I know this is not the Oscars but I'd like to thank everybody who participated in organizing the Costume Ball.
First of all to Hana Kutil for coming up with the original idea and working with me all the way. And for the beautiful flower centerpieces.
To all CC members who did lobby for and supported this event.
To BOD and namely Petr Kutil for approving and funding.
To Jana Samkova who very efficiently took care of the accounting issues.
To Mary Seewald for bringing the calendars all the way from Prague.
To Mike Seewald for his last minute realization of possible problems with the service and helping to solve this issue.
To Derek Michalak for finding the wonderful musicians and to DJ Vlado for a great spinning.
To all who volunteered - Debbie Van Cura, Denise Pompl. Iva Svancarova, Marketa Dohnal, Susan Pavlovsky.
And of course, to all the staff, namely Katerina Vojarova, Lucy Reynolds and Ryan Blumstein. To the kitchen staff for a great job preparing the food and to all the service staff, who did a great job waiting on us and setting up the Hall.
And to all of you who showed up and helped making it a huge success.
If I forgot about somebody, my sincere apologies, but there were simply too many of you.