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the “Night Tripper” (whose albums
include cameos by Mick Jagger and
Eric Clapton), where desserts after
which dancing went on for hours.
In New York, it was rockin’ in
the Big Apple for the Big Easy.
Hungarian Ambassador András
Simonyi brought his Coalition of the
Willing rock band to Manhattan to
raise funds for needy New Orleans
musicians, left gig-less with their
clubs destroyed and their audience
dispersed. Seen: Susan Eisenhower
(Ike’s granddaughter); Tom Clarkson,
John and Giselle Theberge Jeppson,
and blonde Patricia Duff, former
Hollywood and Washington
fundraiser extraordinaire.
TEN TOP CHEFS FOR WDCJCC
On one side of the handsomely
bedecked Union Station banquet
room, George Washington University
president Stephen Trachtenberg, top bidder on the weekfor-
ten in Provence, was
being congratulated,
on the other side,
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was being
interrogated. The pundit and the
academician helped raise $300,000
for the Washington, D.C. Jewish
Community Center’s outreach
programs of education and social
concerns. Award-winning chefs
preparing cocktail hour specialties,
dinner and drinks were led by
Equinox’s Todd Gray and included Roberto Donna and Ann Amernick.
Seen: Richard and Lois Hechinger
England, Dan and Rhoda Glickman,
George and Trish Vradenburg, Dianne
and Alan Kaye, Michele and Allen
Berman, Nancy and Harold Zirkin
and Leslie and Leonard Shapiro
PORTRAIT OF COURAGE
Pretty Kristal Nemeroff is 19
years old and four feet tall with brittle bone disease; she gets
about on a wheeled platform.
“I love The Children’s Inn at
National Institutes of Health
for all they have done for me,”
she said at the Mayflower Hotel
gala for the Inn (“a place like
home” for families with children
facing serious illnesses). “I have
been going there since I was
a baby, and they have given
me a life.” AFCEA electronics
group sponsorship, with the
cooperation of the technology
industry – Microsoft, Booz
Allen and Bearing Point, among
others – raised $375,000 for
the cause. Enthusiastic Kristal,
an accomplished singer and the
2006 Pocono Teen Idol in her
home state of Pennsylvania, gave
a riveting performance at the gala. Now a college freshman;
she was a dean’s list student in
high school, despite setbacks. In
a quiet moment she counted the
things she is grateful for: “I have
the support of my parents and the
Children’s Inn, I have my music,
and the thrill of college before
me. I am truly blessed.” |
