This Week In Palm Beach
November 27, 2019 Edition - The News Palm Beachers Need to Know
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The Palm Beach Civic Association is grateful to our Directors, Members and Sponsors for their support and service to our community.
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Palm Beach Civic Association offices will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 28 and 29 for the holiday, and will reopen Monday, December 2.
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Palm Beach Civic Association Presents
Protect Our Paradise
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R
oyal Poinciana Chapel - Fellowship Hall, 10 AM
Refreshments to Follow
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Bob Wright Announces New
Treasurer, Executive Committee Member and Directors
to Serve the Civic Association
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Michael Ainslie, Treasurer
Palm Beach Civic Association
Civic Association Executive Committee member Michael Ainslie has been named the organization’s Treasurer.
A well known figure in Palm Beach, Michael has spent his career as a President, CEO and Board Member of numerous companies and institutions. He has done extraordinary work transforming the lives of kids with the Posse Foundation.
Mr. Ainslie received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Vanderbilt University.
Said Michael of his new position at the Palm Beach Civic Association, “ I am honored to become Treasurer of the Civic Association. It is an incredibly important organization in our community. It has done great work in its great, long history and under Mary Robosson's leadership and Bob Wright’s Chairmanship. We’ve got exciting things ahead of us and I’m thrilled to be helping out as the new Treasurer.”
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Keith Beaty
New Executive Committee Member
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Keith Beaty
Executive Committee Member
Palm Beach Civic Association Chairman and CEO, Bob Wright, announced the appointment of a new member to the Executive Committee, Director Keith Beaty.
Chairman Bob Wright remarked about Beaty's strong engineering background and his work on several Town committees including Shore Protection, as strong reasons for the committee to approve his nomination as the newest member to the Executive Committee.
Beaty has served as a Civic Association Director for the past 7 years. His nomination passed unanimously.
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Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley
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Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley
Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley is a former diplomat and attorney, who served in numerous positions at the Department of State, including U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1994 – 1997); Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (1997 -2001); Special Representative for Global Partnerships (2009 – 2010); Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2010 – 2013) and Secretary of State John Kerry (2013 – 2017); and Special Representative to the United Nations General Assembly, appointed by President Obama in 2011.
Ambassador Bagley currently serves as Chair of SBI, Inc., a rural wireless company located in Show Low, Arizona.
Ambassador Bagley served as Vice Chair of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, a Presidential appointment with Senate confirmation, from 2003 – 2009. She has also served as Chair of the National Advisory Board for the Democratic National Committee and Chair of the Clinton Library Board of Trustees.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs, the American Ireland Fund, the Atlantic Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Upon her departure from Portugal, she received meritorious awards from the Portuguese Navy and Air Force, as well as the “Grand Cross of Prince Henry the Navigator,” the President of Portugal’s highest civilian commendation. She has also received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Regis College in 2003, the “Global Democracy Award” from the International Women’s Democracy Center in March, 2005, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in May, 2005, the 2010 Meridian International Public Diplomacy Award, and the 2013 Secretary of State’s Distinguished Honor Award.
Ambassador Bagley graduated cum laude from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, with a B.A. degree in French and Spanish. She is a 1987 cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, where she obtained a J.D. Degree in International Law. Ambassador Bagley is a member in good standing of the Massachusetts Bar and District of Columbia Bar.
She is the proud mother of two children, a daughter, Vaughan, age 29, a graduate of Stanford University, and son Conor, age 26, a graduate of Yale University.
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Eric C. Christu
Mr. Christu is a partner in the West Palm Beach office of Shutts & Bowen LLP, where he is Chair of the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Eric and the Shutts IP Practice Group handle all aspects of patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, and other intellectual property matters.
A Martindale-Hubbell AV® rated attorney, Eric has been named one of the Best Lawyers in America® and was one of the first to be designated by The Florida Bar as Board Certified in Business Litigation. Eric specializes in complex commercial and business disputes, with a focus on intellectual property, construction and real estate issues.
He received a B. A. with honors from University of Minnesota, and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
He and his wife, Maura, reside in Palm Beach and have two children attending Palm Beach Day Academy.
Said Mr. Christu,“I am truly honored to have been elected a Director of the Palm Beach Civic Association. The work of the Civic Association has been instrumental in maintaining all that is great about Palm Beach, and I and my family have been the beneficiaries of those efforts, and I look forward to supporting all those good efforts going forward. Thank you to all my fellow Directors for this chance to give back to this wonderful community.”
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Austin T. Fragomen
Mr. Fragomen is a partner and chairman of the executive committee of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy, LLP which is an AmLaw 100 firm specializing in global immigration law with offices in 25 countries.
He earned his law degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University. Mr. Fragomen serves as Chairman of the Business Advisory Committee to the U.N. Global Forum on Migration and Development, as Vice Chairman of the Board of the Jesuit Refugee Service/USA, a Board Member of the Center for Migration Studies, an Editorial Board Member of the International Migration Review.
He is the co-author of two treatises of immigration law and series of Handbooks and frequent writer and commentator. He previously has served as Chairman of the City Bar Justice Center, and Adjunct Professor of law at New York University Law School and Assistant Counsel to the Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives.
On being selected to serve as a PBCA Director, Mr. Fragomen stated "
It will be a privilege to serve on the Board. The Civic Association makes an invaluable contribution to the community and I look forward to advancing their fine work."
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Carl Panattoni
Mr. Panattoni is the Chairman of Panattoni Development Company which was founded in 1986. He is an active board member for the company’s U.S, European and Canadian operations.
Before founding PDC, Mr Panattoni was a practicing attorney and managing partner of Panattoni, Oates and Massie Development Company. He graduated magna cum laude with a B. A. in Economics from University of Santa Clara, and with his J.D. from University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall, where he is a member of the Order of the Coif.
He has been married to Jane Panattoni for 50 years. They have four children and four grandchildren.
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Janne H. Rumbough
Janne Rumbough was born in Denmark and has been a resident of Palm Beach for over 45 years.
A philanthropist and community advocate, she served on the board of the Palm Beach Follies which raised funds for the original Palm Beach recreation center, on the boards of Peggy Adams Animal Rescue and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and as Gala chair (2000) and co-chair (1999) for the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.
Janne began riding horses at age 11. She is a fixture in the Wellington equestrian community as a founder of the dressage circuit decades ago, and founder of the Global Dressage Festival. She currently serves on the National Advisory Board of the US Equestrian Foundation, and on the Board of U.S.P.R.E. (Pure Spanish Horse) Association. She competes as an amateur, at the highest level of dressage - the Grand Prix. In 2018 she won the Grand Prix Freestyle Adult Amateur National Championship for a second time. In 2016 she was the inaugural recipient of the US Dressage Foundation Member of Distinction Award. This award is given to one USDF member who has “demonstrated exceptional commitment to his or her local area or region.”
Her farm, MTICA, which stands for ‘More Than I Can Afford’, was named by her late husband Stanley M. Rumbough, Jr. Stan served the Palm Beach Civic Association as a Director for over 40 years, as its co-chairman for 10 years and CEO from 2005 to 2009. Upon his passing in 2017, Janne and the Rumbough family endowed the Civic Association’s Stanley M. Rumbough Jr. Legacy Society with a gift of one million dollars.
In response to being invited to become a PBCA Director, Janne Rumbough said "To be asked to be a Director at the Palm Beach Civic Association is a huge honor for me, and I hope that I can live up to not even a quarter of what Stan was able to do. I think the Civic Association is a wonderful, wonderful organization that has incredible people involved as Directors. I'm very, very honored to be among them."
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Nicholas E. Somers
Mr. Somers currently serves as the Managing Partner of Somers Investment Partners LLC, a Palm Beach-based family office focusing on technology and software investments in private companies. Previously, he served as Executive Chairman and principal owner of IDS Group, Inc. an international provider of enterprise application software to the world’s largest leasing companies.
He co-founded and served as Managing Partner of two prior private equity firms, SV Investment Partners, the US affiliate of the British-based asset manager and merchant bank Schroders plc as well as Greenwich Street Capital Partners, an affiliate of the Travelers Group. He began his career at Morgan Stanley and Chemical Bank.
Mr. Somers currently serves on the board of trustees of his alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis and as a member of the Council on Chicago Booth, the advisory board of his alma mater, the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business. He and his wife, Barrie, have three grown children and reside in Palm Beach.
Said Somers, “It’s a tremendous group of citizens of Palm Beach. I’m honored to be serving with them, and helping out in any way I can for the community."
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It's a Mar-A-Lago Thanksgiving
for the President and his Family
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It’s that time of year when part time residents descend on Palm Beach for Thanksgiving.
President Trump, who recently declared he is leaving New York and calling Florida his residence, is one of them. He will spend the Thanksgiving holiday at Mar a Lago with his family.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced that from Tuesday, November 26th through December 1, flight restrictions are in place.
The Palm Beach Police Department recommends the following:
The checkpoints and road closures in and around the area of Mar-A-Lago are in place. Expect traffic delays in this area thru Sunday, December 1, 2019. Motorists are encouraged to seek alternate routes.
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Annual Award Luncheon
Recognizes Bob Nederlander
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Join
us
on Thursday, December 19
th
to hear
What it Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence.
The
Annual Award L
unch
eon
, featuring Ste
phen
Schwarzman,
will
be held at a private Palm Beach home, and will
honor Robert E. Nederlander
recipient of
the William J. "Bill" Brooks Community Service Award.
The luncheon is being sponsored by Florida Crystals.
For information and reservations please call Dana Picotte at 561-655-0820.
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Directors 'Go Wild'
at the
Palm Beach Zoo
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We were delighted to welcome our Directors back, for dinner at the Palm Beach Zoo.
Special thanks to our Director Mark Cook and Palm Beach Island Hospice Foundation for their sponsorship of a wonderful evening.
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Save These Dates!
December 12, 2019
12/12 Environmental Forum:
Protect Our Paradise
Royal Poinciana Chapel
December 16, 2019
Members Annual Holiday Party
Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center
Co-sponsored by
Freijomel & Boruff Architects
Nievera Williams Design
Boca Nursing Services
December 19, 2019
Annual Award Luncheon
Honoring,
Robert E. Nederlander
Keynote Speaker:
Stephen Schwarzman
Private Palm Beach Residence
Sponsored by Florida Crystals
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Your Palm Beach Civic Association membership is valid for one year.
Renewal requests are mailed prior to the anniversary of your last membership donation.
You may join or renew at any time by clicking
Here.
Membership Matters
Your donations support our mission and we are grateful for your dedication!
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Town Caucus December 3rd, 7 pm at Town Council Chambers
Town Council Meeting December 10th, 9:30 am, Town Council Chambers
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Tim Malloy
Director of Communications and Public Affairs
Wendy Rutledge, News Manager
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