Lydia Pitsirilos, Maxine Soares, Debbie Gonzalez, Letty Orellano, Claude Saucier, and Vernon Smith, did the set-up and decorations, with a lovely motif of hanging spirals of paper (shiny and not).
GREETERS:
Joan Browne,Helen
Merber, and Maria Acevedo greeted guests all evening and wrote down the dish
those who signed in brought. The dishes were put out by Tish
Howard with help from Melanie Eversley.
WHAT PEOPLE BROUGHT
(If you didn't sign in,
your dish isn't here - so let me know!)
Maria Acevedo:
Bruschetta
Stephanie and John
Arenas: Cookies
Laurie Barton:
Vegetable and fruit platter, cake
Chariss Boisseau &
Carlos: Mac& cheese, seltzer, and music!
deAndrade:
Empanadas
Dixon, Norma: Yellow
rice with peas and eggs; yellow rice with mixed vegetables
Gabrielle Everett:
Coleslaw with hot dogs
Melanie Eversley:
Chicken pasta salad
Paul Fisher: Cake
Sheila Friedling: Tossed
salad
Debbie Gonzalez -
Roasted vegetables
Linda Greenman: Rugelach
Aaron Heisler &
Alexandra Martin: Cookies,rugelach
Jill Hodge:
Cookies
Tish Howard: Roasted
chicken with garlic and peppers
Florence Jackson &
Jerry Pirog: Korean chicken legs; black bean & corn salad
Pat Jordan: Haricots
verts
Laura Koulish: Spinach lasagna
Mona and Jean Joseph
Leon: Pasta with garden vegetables
Collean Mallon: Greek
pasta salad
Ena Malone: Chocolate
cherry tiara cake
Kathie Murray: Turkey
chili
Adelaida Navarro: Arroz
con gandules
Brenda Marshall: Red
Velvet Cake
Marlene Melton: Summer
punch (and one other punch recipe!)
Roie and Prudence
Oppreman: Cakes
Letty Orellano: Garlic
stringbeans
Mildred Palermo: Juice
Lydia Pitsirilos - Roast
chicken, potato salad
Namita Prasad:
Samosas
Sekhar Ramakrishnan:
Spicy broccoli
Bones Rodriguez:
Coconut, walnut, oatmeal raisin cookies
Virginia Santiago:
Cookies and punch
Maxine Soares: Jerk
chicken
Janie Stewart: Collard
greens
Cary Webb: Home-made
parker rolls, garlic knots
Beatriz Zapata: Fresh
cheese with peppers appetizer
CLEAN UP CREW
Steve Koulish, Laura Koulish, Lydia Pitsirilos, Claude Saucier, Vernon Smith, Maxine Soares
Special thanks to Chariss Boisseau for providing the music, to
building staff Mike Medina, Lenny Moreno, and Modesto ("Ito")
Santiago for their pre-party clean-up and to Barbara Geller for arranging the
flowers outside. Thanks to Vernon Smith who found, cleaned, and prepared
the table and chairs outside and to Claude Saucier and Vernon Smith prepared
the children's rug and chairs.