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The 37th Boomtown for SHARE

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* SHARE (Share Happily and Reap Endlessly) held its 37th annual Boomtown party May 18 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. The event featured precision dancing by the SHARE members celebrating the music of Irving Berlin. Rosemary Clooney and Jack Jones entertained. More than 800 guests joined in the festivities which helped to net more than $1.5 million to be donated to a number of charities.

* Concern Foundation’s 17th annual Rodeo Drive Block Party on May 19 raised $1 million to continue Concern-funded cancer research projects around the world. The “Land of Oz” event, co-sponsored by American Airlines, involved celebrity bartenders, a live auction, trips around the world and food from area restaurants.

* Center Theatre Group-Volunteers “Angels’ Night 1991,” attended by more than 400 guests netted $120,000 April 27 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire. Proceeds will be used for the Improvisational Theatre Project, the Mark Taper Forum’s youth theater. CTG-Volunteers is the support organization for the Music Center’s Taper and Ahmanson Theatre.

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* The Pacific Center, an AIDS counseling service, will receive $30,000 for its Bob Le Mond Memorial Fund, proceeds from the Le Mond/Zetter Management’s 20th anniversary, “A Night to Remember” benefit gala, April 27 at the Golden Monkey Club & Cafe in Santa Monica.

* Muscular Dystrophy Assn. raised $325,000 at its “A Night Under the Stars” dinner-dance May 10 at the Beverly Hilton. Glen Ivy Resorts sponsored the gala chaired by Ralph and Eva Mann.

* California Special Olympics, Make a Wish Foundation, Variety Children’s Charities, Oralingua School for the Hearing Impaired and several other charitable organizations will share more than $100,000 raised for needy children at the 1991 Crown Royal Hollywood Charity Horse Show. The event, a tribute to “Hollywood’s Legendary Greats” took place at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center in Burbank.

* Wise Senior Services is the recipient of a $50,000 grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation. The money will be used to develop a Volunteer Advocates Project to assist in the recruitment of volunteers to serve the elderly.

* White Memorial Medical Center Foundation received $37,000 raised at the White Memorial Golf Tournament held at the Wilshire Country Club. Proceeds will go into a $2.3-million expansion and renovation plan.

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