MERRY CHRISTMAS 2013 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 George Rudenauer 307 West 76th Street New York City rudenauer@gmail.com 917 603 3099

Winter in Central Park: Bow Bridge - Harvard Hasty Pudding Theater’s There’s Something about Maui with Elline and John - January election to the Board of Directors of Save Venice, Inc., after 10 years as President of the Young Friends

Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Orchard House’ in Concord with Mum - Washington DC visit to Gayle and Soosie with Jill and Erika: U.S. Capitol and Library of Congress - Haircut with Pete the barber from high school days, going strong at 95 years young

On Cape Cod Canal with Betsy and Jeff to see the spring Herring Run from the sea – St Patrick’s Day with Sarah – London friend Yasmin’s guest at the 007 Daniel Craig VIP launch events for Range Rover – Working with Judd Foundation in Soho

Anne, Juan and cocktails before Save Venice La Biblioteca di Notte Masked Ball at Boston Public Library - I struck a HIT making Dowager Countess’s Downton Abbey Chocolate Truffles! (later in December I met Lord Grantham on 44

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Jan and I host Mum in our nation’s capital for her 85th birthday: Mum’s long awaited visit to see the WWII Memorial - Enjoying Potomac views from George Washington’s Mt. Vernon; Georgetown Wisteria with cousins Kim, Ryan and Sarah

At TriBeCa Whiskey Bar with Richard visiting from Hamburg - Save Venice exhibit at NY Botanical Gardens with Martha - 2 days a year the sun sets exactly perpendicular to the Manhattan grid - Hudson River Valley sunset cocktail cruise w/ Jenny

Facebook reunion after too many years with UMass classmate Jack - Summer cycling out of a sudden tempest over New York Harbor- Home in Hingham for 4th of July weekend…Main Street parade and fun in the sun at Nantasket Beach w/ Mum & Lisa

Cycling all ‘round the city and over the Brooklyn Bridge with Susan – Up walking Tessie (sister to Isis of D.A.?) while visiting Lisa in New Hampshire – Reunion of Tiffany & Co. alumni friends in Duchess County at Fernanda’s celebrated equestrian fête

Erica visiting from Chicago– Mary & David in Central Park Bethesda Terrace – Hamptons hospitality – Boston Harbor schooner sailing w/ Maggie, Evan & Jackson - Kate, 1st roommate from Beacon Hill days, lives 4 doors down from Janice in Winchester!

Jeff’s birthday in Amherst– Lisa + Pete’s 30

thAnniversary Toast!– Old Westbury Gardens w/ Claire– Forrest & Terri @ Soho House

Fall visitors in New York & Boston: David from London; Susanne and Elisabeth from Berlin; MoMA with Christian in from Paris