art show at the Birmingham Unitarian Church. The jazz vocals of actor Steve Blackwood included selections like “All of Me”, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, ”Satin Doll” and his original “Care To Love”, which you can hear on his web site (www.steveblackwood.com). His final song was a blues number, which he said his mother’s cancer battle inspired. Donations and a percent of the art sales benefited The Pink Fund. It was founded by Molly MacDonald and provides financial assistance to people whose cancer therapy impacts their cash flow. Blackwood’s artist wife Karen Blackwood’s oils on canvas lined the walls of the afterglow reception area and one sale plus several pending will benefit cancer patients. You can see Karen’s landscapes at www.karenblackwoodfineart.com. Learn more about TPF at www.thepinkfund.org. Women’s Association’s Meeting Approximately 40 members of the Boys and Girls Club Women’s Association’s and their guests convened at the Townsend Jan. 25 for a delightful continental breakfast and socializing followed by the election of officers. Outgoing chair Mary Nunez will be succeeded by Kathy Martin. Martin’s board comprises Linda Gillum, Anita Dauch, Beth Eberly, Julie Beals, Lynn Middleton and Nunez. The next date on the WA calendar is the Spring Luncheon, Wednesday, May 4 at Franklin Hills Country Club. It will honor Lil Erdeljan. Beaumont’s Broadway Premiere Night Before the curtain went up on “Mary Poppins” at the Detroit Opera House the night it played to 2,000 supporters of Beaumont Hospital’s Betty Nederlander Healing Fund, some 350 of them socialized and supped at the reception for patrons and sponsors. In that crowd were nearly 30 members comprising three generations of the theatrical Nederlander family. Most of them, like Liz Nederlander Coden, came from out of town and enjoyed reuniting with former neighbors like Dr. Murray and Dorothy Mahlin. The pre-curtain program featured appreciative remarks by hospital President/CEO Gene Michalski, anecdotes by Betty’s beloved Fred, gratitude for support of the fund from the theatre community and the downtownpublications.com
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5 1. Dave Richards & his wife / CC board member Denise Fleckenstine of Bloomfield with event co-chairs Lisa & Bill Ford of Ann Arbor. 2. Raleigh Studios/Michigan Motion Picture Studios’ Linden Nelson (left) and Steve Lemberg of Bloomfield and Tony Wenson of W. Bloomfield. 3. Gene Valentine of Bloomfield & Anne Bastenie of Berkley. 4. Michelle Nelson (left) and Barbara Lemberg of Bloomfield and Carol Wenson of W. Bloomfield. 5. The Henry Ford’s Patricia Mooradian of Bloomfield and Spence Medford of Grosse Pointe. 6. Dave Richards & his wife / CC board member Denise Fleckenstine of Bloomfield with CC’s Nanci Ballentyne of Royal Oak and Ford’s Brad Simmons of Birmingham.
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1. Melany & her mother Alicia Roberts of Beverly Hills (check out Alicia’s cookie site at www.wholelottacookies.com). 2. Pink Fund founder Molly MacDonald (left) and artist Karen Blackwood of Beverly Hills. 3. Mary Sorise (left) of Troy, Beth Correa of Birmingham and Hubert Sawyers of Grosse Pointe.
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