D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A C A S I TA ’ S 2 0 1 7 F I E STA AT T H E P L A Z A
Peio Cuevas and Elizabeth Jacoby
care and workforce programs; and for public education programs taught in public schools and at the newly opened greenhouse and nutrition center at the Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park in Harlem. Another full-up day on the calendar—a Monday— started with a breakfast at 7:30 a.m. at Rockefeller University, sponsored by their Women & Science group, at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Hall on the campus. The actual breakfast ran from 7:30 to 8 a.m., and then the program started. The subject was 34 QUEST
Lee Fryd, Shayne Doty and Margo Langenberg
Mary McFadden
“Sex and Gender; Critical Components in the Quest for Precision Medicine,” and the speaker was Paula A. Johnson, M.D., who is also the president of Wellesley College. It was over at 9 a.m. Then at lunchtime over at the Metropolitan Club, Audubon New York hosted its 2017 Keesee Award luncheon. Dr. Stephen Kress, director of the Seabird Restoration Program and vice president for Bird Conservation at the National Audubon Society, presented the awards. The Thomas W. Keesee Jr. Conservation Award was presented to Sheila Brady,
Audrey Puente
Tina and Simon Beriro
Will Sheehan and Allegra Crespi
Fellow of the American Society of Lanscape Architects, and to Susan and Coleman Burke. The Audubon New York Award for Environmental Writing was presented to author Terry Tempest Williams. There was a “Special Recognition” for Patricia H. Keesee as a true pioneer in the field of conservation and land preservation. While at the very same hour over at the Plaza, the Hope For Depression Research Foundation, founded by Audrey Gruss, hosted its 11th Annual Hope Luncheon Seminar, “The Genetics of Depression; What is
Elizabeth Peabody
Moataz Refaie and Sissi Fleitas
Known and What is Next.” Chuck Scarborough was emcee, and Eric Nestler M.D., chairman of the Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, was the medical speaker. The Hope Award for Depression Advocacy was presented to actress Ashley Judd. All of the above events define what really makes Society today in New York— an activist philanthropy with community. This is not new but it continues to grow and demonstrates what is basic to all of us at this time in our history and civilization. And that is, ultimately: Survival.
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Jackie Weld Drake