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FIVE FABULOUS FEMALES Academy Prep Center of St. Petersburg’s annual “Friends and Flowers” event at the TradeWinds Island Grand Resort in February honored women community leaders. 1. Tonjua Williams of St. Petersburg College. 2. Honorees Beth Houghton, St. Petersburg Free Clinic; Jana Jones, Tampa Bay Times; Carol Morsani, volunteer and philanthropist; Mindy Grossman, HSN; and Williams. 3. Reciting the school pledge: current and former Academy Prep Center of St. Petersburg students with head of school Leanne Howard. 4. Television personality Rhonda Shear. 5. Morsani with Jonathan Dacres, a 2013 Academy Prep alumnus. 6. Houghton, center, and her husband, Scott Wagman. 7. Michelle Cohen, co-chairwoman for the fundraiser. 8. Grossman with Richard Spearman, Academy Prep Class of 2016.
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Photographs by Cherie Diez
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APRIL 2014