The Montgomery-Cross Foundation

One week later, on a glittering winter evening in early December, the cultural heart of New York City gathered beneath the soaring glass and travertine facade of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Inside the magnificent, acoustic sanctuary of Alice Tully Hall, twelve hundred of the nation’s foremost civic leaders, architectural conservators, philanthropists, university presidents, and city planners had gathered for an extraordinary gala celebration. Tonight was the formal…