News & Notes

from The Lotos Club

NOVEMBER 2008

Michael Tolan Ambassador for the World’s Oceans to Perform Will Receive Award of Distinction Members will be treated again to a Sylvia A. Earle , the best -known Reality,” will focus on the state of performance by their fellow Lotosian, marine scientist on the planet, will be the oceans today and our reliance actor Michael Tolan , on Monday, the guest of honor at a Science and upon them for a human-friendly November 24. Mr. Tolan’s dramatic Technology Evening on Wednesday, planet. reading of works by ten great poets – November 19. Dr. Earle’s talk, including Matthew Arnold, T. S. “Sustainable Seas: the Vision, the A botanist, biologist, conservationist, Eliot, Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia explorer and entrepreneur, Dr. Earle Lorca and Langston Hughes – will be has followed whales in the open sea, accompanied by cellist Elizabeth fought sharks and lived for weeks at Means . (Cocktails, 6:30 p.m.; $30) a time on the floor of the sea, in a The music has been arranged by Lee Tektite undersea station. She has Norris , who was arranger/conductor walked untethered on the sea floor at for Diahann Carroll, conductor of the a lower depth than any other human Buffalo Philharmonic Pops Concerts being – 1,250 feet below the ocean’s and composer/arranger for the surface. She holds the women’s

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Actor, director and producer Michael Tolan needs no introduction. He has appeared in innumerable leading roles Film Screening in theater, in film and on television.

He has directed and appeared in many An unusualat Artart exhibition, Show focusing events at the Lotos Club, the most Sylvia Earle (photo by Becky Hale) on a carnival town, will open with a recent being a reading of Walt cocktail reception on November 3 Whitman with actor Fritz Weaver and from 6 to 7 p.m., followed by a Lotos member William A. Johnson. screening of an award-winning Members’ Dinner Ms. Means has shared her versatile th documentary by Lotos member artistry in some of the world’s leading on November 12 Loretta Harms , from 7 to 8 p.m. concert halls and has collaborated The annual Mark Twain Dinner, for Gibtown has been shown at with some of the most prominent members only, will be held on numerous worldwide festivals and Wednesday, November 12. The museums and on the Emmy Award- (continued on page 6) highlight this year will be the winning PBS series, Independent presentation of the new Lotos book, Lens . The event is complimentary, Members of The Lotos Club , 1870- but members are asked to call the Save the Date 2007, to all attendees (cocktails, 6:30 Club office if they plan to attend the p.m.; $65). reception. The exhibit will run through Thursday, November 13. Saturday, January 3, 2009 Both new and longtime members enjoy this event, which continues the Ms. Harms, the executive producer Twelfth Night Frolic tradition of honoring Samuel and installation artist, shares a brief Clemens, one of the Club’s earliest history of the documentary on the and most celebrated Lotosians, a Lotos Club website: member from 1873 to 1910. www.lotosclub.org.

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A Note to Members

by John Sussek, Jr., Treasurer Welcome to

If you have been a stranger to dining This all will pass and there will be the Club Louis Auchincloss (Honorary), in the Grill – and only you know who new problems to solve. Remember, novelist/historian/essayist, State you are – be a stranger no longer, as the crash of 1929-30 had no Dinner Honoree, City. there are good reasons to show up. A government bailout, and a year later newly constructed ladies’ restroom, the market recovered and rose 67% Susan A. DiCicco (Non-Resident adjacent to the men’s room in the from its depths. Hang in there – B), artist, Santa Barbara, CA. Grill Room, was completed over the don’t panic. Lotos will be needed Memberships: former trustee of summer months, much to the delight more now than ever. Windstar Foundation; supervising of almost half the membership. What producer of FOTUN (virtual makes this also exciting is that the ). Proposer: Grill appears no different except that Michael Dolas; Seconder: Ann it seems more intimate. Every female Tanenbaum. member in the club should have dinner in the club ASAP, drink a lot Hollise Gersh (Resident), interior of wine and “test drive” the new designer, .

“john.” No RSVP is needed; just Memberships: Friars Club; Boca 5 East 66 th Street show up! Comments are welcome Raton Club. Proposer: Shelby M. New York, NY 10065 but, please ladies, no complaints! It Tauber; Seconder: Patricia (212) 737-7100 cost a fortune to build and literally Greenwald. (212) 737-9188 (fax) years to get implemented. www.lotosclub.org Carol Robinson (Resident), real Now, if that is not enough to lure you estate broker, New York City. to the Grill, we now have new styles News & Notes Memberships : Central Park in stemware. The previous wine glass Conservancy, Carnegie Hill has become a relic and the new wine Executive Editor Neighborhood Association. goblets that have replaced them are Stephenie Ralston Proposer: Michael Tolan; much more elegant. It appears that Design Editor Seconder : Silas R. Mountsier III. they hold more content so maybe Sharon Situ Lee Vandervelde (Resident), fine you’ll get more for your money. Try art consultant, New York City. them out. To add a further touch of Contributing Editors Memberships: NY Institute of class to our Grill Room dining, we Nancy Johnson Finance. Reinstatement. now have new leather-bound menu Margaret Diggory holders. Just to handle them makes you hungry, and the menu is three pages long! Order Gifts Now On a more serious note, the economic New on the holiday gift list this year Club Holiday meltdown we are experiencing does are white and red wine glasses, sold not exclude Lotos from its impact. in sets of six. Other popular gifts In observance of Over its history, our club has had its include official Lotos Club silk ties; Thanksgiving Day, ups and downs, and it will survive elegant cufflinks; navy cashmere Thursday, November 27 th , this global disaster. However, our scarves, sterling silver key rings; jade the Lotos Club will be closed bailout will not be provided by the crystal paperweights; brass and black on Friday, November 28 th leather coasters; and fragrance government. It will be provided by and Saturday, November 29 th . our membership and membership candles. Bedrooms are open usage. You will still need uplifting For more information, contact diversions from your labors – warm every day of the year. Margaret Diggory in the Club office, friendships, good food and drink – to (212) 737-7100 or keep you on balance. [email protected].

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N E W S A N D N O T E S In Memoriam Elmer E. Baker, Jr. 1922-2008

Reflections by J. Roger Friedman Elmer and Keora Baker were very dear friends. My wife, Pat, and I socialized with them at the Lotos Club, dined with them at three-star restaurants in London and shared the holidays with them at our home.

Elmer became a member of Lotos in 1969. 2009 would have marked his 40 th anniversary as a member. For almost four decades, Elmer “served” at the Club. I use the word “served” because it is an English concept that in today’s world is out of fashion. Yes, Elmer was an Anglophile. From the top of his fedora hat to the bottoms of his well- polished shoes, he was British.

Keora and Elmer Baker (“Mr. Lotos”) at the Twelfth Night Frolic in 1996

positions of responsibility that Elmer he meant six o’clock. And when Elmer held do not adequately describe his love said tie and jacket, he meant tie and for and contributions to the Lotos Club. jacket . Elmer Baker was our conscience. When you step into 5 East 66 th Street, For many years, Elmer was chairman of you will see the results of his labors and, the House Committee. Under his most importantly, when you talk to leadership, the entire clubhouse was fellow members of Lotos, you will feel redecorated. Many of the touches that his presence. one sees in our Club were the result of his and Keora’s refined taste. The red For those of you who knew Elmer, the English telephone chair on our second loss is monumental. For those of you floor landing is just one example. Elmer who did not know him, the loss is instinctively knew what a club should greater, as you missed an opportunity to look like and, more importantly, how the meet a wonderful human being.

ambiance should reflect the history and Elmer Baker at Election Night 2000 When Lotos lost its longtime president, standards of Lotos. Yes, Elmer had high Frank R. Lawrence, in 1918, the Club At his death, Elmer was a Club director, standards, not only in terms of passed a resolution in his honor that a member of the Library Committee, a decorating, but in the qualities needed makes a fitting tribute to Elmer Baker member of the Long Range Planning for prospective members in his Club. He today: “A man who united in himself so Committee and on the board of The never deviated. many fine qualities, such distinguished Lotos Foundation. He was the recipient When Elmer was selected to be a ability and fidelity, that his long period of the Lotos Medal of Merit in 1984. member of a committee, you could count of service, so honorable and successful, From 1983 to 1990, he was a vice on his being in attendance for every raised the position and prosperity of the president of Lotos. The offices and session. When Elmer said six o’clock, Club to its present enviable estate.”

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A Review

A Hot Topic in Election Year: U.S. Supreme Court by Joel B. Zweibel, member of the Program Committee

On September 22, A. E. Dick with “one person, one vote ” issues ideological conservatives O’Connor, Howard of the University of involving the civil rights revolution Scalia and Kennedy) as well as the Virginia Law School spoke to a full and the right to privacy. He noted unsuccessful nomination of Robert audience in the Ballroom on “The that, with four appointments to the Bork; President George H. W. Bush’s Struggle for the Supreme Court.” Court (Burger, Blackmun, Powell appointment of Thomas and, the Prof. Howard talked with great and Rehnquist), President Nixon great surprise, Souter; President knowledge, perception and humor, attempted unsuccessfully to change Clinton’s appointment of Ginsburg tracing the highest court from the the character of the preceding Court. and Breyer; and finally, the most “Warren Court” to the “Burger Instead, the Burger Court voted recent appointments to the Court – Court” and then to today’s Court. against Nixon on the Watergate Roberts and Alito – under President tapes, struck down the death penalty, George W. Bush. Professor Howard discussed the and decided Roe v. Wade. social problems taken on by the Professor Howard noted the major Warren Court and its concomitant Professor Howard continued with differences between the Warren Court tipping to the liberal side as it dealt President Reagan’s appointment of and today’s Court as total turnover, the very different and less well known A Review backgrounds of the members of the current Court (all of whom hail from appellate judgeships), and the fact Antiques Roadshow Comes to Lotos that the Justices now talk more among by Annette Rickel, member of the Art Committee themselves.

On October 15 , Lotos Club members for several years and then decided Questioning was involved and and guests were treated to a that she would show it to the Keno vigorous. wonderful interplay between the brothers to see what it might be Keno brothers, stars of the PBS hit worth. Clare brought it to them “Antiques holding it like a baby, and the Sylvia A. Earl e Roadshow.” The twin brothers are brothers noted that the John Seymour (continued from page 1) foremost experts on American and Company label was significant record for a solo dive in a deep antiques. Leslie Keno is director of in determining its value since only submersible—3,280 feet. An expert American furniture and decorative eight of these tables had been made on the impact of oil spills, she was arts at Sotheby’s, and Leigh Keno in America. They estimated that it called upon to lead several research currently owns and operates his own could probably bring $150,000 at trips during the Gulf War and business in American antiques. auction and, on a “good” day, maybe following the spills of the ships Exxon $300,000. Clare agreed to sell the The audience listened with Valdez and Mega Borg . table at auction for $150,000 with enthusiasm as the brothers described their oversight. Dr. Earle is currently explorer-in- their many experiences with people residence at the National Geographic who bought objects at fairs and flea The day of the auction was more Society. From 1990-1992, she was markets and later found the items had than a “good” day. The table sold chief scientist for the U.S. National immense value. A particular for $543,000, which included the Oceanic and Atmospheric example that caught the audience’s Keno brothers’ fee. Clare was Administration. attention was about a woman named ecstatic and invited them to the Clare who turned a table she bought Petaluma Restaurant where they She has won innumerable awards and for $25 at a yard sale into a half ordered champagne with dinner to is the author of many publications. million dollar return. Clare bought celebrate. But the fun didn’t end Named Time magazine’s first “hero the table because it was graceful, there. Clare used her new found for the planet” in 1998, Dr. Earle is delicate and had wonderful wealth to take a trip around the also a Knight in the Netherlands proportions. She kept it in her home world! Order of the Golden Ark.

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Holiday Parties at the Lotos Club Table Talk

With the holidays right around the corner, in November members are reminded that they may sponsor a party Wednesday, 5 th for business associates or clients, as well as for friends and family. 66 th Street Salon, 6 p.m. This Salon will encourage a The Club’s gracious service and divine food provocative exploration of the role in an elegant setting will insure a perfect occasion. of food in literature, memoirs and essays. It will focus on how food has played a role as metaphor, plot Call Maureen Schilling or Janet Kim device, key to character and at their direct number: 212-772-6887. narrative strategy in fiction and non- fiction. The Salon is chaired by th Elyse Bloom Greenfield and John Dining Out on Sussek III . 66 Street Salon Saturday Night Friday, 7 th Prelude to Holidays Opera Table Talk, 12 p.m. th The Saturday Night Dining season has The 66 Street Salon will meet on begun. Dining at Lotos is always a Lotos member Robert Gutman will Tuesday, December 2 , for Part 2 of gracious, friendly and tranquil talk about leitmotiv . “Prelude to the Holidays.” A experience. The Club’s historic Grill Tuesday, 18 th provocative and stimulating Room provides the perfect setting for History Talk Table, 11:30 a.m. discussion will explore the role of members to entertain guests. drinking and drinking rituals in Lotos member David N. Schwartz fiction, memoir, poetry, and personal Dining hours are from 6:30 to 9 p.m., will lead a discussion on The Dark essay. As with previous salons, the and cocktail service is offered until 11 Side by Jane Mayer, a contemporary discussion will be informal and wide- p.m. For reservations, call (212) 737- history focused on how the war on ranging, with participants free to 7100. terror has eroded our civil liberties. bring up any literary works they choose. Open House Set Calling All Among the many works in this th category that the conversation may for December 17 Members and their guests are invited touch on are Lucky Jim by Kingsley LotosL veteransotos ofVeterans all services in all to take a brief respite from the flurry of Amis; Everyday Drinking: The holiday preparations to attend the wars, including the Cold War, are Distilled Kingsley Amis ; A Drinking Club’s cocktail party open house on invited to share an informal night Life by Pete Hamill; Drinking: A Wednesday, December 17, from 6 to of camaraderie on Tuesday, Love Story by Carolyn Knapp; I 7:30 p.m. November 11 , to reminisce and Taste a Liquor Never Brewed by trade “war stories.” The evening

Emily Dickinson; A Moveable Feast The party is complimentary for will begin with cocktails/dinner at by Ernest Hemingway; The Inspector members and $20 for guests. For 7 p.m. in the Grill Room. Morse novels by Colin Dexter; The reservations, call the Club office. Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Attendees will be seated together in the skylight area where they will The Salon will be held from 6 to 7:30 order from a prix fixe menu and be

p.m. in the Grill Room. The charge Enjoy Hot Cider billed individually. (This event of

is $20. For reservations, call the As the cold weather approaches, remembrance is for veterans only, Club office. Participants who wish to the Lotos Club provides a warm Lotos members and spouses of continue the conversation at dinner refuge. Complimentary hot apple members who are veterans.) should ask for separate dinner cider is served from 11:30 a.m. until th For reservations or more reservations. The 66 Street Salon is 5:30 p.m. by the crackling fire information, call the Club office, co-chaired by John Sussek III and in the Members’ Lounge. Elyse Bloom Greenfield . (212) 737-7100, ext. 439.

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A Review Michael Tolan (continued from page 1 )

Henry M oore in the Gardens artists of our time. She has been a by Marion Banks Lawless, Library Committee Chair consistent prize winner, and made her On September 25, thirty -six Club and horticultural research libraries. Carnegie Hall debut this year as members and guests experienced the With our tour leader, Stephen soloist with Pinchas Zuckerman and largest outdoor exhibition of Henry Sinon, New York Botanical Garden the School of Music’s Moore’s sculpture ever presented in archivist, we viewed original Chamber Sinfonia. She is a founding a single venue in America. The archival material and illustrated member of the The Brunell String collection of twenty major pieces books from the pre-1850 collection Quarter, which will make its debut at was positioned throughout the New of rare botanical books. Carnegie Hall this winter.

York Botanical Gardens’ 250 acres. The Gardens provide a natural place to exhibit these monumental forms as they were meant to be seen and CANDIDATES FOR MEMBERSHIP appreciated from every angle. The following candidates await consideration. Confidential comments concerning these candidates are solicited and should be addressed to the We viewed the collection by tram, chair of the Committee on Admissions . with frequent stops to get close to and touch several of the more CANDIDATE CLASSIFICATION PROPOSER/ important pieces. Alex Rosenberg , SECONDER former president of the Appraisers Christopher Anderson Non-Resident A Everett Raymond Kinstler Association of America, a Writer Mary Higgins Clark Washington, CT contemporary and modern art dealer with thirty years of experience and Stephen Feinberg Resident William T. Nicholson Henry Moore’s friend for more than Partner, Chief Creative Officer Arthur J. Kover fifteen years, was our onsite leader. of advertising firm He discussed in depth three major New York City

Moore sculptures: Locking Piece , Annie Fiorilla di Santa Croce Resident William Sadlier Dinger Draped Reclining Mother and Baby Attorney J. Roger Friedman and Seated Women . And he also New York City offered spontaneous commentary on Virginia Chambers Keim Resident Jane Marks Hart the way to the Gardens and back. Director of Development Donald O. Quest The group also visited the Lu Esther and Public Relations, T. Mertz Library, one of the world’s New York Foundling New York City largest and most important botanical Virginia Kinzey Resident Ellen C. Monk Owner/ Director of art gallery Audrey S. Amdursky New York City

W. Bruce Lundberg Non-Resident A Mariana Cook Physician Donald O. Quest In Memoriam Guilford, CT

Elmer E. Baker, Jr. Julia C. Reinhart Resident Joan T. Kretschmer “Mr. Lotos” Managing Director, Lyric Chamber Peter Friedman Music Society of New York Brooklyn, NY Philip J. Braff Suzanne Russell Overseas Anne Russell Artist and writer Audrey S. Amdursky Frederiksberg, Denmark

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Literary Suggestion for Lotosians – A Review The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: :

A Biographical Essay by Louis Begley by William A. Johnson, moderator of the Great Thinkers Seminar

Like many of you, I read The Trial He retired from his legal practice in writings be burned upon his death. and The Castle during those existen- 2007. He has written eight novels, the His life is reflected in his writings, tially confusing years of the 1960s, first one in 1991, , but only up to a reducible point, and and was left with a “Kafkaesque” which won him all sorts of prestigious that is that his fiction is ultimately to sense of greater confusion. One might literary prizes. be judged by its aesthetic values and even want to say “ontological by the response that these works The Tremendous World I Have Inside stupefaction”! But we somehow evoke in the readers. My Head reads like a dialogue sensed that we were reading great between Kafka and Begley: Kafka The longest part of the book is western literature, and that Franz baring his troubled soul and Begley devoted to a narrative of who Kafka Kafka, for all of his disturbing texts, responding by demonstrating how was; the last part, shorter but was probably one of the few literary th Kafka created his novels, from the extremely helpful, provides a critical geniuses of the 20 century. backdrop of his troubled soul. Kafka analysis of most of Kafka’s writings. If you would like to pursue the speaks for himself, not always Kafka comes through it all with the mysterious and wonderful meaning of serenely. About his sometime fiancée: final judgment that it is his Kafka’s novels, I am happy to say “I cannot live without her, nor with “unshakable humanism” that makes that I have found the best book for her”; on the prospect of becoming a him such a great literary voice. you. The Tremendous World I Have husband: “you would gain a sick, Before I end, I encourage the reader Inside My Head by Louis Begley is a weak, unsociable, taciturn, gloomy, to look at Begley’s other novels. In lucid, edifying and enjoyable entrée stiff, almost helpless man”; his addition to Wartime Lies , there is The into the critical world of the literary cosmic outlook: “I know, enough Man Who Was Late (1993), As Max biography. Begley writes about unhappiness for more than a lifetime, Saw It (1994), About Schmidt (1996) Kafka’s prose as “astounding,” but this unhappiness is nothing – yes, that was the basis for the Jack “magnificent” and “unsurpassed.” summoned up, but rather imposed”; Nicholson film – Mistler’s Exit And he surely does literary justice to his illness: “things cannot go on this (1998), Schmidt Delivered (2000), Kafka’s novels and short stories. One way, said the brain, and after five Shipwreck (2003) and Matters of comes away from his book beginning years the lungs said that they were Honor (2007). to understand The Trial and The ready to help”; more on the cosmic Castle in a totally new way, far from situation: “suffering the utmost Begley has to be one of the most one’s own experience of despair (or misery, and the guilt is essentially sophisticated and cosmopolitan was it angst?) of the ’60s. mine”; and more: “These letters really writers today. He brings to his novels are pure anguish, they are caused by human insights from a wide world out Louis Begley is an interesting man. incurable anguish and they cause there, within which he has probed the He was born in Poland, escaped from incurable anguish.” depths of the possible human in 1944 and, after stops in condition – from Poland to , Cracow and Paris, came to the United Well, you get the picture. Kafka is a from Flatbush to Harvard, from States in 1946. His family settled in man tormented by the ordinary émigré to vaulted heights of the legal the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, circumstances of his life (which world. He is a tough writer, but we all where he went to the public schools. become, in time, extraordinary): his need such a writer these days, as we He graduated from Harvard College tortuous love affairs, the cruel attempt to come to terms with our in 1954, and the Harvard Law School behavior of his father, his conflicted own pasts, our own inner lives, as the in 1959. He spent his entire legal Jewish identity, his fractious family world about us seems to crumble just career at the international firm of life, the ravages of his tuberculosis a little more as we speak, and as we Debevoise and Plimpton LLP, serving (which would kill him at the age of attempt to overcome our frightening in their Paris office from 1965-1968. forty) and his demand that all his alienation.

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Lotosians in LOTOS EVENTS AT A GLANCE

the Spotlight For reservations, please call (212) 737-7100 During the past year, Will Barnet has been honored by Artists Equity; NOVEMBER Monday, 3 rd Opening reception , art exhibit, Gibtown , by Lotos received the Made in Maine Award member Loretta Harms Cooper from The Farnsworth Museum; and th th Wednesday, 5 66 Street Salon , literary roundtable in the Grill, was given the first Man of the Year “Prelude to the Holidays, Part I” Award by Art Hamptons. Thursday, 6 th Afternoon Book Discussion (2 of 4) with Jacqueline

The accomplishments of Harriet S. Aronson, Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell th Cohen , a matrimonial lawyer with Thursday, 6 Lotos Conversation with Diana Taylor (economy) th her own firm, were discussed in an Friday, 7 Opera Talk Table with Robert W. Gutman, leitmotiv Monday, 10 th Evening Book Discussion (2 of 4) with Jacqueline S. article about her life in New York Aronson, Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell Super Lawyers 2008 - Metro th Tuesday, 11 A Toast to Veterans , Dinner in the Grill Room for Edition . members and spouses of members who are war veterans David T. Nash has co-authored a th Wednesday, 12 Mark Twain Dinner (members only) paper that was published in a recent Tuesday, 18 th History Talk Table with David N. Schwartz, The edition of The Lancet , regarding a treatment for chronic stable angina. Dark Side by Jane Mayer Wednesday, 19 th Science and Technology Evening , Sylvia A. Earle The authors conclude that the new (oceanographer) drug seems to be a safe addition to nd Saturday, 22 Great Thinkers Seminar (4 of 5) with William A. current traditional drugs and should Johnson, selected poetry by Marianne Moore and make the future outlook brighter Edna St. Vincent Millay for patients with this condition. Monday, 24 th Library/Music Program , dramatic reading by Michael

Tolan, accompanied by cellist, Elizabeth Mean Steven E. North was listed In The th New York Times Magazine Thursday, 27 Thanksgiving Buffet Dinner Friday, 28 th Club closed, bedrooms open (Sunday, September 28, 2008), as Saturday, 29 th Club closed, bedrooms open one of the 100 best lawyers in New

York City. DECEMBER st Four drawings by Gloria Ortiz- Monday, 1 Afternoon Book Discussion (3 of 4) with Jacqueline

Hernandez will be shown in an S. Aronson, The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett Tuesday, 2 nd 66 th Street Salon , literary roundtable exhibition, “Tipping the Balance, rd Works on Paper,” at The Drawing Wednesday, 3 Lotos Conversation with Simone Genatt, (Broadway Asia Company) Room in East Hampton, NY. The Thursday, 4th Evening Book Discussion (3 of 4) with Jacqueline S. exhibit will run through November Aronson, The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett

10, 2008. For more information, Friday, 5 th Opera Talk Table with Robert W. Gutman members may go to the website: th Thursday, 11 Poetry Talk Table with Belinda Pokorny www.drawingroom-gallery.com . Sunday, 14 th Christmas Brunch th Henrik T. Petersen will be in the Tuesday, 16 History Table Talk with David N. Schwartz, Devil cast of Shakespeare’s Henry IV , Take the Hindmost by Edward Chancellor Wednesday, 17 th Holiday Open House Part 2, at the American Globe Saturday, 20 th Great Thinkers Seminar (5 of 5) with William A. Theatre in Manhattan, on Johnson, A Writer’s Capital by Louis Auchincloss November 15, 2008. th Saturday, 20 English Holiday Dinner Wednesday, 24 th Christmas Eve Dinner Elizabeth Turk returns to the th Hirschl and Adler Gallery for an Thursday, 25 Christmas Day. Club closed, bedrooms open Friday, 26 th Club closed, bedrooms open exhibition of her recent sculpture, st October 2-November 8, 2008. Wednesday, 31 New Year’s Eve Dinner

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THE LOTOS CLUB CALENDAR The Lotos Club Five East Sixty-sixth Street NOVEM BER 2008 Reservations Are Important New York City 10065 Call 737-7100 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

DINING HOURS: MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR DECEMBER 1 Monday through Friday nd th th Tuesday, 2 66 Street Salon Tuesday, 16 History Talk Table with David N. Schwartz Luncheon 12 to 2:30 p.m. rd th Monday through Friday Wednesday, 3 Lotos Conversation with Simone Genatt Wednesday, 17 Holiday Open House th th Dinner 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, 5 Opera Talk Table with Robert W. Gutman Saturday, 20 English Holiday Dinner th th Saturday Dinner 6:30-9 p.m. Thursday, 11 Poetry Talk Table with Belinda Pokorny Wednesday, 24 Christmas Eve Dinner Reservations th st Saturday Night Dining Sunday, 14 Christmas Brunch Wednesday, 31 New Year’s Eve Dinner in the Grill Call (212) 737-7100

2 3 4 5 6 Book Discussion 7 8

(2 of 4), 12:30-2:30 p.m. Reciprocal Clubs th Opera Talk Ta ble, Opening Reception, The 66 Street Salon Committee, 6 p.m. Robert W. Gutman Art Exhibit and Film 6-7:30 p.m. Gibtown Lotos Conversation, 12 noon Screening, Diana Taylor, 6:30 p.m. Beef Wellington Saturday Night Dining Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux Lobster Night in the Grill

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mark Twain Dinner Monday -Friday (members only) Governance Book Discussion Veterans’ Day Committee Prix Fixe Dinner $44.00 and 6:30 p.m. (2 of 4) Dinner in the Grill 6 p.m. Regular à la carte menu 7:30-9:30 p.m. 7 p.m. Club closed Lobster Night Saturday Night Dining Dover Sole Night after lunch (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

History Talk Table, Science and Great Thinkers David N. Schwartz Technology Evening, Seminar Sylvia Earle 11:30 a.m. Com mittee on (4 of 5) 6 p.m. House Committee Finance Committee 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Admissions, 6 p.m.

6 p.m. 6 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night Saturday Night Dining Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill

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Library /Music Thanksgiving Club closed, Club closed, Program, Meeting of the Day Buffet bedrooms open bedrooms open Michael Tolan Directory 6 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 30 Beef Wellington Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux THE LOTOS CLUB CALENDAR The Lotos Club Five East Sixty-sixth Street DECEM BER 2008 Reservations Are Important New York City 10065 Call 737-7100 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

DINING HOURS: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Monday through Friday Luncheon 12 to 2:30 p.m. Lotos Conversation, Book Discussi on Opera Talk Table, Monday through Friday th Book Discussion The 66 Street Simone Genatt (3 of 4) Robert W. Gutman Dinner 6 to 9 p.m. (3 of 4) Salon 6:30 p.m. 7:30-9:30 p.m. 12 noon Saturday Dinner 6:30-9 p.m. 12:30-2:30 p.m. 6-7:30 p.m. Reservations Beef Wellington Lobster Night Saturday Night Dining

Call (212) 737-7100 Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill

7 8 9 10 11 Poetry Talk Table, 12 13 Belinda Pokorny 11:30 a.m.

House Finance Committee on Committee Committee Admissions, 6 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night Saturday Night Dining

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14 15 16 17 18 19 20 History Talk Great Thinkers

Table, David N. Holiday Monday -Friday Seminar, (5 of 5) Schwartz, 11:30 a.m. Christmas Brunch Open House Prix Fixe Dinner $44.00 and 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

11 a.m.; 1:30 p.m. Meeting of the 6-8 p.m. Regular à la carte menu English Holiday Directory, 6 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night Dinner

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rd No luncheon Saturday, 3 Twelfth Night Frolic served today. th Tuesday, 13 Literary Lecture, Meryl Gordon st Wednesday, 21 Public Affairs Evening, Neal Shapiro New Year’s Eve th Monday, 26 Wine Seminar Dinner th Wednesday, 28 STATE DINNER, BARBARA COOK Dover Sole Night