Westlake School to Celebrate Dates

Stars of the big and little screens will help the Westlake School for Girls celebrate two big dates at a gala party Feb. 23 at the Century Plaza Hotel. The big numbers are Westlake’s 80th anniversary and headmaster Nathan O. Reynolds’ 20 years at his post.

Both deserve big hoorays. And that’s just what Bob Newhart, Jimmy and Gloria Stewart, Aaron and Candy Spelling, Harriet Nelson and her granddaughter, Tracy Nelson, and the Hal Holbrooks will be shouting about that evening. They’ll be joined on the huzzahs by Oscar-winning music makers Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Neil Simon, Gregory and Veronique Peck, Charlton and Lydia Heston, the John Forsythes, Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland, Pierce (“Remington Steele”) Brosnan and Westlake graduates Candice Bergen, the actress-author, and Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.

Co-chairing the event, which will raise money for the new Marshall Center for Arts and Athletics, are Mary Ann Mobley Collins and Helen Bing. And serving with them to make this a rah-rah evening are Dee May, Kay Lau, Ann Gelson, Ginny Newhart, Sue Robertson, Adele Yellin, Ruth Kraft, Susan Carter and Anita May Rosenstein. Ground breaking on the Marshall Center, a project spearheaded by Barbara and producer Garry Marshall, who are Westlake parents, takes place next month.

The long-awaited news came over a sumptuous lunch at Bullocks Wilshire. Following in the footsteps of Frank Sinatra and Julio Iglesias, it’s Eydie Gorme and Steve Lawrence who’ll be singing for the SPRINT/UCLA Foundation. (SPRINT stands for Special Preventive Research Intervention and New Technology.) SPRINT’s aim is to build and equip a facility that will make it possible to diagnose and treat serious prenatal abnormalities.

The singing team of Gorme and Lawrence is devoting its opening night, Friday, Oct. 25, at the Universal Amphitheatre for the fund raising and celebrating.

The Bullocks Wilshire luncheon Wednesday afternoon was a smaller fund-raiser as well as a delight for SPRINT president Nina Leif (husband Ronnie was there, too) and founders Dr. Judy Howard and Barbara Crandall. The trio was joined by BW president Jerome Nemiro in his penthouse offices. French champagne was dispensed along with the news of the October benefit, and a string quartet played quietly on the terrace. Then everyone went on to lunch in the store’s East Tea Room where fashion merchandise director Rosemarie Troy put on an Ungaro fashion show with the same dash and verve that’s so captivating in the Paris showings.

“Deliciously elegant” is the way Mrs. Leif described the event. And everyone else--Lynn Beyer, Harriet Deutsch, Jackie Applebaum, Deirdre Daniels, Constance Towers Gavin, Doreen Glick, Polo Roth, Muriel Slatkin, BW’s Shirley Wilson, Maxine Goldenson, Kandy Stern, Jean Wadley and the rest couldn’t have agreed more.

The Golden Key Foundation, which for the past 27 years has been active in supporting the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center in West Los Angeles, is ready for a party. And with good cause. The foundation wants to thank all the longtime donors who’ve been dubbed “Angels.” It’s happening at Max au Triangle in Beverly Hills on Feb. 24 where Golden Key members and their “Angels” will dine and dance the night away.

Mrs. Albert H. Gersten Jr. is foundation president; Dascha Auerbach Stuart is dinner chairman and Candice Gould and Betty Deutsch are coordinating the party. Samuel P. Berman is Reiss-Davis’ executive director.

Paige Rense, editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest, insisted on calling her Regency Club lunch for New York designer Geoffrey Beene a “stag lunch.” Even after Ralph Saltus, a man who knows his English, told her it wasn’t quite an accurate description. But even he couldn’t come up with a suitable alternative. Ralph dropped in and dropped out because Paige had invited only one man--Geoffrey--to her party. The rest were ladies, all Beene fans and all anxious to hear his thoughts on fashion. (Beene went on to Newport Beach later in the week to show his collection at Amen Wardy’s.)

In the club’s library, Paige’s favorite room, the ladies gathered for drinks and later for lunch around two tables. Joan Hotchkis wore a blazing pink Chanel suit, but wished she had worn a Beene. The designer wasn’t a bit upset. Connie Wald and Jean Howard, who arrived together, wore black. And the rest went their own ways with color or the lack of it--Mimi London, the decorator; Tamara Asseyev in fuchsia (“the only dress I own that isn’t black”); Frances Bergen (wearing a royal blue coat dress and a purple bordered scarf); Marjorie Miller; Peggy Goldwyn (back from London where she had decorated their new flat); antiquarian Rose Tarlow (also just back from London); Mary Jones (in the midst of the move from Pasadena to Bel-Air).