ARCS Group to Honor Caltech Prof

Nobel Prizes are often awarded to scientists decades after the winners’ major contributions. The ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation, Inc., Los Angeles Chapter, has always been on top of these things: They will give Caltech’s Dr. Leroy E. Hood their 1987 Man of Science award April 11 at their ARCS Ball at the Beverly Wilshire.

Hood is the scientist who has developed “fancy plumbing devices” to analyze and manufacture genes and proteins. The “devices” are transforming biological research as dramatically as Henry Ford’s assembly line revolutionized the auto industry, according to Fortune magazine.

Mrs. James Goerz, chapter president, and Mrs. Thomas Bergin, ball chairman, have announced Art Linkletter will interview Hood at the ball. If that sounds frivolous, consider the magnificent job he’s done on past recipients.

Gumps Beverly Hills will host the cocktail reception before guests walk over to the hotel for dancing to Clark Keen and the award ceremony.

Committee members involved include Mrs. Fred O’Green, whose committee chose Hood; Mrs. Thomas F. Grojean, ARCS Auxiliary president; Mrs. Robert J. Kribs, Mrs. Earl Keith Russell; Mrs. Chandler Harris; Mrs. Alexander Varga; Mrs. Ralph H. Rudd; Joann McGarty and Mrs. Charles Mair.

SAVE THE DATES: James P. Miscoll, executive vice president, Bank of America, will be honored at the Constitutional Rights Foundation 25th annual Spring Dinner May 11 at the Beverly Hilton. Speaker will be Chief Justice Malcolm M. Lucas, Supreme Court of California. . . .

Bob Hope will be master of ceremonies for the Associates of the House Ear Institute annual benefit gala March 24. Ann Jillian, Nanette Fabray, Mary Martin, Norm Crosby and Richard Kaufman are booked. And the Humanitarian Awards will go to Mrs. Lon V. Smith and Ross McCollum. Benefit co-chairmen are Mrs. Clement Hirsch, Robert Anderson and Peter Pitchess. . . .

Also on March 24, the Albert Schweitzer Leadership Award will go to Carole and Lodwrick Cook, to Kay and Robert Dockson and to Gloria and James Stewart. Heading the black-tie affair at the Century Plaza benefiting the Hugh O’Brian Youth Foundation are B. Donald Grant, Bob Hope (we’ll soon know if he’ll be in both places at once), Penelope von Kalinowski, Ray A. Watt and Jerry Weintraub.

GOOD TIMES: Supporters of Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times will be living it up a la Los Angeles in the ‘40s and ‘50s Saturday in the Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador. The Stepp Sisters will enliven the affair. Look-alikes, period costumes and an 11-piece band will capture nightclub nostalgia, according to dinner chairman Laurie Bernhard. Funds will benefit the group’s camp for children with cancer.

KICKING OFF: Weta Mathies, chairman of CARES Auxiliary’s 1987 California National Horse Show, expects lots of support from William Shatner (“Star Trek”) and his wife, Marcy, honorary chairmen of the show, Wednesday through Sunday at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center in Burbank. There’s a first this year: the $25,000 CARES California Grand Prix, sponsored by Silver Oaks Ranch next Sunday at the center Equidome.

More than 650 horses will participate. Proceeds will go to the CARES chid care centers at County/USC Medical Center. Anita Tsuji is masterminding events, Patty Pillsbury is chairman of the exhibitors dinner Friday, and Lil Howland, Auxiliary president, is handling finances.

RED LETTER DATES: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosts a preview reception April 8 of the exhibition “Treasures of the Holy Land: Ancient Art From the Israel Museum.” It’s the largest exhibition of ancient Israel art to travel abroad. . . .

Twenty-five debutantes will be presented at the 21st annual Mary Duque Guild Debutante Ball Saturday at the Beverly Wilshire. . . .

Cal State L.A.’s 40th anniversary celebration adds luster Thursday evening at the Beverly Wilshire when the university salutes 40 distinguished volunteers, alumni, faculty and donors. Among recipients will be Jack Atwood, David Strauss, Gilbert Vasquez, Anna Bing Arnold, Supervisor Michael Antonovich, Lilly Lee and Florence LaRue.

DESERT GLAMOUR: Kay Waycott, longtime trustee and supporter of the Palm Springs Desert Museum, will be in the honor spot at the museum’s annual gala March 21. “Her dedication and active service have played a key role in the museum’s growth,” said J. Ralph Stone, trustees president. Peggy Lee will entertain. Sue Rose, chairman, expects that the evening will raise almost 25% of the museum’s annual operating budget. Tickets are $1,000. . . .

The museum also hosts the exclusive West Coast exhibition of “The Enchantment of Art: Masterpieces From the Phillips Collection” March 26-May 17. The collection of works by Cezanne, Chagall, El Greco, Matisse, Monet, Picasso, Daumier, Degas, Modigliani, Whistler and Van Gogh, plus Bacon, Bonnard and Rothko, will travel from its permanent home in Washington for its only West Coast show. . . .

The directors of the Palm Springs Senior Center will honor Gene Autry March 19 at the Americana Ball VI at the Marquis Hotel.

PRESENCE: Washington’s Smithsonian Institution is establishing a new presence in the city. The museum presents a five-day series March 25-29 (with the co-sponsorship of at least 10 major Southland museums, including the Long Beach Museum of Art, Craft and Folk Art Museum, and Banning, Maritime, Afro-American, Natural History, and Science and Industry museums). We’re told more than 51,000 Smithsonian members reside in the Los Angeles area. Topics will range from “The Calla Lily in Modern Painting” to documentary film making, spirituals and life in the deep sea.

DANCIN’ ALONG: Those Moshays are everywhere. Joe Moshay’s Big Band played for the Bachelors Ball (Ray Moshay produced the Afro-Caribbean Show, then his rock group played till the wee hours). They were booked for the Freedom Foundation and also the American Ballet Theater opening gala Tuesday night at the Shrine. Also, they’ll play for the Right to Life party at Chasen’s, the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick at the Beverly Hilton, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s 59th Oscar Ball March 30.

BUSY TOWN: Irish lilts, dance, comedy, Gene Kelly, Pat Harrington and Lisa Donavan will manufacture St. Patrick’s Day merriment March 17 at the Beverly Wilshire. The tribute to actor Pat O’Brien will honor Eloise O’Brien and Dick Van Patten. Helen O’Malley Harris is taking dinner reservations. . . .

The never-fail UCLA “friend-raising” group, Las Donas, has engaged Dean Richard Weinstein of the graduate school of architecture and urban planning as keynoter March 26 for their annual “Morning at UCLA.” Harriet Alders and Cynthia Ardell are co-chairing five mini-seminars themed “Blueprint for the Future” to stretch the mind. . . .

A greatly expanded spring flower show and a horticultural exhibition are resulting from the newly combined forces of Descanso Gardens Guild and the Pasadena Garden Club. Mrs. A. Kingston McKee of San Marino and Mrs. Earle James Wilson of Corona del Mar are co-chairing the garden club’s flower show, to be judged by 18 Garden Club of America judges in accordance with specific standards. As for the guild, chairman Georgie Van de Kamp has recruited more than 20 California nurserymen to plant the perimeters of the main Descanso lawn in custom designs. Already the camellia forest at the Gardens is blooming, and the azaleas and lilacs are expected to dazzle for the nine-day event March 28 through April 5. . . .

Marketing of those wonderful Girl Scout cookies is getting a professional assist. For the first time, the San Fernando Valley Girl Scout Council will have a major corporation assist the 8,000-girl, 500-troop organization kick off its annual cookie sale. On March 19, Jon Q. Loeb, general manager of the Warner Center Marriott Hotel, will host 1,000 Brownies, Juniors, Cadets and Senior Girl Scouts for a two-hour seminar featuring Marriott chefs as they create four new desserts using Girl Scout cookies. Loeb himself will conduct motivational sales talks on the fine points of selling. Merit badges, anyone?

PAST PERFECT: Bingul Kristiansen, wife of Danish Consul General Henning Kristiansen, who is dean of the Los Angeles Consular Corps, was hostess to 50 ladies of the counsular corps for an evening of wine, pate, fruit and fashion at Elizabeth Arden Salon on Rodeo Drive. . . . Governors of the Beverly Hills Country Club celebrated the gala opening of their new clubhouse on Motor Avenue. . . . Mrs. Richard Hazard hosted tea for 65 to spark interest in Pride House, a residential treatment program for sexully and physically abused youngsters in Van Nuys. The immediate priority is replacing 30-year-old beds. Listening to pleas from Sandra Crosby and Marsha Feldman were Mrs. Bob Newhart, Mrs. Don Rickles, Mrs. David Ropse and Mrs. Bill Conti. . . .

Bette Midler received an Omega gold watch for her “significant moment” at the American Cinematheque Moving Picture Ball. The finale was a “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy From Company B” surprise rendition with the Harlettes. . . . Peter F. Drucker, the Marie Rankin Clarke professor of social science at the Claremont Graduate School, has received the Britannica Award, given annually by the Encyclopaedia Britannica. . . . The YWCA of Los Angeles’ newly formed Presidents’ Circle met for tea at the home of Judy Murphy in Beverly Hills. In the new circle are Mrs. Howard Edgerton, Mrs. Charles Luckman, Anna Bing Arnold, Bettina Chandler, Carmela Speroni and Keith Kieschnick. . . .

Mrs. Peter Gallagher of the Garden Club of America and Susan Cochrane, coordinator of the California endangered plant program, spoke on rare and endangered plants for the Junior League of Pasadena Garden Club. . . . Former Ambassador to Mexico John Gavin, now Arco vice president, federal and international relations, addressed Phi Beta Kappa Alumni at the UCLA Faculty Center. . . . “Family Ties” stars Justine Bateman and Tina Yothers and Olympic gold medalist Cheryl Miller were honored by the Girls Clubs of America. . . . Sister Mary Lucille Desmond, St. Mary Medical Center’s administrator, was presented a $119,150 check from St. Mary’s Hospital Guild by president Rose Lozano. . . .

Shirley MacLaine hosted a private reception for Bella Abzug to preview a master crystal exhibit at Dyansen Gallery of Beverly Hills. . . . Peggie and Bob Bales entertained at a fun dinner at the Bistro Gardens honoring Joyce and Ray Watt on their half-year wedding anniversary. . . . The Los Angeles chapter of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation gave George Sidney (director of “Anchors Aweigh” and “Showboat”) its Humanitarian of the Year award at a dinner at the Beverly Hilton. Sidney is a myasthenic (a neuro-muscular disorder).

ON THE TOWN: Rusty Chandler conducts the Auxiliary of the Hospital of the Good Samaritan spring general meeting and luncheon Monday. Dr. Alexandra Levine will speak on AIDS. . . . Composer/conductor Pierre Boulez will be honored next Sunday when Friends of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute of the USC School of Music celebrate the institute’s 10th anniversary with an afternoon concert in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Japan America Theater and a dinner following in the Biltmore Gold Room. . . . India’s ambassador to Washington, Hon. P. K. Kaul, and Mrs. Kaul will be the center of attention at a dinner this evening at Gaylord India restaurant in Beverly Hills. . . .

Barnard College Alumnae stage two fund-raising theater parties at Stages Theater in Hollywood--a matinee next Sunday and an evening event March 20. Chairmen are Hilma Carter, Donna Salem and Felice Dresner, president. . . . Ardath Priddy heads the Los Angeles Alumnae Panhellenic Assn. scholarship luncheon Wednesday at the Wilshire Country Club. . . . Luis Monreal of the Getty Conservation Institute speaks at La Coterie’s Russian dinner March 19. . . .

Marilyn and Harry Lewis are off to Hawaii before the opening of their newest restaurant, Kate Mantilini, at the corner of Doheny and Wilshire. First to get a look will be the AFI Film Fest crowd, on Wednesday with a tribute to Hal Wallis. . . . Junior Mannequin Assisteens present their Carousel Fashion Show Saturday at the Wilshire Country Club. Mrs. Stephen Flaherty and Mrs. Lawrence W. Farmer are co-chairmen.

WEARIN’ O’ THE GREEN: The Liver Association for Research and Education hosts a St. Patrick’s Day party next Sunday at Chippendales in West Los Angeles. . . . Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital supporters cut up with a “Shamrock ‘n’ Roll” dinner dance Saturday at the Santa Monica Pier Carousel.