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News Archive for Southampton Hospital Foundation

TED KRUCKEL 08.04.09 4:05 PM

Super Saturday Shows No Signs of Slowing, Not Being Super

Southampton Hospital's Summer Party suggested period attire.
Photo: Blanche Williamson

Like almost everyone else, Super Saturday designer/donor Carmen Marc Valvo laments the summer of 2009’s weird weather. Over brunch served at his elaborately landscaped Bridgehampton home, he mourned, “The roses didn’t even bother to bloom.”

I nodded. But secretly I had been thanking the gods for the lack of heat this summer. (Is global warming over? Are the icebergs getting bigger?)

You see, I am what In Style associate publisher Ron Prince called “a schvitzer.” That’s Yiddish for a person who sweats in excess. I was standing inside at Super Saturday 12, praising the forced cool air, when an event worker assured me apocryphally, “We’ve always had air conditioned tents.” MORE >>

Super Saturday, Southampton Hospital Foundation

TED KRUCKEL 08.06.08 12:19 PM

At the Southampton Hospital's Golden Gala, All That Glittered Was Sometimes Plastic

The Southampton Hospital's Golden Gala
Photo: Blanche Williamson

Well, the organizers of Southampton Hospital’s 50th annual Golden Gala on Saturday certainly had my sympathy as I arrived at their annual summer throwdown on Wickapogue Road. The weather had been indecisive all day, occasionally spitting out rain and blowing wind, then breaking for a humid burst of sunshine.

It’s not that I was worried about getting wet—this is a tent party to rival all tent parties, and the cocktail and dinner stretches each feel as large as a football field. Even the entry tent is huge, which facilitates an efficient check-in and a chance to gander at the raffle prizes. (Such a simple idea, why doesn’t everyone do this?)

But a bad day at the beach makes for grumpy partygoers. A brilliant sun encourages all the ladies to go for broke, baring skin to show more tan and jewelry, and making their husbands kind of matchy-matchy with sherbet blazers or embroidered pants. But when the wife goes for gray or black, you can be sure that the husband will too.

I could see this was the case well before arrival because the Southampton police always make a huge deal of organizing the traffic—cones, motorcycles, flaming flares, you name it. So it takes a while to go the last block or so. Some partiers take their chances and park blocks away so as not to get stuck waiting for their cars at the evening’s end. It’s a cruel joke on the ladies, I think, making them trudge the last half mile in chiffon and heels, but a very entertaining fashion show for those of us queuing. MORE >>

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