They say talk is cheap.
It’s not, really.
Exceed your allotted mobile minutes, and it can get pretty costly.
Great Conversations will set you back $175. Yet when you consider all the inane chatter you are subjected to, across multiple channels, almost every waking minute of every day, this may be a bargain.
How often do you get an opportunity for relaxed, intelligent dinner-table discussion with accomplished raconteurs–while supporting the arts?
This year’s fundraiser for the Arts Council of the Morris Area is scheduled for March 31 at the Madison Hotel.
The list of Great Conversationalists is impressive. There are mystery writers (Carol Higgins Clark) and experts unraveling the mysteries of cancer (Dr. Kenneth Adler, of the state commission on cancer research).
There will be chefs and theater people and journalists and sports figures (former Yankees pitcher Al Leiter and William Lovett, director of training for NFL officials). Chris Daggett, president of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and former gubernatorial candidate, will be on hand.
Here’s the full lineup. Have a look; talk it over!
Kenneth R. Adler, MD
Attending Physician, Morristown Memorial Hospital; Vice Chair NJ Commission on Cancer Research
Virginia Fabbri Butera, PhD
Director,Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery; Chairperson, Art & Music Departments, College of St. Elizabeth
E. LaBrent Chrite
Dean, School of Business and Professor of Management, Montclair State University
Carol Higgins Clark
Mystery author; Actor
Christopher J. Daggett
President & CEO, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; Independent candidate for NJ Governor (2009)
Carolyn Dorfman
Choreographer/Dancer and Founder of Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
Gabriel Esteban, PhD
President, Seton Hall University
John J. Farmer, Jr.
Dean, Rutgers School of Law; Former Senior Counsel & Team Leader to 9/11 Commission
Peter Genovese
Mr. “Munchmobile,” The Star Ledger
John F. Hollway
Author of Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom; Winner of the Innocence Project’s 2011 Media Award.
Bunny Johnson
Vice President & General Manager, Neiman Marcus (Short Hills)
Peter Keller
Owner, The Madison Hotel
Roger Knowles, PhD
Associate Professor and Director, Neuroscience Program, Drew University
James Laird
Chef/Partner, Restaurant Serenade (Chatham)
Al Leiter
National League All-Star & 19 year Major League Baseball veteran; MLB analyst
William R. Lovett
Director, National Football League Officials Training; NFL Official (retired) (Field Judge Super Bowl XXXV)
Brig. Gen. Jonathan A. Maddux
Senior Military Commander & Program Executive Officer for Ammunition, Picatinny Arsenal
and Lt. Col. Charles H. Koehler, Commander – US Army Garrison, Picatinny Arsenal
Kent Manahan
Chair, NJ Public Broadcasting Authority; Former anchor and reporter, New Jersey Network News
Peter D. Manahan
Partner, Connell Foley; Former Morris County Prosecutor
John McEwen
Executive Director, New Jersey Theatre Alliance
Dennis R. Robinson
President & CEO, New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority
John Scher
CEO, Metropolitan Entertainment Inc., Music industry producer, promoter & manager
Judith A. Spires
CEO & President, Kings Super Markets, Inc.
David Shulkin, MD
President, Morristown Memorial Hospital; Vice President, Atlantic Health
John D. Turpin
President & Broker of Record, Turpin Real Estate
Jerry Vezza
Jazz pianist, composer and concert piano technician
Brian Voynick, DVM
Host, The Pet Story on News 12 New Jersey
Helen Wronski
President & CEO, Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey
David B. Wyshner
CFO, Avis Budget Group, Inc.
Meryl Zausner
CFO, Novartis Corporation, Healthcare Businesswomen Association’s (HBA) Woman of the Year
