Michael R. Laginestra honored at AHRC's "A Special Night for Special Children".

The 20th Annual "A Special Night for Special Children," honoring Michael R. Laginestra of Insignia/ESG, Inc., raised nearly $600,000 for programs and services of the Association for the Help of Retarded Children. The dinner is hosted by the real estate and construction industries of New York City New York City: see New York, city.

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Mr. Laginestra, a vice chairman of Insignia/ESG, was honored for his business and philanthropic achievements.

Serving as co-chairs for the event were Philip Altheim, chairman and chief executive officer of Forest Electric Corp.; Scott L. Gottlieb, an executive managing director at Insignia/ESG; Jonathan L. Mechanic, chairman of the real estate department of Fried Frank Harris Shriver shrive
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LLC - Logical Link Control ; and Stephen B. Siegel, chairman and chief executive officer of Insignia/ESG. Elizabeth Ann Wright Mary Ann Wright (born 1947) is a retired United States Army colonel, retired official of the U.S. State Department, and now full-time anti-war activist.

Wright is most noted for being one of three U.S. , a director at Insignia/ESG, was the dinner journal chair.

Jim Watkins Jim Watkins, an Ohio native, is the co-anchor of the weekday edition of CW11 News at Ten on WPIX-TV. He joined the station in 1998 after three years working at WNBC-TV in New York. , co-anchor of the WB11 Mews at Ten, was master of ceremonies for the event, which was attended by approximately 500 people. Valerie Romanoff's Starlight Orchestra provided music for dancing.

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