En Garde For Charity! (AN EVENT INVITATION) An Evening with Olympians and Fencing Photography to Support The Charity Right To Play

This invite is on behalf of Fencing Olympians (Keeth Smart, Cliff Bayer, Jason Rogers, Peter Devine, Tim Morehouse and Erinn Smart) and fellow benefit committee members (Jackie Astier, Scott Buccheit, Sam Hamadeh, Linda Rizk, Matt Snatnick, David Clay, Wendy Doyle and Dana Sydney) for a special evening with them in support of the charity Right To Play at the Barneys Penthouse in NYC on May 13th from 6:30-830pm.

We’ll be displaying and auctioning exclusive fencing photographs from sports and fashion luminaries Nigel Barker, Howard Schatz, David Burnett, Phillip Moy, Patrick McMullan, Serge Timacheff, Chiun-Kai Shih, Joe McNally and Gigi Stoll with all proceeds going to charity.   Right To Play is an international humanitarian organization that uses the power of sport and play to create a healthier, safer environment for children in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the world. Right To Play’s work is supported by over 300 world class athletes, including Jason and Tim, who raise funds and awareness for our programs in 23 countries.

Tickets are $150 and the evening includes cocktails, hors d’ouevres, plenty of Olympic spirit, amazing photography and a few fun surprises!

TO RSVP and Purchase Tickets Contact: Jay stirling, development officer
o: 646.649.9191
E: jstirling@righttoplayusa.org
More Info: http://righttoplay.akaraisin.com/Common/Event/Home.aspx?seid=3115&mid=8&se=1

Please feel free to reach out to me as well with any questions or media inquiries. We NEED YOUR HELP to support this tremendous organization!

Tim
Email: tim@timmorehouse.com

THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!!

I just wanted to send a huge THANK YOU to everyone who turned out for my birthday party at The Gates yesterday and to everyone who sent me messages via facebook and email. 

I really appreciate all of your support and I’m looking forward to a fun 31st year of life with you in it!!! 

Special thanks to my wonderful party hosts: Jason Rogers, Leigh-Taylor Smith, Scott Buccheit and Jourdan Lawlor.  You guys helped make it a very special evening for me, THANK YOU!

Scott you are too funny…

Also thanks to The Gates and it’s staff, Claudine and the crew at ThinkPR, our awesome alcohol sponsor TY KU, Patrick McMullan for taking some awesome pictures of the night and Sam Hamadeh.

Also, to my DJ tag team extraordinaire of Jerone Hsu and Billy Verigan. You guys rocked!  We have Jerone’s new DJ name “Roney Ron” so now we just have to figure out a new one for you Billy!

It will be hard to top this party next year…but of course we’ll try!

“America’s Next Top Fencer” Clinic!

Jason feels the love from his "students"

Jason and I held our fourth fencing clinic this past weekend at Manhattan Fencing Center and this one proved to be a little more interesting than previous ones!

First issue, somehow our invite ended up on the popular events website urbandaddy.com and our club started getting constant phone calls!  Great sign for fencing that there was so much interest, but with no equipment for additional people we were nervous about what to do!

Jame's team shows off its new moves

Luckily, we stemmed the tide and only had about 10 additional folks show up to watch. (Which was pretty cool and they were all really nice!)

Once the clinic got underway, our new fencers showed their skill under the expert tuitilage of our Olympic and National team friends: James Williams, Daria Schneider, Alex Krul, Melvin Rodriguez, and Emma Barrata did an awesome job!  Thanks guys!

We paired off the fencers into teams and after a battle for the ages it was hard to figure out who truly was “America’s Next Top Fencer.”   Although I think everyone showed flashes of future greatness. 

 There was some additional “drama”  to our event but I’ll leave that up to your investigative abilities to discover!

Derek twitters about his experiences fencing...if you read his tweet's you'll discover the 2nd drama of the night!

We want to thank our brand new fencers!   Anne Latarte, Derek Blasberg, Scott Buccheit, Chris Bollen, Jessica Flint, Nicole Sawyer, Jourdan Lawlor, Jason Rosenberg, Marianna Marcus, Kelly Shaver, Kim and Tim!

Tim Morehouse Media July, 2009

Brandeis Alumnus and Olympian Morehouse Makes pitch to promote Fencing
Daily News Tribune by David Ostrowsky

To the casual observer, garnering a silver medal in the Olympics – something Brandeis alum Tim Morehouse and his saber mates did in Beijing last summer – would be enough.

Instead, Morehouse used his silver medal as a springboard for promoting fencing to schools, corporations and anyone else interested in listening to the top-ranked fencer in the United States.

Olympic Celebrity Reveals Sleek Physique Secret
Joanne Eglash
Beijing Olympics silver medal champion Tim Morehouse began his fencing career in middle school. “I was the last person anyone expected to see in Athens in 2004 because I’m not a natural athlete, I don’t fence by the book, and I had no financial backing as I traveled around the world attempting to qualify for the Olympic team,” recalls Tim. He eventually became an alternate.

Movers and Shakers: Tim Morehouse, Silver Medal Winner of the Men’s Saber Team at the 2008 Olympics
by Peachy Deegan

Tim Morehouse was born and raised in New York City in Manhattan and also in Riverdale in the Bronx. There are very few Olympians who are born, raised and actually train in NYC and he is one of them. He won a Silver Medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in men’s saber team. The club where he trains is the Manhattan Fencing Center located on 39th and 8th. His teammates and he have the goal to win the first gold medal in men’s fencing history while also bringing fencing to a new level of national recognition. Tim has been out on the NYC social scene promoting himself and his sport this past year and attended some of the hottest events in town while helping to promote great charities such as Boys Town and Right To Play. Also he is a motivational speaker and has mostly been speaking to companies in NYC.

NEW YORK – JULY 09: Olympic Medalists Tim Morehouse and Jason Rogers attend a screening of “500 Days Of Summer” hosted by The Cinema Society with Brooks Brothers and Cotton at the Tribeca Grand Screening Room on July 9, 2009 in New York City. (http://topics.treehugger.com/photo/0cm4fYf9I3dxX)

US Fencing Team Delivers Record Breaking-Performance
Olympic Team USA and NBC Universal Sports Websites by Derek McIlver

SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR (July 9, 2009)-Team USA Fencing delivered a powerful performance at the Pan American Championships, winning more medals than any other fencing team in the history of the competition. During the tournament, the team captured 10 out of a possible 12 gold medals, taking home a total of 22 medals and sweeping three events. 

(Read More: http://teamusa.org/news/article/14168)

Olympians Host Feisty Fencing Clinic
by Scott Buccheit

Saturday night I attended a fencing clinic at the Manhattan Fencing Center hosted by my friends, the silver medal Olympians Tim Morehouse, Jason Rogers and James Williams. I have a new respect for the Olympic athletes after experiencing just a couple hours of the sport.

Social Life Magazine Picture!

Our friend Scott Buccheit had a full-page article about him and his company artwingny (www.artwingny.com) in this months Social Life magazine and they used a picture of Jason, me and him for it.     Nice!

Random media mentions always good!

High Line Park Benefit Hosted by Calvin Klein

For years, the above ground High Line train tracks remained vacant of trains or usage of any kind, but now the 30 block long stretch of track is a gorgeous park thanks to a ten year project spearheaded by some intrepid New Yorkers.

Last night, the park had it’s celebrity benefit opening and I’m sure the original builders never imaged their tracks would one day be host to one of the hottest parties in town! 

Jason Rogers and I attended as guest of Calvin Klein and it was truly amazing to walk the park with its gorgeous views of the city and New Jersey, trees and the rail tracks, a reminder of what once used to be here.

Guest included: Model Lydia Hearst (pictured above with Jason and I), actor Bradley Cooper(who we chatted with as he downed some EmergenC that he had stashed in his jacket),Danny Devito(who actually fenced Jason at the party!), photography scion and Welsh royalty Lord Scott Buccheit, Andrew Saffir, Olivia Palermo, Josh Reed and Ed Norton. (Whose interaction we had with him will one day be a story we share on Letterman or Leno as to how dumb Jason and I can both be sometimes!)

Jason and I also filmed some great interviews, including one with Danny Devito who actualy fences (and wins) Jason at the party!  This is going to be for our new video series  on my blog for www.teamusa.org. (Video coming soon!)

To learn more about the amazing history of the park:http://www.fashionwindows.net/2009/06/calvin-klein-collection-to-host-first-party-on-the-high-line/

This one is for you Scott…(Artwingny in Italy!)

Our friend Lord Scott Buchheit’s (descended from the Longshanks) company Artwingny did the recent Ray Band sunglasses ad campaign.(Picture above)

We promised him that if we saw the campaign we would take pictures for him….well, the campaign was hard to miss as it was in almost every bus stop from Venice to Padua! 

Here you go Scott! Promise kept! Enjoy! (To check out Scott’s company go to: www.artwingny.com)

St. Jude Children’s Hospital Fundraiser and Fashion show

 

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has helped thousands of children battle cancer and their research has helped improve the recovery rate drastically for children diagnosed with Cancer.

This evening I was privileged to attend their fundraiser fashion show which my friend Scott Buccheit helped to put together and in which my friend Miss New York Leigh-Taylor Smith was walking in! (She did a fantastic job!)

Leigh-Taylor walks the runway

The event was at the 26th and Lexington armory and featured a silent and live auction as well as dancing and a fashion show where the dresses were later sold for charity.    The event was called Design Cares presents Kaleidoscope of Dreams to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and fashion designers donated dresses for the cause.

Plenty of familar faces abound, Rachelle Hruska from the Guest of a Guest social scene blog, Tia Walker, Shannon Dougherty, Patrick McMullan, Tony Sirico (aka Pauly Walnuts) from the Sopranos , Jaslene from Americas Next Top Model amongst many others.

Also made some new friends with the very nice Alise Shoemaker and her friend Amy who also walked in the show.

Rachelle Hruska from Guest of a Guest! Stunning!

Full Album: http://www.facebook.com/editphoto.php?aid=2077384#/album.php?aid=2077384&id=9804644

Sometimes Life is Very Hard…

Eating delicious cupcakes with Miss New York Leigh-Taylor Smith and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Melissa Haro at the Conde Nast Traveler Party…(Please note the big smile! )

Cupcakes and beautiful women…the perfect combo!

Thankfully I was also with friends Scott Buccheit, Naeem Delbridge and Justin Tranter or else I would have been really bored!  (Hmm for some reason I have no pictures of them…must have gotten distraced. haha)

It was a cool party…Thanks to Megan Montenaro and the rest of the Conde Nast crew for a great night!

A Night With D-Lo, Jason and Tim: Calvin Klein Event, Carmen Electra and Vitamin Water

Following 5 hours of practice today and still reeling from President Obama’s comments about the USA Fencing Team we decided the best remedy to our sadness was to venture out into the city tonight with our good friend Danica Lo. (Our friend Leigh Taylorwas also surpassed to join us but a 1-week past expiration glass of milk ended her evening before it began! Yikes!)

We started at the Calvin Klein store where Jason Rogers had been invited and dressed in the newest CK jeans by the fashion company for their event.    One of the gossip girls was there (I’m terrible with names) and so were our pals Scott Buccheit, Naeem Delbridge and Lydia Hearst. 

The event was fun and we made some great new friends amongst the CK family.  We then headed over to the Vitamin Water party where they were marketing their new 10 calorie drinks.   We got to hang out with Carmen Electra for a bit (that was cool) as well as our Micah Jesse.(As soon as I get my camera cord I’ll post some photographs!)

At the Vitamin Water event they had a pretty cool photo booth and it turns out that cramming into those booths for pictures is one of Danica’s favorite things to d0! ( hence the photo above.) 

Now, wouldn’t Vitamin Water make a great sponsor for fencing???