James Lenox House Association Hosts Spring Blossoms Gala

Thomas Z. Scarangello and Roxanne Donovan, Mary Lenox Sheafe Award recipients with Joseph Girven, executive director of James Lenox House Association ABC News’ Sandy Kenyon; Nancy Rabstejnek Nichols, Interpublic Group, James Lenox House Board member and Lifetime Service Award Honoree and Joseph Girven, executive director of James Lenox House Association

The James Lenox House Association (JLHA), comprised of James Lenox House and Carnegie East House, New York City’snot-for-profitindependent andenriched living communities for older adults, hosted 350 guests at its Spring Blossoms Gala on June 6, 2022 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom (141 West 54th Street) in New York City.

Highlights of the gala included a live and silent auction, which helped to raise more than $700,000 for the communities. Sandy Kenyon of ABC Eyewitness News returned as Master of Ceremonies for the evening.

Other standout moments from the night include the recognition of three exceptional New Yorkers, honored at the event for their contributions to JHLA.

The power couple of Thomas Z. Scarangello, P.E., executive chairman at Thornton Tomasetti, and Roxanne Donovan, president of Great Ink Communications, were recognized with JHLA’s Mary Lenox Sheafe Award, the first time in JHLA’s 156-year history that the recipients were husband and wife.

Additionally, JHLA board member Nancy Rabstejnek Nichols, senior vice president, external affairs at Interpublic Group, received the Lifetime Service Award.

The Spring Blossoms Gala raises funds needed to support the more than 175 residents of James Lenox House and its sister residence, Carnegie East House, enabling vital health and wellness programs, including innovative exercise classes and a calendar of daily activities, social work counselors, guest speakers on health and safety topics, Medicare counseling, tech help by student volunteers, robust libraries, as well as cultural opportunities, in-house concerts and dance recitals for residents to socialize, which is critical given that a major enemy of older adults is social isolation.

Photos by Saul Robbins

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01. Mary Ann Tighe, CBRE 02. The Great Ink Communications team celebrates Mary Lenox Sheafe Award co-recipient Roxanne Donovan, president of Great Ink Communications (L to R):

Mercedes Vega, Lindsay Church, Sara Picchioni Williams, Eric Gerard, Roxanne

Donovan, Eric Waters, Tom Nolan, Eric Nizguretsky and Francisco Miranda 03. Randolph Deutsch; Nancy Rabstejnek Nichols, Interpublic Group, James

Lenox House Board member and Lifetime Service Award honoree; Richard J.

Haray, Interpublic Group and JHLA board vice president and Executive Director, Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation and JHLA Board Member

William T. Sullivan 04. Laurie Golub, Square Mile Capital and Leslie Harwood, Newmark 05. Thomas Z. Scarangello and Roxanne Donovan, Mary Lenox Sheafe Award recipients, with Suzanne and Grant McCullagh 06. John Carr and Alison and Jon Rodriguez 07. Maggie Mills, Randy Flood and JLHA Board Member Anne Connor 08. Rick and Simran Singh; Beth LaVelle, Orion and JLHA board member and

Joseph Larucci, Aksia 09. Patty Read and James Read, MML Capital Partners 10. Judy Prince, Cesar Rochez and Alicia Sheen