Dutch Treat Club Award for Lifetime Achievement Awarded to Sheldon Harnick, 5/6

Legendary lyricist Sheldon Harnick will receive the Dutch Treat Club Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts on Monday, May 6th at The Harvard Club.

Says Harnick, who has garnered a Pulitzer Prize, 2 Tony Awards, 2 Grammy Awards, 2 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, 3 gold records, and a platinum record, "I'm extraordinarily honored to receive The Dutch Treat Club's Gold Medal, and to be in the company of such recipients as, Hal Prince, Richard Rodgers, Michael Bennett, Gay Talese, Beverly Sills, Jules Feiffer, Norman Mailer, Eli Jackson and Anne Jackson among others".

The Dutch Treat Club, one of the city's elite arts clubs, was founded in 1905 by Thomas Masson, an editor of Life magazine, and Robert Sterling Yard, a reporter with the New York Sun, who wanted a New York City club for creative people. Its founding 11 members included writers, illustrators, editors and a publisher. As former Chairman John O'Hara Cosgrave said, the Dutch Treat Club "is a picked body of active agents in the production and dissemination of literature, art, music and drama in New York. It is their business to know what is going on and about the men and women who are doing things and getting them done." This tradition, along with the historic sense of conviviality, is still maintained to this day.

Sheldon and his wife, photographer, Margery Gray Harnick, will sign copies of their latest endeavor, a recently released book of Margery's stunning photos and Sheldon's related poems entitled, "The Outdoor Museum (not your usual images of NEW YORK)."