The Board of Directors, staff, and volunteers of the Greene County Council on the Arts would like to take this opportunity to express our abundant thanks to everyone who help make our 18th Annual Beaux Arts Ball, affectionately dubbed “Keith’s Party”, quite the affair to remember. As we continue to celebrate our 30th Anniversary, your loyalty and support is heartwarming and more valuable than ever before. This year’s Ball was held on April 1 at the Copper Tree Restaurant at Hunter Mountain. The Beaux Arts Ball is GCCA’s major fundraising event, generating indispensable proceeds that support the vital programs and services we provide to the community throughout the year. The success of this year’s event is even more precious in light of limited funding at the state and federal level. Over $50,000 was raised towards our 2006 fundraising goal. Our thanks go to the more than 375 people who took part in the festivities as well as to everyone who contributed to making the evening an overwhelming success.

Special thanks to our lead sponsors, the Bank of Greene County, to our table benefactors: the Bank of Greene County (Diamond), Keith A. Lampman (Platinum), Columbia Memorial Hospital/Columbia Greene Hospital Foundation (Gold), Pamela & Dr. Theodore Belfor, Peter & Sarah Finn & The Catskill Mountain Foundation, Regina Doebler, First Niagara Bank, Greene County IDA, Jerry’s Kids, Key Bank & McDonald Financial Group, Gregory & Lovey Lampman, Pete & Judy Lampman, Maloney-Walsh-Bradley, Gina & Frank Orlando, The Peckham Family Foundation, C.B. & Natasha Slutzky, David & Jean Slutzky, Windham Fine Arts (Silver), and to our numerous individual benefactors.  Thanks to Keith A. Lampman, our Distinguished Service Award honoree, for his invaluable assistance and help in establishing new procedures for generating underwriting support and for packing the room with his family and friends – Benefactors all! Thanks to Kico Govantes for sharing knowledge and expertise which enabled us to institute a much smoother process for registration and bidding at our silent auction and to our Visual Arts Director, Donna Barrett, for further refining the process. Grateful thanks to Ruder Finn Printing Services and Sarah Taft for polishing our image through their donation of layout and printing services.  We are grateful as well to Rob Shannon of fotopic.com, who donated his photographic services throughout the evening, creating a wonderful library of photographs.

Thanks to event hosts, David and Jean Slutzky, who worked their magic throughout the ballroom, Cloud 9, and silent auction area. Thanks to the entire Slutzky family for their generous hospitality; to David Kukle, Wanda Cottam, Restaurant Manager and the superb staff at The Copper Tree Restaurant for their skillful and patient help; to Head Chef Jerry Greenberg for his prodigious talents and delectable artistry; to Anthony Patsky for graciously donating his time and renowned expertise as auctioneer; to Patrick D. Milbourn who, once again, provided a collectors’ item with his new 30th Anniversary commemorative poster “Let the Celebration Begin” which has been added to the series of his commemorative Beaux Arts Ball Posters since 1997 – order yours today!; to the First Niagara Bank for providing the underwriting for our Distinguished Service Awards, to Barry Hopkins for creating the awards and to Ellen Mahnken for providing the elegant hand calligraphed presentation awards; to the Overtones for providing our fabulous non-stop dancing music and drum rolls to keep us on schedule; to Jim Davis who greeted the revelers as they arrived and serenaded Cloud 9 diners with his magical harp, and to The Christine & Elliot Spero Duo who entertained browsers at the Silent Auction site, to our friends in the media for their unflagging support in publicizing this and other Council events.  And special thanks to the Board of Directors and GCCA staff for their hard work and the many hours they spent putting together this major event.

Congratulations to Keith A. Lampman, recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Service Award. This award was established to honor individuals whose outstanding contributions have significantly benefited the health of the Arts Council as well as the cultural life of Greene County.  The award was presented with great fanfare at the Ball!

A round of applause to our generous contributors to the Live Auction: Guy Chirico, Scribner Hollow Inn; Peter Finn, the Guide Magazine & Catskill Mountain Foundation; the Slutzky Family, Hunter Mountain Ski Bowl; Windham Mountain; and Richard Miller, our surprise opera star.

And, of course, thanks go to all the artists, individuals, and businesses who opened their hearts to the Arts Council and generously donated their works and talents to the silent auction: Rev. John Ace, Deborah Allen of Black Dome Press, Ann & Co., Peter Backlund, Susan Beecher, Leonard & Gladys Bell of Ethan Allen, Athena Billias, Black Diamond’s Grill, Edward Bloomer, Naomi Blum, Nick Bove of Windham Mountain Outfitters, Brandywine Restaurant, Dick Brooks, Lucia Backlund, Rita Buttiker, Jeanne Cameron, Loren Cashman of Last Chance Cheese, Charlie’s Windham Mountain Ski Shop, Robert Cepale, Julie Chase, Dot Chast, Ruth Chiamese, Christman's Windham House, Colony Wine Liquor & Distribution, Catherine Connell of Golden Touch Day Spa, James Cramer, Donn Critchell, Dennis Dalton of Dennis J. Dalton, Ltd., Ulla Darni, Irina Datsko, Francis X. Driscoll, Doris Duffee, Steve Dunn of Dunn Builders Supply, Miriam Enders, Patti Ferrara, Jeanette Fintz, Foxglove Floral, Lynne Friedman, Louise Fritz, Frank Giorgini of Handmade Tiles, Goebel of North America, Donna Gould, Enrique Govantes, Robert Gruen, Michael Haggerty of Peckham Materials Corporation, Jeanne Heiberg, Richard Hochman, Horton Smith House, Virginia Hoyt, Jujmcyn Theatres to Gershan Shevett and Patti Morrow, Just Leave it To Us, Iris Kaplan, Ruth Leonard, Lotus Lights, Brian Lowe of Windham Country Club, Dwayne MacKinley, Paul Mademann of Summit Hill Athletic Club, Isabella Magistro of Isabella International, Debbie & Irwin Mallory of Hunter Mountain Ski Shop, Stanley Maltzman, Jerry Miller, Patti Auerbach Morrow, David Motzkin of KOSCO/Amos Post Division, Gerta Muellner of Gerta of Austria, Barbara Neumeister of Photo Image Cakes by Barbara, Margo Pelletier, Doreen Perrine, Ted Petricini, Regine Petrosky, Colleen Polye-Clancy of Freixenet, Erica Potrzeba, Monica Restaino, Pro Ski & Ride, Elizabeth Roshkowska of Roshkowska Galleries, David S. Rundell, Ruth Sachs, Susumu Sato, Carol Schilansky, Carline Seide-Murphy, Greg Sergin, Amy & Paul Slutzky, David Slutzky, D. Jack Solomon, Ana Sporer of Ruby’s Restaurant & Hotel, Susan M. Story, Rebecca Synan, Traphagen's Honey, Sheila Trautman, Bob Turan, Marianne Van Lent, Village Bistro, Karl Volk, Jack Waldron, Pat and Stephanie Walsh of Swamp Angel Antiques, Jane Walter, Washington Irving Inn, Windham Mountain, Windham Mountain Outfitters,Windham Vineyard, Windhaven Restaurant, Renee Yager, Dara Young, and all those who contributed financially to the underwriting of this year's Beaux Arts Ball and the well-being of your Arts Council throughout the year.  We had a Ball! Thank you again!

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