Party Planners Prescribe a Unique Invite to Huntington Hospital Gala
Those wonderful black wrought-iron gates synonymous with the old Huntington Hospital in Pasadena have been relocated: They’re now in front of the sparkling white entrance arbors. The impressive new Huntington Hospital complex, long in construction with love and affection, is about to be finished. Thus, a group gathered at the Valley Hunt Club to discuss Operation Celebration scheduled for Nov. 30. In the coterie: dinner committee chairman William Doyle, Huntington president Dr. Allen W. Mathies Jr., Ken McCormick and Fred Allen. The good doctor has even sent a save-the-date prescription for the night: “Disp: To have the time of your life. Sig: To be dispensed on Nov. 30. Black tie.”
TRUMPETS FOR TIFFANY’S: Trumpet fanfares and Tiffany jewels signaled the upcoming 25th Sterling Anniversary Celebration of Tiffany & Co. in Beverly Hills and the store’s opening at Two Rodeo Drive the week of Oct. 22. Meeting for “Breakfast Near Tiffany’s” on Two Rodeo’s dramatic Spanish Steps to the Via Rodeo (the first new street in Beverly Hills in 75 years), Tiffany Vice President Roberta Herbison and Barry Dodson, Western region group vice president, hosted prominents including Michael and Gretchen Wayne, Fiorenza Courtright, Beverly Hills Mayor Allan Alexander, Happy and Frances Franklin, June Haver MacMurray, Marcia Israel, Anne Jeffries Sterling and Lee Minelli.
They announced festivities to usher in the new store--a season of celebration: the “unwrap” founding Oct. 22; the invitational reception Oct. 23 in honor of Athletes & Entertainers for Kids, revealing the recipient of the first Ryan White Memorial Award designed by Tiffany’s; the Breakfasts at Tiffany’s Oct. 23-26 for the public; the luncheon Nov. 5 hosted by Tiffany Chairman William Chaney introducing the collection of Venetian glass designer Archimede Seguso; the Nov. 15 gala honoring Paloma Picasso’s 10th anniversary with Tiffany to benefit AIDS Project Los Angeles; the Dec. 2 brunch celebrating window designer Gene Moore’s 35th anniversary with Tiffany and honoring Friends of Childhelp USA. It’s all sterling: to make the point, Tiffany sent guests away with sterling silver desk calendars.
LIBRARY PRIZES: The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino has appointed five to its Board of Overseers: Virginia S. Milner, Joan Caillouette, Anne L. Crotty, Jiro Ishizaka and Richard J. Stegemeier.
LAUNCH: Richard K. Eamer will be dinner chairman Sept. 9 for “An Evening Under the Stars” for the League for Children benefiting the Children’s Bureau and abused children. As chairman and CEO of National Medical Enterprises Inc., he entertained 150 at the company’s new corporate offices in Santa Monica, noting Sharon Linkletter Melcher (Art Linkletter’s daughter) will chair the family affair at Universal Studios. Eamer told guests: “These children deserve special care.”
SANTA BARBARA: The recent fire disaster didn’t stop the Braille Institute Auxiliary of Santa Barbara from presenting its Robert Skene Invitational Polo Match at the Santa Barbara Polo and Racquet Club. Auxiliary president Euinice Fly, benefit chair Carrie Calvin and co-patron chairs Cecelia Dalsemer and Katherine Abercrombie put extra effort into raising funds for blind adults and youth, and for the institute’s 200 classes for visually impaired. . . . And the same day, the 30th traditional Fiesta Party--”Una Noche de Gala” at the Coral Casino in Montecito--brought out fiesta costumes with proceeds earmarked for the American Red Cross and the Santa Barbara County Fire Disaster Relief Fund to aid fire victims. . . . Santa Barbara’s new Nordstrom at Paseo Nuevo will have a special guest Wednesday. Couturier Arnold Scaasi comes to launch the store and a black-tie gala at $100 per person for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
SOCIAL LINE: Fellows of Contemporary Art, headed by chairman Russel I. Kully, have had a provocative summer--Peter Sellars speaking on the L.A. Festival at a Pacific Rim party at the Brentwood home of Lee and Larry Ramer. In the fall, 20 Fellows embark on a three-week tour to Russia. . . . Dorothy and John Vaughn hosted cocktails and dinner at the Valley Hunt Club. . . . Brooks and Kate Firestone with his dad, former Ambassador to Belgium Leonard Firestone, and Brooks’ sister Lendy Brown and her husband, Darrell, are cruising in Europe. . . . Robert and Leslie Hamilton of Pacific Palisades chair a benefit to raise funds for the Verbo Medical Clinic in Managua, Nicaragua on Tuesday.
KUDOS: To Donn B. Tatum and Susanne Fitger Donnelly, announcing completion of the $5-million Marlborough Centennial Endowment Campaign . . . To the New Clare Foundation Adult Recovery Complex, dedicated in Santa Monica for recovering alcoholics . . . To Hollywood legends June Allyson and Esther Williams, joining Stella Stevens, Kristy McNichol and Jayne Kennedy at California Yacht Club for the California Medical Center-Los Angeles paddle tennis tournament and luau to aid drug-addicted infants.
PLAUDITS: To the new chairmen: Pam Korman, of SHARE (Share Happily and Reap Endlessly); Dorothy Stotsenberg, of the Music Center’s Encore; Victoria Putnam, of Pasadena Opera Guild; Elizabeth St. James, Beverly Hills Women’s Network.
