Honors Will Be Doled Out to the Doles

To say that the Ides of March dinner committee headed by Lodwrick M. Cook, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Atlantic Richfield, is happy is an understatement. Members have a double attraction for their benefit April 2.

They’ll honor not only Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, but also Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole. Aren’t they one of the best-known married pairs?

This won’t be an ordinary dinner: Johnny Grant is master of ceremonies. And the Ides dinner traditionally honors an outstanding example of public service through a light-hearted roast.

The honoree is presented with a bronze Julius statuette. Prior recipients include Mayor Tom Bradley, former President Gerald Ford and Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth. We’re assuming that Elizabeth Dole will get a Julia.

The Sheraton Premiere Hotel is shoring up for the night to raise funds for the Southern California Assn. of Public Administrators’ Praetors scholarship fund at the USC School of Public Administration. Ross Clayton is dean.

The Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation is thinking both big and small for its annual ball March 15. Small, because it’s honoring Robert N. Noyce, co-inventor of the microcomputer chip (and a graduate of Grinnell and a UC regent).

Trumpeters will extend fanfare as guests arrive at Gumps in Beverly Hills for cocktails. Both Robert Leitstein, Gumps president, San Francisco, and J. Shelton Ellis Jr., executive director, Beverly Hills, will be there for the Parties Plus festivities.

During cocktails, the foundation’s “gold boxes” will be sold for donations of $100, the prizes reflecting vacation trips and lots of pluses.

Then, ball chairman Mrs. Basil W. McManus will be the pied piper to the Beverly Wilshire for a black-tie evening dancing to Clark Keen’s Orchestra. Art Linkletter is master of ceremonies.

The committee is planning table decor with black cylindrical vases holding pink neon tubes filled with tulips, orchids, anthuriums and the current rage--torch ginger.

Involved are Mrs. Chandler Harris, Los Angeles chapter president; Mrs. Hugh R. Brownson, auxiliary president; and Mmes. Earl Keith Russell, Robert O. Fulton, James E. Goerz, Sharon Black, Richard Condon, S. Jerry Stathatos, Mary Martha Barkley, L. James Hutson, Alva Lane Herd, Harry L. Macy Jr., Allen E. Puckett, Arthur G. Linkletter, Harold C. Ramser Jr., Mike Hollander, Lawrence O. Kitchen, Kenneth Morgan and Curtis King Jr.

Adjusting the bow on her Galanos gown, high-energy Anita Garnier explained her thought processes for the Pasadena Junior League Center Stage-Objet d’Art double fashion shows--afternoon and evening. “I thought, well, Pasadena is having its Centennial year, so why not make $100,000? And, now, I think we’ve made $125,000, for sure.”

With that, she left for the dance floor, partied a good deal of the night at the black-tie festivity at the Bonaventure, and was up early the next morning embarking on her trip to India with husband Anton.

The dynamic committee had done well: Bullock’s underwrote the jazzy fashion show to a tune of $50,000. The auctions and raffles for all those trips on Delta, fox jackets, the Honda motor scooter, and jewels from Troy and Co. and Kazanjian went quickly. And with the hard work of production chairman Mrs. Edmund J. Regan, the models didn’t miss an cue.

That meant everyone could sip Fetzer Sauvignon Blanc, and dance the swim, the chicken, the mashed potato, and the pony to Sid Engel’s music. President Eileen Schoellkopf was best on the swim. Guy Henry excelled on the chicken.

The success is being savored by a lot of hard workers, among them Diane Scott, in charge of the program; Susan Guglielmo, who handled the finances; Lori Payne, models coordinator; Linda Jahnke, advertising coordinator; and Joni Baker, sustaining adviser.

Enjoying were Alex and Kim McGilvray, Judy Farris, Robert Harris, and Ken and Diane Hardie, all of Bullock’s; and, obviously all the models, including Candida Genzmer, Parme Giuntini, Katie Tuerk, Bettye Hill, Jennifer Murphy, Nancy Payne, Susan Seidel, Betsy Livadary, Michelle Liset, Harriet Kuhlman, Ty Easley, Judith Sexton, Sydney Wilson, Susan Ralston-McCormick, Ann Weir, and a handsome coterie of husbands--Timothy Morphy, Terry Perucca, Michael Scott, Clayton Marquardt, Larry Pastre, Frank Morse, Donald Payne, and Fred Schoellkopf. Some cute youngsters such as Catherine Baker, Lindsey Cattrell and Tyler Payne also got into the act.

Women are in the spotlight at USC. Mrs. Simon Ramo will become the third woman in the school’s 54-year history to win its most prestigious laurel, the Asa V. Call Achievement Award, when the university hosts its General Alumni Assn. Annual Awards Banquet next Sunday at the Sheraton Grande.

The only two previous women winners were former First Lady Patricia Nixon and singing virtuoso Nadine Connor Heacock.

Virginia Ramo has served as a USC trustee since 1971. She also was among the illustrious group honored by the USC Town and Gown at its major David Hayes luncheon at the Beverly Hilton last week. (Others were Anna Bing Arnold, Charlotte S. Davidson, Lillian Fluor, Cecele Birnkrant Greenwood, Fern Heath, Elaine Hoffman, Katherine B. Loker, Eileen L. Norris, Blanche E. Seaver, Nadine Watt and Marion Wilson.)

At the banquet Margaret K. Wetzel (Mrs. Harry) will receive the Merit Award for community service. She is immediate past chairman of the Amazing Blue Ribbon. Service awards will go to Bernice Marks Chistenson, Marjorie Reetz Zickfeld and Virginia Greelis Hill.

Happy Franklin, founding president of the Friends of Fine Arts, heads the corps of male super-achievers to be honored, along with entertainment producer Thomas L. Walker, TV news anchor Frank Cruz, Thomas P. Kemp (he’s senior vice president of Beatrice Foods and brother of Rep. Jack Kemp), architect Gin D. Wong (Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX), Trojan ‘30s tackle Raymond George, gerontologist Albert L. Hanson and trustee Hugh H. Helm.

Association president David Atha will be there. Mmes. J. Thomas McCarthy and Ralph B. Allman Jr. are co-chairmen.

I. Magnin will present and underwrite the designer fashion show for the National Charity League Los Angeles chapter and the Junior Charity League on Saturday at the Beverly Wilshire.

Mrs. Robert Randolph Hill chairs “A Victorian Interlude.” Brent McDaneld, manager of special events and productions for the 26 I. Magnin stores, will come down from San Francisco to produce the show. Twelve Ticktockers (the Charity League juniors) are being coached to model the junior fashions.

Because the event is a mother-daughter affair, Coronets who are attending college will return for the occasion. Funds are earmarked for the NCL-USC California Teacher Training Center and facilities for Recording for the Blind at 5000 Hollywood Blvd.

Anita Althouse is co-chairman for her sister. More assisting are Virginia Norato, Sharon Stephens, Betty Nunez, Patricia Fletcher, Leona Barker, JoAnne Fogarty, Maribeth Legg, Judy Needham, Maryann Seidel, Loretta Lindholm, Margot Trasatti, Lonni Chang, Bonnie Sue Baker, JoAnn Busuttil, Carolyn Ludwig and Mila Reeder.

Wellesley College president Nannerl Keohane, a firm believer in women’s colleges, will speak to local alumnae at a champagne reception and luncheon in the Blue Ribbon Room of the Music Center today.

Post-luncheon she’ll attend the mini-25th reunion of her Wellesley class of ’61.

Four Wellesley Club presidents planning the event include Anne Kennedy of Pasadena, Jan Morris of South Coast, Edith Piness of Foothills and Sue Allen of Los Angeles. Also involved with arrangements are Wellesley trustees Henrietta Holsman and Mia Chandler Frost.

Mrs. John Poer, president of the American Field Service Polytechnic School chapter, is scurrying around planning “Dining Around the World.” The six dinners this weekend and next will be hosted as fund-raisers.

“Un Diner Elegant en Hiver” was the fare at the homes of the James M. Galbraiths and Mrs. Jerome Wilson. The same evening Dr. and Mrs. William Bazler concocted New Orleans fare.

Saturday, “Cena Campagnola Italiana” will entice diners to the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Volk and Mr. and Mrs. Neil L. Diver, while others have “A Night in the Casbah” with Dr. and John W. Wong.

Dinner at Primi’s followed the opening of “The Macchiaioli: Painters of Italian Life 1850-1900” at the Wight Art Gallery at UCLA.

Hosting the event were Mr. and Mrs. Julian Ganz Jr., Linda Brownridge, Mrs. Gabriella De Ferrari and the board of the UCLA Arts Council. The exhibition continues through April 20.

Marcello D’Olivo, the eminent Italian architect, painter and town planner, was the focus of attention Tuesday evening at the opening reception of his exhibition at the Theater Art Gallery on the sixth floor of the Design Center of Los Angeles, 433 S. Spring St.

Dr. Robert A. Huttenback, UC Santa Barbara chancellor, officially launched the show. It’s seen through the patronage of Italian consul general Dr. Alberto Boniver, the university and the Global Environmental Research Organization (a joint project of the universities of Venice, of Padua and the University of California).

Among D’Olivo’s noteworthy large-scale projects are Libreville, a new capital for Gabon; the 400,000-square-meter prize-winning Unknown Soldier Monument in Baghdad; seaside hotels in Grado and Manacore; and the Youth Village in Trieste.

Among those attending were Mr. and Mrs. Ragnar Qvale, Mrs. Boniver, Dr. and Mrs. Gerlando Butti, Anna Bing Arnold, Elaine Attias, Deborah S. Lawrence, Nathan H. Shapira, and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Botkin. The show continues through March 28.

Nice things:

The largest gift yet made to the Starlight Foundation, $50,000, was donated at the Valentine Colbys of California benefit to aid terminally ill children. It was a joint endeavor by Albertson’s and Safeway grocery stores in Los Angeles in conjunction with the California Table Grape Commission, a group of 1,100 grape farmers in California. . . .

Art Linkletter was named recipient of the 1986 National Drug Abuse Medicine Award at the Beverly Wilshire by Dr. Joseph A. Shannon, director and chief executive officer of the Institute for Studies and Destructive Behaviors and the Suicide Prevention Center. . . .

Gold Shield held its first round of “Dinners for Twelve Strangers,” bringing together UCLA alumni, students, faculty and staff--involving a guest list of 500. The second round is scheduled Saturday, according to dinner co-chairs Ann Berkovitz for Gold Shield and Pat Eyler for Prytanean, both UCLA honorary organizations. . . .

Cointreau, Jaclyn Tilley Hill says, was a special donor to the Heart Ball, supplying all those beautifully wrapped chocolate cakes and the extras.