she turned to the association for help when her husband’s doctor had told them to come back in a year. “The Alzheimer’s Association has been our lifeline,” she told the audience. The evening raised $22,000 for the organization’s services to patients and their families. Great Lakes Music Festival Because Irving Shapiro’s late wife Diane Kaye especially loved chamber music, he continues to support the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary next June. He hosted a delightful kick off to that celebration on a sunny Sunday afternoon at his home overlooking Gilbert Lake. Some 60 festival aficionados socialized, sipped and supped on great fare from Holiday Market. They also gathered in a tent pitched under towering trees reminiscent of an Interlochen setting and applauded the superb performance by the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet. The magnificent music planned for the anniversary festival will be posted on www.greatlakeschambermusic.com as it’s scheduled. Parade Company’s Grand Jesters For the seventh year, since the Grand Jester’s Reception for Distinguished Clowns was launched, Norm and Scott LePage have generously hosted the event at The Reserve. This year nearly 150 DCs and prospective DCs attended. They sipped, supped, socialized and looked at photo albums of DCs cavorting in Michigan’s Thanksgiving Parade. They also paused to applaud the first woman Grand Jester, Beckie Sorensen, and her saga of how she had pestered veteran DC John Landis to be a clown. DC sponsor Ernst & Young’s Lisa Bower also gave a pep talk for becoming a clown. Some of the DCs wear their costumes to the Parade Company’s premiere fundraiser, Hob Nobble Gobble. It’s Friday, Nov. 16 at Ford Field. People new to the area should know that this event is a boffo bash for all ages. My own grandchildren ranked it above Disney World in terms of fun. For tickets, call (313) 923-7400. African American Art’s Summer of ’62 What began in 1962 as the African Art Gallery Committee has become the Detroit Institute of Art’s prestigious Friends of African and African downtownpublications.com
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1. Committee members Paige Rakolta Frisch (left) and Marisa Stutz of Bloomfield with event co-chair Gretchen Davidson of Birmingham. 2. Patty Whitney (left) and event co-chair Ashley Crain of Bloomfield with Mary Petrovich of W. Bloomfield. 3. Katie Noonan Mangin (left) of Birmingham, committee member Karen Williams of Bloomfield, Kiley Norris LePaige of Beverly Hills and Wendy Powers and Kathy Martin of Bloomfield. 4. Committee member Wendy Silverman (left) of Bloomfield and Cindy Tavi of Birmingham. 5. Sarah Schultz (left) of Birmingham with Ruthie Underwood, Wendy and Holly Wrobel of Royal Oak.
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1. Event host Irving Shapiro of Bloomfield with Diane Hancock of White Lake. 2. Festival Artistic Director James Tocco (left) of Bethesda, MD with Kathy and board member Randy Schein of Bloomfield. 3. Lee (left) and Floy Barthel of Farmington Hills and board member Michael Morin of Bloomfield. 4. Board member Bridget Morin (left) of Bloomfield with Natalio and Rayna Kogan of W. Bloomfield. 5. Marcus Evangelista of Wayne and Stella Evangelista of Bloomfield. 6. Claude & Sandi Reitelman of Birmingham with Joel & Karen Kahn of W. Bloomfield.
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