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Stephen Marc Beaudoin
Executive Director
Vox Consort
Freelance singer/actor/writer/stage director
Thanks for throwing such fabulous parties!
Daniel Berch
Associate Consultant, Strategy
Adventis
Thank you for adding me to the mailing list — and the slew of emails. I just wanted to say how impressed I am with both your organizational skills and boundless initiative!
Stephanie Burnham
Marketing Executive
Sprint Corp.
As a newcomer to Boston, James is a very welcoming presence and his parties provide a perfect venue for getting to know the fun part of the city and its interesting inhabitants.
Bobi Ciarfella
Marketing and Business Development Manager
Metcalf & Eddy Engineering
How delightful to receive your invitations upon my return from an extended business trip. I look forward to this festive event!
Anita Coelho
Strategic Marketing Consultant
Concert Producer and Promoter
Brazilian Jazz Vocalist
I am just thrilled to be invited.
Celeste Crosse
Assistant Director
Par For the Cure Golg Classic to Benefit the Jimmy Fund
Thanks for your best party yet! I loved the new room. You've got a great group of guests, and this is truly one of the best parties in town.
Frances Donovan
Principal
Reaching Productions
Just wanted to say it was a pleasure to finally meet you in person. I look forward to next month's party. You do a bang-up job!"
Michael Goldstein
Communications Coordinator
The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
The parties do sound extraordinarily interesting and it is impressive that you've put all of this together. Best wishes on continued success.
Don Gurewitz
Photographer
Thanks again for the invitation. The party was great. If you keep going like this, you're going to have to looking at some place like the Hynes Auditorium.
Moran Elitsur
I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your cocktail party last night. I think having it at the Harvard Club of Boston was a great idea. Also the art on display was beautiful and it really added to the ballroom.
Brad Hartmann
Senior Scientific Staffing Consultant
Thank you so much for your introduction and all the information pertaining to your social events. I really look forward to meeting you and your distinguished guests at future events as Jim has spoken very high of both yourself and your friends. It sounds like a very exciting and stimulating environment of people from diverse backgrounds and skill sets and I look forward to the opportunity of exploring this new environment.
Mindi Hertzog
Senior Research and Development Associate
GreenFuel Technologies Corp.
Just wanted to say thanks again for another great party.
Mardie Hinkley
Educational Coordinator
Thanks for providing Boston with a great way to network. I had a great time at your last party.
Lauren Kotlin
Educator
Many thanks for keeping me posted of all the events and parties that you organize. I've enjoyed attending your parties over the past six months and met some really lovely people.
Chris Kreis
President
ASP.MD Inc.
Hi James, just want to say thanks very much for the invitation to your party last PM, it was really a great pleasure.
Carolyn Langley
The reason I'm replying here is just to Thank You for keeping me on the list. I have only made it to one event so far, but I do intend to get to more! So please keep me on the list, and thank you for hosting all these events. It's a great idea! I hope to meet you at one of them to say Hello.
David Lawrence
Software Architect
I look forward with anticipation to the splendid events which James organizes. The crowd is diverse and friendly and everyone goes out of their way to make you feel welcome. He is always innovating with the way he runs his occasions, and the fresh approach is most welcome in what can be a difficult city to meet new friends.
Lynn Leab
Trauma Nurse
Just wanted to take a moment to thank you for the lovely evening last night. I had a great time and met some really nice people, both men and women. It was nice to finally meet you in person.
I'm really excited about this new network of friends. I for one want to continue to thank you for all the hard work you do in getting these events to us. I can imagine the tremendous amount of work it is! And cudoes to your secretary!
Robin Lindsay
Fiberoptic Technician
Thanks again for another great party. Bigger and better than ever! And I had a really great time facilitating. I hope you are recuperating from all the excitement.
Mary Macdonald
Information Architect
M. MAC Design
Thank you for all of your work in putting these parties on. You really are providing a great venue for a wide spectrum of people to get together. I very much enjoyed the last party, and the people I met were the most interesting to date.
David Maier
Consultant
L.E.K. Consulting
Thanks for a great party, James, I had a great time. I love the idea of having a grand party with absolutely no pretext other than a party: no company function, no charity ball, no wedding ....
Dorothy Malcolm
Antique dealer and writer
I love your parties and the people I meet there. It's amazing what networking can do, not to mention making the acquaintance, even friendship of interesting people. I'll see you tomorrow evening at the Harvard Club.
Dann Anthony Maurno
Journalist
Just a quick note of thanks, what a great party. Great venue, nice people — you're good at what you do!
Tom Nutile
I'm writing to let you know how much I've enjoyed attending your recent parties. It's my loss that I let so much time pass between my first one and the two recent ones I attended. You truly know how to throw a great party!
Richa Pande
Harvard's School of Public Health
Thank you for your note and for organizing all these wonderful parties and for bringing all these wonderful people together.
Riva Poor
James, I had a GREAT time at your party. Thank you for all the work you put in that makes it all possible — AND for thinking it up in the first place!
Lucianne Sanchez
Physician
Thank you for continuing to host these cocktail parties. I have truly enjoyed all that I have attended (n=2) and I appreciate the time and energy that you continue to put into these endeavors. You have many talents which you generously share with others. I have also enjoyed the "after-parties" and conversations.
Thor Sandstad
Cofounder, Consultant/Advisor
Sandstad Group
Yes, I will be coming, the parties are great! You're doing a very good job with this, no one else in Boston is doing this. I'm happy to say that I've invited at least 50 or so friends and coworkers. All of them have enjoyed it a lot and many of them have returned again. It's a great and easy environment.
Diane Mela Souvanna
Artist
Thank you for including me in this evite. I am very happy that I found your social circle and I am looking forward to participating in many more of your upcoming events as well.
Magdalena Taber
Fine art photographer
Independent clinical research consultant
Linguistic interpreter
Thank you for including me on your invitation list to your cocktail parties. I appreciate very much the tremendous wealth of information provided in all of your e-mails. It will be exciting to meet so many fascinating new people.
Florence Tao
Research Scientist
GlycoGenesys
Hats off to you for a wonderful party! Thank you for organizing and hosting.
Dianne Weiss
Former Executive Director
The Family Place
I have really appreciated learning about new social event through your communications. It has made the summer much more enjoyable! Many thanks for your efforts.
Tiffany White
Professional Photographer
Thank you for the invitation. Yes, Jenna has raved about your parties — they sound fabulous and I look forward to receiving the follow up information and meeting you at the next event!
Edward William Joseph Wallace
Former Choate Fellow
Department of Mathematics
Harvard University
Ph.D. candidate, mathematics, University of Chicago
Thank you very much for throwing some parties I've very much enjoyed attending. I hope your events continue to be so successful.
Angela Brown
Adjunct Lecturer
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health
Very neat changes and refinements! Congrats, James. Also wanted to especially let you know that the quality and wow-these-people-are-interesting has gone way up j ust since the large party at Saint in November. (As has the venue: The Ritz is way cool.) You, of all people, know I am hard to be impress. Okay: I'm impressed. I had a sensational time at the April party.
Julie Williams
Proprietor
Verite Fine Murals
Allow me to thank you for an exceptional party. I'm looking at a small stack of business cards. I have plans with three people, a couple and another woman, for the four of us to have dinner next week. I have been given a reading assignment, a movie to watch, made a professional connection, met someone who has great parenting resources, and met a fellow Hingham refugee (another single mom who just fled Hingham, as I am soon to do.)
I read all the descriptions and it really added to the evening — "Oh, you're the one who almost died in a blizzard."
Iain Watson
I have been to 6 parties in the past year. My first experience was at the Ritz Carlton roof deck in the later quarter of 2004. I was very impressed by the organization of your events, the actual venue, the name tags and of course your exceptionally detailed and thorough emails/database.
I like the idea of the facilitators and the name tags. It gives an air of organization and purpose. Most events I have attended have lacked a purpose and people tend to congregate in preordained groups. As a single transplant from England I had found it difficult identifying places to meet people of substance and culture.
I have made several new friends through your parties (both male and female). And although I am still single, I feel your parties will contribute some way to helping me find a suitable partner, either directly or indirectly through some of the wonderful people I have met.
I have yet to meet you but would like to thank you for going to all the trouble to host and organize such successful and interesting events and also commend you for such a well organized social gathering.
Liz Crawford
Realtor
Pinnacle Residential Properties
Wellesley
James, the film screening for "Spagetti and Matso Balls" was the first event that you sponsored that I attended. It appeared to be quite a successful evening. I am very IMPRESSED with what you are doing and accomplishing! There is definitely a need for this sort of thing in the Boston area, and I compliment you on your effort in putting this together. I know from experience, any time you try and get a group together for anything it is difficult. You are wisely using technology to reach large numbers of people. Thank you again for your all the time and effort you are putting into this.
Ken Ekstrom
Research Associate
MIT
The Consuls Ball was perhaps for me the highlight of the early Springtime in Boston. It harkens back to an earlier era of elegance that is gratifying to relive.
Heather Somershein
Owner
Art Attack
James, I wanted to thank you for adding my event to your e-mail list. I have received about 20 RSVP's from people that have been recommended to come to the event through your e-mail list. Look forward to seeing you again.
Samuel Fletcher
Never in Boston's 376-year history has there ever been a social phenomenon like James. Bursting onto the Boston social scene in 2002, in a few short years he has single-handedly transformed Boston's social environment for the better. Every day the city becomes increasingly divided into two camps: those who are on James' list and those who aren't. Those who are attend the best parties in town, meet fascinating people, and are invited to a myriad of other events. Those who aren't hear about how wonderful they are from those who are and wish they were invited. James accomplishes this through his captivating charm, endless energy, and extraordinary brilliance. What is even more remarkable is that he does this not for profit but as a charitable venture. It's inconceivable that Boston will ever have another social force more important than James.
Robert Hargrove
Author, Masterful Coaching
Co-founder, Harvard Leadership Research Project
James, it's a great thing you are doing — helping people make connections personally and professionally that can widen their horizon of possibility and make a different in their lives. I really admire you.
Gil Kedem
Bioinformatics Software Consultant
James is a wonderful man. With style, generosity and goodwill, he brings people in Boston together. His parties are the talk of town, elegant, classy and fun. We're fortunate to have him in our lives!
Kimberlie King
James, thank you for responding to my SOS so quickly. You are one of the most reliable people I know! Your follow-through is outstanding.
Robin Reed
Professor of Molecular Biology
Harvard Medical School
James is THE Social King of Boston, and there are no dukes or princes, only serfs.
Judith P. Bowman
President
Protocol Consultants, Inc.
Most impressive. You sound like a remarkable, brilliant, sensitive, thorough, ambitious human being. I look forward to speaking with you soon.
Anna Rebecca Donahue
I am absolutely head over heels for your profile.
Jill Hooley
Professor of Psychology
Director of Harvard's Clinical Psychology Program
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Harvard University
Wow! You aren't joking. Interesting e-mail. VERY interesting profile. I would have written back earlier but it took about 15 hours to read.
Tracy Garcia
Monitor Company
Curiousity got the better of me and I spent the last hour reading your profile. I have to say, it was very funny and I was crying of laughter at times.
Dave Lewis
Real estate developer / Filmaker
I just completed your bio. You have a facinating mind!
Maryrose Miner
After spending a bit of time this evening I have read almost all of your website. I find you witty, down to earth and very articulate. Your generosity of information and depth of what you have shared blew me away. I feel as if I know you and that you would speak similar to how you write. It would be a pleasure to meet you.
Harry J. Sobel, Ph.D.
President
S&R Associates, Inc.
I first learned of your gatherings two days ago on returning from a business trip. Thank you for your introductory emails, invitation and the information, including the longest self-description in the history of the world! I would love to participate.