Parties Extra!—June 30,2008—Joe L. Love Memorial Golf Tournament Reception
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NEW OU SCHOLARSHIP
Celebrating the fund-raising success of the first annual Joe L. Love Memorial Golf Tournament are left, Craig Johnston, Michael Love, Jay Johnston, Robert Love and Doug Johnston.
The Love family and Janet and John Hudson endowed a scholarship in Joe’s memory in the University of Oklahoma Price College of Business.
At the reception a $200,000. check was given to Judi Freyer, representing OU. The money will endow four scholarships in the College’s Entrepreneurship Center. The $100,000. that was raised from the golf tournament will also go to the College.
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Parties Extra!—June 27th,2008—Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club
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BOOMERANG PARTIES
Mike and Cathy Cross and Shirley and Ron Burns were at the Boomerang Golf Tournament awards dinner and dance at the Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club. There were 108 teams playing during the four day tournament.
Steven Scholze and Craig Nedderman have lunch during the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club’s Boomerang Golf Tournament activities.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BETTE
Bebe, Bruce and Bolen MacKellar and LuAnn and Gary Hulsey celebrate Bette MacKellar’s birthday .
Jennie and Ryan Lewis, Jim and Bette MacKellar and Linda and Bill Rodgers celebrate Bette MacKellar’s 65th birthday with a party hosted by Bebe, Bruce and Bolen MacKellar.
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KITE PARK RE-OPENS
Kym Mason, Linda Horn, Peter Hoffman and Nancy Herzel celebrate at Kite Park in Nichols Hills. The park intersects the streets of Huntington, Camden and Bedford. Due to the efforts of NH Vice Mayor Peter Hoffman, the park was renovated and then re-opened recently.
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WEDDING PARTY
Ashley McHone, Sidney Glenn, Arlena Hamby, Stuart Glenn and Hayden Smith were at the “Around The House” Couple’s Shower for Hamby and Glenn in the home of Sally and Steve Bentley. Co-hosts were Susan and Peter Hoffman, Lexy and Huston Huffman, Linda and Ron James, Linda and Tom Klos, Libby and Morton Payne and Mary Sue and John Shelley.
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KATE’S BIRTHDAY
Kate McConnell (center) celebrates her 8th birthday with friends, Ashley Parks, Rose Oates, Charlotte Edmonds, Erin Woods, Katherine Mallette, Kate McConnell (with pink tulle and star on her chef’s hat), Mary Elizabeth Milan, Hayden Mennella, Reina Ruffin, Alex Gray, Josie Pierson, Elizabeth Woods, and Victoria Stranczek. The hostess was Kate’s mother, Lisa McConnell, and the party was at Jamie’s in Casady Square.
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Parties Extra!—June 24th—Nichols Hills Kite Park
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AT THE PARK
There was a party at Kite Park in Nichols Hills Saturday. It featured a band, lots of balloons and lots of people.
This is nothing new for this Park, but this year,
the park which intersects the streets of Huntington, Camden and Bedford, has had a make-over. It has new lighting, drainage, sidewalks, sprinklers, boulders and new trees and plantings.
Kym Mason, NH Parks, Inc. chairman of Kite Park, and Nancy Herzel, treasurer of NH Parks, Inc., planned the celebration to re-open the park. On hand were Nichols Hills firemen with their fire trucks and policemen with police cars, plus residents of Nichols Hills and underwriters of the park.
Primarily due to the efforts of NH Vice Mayor and City Councilman Peter Hoffman, the park was renovated for several months. Hoffman is credited for having the vision for the park’s update, particularly after the 2007 ice storm which hurt some of the trees in the park. He also helped with the design and raised funds.
Henry Hood, general counsel of Chesapeake, presented Hoffman with a permanent park bench from the citizens of NH, and Mason, gave underwriters Katie and Aubrey McClendon and Chesapeake Energy Co., park benches from NH Parks, Inc.
Other underwriters included Louise and Clay Bennett, Nichols Hills Parks, Inc., Laura and Henry Hood on behalf of Emory and Sydney Hood, Allie and Walter Duncan jr., Mrs. Robert D. Gordon, Kym and Steve Mason, Katie and Tony Say, OKC Beautiful in memory of Ellen Williams and West Family Foundation.
Peter Hoffman welcomes people to Kite Park. (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).
Nancy Herzel, who with Kym Mason, planned the Park Party and Celebration, presented Peter Hoffman with a photo book about the project. (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).
Joe Blake and Nancy Olney attend the Park re-opening. (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).
Harrison Smith and Karen and Mike Samis were at Kite Park Saturday. (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).
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Parties Extra!—June 23, 2008—Reunions Rock! U.S. Grant High School
IT WAS FUN TO REMEMBER!
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U.S. Grant High School Class of 1958…50 years later… (Photo by Bill Wallace).
It was a little bit of history re-visited when the U.S. Grant High School Class of 1958 (including me) had a 50 –Year- Reunion recently . Former classmates enjoyed the social hour, complete with a photo slide presentation from school days. The group toured the new U.S. Grant High School and had a special steak dinner at the Airport Holiday Inn.
They remembered how much fun they had back in the 50′s. The rock and roll music was great then and it was fun going to school. But this class also enjoyed catching up with their friends (some had not seen each other since graduation) and learning more about about their spouses and children. Each class member took the time to visit and just say hello.
I loved this 50 year reunion because I had forgotten so much of the history that we shared and it was so much fun remembering. Most everyone looks the same….after 50 years….the women are beautiful and the men are handsome.
It was also a time to remember that there may not be a reunion in another 50 years and maybe not even one in 25 years. But how lucky we are to know each other and to share such happy high school memories!
Thanks to chairman Larry Warner who took his time to organize us. HFW
Committee members for reunion: Jerry Walser, Pat Lane Patton, Joyce Shiplet Crews, Martha Langston Hoggard, Mary Capehart Segars, Wayne McDonald, Wendel Patton, Mike Percifield, Judy Cox Warner, Shirley Reddick McClain and Chester Stone.
Judy and Larry Warner (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).
Brenda Fox Wilson and Mary Anna Capehart Segars (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).
Don and Janet Howe (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).
Wendel Patton, Nancy Fox Carruth, Kenny Streetman, Brenda Fox Wilson, James Chappell, Mike Percifield and Jim Evans (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).
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Parties Extra!—June 21st—Harding High School’s 50th
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HARDING’S ALUMNI SOCK HOP
AT THE HOP….Harding High School alumni from the class of 1958 celebrated the 50th reunion beginning with a sock hop upstairs at Crabtown Restaurant in Bricktown.
Balloons and 1950’s decorations added to the room where a jukebox blared. Reunion monogrammed socks, baseball caps and tee shirts featured the Harding mascot, the Eagle. There are 176 people at the reunion. Co-chairmen were Bill Townsend, Sarah Alice and Larry Blackledge, Sherry and Ike Bennett and Elizabeth Prosser.
Nick Van Matre, Caryll Parham Gorham, Sherry Burnett Bennett, Bill Townsend were at Harding High School’s 50th reunion. (Photo by David Faytinger).
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MORE ACTIVITIES….Sarah and Larry Blackledge were hosts for a backyard dinner during the Harding High School Reunion, Class of 1958. Larry Blackledge put together a computer program of old photos. A class picture was taken. The group also toured Harding Charter School and met with Carole Kelly and Richard Carem and then had lunch at Johnnie’s.
PREVIEW PARTY….During the 2008 Prix de West 35th Invitational Art Exhibition, guests went to the Friday night Preview Party and Reception in the galleries of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. They viewed the 300- plus paintings and sculpture which was up for ballot bid the next night. Most of the 100 leading Western artists were at the party and they talked with the guests as they looked at their art.
Bob Funk, Tina Anter and Denis Carroll enjoy the Prix de West Preview Party. (Photo by David Faytinger).
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COME FOR BRUNCH…. Joy Reed Belt and M. J. Van Deventer invited artists and writers attending the Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition to come by Belt’s art gallery, JRB Art At The Elms Gallery, for brunch before they left on Sunday. They set up tables in one of the art gallery rooms for the buffet breakfast that included Van Deventer’s famous dessert of rum cake.
M.J. Van Deventer, Curt Walters, Gerri Seaton and Joy Reed Belt were at the Belt’s art gallery, JRB Art At The Elms Gallery, for a brunch following Prix de West activities at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. (Photo by David Faytinger).
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SPECIAL BIRTHDAY… It was a special day for SoRelle Fitzgerald. Her family entertained at a beautiful 70th birthday luncheon in her honor at the Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club. Everyone brought birthday cards. Hosts were husband Don Fitzgerald, and children Kelly and Mike Brewer, Ginny and Jay Fitzgerald and Erin Fitzgerald and Eli Embree.
Erin and SoRelle Fitzgerald, Trish Hopkins and Kelly Brewer celebrate SoRelle Fitzgerald’s birthday. (Photo by David Faytinger).
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NEW HOMES….Ann Felton Gilliland and Bob Gilliland were hosts for a cocktail buffet party to celebrate the 2008 Home Builders Blitz project.
Builders and sponsors were honored. Six metro builders built homes for Habitat For Humanity in the new Hope Crossing neighborhood at NE 83rd and Kelley.
Dan and Rose Ellis, Robert Agee, Zach Punnett, Ann Felton Gilliland and Bob Gilliland enjoy the party. (Photo by David Faytinger).
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AFTER 50 YEARS…..In Maysville, Ok., 50 people attended the 50th high school class reunion. Dinner was at the Lumberyard Restaurant where owner David Benthin cooked a catfish buffet. School Superintendent William Martin welcomed the group.
Victor Paul Mays, Sondra Bolles Wood, Shirley May get together at the party. (Photo provided).
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GO TEAM…Oklahoma City alumni of Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., hosted the rowing crew from their alma mater at a barbecue dinner at Earl’s Rib Palace. The student team was in town for the American Collegiate rowing Association’s national championship regatta.
Nancy Bainbridge, Frank Bolen, Meg Koerner and Joyce Lundeen and Dan Trang planned the newly formed alumni group’s participation for the inaugural rowing event.
Barbara Bolen, Nancy Bainbridge and Frank Bolen register crew members for dinner sponsored by Northwestern University alumni. (Photo provided).
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PARTIES EXTRA!—June 16,2008—Prix de West Preview Party features potential buyers, artists and guests
ONE OF THE PRIX DE WEST ACTIVITIES
PREVIEW PARTY….During the 2008 Prix de West 35th Invitational Art Exhibition and sale, guests went to the Friday night Preview Party and Reception in the galleries of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. They viewed the 300- plus paintings and sculpture which was up for ballot bidding the next night.
Most of the 100 leading Western artists were at the party and they talked with the guests as they looked at their art.
Justice Yvonne Kauger, Cathy Keating and Lt. Gov. Jari Askins arrive at the Prix de West Preview Party at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. ( Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).
Dee and Penny Replogle were at the party where 300 paintings and sculpture were up for bidding the next night.(Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).
Ron Bradshaw, Dick and Patsy Lowry, Hunt Lowry and Martha Bradshaw checked out the artwork at the Prix de West art exhbition and sale this week-end. (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace.)
Prix de West artist Howard Post stands by one of his oil paintings. This one is called Hillside Pasture” and lots of people stopped by to meet the artist and check out his artwork. (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).
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Parties Extra!—June 16, 2008—Former classmates reunite in Maysville, Ok., for their 50th reunion
AFTER 50 YEARS…In Maysville, Ok., 50 people attended the 50th high school class reunion. Dinner was at the Lumberyard Restaurant where owner David Benthin cooked a catfish buffet. School Superintendent William Martin welcomed the group.
Committee members decided not to have nametags so the former classmates spent time guessing identities. The next day was a live auction for the Maysville Education Foundation and the all- class alumni banquet where a special cake was baked for the class of 1958.
Former Maysville High School classmates convened for the 50th Reunion. They are Margaret Spann Cacy, Tommy Holt, Bill Henry, Tommy Lawson, Scotty Briggs, Jim Tompkins, Richard Norton, Coy Swank, Ronald Gilliam, Bob Oldham, Victor Paul Mays, Sondra Bolles Wood, Eddie Carroll, Carmolita Jones Sullivan, Doretha Spencer Koons, Kenneth Sutton, Darquita Jones Harvey, Vernel McPherson Trujillo, David Barger, Darlene Christian Beck, Dois Staley, Sequita Crouch O’Neal, John David Staley. Not pictured: Curtis Winchester, Jerry Balentine, Joyce Harmon Cobb, Dorothy Woodruff Miller, Marcia Caudill Burlie and Dorothy Caudill Dacy. (Photo provided by Aubrey Wood.)
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Parties Extra!—June 14,2008—Party Honors Engaged Couples
KAREN AND MIKE SAMIS ENTERTAIN
Karen Samis, Fred Fellers III, Carter Samis, Linda Fellers, Denise Hudson, Fred Fellers jr. were at the engagement party for Carter Samis and Fred Fellers III and Katharine Samis and Kent Regens. (Photo by David Faytinger.)
Larry and Leslie Regens and Kent Regens and Katharine Samis and Mike Samis were at the engagement event for Katharine Samis and Kent Regens and Carter Samis and Fred Fellers III. Karen and Mike Samis were hosts. (Photo by David Faytinger).
ENCHANTED EVENING….Karen and Mike Samis were hosts for at an engagement party honoring daughters Carter Samis and her fiancé, Fred Sellers III, and Katharine Samis and her fiancé, Kent Regens.
Carter and Fred will be married in November in Charleston, South Carolina, and Katharine and Kent will be married next May in Mexico.
The Samises’ yard was lighted and an ivy and orchid wreath marked the garden gate. Orchids floated in the waterfall pool and in a big rock filled with water. A mantle in the side yard was decorated with Mexican pots filled with peonies, roses and orchids. For dinner, guests returned to the house.
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Susan Edwards, Lolly Anderson and Susan McCalmont were at the party in the Anderson home. (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).
STAR ON HAND….Documentary film producer, writer, director and communications specialist David Kennard from San Francisco, Ca., was in town recently to talk about his new documentary “ReCreating America” for national Public Television.
He told of his plans for Oklahoma to be in one of his three one- hour film segments.
He discussed his plans and his film’s fund-raising efforts with guests at a cocktail buffet hosted by Lolly and Mike Anderson. “We want to show Oklahoma to itself,” Kennard said. “And show Oklahoma to the rest of the nation,” he added.
Kennard has produced and directed such international documentary series such as Cosmos with Carl Sagan, Connections with James Burke, The Ascent of Man with Jacob Bronowski, We The People with Peter Jennings, The Hero’s Journey with Joseph Campbell, Wine for the Confused with John Cleese, The Promise of Play with Jane Goodall, The Heart of Healing with Jane Seymour, 2001:HAL’s Legacy with Arthur C. Clarke. Keeping Score with Michael Tilson Thomas, The Heart of the Dragon with McNeil/Lehrer and Global Warming with Alanis Morrisette .
Jeanie Edney, Director of Creative Oklahoma (as of July 1st) discussed the Center and creativity in commerce, culture and education.
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Libby Blankenship, Nina Gaugler, Martha Williams, John and Lois Salmeron enjoy the champagne cocktail party near the Golf Shop. (Photo by David Faytinger.)
DINNER UNDER THE STARS….If you heard excellent music while driving down Grand Blvd. near North Pennsylvania, it was not coming from your Sirius radio. It was the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra playing near the driving range of the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club.
Tables were set up for 350 members for the “Evening in Hollywood” outdoor dinner and the hour -and -a -half concert. Orchestra members performed beneath a white tent. Champagne cocktails were served on the plaza near the golf shop.
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James Pickel, Cmdr. Rob Dews, Teresa Rose and Mike McAuliffe were at the “Rhythm and Ribs on the Oklahoma River” party at Regatta Park. (Photo by David Faytinger.)
MEET ME AT THE RIVER…One of the parties given in connection to the third annual Riverfest on the Oklahoma River was the VIP Launch party at Regatta Park.
Called “Rhythm and Ribs On The Oklahoma River” the event featured a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the USS Oklahoma City Submarine and Oklahoma City Navy Week.
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Gorilla (Dr. James Hochtritt) and Cheryl Hewett celebrate her birthday. (Photo provided.)
FANTASY GUEST…Cheryl Hewett celebrated her birthday with friends and a surprise guest….a large gorilla bringing her a birthday gift…a banana.
Pots of flowers decorated the Hewett home and garden utensils, seed packets and flowers decorated the buffet table.
But the gorilla did not go with the theme. He danced the twist, the watusi and the swim before revealing his identity. He was Dr. James Hochtritt, friend of the Hewett family. Although the party was not a surprise party, the honoree was definitely surprised.
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Parties Extra!—June 12, 2008—Birthday Party—Happy Birthday SoRelle!
SORELLE FITZGERALD CELEBRATES HER BIRTHDAY
The guests enjoyed seeing the beautifully framed pictures of SoRelle. (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace.)
It was a special day for SoRelle Fitzgerald. Her family entertained at a beautiful 70th birthday luncheon in her honor at the Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club. Friends celebrated and all of them brought birthday cards.
Hosts were husband Don Fitzgerald, and children Kelly and Mike Brewer, Ginny and Jay Fitzgerald and Erin Fitzgerald and Eli Embree.
The party invitation had an embossed crown for the “Queen Bee” and at each guest’s plate was some candy and a tiny book, designed by SoRelle’s sister Trish Hopkins, tied with lime green ribbon. The book featured an embossed bee.
It had four small pages. One said “Queen Bee SoRelle is still buzzin’ at 70 and has kept the same Honey for 50 years.”
The second page was a photo of the honoree.
The third page had a quote: “ Friendship is the thing most necessary to life.” Aristotle.
And the fourth page said; “ Your friendship brings me laughter and great fun. Thanks for helping me celebrate my birthday.” SoRelle.
Party flowers on the luncheon tables were in blue and white bowls and were roses, peonies, tulips and hydrangeas. One table held beautifully framed pictures of SoRelle from her life through the years. She was in dance costume, band attire, bridal gown and with new babies.
A table held framed pictures of the honoree and lots of birthday cards. (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).
Beautiful bouquets decorated the luncheon tables. (Photo by Helen Ford Wallace)
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Parties Extra!—June 9th, 2008—International Documentary Producer David Kennard Visits Oklahoma City
David Kennard talks about his upcoming documentary. ( Photo by Helen Ford Wallace).
STAR ON HAND….Documentary film producer, writer, director and communications specialist David Kennard from San Francisco, Ca., was in town recently to talk about his new documentary “ReCreating America” for national Public Television. He wants Oklahoma to be in one of his three one- hour film segments.
He discussed his plans and his film’s fund- raising efforts with guests at a cocktail buffet hosted by Lolly and Mike Anderson. “We want to show Oklahoma to itself,” Kennard said. “And then show Oklahoma to the rest of the nation,” he added.
Kennard also noted in a news release that the creativity theme for the documentaries will answer “how does our social and work environment promote or tend to prevent creativity? Is creativity inherited? Can it be taught?
Kennard has produced and directed international documentary series such as Cosmos with Carl Sagan, Connections with James Burke, The Ascent of Man with Jacob Bronowski, We The People with Peter Jennings, The Hero’s Journey with Joseph Campbell, Wine for the Confused with John Cleese, The Promise of Play with Jane Goodall, The Heart of Healing with Jane Seymour, 2001:HAL’s Legacy with Arthur C. Clarke. Keeping Score with Michael Tilson Thomas, The Heart of the Dragon with McNeil/Lehrer and Global Warming with Alanis Morrisette .
Hosts Dr. Mike Anderson and Lolly Anderson talk with Documentary Film Producer David Kennard who is visiting in Oklahoma City this week. ( Photo by David Faytinger).
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