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WILDLIFE
CONSERVATION SOCIETY
High
Society Goes to the Zoo
To Save
World’s Wild Lands
By Roger Webster
 HAT
a magical evening! The Wildlife Conservation Society’s gala,
Penguins and Pearls, sponsored by Tiffany & Co. in the Central
Park Zoo raised a whopping $1.9 million for the institution, which
manages the city’s zoos and aquarium and is
dedicated
to saving wildlife and wild lands throughout the world.
Cornelia Guest
Photo by
Chance Yeh |
The
sea lions put on a show to thank those who put the event together so
brilliantly, including co-chairs Allison and Leonard
Stern, Jessie and Rand Araskog, Muffie Potter Aston and
Dr. Sherrell Aston, Debbie Bancroft, Catherine Cahill and William
Bernhard, Norma Dana, Jamee and Peter Gregory, Susie and Ed
Hayes, Darlene and Brian Heidkte, Kathy and Rick
Hilton, Fernanda Kellogg, Carol Mack, Judy Price, Lisa Schiff,
Christine and Steve Schwarzman,
Ginny and Warren Schwerin, Patricia Hearst Shaw, Andrea and
John Stark, and CeCe Black.
Animal
starlets whocame down from the Bronx zoo with their trainers
included Zack, a Malaccan
Cockatoo with trainer Teri Kolpakova; Veda, a three-year-old
Fennec Fox; Bob, a barn owl who shrieked so loudly when he spotted a
squirrel that he was asked to leave; a two-toed sloth named Frankie;
a spring hare from South Africa with trainer Craig Gibbs,
and a very young
wallaby named Nachman with Sara Morse.
Patricia Hearst and Veta, a
Fennec Fox
Photo by Steve Sands |
Most
of the junior and associate chairs were also there, including Tory
Burch, Ashley Schiff, Jennifer Creel, Cornelia Guest, Amanda Hearst,
Lydia Hearst-Shaw, Marissa Bregman and Elizabeth Kieselstein-Cord.
Models
Filippa Edberg, Nora Ariffin, Fleure Presner and Gabriela
Salvado wore black and white gowns designed by gala chair Carolina
Herrera, plus amazing pearl and diamond jewelry by corporate
sponsor Tiffany & Co.
Carolina,
arrived on the arm of her husband Reinaldo, was glamorous in
a chic black and white silk taffeta ensemble.
Jamee Gregory and Craig Gibbs
with an African Spring Hare |
WCS
president Dr. Steven E. Sanderson and board chairman David
T. Schiff presented Tiffany sterling silver engraved boxes to
the honoree Louise and Edgar Cullman and Carroll
Petrie. One hundred-year-old Brooke Astor was also
honored but could not make it.
Guests
included Jane Alexander and Ed Sherin, Denise Rich, Pat
Buckley, Nan Kempner, Kimberly and Steven Rockefeller
with their son Stevie, Tiffany’s president Michael
Kowalski with his wife Barbara, Cynthia and Dan
Lufkin, Carol Mack, Jeffrey Hirsch, Susan and Coleman Burke,
Guy Cary and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., David
Patrick Columbia, Hilary and Anthony Dick, Mark Gillespie,
Patricia Duff, Barbara and Donald Tober, Frederic Fekkai,
Alexandra Lind and Louis Rose, Taki Theodoracopulos, Bettina
Zilkha, Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, Trip Gabriel, Marjorie
Gubelmann, Jo and Paul Hallingby,
Kalliope Karella, Kirk Henckels, Adair and Bill Beutel,
Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Nils Larson and Anne
Grauso, Katherine Bryan, Ara and Rachel Hovnanian, John
Galliher, CJ Satterwhite, Thomas Knapp, Cynthia and Ronald
Beck, Jill Brooke and Gary Goldstein, and Dr. Howard
Sobel.
Jo and Paul Hallingby with
Sara Morse and Nachman, the
Wallaby
Photo by DMI
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The
last tier of the evening featured champagne Veuve Clicquot, dessert
of coconut torte, Penguin cookies, and dancing to music by deejay David
Chang.
Kudos
to Susie Hanchett and her staff at WCS as well as Susan Bell
Events for putting it all together and controlling the details with
such focused effort, talent and grace.
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