News & Notes from The Lotos Club O C T O B ER 2007
Jacobs Portrait Mark Twain Dinner Art Forgery Is to Be Displayed Set for November 14 Lecture Topic On Monday, October 22, members Stephen Railton , English professor “Fakes and Forgeries : The Art of will celebrate the unveiling of the at the University of Virginia, will be Deception,” a lecture and slide portrait of Irwin Jacobs , president of the special guest at the Mark Twain presentation will be given on Lotos from 2002 to 2006, painted by Member Dinner on Wednesday, Thursday, October 11 by Nancy artist John Boyd Martin (cocktails/ November 14 (cocktails, 6:30 p.m.; Hall-Duncan , senior curator of the dinner, 6:30 p.m.; $50). $75). Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn.
Professor Railton, who has published (cocktails: 6:30 p.m.; $25). During Mr. Jacobs’ tenure, the Club reached its cap of 400 Resident numerous articles on American The talk will define the terms “fake” members; created a new Science and literature, has appeared on PBS’s and “forgery,” and will address the Technology Committee; developed NewsHour with Jim Lehrer as an complexities of what constitutes an LOTA, an art subcommittee focusing expert on Mark Twain. One of his authentic work. Ms. Hall-Duncan on the creative process in award-winning web-based electronic will show examples of Western contemporary art; relaxed the dress archives for teaching and studying paintings and sculpture that have code for summer; initiated a summer American literature, Mark Twain in been faked from all periods of art, events program; launched a series of His Time , focuses on how Twain and including the forgery considered the lunchtime table talks; established his works were created and defined, world’s most famous. reciprocity with The Chicago Club, marketed and performed, reviewed Ms. Hall-Duncan will also address The California Club in Los Angeles and appreciated. the strategies and techniques of the and the Kildare Street and University Club in Dublin; amended the Mark Twain, who called Lotos “The world’s most successful forgeries. Constitution to add the Government Ace of Clubs,” was a member from Service classification of membership 1873 to 1910. Members enjoy this and to change the classification opportunity to share a gourmet meal Science Talk on and lively conversation with their (continued on page 4) fellow Lotosians. Biotechnology Garo H. Armen , co-founder of the biotechnology company Antigenics, An Evening of Remembrance and Celebration will give a lecture entitled “Can the A special celebratory memorial singer , eventually transferring to the U.S. Remain the Epicenter for concert at the Lotos Club on visual arts; her involvement with all Biotechnology?” on Monday, Thursday, November 1 will honor aspects of the world of music, October 15 (cocktails, 6 p.m.; $25). Marian MacKinney , second vice however, was constantly prevalent in He will address differing health president of The Lotos Club, who her life. Two of the young artists regulatory systems, the ethics of passed away suddenly on August 1. selected to perform were recipients statistics and why he chose to Marian’s great love of the arts will of Marian’s enthusiasm and support. register his kidney cancer drug in be acknowledged with a performance This performance will be a special Russia. by two brilliant young pianists and tribute to the love and admiration she Dr. Armen’s company was one of the an outstanding soprano. A toast to showered upon superb talent with first to cultivate a patient-specific Marian at 6 p.m. will precede the extraordinary potential. approach and focus on developing 6:30 concert. For reservations, please call (212) advanced alternatives for a wide Marian’s artistic career began as a 737-7100, ext. 439. range of illnesses.
N E W S A N D N O T E S A Note to Members Dress Code by Patrick J. Frawley, President To make it more comfortable There has never been a doubt in my underscore the importance of to dine during July and August, mind about the care and love that exploring options, but only and the Club’s dress code is relaxed Lotos members have for our Club. always in the context of enhancing to make optional the wearing We all feel that we are privileged to service to members and preserving of neckties. be part of such a wonderful all that makes Lotos special. As This fall, the dress code will be organization: a beautiful clubhouse, many rightly noted, it appears that altered from Sunday, September 1 stimulating programs, great food and any potential expansion may be more through Sunday, November 4, so a diverse, talented and active that we can handle, given the size of that neckties will not be required membership. our membership and the economics during breakfast and lunch. They involved. For that reason, I was not surprised will be required, however, after by the many responses to my recent There are as many opinions 5 p.m. (The dress code for letter updating the membership concerning the dress code as there women’s attire remains regarding a variety of issues that the are members of the Club! Opinion unchanged.) Directory and the Club’s committees was rather equally divided on this have been reviewing in concert with issue. The goal of this experiment is management. Members’ remarks to measure its effect on lunchtime demonstrate a profound caring for dining at the Club, an area of concern Club Holiday the Club and a desire to retain the that will be monitored very closely in qualities that make Lotos special, the year ahead. Many offered The Lotos Club will be closed while ensuring that the Club is well additional suggestions, which will be on Monday, October 8 in positioned for the future. I also want forwarded to the appropriate observance of Columbus Day. to note the constructive tone committees. Bedrooms are open employed by all members, even every day of the year. One common theme in the letters when presenting an area of concern, received relative to strengthening the as well as many a kind and Club for the future was that the most supportive word – another indication important ingredient of all was an of the character and thoughtfulness active membership. To that end, I of our members. ask again that members take
Though I would have preferred to advantage of all that Lotos has to answer each letter individually, offer. Most especially, take 5 East 66 th Street please know that all member advantage of the fine dining in our New York, NY 10065 comments will be carefully grill. We have begun our Monday (212) 737-7100 considered. I would like to use this evening Club Night. Why not plan (212) 737-9188 (fax) space to mention a few themes that on joining other members for www.lotosclub.org came through the correspondence members’ only dining in the back of received. the grill. It is a wonderful News & Notes opportunity to meet other members, Many members expressed a very while at the same time increasing Executive Editor legitimate concern relative to the Club dining utilization, which helps Stephenie Ralston financial viability of any effort to us meet our overarching goal of acquire the neighboring building. providing the finest experience Design Editor There is also a concern that the Sharon Situ possible for all Lotos members. intimacy of the Club might be lost. I concur that we would take no action I thank the membership for their Contributing Editors that would jeopardize either of these counsel and support, and we’ll keep Nancy Johnson critical factors. Mentioning the you posted on how we are doing in Erika Jo Brown availability of the space was done to the months ahead.
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N E W S A N D N O T E S From the Archives Lotos Artist Eric Sloane Makes a Name for Himself by Nancy Johnson, Archivist
The large cloud -filled painting that hangs in the Wedgwood Parlor is signed Eric Sloane, but that name is an alias. Born Everard Jean Hinrichs in 1905, the painter changed his name after deciding to become an artist. His new last name was a tribute to painter John Sloan, his mentor at the Art Students League in New York. His first name was lifted from the word AmERICa. Sloane felt it was a perfect name, reflecting his devotion both to painting and his country.
Sloane developed an interest in art as a child in New York City when type-face Cloudscape , the Eric Sloane painting in the Lotos collection designer Frederick W. Goudy taught him Sloane created his most ambitious colle ction of early American tools – hand to hand paint letters and signs. Young cloudscape for the Smithsonian Air and wrought chisels, axes, lathes and scythes – Sloane put this talent to work, painting Space Museum in Washington. The to The Sloane Stanley Museum in Kent, serial numbers and markings on airplanes monumental painting – six stories high Connecticut. Speaking of these tools, he at Roosevelt Field, on Long Island. There and one and a half blocks long – was explained, “I believe their lines and Sloane met flier Wiley Post, who took painted when the artist was 71 years old textures are worthy of at least the same Sloane for rides in his record-setting and took just two months to complete. recognition as the current sculptures made plane, the Winnie May . Once airborne, from American junk.” Sloane became entranced by the clouds Sloane’s fascination with the sky led him and the sky, an interest that would to an intensive study of weather. He The most successful of the more than profoundly affect his work. took classes at MIT and studied the three dozen books Sloane wrote was Farmer’s Almanac , learning techniques Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah used by farmers to interpret weather Blake 1805 . Sloane used text from a signs. Sloane claimed to be the first diary he bought at a Connecticut book television weather man, devising a sale, contributing illustrations and his scheme where farmers from all over own text to further explain farm tasks New England reported weather such as nail-making and plowing conditions to a Dumont station in New mentioned by the 15-year-old diarist. York, which then broadcast the news to a Later in life, Sloane split his time regional audience. He shared his between his Connecticut farm and Santa knowledge in several books, including Fe, New Mexico. Like his New England Eric Sloane’s Weather Book (1952). paintings, work done in Santa Fe reflects Sloane’s other great love was early a reverence for nature and tradition. Americana. He was devoted to recording Sloane joined Lotos in 1971, and a way of life he felt was disappearing, exhibited his work at the Club in 1974. and loved to make paintings of old barns, On March 5, 1985, the eighty-year-old covered bridges and rural countryside. A portrait photograph of Sloane Eric Sloane was on his way to meet his Starting in the early 1950s, he restored wife, Mimi, for lunch when he suffered a Sloane made his first cloud paintings in several old farmhouses in Connecticut fatal heart attack on the steps of the Plaza the 1930s, and coined the word and developed an admiration for early Hotel. Friends said it was the only time “cloudscape” to describe them. His American rural architecture and building he was ever late. Two years later, the earliest clients included Roosevelt Field tools. In the course of his restoration National Cowboy Hall of Fame in habitué Amelia Earhart, who must have work and research, he became an shared his love of the sky. The painting Oklahoma City held a retrospective authority, writing dozens of books, in the Lotos art collection is typical of his exhibition of Sloane’s work, and acquired including ABC Book of Early Americana one of his last paintings. It was the only work: a vast and atmospheric view of a (1963) and I Remember America, (1971). cloudy sky is punctuated by a tiny one he had signed with his given initials, airplane. In 1969, Sloane donated his vast E.J.H.
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Jacobs’ Portrait Art Exhibit to Feature Sculptor (continued from page 1) On November 5 th , the Lotos Club and the collections of the Corcoran of members under the age of thirty -six the Art Committee will host the Gallery of Art, the National Museum to “Associate”; renovated the front opening for the art exhibit of works for Women in the Arts, and the desk area; installed a clubhouse by renowned sculptor and Lotos Weatherton Gallery, University of security system; dedicated a bronze Professional Artist member Elizabeth North Carolina. plaque in the Grill Room to recognize Turk . Ms. Turk was born in Her Rembrandt collars, which have those who contributed to the California, earned her B.A in been described as “breathtakingly endowment fund to pay off the International Relations at Scripps beautiful,” are particularly timely, in mortgage; and renamed the first floor College (1983), and her M.F.A. from dining room the Tennyson Room. light of the current Rembrandt the Rinehart School of Sculpture, exhibition at the Metropolitan Baltimore, MD (1994). She was the The artist, John Boyd Martin , is one Museum in New York. A of the most accomplished portrait Artist in Residence at the McColl continuously running DVD will artists in the country. His paintings Center for Visual Art (2003), the demonstrate the process she hang in more than seventy-five cities Kyojima Artist in Residence in Tokyo undergoes in making her works: across the United States. Mr. Martin (2000); and the Artist in Residence at cutting, drilling, filing, and polishing began his career as an advertising California State University, Fullerton of these marble sculptures. Their director and illustrator, winning (2001). She was awarded the Joan placement in the Pacific Ocean and numerous awards. In 1982, he turned Mitchell Foundation Grant, the New in a swimming pool show the his focus to portrait painting, taking his York City Art Commission Award for inherent beauty that is apparent as inspiration from the Impressionists Excellence in Design, and the Amalie water flows through these delicate with regard to discipline, perception Rothschild Award. Her work is in and sensitivity. Some of Mr. Martin’s artworks. best known portrait commissions are golfer Arnold Palmer; AT&T CEO Robert Allen; West Virginia Governor Mr. Lotos and Some Lotos Ladies Bob Wise; Secretary of Defense Les Aspin; and Temple University President Ronald Calgaard.
Poetry Talks Set
Belind a Pokorny , leader of the lunchtime Poetry Talk Tables, reports that a number of future sessions this season will involve English and Irish poets responding to World War I either directly or indirectly in their work. Beginning with W. B. Yeats through the modern Dylan Thomas, the turmoil of the political world is reflected in the private imaginings and lives of these poets. Sessions: October 25 (William Butler Yeats); December 13 (D.H. Lawrence); February 28 (Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Elmer E. Baker, Jr., (second from left) with (left to right) Anne Russell, Ellen Hayden); March 20 (Siegfried Monk, Gretchen Stone (standing), Marion Banks Lawless and Irene Duell Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Isaac helped to kick off the first “Club Night” on Monday, September 17. Every Rosenberg); and April 24 (Stevie Monday evening, several tables in the Grill Room are set aside only for Smith, Dylan Thomas). members to enjoy dinner together.
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Table Talk Thanksgiving Buffet Dinner Thursday, November 22, 2007 in Octoberth Wednesday, 10 Sittings: 1 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Literary Talk Table, 12 noon Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University Maurice The Lotos Club is now taking reservations for this festive buffet Charney will discuss dinner, which is held in the elegant Library, Ballroom and Grill “Shakespeare’s Old Men.” Dr. Room. Members are encouraged to reserve early for this year’s Charney is the former president of turkey feast, which will feature all the traditional trimmings as well the Shakespeare Association of as many other gourmet specialties. America and author of the reference Refreshments will be served in the first floor lounges book All of Shakespeare . before and after each sitting. Tuesday, 23 rd History Talk Table, 11:30 a.m. For reservations, please call Sharon Situ Lotos member David N. Schwartz in the Club office, (212) 737-7100. will discuss Team of Rivals by Doris Be sure to specify your time preference. Kearns Goodwin, which relates We will do our best to accommodate you. Lincoln’s efforts to govern the Union by bringing his rivals together in a The price is $63 per person ($20 for children under twelve). single Cabinet.
~~~ Thursday, 25 th Cancellations must be received by Monday, November 19, Poetry Talk Table, 11:30 a.m. or the member’s account will be charged. Lotos member Belinda Pokorny will discuss the works of William Butler Yeats. A Toast to Veterans Thursday, November 8, 2007
Lotos veterans of all services in all wars are invited to share an evening of camaraderie on Thursday, November 8, to reminisce and trade “war stories.” OKTOBERFEST Attendees will be seated together in the skylight area October 15 -19, 2007
of the Grill Room. They will order from a prix fixe menu The first in the series of theme and be billed individually (cocktails/dinner: 7 p.m.). dinners in the Grill will be an Oktoberfest, This event is for veterans only—Lotos members or featuring German cuisine. spouses who are veterans. During this week, a special For reservations, please call (212) 737-7100, ext. 439. prix fixe menu will feature such dishes as Knockwurst with Sauerkraut, Sauerbraten, Schnitzel, Spaetzle, and Apple Saturday Night Dining Resumes on October 13 th Strudel. Join us and toast German heritage with a specially- Enjoy a gracious, friendly and tranquil dining experience. brewed, rich, frothy German beer. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres; seasonal à la carte menu. Dining hours: 5:30-9 p.m. Reservations: (212) 737-7100. The regular fall à la carte will be available.
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Reciprocal Clubs Corner
Lotosians in the
London Affiliates Spotlight by Ronald N. Schnur, member of the Reciprocal Clubs Committee The movie, A Broken Sole , produced by Dr. Stanley Cohen and starring This is the thi rd and final article East India Company, civil servants Danny Aiello, Judith Light, and giving a brief overview of reciprocal and military officers, is located in a Margaret Colin, will premier at the clubs in London. Check for updated grand clubhouse on St. James’s Quad Theater in New York City on information by phone or on the Square in the heart of London November 2. Profits will be given to websites of the various clubs clubland. There are portraits and NY Fire Engine Company #23, which (through the Lotos website at plaques related to the origins of the lost many men on 9/11. www.lotosclub.org ). Call the Lotos club in the British Empire as well as office for cards of introduction memorabilia from the Devonshire Photographer Mariana Cook has just before you visit. Club and the Public Schools Club, published a new book, Close at Hand , both of which amalgamated with the which includes ninety-five of her Remember Phileas Fogg (played by East India Club in the 1970s. photographs. David Niven), who left the drawing Following the tradition of the Public room of the Reform Club to win a Schools Club, public school students, Both Joyce Cowin and Edgar M. 20,000 pound bet that he could circle which, with English logic, are the Cullman, Sr. , have been designated “New York Jewels” by the American the globe in 80 days? The Reform equivalent of our private school Folk Art Museum and will be honored Club is quite real and has since been students, are automatically admitted at its annual benefit dinner on October the setting for a number of films, to the club upon their graduation with 16. Ms. Cowin will also sponsor a including a recent James Bond a recommendation from their quilt museum, which will open at thriller. The Reform Club, located on headmaster. The East India Club has Lincoln Square on October 30 th . Pall Mall, was founded to support the two beautiful dining rooms, a library liberal cause of the 1832 Reform and a gymnasium. The bedrooms vary Two sculptures by Zenos Frudakis Bill, and to this day, new members from very basic single rooms without were dedicated in September: one of must attest that they would have bathroom, in the English style, to a Arnold Palmer, at the airport named voted for the 1832 bill, had they had truly impressive St. James’s Suite. after him in Latrobe, PA, and the the chance. The clubhouse was built other, a Veterans’ Memorial in during the heyday of the British Collegeville, PA. Empire, as a visit to this vast Bernier Is building will show. It was designed Daniel E. Greene, N.A. has an after the Farnese palace in Rome and Gue st Speaker upcoming painting exhibition – was supposed to have a giant open Historian, lecturer and author Olivier “Games” – at Gallery Henoch in New central courtyard although, luckily, Bernier will give a talk sponsored by York City from October 11- November someone remembered that it is in the Library Committee on Monday, 3, 2007. An opening reception for the London, not Rome, so it was built as November 19 (cocktails, 6:30 p.m., artist will be held on October 11 from $25). 6 to 8 p.m. at the Gallery, 555 West a covered interior court. The th bedrooms are very modest, but the 25 Street. Mr. Bernier’s many books have been members like it that way; the widely and favorably reviewed, and in The New York Athletic Club honored bathtubs have feet, the gas pipes are 1984, he was chosen as a Literary Lion artist Everett Raymond Kinstler with still visible, and why shouldn’t the by the New York Public Library. the publication of a limited edition rooms be exactly as they were for Since 1982, Mr. Bernier has been book containing the collection of Mr. great-grandfather? Kinstler’s oil paintings of NYAC giving two series of sold-out lectures a The East India Club ’s full name year at the Metropolitan Museum of presidents. Mr. Kinstler has painted reveals its history: the official name Art in New York. He has also lectured NYAC portraits since 1967 and there of the Club is the East India, across the country, among other are currently thirteen on display at the Devonshire, Sports and Public places, at the Pierpont Morgan Library, City house.
Schools’ Club. The East India Club, the Smithsonian Institution and the (continued on page 8 ) founded in 1842 for memb ers of the National Geographic Society.
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Literary Suggestions for Lotosians
The Dog Days of Summer: A Dostoevsky Double -Dip A review by Janice Grijns, member of the Literary and Library Committees
Memoirs of the House of the Dead I would some prisons are doing exactly this today Meursault in L’Etranger and Dostoevsky’s recommend to anyone running a penal in the United States. Unfortunately, I Raskolnikov, too lengthy to discuss here. institution. There are interesting insights must mention that the peasant and serf into the feelings of prisoners, who rarely prisoners, who were the vast majority, This is also a social novel about the basic experience any guilt, according to were particularly cruel to dogs. problem of MONEY. The anti-hero is an Dostoevsky, and their enforced labor, impoverished student in St. Petersburg. Dostoevsky emphasizes throughout the degradation, and hardship serve only to His mother and sister, who lovingly adore book man’s extreme, unquenchable engender more hatred. The penal system him and sacrifice all for his success, send longing for freedom. What surprised me achieves the removal of the criminal from him every penny they can, and he earns a was how religiously observant every society, thereby guaranteeing it, for that bit from private tutoring. Suddenly, without prisoner seems to be. The final message of period, from further crimes. However, this explanation, he drops out of university and these memoirs is that salvation can only system encourages not only boundless stops giving lessons. He becomes a nihilist be achieved by suffering and by love of hatred, but also the thirst for forbidden rebel against society. He starts pawning the Church. Dostoevsky, after indeed pleasures. The vital juices of the individual what few possessions he has, and decides some doubts about his faith, follows the are sucked dry; re-entering the world after to murder the old lady pawnbroker rest of his life a firm faith in Christ, a this penal servitude, far from a model of ostensibly for her money, but, in reality, to belief in atonement, and a love for the repentance and rehabilitation, the convict experience the feeling of a superman, to Russian Orthodox Church. feel that he is a Napoleon who can control is a mummy morally desiccated and half- crazy. I found Crime and Punishment much his emotions, use his superior intellect, and more oppressive and suffocating. Written hide his crime, as he indeed hides and This novel is actually composed of in 1866, it is considered the first of his never uses what he has stolen. Although he memoirs of Dostoevsky’s own four years great novels, and is a psychological is interrogated several times, he plays an in Siberia in prison. He was arrested at account of a useless crime. It is painful to intellectual cat and mouse game with the age 28 with friends under the autocratic read, as the reader feels imprisoned in the police. It is his emotions which give him regime of Nicolas I for meeting with a mind of the anti-hero murderer, Rodion away: he feels hunted and becomes more group of intellectuals who discussed Romanovich Raskolnikov. With this and more nervously ill until he finally goes alternative forms of.government. It was on novel Dostoevsky added a new dimension to the police station to confess, carrying a Christmas Day, 1849, that he arrived at the to novel-writing, which is an intense religious cross. I was unable to develop prison camp, and his leg irons and fetters psychological interest in the conflicts of any empathy with Raskolnikov nor an were affixed. I need not mention what we the murderer, studied from within the understanding of him. When he learns in all know about: the bugs in the cabbage mind and soul of Raskolnikov. The the prison camp in Siberia of his mother’s soup, the extreme cold, the fleas which suffocating feeling I experienced death, he has no reaction. I can only made sleep very difficult, the banning of throughout this famous novel is best conclude that he is partly insane. A heavy, books except the New Testament. As a described by Baudelaire in his poem airless atmosphere, as if oppressed by “gentleman” or an aristocrat (he was “Spleen,” from his celebrated collection of Baudelaire’s lid, weighs one down while actually middle-class but well-educated), poems Les Fleurs de Mal (1857). reading this novel. It is almost as if one the peasants and the serfs ignored, “Spleen” is the word used by Baudelaire requires an emergency oxygen canister to resented, and isolated him. He felt this to express extreme melancholy and survive the novel. However, it is a great isolation keenly. On the other hand, he depression. The poem begins in my novel, and is worth the pain. suffered greatly from the total lack of translation: “When the sky low and heavy aloneness, of privacy. Raskolnikov had wanted to be an über- weighs upon us like a lid. . .When the mensch, in the style of Nietzsche. Although There is one marvelously futuristic idea in earth is changed into a damp prison cage. . Nietzsche had not written this book yet, he these memoirs of Siberian prison life, .And long funeral hearses, without drums reminded me of the future Thus Spake written or at least mentally conceived in nor music, Parade slowly in my soul; Zarathustra : “Verily, I have often laughed the 1850’s: “Generally speaking, our Hope, Conquered, weeps, and Anguish, at the weaklings who thought themselves prisoners were capable of loving animals, dreadful and despotic, On my bowed head good because they had no claws.” (1883) and if they had been allowed, they would plants her black flag.” The great Raskolnikov has tested the strength of his have delighted to rear large numbers of existentialist French author, Albert claws, but has forgotten the weakness of domestic animals and birds in prison. And Camus, discusses Dostoevsky in his his soul. According to Dostoevsky, man I wonder what other activity could have famous slim volume of essays The Myth cannot live without a belief in God and in better softened and refined their harsh and of Sisyphus . In fact, there are interesting immortality; without this belief, man is brutal natures than this.” We know that parallels with Camus’ famous character faced with suicide or madness.
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New Art LOTOS EVENTS AT A GLANCE
Dialogue Artist Ann Hamilton and curator Joan For reservations, please call (212) 737-7100
Simon will present another in the series OCTOBER of Lectures on the Arts on Tuesday, nd Tuesday, 2 STATE DINNER, DAVE BRUBECK November 6 (cocktails, 6:30 p.m.; $25). rd Wednesday, 3 Lotos Conversation, Michael Cardozo (New York City Ms. Hamilton, trained in textile design, Corporation Counsel) th is best known for her site-specific Monday, 8 Columbus Day. Club closed, bedrooms open th installations, works employing fabrics Tuesday, 9 Evening Book Discussion (1 of 4), with Jacqueline S. and language, sculptures, photographs Aronson, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter and video. Her major works of art are Godwin th almost always space- and time-sensitive, Wednesday, 10 Literary Talk Table with Maurice Charney, explorations of time, language and “Shakespeare’s Old Men” th memory. Often there will be a Thursday, 11 Art Lecture, Nancy Hall-Duncan (“Fakes and Forgeries: performance associated with the The Art of Deception”) th installation. Saturday, 13 Saturday Night Dining Resumes Monday, 15 th Science and Technology Lecture, Garo H. Armen Ms. Hamilton is currently a professor of (biotechnology) art at Ohio State University in th Saturday, 20 Great Thinkers Seminar (2 of 5) with William A. Columbus. Her work is represented in Johnson, Selected Poems and Tales by Edgar the collections of major museums Allan Poe throughout the world. Monday, 22 nd Unveiling of the portrait of Past President Irwin
The Whitney Museum’s curator-at-large, Jacobs by artist John Boyd Martin rd Joan Simon will engage in conversation Tuesday, 23 History Talk Table, with David N. Schwartz, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin with Ms. Hamilton. Ms. Simon is also a th Wednesday, 24 Special Event, “Dinner Theater,” Vita and Virginia writer, editor and arts administrator th based in Paris, France, who has worked Thursday, 25 Poetry Talk Table with Belinda Pokorny (William independently for museums, foundations Butler Yeats) th and publishers in the U.S. and Europe. Monday, 29 Lotos Foundation Scotch Tasting th A former managing editor of Art in Tuesday, 30 Afternoon Book Discussion (2 of 4) with Jacqueline America , Ms. Simon has published S. Aronson, Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope extensively on contemporary art. NOVEMBER st Thursday, 1 Celebratory Concert in memory of Marian MacKinney th Monday, 5 Opening reception, sculpture exhibit by Lotos member Lotosians Spotlight Elizabeth Turk (continued from page 6) th Tuesday, 6 Art Lecture (LOTA), artist Ann Hamilton and Whitney Two series of drawings, Sum II and Museum curator-at-large Joan Simon th Sequitur III, by Gloria Ortiz- Wednesday, 7 Lotos Conversation, Susan Zirinsky (executive producer Hernandez will be included in a two- CBS) th year traveling exhibition, Leaded: The Thursday, 8 Veterans’ Dinner in the Grill Room th Materiality and Metamorphosis of Tuesday, 13 Evening Book Discussion (2 of 4), with Jacqueline S. Graphite , which will go to nine Aronson, Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope museums in the U.S. th Wednesday, 14 Mark Twain Dinner (members only), Stephen Railton Monday, 19 th Library Lecture, Olivier Bernier (art historian) Arlyn Imberman recently served as th executive producer on a video detailing Tuesday, 20 History Talk Table Thursday, 22 nd Thanksgiving Dinner Buffet the efforts to promote the Weizmann rd Institute. This video, which premiered at Friday, 23 Club closed, bedrooms open Saturday, 24 th Club closed, bedrooms open a 2006 New York Gala, received a Silver th Telly Award. The Telly Awards, which Tuesday, 27 Afternoon Book Discussion (3 of 4) with Jacqueline S. Aronson honor excellence in television th commercials and non-broadcast videos, Wednesday, 28 Lotos Conversation, Sue W. Kelly (former New York are the most sought after awards in the congresswoman) industry.
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THE LOTOS CLUB CALENDAR The Lotos Club Five East Sixty-sixth Street OCTOBER 2007 Reservations Are Important New York City 10065 Call 737-7100 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
DINING HOURS: 1 2 3 Lotos Conversation, 4 5 6 Monday through Friday Michael A. Cardozo STATE DINNER , Luncheon 12 to 2:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. DAVE BRUBECK Monday -Friday Monday through Friday 6:30 p.m. Young Leadership Prix Fixe Dinner $39.00 and Dinner 6 to 9 p.m. Committee, 7 p.m. Reservations Club closed Regular à la carte menu Beef Wellington Lobster Night Call (212) 737-7100 after breakfast Club Night in the Grill & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters)
7 8 9 10 Literary Talk Table, 11 12 13
Maurice Charney, 12 noon Columbus Day Art Lecture, Special Events Nancy Hall-Duncan Club closed, Book Discussion Committee, 6 p.m. 6:30 p.m. bedroom open (1 of 4) Foundation Board, 6 p.m. 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. Lobster Night Satu rday Night Dining Beef Wellington Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill Resumes
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 House Committee Science and 6 p.m. Great Thinkers Technology Lecture, Seminar Membership Garo H. Armen 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
6 p.m. Committee, 6 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night Saturday Night Dining Club Night in the Grill Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill
21 22 23 24 25 Poetry Talk Table, 26 27
History Talk Table, Belinda Pokorny,
11:30 a.m. David N. Schwartz Special Event Portrait Unveiling, 11:30 a.m. “Dinner Theatre” Committee on
Irwin Jacobs Admissions, 6 p.m. Finance Committee 6 p.m.
6:30 p.m. 6 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night Saturday Night Dining
Club Night in the Grill Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill MARK YOUR CALENDARS F OR NOVEMBER 28 29 30 Book Discussion 31 st Thursday, 1 Celebratory Concert in memory of Marian MacKinney (2 of 4), 12 noon th Monday, 5 Art Exhibit Opening Reception, Elizabeth Turk th Governance Committee Tuesday, 6 Art Lecture, Ann Hamilton and Joan Simon Lotos Foundation th 4 p.m. Wednesday, 7 Lotos Conversation, Susan Zirinsky Scotch Tasting th Meeting of the Thursday, 8 Veterans’ Dinner in the Grill 6 p.m. th Wednesday, 14 Mark Twain Dinner (members only) Directory, 6 p.m. th Monday, 19 Library Lecture, Olivier Bernier th Club Night in the Grill Dover Sole Night Wednesday, 28 Lotos Conversation, Sue W. Kelly THE LOTOS CLUB CALENDAR The Lotos Club Five East Sixty-sixth Street NOVEM BER 2007 Reservations Are Important New York City 10065 Call 737-7100 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR DECEMBER 1 2 3 Long Range Planning thh Tuesday,11 History Talk Table, David N. Schwartz Committee, 12 noon th Thursday,13 Poetry Talk Table, Belinda Pokorny th Celebratory Concert, Saturday, 15 English Holiday Dinner Marian MacKinney th Sunday, 16 Christmas Brunch 6 p.m. th Wednesday, 19 Holiday Open House th Lobster Night Saturday Night Dining Monday, 24 Christmas Eve Dinner (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Reciprocal Clubs
Committee, 6 p.m. Opening Reception Art Lecture, Lotos Conversation, Monday -Friday Veterans’ Dinner Art Exhibit, Ann Hamilton and Susan Zirinsky Prix Fixe Dinner $39.00 and in the Grill, 7 p.m. Elizabeth Turk Joan Simon 6:30 p.m. Regular à la carte menu 6:30 p.m. 6 p.m. Lobster Night Beef Wellington Saturday Night Dining Club Night in the Grill Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill resumes
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Science and Mark Twain Dinner Committee on
Technology (members only) Book Discussion Admissions 6:30 p.m. Committee (2 of 4) 6 p.m.
6 p.m. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Club closed Lobster Night after lunch Saturday N ig ht Dining Club Night in the Grill Dover Sole Night (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
House History Talk Table, Committee, 6 p.m. David N. Schwartz Thanksgiving Club closed Club closed Library Lecture, 11:30 a.m. Buffet Dinner Bedrooms open Bedrooms open Olivier Bernier Finance Committee 1, 2:30, 4 and 5:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m. 6 p.m. Beef Wellington
Club Night in the Grill Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux
25 26 27 Book Discussion 28 29 30 DINING HOURS: Monday through Friday (3 of 4), 12 noon Luncheon 12 to 2:30 p.m. Governance Lotos Conversation, Committee, 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday Sue W. Kelly
Dinner 6 to 9 p.m. Meeting of the 6:30 p.m. Directory, 6 p.m. Reservations Beef Wellington Call (212) 737-7100 Club Night in the Grill Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux