Trading Filet Mignon for Chicken Pot Pie

John Dobkin, who has been active in the museum world for 30 years, first as director of the National Academy of Design in New York City and now as vice president of Wilderstein, a Victorian house museum in Rhinebeck, N.Y., said the Wilderstein board has “discussed the restructuring of the annual fund-raising party, in order to minimize the expenses and maximize the profit.”