This year, we toasted our AvantGuild members at The Falls (happily within a block of mb headquarters). Plenty of mb staffers were on hand to introduce the NY AG crowd around, and Guild members finally had a chance to put some faces with the names they see heating up the bulletin boards!

- David Gould, mb director of membership

At The Falls, December 5, 2005

Photos by Christian Woods

Writer Alice Marie, Allen Salkin, and mb's David Gould

Correspondent Peter Verkooijen, COA editor Bojana Stoparic, and Businessweek Online reporter Alex Halperin

mb's Nancy Hwang and Natexis Banques Popularies associate vice president Kristen Brainard

mb's Shannon Carpenter, photographer Chris Franko, and mb Portland party hostess Stacey Wilson

Chamberlain Communications Group vice president Nancie Steinberg and The Commonwealth Fund vice president Bill Silberg

Editor Joseph Rosta and mb's Bill Conneely

David Hindie and Pfizer contract associate Jen Runne

mb's Amy Hauck, Ali, and Carmen Scheidel

www.Grandma-Boomers.blogspot.com president Carol Scibelli and Tennis Resorts Online editor Roger Cox

DGA trainee Ukeme Emen and Long Island University PR specialist Julie Bolcer

Sonotrope Sound and Image composer provacateur Samuel Claiborne and writer Carly Blatt

Carmen Scheidel and Allen Salkin

WilsonRusch copywriter Margaret Blackstock, freelancer Isabelle Dupuis, writer Kerri Allen and Westchester Community College adjunct professor Sean O'Connor