Woodley & the Whale!
Last night we went to a benefit for Woodley House and saw a special screening of the new Ron Howard film, In the Heart of the Sea.
Woodley House has been a leader in helping people recover from mental illness for 60 years. The benefit honored Kana Enomoto, right, Acting Administrator of SAMHSA, the federal government's mental health department, with the Donald Brown Rose Award. We snapped her with Woodley Board member Ann Pincus, USAID's leading water expert Chris Holmes and his wife, Noel Holmes.
Woodley House has helped over 15,000 people with mental illness. Congrats to its president Isabel Jasinowski, who organized the 19th annual movie benefit, surrounded by development director Linda Meixner and by supporter Lisa Barry and by her husband, former NAM president Jerry Jasinowski.
The evening began at Spices for some delicious Asian food, after which everyone walked across the street to the Uptown Theatre to see In the Heart of the Sea, thanks to Warner Bros, which provided the film before it opens to the public on Friday. We saw the head of JTCC, the nation's top tennis academy, Ray Benton, and his wife, Nina.
The film tells the true story on which Herman Melville based Moby Dick, about a whaling ship in the 1850s that was destroyed by a 100-foot-long whale, and the many months long struggle of its crew to survive and return to Nantucket. Here, FlowApps founder and former Bisnow star Aram Taghavi and Neolitics CEO Ali Radfar.
