Category: Events (Page 1 of 12)

The Social Events Committee has arranged a lunch and theater outing on Sunday, March 1 in New Canaan.  Lunch will be at Lombardi’s (lombardisnc.com), in downtown New Canaan.  Following lunch, a short drive to Waveny Park and the Town Players of New Canaan (tpnc.org) theater to watch One Man, Two Guvnors a hilarious farce by Richard Bean, set in swinging 1960s Brighton, England. The play was a major hit, originating at the National Theatre in 2011and transferring to the West End and Broadway, nominated for seven Tony Awards.

The plan is to be seated at Lombardi’s by 11;45. The play will begin at 2:00. The cost for lunch and theater is $100 per person.  Guests are welcome.  Sign up during the Wednesday general meetings or email Ted Helms (thelms125@gmail.com) or Chuck Andreae (candreae1@gmail.com).

The DMA’s annual Holiday Party will be held on Wednesday, December 17^th at the Country Club of Darien starting at 5:30 PM.  The cost is unchanged from last year, $70 per person.  This price includes passed hors d’oeuvres, buffet dinner, two bottles of house wine (one red and one white) on each table of 10, and musical performances by Gab Kallay and the Camerata singers.

This event traditionally sells out, so to ensure your place be sure to register by the general meeting of November 19^th.  Final deadline to sign up and pay is December 3^rd.

DMA members who have any questions may contact Chet Cobb or Ted Helms.

The Social Events Committee is organizing a trip to the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday, October 28th.  We have arranged a guided tour of the Helen Frankenthaler exhibit and MoMA’s Masterworks Collection.  Helen Frankenthaler was an important figure in the development of abstract American art who spent the last 13 years of her life living on Contentment Island in Darien. We will take Metro North into Grand Central and proceed straight to the Oyster Bar at GCT for an early lunch.   Following lunch we will proceed to the museum, walking along 5^th Avenue and through Rockefeller Center.  The walk is about a mile and takes roughly 20-30 minutes.  At the museum we will have a guided tour of the Frankenthaler exhibit as well as the museum’s Masterworks Collection. After the tour, everyone is welcome to circulate through the museum and find their way home.  As an optional extracurricular activity for anyone who wants, we will stop by the Campbell Bar at Grand Central.

The plan is to catch the 10:18 train from Darien arriving at 11:23 (10:21 Noroton Heights). At the Oyster bar, you will have a choice of soup and sandwich or an entree. We should arrive at the museum at 1:30, for a one hour tour to begin at 1:50. Following the tour, freely circulate and return on your own (last off-peak train at 3:30).  For those interested, stop by the Campbell Bar between 4:30 and 5:00.  Guests are welcome.  Maximum capacity for the event is 52.

The cost for the museum and lunch is $100 per person ($78 for MoMA members). Signup during the meetings or email Ted Helms or Wim Jessup. We are already approaching capacity, so please be sure to sign up as soon as possible.  Checks should be made out to DMA.

Date: July, 7, 2025

Location: Oak Hills Golf Course

Time: 1PM shotgun start, staging at 12:30PM

Format: Scramble

Cost: $110 per golfer includes green’s fee, cart, tips, prizes and

$20 donation to At Home in Darien

Greens/Tee Signs: $150 per sign, net proceeds (estimated to be $135

per sign) to go to At Home in Darien

Mulligans: $10 per mulligan, max 4 per foursome, sold during

staging, cash only

Food: Odeens restaurant will be open prior to the event for lunch

Beverage and snacks available at the halfway house and

roving refreshment carts – cash only

After Golf: Awards, brief remarks, cash bar on the patio — nibbles and

snacks to be provided

To the members of the DMA and friends,

Please join us for an afternoon of golf at Oak Hills Golf Course on Monday, July 7, 2025 with a 1PM shotgun start, 12:30PM staging in carts in the parking area. It will be a scramble format, with prizes for the winning foursome and runners up. Golf cost of $110 per person includes golf green’s fee, cart rental, tips, prizes and a $20 donation to At Home in Darien. Greens/Tee signs are being sold for $150 per sign, with net proceeds to go to At Home in Darien. Mulligans ($10@, max 4 per foursome with proceeds going to At Home in Darien) will be sold for cash during the staging. There will be a brief awards ceremony and reception with cash bar at Odeens (nibbles and snacks to be provided) after golf. For those wishing to have lunch at the course prior to the event, Odeens restaurant will be open offering a full menu available for purchase. There is also a halfway house after the 9th hole offering beverages and snacks, as well as roving refreshment carts on the course – both are cash only.

Please contact Frank Gallagher (francis.gallagher100@gmail.com) if you would like to play or bring a foursome or purchase a green/tee sign. We currently have 19 foursomes signed up and would like to get to 25 foursomes. The event is open to men and women, DMA members and friends of DMA members and friends of At Home in Darien. Checks for golf ($110 per person) and tee/green signs ($150 per sign) at to be made out to the Darien Men’s Association and mailed to the Darien Men’s Association, 274 Middlesex Road, Darien, CT 06820 Attention: Bert von Stuelpnagel. All net proceeds from the event will be passed through to At Home in Darien.

The Darien Men’s Association (“DMA”) is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Darien Community Association (“DCA”). The DMA is a group of roughly 350 retired and semi-retired men from Darien who meet weekly from mid-September through early June at the DCA in a spirit of comradery and shared interests in a variety of activities. A key feature of the DMA meetings is a speaker series involving talks from a variety of business, academic, political, media, and sports figures. The DMA agreed early this year to provide support to At Home in Darien in the form of donations and volunteer service. To learn more about the DMA visit their website at www.dariendma.org.

At Home in Darien is a non-profit organization based at Town Hall in Darien whose mission is to empower seniors in Darien to stay in their homes and be safe, healthy and socially connected. At Home provides services to seniors including transportation, shopping, light household chores that enable seniors to stay in their homes. For more information on At Home in Darien please visit their website (athomeindarien.org)

DMA/At Home in Darien Golf Event Committee

Frank DeLeo

Frank Gallagher

John Craft

Jay Bennett

Bob Conologue

Chris Jones

Mark Bergen

Bob McGroarty

Jerry Crowley

DMA Picnic at Weed Beach

A good time was had by all.  Thank you Alex, Bert and the rest of the people who made it happen.

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Our next Social Event, following the Holiday Party, will be Saturday, January 18th.  We’ll follow our usual format:  a family style dinner starting at 4:30 pm at Ralph & Rich’s, 815 Main Street, Bridgeport where we will share a salad, three different entrees (chicken francaise, veal parm and broiled salmon), smashed potatoes, sauteed vegetables and Italian cookies and pastries for dessert—with coffee or tea.

Seating will be in a separate curtained off area and we will have our own dedicated waiter/waitress.

Throughout dinner there will be two choices of wine (one white; one red).  For those who do not drink wine, soft drinks will be available.  Mixed drinks or beer, if desired, must be paid for on your own at the bar.  Likewise, if you wish to order anything else from the menu you will be asked to pay for it separately on your own.

As in past years, we will carpool to the restaurant—which provides us with 6 hours of free parking.  However, to obtain free parking you must provide the desk with your license plate number upon entering.

The Total Mortgage Arena is a very short walk from the restaurant.  The game starts at 7:00 pm and usually ends about 9:30.  This year the Bridgeport Islanders, the top affiliate of the NHL New York Islanders, will be facing off against the Springfield Thunderbirds, the top affiliate of the NHL St. Louis Blues.  Food (if you have any room), beverages, etc. are available for purchase on your own at the Arena.

Please note: it is best for the ladies to bring a clutch to the game (if necessary) as pocketbooks will be searched for security reasons.

Cost per person is $80.  Make checks payable to “DMA”.

There will be a sign up sheet at our December 11 and 18 DMA meetings.  Or, you may reserve by contacting Gehr Brown or Tom Lom.  Attendance is limited to a maximum of 24.

The next planned activity is the Holiday Party. This will be held on Wednesday, December 18 at the Country Club of Darien starting at 5:30 p.m. We will be welcomed with a pianist playing Christmas music during the cocktail hour with more Christmas music after dinner provided by the Camerata Singers, which is a wonderful extra-curricular ensemble of 7th and 8th graders from Middlesex Middle School.

Anyone who would like to join the committee or contribute to an event should contact Doug Bora.

Your host, Doug Bora and Jan Selkowitz

DMA members and their spouses are taking exciting boat Cruise Around Manhattan on May 30^th that will provide a relaxing and breathtaking way to enjoy dramatic sightseeing and iconic landmarks from the unique perspective the water.  It’s the only sightseeing cruise that completely circles Manhattan including all 3 rivers.  Along the way, DMA members will see approximately 130 landmarks including the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island,  United Nations, Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, Yankee Stadium, Spuyten Duyvil, the Cloisters, the newly constructed Hudson Yards neighborhood, One World Trade Center and revitalized Wall Street area, the newly gentrified Brooklyn and Queens waterfront, the Hoboken & Jersey City coastline, the Highline, Little Island and too many tugs, ferries and cruise ships to count all while going under 20 bridges including the Brooklyn Bridge and G.W. Bridge.

Coordinator: Alex Gibbons

Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at 6:30 p.m.

The DMA will present an evening of jazz music with five members of the Norwalk  Symphony Orchestra at the Annex Building of St. Luke’s church in Darien. Prior to  the concert we will provide wine, beverages and delicious hors d’oeuvres prepared  by the well-known caterer, Carolyn Eddie. The music will begin at 7:30 p.m. These  talented members of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra are looking forward to  entertaining our members and guests with great selections of Jazz music. The cost is $35 per person for this delightful evening, and checks should be made out to  DMA.

We have a maximum capacity of 100 people, but still have some openings, so  please bring a check and sign up at the meeting, or contact Bob McGroarty at  rgmcg@me.com. Jerry Crowley and Chet Cobb have kindly volunteered to help  out for the evening.