View the following slide show featuring Connie Milstein and Susan Axelrod, co-hostesses of the CURE Epilepsy event that honored well-known TV producer and supporter of CURE, Tammy Haddad. Haddad was this year’s recipient of the ‘Friend of CURE’ Award. The event took place at the Newseum in early December with hundreds of guests in attendance.

Connie Milstein with Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Connie Milstein honored the former Prime Minister of England, Gordon Brown with a “swanky D.C. book party” at the Jefferson Hotel on Saturday last week.  Connie Milstein hosted the party along with her husband J.C. de La Haye St. Hilaire, and friends Tammy Haddad and Ted Greenberg. Ex-Prime Minister Gordon was there not only to be honored, wined and dined, but also to promote his new book, “Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization.”

Gordon Brown is still a Member of Parliament although no longer Prime Minister. He has continued to represent his district, which is a group of small mining villages in the south of Scotland. Although thought of as just a “backbencher” at home in England, traveling the world and discussing his book, Brown is considered a “global thinker” around the world.

Connie Milstein is the owner of the Jefferson Hotel where the party took place.

At the Kennedy Center’s gala in honor of the 50^th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s presidency, Denyce Graves sang a powerful tribute to Grace Bumbry and the White House concert in 1962, in which Bumbry was introduced to America. Bumbry, a 2009 Kennedy Center Honoree, pushed past racial, social and artistic boundaries through her voice.

The event is part of the Rubenstein Program, and is supported by David and Alice Rubenstein, Connie Milstein and others.

This is a picture from the New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s Black-Tie Gala in 2008. Philanthropist Connie Milstein and Abby Elbaum smile for the camera at this fundraising event for emergency medicine departments