Queens Bar Assoc. Holds Holiday Party Photo Walter Karling

More than 150 members of five area bar associations and students at the St. John’s University School of Law attended the Queens County Bar Association’s annual holiday party December 6. Party-goers brought toys to be donated to Forestdale, Inc., a nonprofit foster care agency in Queens. More than $50,000 in cash was also collected and donated to Forestdale. Commerce Bank was the evening’s sponsor. Shown with donated toys (l. to r.) are: Thomas N. Gilmartin, Commerce Bank group vice president, Brandeis Association President Edward A. Schachter, St. John’s University School of Law Assistant Dean Claire C. McKeever, Queens County Bar Association President George J. Nashak Jr., Latino Lawyers Association of Queens County President Lourdes M. Ventura, Macon B. Allen Black Bar Association President Donald P. Vernon, and Queens County Women’s Bar Association President Marguerite A. Grays.