NCMA Cocktail Receptions at Frette and Cuchels’ Residence
Town & Country Magazine at London Jewelers Angela Susan Anton, Diedre Costa Major, Filipo Arnaboldi and Corrine Paston.
Catherine Rosso and Shane Parouse.
Dr. Stephen and Sharon Cuchel with Museum Director, Karl Willers.
A “selling event” - that special kind of benefit where a fashion house donates a percentage of the evening’s purchases - can be tricky and challenging because you never know if the patrons are going to be in a buying mood (luckily for Mentoring, they WERE), and thus the gang at Brooks Brothers, including store manager Joe Dente, along with Joyce Pardee, Jennifer Yelli, John Lee, William Zubarriain and Suzanne Morris all deserve a round of applause for keeping guests happy, running volumes of merchandise, ringing up the constant sales, all with smiles. The guests at this “celebration of fun, friends, fine food and shopping” also rose to the occasion by opening their wallets and bidding on the 75 or so upscale silent auction items, buying handfuls of raffle tickets and of course, walking out of the store with a closetful of new clothes for their wardrobes. Those philanthropic guests included Rita and Frank Castagna, Adele Smithers, Linda Armyn, Fran and John Gutleber, Sally and Brian Shore, Deirdre Costa Major, Carmela and Chris Nuzzi, Rebecca and Steve Hollander, Tammy Windmiller, Maureen Bergmann, Pat and Dr. John Sheehy, Samara and Sam Ginzburg, Nina and Bob Ronzoni, Kathy and Steven Klar, Lewis Katz, Dina and Peter Chase and so many more. During the “celebration,” one of the “fun” highlights was watching K-Joy radio’s morning show hosts Steve & Maria, a.k.a. Steven Harper and Maria Garcia, joke while emceeing the event. One of the “friends” highlights was the heartfelt speech given by mentor Michelle Cohen about the turnaround she helped foster for mentee Jevel Saravia; one of the “food” highlights was when the Robbins Wolfe Eventeurs waitstaff team began serving the takeout containers of vegetable pad Thai and demitasse cups of truffled mac ’n’ cheese (yummy…); and of course, the real highlight was the raising of revenue that significantly exceeded last year due to the incredible generosity of patrons by “shopping” that night! The Nassau County Museum of Art benefited from two receptions. For the first, the brightest supporters of that fine institution showed up at the home of Sharon and Dr. Stephen Cuchel who opened up the many parlor rooms in their fine English Tudor estate to host the kickoff celebration for the museum’s annual Gala Dinner Dance Ball. Director Emerita Constance Schwartz was there with her husband Hank Schwartz, whose new publication From the Corners of the Ring to the Corners of the Earth chronicles his rise from a Jewish engineer in Brooklyn to promoter of the most famous box-
Amy and Dr. George Kane.
Candy and Mark Udell.
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Randi Udell and Marisa Stubin.
Marisa Stubin, Scott and Jessica Udell and Pam Arnowitz.
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