By Sara Herbert-Galloway.
Southampton, N.Y. Southampton Hospital’s 57th Annual summer gala, chaired by Trustee Jean Remmel FitzSimmons raised over $1.3 million for Southampton Hospital’s Jenny and John Paulson Emergency Department.
Jean Shafiroff, Martin Shafiroff, Ellen Scarborough, Chuck Scarborough.
Photo: Lenny Stucker / lennystucker.com.
Ellen Scarborough and Chuck Scarborough Emmy Award winning newsman and
the evenings Master of ceremonies. Photo: Sean Zann/Patrick McMullan.com.
Southampton Hospital has provided care for the community since 1909 and is the Hampton’s longest running charitable cause.
Honorary Chair Howard Lorber with Jennine Gourin.
Photo: Sean Zann/Patrick McMullan.com.
Actress Cassandra Seidenfeld, philanthropist Janna Bullock, publisher
Randi Schatz. Photo: Sean Zann/Patrick McMullan.com.
Howard Lorber, Chairman of the hospital’s Board of Trustees and Honorary Chair, Underwriting Chair Jean Shafiroff, Southampton Hospital President & CEO Robert Chaloner and Southampton Hospital Foundation President Steve Bernstein welcomed over 750 supporters.
Publisher Debra Halpert and Southampton Hospital President & CEO
Robert Chaloner. Photo: Lenny Stucker / lennystucker.com.
Guest and Dottie Herman, CEO of Douglas Elliman.
Photo: Lenny Stucker / lennystucker.com.
The “Fantasia” themed black and white dress attire added an old world formality to the illustrious setting beneath the large air conditioned white tents on the corner of Wickapogue and Old Town Road.
Socialite Joy Marks. Photo: Lenny Stucker / lennystucker.com.
Honorary Chair, Howard Lorber will lead the upcoming capital campaign to build a new Southampton Hospital on the sight of the old Southampton College and was very excited over their upcoming with Stony Brook, a teaching hospital. I can’t think of a more qualified person than Howard Lorber to get this job done.
Tony, Urrutia, Christina Mc Larty and husband, actor and producer
David Arquette. Photo: Sean Zann/Patrick McMullan.com.
TV personality Katlean deMonchy and Dr. Judith Hellman.
Photo: Sean Zann/Patrick McMullan.com.
Howard is a leader in the largest residential real estate brokerage company in the New York metropolitan area and a very well respected member of the community.
Tony Award Winning producers Stewart F. Lane “Mr. Broadway” and
Bonnie Comley. Photo: Lenny Stucker / lennystucker.com.
Philanthropists extraordinaire John Catsimatidis and wife Margo Catsimatidis.
Photo: Lenny Stucker / lennystucker.com.
Jean Remmel FitzSimmons is a distinguished member of the Southampton Hospital family and an esteemed trustee. The Jean Remmel FitzSimmons Society was created to honor and recognize friends who include the hospital in their estate plans.
Whitney Fairchild and Mark Gilbertson. Photo: Sean Zann/Patrick McMullan.com.
Marianne Epley and Southampton Mayor Mark Epley,
N.Y. State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle and his wife Penny.
Photo: Sean Zann/Patrick McMullan.com.
Chuck Scarborough emceed the evening. Some of the many supporters in attendance were John and Margo Catsimatidis, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Southampton Village Mayor Mark Epley, Dottie Herman, Somers Farkas, Laura Lofaro Freeman, David Arquette and Jay McLaughlin.
Martin Gruss and Audrey Gruss. Photo: Sean Zann/Patrick McMullan.com.
Kasia McCormick, Somers Farkas, Margo Casimatidis.
Photo: Sean Zann/Patrick McMullan.com.
Philanthropist Jean Shafiroff has chaired the event before and is very dedicated to Southampton Hospitals cause and other foundations affiliated with the hospital, namely The Ellen P. Hermanson Foundation.
Trustee Jean Remmel FitzSimmons, Laura Lofaro Freeman, former gala chair.
Photo: Sean Zann/Patrick McMullan.com.
Steve Bernstein, Philanthropist and Underwriting Chair Jean Shafiroff,
Alex Donner. Photo: Sean Zann/Patrick McMullan.com.
Everything about the evening was black and white, even the floor of the tent… everything except my dress of course. I mistakenly wore a crimson colored summer gown, I guess one could say that I ‘added color’ to the affair.
Jean Shafiroff and the author Sara Herbert-Galloway.
Photo: Lenny Stucker / lennystucker.com.
To learn more or to contribute, please visit southamptonhospital.org.