With St. Patrick’s Day upon us, it’s time to enjoy yourself at Quill, Jefferson Hotel’s elegant lounge. Quill, as part of the Jefferson Hotel which was beautifully restored by Ogden CAP Properties, LLC with Connie Milstein, is getting inspired with the holiday.
The Quill Cocktails on St. Patrick’s Day will include an 1800’s Irish coffee recipe, a specialty four leaf clover Mojito that is made with fresh limes, a fresh watercress and tarragon mixed with Bluecoat gin and green tea liquor, and an Irish Whiskey tasting. The Irish Whiskey tasting will include: Jameson 12 years, Knappogue 12 years and Clontarf.
If that’s not enough, Quill is also offering great fun to the first 70 guests. They will be able to sample one of the homemade four leaf clover St. Patrick’s Day cookies. Quill is getting into the holiday spirit and looks forward to welcoming guests to do so as well.
In recent news, Lifetime Television is showing its support for military families. Blue Star Families, where Connie Milstein is on the Board of Directors, explains that Lifetime Television is donating $1 to Blue Star Families for every time a certain link is posted to Facebook or Twitter. With the season premiere of Army Wives on Sunday, March 6th, they are showing their much appreciated support for Blue Star Families.
A mere three years ago, Blue Star Families was set up by a group of dedicated military spouses who sought to “raise awareness of the challenges of military family life with their civilian communities and leaders.” Today, this is an important organization that has developed a whole support system for those who have family serving in the military. The organization also seeks to involve the larger community, which was why the recent activity by the group of grandmothers baking special treats for those marines deployed in Afghanistan was so typical of their work.
BSF Southern California chapter director Reyna Reyna appealed to her community for help and had an incredible response from these grandmothers. Indeed, Reyna commented that it’s a problem how many civilians want to get involved in helping their military brethren, but don’t know what to do. This was a perfect opportunity. “Oh this is great, it’s my first time helping out,” said Dixie Branscome from the Lake Elsinore Elks Ladies Auxiliary. “I made 60 dozen cookies myself.” Reyna was shocked and delighted that the women wanted to bake the cookies from scratch, donating real time to the cause. “Military veteran Leo Vasquez, who served in the armed forces from 1977 to 1990, said he remembered how important care packages were to him. ‘I am here to give my support to those still serving,’ Vasquez said. ‘These packages meant a lot to me, they kept our morale up.’”
Connie Milstein is on the Board of Directors at BSF.
Co-hosts at the gracious Jefferson Hotel for an elegant book party in honor of the launching of “My Father at 100: A Memoir” were Connie Milstein, her husband JC de La Haye Saint Hilaire, Tammy Haddad, Ted Greenberg, and Jon Meacham.
At the end of an interview conducted by the Pulitzer-Prize winning Jon Meacham, Ron Reagan, the 40th president’s son and author of the memoir, asked Mr. Meacham to please read aloud about the closing moments of his father’s life; words he had written but which proved too emotional for him to read himself:
“His eyes found the face of the woman who for more than half a century had formed the core of his private world. ‘I love you honey, I love you’ was all she could say. Was all she needed to say,” Meacham read from the book while a mesmerized and emotionally moved audience listened on.
Blue Star Families is an organization started by and dedicated to supporting the families of men and women who serve in the United States Armed Forces. Since its founding in 2008, BSF has been active in raising awareness among the general population about the kinds of sacrifices military families make for their loved ones and for their country, while at the same time providing special activities, information and support to help those families get through those more challenging moments.
As a longtime supporter of military families, Connie Milstein became a member of the board of directors of BSF and participates in many activities that bring pride and joy to the families of military personnel. One such event, which is pictured here, was a dinner reception honoring military families at the elegant Georgetown home of Connie Milstein, in March, 2010.
Giggles Theater is one of the many projects of the non-profit organization Medical Missions for Children, where Connie Milstein has contributed and served as a Trustee.
Performing three times each week, Giggles Theater brings the healing power of laughter, song and entertainment to hospitalized children at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Paterson, NJ.
Giggles also reaches out to the children who are not well enough to visit the theater itself. The show is shared even with those confined to bed or their hospital rooms by broadcasting their laughter-filled productions over closed-circuit TV throughout the hospital.
In addition, every show is recorded so that it can be viewed by ill children in over 100 children’s hospitals throughout the world. This fulfills one of the goals of Medical Missions for Children, which is to break down the barriers of nationality and distance to bring comfort and medical care to any child anywhere in the world. In the case of Giggles, that care is in the form of laughter, proving that “laughter is the best medicine.”
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 50th 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
With St. Patrick’s Day upon us, it’s time to enjoy yourself at Quill, Jefferson Hotel’s elegant lounge. Quill, as part of the Jefferson Hotel which was beautifully restored by Ogden CAP Properties, LLC with Connie Milstein, is getting inspired with the holiday.
