Philharmonic Committee’s Record Gift

Ecstatic comes very close to describing the feelings of the members of the Pasadena Junior Philharmonic Committee. They’ve paid bills, totaled proceeds and donations to the Showcase House of Design and will give more than $400,000 to the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It’s their largest gift yet.

Letting no winter rye grow under their feet, the bright group has named Linda (Mrs. Howard) Cantwell president. She was 1984 benefit chairman, has done duty as Music Mobile chairman, has been a Polytechnic School room parent involved with the American Field Service, is married to an orthopedic surgeon and has three children.

With her on the executive board will be Mmes. Russell Zimmer, Robert Holt, John Rossiter and James Crabtree. More new officers are Mmes. David Crawford, Jack McConaghy, Chuck Battaglia, Claude Goldsmith, Ron Varner and Rudolph Strnad.

Speaking of high goals, the evening honoring Barbara Corday, president of Columbia Pictures Television, on Nov. 20 at the Beverly Hilton will be a big one, too.

Barbara Corday is scheduled to receive the 1985 Sheba Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Los Angeles Friends of Tel Hashomer, and already co-chairmen Helen and Jerry Kushnick, entertainment managers, are expecting to net $250,000.

About 1,000 will fill the ballroom with the honorary co-chairmen Marion and Fred Pierce and Jane and Jerry Weintraub. Proceeds will fund the Samuel J. Kushnick Pediatric Immunology Center at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv.

Barbara Corday was a good friend to the Kushnicks both before and after the death of their 3-year-old son, Samuel, from AIDS caused by a blood transfusion, in October, 1983.

Corday’s husband, Barney Rosenzweig, the executive producer of the CBS Emmy-award-winning series “Cagney & Lacey,” will produce the evening. Marilyn and Alan Bergman will write special musical material. With both Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly presenting the award to Corday, and Michelle Lee as mistress of ceremonies and Robert Wagner, William Shatner, Joe Bologna, Robert Stack and Carl Weathers performing, and with the closing a set with comedian Jay Leno and dancing to Everett Covin and his orchestra, well, it’s a full night.

A powerhouse tribute committee includes Tony Thomopoulos, Perry Como, Sherry Lansing, Gloria Steinem, Wendy and Len Goldberg, Norman Lear, Phil Donahue, Marlo Thomas, Sen. Mark Hatfield. The gold circle tables are $5,000.

Tony Fallon has been installed as commodore of the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club. Tom Ramsey is vice commodore; Al Nelson, rear commodore, and Patrick Bixby, fleet captain.

Marcia Wilson Hobbs, president of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Assn., is the headliner for the Alpha Delta Pi Southern California Area Council annual Ronald McDonald House Luncheon for Camp Good Times on Tuesday at the Music Center.

She will be introduced by Los Angeles’ chief of protocol Bee Canterbury Lavery and will receive the Alpha Delta Pi Clasped Hands Award for outstanding contributions to civic, philanthropic and community affairs.

Mrs. Gabriel C. Duque, president of the board of Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, is honorary chairman.

Co-chairmen Mmes. Kenneth Cox and Fred Schiller are raising funds for the camp, a continuing project to aid children undergoing cancer treatment at Childrens Hospital.

The chief executives of four major Los Angeles department stores have been named chairmen of the city’s fund-raising campaign for the National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine. They kicked off the campaign recently with a meeting of volunteers in the Bullocks Wilshire Tearoom.

Efforts culminate Dec. 20 when Vance Stickell, executive vice president of marketing, Los Angeles Times, receives the prestigious National Jewish Humanitarian Award for distinguished community service.

Heading the drive are Michael Gould, chairman, Robinson’s; H. Michael Hecht, president, the Broadway; Judi Hofer, president, May Company, and Allan Questrom, chairman, Bullock’s Department Stores.

Honorary chairmen will be Mayor Tom Bradley and Otis Chandler, chairman of the board and editor-in-chief of the Times Mirror Co.

Elizabeth Taylor is chairman and Barbara Walters is mistress of ceremonies for the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s dinner today at the Century Plaza. The event honors 11 World War II GI liberators and Holocaust survivors and is designed to mark the 40th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis.

Gov. George Deukmejian is speaker. Melissa Manchester will present a musical tribute. Angie Dickinson, Peter Strauss, Leonard Nimoy, Lorne Greene and Robert Culp are in the celebrity lineup.

Special awards will go to California Sen. David Roberti and Assemblyman Richard Katz.

A debutante ball, the first ever in the Santa Clarita Valley, is planned for Feb. 22 by the newly reorganized Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital Guild.

According to HMNMH Guild president Jonnie Fritz, it will be called the Silver Rose Debutante Ball. She’s planning 12 debutantes.

The Auxiliary of the Hospital of the Good Samaritan is inviting friends to attend the gift shop Christmas Preview and Luncheon at the hospital Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs. Robert G. Breyer is shop chairman. More preview planners are Mmes. John Morris, Robert J. Brookes, Eugene L. Stockwell Jr., Gene Prindle, Charles D. Young, Gerold C. Dunn, John K. Shirey.

And, Christmas enchantment is the mood of the Guild of Memorial Hospital of Glendale. They, too, are inviting buyers to shop early and select gifts to help patient care. Monday is their first day to view and buy, according to guild president June Dooley.

The Iranian Education Foundation hosts its first fund-raiser Wednesday evening in the Grand Ballroom of the Beverly Wilshire. The foundation is an offshoot of the Beverly Hills Education Foundation, founded and organized by Behrouz Mahboubi-Fardi, president.

Iranian music and entertainment highlight the night, designed to raise funds for social and educational programs in the Beverly Hills Unified School District for students of Iranian descent.

Southland restaurants are hosting their first Fall Food and Wine Festival today under a huge tent at the Parkway Grill, 510 S. Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena.

Donations are $40. Participating restaurants (Parkway Grill, Muse, LaToque, Reflections, Panda/Plum Tree Inn, 72 Market Street, Lozano’s, First Street Bar and Grill, Cafe Jacoulet, Beckham Place) will prepare specialty dishes, all to aid the relocation and furnishing of the new pediatric facility at Pasadena’s Huntington Memorial Hospital. Thirteen Sonoma and Napa Valley wineries are contributing wines for tasting.

A neat bundle of recipes by NBC’s daytime drama stars (packaged as “Holiday Favorites of the Stars”) caused a lot of gala excitement for the California Raisin Advisory Board and Save the Children party in the Crystal Ballroom of the Biltmore. The international organization is dedicated to the betterment of needy children.

Several hundred are pulling on their boots for the Bandana Ball on Nov. 20 at the original Cattleman’s Club (also once the Cave des Roys) on La Cienega. It’s a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the New School for Child Development.

Currently the club is closed. It will open for this party. Dallas cast members Howard Keel, Fern Fitzgerald, Susan Howard, Steve Kanaly and Charlene Tilton will join the festivities, according to events chairman Carlo Celoni.

Kathy Robinson and the Five Easy Pieces will provide dance music and Floyd’s Kloggers will do some spectacular square dancing.

Chairman Gary Carmona is announcing the event as the Friends’ first evening event and promising casino tables and a “Dallas” buffet catered by Bill Jones.

The school serves youth handicapped by severe emotional/behavorial problems in day school and residential programs. Among the many involved are Richard Zelle, board president, Dr. Barbara Firestone, executive director, and an honorary committee including the Bruce C. Corwins, Francine Maroney, Gary Collins, Mary Ann Mobley, Lois Nettleton and Gretchen Wyler.