Hyde-Addison Progressive Dinner Sneak Peek: Christi Cline and Rosie Sauser

Roaming groups of parents will take to the sidewalks of Georgetown for the progressive dinner Saturday, May 14. Hosts at some two dozen Georgetown homes will serve the traveling diners appetizers, dinner or dessert.

The evening starts with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres for groups of 20 or so at 10 different homes. Then the groups will split off and progress to 15 homes for dinner. Diners will all converge for a dessert reception and open air toast at the home of Nancy Taylor Bubes and Alan Bubes.

Tickets are $100/person ($200/couple). A portion of the funds will help support the school garden.

Donations from local businesses, along with the expenses paid by the hosts, help keep down the overhead of the event, so that most of the donations can go directly to the Hyde-Addison PTA Fund.

Businesses including , , , , , and will donate desserts, wine and other items to make the event a success.

For a sneak peek of the event see the responses from two hosts for the event below.

Christi Cline, parent of a former Hyde-Addison student

• How did you get involved with the Progressive Dinner? My son used to be at Hyde with Elizabeth’s and she ad been talking about doing this progressive dinner. I told her I'd help if she put it together. After the school renovation, the city didn’t give us enough money to maintain the gardens, so we needed to come up with money to maintain them with water and an irrigation system.

• Can you give us a sneak peek at something you're planning to make or a hint at what guests might expect? We're doing a low country boil, a big southern dish, something done for when we do big family gatherings. We just want it to be really relaxing.

• What about the dinner are you most looking forward to? It will be nice to see a lot of our old friends and to meet new parents of incoming students.

• What about the dinner are you most worried over? I'm worried about the weather and how we are going to squeeze all of these people inside. (They had planned to host in a garden at Rosie's house).

• What do you love about Hyde-Addison? We were there for six years, since when we moved to D.C. It was always a great little neighborhood school and was one of the reasons we moved to Georgetown. It's a "really nurturing place."

Rosie Sauser, parent of a former Hyde-Addison Student

• How did you get involved with the Progressive Dinner? My daughter, Melissa Wood, went to Hyde for six happy years. She graduated from 5th grade in the spring of 2008. I knew Elizabeth Miller, because her son was also at Hyde. When she decided to launch the Progressive Dinner it was logical to ask me to host something, because I did the Hyde-Addison campus renovation plans and drawings. Some of the funds are meant to help with the up keep of the campus. 
• Can you give us a sneak peek at something you're planning to make or a hint at what guests might expect? I have a great garden for dinner parties and our intention is to eat in the garden at one long table. I love white linens and candles outside and all the china and glass that I use inside. But it looks like it might rain so we will have to split into two groups for two tables and go inside. My house is typically Georgetown tiny, but really cute.
• What about the dinner are you most looking forward to? I love meeting new people so I'm bound to at this event. Then I will really love going to the dessert course and seeing everyone which will include old friends from our days at Hyde.
• What about the dinner are you most worried over? I cook supper every night and I never take short cuts so I love to cook and food never makes me worry, but getting the house tidy is always my biggest headache. We live in every square inch so it is never spic and span.
• What do you love about Hyde-Addison? We love the teachers and principal. There is a great community feeling there. My daughter got a great education in every way.