
Donald and Melania Trump with
son
Barron |

Jim and Carol Bradbeer with son Tom |

Christina, Henry, Fayre and
Carlin Smith |

Lisa, Nicholas, Alex and Chris Errico |

Elizabeth, Olivia and Jack Fuller |

Carolina and Christina Addison |
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING
Bunny Tales on Fifth Avenue
Benefit Center’s Clown Care
Story
by Roger Webster
Photos by Cutty McGill
ETER THE RABBIT was busy in New York. He hit FAO Schwarz
on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue where Lilly Pulitzer lavishly
sponsored the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Associates Committee's 17th Annual Bunny Hop.
I say "lavishly" because not only did
Pulitzer provide the funding, but also dressed co-chairs Christina
Addison, Lisa Errico and Elizabeth Fuller and their
families.
A whopping $350,000 was raised to benefit Clown Care at The Center's
Department of Pediatrics. There were 1,000 guests, including Lilly
Pulitzer's president Jim Bradbeer with his wife Carol
and son Tom; the Society's president Leslie
Jones; he Associates' president Christina Smith and last
year's honorary chair Melania Trump with Donald Trump and
son Barron, who turned two on March 20.
It was a laugh riot encouraged by the presence of Winnie the Pooh,
Corduroy (played by Teddy Planitzer), Harry Potter, and the
Doctors of Humorology from the Clown Care program that brings
artists from the circus to visit sick children in hospitals across
the country. Four times a week, specially trained clowns visit MSKCC
and bring immeasurable delight to inpatient and outpatient pediatric
units.
Mile-wide smiles were seen on Celeste Boele, Annabelle Fowlkes,
Lynn Morris and Maria Villalba. As well as Muffie
Potter Aston with her pretty twins Bracie and Ashleigh;
Alexandra and Ellie Lebenthal; Michelle Marie, Jon and
Hudson Heinemann; Catherine Carey with sons Paul
and Bryan; Samantha Boardman and wee Alexander
Rosen; Barbara, Kevin, Madeline and Hugh McLaughlin;
Pamela Gross and Alexander Finkelstein; Shoshanna,
Josh and Sienna Gruss.
Also Claudia, Taylor and Gunnar
Overstrom; Lara and Katarina Forstmann; Nancy,
Caroline and Sloane Sambuco; Ricardo, Amy and
Oliver Garcia; Ruth Fleischmann; and former
Bunny Hop chairs Leslie Coleman with Kevin, Win, Stuyvie and
Avery Coleman, and Leslie Heaney with Andrew
and bubbly Emmeline Heaney.
A few days later, Pete hopped down the block to Doubles for the
annual Peter Cotton Tail Egg Hunt staged by Wendy Carduner.
There were balloons, brightly colored straw baskets, stuffed animals
and giant-size bunnies and ducks.
The Doubles Village Quad had been readied for the hunt with a white
picket fence border and pastel egg covered lawn. Among the most
enthusiastic seekers were two-year-old Aster Lee Lufkin, with
parents Dan and Cynthia Lufkin and sister Schuyler
Hazard; Tripp Ward with his mom Kristina Stewart
and four-month-old brother Garret Ward; Will and Cornelia
Wedding; Alexander, Phillip and Amelia
Raftopoulos; Rebecca Kurtis and GiGi Winnakor.
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