La Crescenta Woman’s Club has new president...

La Crescenta Woman’s Club has new president

Dea McCrory will continue as president of the La Crescenta Woman’s

Club for the 2003-04 administration.

An installation ceremony was performed by the joint La Crescenta

Woman’s Club Juniors presidents, Debra Cant and Merry Kropff.

Incoming Officers joining McCrory are First Vice President Vickie

Guagliardo; Second Vice President Margie Thoney; Third Vice President

Pat Wichert; Recording Secretary Helen Fry; Corresponding Secretary

Donna Dieny; and Treasurer Margaret Laughlin.

Last year, the club presented $1,500 to the Multiple Sclerosis

Society, in honor of its member Joanne Jones, from the proceeds of

its fashion show. Also, a fifth scholarship was added. It was made

possible through an inheritance from the 1948-49 president, Roberta

Kurtz, and will be presented to a graduating high school student in

the arts.

Some of the group’s philanthropies are The Friends of La Crescenta

Library, the Crescenta Valley Historical Society and the Beeve

Foundation, and others.

Regular meetings resume Oct. 8. For membership information, call

957-9806.

Group hears how music helps people with autism

The Foothill Autism Alliance Inc., an organization dedicated to

supporting families of individuals with autism, will have its next

family resource meeting, “A Place to Grow,” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at

Burbank Center for the Retarded, 230 Amherst Drive, Burbank.

A panel of music therapists will discuss music as a powerful

medium for engaging the senses, stimulating motor systems and

awakening feelings within that otherwise lay dormant. Featured

speakers are Julie Berghofer, Gwendolyn Meir and Kasi Peters.

For more information, call 662-8847 or visit the Web site at

www.foothillautism.org.

University graduates invited to meeting

Members of the American Assoc. of University Women, Glendale

branch, invite all university graduates to the first meeting of the

year on Sept. 13 at the Glendale YWCA, 735 E. Lexington Ave.,

Glendale.

Brunch is available at 10 a.m. and the meeting and program begins

at 10:30. The cost of the brunch is $12 per person or $2 to attend

the program only.

The program will be presented by the chairwomen of each interest

group explaining upcoming events.

Deborah Dentler, founder of Legal Advocates for Permanent

Parenting Inc., is the guest speaker. She will explain how her new

nonprofit organization helps those in the foster care system.

For reservations, call 773-2227 by Wednesday.

Cabrini Guild has annual membership tea

The Cabrini Literary Guild members and guests will gather from 1

to 3 p.m. Thursday for the annual membership tea at the Glendale home

of Wanda Bistagne.

Members and guests will be greeted by President Pat Price and her

board of directors. Chairwomen are Bistagne and Mary Jay.

The guild offers cultural, spiritual and social interests in

addition to philanthropy. There is an annual fund-raiser to support

the philanthropies chosen each year in addition to the annual writing

awards.

Some of the philanthropies are Catholic Charities -- Glendale

Loaves and Fishes, Catholic Youth Organization Youth Services and

Salvation Army Meals on Wheels. A writing award contest open to all

Catholic high schools in the Los Angeles Archdiocese is sponsored

annually. For reservations, call 243-2604 or 843-2547.

Assistance League announces new members

Canada Auxiliary of Professionals of Assistance League of

Flintridge has announced its eight new members.

They are Susan Cross Pererya, psychologist; Janice Croft, Superior

Court judge, Pasadena; Lynn Winter Gross, public relations for Los

Angeles Community College District; Marian Macho, St. Bede Junior

High Confirmation Religious Education coordinator; Stephanie Mullin,

registered nurse, Good Samaritan Hospital; Joan Hull, registered

nurse; Kathleen Smith, M.D.; and Mayris Wells, teacher/parent

educator, Pasadena City College.

Compiled by Joyce Rudolph