Faces & Places

1. The Partnership for the Huguenot Children’s Library (PHCL) celebrated its 10th anniversary with a gala at The Fountainhead in New Rochelle, Nov. The partnership is committed to inspiring children to a life-long love of reading and learning. Pictured (from left) are: Angela Taylor, PHCL president; Leslie Demus, former library trustee; and Judy Factor, president, the New Rochelle Public Public Library Foundation. Catherine White, PHCL member, and Westchester County Clerk Tim Idoni, conducted the live auction (photo 1a). From left, 1b, are attorneys: Tom Leghorn, Wilson Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, and Dan Ronan and Dave McCabe of Willkie, Farr and Gallagher, all founding members of the partnership. Celebrity guest, Yankee Mariano Rivera is pictured in photo 1c. Roxanne Nielsen of RM Neilson & Associates, New Rochelle is picture (1d) with New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson.

 

2. The sixth annual bridge tournament -- created in honor of Peggy Hirschberg, a cancer victim and noted bridge player from Mamaroneck -- to benefit Gilda’s Club Westchester, Nov. 1, began with a bridge lesson led by the woman’s world bridge champion Debbie Rosenberg. Pictured (from left, back) are: Poebe Cashman, Gary Hirschberg, Amanda Hirschberg, Stacy Hirschberg-Eisner, Gilda’s Club president Donna Fishman and Liz Cohn Stuntz, bridge coordinator. From left (front) are: Susan Spencer, Jane Sapery, Judy Seslowe, Debbie Jacoby and Barbara St. Lifer, all bridge coordinators.

3. A new clinic, at Blythedale Children’s Hospital, was named in honor of retired Dr. Patricia A. Lawrence, of Tarrytown, for her 32 years of service to the hospital. Lawrence began her career at Blythedale as a Fellow in 1975. The following year she became an attending physician in rehabilitation medicine. Pictured at her tribute (from left) are: Barbara Milch, director, physical therapy; Lawrence’s daughter, Toni Rowley; Lawrence; Theo, a former patient; Larry Levine, hospital president; Dr. Joelle Mast, chief medical officer; and Merwin Haskel, Blythedale trustee.

 

4. Inspired by a book she had read, which in one chapter entitled “What On Earth Am I Here For,” registered nurse Dorita Taylor of the Visiting Nurse Association of Hudson Valley, participated in a weeklong mission to the Mississippi Delta to provide medical assistance and education for the prevention and treatment of diabetes to one of the poorest and neediest areas in the nation.

5. Roy Neuberger (center), founder and benefactor of the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College, Purchase, is pictured with Helen Stambler Neuberger and Jim Neuberger, at the museum gala, Nov. 3, which honored the artistic legacy of Kitty Carlisle Hart; in particular, her support for cabaret and cabaret artists in the latter part of her life. International cabaret stars Daniel Isengart, Meow Meow and Sheera Ben-David, provided thrilling performances for the glamorous evening.

 

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