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NEW
YORK BOTANICAL GARDENS
Conservatory
Ball Ensures
Flowers Will Bloom Again
By
Roger Webster
Photos by Thos Robinson/PMc
 AYOR
Michael Bloomberg, Dina Merrill and Ted Hartley,
generous Ann and Charles B. Johnson, Deborah Norville
and Karl Wellner were among the 650 guests at the New York
Botanical Garden 28th annual Conservatory Ball in the Bronx.
Benefit
chairmen Friederike Biggs, Mai Harrison and Jeanne Jones
and honorary chairman Honoré Wamsler greeted them in the
Perennial Garden.
The
peonies, foxgloves, roses, orchids, and irises were singing
refrains of gratitude into the gorgeous evening air when they
heard president Gregory Loring announce that the ball had
raised $1.5 million to help ensure that their fabulous show will
entertain for another year.
Among
those enjoying dinner and dancing in the Conservatory tent: Julia
Koch, Jessie Araskog, Pamela Fiori, Cynthia and Dan Lufkin,
Susan and Coleman Burke, Wendy Carduner, CeCe and Lee
Black, Joanne and Roberto de Guardiola, Somers and Jonathan
Farkas, Audrey and Martin Gruss, Andrea Stark, Patricia
Duff, Muffy and Donald Miller, Howard Sobel, Royce
Pinkwater, Pat Patterson, Debbie and Billy Bancroft,
Helen Schifter and Ann Nitze, as well as designers Nicole
Miller, Maggie Norris and Steven Stollman.
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