Society

Joyce Rudolph

A core of Glendale women are supporting an effort to help homeless

women and children of Los Angeles at a benefit luncheon Saturday at the

Beverly Hills Hotel.

The Auxiliary for Good Shepherd Center for Homeless Women and Children

is organizing the event that features a silent auction of trips, gifts

and tickets to concerts and sporting events.

It’s the 16th annual Foreget-Me-Not Awards Luncheon, says Glendale’s

Mary Wight, executive advisor to the auxiliary. It begins at 10:30 a.m.

Paddy Schapiro will be honored with the From the Heart Award and the

Community Partners Award will be presented to The Los Angeles County

Medical Assn. Alliance.

The Rev. Michael Barry, nationally known speaker and expert on

homelessness, will give a talk at the noon luncheon.

Benefit chairwoman is Mary Beth Legg of Burbank. Some of the auxiliary

members attending from Glendale are Ann Cavalieri, Rosemary Klem and

Betty Scott.

Proceeds benefit the Women’s Village project. Phase I, the Hawkes

Traditional Residence, provides housing for 30 homeless women who have

successfully completed programs offered through the center. Phase II, a

permanent housing facility for disabled mothers with minor children, will

be dedicated later this spring.

For information, call Jeannette Roche at (323) 933-0923.

Glendale Youth Orchestra will benefit from a recital performed by the

Khachaturian String Quartet at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the First

Congregational Church of Glendale, 2001 Canada Blvd.

Members of the quartet, Armen Anassian, Samvel Chilingarian, Harry

Shirinian and Vahe Hayrikyan, are professional musicians who work in the

motion picture, television and recording industries as well as in

orchestras throughout the Los Angeles area.

The quartet’s concert at Weill Recital Hall in New York’s Carnegie

Hall in October 1995 received a standing ovation.

The nonprofit Glendale Youth Orchestra, directed by Christopher Fazzi,

is in its 11th season of providing classical music performing experience

to students from sixth through 12th grades and junior college musicians.

Members come from Glendale, Burbank, La Canada Flintridge, La Crescenta

and others.

Tickets are $15 and for reservations, call (323) 660-5936 after 6 p.m.

Tickets will be available at the door, but seating is limited.

Music Director Jorge Mester of Montrose will conduct the orchestra

when soprano Hila Plitmann makes her Pasadena Symphony debut Saturday at

the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

On the program are First Orchestral Symphony in D Major by Bach;

Britten’s phantasmagoric Les Illuminations, featuring Plitmann, and

Souvenir de Florence by Tchaikovsky.

Residents performing are Janet Lakatos on viola, Masatoshi Mitsumoto

on cello and Bruce Morgenthaler playing double bass, all of Glendale, and

Douglas Davis on cello from La Crescenta.

The concert begins at 8 p.m. The Pasadena Civic is at 300 E. Green

St., Pasadena. Tickets are $6 to $62 with discounts for seniors and

students available. For tickets, call (626) 584-8833.

The Wildlife Waystation in Tujunga will benefit from the Doing The

Right Thing II classic car show Sunday at the Sportsman’s Lodge, 12833

Ventura Blvd. in Studio City. Gates open at 9 a.m. and admission is free.

All revenue from the sale of food and beverages will go to the

waystation, which has an annual budget of $2.5 million and cares for

about 5,000 animals that pass through the facility for rehabiliation and

treatment. All waystation funds come from private donations. It receives

no federal or state grants.

The waystation has provided a home for more than 65,000 wild and

exotic animals, birds and repiles over the past 25 years, says founder

Martine Colette.

This car show was created by the Sportsman’s Lodge Special Event

Center to raise awareness and funds for area charitable organizations.

Special guests at the show will be a 550-pound Siberian Tiger named

Drifter and a full-grown American golden eagle called Temejin.

For information, call 755-5000.

Lynne Thompson was installed for a second term as president of the

Philanthropic Education Organization, Chapter KD.

Serving with her are Bree Moseley, vice president; Joyce Brace,

recording secretary; Ann Weiler, corresponding secretary; Anne Peplow,

treasurer; Carol Thueson, chaplain; and Bee Henisey, guard.

* JOYCE RUDOLPH is features editor. Her society column runs each

Thursday. To have an event covered, call her at 637-3241 or fax

information to 241-1975.