SOCIAL LIGHTS/SALLY GERAK Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Classical Roots Celebration
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1. Maestro Leonard Slatkin and his wife Cindy McTee of Bloomfield 2. Phillip Fisher with his wife Lauren (left) and daughter Alexis of Bloomfield 3. Linda (left) and Dan Lutz of Birmingham with Jim Nicholson of Grosse Pointe 4. Sandi and Dr. Claude Reitelman of Birmingham 5. Sponsor JP Morgan Chase’s Jason (left) and Tina Tinsley of Harper Woods and Christine and Gerald Kageff of Beverly Hills Barbara Van Dusen (center) of Birmingham with Sarah Lutman (left) 6. Carolyn Demps and Guy Simons of Birmingham
4 Variety’s Shine benefiting FAR and SCAMP
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4 1. Jaime Beckett (left) of Troy, Gabby Shuert of Bloomfield and Vanessa King of Birmingham 2. Felicia Shaw (center) of Birmingham with Erin DeMarco (left) and Joyce Shuert of Bloomfield 3. Mentor Kathy Broock Ballard (left) escorting Riley Clarke 4. Kelly Shuert (left) escorting Jenna Dabao 5. Kaela Foley (left) with Penny Persiani
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And the smiles were big at the end of the fashion parade when it was announced that all the models could keep their outfits. The event raised $10,000 for the summer camp programs of FAR Conservatory and SCAMP, which serve young people with disabilities. Felicia Palazzolo-Shaw and Kathy Broock Ballard are chairing Variety’s A Star Is Born Friday night, May 2, at Emagine Royal Oak. It will induct legendary actress Elaine Stritch into Variety’s Celebrity Hall of Fame which is housed at Emagine. Stritch, who was born in Detroit in 1925, made Birmingham her home last spring. Her acclaimed new documentary, “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me,” premiered last month in NYC, is showing in theaters around the country and available in HD on VOD. For tickets ($150, $250, $350) call Variety, The Children’s Charity at (248) 2585511. JVS’s Trade Secrets The sixth annual Women to Work program fundraiser attracted a record crowd of 400 to Knollwood Country Club to hear banking executive and civic leader Sandy Pierce “tell her story.” Before dinner they socialized, sipped and shopped the exhibit of raffle prizes, buying $8,500 worth of tickets. The baked salmon dinner selected by event co-chairs Cheryl Margolis, Shayna Silverman and Mindi Fynke was a succulent prelude to the program emceed by WXYZ’s Glenda Lewis. It first saluted program honoree Myriam Cohen for her successful transition from stay-at-home mom for 24 years back to the work force following a divorce. Then Pierce wowed the crowd with her animated account of being the youngest of 10 children who lived above the Detroit bar her parents owned and how the Catholic school uniform she wore helped disguise the family’s hardscrapple life. With a lot of help from that family, she was the first member to go to college, working as a bank teller while attending WSU. She called out by name an early bank associate who told her she that she was too nice to succeed. But she declared that even though she had kept her background a secret, she knows that she “…succeeded because of that background and not in spite of it.” The vivacious, happily married mother of three also told the audience “...remember everybody you meet will know something you don’t know so learn it…(and)…don’t let (anyone) minimize you.” When the standing ovation faded she smiled and announced, “I’m going to Florida 05.14