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Autumn Splendor Benefit
09/21/2011 - By New York, NY

Autumn Splendor Benefit

The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden began the Fall season with an Autumn Splendor benefit cocktail party and silent auction honoring Charlotte P. Armstrong, Past President General of The Colonial Dames of America (“CDA”).

The benefit funded the education programming of the museum, owned and operated by the CDA. Through its school programs, the museum offers students an opportunity to experience 19th-century history and culture through hands-on learning. Serving on the Benefit Committee co-chaired by CDA Board members Sharon Vaino and Beverley Sherrid were CDA Board members; CDA Past Presidents General Helen Evans and Audrey Svensson; Harvard Law School alumni; and others associated with the museum, the CDA, and the honoree.

Nancy Shackelford Jones, CDA President General, extended a warm welcome to distinguished guests who included, besides CDA Board members Elizabeth Bramwell, Shirley Dixon-Miller, Caroline McLain, Sandra Pearl, and Julia Ryan and CDA museum liaison Catherine Brawer; Charles Brock, Chairman and CEO of Brock Capital Group LLC; Judson Shaver, President of Marymount Manhattan College; and trustees of the American Farm School in Greece. Also celebrating Mrs. Armstrong's lifelong commitment to education were the Director of the museum, Mary Anne Caton; the Executive Director of the CDA, Allison Coliskey; and the following other Executive Directors: Tara Kelly, Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts; Sean Sawyer, The Royal Oak Foundation, USA; and Jill Spiller, The Saint Nicholas Society; along with Frances Eberhart, Chair of the Historic House Trust Board of Directors. Pictures from the 1953 Harvard Law School yearbook illuminated on the auditorium’s wide scre en reminded guests of the different world a female law graduate entered in those days, vividly described by CDA member and attorney Rebecca Madsen in her speech honoring Mrs. Armstrong.

Mrs. Armstrong was a member of the first Harvard Law School class to admit women. After earning her LL.B. in 1953, she served as a trial attorney in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Once an associate with Cravath, Swaine & Moore, she is now senior managing director with the Brock Capital Group LLC. Throughout her career she has given substantial time to philanthropy, especially education. Currently, Mrs. Armstrong is president of the Harvard Law School Association of New York City; chairs the Board of Trustees of the American Farm School in Greece; serves as a trustee of the Royal Oak Foundation and of the American Trust for the British Library; and serves as a director of the National Institute of Social Sciences. In 2011 she received a Doctor of Law, honoris causa, from Marymount Manhattan College. She previously served for six years on the Harvard University Board of Overseers, the last year as president of the Board.

A highlight of the evening was the silent auction chaired by CDA Board member Beverley Young. Guests were attracted by curator-led “insider” tours at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Hirschl and Adler Gallery, and The Brooklyn Botanic Garden; private walking tours in Manhattan; tickets to the Big Apple Circus, the New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show, and off-Broadway productions of Freud’s Last Session and Temporal Powers; season tickets to The Acting Company's Salon Reading Series; three bracelets from Erwin Pearl; and more, all drawing enthusiastic bidding.

To learn more about the museum, visit www.mvhm.org.

Photos: Ellen Wallop


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