He was also president of the Metropolitan Opera Guild from 1953 to 1967.
She served on the board of the Metropolitan Opera Guild from 1951 to 1970 and was the board's vice president from 1956 to 1959.
Her mother is the product development manager for the Metropolitan Opera Guild, also in Manhattan.
One student works with an electronics consulting firm, and another wrote children's librettos for the Metropolitan Opera Guild.
From 1986 until his death, he was the president of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, on whose board he had served since 1965.
He later served as managing director of the Metropolitan Opera Guild.
The Metropolitan Opera Guild holds its annual member lunch at the hotel.
Tickets are $7; $5 for members of the Metropolitan Opera Guild and $4 for students.
But that hope helped inspire the Metropolitan Opera Guild to commission this work along with two others for children.
He has since acted as resident artist at the Metropolitan Opera Guild.