Joe Biden at The Bellevue
by Anna Iredale in Seen on 11/23/2009
The Committee of Seventy welcomed Vice President Joe Biden to The Bellevue for breakfast with a few hundred of the city's movers and shakers this morning. Folks started lining up around 7AM.

Everyone had to get in to a line that started in the food court and wound its way through the lobby.

Zack Stalberg, head of the Committee of 70 welcomes former Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Timoney.

Inquirer photographer Tom Gralish looks at the other end of the lens. To see Tom's take on the event go here. 
Temple President Anne Weaver Hart with Temple intern Max Leitenberger.

Harold T. Epps, Committee of 70 Board Member Cheryl Krause and Mayor Michael Nutter.

First City Troop marches in with the colors.

At the PREIT table, Ronald I. Rubin, Chairman and CEO; Edward Glickman, President and COO; Robert F. McCadden, Executive VP and CFO; Mario Ventresca, Jr., Senior Vice President, Asset Management; and Fran Cassidy of Comcast Spectacor.

Also at the PREIT table: Joseph Coradino, President, PREIT Services, LLC and PREIT-RUBIN, Inc.; Judith Baker, Senior VP, Human Resources; Bruce Goldman, Executive VP, General Counsel and Secretary; Public Relations expert Sally Berlin; and Judy Garfinkel, Marketing Manager.

Steve Lawrence Vice President at Temple University, Senator Larry Farnese and JoAnn Epps, Dean of Temple Law.

The view from the balcony:

Zane Stalberg; Zack Stalberg, John Timoney and Seth Williams, newly elected Philadelphia District Attorney.


Allyson Schwartz and Lynne Abraham talk to Mayor Nutter.

Zack Stahlberg at the podium.

Here's are two nice crisp photos of Joe Biden courtesy of Tom Gralish of The Inquirer. Fuzzy Biden just wouldn't do.