News & Notes

from The Lotos Club

SEPTEMBER 2008

Louis Auchincloss to Be Honored “Dinner Theater” th Stars Sternhagen at State Dinner on October 7 On Thursday, October 30, the A highlight of the fall season will be shelf of any serious reader of Special Events Committee will the State Dinner for prolific novelist, American fiction” (Jay Parini, present an evening of theater historian and essayist Louis NewYork Observer ). featuring the highly acclaimed Auchincloss on Tuesday, October 7 actress Francis Sternhagen . The (cocktails 6:30 p.m., $125). The Award of Distinction will be author of more than sixty books, Mr. presented to Ms. Sternhagen, whose Auchincloss will receive the Lotos work in theater, film and television Medal of Merit. Reservations will be has earned her the reputation of made only on receipt of the reply being one of the finest actors of our card, and members may invite only day. John Cunningham , who one guest initially. starred opposite Stockard Channing Special guest speakers will include in Six Degrees of Separation and recently appeared at Second Stage in two longtime Lotos members, artist Everett Raymond Kinstler and Some Americans Abroad , will novelist Tom Wolfe . perform opposite Ms. Sternhagen. Two On The Aisle will include short Mr. Auchincloss rose to fame when, comic scenes by Robert Anderson, in 1964, he published The Rector of Romulus Linney, Dorothy Parker, Justin , a Pulitzer Prize nominee, Shell Silverstein and Oscar Wilde on stage in the Library, followed by which was called “[A] certifiable Louis Auchincloss masterpiece …that should sit on the (photo by Gasper Tringale) dinner with the actors in the

Ballroom (cocktails, 6 p.m.; performance, 6:30 p.m. followed by dinner; $125) September Lectures Are Diverse:

Nominated seven times for a Tony Sports, Supreme Court, Technology award, Francis Sternhagen has The Club ’s event committees have Headliners Award. He has also been received the award twice, for The scheduled a variety of interesting fall a Nieman Fellow at Harvard Good Doctor and The Heiress . Her programs. University. A reporter at some of the long list of Off-Broadway and nation’s most prestigious newspapers, Sports Broadway credits includes Talking Mr. Bissinger also has published his Heads , The Exact Center of the On Tuesday, September 16, H.G. work in Vanity Fair , The New York Universe , The Old Lady Shows Her “Buzz” Bissinger will talk about Times Magazine and Sports “Sports in America: Where do we go Illustrated . He is the author of three (continued on page 6) from here now that we have screwed highly acclaimed non-fiction books

it all up?” (cocktails, 6:30 p.m.; $25). and a co-producer and writer for Reminder “NYPD Blue.” Two of his works Mr. Bissinger has been the winner of have also been made into very Fall Opening Cocktail Party on many important awards, including the successful films; one of them, Friday Wednesday, September 3, Pulitzer Prize, the Livingston Award, Night Lights, also served as the inspir- the American Bar Association Silver 6 to 8 p.m. ($30) ation for the NBC television series. Gavel Award, and the National (continued on page 6 )

N E W S A N D N O T E S A Note to Members

by Patrick J. Frawley, President Welcome to

Labor Day always seems to have a post -Labor Day. An empty August the Club certain effect on people. The day suddenly is transformed into a full Gail Furman (Resident), after Labor Day, one of the most slate of September meetings and child/adolescent psychologist, frequently asked questions is “How events. I counted up the number of . Memberships: was your summer?” The days before entries (perhaps I had too much Princeton Club, Council on Labor Day are considered by many summer downtime on my hands!) Foreign Relations, Human Rights as a countdown to the end of and found that the September First, Women’s Commission summer. Certainly, the opening of calendar records 15 meetings and 9 (International Rescue Committee), the school year contributes to the events – involving literally hundreds Brennan Center for Social Justice. sense that the summer has drawn to a of our members. Proposer: Patricia Greenwald; close. Seconder: Robert M. Morgenthau. As sad as I am to see the summer I, for one, do my best to resist the wind down (I love the beach), that feeling that the summer has ended. feeling is tempered by the knowledge Certainly, the calendar supports my that many interesting events and Lotosians in desire to keep the summer going, good times await as the Lotos season especially in a year when Labor Day heats up through the fall and winter the Spotlight is the earliest it can be. And one has (no pun intended). And if you are at Belinda Pokorny was featured in an to admit that some of the nicest days the Club at the Fall Opening Cocktail article in The Scarsdale Inquirer/The of the summer, and in fact of the Party, and in the days immediately Westchester News , which noted her entire year, happen after Labor Day. following, don’t forget to ask “How role as an artistic docent at the is your summer?” Katonah Museum of Art. Lotos is not any different than our larger society. We view Labor Day Three important sculptures from the as an end to the summer. We will Boca Raton, Florida, collection of gather on September 3 rd , for what we Mimi S. Livingston will be exhibited call the Fall Opening Cocktail Party. at the opening of the new Museum of And, yes, we will ask each other Art and Design in New York City. “How was your summer?” But at Also on display will be examples from Lotos, there is something different. her “Contemporary Jewelry as Sculpture.” That question is not tinged with a th degree of sadness that something is 5 East 66 Street New York, NY 10065 The flagship program of the Melvin over, but rather is asked with an Stecher and Norman Horowitz (212) 737-7100 excitement over things about to Foundation, The New York Piano (212) 737-9188 (fax) begin. Even though fall is a few Competition, is going global. Due to weeks away, the name of the party www.lotosclub.org the great success the competition has gives away our mood – it is an experienced, it now carries the name News & Notes The New York International Piano opening cocktail party. For us, the quiet of the Club’s summer is in fact Executive Editor Competition. Outstanding young over, and our clubhouse is once Stephenie Ralston pianists worldwide can now apply as again filled with the sounds of the contestants to this highly appraised varied activities of our active and Design Editor NYIPC. engaged membership. Sharon Situ Presently, the Foundation offers prize

winners, finalists, and previous I was recently looking at the Club’s Contributing Editors August calendar of events in News contestants more than thirty-five Nancy Johnson opportunities to be heard in concert, and Notes , and turned over to look at Margaret Diggory with appearances in New York City, September. It was really a visual Buffalo, Ossining, White Plains and representation of the change pre- and Washington, DC.

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•Summer Projects General Manager’s Comments Art restoration (see list below) by John J. McGrath • A ladies room created in The Grill Room The Club will kick off its 138 th season on need to be carefully monitored in the • Employee restroom renovated Wednesday, September 3 rd with the Fall future. • Window replacement (eleven) Opening Cocktail Party . Longtime The effect of the constitutional limit of • Wine storage cooler installed members may remember that this event 400 resident members on the Club’s • actually was an opening, as the Club Simplex Fire System upgraded operation is a perennial topic. Should • traditionally closed during the month of Guest elevator, cables re-shackled the membership be increased in order to • August and re-opened after Labor Day. Air conditioning cooling tower spread the expenses over a broader base? In 1982, a decision to keep the Club’s replaced Should fees continue to be increased to bedrooms and dining room open • Clubhouse security system fund operating increases? Should throughout the entire summer was made upgraded expenses be reduced, resulting in a by then Club President Silas Mountsier • Kitchen freezer replaced decrease in member services? III. In recent years, additional Club • Ballroom and third floor pantry Ultimately, the membership will have to events have been scheduled during the doors restored determine the best long-term strategy to months of July and August. To the • Room 507, bathroom renovated follow. surprise of some people, many members • New carpet installed in bedrooms do remain in the City. This past summer, One alternative to these options is to 403, 404 and 509 • the Club hosted three cocktail parties – increase members’ use of the Club, Clubhouse rugs cleaned, repaired, each attracting more than 100 guests; the especially for private events. In addition as needed, and fiber-sealed Lotos by the Sea reception, with a record to hosting their own events, members • Sheer curtains replaced audience of 103; a “sold out” cabaret may sponsor events hosted by their • Draperies cleaned featuring Karen Akers ; a Sake Tasting friends and colleagues. To begin this • Grand staircase, handrail fabric Dinner , which turned out to be a big hit, procedure, a member simply needs to replaced despite our initial skepticism; and three inform the private dining staff of his/her • Upholstery and grand staircase well-attended film nights. willingness to sponsor an event, and the steps shampooed staff and the host take over the planning During the past fiscal year, which ended • Chimneys cleaned and windows details. Our new private dining manager, on June 30, 2008, 118 Club events were washed Maureen Farley Schilling, and her held. Many of the events, by their assistant, Janet Kim, both formerly design, accommodated fewer than Art Restoration from Café Gray, have a wealth of twenty guests. Of the remaining larger • Earthquake by Jon Corbino. The experience in planning elegant events events, only four of these could not Tennyson Room. and unique dining experiences. • Portrait of a Woman by J. accommodate all reservations because of Campbell Phillips (being framed). limited seating. Sharon Situ, the manager During the past nine weeks, I have been • Safe Harbor by Junas Lie. The of Club events, worked diligently to working with the operations staff to Members’ Lounge. accommodate all requests for ready the clubhouse for the new season reservations. For example, members • A Hunting Nymph by Kenyon (see the list of completed summer who could not be accommodated at the Cox. The Grill Room. projects in the left column on this page); spring cabaret with Karen Akers were • Nude au Dos by James M. Flagg. Executive Chef Christopher Landi, Sous given preference for the summer The Grill Room. Chef Ryan Germain and the kitchen staff performance. are enthusiastically preparing new and • Modern Nymph by Howard creative menus; and the 2008-2009 Club Chandler Christy. The Grill Room. About a year ago, we implemented a • new bedroom reservation policy that events schedule, a challenging task, is Portrait of Past President Edward well underway. J. Scheider by Everett Raymond greatly favors a member’s ability to Kinstler. The Directors’ Room. obtain an overnight room. It also Lotos continues many of the traditions • State Dinner Programs: Joseph includes blackout periods throughout the that have established its distinguished Jefferson, 1896; Lord Herschell, year when all of the overnight rooms are reputation, but we also strive to address 1898; William T. Evans, 1911; available only to members and their the changing needs of members. I Laurette Taylor, 1923. guests. The policy has achieved its welcome your comments and • Other Works of Art on Paper: primary goal of improving member suggestions: (212) 737-7100, or e-mail Dinner for the Gridiron Club, services, but as we anticipated, it has [email protected] . March 10, 1900; Yuletide Feast, also resulted in a decline in the I send my best wishes to you for an 1910 and 1912. occupancy rate and a reduction in enjoyable and productive autumn season. revenue, and these fiscal challenges will

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Lecture Focus Jane Marks Hart Is Talk Table Guest Lotos member Jane Marks Hart for months or years in constant fear Is Antiques will address the Literary Table at 12 of capture and moving into early Leigh and Leslie Keno, experts in noon on Wednesday, October 15 in a adulthood by using their new fine 18 th and 19 th century American talk about her moving book, The identities to survive with their antiques, will give a talk on October Hidden Children: The Secret brave rescuers. For decades after 15 th (cocktails, 6:30 p.m.; lecture, 7 Survivors of the Holocaust . Ms. Hart the end of the Holocaust, they hid p.m.; $25). With their combined was nominated in 1993 for a Pulitzer their survivor stories even from experience of working in the arena of Prize for a work that has been called family members. But in 1991, Ms. antiques auctions and purchasing “an unparalleled document of Hart wrote a story about six hidden directly from private collections, the witness, discovery and the miracle of children for New York Magazine , Keno brothers have established an human courage.” Her book contains and became what ADL National enviable reputation in the field. the wartime experiences, the legacy – Director Abraham H. Foxman They have been featured often as and the ultimate healing – of twenty- called “the keeper of the stories.” regular appraisers in the long- three adult survivors. Currently, Ms. Hart is facilitating running public television program artistic self-expression for adults Antiques Roadshow . For decades, the subjects of Ms. and children who are facing Hart’s work suppressed painful catastrophic illness, family Since founding his own company in memories of forced separation, living problems, loss and bereavement. 1986, Leigh Keno has specialized in

acquiring the highest quality early American antiques for his clients. Library Talk Rediscovers NYC Leslie Keno is senior vice president Author/photographer Chester Burger York Public Library. and senior specialist in American will give a slide presentation about furniture and decorative arts at Innumerable awards citing Mr. his fascinating book, Unexpected New Sotheby’s New York. The twin Burger’s outstanding service include York , on Wednesday, October 29 (12 brothers (with Joan Barzilay Freund) those presented to him from the noon; $25). Among Mr. Burger’s published Hidden Treasures: United States Information Agency, more than eighty discoveries are the Searching for Masterpieces of the Telephone Pioneers of America, code that identifies manhole covers; American Furniture in 2000. From the Public Relations Society of the Village Public Library modeled 2001 to 2005, they wrote monthly America, the United States Marine on Bavaria’s King Ludwig’s castle; furniture and design columns for Corp., the Black Executive Exchange the Hudson River’s Little Red House Beautiful and This Old House . Program, and the United Negro Lighthouse; and the world’s oldest Since 2003, they also have co-hosted College Fund. In 1995, the U.S. railroad tunnel under a Brooklyn the WBGH program Find! , which Government presented him with the Street, found by a 19-year-old. celebrates the world of design, style, Medal “For Outstanding Service to antiques and furnishings. Mr. Burger spent most of his 48-year the United States.” career working in the communica- tions field. During his tenure at Columbia Broadcasting Company, he Role of Media in Election Polls rose from page boy in 1941 to A time ly lecture – before the have formed a national manager of television news upcoming Presidential election – by consortium that sends representatives in 1955. He produced the Army’s first David McCormick , vice president of to randomly selected polling places TV broadcasts, and in 1946 became NBC News, is certain to provoke a around the country to interview voters the first television news reporter in lively discussion (Monday, October throughout the day as they leave the the U.S. He is also the author of six 27; cocktails, 6:30 p.m.; lecture, 7 polls. books on management subjects, and p.m.; $25). Mr. McCormick will his lifetime work in photography was explain how television networks At NBC News, Mr. McCormick has acquired for the permanent project election winners before all the served also as an executive producer collections of the New York votes have been counted. The five and as bureau chief in both London Historical Society and the New major television networks and the and Frankfurt.

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Autumn 2008 Menu at Lotos Toward the end of September, menu items with delectable hints of autumn will replace summer dishes. Executive Chef Landi finds that seasonal produce always has more vibrant flavors than the warehouse-ripened vegetables that are available all year around. Among the treats of autumn on the Club menu are the following:

Wild Mushroom Soup

Farmers Harvest Romaine Chop Salad

Haricots Verts, Tomatoes, Gorgonzola Cheese, Prosciutto, Golden Beets, and Italian Dressing

Sweet Potato and Fig Ravioli Cranberry Walnut Compote and Mornay Nutmeg Sauce

Sautéed Hudson Valley Fois Gras Black Cherry Confit, Braised Baby Apples and Micro Greens

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Pepper-Crusted Filet Mignon with Black Truffle Butter and Classic Bordelaise Sauce Sweet Potato Spring Roll and Mixed Baby Vegetables

Pan-Seared Arctic Char with Saffron Sauce Oven-Roasted Tomatoes, White and Wild Rice and Sautéed Sliced Brussel Sprouts

Roasted French Breast of Chicken with Brandy Sauce Dried Fruit, Quinoa Stuffing, Glazed Carrots and Steamed Asparagus

The menu will also include the Lotos classics. For reservations, call (212) 737-7100.

Save the Date OKTOBERFEST

September 29-October 3, 2008 Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Veterans’ Dinner The first in the series of the new season’s in the Grill theme dinners in the Grill will be an Oktoberfest, featuring German cuisine.

Sample Appetizers Salmon Gravlax with German Potato Salad Table Talk Crispy Potato Pancakes with Sour Cream and Applesauce in September White Wine-Pickled Herring with Grainy Mustard Sauce Thursday, 4 th

66 th Street Salon, 6 p.m. Sample Entrées Sauerbraten with Red Cabbage Lotos member Fortuna Calvo-Roth Weinerschnitzel with Spaetzle Dumplings will moderate a discussion on the Schlachtplatte (traditional broiled German sausages) with Sauerkraut political novel.

Tuesday, 23 rd Join us and toast the German heritage History Talk Table, 11:30 a.m. with a specially-brewed, rich, frothy German beer. Lotos member David N. Schwartz

will lead a discussion on A Peace to The regular fall à la carte menu will be available. End All Peace by David Fromkin.

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Literary Group Committees Plan Trip to View Henry Moore Sculpture Exhibit Sets Meeting The Library and Art committees are The group will also visit the The 66th Street Salon will convene on co-sponsoring a tour of Moore in LuEsther T. Mertz Library, one of Thursday, October 2, 2008, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. ($15). The discussion, on the America: Monumental Sculpture at the world’s largest and most topic “Second-Wave Feminist Fiction important botanical and horticultural The New York Botanical Garden Revisited,” will be moderated by Elyse on Thursday, September 25. This is research libraries. It contains more Bloom Greenfield , Salon co-chair with the largest outdoor exhibit of Henry than one million accessioned items John Sussek III . Participants are Moore’s sculpture ever presented in a (books, journals, original art and encouraged to review the feminist single venue in the U.S. The twenty illustrations, seed and nursery literary voices that emerged during the colossal works are displayed catalogs, architectural plans of glass 1960s and 1970s, to reflect on the social throughout the Garden’s 250 acres, houses, scientific reprints and and literary traditions they challenged, among its fifty gardens and plant photographs), and more than 4,500 and to consider whether their influence collections, providing an impressive linear feet of archival material. is detectable in contemporary writing interaction of nature and art such as Participants will lunch at the Club at by women. Moore envisioned. There will be a 12 noon and then be transported to Suggested readings are the following two-hour narrated tram tour, with the exhibit. For reservations and works of that period: Fear of Flying by Alex Rosenberg as the onsite leader. information, call the Club office. Erica Jong; The Women’s Room by Marilyn French; The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing; Surfacing by September Lectures Are Diverse Margaret Atwood; any work by Fay (continued from page 1 ) Weldon; Germaine Greer’s The Female Supreme Court Technology Eunuch and Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics . On Monday, September 22, a On Wednesday, September 24, Sree Program Lecture on “The Struggle Sreenivasan will offer attendees an Participants may wish to make separate dinner reservations to continue the for the Supreme Court” will be informative talk on “10 New Tech conversation. given by A.E. Dick Howard , the Things to Try Today,” including new

White Burkett Miller Professor of ideas, a useful handout and a whole Law and Public Affairs at the new outlook on technology (cocktails, “Dinner Theater” University of Virginia (cocktails, 6 p.m. ; $25). (continued from page 1 ) 6:30 p.m.; $35). Medals , Edward Albee’s Seascape , A journalism educator, technology Steel Magnolias , The Foreigner , Professor Howard was a Rhodes expert and freelance journalist and Mornings at Seven , On Golden Pond Scholar at Oxford University and a blogger, Mr. Sreenivasan is dean of (Drama League Medal), Long Day’s law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court student affairs at Columbia Journey Into Night and Driving Miss Justice Hugo L. Black. He also University’s journalism school. He Daisy . She is often recognized on the was executive director of the also serves as technology reporter for streets of Manhattan for her role as commission that wrote Virginia’s WNBC-TV in New York City. His Bunny MacDougal on the HBO new Constitution, and directed the work explaining technology has television series “Sex and the City.”

successful campaign for its appeared in , Early reservations are recommended ratification. An authority on BusinessWeek , Rolling Stone and since space is limited. constitutional law, Professor Popular Science . Professor Howard is often consulted by Sreenivasan is a co-founder of SAJA, constitutional draftsmen in other a group of more than 1,000 journalists states and abroad. In 2007, the across the U.S. and Canada. He was Club Holiday In observance of Labor Day, Library of Virginia and the named one of Newsweek ’s “20 most The Lotos Club will be closed Richmond Times-Dispatch included influential South Asians in the on Monday, September 1. him on their list of the “greatest Nation” (2004) and India Abroad ’s Bedrooms are open and most influential Virginians” of “50 most influential Indians in the th every day of the year. the 20 century. U.S.” (2007).

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Literary Suggestion for Lotosians – A Review

The Great Arab Conquests by Hugh Kennedy

by William A. Johnson, moderator of the Great Thinkers Seminar One of the most perplexing and to him on Mount Hora, close to the city Roman Empire and they succeeded in confusing political issues we all face of Mecca. Gabriel told Muhammad to just about one-half of the time. Within today is the role of Islam in our come forward as a prophet to tell the 100 years, the Arab/Muslim armies modern western world. The people in the city of Mecca the meaning were on the frontier of China in the East recommendations given to us by our of what was to become for them “the (thereby setting the scene for the government as to how we are to true religion.” According to the legends Taliban Muslims in our day to destroy respond to the Muslim community are of that time, God revealed to the sacred statues of the Buddha). Five not at all clear. What I hear constantly Muhammad the teachings of a true thousand miles away they charged when discussing the issue of Islam and religion as dictated to him by God triumphantly and mercilessly across our modern world is the question (Allah) and written down in the Koran Spain to battle the Merovingian princes “Where are the moderate voices?” But (Qur’an). Muhammad attacked in what is now France. it becomes clear the more one learns superstition and exhorted the people to about Islam, as the national and a pious, moral life, and belief in an all- In those 100 years, the cultural contours international discussions go on, is that powerful, all-just and merciful God, of the world changed radically. For the there are lots of moderate voices out who has chosen Muhammad as his first time ever, an empire was created there. And it becomes clearer, as time prophet. God’s mercy was obtained by that was based upon faith in Allah (who marches on, that Islam, like every prayer, fasting and alms-giving. was for the Muslim the only god – who, other civilization, will either turn in interestingly, spoke only Arabic). It His teachings were not immediately substantive ways to some form of destroyed the 1,000-year-old world accepted by the people in Mecca, and democracy (not necessarily on the with its commerce culture, politics and Muhammad fled to Medina in 622 model of the Midwestern USA religion. It transformed Arabic from a (which scholars date as the beginning of version) or in time their world will desert language into an international the Muslim era). In 630, Muhammad perish, too. Think of the Third Reich, lingua franca supplanting Greek and led an army that conquered Mecca. He which was scheduled by its leaders to Latin, and became for the next 1,000 was then recognized as the true prophet endure for 1,000 years, and Soviet- years the primary medium of human of the true new religion of Islam (which style communism, which many (in the knowledge. The point being, as means simply submission to the will of USA, too) thought would provide the affirmed by Professor Kennedy, that the Allah). Muhammad’s pilgrimage (hajj) political Arcadia for the future. Neither military conquest was united with a to Mecca in 632, became the prototype of these hostile, non-democratic cultural and intellectual transformation for all future Muslim pilgrimages. All regimes survived into the 21 st century. that changed the world forever. Muslims, if they are able, must make A history lesson there. Professor Kennedy writes his history hajj once in their lives. And perhaps we need another history with great clarity. He reminds us that lesson as we ponder the future of There have been few events in the long the early Muslim leaders were not Islam. One way to begin might be to history of the world that have had such illiterate Bedouin nomads, but urban look at the historical origins of Islam an impact as the arrival of Islam. In a people and competent military leaders. and the Muslim community. A recent little more than 100 years after the And once the tribal factions realized book, The Great Arab Conquests: How death of Muhammad in 632, the Arab that they were fighting for a common the Spread of Islam Changed the followers of the prophet conquered all cause, they united under the all-mighty World We Live In by the distinguished of the centers of Near- Eastern power of Allah, encouraged by the Scottish historian, Professor Hugh civilization. They erased the great Koranic doctrine of the jihad , the Kennedy, is for me (and I encourage it power of Persia, their chief competition teaching that the enemies of Islam must for you as well) the best book on the for rule of the Near East, reduced be annihilated; those who performed subject “Where in the world did the Byzantium, another rival, to a small that service would be handsomely Muslims come from?” city-state centered around the city of rewarded in paradise. And so the cult of Constantinople, and also destroyed the Muslim martyr was born. The prophet Muhammad lived Visigoth kingdom of Spain. (probably) between the years AD 570- So now again we hear the common 632. Supposedly, when he was 40 The east-west expanse of the Arab human plea: “Where are the voices of years old, the angel Gabriel appeared empire was greater than that of the the moderates?”

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Conversations LOTOS EVENTS AT A GLANCE Glenn Kramon, assistant managing editor at The New York Times , will For reservations, please call (212) 737-7100 commence the Lotos Conversation fall st SEPTEMBER semester on Wednesday, October 1 . Mr. st Kramon is perhaps best known within the Monday, 1 Labor Day. Club closed, bedrooms open Wednesday, 3 rd Fall Opening Cocktail Party industry for establishing a system for th th Thursday, 4 66 Street Salon, literary roundtable, the political Times editors to become as skilled as managers are they already were as novel with Lotos member Fortuna Calvo-Roth th journalists. His accolades include the first Monday, 8 Musically Speaking, Daniel Palumbo (Metropolitan Gerald Loeb/Lawrence Minard award for Opera) outstanding work as an editor. His Thursday, 11 th Library Reading with Lotos member Rita Jacobs th extensive knowledge of the inner Tuesday, 16 Literary Lecture, H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger ( Friday workings of a major newspaper is sure to Night Lights ) th elicit an enlightening discussion. Saturday, 20 Great Thinkers Seminar with William A. Johnson, Look Howard Angel or You Can’t Go Home Again by Diana Taylor, former superintendent of Thomas Wolfe banks for the State of New York, will Monday, 22 nd Program Lecture, A. E. Dick Howard (Supreme th speak at the November 6 Conversation. Court) Ms. Taylor, who began her career at Tuesday, 23 rd History Talk Table with David N. Schwartz, A Peace Lehman Brothers (now Smith Barney), to End All Peace by David Fromkin then later moved to Donaldson Luftkin & Wednesday, 24 th Science and Technology Lecture, Sree Sreenivasan Jenrette, is adept to discuss the numerous (new media program, Columbia School of issues facing the current economic Journalism) climate. She has more than twenty years of experience in both the public and OCTOBER private sector of banking. Her avocational Wednesday. 1 st Lotos Conversation, Glenn Kramon ( N.Y. Times ) activities include service on the boards of Thursday, 2 nd Afternoon Book Discussion with Jacqueline S. Sotheby’s, the New York Woman’s Aronson Foundation and ACCION International. Thursday, 2 nd 66 th Street Salon, literary roundtable in the Grill Friday, 3 rd Opera Table with Robert W. Gutman Simone Genatt, president of Broadway th Saturday, 4 Great Thinkers Seminar with William A. Johnson Asia, will speak on December 3 rd at the Tuesday, 7 th STATE DINNER, LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS final fall Conversation. A graduate of Monday, 13 th Columbus Day. Club closed, bedrooms open Stanford University and l’Universite de th Nice, Ms. Genatt later apprenticed at the Tuesday, 14 Evening Book Discussion with Jacqueline S. Aronson Wednesday, 15 th Literary Talk Table with Jane Marks Hart Shubert Organization under the tutelage th Wednesday, 15 Art Lecture, Leigh and Leslie Keno (antiques) of Gerald Schoenfield and thereafter st worked with Roger Berlind. She is a Tuesday, 21 History Talk Table with David N. Schwartz st recipient of the Robert M. Golden Award, Tuesday, 21 Lotos Foundation Gala rd is fluent in six languages, and has degrees Thursday, 23 Poetry Talk Table with Belinda Pokorny in theater production and direction, Saturday, 25 th Great Thinkers Seminar with William A. Johnson th sociolinguistics and musical theater. Monday, 27 Program Lecture, David McCormick (broadcasting election results) th Wednesday, 29 Library Lecture, Chester Burger (New York City treasures)

Thursday, 30 th Special Event, Dinner Theater with Frances Reciprocal Clubs Update Sternhagen and John Cunningham

As of September 1, 2008, The Lotos Club no longer has reciprocal arrangements with either the Coffee House in New Res erve Early for Thanksgiving York City or the St. Botolph Club in Seatings: Boston. The decision to end these affiliations was based on the infrequent 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. in Ballroom and Library use of these clubs by Lotos members. 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. in Grill Room

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

1 2 3 4 State Dinner 5 6 DINING HO URS: Monday through Friday Committee 6 p.m. Luncheon 12 to 2:30 p.m. Fall Opening Labor Day th Monday through Friday Club closed Cocktail Party The 66 Street Salon 6-8 p.m. Dinner 6 to 9 p.m. bedrooms open 6-7:30 p.m.

Reservations Beef Wellington Lobster Night

Call (212) 737 -7100 & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) 7 8 9 10 11 Governance 12 13 Art Committee Committee, 6 p.m. 6 p.m. Foundation Board, 6 p.m. Music Monday -Friday Musically Speaking, Public Affairs Library Reading, Committee Donald Palumbo Rita D. Jacobs, 6:30 p.m. Prix Fixe Dinner $44.00 and Committee, 6 p.m. 6 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Regular à la carte menu Beef Wellington Lobster Night (Reserve your lobsters) Club Night Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Program Archives Committee, 6 p.m. Committee, 6 p.m. Great Thinkers

Science & Technology Literary Lecture, Seminar Special Events Committee H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger (1 of 5) Committee, 6 p.m.

6 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night

Club Night Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters)

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 House History Talk Table, Committee, 6 p.m. David N. Schwartz Com mittee on Program Lecture, Science and Admissions 11:30 a.m. Technology Lecture, A.E. Dick Howard 6 p.m.

Finance Committee Sree Sreenivasan, 6 p.m. 6:30 p.m.

6 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night Club Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) Dover Sole Night MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR OCTOBER 28 29 30

st Wednesday, 1 Lotos Conversation with Glenn Kramon th Tuesday, 7 STATE DINNER WITH LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS th Wednesday, 15 Art Lecture with Leigh and Leslie Keno th Monday, 27 Program Lecture with David McCormick th Wednesday, 29 Library Lecture with Chester Burger th Club Night Dover Sole Night Thursday, 30 Special Event with Frances Sternhagen and John Cunningham THE LOTOS CLUB CALENDAR The Lotos Club Five East Sixty-sixth Street OCTO BER 2008 Reservations Are Important New York City 10065 Call 737-7100 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR NOVEMBER Book Discussion 1 2 3 4 12:30-2:30 p.m. rd th Monday, 3 Opening Reception, Art Exhibition, Loretta H. Cooper The 66 Street Salon th Lotos Conversation, Opera Talk Table, Great Thinkers Thursday, 6 Lotos Conversation with Diana Taylor 6-7:30 p.m. th Glenn Kramon Robert W. Gutman Seminar Tuesday, 11 Veterans’ Day Dinner in the Grill Young Leadership 12 noon th 6:30 p.m. (2 of 5) Wednesday, 12 Mark Twain Dinner (members only) Committee, 7 p.m. th 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Wednesday, 19 Science and Technology Evening with Sylvia Earle th Beef Wellington Lobster Night Thursday, 27 Thanksgiving Buffet Dinner & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 STATE DINNER , Monday -Friday LOUIS Club closed AUCHINCLOSS Prix Fixe Dinner $44.00 and Bedroom open 6:30 p.m. Regular à la carte menu

Club closed after Beef Wellington Lobster Night

Club Night breakfast & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters)

12 13 14 1 5 Literary Talk Table, 16 17 18 Jane M. Hart, 12 noon

Columbus Day Membership Committee Book Discussion , 6 p.m. Club closed Library (1 of 4) Art Lecture, Leslie and Bedroom open Committee, 6 p.m. Leigh Keno, 6:30 p.m. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night Saturday Night Dining Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) in the Grill Resumes

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Poetry Talk Table, History Talk Table, Belinda Pokorny Great Thinkers Foundation Board David N. Schwartz Seminar 11:30 a.m. 6 p.m. 11:30 a.m. Committee on (3 of 5)

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

DINING HOURS: 26 27 28 29 30 31

Monday through Friday Special Events Luncheon 12 to 2:30 p.m. Library Lecture, Evening, Monday through Friday Program Lecture Meeting of the Two on the Aisle Chester Burger Dinner 6 to 9 p.m. David McCormick Directory 12 noon 6 p.m. Saturday Dinner 6:30-9 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6 p.m. Beef Wellington Lobster Night Reservations Club Night Dover Sole Night & Bordeaux (Reserve your lobsters) Call (212) 737-7100

THE LOTOS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT

The Lotos Foundation — 2008

The Lotos Foundation, established in 2000, as a tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) organization, is beginning its ninth year. The Foundation supports and encourages writers, artists, musicians, architects, journalists, educators, scientists, members of the dramatic and learned professions, and students in those fields. At its 2008 Awards Ceremony held at the Club on May 22, the Foundation presented scholarships and awards totaling $58,000. Pictured below are some of the recipients. All the photographs were taken by R. Andrew Lepley. Identifications of people in the photos are from left to right.

Camilo Moronta , music teacher at the Margaret Douglas School (P.S. 36) in Manhattan, and Cynthia John Sussek , retiring president of The Lotos Mullins-Smith , principal, received the Louis Padovano Foundation, Patrick J. Frawley , president of The Scholarship in the Arts to provide students with the Lotos Club, and Melvin Stecher , incoming president of realistic training needed to enable them to excel in the area of music. The Lotos Foundation, during the Foundation’s Awards Ceremony.

Gregory Amenoff , chair of the Visual Arts Division, Ellen Weinstein , artistic director of The National School of the Arts, Columbia University; Melvin Dance Institute, accepts the Louis Padovano Stecher ; and Benjamin Schore , member of the Board Scholarship in the Arts from John Sussek and Melvin of Managers of The Lotos Foundation, congratulate Stecher . Founded by New York City Ballet principal Martin Jefferson Basher , recipient of The Lotos dancer Jacque d’Amboise, the Institute strives to reach Prize in the Arts for his outstanding work as an every child, transcending barriers of language, culture emerging artist in the Visual Arts Division at The and physical challenges. Columbia University School of the Arts. THE LOTOS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT

Michelle Aragon and Tachrina Ahmed , winners of Louis Padovano Scholarships Pictured with Burt Stern (center) are award recipients John in the Arts, will attend Columbia Seward (Pratt Institute), David Elzer (Cooper Union), Youliya University’s Summer High School Writing Ilizarov (CCNY School of Architecture) and Chitanzo Lamba Program. Selected by The Teacher s and (CCNY School of Architecture). The Burt L. Stern Architectural Writers Collaborative, both students Award rewards talent and encourages further education in attend the Bronx Academy of Letters. architecture.

Other recipients selected by the Programs and Awards Committee were the following: The Future Filmmakers Program at The Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Selected are applicants that are traditionally underrepresented in the film industry. Fifteen are chosen to attend thirteen all-day

Saturday sessions. LOVE (Leave Out Violence) is an after-school program for high school students dedicated to encouraging

expression through writing and photography. Girls Write Now provides a safe and supportive environment where girls can expand their natural writing talents,

develop independent, creative voices, and make healthy choices in school, career and life. The Community Word Project an Arts-in-Education organization, seeks to increase the literacy and leadership of

at-risk public school youth by integrating creative expression and community building into their classrooms. Kristine Moran , an emerging artist in the Master of Fine Arts Program at Hunter College, received the Lotos Prize in the Arts for her outstanding talent and accomplishments. The Foundation made a special gift to the Lotos Club, for the publication of a book, The Members of the Lotos Club 1870-2007. This book will be given to each member of Lotos and placed in libraries throughout the United States and abroad.

Save the Date

The Lotos Foundation invites members of The Lotos Club to recommend Tuesday, October 21, 2008 specific non-profit organizations that are worthy of consideration The Lotos Foundation Gala and whose guidelines are commensurate with that of The Lotos Foundation. at The Lotos Club