

Last Friday night in East Hampton, the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons held a dinner dance to raise funds for ARF, the great South Fork of Long Island animal rescue organization. More than 180 dined and danced to the music of Peter Duchin’s orchestra, and they raised more than $150,000 for the cause.

Arthur Ross with Mary and Mandy Ourisman

ARF was founded in 1974 and since then has placed more than 10,000 dogs and cats in loving homes, and is now the leading non-profit no-kill animal adoption center on the East End of Long Island. They are located on 22 wooded acres in the heart of the East Hampton Pine Barrens. Their animals come from local animal control centers and from people who can no longer care for them. At any given time ARF has 40 dogs and 40 cats in residence.

The organization is funded entirely by private donations.

Many people treat domestic pets the way they treat anything else that they’ve acquired either with a credit card or as a gift: totally dispensable and even a throw-away. In my not-so-humble opinion in cases like this, I think these people are jerks, and should be shunned and ostracized; and that is putting it gently. Anyway, then there are people like the supporters of ARF – which is only one of many many wonderful animal rescue organizations – who lend a heart and a hand to improve the lives of these dependent domestic creatures who can bring great joy and love and lessons of humanity into the lives of those who adopt them.

Brooke Marcy holding a Jack Russell Roxy

George Hyde and Patricia Durkin

Barbara Anderson Terry

Clockwise from left: The President of ARF William P. Rayner; Pat and Yves Robert with Virginia Coleman; Jaqui Robertson, Katharine Rayner, and Dr. Frank Petito; Dina Merrill and Edward Nye.

Doria de la Chapelle

Meghan Boody and David Meyer

Allan Ryan and Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman

Photographs by Heather Cohane

Parrish Art Museum Midsummer Party

Julia and David Koch

Kim Heirston and Marcia Mishaan

Louise Camuto and John Drevenstam

Pamela Gross and Jimmy Finkelstein

The Parrish Art Museum’s Midsummer Party, which is the museum’s most important fundraiser and a major highlight of the Hamptons summer season, was held at the Museum on Saturday, July 9. Reed and Delphine Krakoff were Event Chairs of this year’s benefit. Co-chairs for the evening were Will Ameringer and Gordon Avard, Franz and Bettina Burda and Marc and Andrea Glimcher, Honorary co-chairs were Debbie Bancroft, Beth Rudin DeWoody and Katharina Otto-Bernstein.

The gala evening featured a seated dinner catered by Glorious food, and dancing to the lively sounds of New York society’s number one DJ Tom Finn in an air-conditioned tent on the museum’s arboretum. A lively “after ten” party included dessert, drinks and dancing.

The crisp green and white setting was designed by Reed Krakoff, President and Executive Creative Director of Coach, the evening’s corporate sponsor, and featured peonies in silver mint julep cups, myrtle trees, leather napkin rings, and a Coach canvas tote trimmed in leather inspired by the colors of summer.

Sandy Brant, Kim Heirston, Chuck Close, and Fiona Rudin

During the evening, the museum announced that it was building a new, 80,000 square foot facility in Water Mill, just 2 miles from its current location in Southampton Village, on a 14-acre site of what was formerly Whitmore & Associates Nursery. The new museum is expected to open in 2009 and will display for the first time the museum’s renowned collection of American art from the 19th century to the present, with a focus on artists from the East End.

The annual Parrish Art Museum event is one of the top summer social events of the East End and brings out a glamorous group. In the crowd this year: Anthony and Tina Addison, Fred Anderson and Doug Hannant, Mildred Brinn, Lorraine Firestone and Bunny Ash, Bruce and Maria Bockmann, Lorraine Bracco with Jason Cippola, Eric and Fiona Rudin, Nina Rosenwald, Barbara and Randall Smith, Patty and Marty Raynes, Bettina Zilkha, Ira and Helen Spanierman, Carey Lovelace and Michelle Stuart, Preston and Susan Tsao, Peggy Siegal, Eric Boman and Peter Schlesinger, Jay Snyder and Ivana Lowell, Robert Stilin, Tinsley Mortimer, Donald Sultan and Ellen Lewis, Katherine Ross, Arnie and Paola Rosenshein, Nazee and Joe Moinian, Chappy Morris and Melissa Stanley, Ingrid Sichy and Sandy Brant, Russell Nype and Judy Munroe, Luca Orlandi, Patricia Patterson, Norman and Liliane Peck, Campion and Tatiana Platt, Stewart Lane and Bonnie Comley, Jacques Leviant, Barry and Diana Levinson, Fern Mallis, Sylvester and Gillian Miniter, Marcia and Richard Mishaan, Heather and Stephen Mnuchin, Danny Marentette, Nina Griscom and Leonel Piraino, Kim Heirston and Richard Evans, Michele and Larry Herbert, Lucia Hwong-Gordon, Mariana and George Kaufman, Yung Hee Kim, Francesco Galesi, Mark Fabry, Geoffrey Bradfield, Alvin and Sara Chereskin, Jeffrey and Linda Chodorow, Billy and Debbie Bancroft, Katharina Otto and Nathan Bernstein and Peter and Terri Nelson.