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A ROLE WITH A VIEW Harper’s Bazaar Executive Fashion and Beauty Editor Avril Graham gives us a glimpse into the fast-paced—and ultra-glam—world of fashion and celebrity. by ji l l joh n s on

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departments 14 EDITOR’S LETTER 19 STATUS REPORT BUZZ Greenwich International Film Festival: Celebrating five years of film, fun and philanthropy GO Give the gift of travel this Valentine’s Day HOME Summer Sale SHOP Fab finds at the new Greenwich Historical Society gift shop DO We take a look at some of the Junior League of Greenwich initiatives that have improved our town over the past sixty years. EAT Gabriele’s of Greenwich: New offerings at an old favorite 41 PEOPLE & PLACES Operation Smile; Americares; American Red Cross; Carver Foundation of Norwalk

FOLLOWING THE MONEY TRAIL When we think counterterrorism, we think CIA, NSA and the military. The Treasury Department doesn’t typically come to mind. But it should.

Dan Moger brings us into the agency that is fighting terrorism where it breeds— the bank accounts.

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AVRIL’S LOOK: HELLESSY monochromatic stripe shirt.

VINCE blacksilk tank. MALONE SOULIERS Lace up burgundy heels

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ince this magazine’s inception, we’ve had the honor of introducing readers to powerful people and colorful characters in news, business, entertainment, law, science, sports and fashion. They have opened their lives to us and trusted us to tell their personal stories—one-on-one, faceto-face. For that we are exceedingly grateful.

Some were raised here and have set off to conquer the world from different shores; others grew up elsewhere but have decided to make Greenwich home. Either way, it seems that even for big personalities, there’s a certain pride in being featured in your hometown magazine.

Welcome to the 2019 Power Issue. This group illustrates that power is not a onesize-fits-all concept. They are varied in vocation, age and vision. But they share an important commonality: an intense passion to not only succeed, but to thrive. They are constantly pushing the boundaries and asking “what’s next?”

Although not surrounded by high fashion growing up on the Western Isles of Scotland, a young Avril Graham was captivated by the glamorous world she saw in magazines and movies. The wide-eyed Scot would eventually embark on a journey to her stylish life across the pond. Years of grit and determination have earned her the influential role of fashion and beauty editor for the venerable Harper’s Bazaar. In “A Role With a View” (page 54) Avril brings us into her circle of celebrity and high fashion. She also shares what’s next for her on the ever-evolving media landscape. greenwichmag.com

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Not one to accept the status quo, she gives new meaning to blonde ambition.

When we think of national security, the Treasury Department isn’t necessarily the first organization that comes to mind. After reading “Following the Money Trail” (page 62), from now on it may be. At just thirtyseven years old Dan Moger, principle deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, plays an integral role in disrupting the activities of terrorists organizations such as ISIS and al-Qaeda and enemy states such as North Korea and Iran.

(And you thought you had a rough day at the office.) Dan talks candidly (or as candidly as he can) about the intrigue of world affairs and what it takes to get the bad guys.

Dr. Adam Bingaman is a brilliant surgeon who saves lives inside the operating room, but what’s truly remarkable is the way he’s saving them outside of it as well. Using state of the art technology, the enterprising doctor has created the world’s largest kidney exchange program. And for the 30 million people suffering from kidney disease, that is very good news. We caught up with the good doctor when he was back east last summer.

Read his fascinating story in “The Match Game” (page 70). We know you’ll walk away just as impressed as we were.

So there you have it. These people are fascinating. They are fun. And best of all, they are ours.

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AS THE GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL HEADS INTO ITS FIFTH YEAR, WE LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT’S IN STORE AND TAKE A LOOK BACK AT ALL THE FACES, FILMS AND PHILANTHROPY

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t was six years ago this May that Greenwich residents Wendy Stapleton, Colleen deVeer and Carina Crain hatched an ambitious idea: create a film festival for the community of Greenwich and the tristate region that would bridge the worlds of film, finance and philanthropy.

The goal was to give filmmakers an effective platform to showcase their work and ultimately find financing opportunities for future projects. Equally important, the festival would seek to spark change by showcasing films with a global conscience, covering topical subjects such as human rights, education, the environment and health care. From the outset, the founders were also committed to finding a way to incorporate a charitable component into the mix, which they did by forging partnerships with both local and international nonprofits.

With these goals in mind, they hoped that one day Greenwich International Film Festival (GIFF) would be on par with such top-tier festivals as Cannes, Venice, Sundance. Now, on the cusp of its fifth anniversary, GIFF has achieved all that its founders set out to achieve, and more.

“From the beginning GIFF was fueled by our passion to share stories that tackle critical issues facing the community and our world,” says Stapleton, cofounder and chairman of the board.

“You may not have the desire or the ability to go see firsthand what is going on in some far off war-torn area, or what it’s like to be born in the ghettos of the United States trying to gain equal access to education and job opportunities, but if you see

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a film that exposes your mind to these realities, you can’t unsee them. We passionately believe in the power of film to change people’s minds and hearts.”

As farfetched as the idea may have seemed at first—an international film festival in a suburb of New York City?— Greenwich was a natural fit for many reasons. “There is a robust financial community here, a deep appreciation for art and film and a strong philanthropic bent,” says Ginger Stickel, the festival’s executive director and chief operating officer. “Logistically, Greenwich is a great town for a festival village. It’s easy to navigate, there are wonderful venues for screenings and panels,

and the parking and trains make Greenwich very accessible.”

Indeed, since its inception GIFF has attracted plenty of star power and industry insiders, from A-list actors and actresses like Will Arnett, John Turturro and Kristin Davis to Grammywinning musicians such as Flo Rida and Ms. Lauryn Hill. It’s an important forum for emerging talent, as well; each year, the film screenings and panel discussions featured throughout the festival have served to showcase up and comers like Quinn Shephard, director of the 2017 narrative feature Blame, and her lead actress, Nadia Alexander.

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general call for entries goes out in November; submissions are accepted through January, which happens to coincide with the Sundance Film Festival in Park City. “Every year the GIFF team travels to Park City,” says Colleen deVeer, cofounder and director of programming. “It’s a wonderful opportunity to scout emerging filmmakers and innovative films.

The Sundance programming crew has great taste, and we are able to fill in the holes from the online submissions we select, which in turn allows us to curate a very diverse program that will appeal to everyone in our audience.”

That program comes together in April when the programming team and prescreening committee select which films will be part of the lineup in six categories: Narrative Feature, Narrative Short, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Connecticut Short and Social Impact. During the festival a jury comprised of industry experts and leaders in their fields selects each category winner, with cash prizes ranging from $1,000 (Connecticut Short) to $10,000 (Social Impact). In 2017, the prestigious Social Impact award went to City of Ghosts, which was directed by Academy Awardnominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker, Brunswick alum Matthew Heineman. “It’s always interesting to see how the cash awards are used,” says Stickel.

“Matthew donated his money to the charity in the film—Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently. The director of Crime + Punishment used the money to finance a social media campaign.”

COURTESY OF GIFF

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HIGHLIGHT REEL

FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THE FOUNDERS

2015

HARRY BELAFONTE and MIA FARROW

“The give-back aspect of GIFF has been very important to me since the very first time we discussed building a festival in Greenwich.

On behalf of UNICEF

I’M INCREDIBLY PROUD OF THE CHARITIES WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SUPPORT AND THE EXPOSURE

2016

WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PROVIDE THEM.”

TRUDIE STYLER Founder of the Rainforest Fund

—Wendy Stapleton

FREIDA PINTO

“After our Connecticut premiere of Kim Snyder and Maria Cuomo Cole’s documentary, Newtown, about the aftermath of one of our country’s deadliest school shootings, we were saddened to learn the news of the Orlando nightclub shooting—just hours before our second screening of the film.

Advocacy work with Girl Rising

ABIGAIL BRESLIN On behalf of National Coalition Against Domestic Violence 2017

WITH FIRST RESPONDERS, EDUCATORS, DOCTORS,

CHRISTY TURLINGTON BURNS

AND VICTIMS’ FAMILIES PRESENT, AN EVEN MORE PRESSING URGENCY FOR OUR AUDIENCE AND

Model, activist and founder of Every Mother Counts; And—for the first time— a community changemaker

OUR GOVERNMENT TO HELP TIGHTEN FEDERAL GUN CONTROL LAWS WAS PALPABLE. JIM HIMES’ ATTENDANCE THAT AFTERNOON MADE TREMENDOUS IMPACT following the screening, and in the words of Kim Snyder, points to the incredible value of festivals like ours.”

RENÉE ZELLWEGER Actress and humanitarian for her work on behalf of ALS

—Colleen deVeer

ANDREW NIBLOCK Director of schoolwide initiatives at Greenwich Country Day and former head of the lower school. Niblock had been diagnosed with ALS and the school responded by organizing the largest ice bucket challenge on record

“There have been many special moments over the past five years, but one that stands out occurred at our first Changemaker Gala.

Harry Belafonte was our honoree for his work as a UNICEF Ambassador. Up-and-coming musician Connell Cruise sang one of Harry’s songs to him. It was a beautiful moment that I’ll always remember. REGIS PHILBIN

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ASHLEY JUDD Actress and author for her work as the Global Goodwill Ambassador with the United Nations Population Fund

AND KATHIE LEE GIFFORD WERE SERVING AS MASTERS OF CEREMONY THAT YEAR, AND FRANK GIFFORD MADE A SURPRISE APPEARANCE

DUNCAN EDWARDS

DURING THEIR PERFORMANCE.”

Community leader and executive director of the Waterside School in Stamford

–Ginger Stickel

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GIFF Must-Sees Colleen deVeer, director of programming, shares some of GIFF’s best films you may not have heard of—a mix of narrative and documentary features—but should see ASAP

40-LOVE/“TERRE BATTUE” France/Belgium 2014 Stéphane Demoustier’s psychological portrait of a down-on-his-luck father and his gifted son is thrilling from beginning to match point.

VICTORIA Germany 2015 Shot in a single, pulse pounding take in Berlin, Victoria is a masterful feat of filmmaking as well as a thrilling, actionpacked bank heist film. What starts off as a relatively innocent courtship between Victoria and one of the guys quickly evolves into a tense crime drama, as the naive but game protagonist gets drawn into an escalating series of illicit activities.

captivated the world with their effort to climb the Dawn Wall, a seemingly impossible 3,000-foot rock face in Yosemite National Park, California. The pair lived on the sheer vertical cliff for weeks, igniting a frenzy of global media attention.

But for Caldwell, the wall was more than just a climb. It was the culmination of a lifetime defined by overcoming obstacles.

Caldwell and his partner Jorgeson spend six years plotting and practicing their route. On the final attempt, with the world watching, Caldwell is faced with a moment of truth. Should he abandon his partner to fulfill his ultimate dream, or risk success for the sake of their friendship?

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…

SOME OF THE MAJOR BOX-OFFICE FILMS THAT EACH WON NUMEROUS INDUSTRY NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS AFTER THEIR GIFF SCREENINGS

2018

I, TONYA

Oscar for best performance by an actress in a supporting role (Allison Janney), and nominated for Oscar, best performance by an actress in a leading role (Margot Robbie)

IN THE FADE

Golden Globe for best motion picture foreign language

2017

20TH CENTURY WOMEN

Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and numerous Golden Globe nominations including best performance by an actress (Annette Bening) in a motion picture musical or comedy.

CRIME + PUNISHMENT

Denmark 2018 When police officer Asger Holm is demoted to desk work, he expects a sleepy beat as an emergency dispatcher. That all changes when he answers a panicked phone call from a kidnapped woman who then disconnects abruptly. He is forced to use others as his eyes and ears as the severity of the crime slowly comes into focus.

THE STRANGE ONES USA 2017 Mysterious events surround two travelers, seemingly brothers, as they make their way across a remote American landscape.

On the surface all seems normal, but what appears to be a simple vacation soon gives way to a dark and complex web of secrets.

THE DAWN WALL Austria, USA 2017, Documentary In January 2015 American rock climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson

UNSEEN

THE ARRIVAL

Multiple Oscar, BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television) and Golden Globe awards and nominations in everything from sound editing, film editing and cinematography to best leading actress, best original score and best film.

2016

THE JUNGLE BOOK

Oscar and BAFTA film award for best achievement in visual effects; Critics’ Choice Award for best visual effects.

LIFE, ANIMATED

Oscar nominated for best documentary feature

2015

SPOTLIGHT

USA 2016, Documentary In 2009, Cleveland police discovered the decomposing bodies of eleven women inside and around the home of known sex offender Anthony Sowell. With the help of the surviving victims of the serial killer, this powerful and chilling documentary drama brings to light how little we value the lives of women on the margins of society and why they went “unseen” for so long. greenwichmag.com

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Oscars for best writing, original screenplay and best motion picture as well as numerous nominations including best performances by an actor and actress in a supporting role (Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams). Won BAFTA Film Award and Golden Globe for best original screenplay, among other awards and nominations.

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THE GUILTY

USA 2018, Documentary Amid a landmark class-action lawsuit over illegal policing quotas, Crime + Punishment intimately observes the real lives and struggles of a group of black and Latino whistleblower cops known as “The NYPD 12” and the young minorities they are pressured to arrest and summons in New York City. Over four years with unprecedented access, the film exposes the interconnected stories of systemic injustice in New York City policing, through the bold efforts of a group of active duty officers, an innocent young man stuck in Rikers and one unforgettable private investigator.

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A GOOD NEIGHBOR

THE FESTIVAL’S IMPACT ON THE TOWN HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT

COMMUNITY

SOCIAL

CHARITABLE

ARTISTIC

As the premier film event in the state, GIFF enhances the cultural life of the town in a number of ways, from providing educational opportunities to hosting free community events. “We have at least six free screenings a year and four free panels a year,” says Stickel. More than 150 volunteers return each year to help put on the festival.

More than half the film lineup at the festival has a socialimpact focus. “We hope this inspires the audience to create positive social change in their own communities,” says Stickel.

The festival has raised nearly half a million dollars for nonprofit organizations both locally and internationally. “We donate a portion of our proceeds, and we also encourage people to donate privately,” says Stickel. “We give tremendous exposure to our charity partners throughout the week.” Among them: Americares, The U.S. Fund for Unicef, Boys and Girls Club of Greenwich, Waterside School, Family Centers, ALS Finding a Cure, the Rainforest Fund and many more.

The festival provides support to filmmakers by offering cash awards in six genres (Best Social Impact Film, Best Documentary Film, Best Narrative Feature Film, Best Documentary Short, Best Narrative Short and Best Connecticut Short) as well as numerous networking opportunities.

GIFF BY THE NUMBERS

40K+ 200+ 275+ Number of people who have attended festival events

Number of screenings

People from the film and entertainment industry who have participated in GIFF

inspiring thought

“The social impact films that GIFF screens are so moving that our audience often needs to talk about them, WHICH

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Panel discussions and post-screening Q&As give the audience a rare look inside the complicated and exciting world of filmmaking

Amount raised for charity partners

Amount awarded to winners

Positive media impressions generated to date

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MOST POPULAR FILM

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OUT LOUD . They talked shop, dishing on the funny experiences they had making some of the greatest comedies of the last three decades.”

–Colleen deVeer

AND LITTLE STONES. ” –Ginger Stickel

GREENWICH HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER BECAUSE 1,100 PEOPLE ATTENDED .

The night included a Q&A with Rob, and two of the actors he’s worked with over the years.”

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IN A LEAGUE OF ITS OWN

Junior League members past and present celebrate the opening of the Byram Pool

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FOR SIXTY YEARS THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREENWICH HAS BEEN HARD AT WORK IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN OUR TOWN. WE RECENTLY JOINED CURRENT AND FORMER MEMBERS FOR A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE

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very fall for more than twenty years, the Junior League of Greenwich (JLG) holds OPERATION its annual Road Rally to introduce newSMILE members to the reach of its community impact

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The morning-long tour features pit stops at places such as the new community pool at Byram Park, Children’s Day School and the Boundless Playground in Bruce Park.

At each stop veteran JLG members are on hand to give a little history about the role its membership—along with a long list of community partners— played in creating these vital Greenwich institutions and recreational spaces.

The tour, of course, serves as

has helped launch more than 113 community projects.

“There are a lot of people in this town who say if you want to get something done, give it to the Junior League,” says Lin Lavery, a former JLG president and Greenwich realtor who went on to serve as a Democratic member of the town’s Board of Selectmen.

While the JLG has been the driving force behind the construction of many brickand-mortar projects, former president Anne Miller, who led the organization in 2011, notes its legacy extends beyond taking projects from great ideas to ribbon cuttings. “Every year, we’re launching programs and service projects and also thinking about new things that need to get done.”

JLG community director, Hillary Watson; executive director Kids in Crisis, Shari Shapiro; CEO Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich, Bobby Walker

say that beyond launching impactful programs, the nonprofit organization’s most enduring gift to Greenwich may be the generations of community leaders it has inspired.

Lin says joining the JLG eventually led her to a successful run for selectman. “I would never have considered running for political office without the leadership skills I developed in the league,” she says. Her friend and fellow JLG member Brooke Urban (who served as JLG president in 1990) says her JLG service ultimately gave her the guts to become executive director of the Greenwich chapter of the Red Cross. Although Lin and Brooke have since moved on from those roles, they say their experience is common within JLG ranks.

“We spend a tremendous amount of time training our new members intensively in nonprofit management and board leadership,” says Elizabeth. “And as a result, our reach often goes beyond what our members are doing in the league.”

As the JLG celebrates its milestone, we asked former and current leaders to reflect on some of its most impactful achievements.

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an interactive highlight reel. “A tour of everything we’ve done would probably take all day, maybe longer,” says current JLG President Elizabeth Peyton laughing.

Since it was formed sixty years ago, the JLG has evolved into an accomplished group of volunteering women, currently more than 650 strong, who collectively flex their service and leadership muscles to identify and fill pressing community needs. From its 1959 inception, the Greenwich chapter of the international service organization

Last year is a good example of the way JLG members roll up their sleeves to make Greenwich a better place: They helped mentor more than 250 local tween and teen girls through the PositivelyMe! and PositivelyMore! programs, created more than eighty-five literacy kits for clients of the nonprofit Family Centers, sent fifty floral bouquets to breast cancer patients at Greenwich Hospital, and committed to raising more than $2.5 million to help open the new community pool complex at Byram Park.

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KIDS IN CRISIS Forty-one years ago a Greenwich United Way needs assessment uncovered a community crisis: Too many local teenagers were homeless or runaways. “We learned the crisis was really complicated,” says Lin, who was a JLG leader at the time. “It involved alcoholism and drug addiction, and sometimes, family dynamics. These kids had no safe place to go.”

JLG members teamed up with Hotline, a Greenwich-based telephone counseling program, to launch a pilot emergency shelter for teens. “We wanted a warm, home-like environment where the kids felt safe and supported while they were getting the help they needed,” explains Lin. Along the way, Lin says, “miracles happened.” Although they were novice grant writers, JLG members drafted a successful $100,000 federal grant application for seed money. When members found the perfect ten-bedroom home for their shelter in Cos Cob, they worked personal contacts to convince the owner to donate it.

Today, the JLG’s pilot shelter has evolved into Kids in Crisis, an independent nonprofit that has expanded to include

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emergency shelter for infants and young children. Under the leadership of Executive Director Shari Shapiro, Kids in Crisis has provided hundreds of thousands of hours of crisis and supportive services to children, teens and their families. It remains the only agency in Connecticut that can house children from newborn to age seventeen.

CHILDREN’S DAY SCHOOL In the late 1990s the JLG and its Child Care 2000 committee took on the ambitious task of closing the affordable childcare gap for hundreds of parents living or working in Greenwich. “You had lots of kids who were staying home with grandparents while their parents were working, because preschool wasn’t in the

“you had l ots of kids who were staying home with gr andparents while their parents were working because prescho ol wasn’t in the family bud get.”

—Brooke Urban, 1990 president of the Junior League of Greenwich

family budget,” says Brooke.

“In a lot of cases, it was a choice between preschool and paying the mortgage. And it was setting these kids up for an educational equity gap as early as kindergarten. They couldn’t compete with the kids who’d had a quality preschool experience.”

To create more preschool access, the JLG raised more than $3 million and partnered with the former Christian Day School to create the Children’s Day School.

Today the preschool program, which has locations in Riverside

and Glenville, has provided hundreds of local little ones with the right educational start.

Critical to its enduring success is the $1 million tuition endowment fund, which helps the school provide access to families who can’t afford it, notes Brooke, who is still on the school’s Board of Advisors.

SKATE PARK AT ROGER SHERMAN BALDWIN PARK When the JLG was researching recreational options for middle

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schoolers in the late 1990s, when about 300 Greenwich teens gave them a big hint about something that might keep them occupied: The teens petitioned town officials asking for a safe place to ride their skateboards.

Enter the JLG, which collaborated with the town’s Parks and Recreation Department to gift the town—and throngs of appreciative young riders—its first skate park at Roger Sherman Baldwin Park. It’s been offering kids a safe, supervised place to navigate with skateboards and scooters since 2003.

“This wasn’t one of our easier projects to get off the ground,” recalls Anne Miller. “We had to find a place for it and there was some concern from people worried about teens congregating

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Betty Hinckley, founding member and first president of the Junior League of Greenwich; the Greenwich Skate Park gives kids a safe and supervised place for freewheeling fun

Belinda Benincasa and Pamela Speer at the Children’s Day School ribbon cutting; (top) The Boundless Playground; Byram pool; JLG President Elizabeth Peyton and past cochair of Byram pool committee, Carisa Sykes

in parks in their neighborhoods, but we think it turned out to be a really positive thing.”

The skate park remains so popular that it got a concrete face-lift in 2017, and now it offers the option for kids to ride bikes there at designated times.

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BOUNDLESS PLAYGROUND The most thoughtful playgrounds are the kind where all children, regardless of their physical or cognitive abilities, can gather for fun and recreation. It was in that inclusive spirit that the JLG partnered with the Greenwich United Way, the town’s Parks and Recreation Department and private donors to bring Greenwich its first Boundless

often meant disappointed kids and grown-ups had to wait their turn for a dip. “A town the size of Greenwich really needed a pool that would welcome swimmers who didn’t belong to private clubs or have one in their yards,” says Lin. So, Elizabeth Peyton says, “it was a very proud day” for the JLG in June 2018 when its partnership with the Town of Greenwich culminated in the opening of the new pool complex—complete with a main pool, kiddie pool and splash pad with interactive features—in a revitalized Byram Park.

The JLG launched an ambitious $2.5 million capital campaign to help support construction of the $9.5 million complex and has been actively involved throughout the project.

Playground, which opened at Bruce Park in 2009.

Built with the guidance of Boundless Playgrounds, a national developer of playgrounds for kids of all abilities, this accessible outdoor space features a sensory garden, tetherball and fabricated rock structures, along with traditional playground equipment. The JLG joined its partners again to raise funds for improvements to the park in 2011.

THE GREENWICH POOL AT BYRAM PARK For too many years, our lone public pool was an antiquated, leaky structure on a private estate that could barely accommodate forty swimmers at a time. That

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“This is one of those projects that was an incredible collaboration for [the JLG] because it took a tremendous amount of support and leadership to move this project forward,” notes Elizabeth.

If there was any doubt of the need or interest in the pool, those questions were put to rest during its inaugural summer, when the pool averaged 1,000 visitors a day.

Says Elizabeth: “It gives everyone involved an incredible sense of pride and accomplishment to think we’ve gone from a pool that could accommodate forty people a day to a complex that is serving so many children, seniors and families—and will be for generations to come.”

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ost of the best restaurants evolve over time, keeping up with people’s changing tastes in food and décor. But they also take care not to shift too dramatically or remove longtime favorites from the menu and risk putting off regulars. So Gabriele’s Italian Steakhouse has morphed into Gabriele’s of Greenwich with a light hand. The handsome clubby bar with its big leather chairs and fireplace, which may be the coziest spot to have a drink in Greenwich, has been left untouched. The dining room will undergo only minor tweaks (new fabrics and art). And you can still indulge in the classics like clams oreganata, porterhouse with all the trimmings and parmesan truffle fries. Executive Chef Joe Giordano has refreshed the menu by adding new flavors and lighter options. Though he has always cooked up creative specials, the new menu emphasizes the restaurant’s variety—much more than just greenwichmag.com

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steakhouse standards—with seafood, pasta and salads, and seasonal fare in the mix.

Though you may notice a livelier, funkier playlist in the background, the overall experience here remains the same: It’s a place to be pampered. A valet takes your car at the back door, which is actually the main entrance, and you walk into a grand entry hall with a fireplace and double marble stairs leading up to the newly renovated event space. Inside the dining room, all tables are comfortable, but the coveted spots are the alcoves—nooks with their own light fixtures that feel cozy and private— and the oversized rounded banquettes for larger groups. At a recent dinner, our party of six settled into a table with a sofa on one side and regular chairs on the other, with views into the wine room (it houses 2,000 bottles and accommodates parties up to eighteen). Several attentive servers helped us and kept the meal flowing throughout.

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and treated to a maple-soy glaze with veggies and farro, a modern take on fried rice. On the lighter side, the new shaved fennel salad opens the meal with a bright blend of slightly bitter endive and radicchio balanced by sweet dried cherries and tangy ricotta salata. For seafood I preferred the classic Blue Point oysters and shrimp cocktail to the crudo of fluke with mandarin slices, which was fresh but a bit bland. From the specials, a spring roll filled with crabmeat and bamboo shoots was oldschool Chinese-food heaven, if a little greasy.

All of our mains were sizeable and very tasty. The aged prime meats stand out, and we splurged on the Tomahawk bone-in rib eye, a gargantuan steak attached to a bone wider than the gentleman devouring it, and Wagyu beef, which has amazing rich flavor with a darkened crust but was very tender and pink inside, served with bok choy and peppers. A carnivore’s dream! No sauce is needed but you can add a peppercorn, truffle butter or melted gorgonzola. Mustard-crusted rack of lamb is also a treat of tender meat with a fruit-forward

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You can also book the wine cellar or library for more intimate gatherings.

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MUST-HAVE APPS Favorite starters that remain on the new menu: steakhouse salad, house salad, the seafood tower, clams oreganato, burrata with heirloom tomatoes. Newer apps to try include the tuna poke, maplesoy-glazed bacon and artichoke with truffle vinaigrette.

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sauce, a pear-mint puree. Risotto changes seasonally, and the latest is lobster risotto with butternut squash, corn and leeks, a satisfying combination. Heritage chicken in a tasty au jus sauce falls off the bone and is served with broccoli rabe and potatoes, like a deconstructed Sunday roast. Two new chicken entrées have also been added to the menu, rounding out the options. For sides, if you’re a traditionalist the XXL baked stuffed potato with bacon blended in lives up to its name—it’s enough to feed a small village. But the charred broccoli was my favorite; it has great texture and a kick from parmesan and red pepper.

Though you’re not likely to be hungry for dessert, the options may prove too tempting.

Try the chocolate halo, a crispy lace cookie “halo” with ice cream or the kid-fave—fried Oreos with a bowl of ice cream. The key lime pie with coconut ice cream and berry coulis on top is as good as versions we’ve had in Florida.

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At the Greenwich Sentinel we have great respect for Greenwich Magazine. Most of us have been reading it, and looking for our photos in it, since we were in our twenties. Our publications share similar missions, to celebrate Greenwich. We know that our hometown is unique and wonderful.

Yet, even here, we see how stressful, full lives can overwhelm the calmest disposition. No one wants to be judged for their worst moments, so this February let’s show each other and the world a little extra warmth and remind everyone why Greenwich and our residents are so special. February is home to Valentine’s Day (14) and Random Acts of Kindness Day (17). In this spirit, here are our anonymous friend’s updated Acts of Kindness.

27 ACTS of KINDNESS Help others to be the hero of their own story.

Ask the name of your mail carrier, coffee server, waitress/waiter, valet attendant, the person at the front desk, etc. and use their name.

Never, ever use the phrase, do you know who I am?

Send a hand written thank you note.

Put your phone away and be an active listener.

When you think a nice thing about someone, say it out loud.

Email or write to a former teacher who made a difference in your life.

Tell your child that you really like spending time with them (and be prepared to answer when they ask why).

Avoid interrupting others when they are speaking.

Refrain from honking your horn unless it is a safety issue.

Send flowers.

Support and cheer for our local everything: retailers, scouts, paper, magazine, schools, teams, lemonade stands, and charities. It matters.

Use those email & social media muscles to be nice: send messages of gratitude and use that LIKE button.

Be excited for other people’s successes ... out loud.

Be the hero of your story.

Always hold the door or elevator for the next person.

Each month pick up one extra of everything when you grocery shop and drop it off at Neighbor to Neighbor.

Ask how can I help?

Laugh more. Laugh louder.

Each night fall asleep thinking about the best thing that happened that day.

Purchase extra dog or cat food and drop it off at the animal control center on North Street with some old tennis balls.

Say please, thank you, and you’re welcome.

Smile... great! Now smile at someone while making eye contact.

Let the person in line behind you go ahead of you if they are in a hurry or with children or just have a few items.

When you’re ready to unload your temper on someone, especially in the service industry (like baristas and cashiers), say a prayer for them instead.

If you have time, let the other driver have that parking space ... even on Greenwich Avenue.

If you can, say yes.

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Justice of the Peace Frederick L. Baker III officiated at the ceremony at Riverside Yacht Club, where the reception followed.

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AVRIL GRAHAM, Harper’s Bazaar executive fashion and beauty editor, sits down to talk with us about far more than just her passion for fashion

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The view from the masthead of Harper’s Bazaar is gorgeous: gorgeous clothes, gorgeous models, trips to gorgeous places. Avril Graham, Executive Fashion and Beauty Editor of the 151-year-old magazine, has never taken that view for granted.

“I’ve had a career of pinch-me moments,” says the Cos Cob resident.

Architect Norman Foster’s Hearst Tower, in which a beautifully preserved Art Deco footprint meets modern skyscraper, is an ideal setting to discuss pinch-me moments with Graham. Clad in an Ungaro leopard top, a black wide-legged gaucho skirt by Piazza Sempione and kitten-heeled Gucci booties; her blonde hair cut above the shoulders with stylish layers; and her makeup impeccably applied—Graham looks like a figurine Foster might have placed in a model of the Tower.

She is just back from a shoot in Puerto Rico and preparing to leave for a Lakers event in L.A., but Graham is calm and thoughtful as she discusses her journey from a girlhood of putting on Barbie doll fashion shows in Scotland to watching supermodels strut the most coveted catwalks in the world. She is also eager to announce a new venture that will make her view from the masthead accessible to the masses.

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fashion. I would merrily make runway shows for my Barbie dolls. They’d all have characters and were terribly glamorous. It was not because I was surrounded by fashion at all; it was just something that captured me. I loved to look at beautiful pictures and magazines. I loved movies with glamorous actresses, like the Hitchcock heroines: early Audrey Hepburn, smoldering Lauren Bacall, Grace Kelly. I was fascinated by the hair and makeup and obviously the costumes. That’s one thing that stood out about Hitchcock; those heroines were impeccably dressed from head to toe.

Even while the birds were attacking her, Tippi Hedren, with her wonderful chignon, still managed to look chic!”

Graham’s mother was always well-groomed. “I learned that from her,” she says. But her mother dressed very “country traditional” in Barbour jackets, while Graham’s aunts’ flair caught her attention: “They ran with the in-crowd in London in the Swinging Sixties. They came to visit and

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On the forty-fourth floor, we’ve got spectacular views from all of our big entertainment rooms and incredible art from the Hearst collections.”

It’s a long way from Scotland, but there, too, she noticed the views. “I grew up in the Western Isles of Scotland,” says Graham, who retains a muted Scottish brogue. “It was an immensely beautiful place to live.”

Thinking back on her childhood, she says, “I had such a passion for

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were super glamorous, as were their tales of the people they mixed with.”

Graham studied communications at Napier University in Edinburgh and from there headed to London and landed a job at Country Life. “It was the magazine of the landed gentry in Britain,” says Graham. “It was very horsey, not a lot of fashion. From there I moved to completely the opposite, the edgy, cool, trendy magazines of the time.”

Her big break came working on the launch of Marie Claire in England.

“It was really a very buoyant time,” recalls Graham. “I was literally able to put a dot on the map and decide where to shoot next. I worked with a wonderful art director and the pair of us would shoot all over the world, working with incredible talent. I remember distinctly working with Carla Bruni, shooting in the Bahamas, when she was in her prime as a top runway model. Back then we would shoot a number of covers and beauty and fashion stories to last through a few issues. So it was relentless travel.”

With Graham, there is a sense that “relentless travel” in no way undermined the buoyancy of those days.

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raham came across the pond in the early nineties, expecting to be here for three years to help launch the American edition of Marie Claire. A year later, Bonnie Fuller, the launch editor, moved to Cosmopolitan when Helen Gurley Brown retired. “Glenda Bailey, the editor I worked with on the launch in England, was lured to America to take over,” explains Graham. “It was wonderful, reconnecting with an editor I worked very well with.”

It was an exciting time to be in fashion. “I’m often asked what are my fondest memories,” she muses. “I think covering the collections in the nineties, in that era of the biggest-name supermodels. To be at the Versace show and watch Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss—all those big names—walk the Gianni runway, with the sounds of George Michael playing—it was the quintessential fashion experience. Seeing Madonna walk down the runway for Gaultier. The parties were extraordinary. The events were extraordinary.”

Flash forward to her recent trip to Puerto Rico, where she was mixing with media influencers, fashion editors and celebrities, Graham, who is now fifty-nine, says she realized “what’s so interesting is that while there are lots of new names who come on the fashion scene, there’s also a very small group, a nucleus, that is still a part of it and will always be, I think.

Weirdly, there isn’t an ageism in the industry. There are many people older than I am who are just as viable and influential now.”

Graham is an adored member of that nucleus. “To know Avril is to love her,” says Glenda Bailey, now editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar. “Our friendship goes back thirty years. I’ve always been impressed, inspired and delighted by her company. She knows how to keep a secret, but it’s no secret how admired and loved she is in the fashion industry.”

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s a young girl if I ever envisioned working in New York for such an incredible historic brand, it would really be beyond my wildest dream,” says Graham, who moved to Harper’s Bazaar over fifteen years ago. “It was launched in the 1800s.

It has featured every possible iconic name over the years—Grace Kelly, Lauren Bacall, Katharine Hepburn. It’s literally a list of who’s who and we continue to work with A-Listers, whether they’re the biggest names in fashion or contemporary culture or First Ladies.”

While it’s not surprising that a fashion editor rubs elbows with cover models, Graham also has been a guest at the White House, worked on a shoot at 10 Downing Street and was invited to watch Tony Blair deliver his speech to the joint session of Congress. “To find myself sitting in the row behind Cherie Blair, Laura Bush, and the Speaker of the House’s wife,” says Graham, “that was a real pinch-me moment.”

She finds no shortage of those, even now. “That’s what keeps you fresh.

The minute you start being complacent, that’s when it’s over,” she says. “I look forward every season to the new collections. We’re always reinventing. Even when fashion has a cyclical reverse and it’s a homage to another decade, it’s never exactly a carbon copy. There’s always something new.”

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ROYAL AFFAIRS Live with NBC’s Access Hollywood at Windsor Castle for Harry and Meghan’s wedding • Avril at a celebration dinner in London at the Lanesborough Hotel the night before the wedding of William and Kate

In Graham’s role at Harper’s Bazaar as well, every day brings something new. “I travel weekly and really embrace it. I always keep a suitcase packed,” she says. “I might be opening a store for a designer, hosting dinner for a group of women or giving a speech in Washington. People have an insatiable interest in the world that we rule in. Because I travel so much, I’m really the one who gets the most chances to meet our readers in different pockets and towns, across different states, and I thoroughly enjoy that. I wish I could bottle up every comment and take it back to our staff.”

award shows,” says Graham. “I cover big international events. I covered the Olympics in Brazil for NBC. That gives you a glimpse into how a fashion editor’s role has changed.”

Graham’s coverage of William and Kate’s wedding received over a billion media impressions. She also did a documentary on the life of Alexander McQueen for the BBC. “We comment on the light and frivolous, but I also love talking about fashion in its entirety.”

This spring Graham is taking her TV commentary to a new level with her own series: Platinum Eye. Viewers will get an inside look at “the chic world of elegant parties, glamorous destinations and beautiful things,” says Graham. “It will be your invitation to curated luxury in travel, fashion, art, music and culture.”

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’ve watched my role as an editor change as the media industry has changed,” says Graham. “Editors used to be very much behind closed doors writing copy, producing beautiful pictures. Now we are asked to talk to large groups of people, to produce trend reports, to be social commentators on television and various media outlets. Now I’m doing much more TV.” Having been interviewed by Barbara Walters and appeared on Oprah, Larry King, Dateline, among numerous others, Graham is no stranger to the medium. “I’m regularly on the red carpet at the Oscars and the big

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raham has a knack for balancing the luxurious life with a normal one—whether it’s hers, and she’s running from shopping in a T-shirt and jeans at Stop & Shop to catching a plane to an over-the-top event in the Caribbean, or she’s taking a runway look and translating it into something wearable. “I’m not a fashion snob about labels,” she says. “I love to bargain hunt. A beautiful $50

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dress is better than a bad $10,000 dress. It’s about how you wear and accessorize it.” She is known to find “that perfect H&M look” for the TODAY show and have it sell out in a day.

“Avril is the normal person’s style guru,” comments Katie Couric. “She always tells it to you straight but still manages to make you feel like a million bucks even though you’ve paid a lot less than that! When Avril helped me with my wardrobe, I always felt like I was spending time with a chic girlfriend.”

Friend Alison Chadwick Kelley texts photos of dress options to Avril and always gets a decisive reply, no matter where in the world Graham happens to be. But stylish is only one of the traits Kelley appreciates: “Avril is simply the funniest, cleverest, most engaging and genuinely inspiring woman. She has the capacity to make me cry with laughter for an entire car ride to and from the Hamptons from Greenwich, and she embodies the adage ‘fabulous at any age.’”

Cherie Blair, former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s wife, says, “She combines the understated flare of the English with the networking skill of a New Yorker. I would always go to Avril to discover a look which is on trend but never over the top.”

Even as the elite turn to her for style advice, Graham is down to earth and democratic. “People always say, ‘Don’t look at me—don’t look at what I’m wearing!’ But I never judge what anyone is wearing,” insists Graham (this is a relief to journalists wearing Banana Republic).

For the best of this season, she advises paging through the latest issue of Harper’s Bazaar. “There is something for everyone,” says Graham, “whether sky-high heels or dad-style sneakers—look and decide for yourself. Don’t be a fashion victim. Stick to what you think is your own true sense of self. Change and adapt colors, heel heights, silhouettes, handbag styles, and most of all change your hair and add a few colors to your makeup bag.”

Graham is happy to report that the fashion world is becoming more diverse: “We are seeing so many different people represented on the runway—shapes, genders, sexuality, sizes, ethnicities—and it’s a beautiful thing.” She insists Harper’s Bazaar is not using anyone “emaciated” in its shoots—and she was just discussing this topic with a top model, while the model wolfed down a burrito. Graham notes, “Models are usually first to the crafty table!” (“Crafty” is the nickname for craft services’ snack table on productions.)

While some scoff at the frivolity of fashion, Graham reminds us that her industry “gives back a lot.” It’s not just about trends. From hosting a luncheon for young female entrepreneurs in L.A. to an event in Dallas to raise money for cancer charities, Graham’s work often involves a cause, and she loves mentoring the next generation.

“Anytime I see Avril across the room, I know I’m going to have a great time and good laughs,” says Coco Rocha, a top model known to defend healthy body imagery and support humanitarian causes. “Someone once told me, ‘It’s nice to be important, but it’s important to be nice.’ I think of Avril that way. She’s a powerhouse of a woman, and a real pillar to our industry, but she’s also incredibly genuine and kind to all around her.” G

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“I love Greenwich because from the first minute I stepped off the train, it reminded me of the area of London that I left, the Hampstead area. It’s on a hill with shops and cafes,” explains Graham, who has lived in the area since the nineties. “I love that you can get to the nightlife and the fun in New York very quickly, but I also love being able to shake off the city, smell the sea air, and have that feeling of the Hamptons.”

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Dan Moger is a financial warrior. From his perch near the top of the U.S. Treasury Department’s organizational chart, he disrupts money flows that are the lifeblood of terrorist groups such as ISIS and al-Qaeda, rogue nations such as North Korea and Iran, and criminal enterprises such as Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel.

If you didn’t know that Treasury conducted anything so almost-sexy, so almostBondian as financial warfare, you are not alone. For one thing, the Treasury Department’s role in our national security is fairly new: Moger’s office, Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, or TFI, was born in 2004 as a consequence of 9/11.

For another, even top government officials possess only a dim understanding of all that TFI does, though this is changing: “We’re a little annoyed now when we have to explain why Treasury is in the room on a national security issue,” says Moger, who is thirty-seven and a native of Riverside, where his parents, Angel, a retired professor of comparative literature and French at Sarah Lawrence College, and Dan, a lawyer in town, still live.

“The American people got tired of the boots-on-the-ground approach, and they continue to be tired of it, and yet a strongly worded letter from the State Department wasn’t getting it done.” But pinching off a money supply is bloodless and stunningly effective. “So we end up being the most popular thing.” Moger’s portfolio is bursting at the seams—it encompasses the world, minus the United States. Hezbollah? ISIS? Activity in China with a North Korean thumbprint on it? An attack in Syria with an Iranian thumbprint on it? Counterfeit dollars in Afghanistan? Suspicious cash flows out of Mexico? Money laundering through this bank in Europe, or that bank in Canada? Any one of these thorny issues might land on Moger’s desk.

focuses on strategy—what to do about illicit money flows. Or, to put it crassly, how to inflict discomfort on “bad actors” and those who handle their money. Until last summer, Moger was TFFC’s director of global affairs, but in July he got promoted to deputy assistant secretary for TFFC, where, among his myriad duties, he represents Treasury at senior White House meetings.

TFI represents a muscled-up, twenty-first-century Treasury Department with global reach. Juan Zarate, an acquaintance of Moger’s who headed TFI at its inception, has described the 9/11-era Treasury Department as “emasculated” and “struggling to remain relevant to national security issues”—especially after the Secret Service and Customs, which had been in Treasury, decamped for the brand new Department of Homeland Security. But soon enough, Treasury’s new powers—powers that fall midway between diplomacy and actual warfare—kicked in, transforming the department’s accountant-like crime fighters into “guerillas in gray suits,” as Zarate calls them.

These guerrillas are trained to follow the money.

“With every threat, with North Korea, with Iran, with ISIS, we look to see, okay, where are they vulnerable?” Moger says. The answer is, they’re vulnerable wherever they touch the legitimate international financial system, as they inevitably must, whether to bank, to insure, to ship, or to buy things. Since that system runs through New York, the world nexus of the dollar—the one currency in which all things are traded—Treasury has extraordinary leverage: A bank’s or an insurance company’s expulsion from the international system is nothing less than a death sentence.

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efore we explore his work in greater detail, it would help to know where he fits in Treasury’s scheme. TFI is composed of three parts: the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC), which is in charge of sanctions; the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA), Treasury’s own intelligence service; and the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TFFC), Moger’s domain, which

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Dan with David Cohen, the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence who went on to become the deputy director of the CIA

the added benefit that BDA gave Pyongyang access to a constellation of international banks. Then came the 311 and its startling domino effect: Exposed as a pariah, BDA went into free fall, and then banks around the world cut ties to North Korea, fearing a similar fate. The blow to North Korea was crippling.

“But the real crime,” Moger observes, “is that they’re spending what little funds they do manage to drum up on nuclear and other military progress— not on their own people.”

deal with the most powerful actor in that system”—the United States— “opposing them.”

Example: In 2011 Moger, working with a branch of Treasury called the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), discovered that Lebanese Canadian Bank was linked to money laundering, terrorism financing and drug trafficking for the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah.

Treasury had a new tool for just such a situation: a “311.” The number refers to Section 311 of the Patriot Act, and the tool itself, beautiful in its simplicity, marks you as a “primary money-laundering concern.” To be hit with a 311 is like acquiring a scarlet letter—no bank will touch you for fear of ruining its own reputation and thus losing vital access to the dollar and New York. “It’s really our most damning finding, that you pose a significant money-laundering threat,” Moger says. “We essentially shut down this bank—well, we did shut it down—by subjecting it to a 311.”

At the same time, Treasury inflicted a glorious black eye on Hezbollah: “We were exposing their connections to drug trafficking—and this was horrific for ‘the Party of God.’” The 311 designation has inspired panic around the world since 2005, when Treasury slapped one on a little bank in Macau, Banco Delta Asia.

What Treasury noticed was that BDA was doing a lot of business with the heavily sanctioned North Korea. “We’ve caught [North Korea] in myriad sanctions evasion schemes,” Moger says, including setting up front companies all over the world; exporting arms; trafficking drugs; and counterfeiting U.S. $100 bills of such high quality that the Secret Service christened them “supernotes.”

North Korea appeared to be laundering illicit gains through BDA, with

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aniel W. Moger III is a sturdy, bearish-looking man with a close-cropped head and a full, light-brown beard. There’s an almost soulful weariness about his eyes—until he laughs— that tells of long hours and heavy responsibility. Jennifer Fowler, Moger’s predecessor and former boss, says of the job, “You’re asked to make decisions and analyses very quickly. The pressure to be right and give good advice is intense. That takes a toll.”

Each morning Moger walks the thirty-five minutes from his Victorian townhouse—brick turrets, limestone trim, Romanesque arches—to the massive neoclassical Treasury building, next to the White House, and enters by the great bronze statue of Albert Gallatin, who served as Secretary of the Treasury under Jefferson and Madison. In a sense, Moger is home. When

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asked about his interests outside of work—are hobbies even possible?—he mentions only food. (Fine food and good wine, though he’s equally keen on the lowly Big Mac, a former coworker elaborates.) At least he carved out enough of a non-Treasury life to get married last October, to Julie Mills— but he notes with an abashed chuckle that she, too, works at TFI. Moger does not really like the spotlight and would rather do almost anything than give a speech, according to Andrew Jensen, his former deputy at global affairs, now a sanctions expert at Scotiabank. On the other hand, Jensen says, Moger is a commanding presence at meetings with a “booming, thunderous” voice and laugh; he also happens to be, usually, the smartest person in the room. “And Treasury has some of the most brilliant people on the planet.”

During interviews, Moger must make a constant mental review of what is public, and thus okay to tell, and what is not. “Over the years I’ve accumulated stories of, you know, seizing a narcotics kingpin’s mansion in which there is a tiger,” he’s saying now. “What do you do with the tiger?”

Then he launches into another, far more unusual, animal story, but interrupts himself: “Actually, I don’t know if that’s public.”

Much of what he does is secret. He can’t discuss the Panama papers— the enormous cache of leaked documents that provided a window into how the powerful keep their money hidden—nor can he discuss the politically fraught Wikileaks. He goes silent on all matters Russian, except to say that Treasury is stepping up use of the Global Magnitsky Act—named for Sergei Magnitsky, an accountant who exposed Russian corruption and then died in a Moscow jail—which imposes tough sanctions on those who abuse human rights and profit from it. And these are subjects the public already knows something about; we can only guess at what shadow worlds occupy the main share of Moger’s time and worry.

Within Treasury, Moger is known for an intensity of purpose leavened by his abundant good cheer. “He’s such a joy to be around,” says Hagar Chemali, who worked with Moger at TFI and today heads her own communications firm in town, Greenwich Media Strategies. “His job requires being a boss of a significant-sized office in a field that is very fast-paced and very stressful, and he has that perfect personality to be able to produce a really good product while keeping the team happy.”

Jennifer Fowler adds, “He comes at the job with a lot of passion—he feels things very deeply.” This means he can get frustrated when a policy argument does not go his way, but he never lets his emotions rule him.

“At the end of the day,” says Chemali, “it’s about being a civil servant and serving at the pleasure of the President, regardless of the administration, regardless of the policy. It’s about going after criminal actors and going after their money, whether it’s a drug trafficker or a terrorist organization or a rogue regime. Dan just loves the good fight—he loves the mission.”

The mission, though, can get tricky when administrations change.

Under President Obama, Treasury played a key role in the Iran nuclear accord of 2015—when Tehran agreed to halt its nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief—only to watch the United States exit the deal last year under President Trump. “I won’t give you my own view of the nuclear deal, but I’ll give you both schools of thought,” Moger begins. He

proceeds to outline how a nuclear Iran would be tantamount to a neighborhood bully, emboldening it to behave badly and threaten the entire region. A nuclear Iran might even touch off a nuclear arms race with Israel.

Then again, Moger says, nukes are but one of many Iran-engendered headaches. “Iran is a problem in everything. They really are. Their malign activities in the region, frankly, cannot be overstated. And their malign activities worldwide—I mean, you can’t divorce them from Hezbollah, which is one of their primary bad-actor proxies. They’ve conducted operations all over the world, including in the United States.” Treasury recently exposed Iran’s attempts to counterfeit Yemeni currency.

In the end, though, the Obama administration decided that eliminating the nukes was the critical mission, even if we had to live with the headaches.

“We agreed that we wouldn’t be putting their other shenanigans on the table for negotiation,” Moger says. “Nor would we stop pursuing them.”

For now, the accord has given us a safer world. The hope was that it would bring Iran so profitably into the international fold that it would give up both the nuclear ambitions and the mischief for good—but that hope has faded since the U.S. reneged. (Five countries remain in the deal, but our departure is believed to have badly weakened it.) Meanwhile, critics of the accord point out that Iran’s windfall in unfrozen assets—billions of dollars—probably bolstered its missile program and funded some of the malign activities Moger speaks of. So who’s right? “There’s merit on both sides,” Moger says diplomatically.

It’s known, however, that Treasury considered the nuclear deal an unambiguous victory. This much Moger will say: “People are always asking, ‘Do sanctions work? Do they work, ever?’ And the answer is complicated.

I would say that sanctions are the only reason Iran came to the table in the first place—that we broke them. And they finally agreed to come to the table and agree to do some pretty amazing things, in terms of laying their nuclear program bare and giving up material and so forth. The nuclear deal, whether you like it or not, was nonetheless viewed in our world as a success.”

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oger steeped himself in world affairs from an early age. During high school, at Phillips Academy Andover, he latched onto development economics, which focuses on improving the fiscal lot of poor countries. This was the late nineties; the Cold War had ended; there were no major hot wars in progress; and Francis Fukuyama had declared “the end of history,” wherein liberal democracy was acknowledged to be the final, most ideal form of human government. “Everything was right in the world,” Moger recalls. “We were involved in a few minor skirmishes of choice, but the world was getting along—it was the brightest spot of my lifetime in terms of world relations.” What remained was to raise up those lagging places. “I saw economics as a high calling, as a way of seeing if the world could do better at supporting its citizens.” »

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Just another day at the office, if your office is a national historic landmark.

Dan in front of the imposing Treasury Building.

Dan through the years: In Turkey; (top row) at his 2018 wedding to Julie; (opposite page) Andover graduation with his father, Dan; Wesleyan graduation with sister Amanda; (this page, bottom row) Varsity Wesleyan lacrosse game with mom, Angel; with Amanda at the border of Russia and Georgia, where Dan was working to set up the first free election

At Wesleyan University, Moger broadened his range, enrolling in the College of Social Studies, nicknamed “the College of Suicidal Sophomores” for its punishing workload. He also studied French. From a café in Paris he watched the events of 9/11 unfold, knowing the bright era—the end of history—was over, but not yet knowing how his career would fit into the new reality.

After a thrilling interval in the field (Moger was supervising election observers in the country of Georgia when the opposition stormed parliament—right before Moger’s eyes—in what became known as the Rose Revolution), he earned his master’s at Johns Hopkins’ renowned Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. It was there, while taking a course in terrorist financing taught by Matt Levitt, a noted academic who had served at Treasury, that he learned of the Department’s more exotic capacities. “I didn’t know they had a role at all in national security, to be honest,” he says.

“I thought Treasury collected taxes and determined budgets and so forth.”

He arrived at TFI in 2008, when the office was only four years old and still under construction, as it were, despite early successes like North Korea. In fact, the successes had been propelled into the background by more urgent events. “That was bailout time,” says Moger, who started in June, three months before Lehman Brothers’ collapse triggered a chain reaction that threw our whole financial system into chaos. “We were build-

ing something exciting, but in the Treasury Department it was still second fiddle to the $700 billion bank bailout. I used to come out of the Treasury Department my first year there to protests over bailing out the banks.”

Moger’s early work centered on the Middle East. In 2011, the Middle East and its Arab neighbors in North Africa erupted in what was optimistically called the Arab Spring. “Things tumbled very quickly. Tunisia went first, then Egypt and Libya—Syria is the enduring one—but these all happened at the same time, within a few months of one another. And suddenly we were overwhelmed with what our responses were supposed to be. Where once people were like, ‘Well, should we hold this conference, or should we do that?’ now it was like, ‘What do we do about a country collapsing?’”

The Arab Spring—a series of democratic uprisings against oppressive regimes—seemed like good news at first, but the reality has proved far more complex. Yemen and Syria remain devastated war zones. Libya is unstable and known to be an ISIS haven. In 2011, however, the political landscape looked ripe for a Libyan intervention: Muammar el-Qaddafi, the country’s eccentric dictator, was vowing to hunt down the civilian opposition—“the rats”—house by house and alley by alley, and Europe and much of the Arab world agreed that Qaddafi should be stopped, even if it meant ousting this War on Terror ally from power.

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lation. They were horrifying. They horrified even traditional al-Qaeda financiers. They were like, ‘Those guys are crazy.’”

Al-Qaeda’s business model, if you will, relied on deep-pocket donors in the Persian Gulf. (The 9/11 attackers availed themselves of bank accounts from Dubai to Germany to Florida—just the sort of thing TFI would disrupt today.) Hamas and Hezbollah rely on “charities” to fund their darker operations, as well as their social services. But ISIS? “These guys were just stealing money in the territory they controlled. And selling oil”—on the black market, possibly to Turkey. It would seem, then, that ISIS was selfcontained, beyond Treasury’s reach. Not so. Oil fields require supplies and maintenance, for starters. “They aspire to a caliphate. That means they have to pay for things,” Moger says. “In order to be a legitimate anything, you’ve eventually got to spend money places. And in order to do that, they eventually need to touch people who care about the Treasury Department.

“So the point was to find where ISIS was vulnerable, where ISIS was trying to sneak into the legitimate world, in order to buy supplies or fund their media empire or send money to their branches. That’s where we had the greatest effect in shriveling down their presence, as the military currently does in shriveling down their physical presence.”

But the world keeps changing. Storm clouds on the horizon include cryptocurrencies, whose wide adoption would circumvent the dollar and the international financial system, not to mention make life easy for the ISISes of the future. From Treasury’s viewpoint, cryptocurrencies are still a minor irritant. In the coming years, treasuries of many nations will seek to regulate them, “before they become too much of their own ecosystem,” Moger says. “You can buy heroin on the black market with cryptocurrency, but I don’t think you can buy a house yet. So there are limitations.

You’re going to have to transfer it into a normal currency at some point to a financial institution.” A greater, but more diffuse, storm cloud is the quietly growing international dissatisfaction with the primacy of the dollar and the special power it gives America—but that’s for another story.

In 2014 Moger left Treasury for the private sector; but he returned months later, having failed to shed what Hagar Chemali calls “the bug,” the almost obsessive ardor for the mission. “You actually are able to pursue the Greater Good,” Moger observes cheerfully. “It’s the reason why we all do it for less money than we could be making.” Yet America in 2019 finds itself disunited.

Does our swirling, bipolar, vituperative national mood affect his work? “It shouldn’t—it shouldn’t,” Moger begins. “And until recently, it hasn’t.” He explains that after an unusually smooth transition from Bush to Obama— many top people stayed on—the Trump transition proved “difficult” because of the huge influx of new people at Treasury. But is that the whole of it? In January The Daily Beast reported that Treasury is rife with discontent: “Treasury Department Chaos Leads to Exodus of Key Staffers,” the headline read, and the chaos could be traced to “the changing whims of the White House.”

On this Moger offers no comment. “People outside of Washington always ask me about politics,” he says. “I don’t deal in politics, I deal in national security. Parties and candidates and administrations can claim to have different views, but they don’t actually have different views—national security G is apolitical. It’s not politics when you’re going after the bad guys.”

Once the Obama administration decided to intervene militarily (albeit in a limited way), Treasury, too, swung into action. “We blocked a whole government that was very, very wealthy and very involved in the international financial system,” Moger says. “There were billions and billions of dollars—I won’t give you the exact figure—that were being ‘subcustodized’ in banks in New York. Financial institutions in New York were calling us and saying, ‘So-and-so in this European country parks a couple of billion dollars in funds here overnight to collect interest. We don’t have to block that, do we?’ And we’d say, ‘Yeah, you actually do have to freeze those funds. Sorry.’”

This is the “beautiful leverage point” that Moger often speaks of: If you trade with bad actors, you’ll find yourself out in the cold. “Libya was a fascinating example of the extreme ends of power of Treasury’s authority,” Moger continues. “We took Qaddafi’s last resources from him overnight. All of a sudden he couldn’t pay people. He was struggling to pay militias that he was hiring throughout the African continent to come fight his war for him, and he ran out of money real fast. That was one of the biggest overnight actions that we’ve ever done, if not the biggest.”

On October 20, 2011, rebels found Qaddafi hiding in a storm drain—in a gold suit—and shot him dead.

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reasury seldom resorts to large-scale freezing. Usually “conversations” suffice, though Moger’s usage of the word sounds like a euphemism for arm-twisting: When speaking to Turkish bankers, for example, he might say, “You need to take care of this problem before we make it public.” Not even superpowers are immune to Treasury’s toothy charms. “The Chinese government will stare stoically at us while we deliver our carefully prepared talking points about the risks of North Korea, and just respond with a curt head nod. Because they can—they can just say no. Chinese banks don’t have quite that liberty. They have New York branches.”

But what about something like ISIS? “Isis was a nightmare,” Moger allows with a sigh. “It was clear that this was a new brand. This was not a group that was interested in winning the hearts and minds of their popu-

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Long-haired, cowboy-booted, breezily self-possessed, Adam Bingaman might be a noted musician enjoying a weekend’s repose here at his mother’s house in Bedford, New York. In fact, he’s among the leading transplant surgeons in the United States.

Bingaman’s specialty is kidneys. “When I was in medical school at Boston University, I saw a kidney transplanted—taken from one person and put into another—and shortly after the clamps came off the blood vessels, the kidney was making urine, right then and there,” says Bingaman, who heads the abdominal transplant program— livers, pancreases and kidneys—at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. “Watching that organ come back to life again was almost like science fiction to me.” He grins. “It’s incredible, right? And I thought, This is something that I should be involved in—this is giving life to somebody.”

Bingaman himself performs about 100 kidney transplants a year, and his center does more than 300, an astonishing number for a small private hospital not well known outside of Texas. More remarkable still, Methodist leads the country in kidney transplants from live donors, which are desirable for their longevity: live donor transplants statistically last about five years longer than transplants from deceased donors. Bingaman and his colleagues perform about 200 live-donor kidney transplants annually, outpacing such transplantation giants as New York Presbyterian/Cornell Medical Center, the Mayo Clinic, and UCLA Medical Center. “I never set out to grow the biggest program in the country,” says Bingaman, who moved to San Antonio in 2008. “But the average person in south Texas was waiting on the list for more than six years. There was a huge need.”

Bingaman, a fifty-two-year-old father of three, is sitting on his mother’s terrace as the late-summer light filters through the maples. He looks relaxed; he looks happy. But when he talks about kidneys, any listener can detect his quiet urgency. This is because he knows that chronic kidney disease is the most invisible of the Big Diseases. Thirty million people in the United States suffer from it, 475,000 of them so badly that they’re on a grueling, thrice-weekly dialysis regimen. (Dialysis does what the kidneys would normally do: cleans the blood of toxic waste and removes the body’s excess fluid.) But the gravest statistics are these: The waiting list for

a new kidney exceeds 100,000 people, with 35,000 added each year, while fewer than 20,000 kidneys become available for transplant. Two-thirds of those kidneys come from deceased donors; if one is lucky enough to have a friend or relative offer up a kidney—we have two, but need only one—the chances of that person being a match are slim.

“About 4,500 people die while waiting for a kidney transplant,” reports Bingaman. “And another 4,800 get a letter in the mail telling them they’re no longer healthy enough to qualify for the list. This is a tragedy. Time is against all of us, but when you have kidney disease, time is really against you.” (And being wealthy won’t help: Buying and selling organs is illegal.)

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hose on the deceased donor list must often wait four, five or six years for a suitable kidney to come their way. But in San Antonio, Bingaman has pioneered a way of getting live donor kidneys to patients in record time. Consider the case of Sandy Eckles, a patient of Bingaman’s from Houston. She suffered from lupus and medullary sponge kidney—“which means your kidneys have

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holes in them”—and in 2006 started donor,” Eckles explains. “Houston nightly home dialysis treatments. was not on board with any of that She wanted a new kidney and had a kind of stuff. It was totally foreign willing donor, but the donor proved to them.” incompatible. Worse, the doctors in As Bingaman puts it, his kidney Houston—“the medical center of the exchange circumvents the probworld,” Eckles notes—told her that lem of patient and donor not being finding a match would be nearly imcompatible by extending the pool of possible: Her antibody-rich immune donors far beyond one’s tiny circle system would probably kill off any of the willing. Your donor still dokidney they transplanted. nates her kidney, but to a stranger; a She met Adam Bingaman in 2009. compatible stranger’s kidney comes “He kept telling me, ‘I can get you to you in return. “We’ll know all the transplanted within a year.’ As we genes of the donors, and we’ll know left, I said to my husband, ‘You know, all the antibodies of the recipients,” this guy’s gonna do what he says he’s Bingaman says. “When I have somegonna do.’ He had that cocky attibody that has a lot of antibodies, tude. Well, ten months later I get the my computer system can look to Adam in the operating room at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio call.” She was transplanted on Septry to find a kidney that that person tember 1, 2010. “I’m just like anyone matches to.” else now,” she says. “I can just pick up and go and do whatever I want.”

In Gonzales’s case, seven people in his circle volunteered to list themRalph Andrew Gonzales (who goes by Andrew), a thirty-nine-yearselves on Bingaman’s exchange, including his parents, wife and pastor. It old accountant from McAllen, Texas, learned he had severe kidney diswas Elizabeth who turned out to match another recipient-in-waiting. On ease when he was seven. “My mother saw my urine after I went to the July 17, 2012, in San Antonio, she had a kidney removed for donation and restroom—it looked almost like coffee,” he says. “She was like, ‘What did Andrew had one put in. He hadn’t urinated in years—dialysis effectively you pour in there?’” Gonzales underwent a deceased donor transplant in did it for him—but now? “I woke up and I heard the nurse tell my mom, 1990 at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. But ten years later the kid‘Oh, he’s peeing a lot—that’s good!’ And then I conked out again.” ney failed, and at age twenty he found himself back on dialysis. Apparent Thereafter Gonzales’s life changed dramatically. “I was free,” he says. matches fell apart in 2000 and again in 2005, when his antibody production “I wasn’t tied down to that machine anymore. I could eat and drink what accelerated shortly before surgery. His wife, Elizabeth, whom he married I wanted.” (Dialysis patients must be excruciatingly careful about their in 2006, offered a kidney, but it wasn’t a match, either. (“Matching” is actudiets; too much potassium, for example, can be life-threatening.) Elizaally sort of a misnomer, Bingaman says. One produces antibodies against beth, who’d never had surgery before, felt a little nauseous when she came all transplanted organs, but fewer against the genetic makeup of a given to. “But what made me feel better was they told me that Andrew was organ; this is what’s deemed a match. A compatible kidney, along with walking around the ICU, eating a burger. I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me?’” immunosuppressant drugs, all but guarantees the success of a transplant.)

In due course Andrew and Elizabeth were able to adopt three daugh“It was sad,” Gonzales says of his string of misfortune, “but, you know, ters; before the transplant, their agency had balked at letting them adopt luck of the draw.” because of his condition.

By 2010 Bingaman had started his “paired exchange” transplant proBingaman laughs as he remembers his system’s modest beginnings— gram. “Dr. B has this miraculous computer system that has everybody on file cards. “We started in 2008 by putting everybody’s antibodies and that wants to be a transplant person and everybody that wants to be a gene types on three-by-five cards, and trying to find three-by-five cards FEBRUARY 2019 GREENWICH

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that matched each other.” Today Bingaman uses state-of-the-art matching software that he developed in concert with an MIT software whiz who studied with Alvin E. Roth, an economist who won a Nobel Prize for using game theory to design “matching markets.” Though other hospitals now use so-called kidney swaps, Bingaman says, “we run the biggest exchange program in the entire world.”

“He’s not just a doctor or just a surgeon,” observes Eckles. “This is his passion. This is his life.”

“My favorite story,” she adds, “is of a boy in Vermont that was like eighteen years old. He had kidney failure. He kept going to doctors, they all kept saying, ‘You’re going to have to be on dialysis for the rest of your life.’

Well, of course his mother got on the internet and started researching.

She found Dr. Bingaman, and, lo and behold, the boy got a transplant. An eighteen-year-old kid—he’s living la vida loca now.”

Adam Bingaman does not come from a medical family. He grew up in Riverside, one of four tennis-adept children of the late Harold “Hal” Bingaman, a marketing executive and entrepreneur, and his wife, Helen, a beloved longtime musical director of the Grace Notes, a Greenwich-based women’s a cappella singing group.

Adam traces his love of medicine to Helen’s father, the Rev. Dr. Luke Rhoads, a Lutheran minister who suffered from emphysema. “We were very close when I was a child,” Bingaman says. “He was on oxygen and always short of breath. And I thought to myself, I wish I knew something about his illness. I wish I could help make him better. Thinking back, I distinctly remember that that’s what lead me into medicine.”

magnifying glasses, because they’re small blood vessels.” The old kidneys usually stay put; the patient is receiving a third kidney, situated due south of one of the existing ones.

“Some people say to me, ‘Oh, isn’t it boring, doing the same operation?’

And I say, ‘Every operation is different, every one has its own nuances.’”

The anatomy of both the kidney and the transplantee always varies. Excess belly fat can make the operation more complicated. So can an extra blood vessel in the new kidney, a circumstance that occurs 20 percent of the time. “And it’s more complicated when the recipient has blood vessel disease, and the blood vessel we’re sewing it to is a little damaged.” Some recipients have been on dialysis for more than a decade and “their bladder has shrunk to the size of a walnut, from disuse. So we’ll transplant people who haven’t urinated in ten years. This, too, can make it a little more technically challenging.”

Up to this point, though, transplantation sounds like installing a new part in an old Corvette. What makes it utterly different, though, is the phenomenon of immune cells. “The immune system is well designed to recognize anything that is not you, like bacteria, viruses, funguses—and that’s good,” Bingaman says. “It also recognizes that transplanted parts are not you—and that’s bad.” Immune cells make antibodies that attack and destroy transplants, or would, without potent drugs to suppress the rejection response.

“Before the mid-1950s, you just died with kidney disease,” Bingaman notes. Indeed, old obituary pages are rife with the dreaded “Bright’s Disease,” an archaic term for kidney failure. One essentially drowned in his own fluids or was poisoned by his own blood. Physicians had experimented with transplantation as early as 1905, when a French surgeon tried putting slices of rabbit kidney into a child, with predictably dismal results. Various other forms of transplantation followed—from teeth to testicles—but these too fared poorly, with strange side effects to boot (syphilis contracted from cadavers’ teeth, for example). Transplantation took on a dark cast in the public imagination; many regarded it as immoral, akin to desecration.

In 1954 Joseph E. Murray, a plastic and burn surgeon in Boston (and future Nobel laureate), performed the first successful organ transplant, a kidney, on a twenty-three-year-old Coast Guard veteran named Richard Herrick. But it worked only because the new kidney came from Herrick’s identical twin, Ronald, whose shared genetic code eliminated the rejection response. Richard Herrick died eight years later, when disease recurred in the transplanted kidney. (During his eight-year bonus, though, He married his post-op nurse and fathered two children.)

Though heartened by the advance, surgeons remained stymied by the problem of rejection; to many it seemed insurmountable. “The first immune suppression that was ever tried, believe it or not, was total body irradiation,” Bingaman reports. Physicians had stumbled upon the immunosuppressive properties of radiation after the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Once the transplant patient’s immune system was knocked out with radiation, doctors—Murray was again a chief figure—would inject the patient with the donor’s bone marrow cells in the

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ll signs indicate that kidney disease is getting more prevalent in the Unites States, not less. “The leading cause is diabetes,” Bingaman notes. “In about 50 percent of patients with kidney disease, diabetes is the underlying cause, and diabetes is on the rise, fueled a lot by the obesity epidemic in the United States.” (Other causes of kidney disease include autoimmune disorders, high blood pressure and long-term use of certain drugs, notably over-the-counter pain relievers.) Bingaman adds that kidney disease “discriminates”—it’s three times more common in African Americans and one and a half times more common in Hispanics. “And as the Hispanic population grows—more kidney disease.”

Putting a new kidney in someone is a major operation, but not a terribly long one: It takes about two hours. We should imagine Bingaman and his team in the operating room, country music playing as they work: They make an incision in the stomach, connect the blood vessels of the new kidney with blood vessels inside the recipient, and stitch the kidney to the bladder. “It’s three connections,” Bingaman says brightly. “We use

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Becoming Part of the Future WANT TO SAVE A LIFE? What you should know about kidney donation

Of the nearly 20,000 kidneys transplanted last year, about 14,000 came from deceased donors—the traditional source—and about 5,700 from live donors—the preferred source, since the kidney is likelier to work immediately and last longer. But we need more of both. “As there are so many people waiting and dying on the list, we need to do a better job as a country of educating folks about registering to be deceased donors,” Dr. Adam Bingaman says. “Today it’s easier than ever, because people can go on the internet to Donate Life America— each state has a Donate Life website—and legally register to be an organ donor.”

What does it mean to donate a kidney when you’re alive?

“It used to be a big operation,” Bingaman says. “There was a very large incision, a very painful incision—what we used to call

an ‘open nephrectomy.’ It was a bigger operation for the donor than for the recipient.”

Surgeons now remove kidneys laparoscopically— small tools, small incisions.

Bingaman counts this as one of the great advances he has seen during his career.

“Donors are in the hospital for one night.” (It’s all paid for by the recipient’s insurance, and there are no long-term health repercussions; we need only one kidney to function perfectly.)

Living donors need only be healthy and motivated. “If you’re healthy, it’s very safe to donate a kidney to someone,” Bingaman says. “It doesn’t have zero risk; everything has some risk. But it’s very safe if you don’t have diabetes, you don’t have pre-diabetes, or high blood pressure, etc.”

Donors typically seek to donate to a friend or loved one in need—but also typically, donors are not a suitable match. They can then donate their kidney to an exchange wherein the friend or loved one receives a matching kidney

from a stranger in return.

That is what Elizabeth Gonzales did for her husband, Andrew, who had been on dialysis for twelve years. She would like potential donors to know that having a kidney removed is anything but a terrible ordeal.

“I knew things were going to go smoothly,” she says. “There have been such advances that I was totally at peace, especially at a place like San Antonio.”

She adds, “If you’re scared, just think about the outcome.

Think about the lives that are going to change—what a testament it’s going to be.”

THE GREENWICH CONNECTION Two organizations that are instrumental in helping those with kidney disease have roots right here in town.

The National Kidney Registry was founded by Greenwich

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resident Garet Hil. After Hil and his wife Jan’s ten-year-old daughter suffered kidney failure in 2007, the Hils embarked on a frustrating search for a compatible transplant (she finally received one from a cousin). Hil started the National Kidney Registry in order to work with transplant centers across the country to match donors and recipients. Last year NKR, which is headquartered in town, facilitated about 640 kidney transplants, making it the most productive organization of its kind in the world. Hil and Bingaman have become friends through their work. kidneyregistry.org The National Kidney Foundation focuses on awareness, prevention and treatment of kidney disease, and advocates for ways to get more kidneys transplanted.

Greenwich resident Kevin Longino, a kidney transplant recipient himself, is the chief executive officer of NKF’s board of directors. kidney.org

Faces of hope: Andrew Gonzales with his wife Elizabeth; Sandy Eckles with husband Tom at her sixtieth birthday

hope of creating a more hospitable immune climate for the transplanted kidney. “The patients all died.”

The pharmaceutical approach was far more promising. In 1962 Murray took a kidney from a man who had died during open heart surgery and put it into a twenty-four-year-old accountant named Melvin Doucette. To combat rejection, Murray tried azothiaprine, a new immunosuppressant that had failed to work in six previous kidney transplant patients. But it gave Doucette twenty-seven extra months of life—a leap forward, since no kidney transplant patient aside from identical twins had ever lived longer than a few weeks. Further advances, however, were slow to arrive. “Back in the 1970s, which was not so long ago, they could get about half of the kidneys to last a year,” Bingaman says.

In 1982 cyclosporine—a drug derived from a fungus native to Norway—entered the picture and changed everything. “Now our results are so good that we expect about 92 to 96 percent of the kidneys to last a year, and the average kidney to last more than ten years.” (It was cyclosporine that paved the way for the more exotic transplants—hands and faces.) There have been drug refinements since, helping kidneys to last longer than ever—often more than two decades in live donor cases.

Bingaman describes immune suppression as a sort of “trick.” While too little suppression leads to chronic rejection, too much suppression leads to possibly life-threatening infections, and leaves patients vulnerable to certain cancers. “So we try to dose it just right.”

When kidneys don’t last as long as they should, it’s often because patients get lax about their medications. “You can’t skip them,” Bingaman says. “Even if you’ve been three, four, five, ten years with the transplant, if you stop those medicines, the immune system will awaken and destroy the transplant.” He turns somber. “Oftentimes people stop taking

the medicines for financial reasons. Folks can’t afford them. The tragedy is that dialysis is far more expensive than a transplant. The system should recognize that paying for medicine is a lot less expensive than paying for dialysis, but that’s not been the case.” Medicare, Bingaman adds, pays for dialysis but covers transplant-related medications for only three years.

To many, it comes as a surprise to learn that transplanted kidneys don’t last forever, even with a good match and careful adherence to the drug regimen. “The immune system just chips away at that kidney over time,” Bingaman says. “It damages the kidney to the point that it fails. That can be a decades-long process, and most people die from other causes. But ultimately the kidney gets chipped away at by an immune suppression.” The pop singer Selena Gomez, for example, who has lupus, received a kidney from a friend in 2017, at the age of twenty-five; by the age of forty-five, she will likely need a second transplant.

Or will she? Bingaman points out that successful transplantation is really quite new. Who knows what advances will have blessed the field by 2037? There might be further leaps in antirejection medication. Or in stem cell transplants or genetically engineered transplants or bio-artificial organs, which would eliminate the need for medications altogether, and render the immune problem obsolete.

When Bingaman steps back and thinks about his profession, with these advances still in the offing, he is struck by the almost Frankensteinian strangeness of it. “The whole concept of what we do is crazy! In another generation or two, I think that my kids, or my kids’ kids, are going to think that I was crazy. ‘He took kidneys from a deceased person and he put them in a living person! Can you believe G he did that?’”

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DISCOVERY MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM, 4450 Park Ave., Bridgeport, 372-3521.

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CURTAIN CALL, The Sterling Farms Theatre Complex, 1349 Newfield Ave., Stamford, 3298207. Visit curtaincallinc.com for dates and show times.

DOWNTOWN CABARET THEATRE, 263 Golden Hill St., Bridgeport, 576-1636.

Fri. 1-17, 1984 by George Orwell.

FAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY, on StageOne, 70 Sanford St., Fairfield, 259-1036. Visit fairfieldtheatre.org for dates, shows and times.

GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE, 6 Main St., East Haddam, 860-873-8668.

No new shows in February.

CONCERTS, FILM & THEATER

GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 6227900. Friends Friday Film: Fri. 1, Act of Violence; Fri. 8, Marshall; Fri. 15, Brad’s Status; Fri. 22, Rivers and Tides, 8 p.m.; all films are free.

ARENA AT HARBOR YARD, 600 Main St.,

JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER, 364 Manville Rd.,

calendar BRUCE MUSEUM, 1 Museum Dr., 869-0376. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m.

The museum offers docentled tours, family gallery tours and toddler tours; visit brucemuseum.org for details.

CLAY ART CENTER, 40 Beech St., Port Chester, NY, 914-937-2047. Clay Art Center’s mission is to offer a stimulating space for studio practice, exhibition and educational opportunities to better serve the community.

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Greenwich Symphony Orchestra On Saturday, February 23 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, February 24 at 4 p.m., Greenwich Symphony Orchestra will perform with Peter Toth, a Hungarian pianist, and Lucia Bradford, an American mezzo-soprano. The concerts will take place at the Performing Arts Center at Greenwich High School. A free pre-concert lecture will be held one hour before each performance. Tickets are $40, students $10. Call 203-869-2664 or visit greenwichsymphony.org. for more information.

Pleasantville, NY, 914-773-7663.

Visit website for titles and times, burnsfilmcenter.org.

LONG WHARF THEATRE, 222 Sargent Dr., New Haven, 787-4282. Tues. 7 p.m.; Wed. 2 and 7 p.m.; Thurs.-Fri. 8 p.m.; Sat. 3 and 8 p.m.; Sun. 2 and 7 p.m. For show information on the 2019 season or to purchase tickets, visit longwharf.com.

RIDGEFIELD THEATER BARN, 37 Halpin Ln., Ridgefield, 431-9850. Fri. 1-23, Old Ringers, Joe Simonelli’s charming and hilarious tale of retirees embarking on a new

and scandalous business is a bawdy adult comedy that is one part Golden Girls, one part Calendar Girls and total fun. Directed by Carol Dorn.

RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE, 80 East Ridge, Ridgefield, 4389269. For shows and times visit ridgefieldplayhouse.org.

STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic St., Stamford, 3254466. Visit stamfordcenterforthearts.org for more shows, dates and times.

WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE, 25 Powers Ct.,

Westport, 227-4177.

In The Heights coming in April.

LECTURES, TOURS & WORKSHOPS ALDRICH MUSEUM, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, 438-0198. Tues.-Sun. noon5 p.m.; Fri. until 8 p.m. Fri. 1, First Fridays: A Contemporary Cocktail Party with live music, 7-9 p.m.; visit aldrichart.org for more information.

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AUDUBON GREENWICH, 613 Riversville Rd., 869-5272.

Sun. 3, First Sunday Bird Walk at Greenwich Point, 9-11 a.m.

AUX DÉLICES, 23 Acosta St., Stamford, 326-4540, ext. 108.

Visit auxdelicesfoods.com for menu listings and class dates.

BOWMAN OBSERVATORY PUBLIC NIGHT, NE of Milbank/East Elm St. rotary on the grounds of Julian Curtiss School, 869-6786, ext. 338.

Wed. 6 and 20, Observatory open to the public free of charge, 7-9 p.m., weather permitting.

Sponsored by the Astronomical Society of Greenwich.

CONNECTICUT CERAMICS STUDY CIRCLE, First Congregational Church of Greenwich, Old Greenwich, 108 Sound Beach Avenue.

Mon. 11, Boars Heads on the Table: 18th Century Porcelain Animal Tureens, a lecture by William R. Sargent, independent curator and senior consultant in Chinese art with Bonhams 1:15-3 p.m.

Admission for nonmembers of the Connecticut Ceramics Study Circle is $25. For additional information visit ctcsc.org.

FAIRFIELD MUSEUM AND HISTORY CENTER, 370 Beach Rd., Fairfield, 259-1598. Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.4 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., noon-4 p.m.

Visit fairfieldhistory.org for tour information.

GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 6227900. The library offers a variety of programs: Blood Pressure Screenings, Drop-In Computer Lab, Chess Club, Volunteer Tax Assistance, Foreign Affairs Book Discussion Group; for dates and times visit greenwichlibrary.org.

KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, 26 Bedford Rd., Chappaqua, NY, 914-232-9555. Guided tours are Tuesday through Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER, 39 Scofieldtown Rd., Stamford, 977-6521.

Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday night Observatory Visitors’ Night, 8:30 p.m. »

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KIDS’ STUFF / FEBRUARY 2019

KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART, Rte. 22 at Jay St., Katonah, NY, 914-232-9555.

Tues.-Fri. and Sun. 1-5 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Picture This! Saturday Story Time, select Saturdays, 10:30 a.m.

MARITIME AQUARIUM, 10 N. Water St., S. Norwalk, 852-0700. Daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

The aquarium inspires people of all ages to appreciate and protect the Long Island Sound ecosystem and the global environment through living exhibits, marine science and environmental education, visit maritimeaquarium.org for classes and times.

NEW CANAAN NATURE CENTER, 144 Oenoke Ridge, New Canaan, 966-9577. Visit newcanaannature.org to learn about Friday Family Fun Night.

RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE, 80 East Ridge, Ridgefield, 438-5795. Tues. 5, Masters of Illusion: Believe The Impossible, 7 p.m.

The Maritime Aquarium Lights will be dimmed and sounds muted as The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk presents a “SensoryFriendly Morning” on Sunday, February 3. The Aquarium will open at 8 a.m. and offer activities designed for special-needs guests. In addition, IMAX movies will be shown with reduced volume. For more details visit maritimeaquarium.org.

ALDRICH MUSEUM, 258 Main St., Ridgefield, 438-4519. Tues.-Sun. noon5 p.m.; Fri. until 8 p.m. Sat. 16, Family Art Experiences, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

AUDUBON GREENWICH, 613 Riversville Rd., 869-5272.

Sun. 3, first Sunday walk at Tod’s Point, 9 a.m.

AUX DÉLICES, 23 Acosta St., Stamford, 326-4540 ext. 108.

Visit auxdelicesfoods.com for menu listings and class dates.

BEARDSLEY ZOO, 1875 Noble Ave., Bridgeport, 3946565, open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. One of Connecticut’s top family attractions. See more than 300 animals representing North and South American species and learn

about their endangered and threatened species, which include the Amur (Siberian) tiger, Andean condor, Ocelot, Red wolf, Maned wolf, Giant Anteater and Golden lion tamarin. Then grab a bite at the Peacock Café and take a ride on the carousel.

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH, 4 Horseneck Lane, 869-3224. Visit bgcg .org for events and programs.

5 p.m.; Sun. noon-5 p.m.

The Discovery Museum’s 20,000-square-foot facility includes changing and permanent interactive exhibit galleries, a 124-seat planetarium, Challenger Learning Center, an 80seat auditorium and five multipurpose classrooms where hands-on science classes are held for schools, groups and the general public. discoverymuseum.org.

BRUCE MUSEUM, 1 Museum Dr., 869-0376. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m. Sun. 3, First Sunday Science at the Seaside Center, 1:30-4 p.m.

DOWNTOWN CABARET THEATRE, 263 Golden Hill St., Bridgeport, 576-1636.

Fri. 1-11, Pinocchio. dtcab .com.

DISCOVERY MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM, 4450 Park Ave., Bridgeport, 372-3521. Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-

EARTHPLACE, 10 Woodside Lane, Westport, 227-7253, The mission of Earthplace is to build a passion within the

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community for nature and the environment through education, experience and action, earthplace.org.

GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 39 Strickland St., 869-6899. Call to learn more about family programs.

GREENWICH LIBRARY, 101 W. Putnam Ave., 6227900. The library offers many programs for children: Wee Ones, Tales for Tots, Baby Lapsit, Mother Goose Story Time, call or visit greenwichlibrary.org for dates and times.

IMAX THEATER AT MARITIME AQUARIUM, 10 N. Water St., S. Norwalk, 852-0700. For films and times: maritimeaquarium.org.

STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER, 39 Scofieldtown Rd., Stamford, 977-6521 or stamfordmuseum.org.

Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN, 303 West Ave., Mathews Park, Norwalk, 899-0606. Open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Ongoing exhibits: Energy Lab, Tot Town, Build It!, ColorCoaster, Light Gallery. Ongoing events: Storytelling Yoga; Zumba Kids; Zelda the Zany Owl; Boogie, Bop, Skip and Hop; Fab Fridays!; Mother Goose; Mini Makers; Mutt-i-grees; Toddler Tales; Resource Center Reads! Story Time; visit steppingstonesmuseum .org for classes and times.

WESTPORT ARTS CENTER, 51 Riverside Ave., Westport, 222-7070. Visit westportartscenter.org to sign up for workshops.

WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE, 25 Powers Ct., Westport, 227-4177. Sun. 24, Story Pirates Greatest Hits, 1 and 4 p.m. G

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AUTOMOTIVE

Fairfield County's Community Foundation/ Giving Day . . . . . . . . . . 77

Junior League of Greenwich The Cat in the Hat . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Land Rover Darien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

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BUILDING & HOME IMPROVEMENT

FOOD, CATERING & LODGING

California Closets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Dibico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Grand Entrance Gates . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Northeast Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Sound Beach Partners . . . . . . . . Cover 3

BUSINESS & FINANCE

Cummings & Lockwood LLC . . . . . . . . 12 First Republic Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

EVENTS

5th Annual Greenwich Restaurant Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 A-list Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Avon Gala 2019: Adventure on the High Seas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Best of the Gold Coast 2019 . . . . . . . . . 37 The Center for Sexual Assault Crisis Counseling and Education 40th Anniversary Celebration . . . . . 83

Prime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Private Staff Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

HEALTH & BEAUTY

Dental Oral Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Nathaniel Witherell . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 NicholsMD of Greenwich . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Riverside Orthodontics/ Scott L. Kesselman, DDS . . . . . . . . . 61 Yale New Haven Health/ Greenwich Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Yale New Haven Health/ Northeast Medical Group . . . . . . . . . 25

JEWELRY

Junior League of Greenwich . . . . . . . 50

PHOTOGRAPHY

Bob Capazzo Photography . . . . . . . . . 83

REAL ESTATE

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices/ New England Properties . . . . . . . . . . 27 Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage . . . . . . . . . 16, 17 Coldwell Banker Global Luxury/ Tamar Lurie Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 David Ogilvy & Associates . . . . . . Cover 2 Sotheby's International Realty . . . . . . 8, 9 William Raveis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 3, 5

REAL ESTATE/DESTINATION

Business Development Board of Palm Beach County . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 John's Island Real Estate Company . . . 49

TRANSPORTATION

Rudy's Executive Transportation . . . . . 48

Betteridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cover 4 Cartier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cover 4

NONPROFIT

Breast Cancer Alliance . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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MISCELLANEOUS

Big Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Greenwich Sentinel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Westy Self Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

postscript photo gr aph by tammy o’sullivan

SISTER LOVE I n the month that we celebrate love in all of its forms, we couldn’t resist this adorable photo of four-month-old Maggie and three-and-a-half-year-old Rosie. Mom Tammy O’Sullivan says that the English golden retrievers from local breeder Anitta Tilly are often found snuggling and “sunbathing” together on the kitchen floor. “This photograph truly shows the love they share for one another.” Here’s hoping your Valentine’s Day is filled with just as much cuddly warmth. G

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