D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A Also in attendance were Amsale Aberra, Reem Acra, Marc Anthony, Iris Apfel, Nina Arianda, Fabiola Arias, Glenda Bailey, Dennis Basso, Cathie Black, Andrew Bolton, Hamish Bowles, Geoffrey Bradfield, Mario Buatta, Robin Burns-McNeill, Sharon Bush, Lisa Cashin, Kathryn Chenault, Barbara Cirkva, Suzi Cordish, Christina Davis, John Demsey, Carole Harting, Simon Doonan, Fe Fendi, Amy Fine Collins, Joele Frank, Ron Frasch, Nina Garcia, Michele Gerber Klein, Marjorie Reed Gordon, Jamee Gregory, Audrey Gruss, Cornelia Guest, and Agnes Gund. Wait, there’s more: Sharon
Handler Loeb, Patti Hansen, Amanda Hearst, Celia Hegyi, Yaz Hernandez, Judith Hoffman, Chiu-Ti Jansen, Kimberly Kassel, Mariana Kaufman, Eleanora Kennedy, Coco Kopelman, Karen LeFrak, Leonard Lauder, Alexandra Lebenthal, Larry Leeds, Heather Leeds, Petra Levin, Jaqui Lividini, Carol Mack, Julie Macklowe, Fern Mallis, Grace Meigher, B Michael, Gillian Miniter, Natalie Morales, Josie Natori, John Pomerantz, Ann Rapp, Darcy Rigas, Muna Rihani al Nasser, Judith Ripka, Sheryl Schwartz, Pete Scotese, Jean Shafiroff, Nancy Shaw, Michelle Smith, Martha Stewart, Diana Taylor, Annette
Rickel, Lizzie Tisch, Barbara Tober, Zang Toi, Stefano Tonchi, John Truex, Kay Unger, Bronson van Wyck, Robert Verdi, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Sarah Wolfe, Whitney Wolfe, and Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia. The following week, at Cipriani 42nd Street, New Yorkers for Children hosted its 14th annual Fall Gala honoring Nicholas Scoppetta and benefiting youth in foster care. Mr. Scoppetta has been in public service for most of his life. New Yorkers have known him as the Fire Commissioner, as well as the former Commissioner of the Administration of Children’s Services, a former Deputy Mayor and Com-
missioner of Investigation for the City of New York, a Counsel to the Knapp Commission, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and more. What is remarkable about Mr. Scoppetta is that all of that isn’t the half of it. His path in life led him to affect the lives of thousands and thousands of children in foster care toward brighter, more sustainable, stable lives of personal achievement and accomplishment. Not a few of them were in the room that night. He was born on the Lower East Side in 1932, the youngest son of Italian immigrants struggling in the Great Depression. When he was four
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