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MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING
CANCER CENTER
FAO
Schwartz Brings Joy to Kids
And
Money to Sloan Kettering
Story
by Roger Webster
Photos by Cutty McGill
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Associates Committee of the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center held its Eleventh Annual Bunny Hop at FAO Schwarz,
chaired by Stephanie Griswold and Alexis Waller. It
was absolutely wonderful, raising $220,000 to benefit the center’s
pediatrics department.
Florist
DeJuan Stroud put everybody in a cheery mood with his
twelve-foot tall welcoming arch of red tulips, narcissus, hyacinth,
laurel leaf winking bunny ears and baskets of eggs, candies and
stuffed animals.
Once
inside the toy emporium, a magic spell of innocence, exuberance and
joy took over. Ear to ear grins were everywhere, not just on the 500
children, because over 550 adults were having just as much fun.
Mark
Bitter, Laurie Carson and
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City Rockettes Jenny Eakes and Lisa Lewis-Basi were
doing high kicks, Magic Al did tricks, Mikey Mike
played DJ, Leah Golde sang and Kevin Kruger the face
painter achieved the impossible by making the kids’ faces even
more adorable than they already were.
Guests
and committee members included the chairmen’s husbands Roger
Griswold and John Waller; Laurie Carson, president of
SMSKCC, with her husband Bill; Grace Hightower
and son Elliott DeNiro; Debbie and Serena Bancroft;
Patricia Duff and daughter
Caleigh; Christopher, Tory, Henry and Nicholas
Burch, Willow Hunt with mom Tama Janowitz and her
godfather R. Couri Hay.
Also
Leslie Coleman; Christina Coleman; Mary Darling; Mark Gilbertson,
Susan Bodnar, Webb Egerton-Warburton; Leslie Heaney; Richard
Torrenzano with Heidi Albertsen; Melanie Seymour Holland;
Alexandra Mandis; Nicole and Derek Limbocker; Somers and
Jonathon Farkas; and Helen and Storey Schifter.
Courtney
Arnot, Kevin and Barbara
McLaughlin, Claudia Fleming,
Jennifer Creel, Jill Brooke, Nina Tower, Suzie Fairchild, Rachel
Hovnanian, and Mark and Wiggie Bitter were
there too with their families.
Rockette Lisa Lewis-Basi,
Stephanie Griswold, Alexis
Waller and
Rockette Jenny Eakes under
DeJuan Stroud’s arch.
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Journalists
were represented by Jill Brooke, Mary Hilliard, David Patrick
Columbia, Jeffrey Hirsch, Tom Gates, Alison Oneacre, Aaron Gell,
Steve Eichner, Cutty McGill, Richard Corkery, CJ Satterwhite and
Joanna Molloy who came with her son Eamon Rush.
The
famous Bunny Hop goodie bags were waiting at the doors overflowing
with gifts from the likes of Eleni's New York Cookies, Frederic
Fekkai, Frette and Mattel.
A
bag was also sent the next day to each one of the children in cancer
care at the center along with pretty pieces of DeJuan Stroud’s
arch and his floral displays.
The
funfest was generously sponsored by Scalamandri, who poured Veuve
Clicquot at the kick-off party on February 28, Raggedy Ann
and Andy, who were there in person, and Waller Capital
who underwrote the invitations. Party Box did the catering.
Nicole
Micco deserves a
medal for putting it all together so seamlessly.
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