Guests enjoy dinner in the Museum's Milstein Hall of Ocean Life.
On
Thursday, November 19, 2009, the American Museum of Natural (AMNH) held
its annual Museum Gala. Approximately 600 guests attended this year’s
dazzling ball. Following cocktails in the Roosevelt Rotunda, guests enjoyed
a gourmet dinner and a performance by Dave Matthews in the Milstein Hall
of Ocean Life. Jodie and John Eastman, Kathy and Tom Freston, and Alice
and Lorne Michaels were Gala chairs.
The event featured host Tom Brokaw
and an auction of extraordinary prizes, overseen by auctioneer Jamie
Niven of Sotheby’s. This year the winnings included an array of
priceless items available only from the Museum including:
• the
ultimate behind-the-scenes paleontology tour with Museum Provost and
world-famous paleontologist Michael Novacek • front-row seats to
New York’s one and only Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade;
• dinner
and star-gazing with world-renowned astrophysicist and Director of the
Museum’s Hayden Planetarium Neil Tyson; • a children’s
expedition for 10 to view rarely-seen Museum treasures behind the scenes
Guests who joined Museum president Ellen V. Futter and the Gala chairs
were: the Museum’s chairmen of the Board of Trustees Lewis W. Bernard,
Bono, Ed Burns, Christy Turlington, Timothy Hutton, Richard and Marcia
Mishaan, John and Susan Hess, Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg, John
Alexander and Fiona Waterstreet, Robert and Jennifer Carlock, Jimmy Fallon,
Alec Baldwin, Carey Lowell, Jane Buffett, Seth Meyers, Kristen Wiig,
Bill Hader, Will Forte, Fred Armisen, Kenan Thompson, Andy Samberg, Jason
Sudeikis, Bobby Moynihan, Jenny Slate, Abby Elliot, Nassim Pedrad, Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, Roger Altman, Dick and Diana Beattie, Tom and Meredith
Brokaw, Ralph Scholsstein and Jane Hartley, Nancy Garvey, Lynn Sherr,
Claire Bernard, Scott and Roxanne Bok, Judy and Archibald Cox, Chappy
and Melissa Morris, Steve and Roberta Denning, Jill and Alan Rappaport,
Steve and Sue Mandel, Judy Dimon, Marlene Hess and James Zirin, Pemmy
Frick, Peter and Susan Solomon, Jonny and Kimberly Kravis Schulhof, Jamie
and Lee Niven, Shawn Levy (Director of “Night at the Museum”),
Jes and Deby Staley, Karen LeFrak, Kitty and Tom Kempner, Jessie Kempner,
Jackie LeFrak, Francine LeFrak, David and Romy Coquillette, Roberto and
Allison Mignone, Judy McGrath, Ted and Keryn Mathas, Shelly and George
Lazarus, Valerie and Jeffrey Peltier, Candy Barasch, Robert Pohly and
Julie Turaj, Bob and Eva Shaye, Tom Glocer, Coco and Arie Kopelman, Robert
Zimmerman, Stuart Lane and Bonnie Comley, George and Barbara Bunn, Peter
Blanchard, John Sykes, and Connie Spahn.
