3rd Annual Benefit @ Green-Wood: Thurs. 09/16/10

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Join us for The Third Annual Presentation of the DEWITT CLINTON AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
2010 Honoree: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

A Gala Cocktail Reception
Thursday, September 16, 2010
5:30 p.m.—8:30 P.m.

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5:30 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, featuring Governor De Witt Clinton’s favorite drink.

6:45 p.m. Welcome, C. Payson Coleman, Jr., Esq., (chairman, The Green-Wood Historic Fund), and Presentation of the 2010 De Witt Clinton Award for Excellence to Elizabeth Barlow Rogers.

Also Featuring:
A site-specific dance performance by Dance Theater Etcetera. Exhibition: Artists in Permanent Residence, with selected works from the 300 artists interred at Green-Wood. Guided mini-tours of Green-Wood on our historic trolley.

Business Casual Attire

Tickets:
http://www.green-wood.com/store.php/store/category/2/event/46

VIP Tickets:
http://www.green-wood.com/store.php/store/category/2/event/47

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The Honoree
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies and an educator, historian, author and landscape preservationist of world renown. In her landmark tome, Landscape Design, A Cultural and Architectural History, Rogers writes extensively on the rural cemetery movement in the early 19th century, including Green-Wood’s role as the predecessor to New York’s Central Park and Prospect Park. She is the founding president of the Central Park Conservancy, the public-private partnership she created in 1980 and led for 15 years.

The DEWITT CLINTON AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
in the Arts, Literature, Preservation and Historic Research
honors the legacy of 19th-century New York Governor DeWitt Clinton, who also served as mayor of New York City, state senator, assemblyman and United States senator. Clinton, who is interred in Green-Wood Cemetery, was a devoted supporter of the cultural growth of the city and the state of New York.

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2010 Host Committee

Honorary Hosts
United States Senator Charles E. Schumer
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz
New York State Assemblymember James Brennan
New York State Assemblymember Joan L. Millman
New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio
New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn
New York City Councilmember Vincent J. Gentile
New York City Councilmember Sara M. Gonzalez
New York City Councilmember Letitia James
New York City Councilmember Brad Lander
New York City Councilmember Domenic M. Recchia, Jr.
Commissioner Adrian Benepe,
NYC Department of Parks and Recreation
Commissioner Robert B. Tierney,
NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

Patrons
John R. H. Blum
Constance L. and Henry Christensen III
Payson and Kim Coleman
Malcolm and Julia MacKay
Platt Byard Dovell White Architects LLP
David K. Storrs/Alternative Investment Group, LLC
Walter Teagle III
TD Bank/39th Street Branch: Janet Criscuoli, Manager
Earl D. Weiner and Gina Ingoglia Weiner

Friends
Doris Amen
Michael C. Brooks
Frank Cassara
Denise Crimmins Clayton
Kenneth K. Fisher, Esq.
Ann Walker Gaffney
Lisa Linden, Linden Alschuler+Kaplan PR
J. Douglas Maxwell, Jr
Robert M. McLane
Scot Medbury
Gloria E. and Richard J. Moylan
Otis and Nancy Pearsall
John R. Reese
The Regan Agency
Diane and Ronald G. Russo
Vincent Savino
Mary Jo and Theodore Shen
Carla Shen
Samuel Sifton
Allan Smith
Martin I. Weinberg
Jim Wood/Andrews International

–Committee in Formation–

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The Green-Wood Historic Fund
Established in 1838 as one of America’s first rural cemeteries, Green-Wood Cemetery soon developed an international reputation for serenity and beauty. By 1860, Green-Wood was attracting 500,000 visitors a year, rivaling Niagara Falls as the country’s greatest tourist attraction. Now a National Historic Landmark, Green-Wood, with 478 spectacular acres of hills, valleys, glacial ponds and paths, is home to one of the country’s largest outdoor collections of 19th- and 20th-century statuary. Its natural beauty offers a peaceful oasis to visitors, as well as to its 560,000 permanent residents, including De Witt Clinton, Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed, Charles Ebbets, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Horace Greeley, Civil War generals, baseball legends, statesmen, artists, entertainers and inventors.

The mission of The Green-Wood Historic Fund is to maintain Green-Wood’s monuments and buildings of historical, cultural and architectural significance; to advance public knowledge and appreciation of Green-Wood; and to preserve the natural beauty of one of New York City’s first green spaces. As a nonprofit membership organization, The Historic Fund offers a diverse series of public events throughout the year, including themed walking and trolley tours, book talks and special seasonal events.


Board of Directors
C. Payson Coleman, Jr., Esq., Chairman Malcolm Mackay, Esq., Vice Chairman
John R.H. Blum, Esq. Michael C. Brooks Denise Crimmins Clayton Peter Davidson Donald M. Elliman Michael deV. Flinn
Ann Walker Gaffney Douglas J. Maxwell Robert M. McLane Scot Medbury Otis Pratt Pearsall, Esq. Thomas C. Pryor
John R. Reese Carla Shen Samuel P. Sifton Walter C. Teagle III Earl D. Weiner, Esq. Samuel G. White

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Directions
Via car: Green-Wood is accessible from both the Brooklyn Queens Expressway/Gowanus Expressway (via the 38th Street exit to 5th Avenue and 25th Street) and the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (via Hamilton Avenue to 25th Street). Parking is available.

Via subway: Take the R train to 25th Street station in Brooklyn. Walk east one block to Green-Wood at 25th Street and 5th Avenue.