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DOUBLES
Wendy
Carduner Knows How
To
Entertain The Junior Set
Text
by Roger Webster
Photos
by Patrick McMullan
 OUTH
was busting out all over at Doubles. Wendy Carduner, the
guiding light of the private club in the Sherry Netherland Hotel,
could write a book on how to throw parties to keep the junior set
entertained and coming back for more good clean all-American fun
even in the heart of jaded old New York.
There
was a totally ‘80s workout party called Let’s Get Physical
hosted by Jay Aston, Marisa Noel Brown, Nick Coleman, Miguel
Duenas, Stephanie Ercklentz, Allison Luyten, Elizabeth Meigher,
Tatiana Papanicolaou, and John Royall.
Guests,
including George Baker IV, Andrew Black, Sarah Boardman,
Jonathan Gauntt, Daria and Liska de Koning, Ware Sykes, Kristin
Fisher, Will Holligan, Nicole Hanley, and Samantha Leas left their pearls and blazers at
home and donned spandex, leotards, leg warmers, and sweat bands to
enjoy cocktails, dinner and energized dancing to disco music by
the likes of Olivia Newton John, the Bee Gees and Michael
Jackson.
A
few weeks later a different bunch took a “Cruise Down To South
Beach” with Heather Sargent, Betsy Pitts, Jennifer Powers and
Mark Gilbertson at the helm.
Jeffrey
Hirsch, Courtney Arnot, Amanda Hearst
with Luigi Tadini, Alexandra Lind and Louis Rose,
Calvert and George Moore, Leslie and Andrew Heaney,
Andrea and Tom Donahue, Blair and Fazle Husain,
Alexia Hamm Ryan, Mary and Michael Darling, Alexandra
Vassipoulos, Victoria and Robert Lindgren, Elizabeth
Meigher, and their friends dressed as if they were in the
tropics, enjoying dinner and dancing in the classy space that was
decorated with a disco ball, palm trees and pink flamingos.
And
then there was Halloween and the 28th annual Ghosties &
Goodies party. Over 200 parents and their children in costumes
dropped by for an afternoon of festivities.
The
adorable spooks included James and Christina Flynn,
Serena McDermott, Serena Bancroft, Alix and Lowell Creel,
Nicholas and Woody Bernstein, Lucie Regal, Erin Donahue,
Ali Slatkin, Grace Mead Sipp, Alison Hirsch, Olivia Holmes,
William Lese, Katerina
Wood, Whitney Rochelle, Charlotte
Evans, Bianca Scotto, Emily Post, Josephine Lupa, Olivia Biase.
And
maybe cutest of all—little Charlie Dillon.
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