HOLIDAY PARTY 2004 Piano and saxophone music set a mellow tone for this year’s Holiday Party, held on a rainy Friday, December 10, at the National Arts Club on New York’s Gramercy Park. About 250 people—alumni/ae, faculty, and staff—shook out their umbrellas and proceeded to party, talking and noshing and talking. Saluted for best attendance were alumni/ae from the 1960s (including Lazlo Bito ’60) and those from the most recent years. But plenty of Bardians from more distant classes were also on hand, including Richard Koch ’40 and Miriam Roskin Berger ’56. The east coast of the United States was well represented, from Florida (Claire Angelozzi ’76) to Maine (Olivier te Boekhorst ’93 and Jennifer Reck ’94). Gabriella Ranelli ’87 put the party on her itinerary, having flown west to New York from her home in San Sebastian, Spain. President Leon Botstein and Executive Vice President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou mingled with the alumni/ae, as did professors Burt Brody (physics), Lenore Latimer (dance), Robert Rockman (theater and literature), and Peter Sourian (English). In a first for the Holiday Party, concert tickets were raffled off. Suzy Perler ’85 and Reinaldo Vilarino ’95 each won a pair of tickets to the American Symphony Orchestra concert at Lincoln Center, and Marisa Silverman ’00 and Scott Perkins ’03 each won a pair of tickets to the Bard Music Festival. At 8:30 p.m., those who felt it was still the shank of the evening followed the Young Alumni/ae Committee to further festivities at the after-party party in Still, a watering hole around the corner from the National Arts Club.
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