Anna
Moffo Sarnoff (left) with
Rita Rosen, recipient of the
Lizette H.
Sarnoff Award for
Volunteer Service. |
Former Texas Governor
Ann Richards (left) and
Trisha Meili |
Tovah Feldshuh (from left),
Susan Lucci and Patricia Field |
ALBERT
EINSTEIN
COLLEGE
OF MEDICINE
Tried And True Trouper
Always There To Help
By Tim Boxer
 NNA
MOFFO SARNOFF was at the Waldorf recently to present an award
to Luciana Pavarotti. Anna fell on stage, got up,
made her speech and left to see the doctor.
Two weeks later the brave gal was back at the
hotel. She wouldn’t miss the annual luncheon of the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine’s National Women’s Division.
After all, she was presenting an award to Rita Rosen that
was named in memory of her mother-in-law, Lizette Sarnoff
(whose husband David was president of NBC).
More than 400 guests celebrated the 50th
anniversary of the annual luncheon. Chaired by Lois Zelman
and Carol Roaman, the historic event raised $250,000
in support of Einstein's new
Michael
F.
Price
Center
for Genetic and Translational Medicine.
Rita Rosen, an Einstein Overseer and honorary
president of the National Women’s Division, said she’d always
wanted to be an actress – and win an Oscar. But as fate would
have it, in 1946 she fell in love with a returning naval officer,
raised three wonderful children, and over the years used her drama
training in her volunteer work for the women’s division.
As she accepted her volunteer award from
Sarnoff, Rosen exclaimed, “I think I just got me Academy
Award!”
Joan Lunden, host of A&E’s Behind
Closed Doors, emceed a program that honored Golda’s
Balcony star Tovah Feldshuh, Sex and the City
costume designer Patricia Field, Susan Lucci of
All My Children, Trisha Meili, the
Central Park
jogger who was raped and left for dead, and former Texas Governor Ann
Richards with Spirit of Achievement Awards.
On opening night of Feldshuh’s Broadway
show her mother told her, “Tovah, my dear, I rate your parts by
how you look. Golda Meir is a zero.”
Lucci, who plays Erika Kane on ABC’s long
running soap, said she haunted for years by a remark her daughter Liza
made when she was four years old: “Grandma is a nurse, Uncle
David is a doctor, daddy is a doctor, and you, mommy, are an
actress. What good are you?”
She told this to a doctor friend adding,
“Doctors deserve to be on the highest end of the pay scale.”
“No,” her doctor friend said,
“entertainers and sports people should be. Why do you think
patients want to get well? They want to go to the theater, see
movies, go to ball games and above all – they want to go
home.”
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