Saturday, November 3, 2007

The third annual Step Up to the Plate was a fantastic success raising over $175,000 to benefit the domestic violence programs of The Second Step. Attendees got "up close and personal" with the terrific special guests below in the setting of a gracious private homes in the Boston area.

Please save the date Saturday, November 8, 2008 for the next Step Up!


Who Was That Masked Diner?
DAVE ANDELMAN Founder and CEO of The Phantom Gourmet

Meet the Jetsons
COLIN ANGLE AND HELEN GREINER Co-Founders of i-Robot, makers of robots that clean house and disarm explosives

Look Who’s Talking
TOM ASHBROOK Host of On Point on WBUR

So What’s News?
JIM BRAUDE AND CHET CURTIS Hosts of NECN’s NewsNight With Jim Braude and The Chet Curtis Report

Lights, Camera, Action!
TY BURR Film critic at The Boston Globe

Behind the News Desk
JOHN DAVIDOW News Director, WBUR

Hey Good Lookin’ Whatcha Got Cookin’?
GORDON HAMERSLEY Chef and co-owner, Hamersley’s Bistro

Compelling Commentator
EILEEN MCNAMARA Pulitzer Prize winner and Professor of the Practice of Journalism, Brandeis University

Remember When Rock Was Young?
STEVE MORSE longtime rock music critic for the Boston Globe

Dollars and Sense
JONATHAN POND “America’s Financial Planner”, Author and Public Television Host

In the Middle in the Middle East
CHARLES A. RADIN Former Jerusalem bureau chief, The Boston Globe, and Director of Global Communications, Brandeis university

Artistic Expression
JONATHAN RIBNER Associate Professor, Art History, Boston University

Saluta!
JEANNIE ROGERS Co-Owner and Sommelier of Il Cappricio, Waltham

Not Just a Teddy Bear
TWEED ROOSEVELT Great-Grandson of Teddy Roosevelt, lecturer and Boston businessman

Excellent Investigator
HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN WHDH TV News Investigative Reporter and mystery author

In Pursuit of Freedom
JESSE SAGE Editor, Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery and Director, American Anti-Slavery Group

Sofa, So Good!
ELIOT & BARRY TATELMAN, President and CEO and former Co-President, Jordan’s Furniture

Don’t Shvitz—Be Happy!
RABBI MOSHE WALDOKS Spiritual Leader, Temple Beth Zion and Co-editor, Big Book of Jewish Humor