SOCIAL LIGHTS/SALLY GERAK Blanche Mack and co-chair Myra Moreland. Last year the NKFM served more than 100,000 people suffering from chronic kidney disease.
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1. Event chair Meijer’s Blanche Mack (left) of Canton and co-chair Revstine’s Myra Moreland of Birmingham. 2. David and committee member Cindi Wienert of Bloomfield. 3. Emilie and Dr. Jerry Dancik of Birmingham. 4. William and Meijer’s Effie Steele of Bloomfield. 5. Lanie Moreland Bryant of Birmingham and her infant son Jayden. 6. Blair (left) and Monika Gough of Bloomfield and Jill and Mike Maynard of St. Clair.
Henry Ford Hospital Grand Ball After a spirited social hour, the more than 925 guests at Henry Ford Hospital’s Grand Ball settled into the MGM Grand Ballroom for dinner and the program. It included standing ovations. Mayor Dave Bing got one before and after his frank remarks about his job. (“Is it fun? Hell no…but it’s God’s work.”) Hospital President/CEO Dr. John Popovich, who co-chaired the event with his wife Beth and Joanne and Richard Brodie, got one following a video in which he starred. So did Henry Ford’s VP of Governance Edie Eisenmann, who was honored along with Comerica’s Linda Forte, Siemens’ Chris Hummel and Hudson Weber Foundation’s New Economy Initiative’s David Egner. The soiree was a swan song of sorts for medical group chief Dr. Mark Kelley, who, as HF Health System CEO Nancy Schlicting mentioned, would be leaving for a new job at Harvard. The party, which raised nearly $450,000 for clinical programs at the hospital, celebrated the hospital’s 97th year of service and concluded with dancing to Simone Vitale’s music.
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1. Detroit First Lady Yvette Bing (center) with event cochairs Joanne Brodie (left) of Bloomfield and Beth Popovich of Birmingham. 2. Char Terry (left), with Andy and Kristen Shapiro and Norman and Solange Messelian of Bloomfield. 3. HFHS CEO Nancy Schlichting of Bloomfield with Chris Hummel of NYC. 4. Ken and Marilyn Way of Bloomfield. 5. Natalie Keoleian (left) of Bloomfield and Christina Popovich of Birmingham. 6. Claire Chambers (standing left) and Irma Elder with Eva and Dr. Jan Rival of Bloomfield. 7. Dale (left) and Randi Watchowski with Karen and Jeff Schoenberg of Birmingham. 8. Todd Glenn (left) of Northville with Graham and Sally Orley of Bloomfield. 9. Don (right) and Debi Jackson of Birmingham with Sheryl and Bloomfield attorney Steve Matta of Commerce. 10. John and Marta Schaefer of Birmingham.
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Volunteers of America Holidays of Hope Volunteers of America, a nonprofit, faith-based organization founded in 1896, has hundreds of human service programs around the country. Twenty years ago the Michigan VoA began selecting families for special support at Christmas and since then over 34,000 families, including 143,000 children, have been adopted. They each received new winter clothing, new toys for the children and a bountiful holiday dinner. Funding comes from such events as the VoA’s Holidays of Hope, which attracted 225 to the Townsend. Guests included VoA board members, athletes like Detroit Lion Ndamukong Suh, and representatives from program sponsors like O’Brien Construction, Fusco, Shaffer & Pappas, Dennis Brown, and Fiberclass Contracting. During a brief program one of the 2005 Adopt a Family recipients, Volanda Harrison, described that year when she lost her job and house and her car was stolen. Everything changed when she got a call on December 21 telling her she had been selected for the Adopt A Family program at Volunteers of America Michigan. “The program gave me hope to move forward,” she explained. Three 02.13