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Audrey
Gruss Hosts White Tea Garden Party as Kick-Off to
Hope For Depression Research Foundation’s Fall Luncheon
Seminar
Philanthropist Audrey
Gruss invited 30 of her closest women friends to a White
Tea Garden Party at her Southampton home, “Fairwind.” Guests
including Serena
Boardman, Karen LeFrak and Margo
Nederlander helped
kick-off Hope for
Depression Research Foundation's Fall Luncheon Seminar by
wearing their
brightest whites for the afternoon.
Classic tea sandwiches were passed around, while white
linen-covered tables in the pool house were
laden with pastel-colored pastries. Guests including Louise
Blouin, Kim Heirston and Susan
Mortimer meandered through beautiful grounds that
featured a white cutting garden, beautiful blooming white
hydrangeas, a white and green woodland garden, and a pool
surrounded by white dogwood trees, with an apple orchard and
white birch allee.
Gruss welcomed guests and explained how important it is to
have good nutrition, exercise and sleep to keep a balanced
mind/body state and help ward off depression. Rosemarie
Pacheco of Grace's
Marketplace and the granddaughter of Grace Balducci
Doria, gave a short talk explaining how white tea is one of
the most effective antioxidants. A rare tea, it was
harvested only once a year and was originally saved for
emperors and nobility in the Far East to enjoy. The tea is
now available in the U.S. through distributor The
Republic of Tea.
All guests, including Mai
Hallingby Harrison, Carol
Mack, Lise
Evans, Dana
Hammond Stubgen and Francesca
Nye, left with gifts of white tea from The Republic
of Tea and a Save-the-Date for Hope for Depression
Research Foundation’s Luncheon Seminar on November 10, 2015,
to be held at the 583 Park Avenue venue.
About Hope for Depression Research Foundation (HDRF)
Audrey Gruss created HDRF in 2006 in memory of her mother
Hope, who struggled with clinical depression. Their mission
is to fund cutting-edge, neuroscience research into the
origins, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of depression
and other mood
disorders – bipolar disorder, postpartum depression,
post-traumatic stress syndrome, anxiety disorder and
suicide. In 2010, HDRF launched its Depression Task Force (DTF)
– an outstanding collaboration of seven leading scientists,
at the frontiers of brain science, from different research
institutions across the U.S. and Canada. These scientists
have developed an unprecedented research strategy that
integrates the most advanced knowledge in genetics,
epigenetics, molecular biology, electrophysiology, and brain
imaging. To accelerate breakthrough research, they share
ongoing results, in real time, at the new HDRF Data Center.
For more information, visit:
www.hopefordepression.org |