SOCIAL LIGHTS/SALLY GERAK Detroit Historical Society Ball
when honorary co-chair Ed Peper presented honorary co-chair Duane McLean with the Cynthia H. Shannon Award for his many years of dedication to the NKFM. Following a superb dinner, WDIV ’s Steve Garagiola emceed the program. It featured a live auction and pledging for NKFM Kids Programs ($92,000) followed by the Mars candy bar and dancing to the music of Fifty Amp Fuse. Thanks also to generous sponsors, the gala raised more than $640,000 for the NKFM’s many programs that help more than 900,000 Michigan residents living with chronic kidney disease.
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Kadima Film Discussion For more than 30 years, Kadima has provided residential, therapeutic and social services to people with mental health needs. Its executive director Eric Adelman and clinical director Jean Nemenzik conceived the idea to stage an outreach event based on a showing of the Academy Award-winning film “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” which was celebrating its 40th anniversary. The evening attracted more than 150 people ($18 ticket) to The Maple Theater. The pre-party in Maple’s café, the movie and the following discussion moderated by Elliot Wilhelm surely did promote conversation about how mental health services have changed in the years since Ken Kasey’s 1962 novel upon which the film is based. Discussion panelist Nemenzik noted that the mental hospital and the electroconvulsive therapy featured in the film look horrifying. Co-panelist psychiatrist Dr. Dan Guyer opined that “…the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction…our long term care is better but we have a long way to go.” Nemenzik added, “The good news is today we have agencies like Kadima.” Kadima’s annual Healthy Body Healthy Mind brunch is 9 a.m. – 12 p.m., Sunday, April 17 at The Townsend. For tickets, go to kadimacenter.org/healthybody.php or call 248-5598235.
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1. Alicia Nicholson (left) and Lisa Baruah of Grosse Pointe and Lena Epstein of Bloomfield. 2. Sarah & Chip McClure of Bloomfield. 3. Eric Medwed (left) and Margi & Don Epstein of Bloomfield. 4. Frank Ambrose of Bloomfield, Debbie Rowe of St. Clair Shores. 5. Mark Polega of Birmingham and Shelley Roth of Bloomfield. 6. Patricia Ellis & Dick Strowger (center) of Grosse Pointe with Bob & Maggie Allesee of Bloomfield. 7. Lisa Nowak (left) of Rochester, Mary Ann Bury of Grosse Pointe, Diane Farber of Bingham Farms. 8. James (left) & Kevin Cristbrook of Bloomfield. 9. Beatrice (left) & Pierre Boutrous and Sandi & Claude Reitelman of Birmingham. 10. Peggy Daitch (left) of Birmingham, Diane Schoenith and Bob Bury of Grosse Pointe.
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Angels’ Place Annual Dinner
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1. Tim (left) & Patty Dugan of Bloomfield, Jeff & Debby Hannigan of Birmingham. 2. Heather Van Arnem Chidiac (left) of Bloomfield, Jim Kelly, Kristy Hull Barratt of Birmingham. 3. Schuyler (left) & Nora Hamill of Bloomfield, Joe & Carolyn Love of Birmingham. 4. Nancy Strickland (left) of Bloomfield, Sally Mezey and Kelly Cash of Birmingham. 5. Kathleen (left) & Jack McInerney of Birmingham, Carol Chisholm of Bloomfield.
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DSO Volunteer Council Musical Feast Dreams of Lundi Gras dance in my head as I recall the Echoes of Holiday Splendor – the final event in the DSO Volunteer Council’s 2015 series of 18 Musical Feasts. It was hosted by Lucia Zurkowski in her vintage Bloomfield Hills Tudor and prepared by Doug Grech, aka celebrity Chef Duglass Duglass. (Lundi Gras was an annual benefit for the Archives of American Art that moved from the original London Chop House when it closed to Grech’s Restaurant Duglass in Southfield.) As he did for the Lundi Gras events, Grech showcased his consummately creative classicism. First course selections were set up in the subterranean pub and accompanied by Russian vodka martinis shaken by a handsome hunk. The petite concert by DSO assistant concertmaster violinist Kimberly Kennedy that followed in the balconied and beamed living room did indeed, as Kennedy suggested, “…touch our souls.” The feast that followed featured scallops perched on golden beet pillows, Royal Osetra Petrossian caviar served with a warm blini and pheasant under glass, all paired with perfect pours, including Dom Perignon Champagne and Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1970. The dessert – a large, white chocolate, à la Fabergé egg filled with dark chocolate mousse and fresh raspberries – was so large that the thoughtful chef boxed each in a clear box to take home. Thanks to the 10 guests who 03.16