Mr. Schlatter has helped organize the ball since 1990.
It was maybe more of a nod to me for organizing the ball.
This was not what Ms. Gurtler, 49, had in mind when she took on the job of organizing the ball for the first time this year.
Jeffrey A. Straus, the president of Countdown Entertainment, the company that organizes the ball drop in coordination with the Times Square Alliance, estimated that Monday night's crowd totaled at least one million people.
And painful to Ms. Gurtler, who runs Vienna's Sacher Hotel, and has spent much of the last year organizing the ball, which traditionally caps this city's extremely intense ballgoing season.
After he was elected governor a second time, in 1955, Folsom organized the first inaugural ball for blacks in Alabama's history.
Jeff Antley, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Confederate Heritage Trust, is organizing the secession ball in Charleston and a 10-day re-enactment of the Confederate encampment at Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the war were fired on April 12 , 1861
In 1845, according to baseball legend, Alexander J. Cartwright, an amateur player in New York City, organized the New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, which formulated a set of rules for baseball, many of which still remain.
He organized the society's drag balls and fund-raising events.
Taylor documents the inaugural balls they organized, the properties they owned, and their political efforts on behalf of their race.
