Kate McEnroe,
AMC Networks president |
Marymount
MANHATTAN College
Screen
Goddess Faye Dunaway
Presents Award to WE Founder
By Edward T. Callaghan
 HE
baronial hall of the University Club with its Gothic architecture
seemed the perfect setting for a President’s dinner, especially
if the president runs one of America’s most prestigious
colleges.
For a quarter century, Marymount Manhattan College has hosted the President’s Medal
Dinner to honor distinguished New Yorkers. This year’s honorees
have championed child advocacy and the arts.
A real surprise was the
appearance of screen goddess Faye
Dunaway, who escaped the attention of paparazzi with a
cascading black wig. Dunaway
flew in to personally present the President’s Medal to her old
pal Kate McEnroe,
president of AMC Networks
and founder of WE
(Women’s Entertainment Channel).
Faye reminisced about the
day Kate “was a little weather girl back in Iowa.”
Proud as she was of
McEnroe’s accomplishments in television, Dunaway lauded her for
her “new role as adoptive mom to two Romanian orphans.
Now that’s a challenge.”
Dr.
Stephen B. Colvin,
hief of division of cardiothoracic surgery at NYU Medical Center, was honored for efforts to provide life
saving heart surgery for young children around the world.
Marymount president
Judson R. Shaver presented the indefatigable, ever radiant Kitty
Carlisle Hart with the Lifetime Achievement Award:
Hart brought gales of
laughter with her witty, slightly naughty, double entendres. Hart
has been, for over thirty decades, a tireless champion for the
arts. The college’s theater students paid tribute with a musical
performance.
Glamorous in a red satin
brocade suit, Hart did a high kick to show she’s still got it.
And boy, does she ever! |
