News & Notes

from The Lotos Club

JANUARY 2009

Astor Docudrama Barbara Cook to Be Honored World -renowned soprano Barbara Is Like a Novel Cook will receive the Lotos Medal Meryl Gordon , author of the of Merit at a State Dinner in her acclaimed biography of Brooke honor on January 28. Reservations Astor—who was a member of the will be made only on receipt of the Lotos Club until her death last year— reply card and members may invite will give a Literary lecture on only one guest initially (cocktails: Tuesday, January 13 (cocktails, 6:30 6:30 p.m., $125). p.m., $25). Barbara Cook has delighted In an extensive review of Mrs. Astor audiences around the world for more Regrets , Janet Maslin reports that Ms. than fifty years. Her honors include Gordon “walks her readers through a the Tony, Grammy, Drama Desk and schadenfreude -filled wonderland…” New York Drama Critics Circle and “sets her sights squarely on the awards, her citation as a Living New family feud,” which is “messy enough York Landmark and her induction to fill a whole book on its own. And into the Theatre Hall of Fame. each of its principal figures has a complicated story.” ( The New York Barbara Cook Times , 12/8/08) Dinner Set for (photo by Mike Martin)

For her book, Ms. Gordon conducted 230 interviews, talking with fifty of Neal Shapiro Special Event on the 100 people who attended Mrs. Astor’s 100 th birthday gala at the OnValentine’s Saturday, February 14, Day the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, Special Events Committee invites New York, as well as with Mrs. individual members, couples and Astor’s extensive staff. friends to share a joyous evening celebrating love in all of its forms: Art Lecture platonic, romantic and spiritual. This celebration in recognition of the On Sculpture historic cultural influences of St. On Monday, February 2, art critic/art Valentine’s Day will begin with historian Phyllis Tuchman will give cocktails at 6 p.m. ($125). a talk entitled “When Sculpture Came off Its Pedestal” (cocktails, A Champagne tasting will introduce

6:30 p.m.; $25). For many centuries, the evening, which will include a Neal Shapiro dance duet by members of the Lar statues occupied the pediments of temples, the jambs of cathedrals, the Award-winning producer and news Lubovitch Dance Company ; an niches of campaniles and chapels. As executive Neal Shapiro will receive entertaining talk on “Love, a Brief public art, sculpture often took the the Lotos Award of Distinction at an Esoteric Delineation and Its form of narrative reliefs on columns, evening in his honor on Wednesday, Remedy” by Clifford Henderson heroes on horseback, and January 21 (cocktails, 6:30; $75). III , of the School of Practical Philosophy; and a vocal performance (continued on page 7) Mr. Shapiro will give a talk on “the state of the news media today.” (continued on page 6)

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A Note to Members

by Michael D. Yon, 1 st Vice President Welcome to

the Club We hope that you have been experience. As I am preparing this Lewis A. Kaplan (Government enjoying a lovely holiday season. note, bedrooms are still available for Service), U.S. District Judge, New The Lotos Club is always an oasis of the Twelfth Night weekend. Bill York City. Memberships: warmth and gracious spirit, Chaput, our Bedrooms American College of Trial particularly at this time of year when Reservationist, and team will make Lawyers, American Law Institute, our Club is so beautifully decorated certain that your stay at The Lotos Association of the Bar of the City and festive. We wish to thank the Club is extra special. of New York, American Bar membership for supporting our Association, New York State Bar annual Employee Christmas Fund, I am very much looking forward to a delightful evening on Wednesday, Association. Proposer: George P. particularly during this time of th Felleman; Seconder: Philip A. economic distress. Our loyal January 28 , when The Lotos Club will award The Lotos Medal of Merit Lacovara. employees always strive to provide courteous attention and superb to world-renowned soprano Barbara Stephen Shore (Academic), service throughout the year, and we Cook at a State Dinner in her honor. professor/artist, Tivoli, NY. are most appreciative of their In the meantime, I look forward to Memberships: Century contributions to making The Lotos seeing you at Lotos, and especially at Association, Edgewood Club. our Twelfth Night Frolic! Proposer: Everett Raymond Club so uniquely inviting to our members and their guests. We wish you a healthy, happy and Kinstler; Seconder: Audrey S. prosperous New Year. As inscribed Amdursky. As part of your New Year’s resolutions, please consider staying in the 1903 Yuletide menu, “May this Richard M. Stolbach (Non- overnight at The Lotos Club. Our Year be the best the Club has ever Resident B), lawyer, Tampa, clubhouse has fourteen beautifully- seen, And the worst it ever will see!” Florida. Memberships: Tampa appointed bedrooms, spacious Yacht and Country Club, Feather accommodations compared to what Sound Golf and Country Club. might be available at many noted Proposer J. Kirk Wade; Seconder: New York City hotels, and at Joel B. Zweibel. comparably-favorable rates. Considering the attractiveness of our bedrooms and the limited availability in the past, you may have th In Memoriam experienced some difficulty in 5 East 66 Street reserving a room without a New York, NY 10065 David A. Braver reservation well in advance. (212) 737-7100 However, you may not be aware that (212) 737-9188 (fax) David C. Miller we have recently instituted a www.lotosclub.org

Member Priority Program to make the bedrooms much more available News & Notes for member use. Lotos Club members will be given first priority Executive Editor over non-members. Specifically, Stephenie Ralston 80% of the bedrooms will be held Club Holiday Design Editor open in anticipation of member use! Sharon Situ The Lotos Club will be closed So, when you need to stay in the City, please do not hesitate to call for on New Year’s Day, Contributing Editors Thursday, January 1. a reservation at our conveniently- Nancy Johnson Bedrooms are open located Club, even if you think that it Margaret Diggory would be too late based on your past every day of the year.

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N E W S A N D N O T E S From the Archives

Helen Traubel, Down -to -Earth Diva by Nancy Johnson, Archivist Lotos’s tradition of honoring women magazine called her “the greatest named a rose in her honor. In war - with remarkable voices will continue Wagnerian soprano singing in the torn Korea, she entertained American later this month when Barbara Cook world today,” and praised her for troops, bringing messages to their is the guest of honor at the year’s first being a “ prima donna in technique wives and families when she returned. State Dinner. but not in temperament.” Following a 1948 White House visit, she found herself coaching President Barbara Cook made headlines in 2006 Truman’s daughter, Margaret. She when she became the first female pop took on that task reluctantly; she did singer to give a solo concert at the not think much of Margaret’s voice or Metropolitan Opera. Helen Traubel, her father’s politics. who received a Lotos State Dinner in 1946, made news by doing just the She appeared on the radio and opposite: she gave up her career at television with the likes of Jimmy the Met to sing in nightclubs and on Durante, Groucho Marx, Red Skelton television. and Jerry Lewis. Performing with these comedians was “entertainment “Helen Traubel is as American as in its highest form” she said, but not Mark Twain,” observed journalist everyone saw it this way. Many Vincent Sheean, “not just because she music critics agreed with Rudolf hails from Missouri.” She was born Bing, manager of the Metropolitan in the flat above her father’s drugstore Opera, who was aghast, and called in St. Louis in 1899 to a family that her lowbrow performances “un-diva loved music, German theater, and like.” When Bing charged her with baseball, passions she indulged Helen Traubel performs on TV sacrificing her dignity, Traubel throughout her life. By the time she with Jimmy Durante accused him of “rank snobbery.” was twelve, Helen was singing solo parts at church; at thirteen she left Traubel’s larger-than-life roles In 1953, Bing demanded that Traubel school to study voice. She later contrasted with her down-to-earth not appear in nightclubs. She wrote, “I never questioned the fact nature. She loved fishing and the St. returned her contract to him unsigned, that I had a fine voice or that I would Louis Cardinals, who made her their ending her long relationship with the be a singer.” honorary mascot. She was hearty, Met. “I have never regretted this buxom and relaxed, with green eyes decision,” she commented. “I cannot Young Helen did not rush her debut. and auburn hair. At 186 pounds, she agree that singing is sacred to any Although she was offered a contract stood proud. “I gave up any idea of place or persons. I have fun and I am at the Metropolitan Opera when she being svelte,” she laughed, relishing what I am.” was in her twenties, she was the rounder and fuller voice that came determined to continue her studies. with her rounder and fuller body. But Traubel’s chatty and self-assured She explained: “A smart ball player she was not without vanity. Traubel autobiography, St. Louis Woman , doesn’t leave the bush leagues until had her costumes made by Hollywood appeared in 1959. She ends the book he is ready for the majors.” designer Adrian. In the designer’s confessing her pleasure that the barriers between opera and popular She was still reluctant ten years later, studio, her size 46 mannequin stood between those of Claudette Colbert music were falling. “I have always but was coaxed onto the Met stage in felt that any audience would 1937 by impresario Walter Damrosch. and Norma Shearer, both size 32. understand and appreciate anything By 1946, when she came to Lotos for Traubel’s rise to stardom was boosted sincerely sung to them,” she wrote. her State Dinner, Helen Traubel was a by hundreds of recordings, cross- “Music is the common denominator major attraction at the Met. In a country recital tours and international of the world.” cover story later that year, Time travel. In Japan, the government

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A Review Manager’s Mid -Year Report by John J. McGrath Award for Earle In spite of the ongoing reports of individual made a recommendation: by Daniel F. Marcus, member of the Science and the worldwide economic Do not allow the annual mortgage Technology Committee challenges, Lotos is doing quite saving to be absorbed into the well. Our healthy position in this operating budget, thus losing its Using striking images from her unstable fiscal environment is due long-term benefits . Based on this extensive career, Sylvia A. Earle to our strong membership status suggestion from then Director J. fascinated and awakened Lotosians to and the action by past Club Robert Moskin, a past president and the realities and changes in the world’s President Louis Padovano who in now the Club historian, the annual oceans. Dr. Earle’s remarkable career 1997 established an Endowment mortgage saving was put aside and as chief scientist for NOAA, explorer- Fund to pay off the Club’s invested in fixed income investments in-residence at The National mortgage. Robert E. Fuisz created that earns approximately $95,000 Geographic Society, author, annually. This underwrites operating photographer, and conservationist and chaired an Endowment makes her uniquely qualified to Committee, and assumed the expenses. responsibility of contacting all awaken us to the multiple dangers to New ways to improve member members to ask for their fund- society that lurk beneath the ocean’s services are always being considered. surface. raising participation. One significant recent change is a With dramatic photos of the receding During the initial fund-raising revised bedroom reservation policy polar ice cap and the resultant campaign, one member commented that provides greater opportunities displacement of frolicking polar bears, that he did not believe in the for members to stay at the Club. she reminded us of the potential effects campaign. He felt that today’s Another innovation is the concept of on global warming and the impact of members should not lighten the topic discussion groups, informal rising water levels on the coastal areas fiscal burden of future generations gatherings that focus on specific of the world. Her photos of dolphins and that each generation should subjects, such as history, poetry, caught in commercial fishing nets with face its own challenges. He did literature, opera, and food and wine. the inadvertent loss of other creatures note, however, that, with the These activities provide an emphasized the devastating effects economy booming, it was a good opportunity for members to meet commerce has on our fish populations. time to ask for contributions. And other members – the primary raison Species such as orange roughy that he must have had a change of mind, d’etre of any successful Club. take a hundred years to mature cannot because the Club received a sizable be replenished quickly enough. She Going forward, Lotos needs your donation from him. proposed that one solution could be to support to sustain its prosperity . As reduce our appetite for fish and to In 1999, through the generosity of we enter the traditionally slower consider alternative food sources. non-taxable deductible donations winter months, I ask that you

Changes and damage to the coral reefs from the members, the mortgage continue to make Lotos part of your of the world have been dramatic, with was paid in full, eliminating the regular schedule. Consider dining at huge losses of these underwater annual $140,000 expense. (The the Club, hosting or sponsoring a paradises and the resultant contributors are listed on a bronze private party, reserving an overnight displacement of aquatic life that call plaque hanging in the Grill Room.) room, or just stopping by for a the reef home. Photos of tons of complimentary glass of hot apple The Club owes a large debt of manmade plastic debris dumped in the cider in the members’ lounge. oceans emphasize the harm to plant thanks to Louis Padovano for his life and the death of mammals vision, to Robert Fuisz for his I appreciate the many active devotion to the cause, to the including whales and dolphins. members of Lotos and I invite

Endowment Committee for its infrequent users to reacquaint Dr. Earle ended her talk with a photo support and, most of all, to the of her grandchildren, poignantly themselves with Lotos. members who contributed to the emphasizing our collective obligation Fund. In closing, I wish all members and to keep the oceans and their their families, a very happy, safe and inhabitants safe, alive, and healthy for Shortly after the Club’s debt was prosperous New Year. future generations. paid off, another forward-thinking

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Literary Topic Is New Orleans Table Talk Lotos member Janice C. Grijns will be Kennedy Toole ( A Confederacy of the guest speaker at the Literary Talk Dunces ),et al. Ms. Grijns’ own in January Table on Thursday, January 22. Her writings on New Orleans, as well as Thursday, 8 th topic will be “New Orleans: America’s some new short stories, including a 66 th Street Salon, 6 p.m. Only Foreign Culture and Oldest newly discovered short story by This Salon will focus on 20 th century Bohemia.” Tennessee Williams, will be wartime novelists, including Erich

distributed in advance to attendees. Maria Remarque, Virginia Woolf, Ms. Grijns, a native of New Orleans, will discuss the unique lifestyle, A summa cum laude graduate of Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Waugh, cuisine, music, writings, and often Tulane University, Ms. Grijns also Alan Furst, John Don Passos, Jerzy hilarious peculiarities of the native studied at the Sorbonne, the Universite Kosinski, and Günter Grass. The language, with special emphasis on de Dijon, and the University of Leiden. Salon is chaired by Elyse Bloom Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, As a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a Greenfield and John Sussek III .

Walker Percy, Lillian Hellman ( An Faculty Fellow, she studied for a Ph.D. Friday, 9 th Unfinished Woman ), Andrew Codrescu in French literature at Columbia Opera Table Talk, 12 p.m. (New Orleans, Mon Amour ), Peter University. Lotos member Robert Gutman will

th continue the discussion about sex in opera. 66 Street Salon: Law and Literature th Literary representations of the law have include the first part of Literature and Tuesday, 20 yielded works of tremendous moral as the Law by Richard Posner, The History Talk Table, 11:30 a.m. well as aesthetic power. But while a Merchant of Venice by William Lotos member David N. Schwartz strong case can be made that the world Shakespeare, Billy Budd by Herman will lead a discussion on The of law enriches literature, is the reverse Melville, Presumed Innocent by Scott Zimmerman Telegram by Barbara also true? Can literary study enrich Turow, The Trial by Franz Kafka, To Tuchman, which focuses on one of legal practice? These issues will be Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and the key events leading to the U.S. th discussed when the 66 Street Salon Bleak House by Charles Dickens. The entry into World War I.

gathers on Tuesday, February 3 , for a salon will meet from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Thursday, 22 nd provocative roundtable discussion on the Grill. For reservations (required), Literary Talk Table, 12 p.m. “Law and Literature: A Mutually Illum- call the Club office. Lotos member Janice C. Grijns will inating or Misunderstood Relationship.” th The 66 Street Salon is co-chaired by lead a discussion on “New Orleans: The guest moderator for the evening John Sussek III and Elyse Bloom America’s Only Foreign Culture and will be the Hon. Lewis B. Stone , New Greenfield . Oldest Bohemia.” York State Supreme Court Justice and Lotos Club member. A Lotos Club Cabaret Suggested background reading might Saturday, February 28, 2009

Christine Andreas performs in the finest Int’l Talk Table cabaret venues, and her work in the theater On Thursday, February 12, the Club has won wide acclaim. New York Times will kick off a new luncheon talk table critic Stephen Holden has described her as on International Affairs, hosted by “one of the four or five most compelling Public Affairs Chair Linda M. Fasulo . voices to be heard in the Broadway An author and journalist, Ms. Fasulo theater.” The Miami Herald says: “…A specializes in the United Nations and lyric soprano with a distinctive gorgeous U.S. foreign policy. The first luncheon voice, Andreas illuminates the mood and will focus on the major international meaning of each song through her issues facing the Obama administration. considerable acting skills.” Future discussions, with guest experts

and diplomats, will include selected international topics, challenges and $95 per person Limited seating For reservations: (212) 737-7100 opportunities of the day. Christine Andreas

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Upcoming February Lectures Offer Diversity All lectu res begin at 6:30 p.m.; Comi cs and Birth of Pop Culture “Syria and Palestine: Relative the price is $25. Strategic Importance,” will explore the The standard history of American relative merits of the new administra- youth culture is a myth, argues David Human Rights tion pursuing the Palestinian track for Hajdu , and author of the acclaimed peace or shifting gears to Syria as Michael Ratner , president of the nonfiction book, The Ten-Cent Plague: being of greater strategic interest to the Center for Constitutional Rights Crime, Comics and the Birth of U.S. (CCR), will give a Library Lecture, Postwar Popular Culture . In a “The First 100 Days: Restoring the Literary Lecture on Monday, Ambassador Walker is the Christian A. Constitution,” on Tuesday, February February 23 , that challenges Johnson Distinguished Professor of 10 . Mr. Ratner was co-counsel in entrenched ideas about popular art, the Global Political Theory at Hamilton representing Guantanamo Bay generation gap, and the divide between College. He is continuing consulting detainees in the U.S. Supreme Court. “high” and “low” arts, Mr. Hajdu will activities in Washington, DC, with the CCR is a non-profit legal organization explain his assertion that American Middle East Institute, where he was dedicated to advancing and protecting popular culture was born in the pulpy, the president and chief executive the rights guaranteed by the U.S. lurid pages of early comic books. officer until 2006. Before assuming Constitution and the Universal this position in 2001, Walker served as Mr. Hajdu is a columnist for The New Declaration of Human Rights, and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Republic and a professor in the Arts during the last four decades, has Eastern Affairs during the Clinton term and Culture Program at the Columbia supported virtually every popular and for five months during the George Graduate School of Journalism. The movement for social and racial justice. W. Bush term. Ten-Cent Plague has been named one Mr. Ratner is also the co-host of the of the Best Books of 2008 by The New popular radio program “Law and York Times , Publisher's Weekly , Valentines’ Day Disorder,” and has been included in Amazon.com, and elsewhere. Mr. (continued from page 1) the National Law Journal ’s list of Hajdu also wrote the award-winning by world -renowned tenor Robert Lush Life: A Biography of Billy “100 of the Most Influential Lawyers White and soprano Erin Morley , in America.” Strayhorn. who made her Metropolitan Opera

debut last February. After a special Middle East Lotosians in gourmet dinner, culinary historian Ambassador (ret.) Edward (Ned) S. Francine Sagan , author of The

the Spotlight Walker, Jr. , will be the guest speaker Opera Lover’s Cookbook , will An evening with renowned portrait at a Program Committee event on present the history of chocolate and a artist Everett Raymond Kinstler Thursday, February 26 . His talk, chocolate tasting. was recently presented by The Norman Rockwell Museum. The Museum reported that Mr. Kinstler talked about his “illustrious career, CANDIDATES FOR MEMBERSHIP which reflects an extraordinary The following candidates await consideration. Confidential comments personal journey through art.” Among concerning these candidates are solicited and should be addressed to the his more than 1,200 portraits are those chair of the Committee on Admissions . of Tony Bennett, Katharine Hepburn, Paul Newman, Ayn Rand, Arthur CANDIDATE CLASSIFICATION PROPOSER/ Miller, Tennessee Williams, Tom SECONDER Wolfe, and several U.S. Presidents. Douglas A. Love Non-Resident A Anne Russell Chief Investment Officer, Irwin Jacobs Former Federal Reserve Chairman Investors Guaranty Fund, Ltd. Paul Volcker will head the Economic Rumson, NJ

Recovery Advisory Board, created by Taïra Rapoport Resident Eli Yaffe President-elect Barack Obama to Artist, sculptor Mimi S. Livingston provide outside advice from Greenwich, CT “heavyweight thinkers.”

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Literary Suggestion for Lotosians – A Review

Depths by Henning Mankell by William A. Johnson, moderator of the Great Thinkers Seminar

Anyone who reads a great deal these channel (presumably near finally pr ovide an enchantment that days will know the name of the Stockholm), so that neutral Sweden is enormously fulfilling. Soren Swedish author, Henning Mankell. might have a navigable passage for Kierkegaard took that existential He has sold millions of copies of his its ships should it be forced to go to position in his book Repetition . To books, which have been translated war. Lars has had a lifelong affection immerse oneself in the prescribed into seventeen languages. Many of for things to measure (hence the given tasks – work, family, morality, his books have as their major symbolic title of the novel). politics, even religion – may not character the true-to-life Swedish Instruments of measurement provide produce immediate self-gratification, policeman, Inspector Wallander. In scientific certainty. And Lars is but it might provide a more fulfilling addition to establishing his reputation overwhelmingly devoted to humanity than to wake up with a as a fiction, mystery, crime writer, certainties. His domestic life reflects new bedmate every damn morning. Mankell has now taken on a new that desired order and stability: one literary task, that of writing a compatible wife, no children, straight-forward novel with no pleasant and uncomplicated living references to crime in a southern conditions. No surprises. Sculpture Lecture (continued from page 1 ) Swedish city. Depths might be Then, in the course of his work designated as a “symbolic” novel measuring the channel, he comes commemorative bronzes and stone (when have you read a symbolic upon an isolated island thought carvings. Then, during the 1960s, novel that you could readily forever to be uninhabited, where a artists working in three dimensions comprehend and thereby be pretty young lady is living put their abstract metal edified?). constructions and Minimalist clandestinely and unobserved by the Mankell has produced a first-rate police and the naval authorities. structures directly on the floor. Ms. narrative – gripping, provocative, Although the young lady is almost Tuchman will address the impact unpredictable – in a prose that gives feral in appearance, Lars falls this has had on the nature of new meaning to the phrase “page strangely but deeply in love with her. sculpture ever since. Artists under turner.” He will return to the comfort and discussion will run the gamut from certainties of his land-based home, Louise Bourgeois to James Turrell. One caveat must be mentioned right but the memory of the uncultured, away, and that is that Depths is a Ms. Tuchman’s articles, reviews, discomforting young lady kind of Bergmanesque story (it is for previews, and profiles appear inexplicably draws him back, with good reason that Mankell is regularly in Town & Country , the consequences that are, of course, Ingemar’s son-in-law), terrifying at Smithsonian , Art + Auction , Art in disastrous for everyone. America , artnet , and obit-mag . She times and often loaded with existential angst . Depths fits nicely I believe that Mankell is ultimately a has also published in The New York into the same category of books by moralist. In Depths , he has posed two Times , the Washington Post , Franz Kafka. The mood is the same. different perspectives on life: for Vogue , Artforum , Bloomberg/ And the conclusion is pure Lars, the uncivilized has superseded Muse , and elsewhere. Besides Kafkaesque (I am re-reading all of the civilized. And in so doing, Lars writing many exhibition catalogue Kafka these days as part of my has been forced to probe the depths essays and lecturing extensively at Advent devotions). of his own being and his role within museums and universities in the civilized society. The uncivilized USA and Europe, she has curated a The novel tells the story of Lars world may hold an immediate number of sculpture shows. She Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval fascination for us all, but the studied at the Institute of Fine Arts engineer, who during the early period civilized world, with its and NYU, and has taught at Hunter of World War I was assigned the task predictability and a character that College, CUNY and Williams to survey a waterway in a Swedish seems often dull and boring, may College.

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Conversations LOTOS EVENTS AT A GLANCE Guests during this season will be New York “power couples.” For reservations, please call (212) 737-7100

JANUARY Louis Gordon Crovitz and Minky st Worden will be the guests at the Thursday, 1 New Year’s Day. Club closed, bedrooms open Lotos Conversation on Wednesday, Saturday, 3 rd TWELFTH NIGHT FROLIC th February 4. Mr. Crovitz is a global Monday, 5 Afternoon Book Discussion (4 of 4) with Jacqueline media executive and adviser to S. Aronson, The Rector of Justin by Louis media and technology companies. Auchincloss th th th He is a former publisher of The Wall Thursday, 8 66 Street Salon, literary roundtable (20 century Street Journal and executive vice- wartime) (sold out) th president of Dow Jones. Ms. Friday, 9 Opera Talk Table with Robert W. Gutman (sex in opera) Worden is media director of Human th Rights Watch, working with Tuesday, 13 Literary Lecture, Meryl Gordon (Brooke Astor) Wednesday 14 th Evening Book Discussion (4 of 4) with Jacqueline S. journalists to cover crises, wars, human rights abuses and political Aronson, The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss Tuesday, 20 th History Talk Table with David N. Schwartz (sold developments throughout the world. out), The Zimmerman Telegram by Barbara Tuchman st Wednesday, 21 Public Affairs Evening, Neal Shapiro (president and On March 4, the guests will be CEO, Educational Broadcasting Corporation) Jeffrey M. Peek , chairman and Thursday, 22 nd Literary Talk Table with Janice Grijns (New Orleans)

CEO of CIT Group, and Elizabeth Saturday, 24 th Great Thinkers Seminar (1 of 5) with William A. T. Peek , an investment analyst, Johnson journalist and philanthropist. Mr. Wednesday, 28 th STATE DINNER, BARBARA COOK Peek was previously vice chairman

of Credit Suisse First Boston LLC. FEBRUARY Ms. Peek spent nearly twenty years Monday, 2 nd Art Lecture, Phyllis Tuchman (sculpture) on Wall Street where, in 1983, she Tuesday, 3 rd 66th Street Salon, literary roundtable (law and became the first female partner of literature) Wertheim Schroder. She was also Wednesday, 4 th Lotos Conversation, L. Gordon Crovitz and Minky the first woman to be elected Worden president of the National Thursday, 5 th Afternoon Book Discussion (1 of 4) with Jacqueline Association of Petroleum S. Aronson

Investment Analysts. Monday, 9 th Evening Book Discussion (1 of 4) with Jacqueline S.

Aronson th Guests on April 1 will be Arnold Tuesday, 10 Library Lecture, Michael Ratner (restoring the and Sandra Gold, chairman and Constitution) president/chief executive officer, Thursday, 12 th International Talk Table th respectively, of The Arnold P. Gold Saturday, 14 Special Events Evening, “Friendship and Love: A Foundation. Arnold P. Gold is Lotos Club Valentine” th professor of clinical neurology and Monday, 16 President’s Day, Club closed, bedrooms open th professor of clinical pediatrics at the Tuesday, 17 History Talk Table with David N. Schwartz (sold College of Physicians and Surgeons, out), Gallipoli by Alan Morehead Wednesday, 18 th Wine Seminar Columbia University. His honors st include the National Brennerman Saturday, 21 Great Thinkers Seminar (2 of 5) with William A. Johnson Award in Pediatrics. Sandra O. rd Gold has served on various boards Monday, 23 Literary Lecture, David Hajdu ( The Ten-Cent Plague ) Thursday, 26 th Program Lecture, Edward S. Walker (Syria and that have created innovative Palestine) programs to address the special Saturday, 28 th Cabaret Night, Christine Andreas needs of the elderly and those with

disabilities.

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THE LOTOS CLUB CALENDAR The Lotos Club Five East Sixty-sixth Street Reservations Are Important New York City 10065 JANUARY 20 0 9 Call 737-7100 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR FEBRUARY DINING HOURS: nd Monday, 2 Art Lecture, Phyllis Tuchman 1 2 3 Monday through Friday th Wednesday, 4 Lotos Conversation, Gordon Crovitz and Minky Worden Luncheon 12 to 2:30 p.m. th New Year’s Day Tuesday, 10 Library Lecture, Michael Ratner TWELFTH Monday through Friday th Saturday, 14 Special Events Evening, “Friendship and Love: A Lotos Club closed NIGHT FROLIC Dinner 6 to 9 p.m. Club Valentine” 6:30 p.m. rd Saturday Dinner 6:30-9 p.m. Monday, 23 Literary Lecture, David Hajdu th Reservations Thursday, 26 Program Lecture, Edward S. Walker th Call (212) 737-7100 Saturday, 28 Cabaret Night, Christine Andreas

4 5 6 7 8 Archives 9 10 Art Committee Foundation Committee

Board, 6 p.m. Lunch Meeting 6 p.m. th Opera Talk Table, 12 noon Literary 66 Street Salon Robert W. Gutman Book Discussion Committee 6-7:30 p.m. 6 p.m. 12 noon (4 of 4) Beef Wellington Lobster Night Saturday Night Dining 12:30-2:30 p.m. Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill

Science and 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Music Technology State Dinner Committee Committee, 6 p.m. Committee, 6 p.m. Monday -Friday

6 p.m. Literary Lecture, Book Discussion Library Prix Fixe Dinner $44.00 and

Public Affairs Meryl Gordon Committee, 6 p.m. (4 of 4), 7:30 p.m. Regular à la carte menu Committee 6:30 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night Saturday Night Dining 6 p.m. Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill

18 19 20 21 22Literary Talk 23 24 History Talk Public A ffairs Table, Janice C. Grijns Great Thinkers Table, David N. House Evening, 12 noon Seminar Schwartz, 11:30 a.m. Committee Neal Shapiro Committee on (1 of 5) 6 p.m. Finance 6:30 p.m. Admissions, 6 p.m. 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Committee, 6 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night Saturday Night Dining Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill

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Program STATE DINNER, Special Events Committee Meeting of the BARBARA COOK Committee

6:30 p.m. 6 p.m. Directory 6 p.m.

6 p.m. Club closed Lobster Night Saturday Night Dining after breakfast Dover Sole Night (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill

THE LOTOS CLUB CALENDAR The Lotos Club Five East Sixty-sixth Street FEBRUARY 2009 Reservations Are Important New York City 10065 Call 737-7100 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

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Lotos Conversation , Monday -Friday Art Lecture, L. Gordon Crovitz Book Discussion Phyllis Tuchman and Minky Worden (1 of 4) Prix Fixe Dinner $44.00 and th

6:30 p.m. 66 Street Salon 6:30 p.m. 12:30-2:30 p.m. Regular à la carte menu 6-7:30 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night Saturday Night Dining

Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill

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Affairs Talk Table

Membership 12 noon Special Event, Book Discussion Library Lecture, Committee House Committee A Lotos Club (1 of 4) Michael Ratner Valentine 6 p.m. 6 p.m. 7:30-9:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters)

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 History Talk Great Thinkers Table, David N. Seminar President’s Day Schwartz, 11:30 a.m. Wine Seminar Committee on (2 of 5) Club closed Finance Admissions, 6 p.m. 6 p.m. 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Committee, 6 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night Saturday Night Dining Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Literary Lecture, Cabaret Night , Program L ecture David Hajdu Meeting of the Edward S. Walker Christine Andreas 6:30 p.m. Directory and Dinner 6 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night

Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters)

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR MARCH DINING HOURS: Monday through Friday nd th Monday, 2 Opening Reception, Art Exhibit Monday, 16 Public Affairs Evening, Peter Gelb Luncheon 12 to 2:30 p.m. th th Wednesday,4 Lotos Conversation, Jeffrey and Liz Peek Tuesday, 24 History Talk Table with David N. Schwartz Monday through Friday th th Dinner 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, 10 Library Lecture, Patricia Greenwald Wednesday, 25 Music Evening, Charles Strouse

th th Saturday Dinner 6:30-9 p.m. Friday, 13 Founders’ Day Dinner (members only) Saturday, 20 Science & Technology Lecture, Mark Gluck Reservations Call (212) 737-7100