Michael Shavelson, editor-in-chief of Columbia Magazine, Professor Emeritus and Maison Française Advisory Board Member, Robert Paxton and Judith Ginsberg, Executive Director at Nash Family Foundation

Kathy Compagnon, Antoine Compagnon, Professor of French at Columbia and Michael Shavelson, editor-in-chief of Columbia Magazine

Paul LeClerc, Maison Française Advisory Board Chair and Director, Columbia Global Centers-Europe

(Seated): Jeanine Parisier Plottel, Maison Française Advisory Board member, Judith Ginsberg and (far right) Marc Blaustein, graphic designer for the Maison Française Centennial

Shanny Peer with Jonathan and Ann Sheffer, the nephew and niece of former Maison Française director, Eugene Sheffer (1942-1966)

French photographer and documentary-maker Yann Arthus-Bertrand with Shanny Peer in front of one of his three aerial photographs which decorate the East Gallery