on January 25, 2012 at 6:17 pm
A table decoration at the Allied Arts Winter Ball. The theme was nautical.
on January 11, 2012 at 1:20 pm
I have finally sufaced after an illness over Christmas, so here are some recent party pictures.
Dede and Bob Benham host the Allied Arts Christmas party at Balliet's on the Curve.Oklahoma City University President Robert Henry and Kelly Dyer Fry attend an Afterglow Reception in the home of the Henrys.
Oklahoma City University President Robert Henry visits with Kelly Dyer Fry at an VIP Afterglow reception hosted by Henry and his wife Dr. Jan Henry.
Jane and Gerald Gamble were among the guests at the reception.J.R. and Patsy Homsey and Kandy and Ron Norick enjoy the Afterglow party.
Judy Love, Gary and Mary England and Kaye Murcer visit at the Mercy Gala held at Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club. Mary England and Kay Murcer were co-chairmen.
Suzy Merritt, Patty Ruffin, Jim Gebhart, Chelin Satherlie and Kay Oliver also participated in the gala.
Ali Cheek, Rosie Atkinson and Caitlin Britt attend a debutante/escort brunch at Deep Fork Grill
Donna Harmon, Tim and Sue Cheek and Matthew and Carla Hartsog-Britt were host parents.
Kay Goebel and Dave and Lana Lopez attend an Allied Arts Holiday Party at Balliet's at Classen Curve.Todd and Becky Edmonds and Tim Strange also attended the party for Circle Club members.
on December 17, 2011 at 1:04 pm
The holiday season is hectic for parents, especially the ones with little ones. Assembling “Santa Claus” can get hairy when it comes down to the last hours before Christmas morning dawns.
You would think with our high tech society, manufacturers would have figured out by now how to market toys that come fully as sembled, or at least with batteries! Wrong.
But then where would all the drug stores and 7-Elevens be if it weren’t for the frantic parents who dash out at the last minute to pick up batteries for Ninja Turtles and Phillips head screwdrivers?
I’m not sure whose household inspired the immortal lines “…and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
Get real. Mothers and fathers are up stirring around sometimes as late as 6 a.m. on Christmas morning?
Parents work through the night putting handle bars on bicycles and fumbing through packing paper trying to find the little spring marked “E” that has to be attached to the “A” sprocket of the spoke marked “XY’”.
They are filling Barbie pools with heated water, putting together her hair dryer, waxing Ken’s sports car and assembling swing sets boxed in 34 parts.
Do the manufactuers not realize there are families who do not own a pair of pliers or a screw driver? That these families use a bread knife to whittle the trunk of a Christmas tree to make it fit into a tree stand?
Just uncrating some of the larger toys is beyond some parents. For starters they can’t figure which end of the carton to rip open. And even when they get that worked out they sometimes have to resort to jumping up and down on top of the boxes or nudging them with the car bumper.
But parents survive all this and more on Christmas Eve, finally falling into bed so they can sleep fast and awaken feeling jolly, full of good cheer and the magic of Christmas.
So, have a happy one. May all of your wind-up toys work and someone remember to put out the stocking stuffers!
on November 27, 2011 at 4:57 pm
- Carl Eugene Edwards Jr. was named Beaux Arts King at the Beaux Arts Ball Nov. 26 at Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club.
on November 17, 2011 at 6:49 pm
Kathy Walker, Millie Hightower, Sally Lenz and Susan McPherson also participated in the Winter Ball luncheon.
Dylan and Paige Mackey and Steven and Kinsey Everett attend the Kappa Kickoff to support the 2011 Payne Education Center's Premier Card.
Liz Ramirez, Gary Lalli and Mark and Lela Sullivan attend the Dollars for Scholars auction to benefit Harding Charter Prep High School.
Richard Caram and Jamie and Clay Farha also attended.
Jeffrey and Dana Hirsch and Jackie and Jerry Bendort, co-chairmen of the St. Anthony Foundation Saints Ball.
Steve and Karen Mueller, Erin Horton and David Schneider also were among the guests.
Father Rick Stansberry visits with Gwen Poynor, Karen Cartr and Genny Court at Christ the King School's 14th annual auction.
David Flesher, Joan Marron LaRue and Dolly Flesher visit at Joan's private art preview at The Howell Gallery.
- Polly Nichols, Joan Frates, Sherri Kite and Sarah Hogan enjoy a luncheon honoring past Winter Ball chairmen.
- Paul and Leigh Ann Albers pose with Frank and Bette Jo Hill at the Renaissance Ball patrons party in their newly built home in Nichols Hills.
on October 14, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Gene and Jo Downing and Ruth and Dennis Napier also were among the guests.
Tony Pettigrew and Anita Brenberger holding Keisha at the Pupperfest 2011 Mardi Gras Madness.
Trisha Clark, Rene and DAve Shanks, Gail Tucker and Niki Furrh also partipated in the Homeward Bound Pug Rescue and Adoption fundraiser.
Susan Chambers and Susan Turpen chaired Lyric's Broadway Ball.
- James and Cindy Lankford, Canty Hines and Tony Kennedy attend the Hope Pregancy Centers Banquet “Hands of Hope.”
on September 22, 2011 at 9:30 am
Mike Grady, Jose Freede and Bil Rogers pose at a retirement party for Bill Rogers, executive director of the North Side YMCA.l
Cindy Reilley, Kris Taylor, Sue Ann Hamm and Elaine Jackson attend he Fashion for a Passion evening to benefit Hearts for Hearing.
Jeanie Butts, Terrie Hubbard and Jane Webb also attended.
Ellen Jayne Wheeler, LaDonna Meinders, Jean McCown and Emogene Collins enjoy the Oklahoma City Orchestra League Sunset Boat Cruise and Dinner fundraiser.
Rhona White, Jess White, Debbie and Ken McKinney also numbered among the sailors.
- Karrie Oerti, actor Rob Lowe and Donna and Bruce Lawrence pose at the “An Evening With Rob Lowe” sponsored by Integris Women’s Health Forum.
on September 16, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Guy and Caroline Patton and Tina and Elby Beal were among the guests t the ball.
Glen Gentele, Shannon Fitzgerald, Marjan Seirafi-Paur and Jerome Holmes were among the attendees.
- Frank and Bettye Jo Hill, Gene Rainbolt and Cynda and Larry Ottaway party at the Renissance Ball.
on September 2, 2011 at 3:12 pm
Suzanne Peck, David Neff, Aimee Harlow and Stu and Mary Moore also supported the Arts.
Tim and Marylee Strange and Janie and Bill Comstock celebrate Oklahoma City Beautiful's 40th Anniversary.
Cindi Shelby, Lisa Synar and Mary Pointer also joined the celebration.
Chay Kramer, Mark Pogemiller and Lance Leffel attend a kick off reception for the 2012 Red Bud race board members.
Melinda Brewer, B.J. Rice, Kellie Taylor, Patty Anthony and Sasha Legere also attended the reception.
Dianna Bonfiglio, Jim Strawn and Mary Pointer attend the annual Taste for Sight benefit at Civic Center Meinders Hall of Mirrors.
Joan Gilmore and Marion Paden check out the auction items.
Joe Roberts and Kyle Hayles also were among the guests.
- Kay Goebel, James Pickel and Deborah McAuliffe-Senner attend an Allied Arts dinner at Deep Fork restaurant.
Joann Pearce, Karsten, Tom and Karen Gilbert and Susan and Mike Turpen were honor guests at the Festival of Hope benefit.
Chairman Joe Hight, Robin Howl, Adam Hutchinson and Teresa Peden also participated in the fundraiser.
on August 22, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Bryan and Robin Waller and Sharri and Bruce Mackey attend the American Cancer Society's Baron's Ball benefit.
Tricia Wallis, Jennifer Monies, Carolyn Pickthorn, Carrie Mayes, Tammy Werner and Kristin Ellis support the Baron's Ball.
Jane Hall, Donna Mackie, Laurel Jaworsky and Doobie Potter attend a Carpenter Square Theatre Benefit.
Mari and Arnold Fagin and Alyce and Ronald Page were among the patrons.
Terry Veal, Rhonda Clark and Al Bostick were among the guests.
Carolyn Hsu, Jacquelyn Moorad, Sherry and Brent Tipton, Kathy Sandler, Al Moorad attend the Jim Thorpe Courage Awards Dinner.
Greg, Jan and Chad Peery, seated, Jim Daniel, Mckinsey Peery, Gene Downing and William Thorpe were among the special guests.
Laura Steen, Taylor Brecher and Nichole Glover attend the National Multiple Sclerosis 5th Annual MS Smarty Pants Trivia Night.
Mary Nelson, Rodney Brown, Greg and Precia Barrett and Jay and Sara Kyte, standing, all were among the participants.
Zach and Carrie Hall, Jennifer Fritsch and Jamie Manoles get with the mood at the Trivia party.
