2023 Kappa Tablescapes

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Gray Malin was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. He is a modern day fine art photographer and New York Times best-selling author based in Los Angeles.

Gray has received commercial recognition for his inventive aerial beach, ski, and park scenes of the world’s most iconic destinations, and has photographed unique collections at historic properties across the world including The Beverly Hills Hotel, The Plaza Hotel, The Breakers Palm Beach and Hôtel Plaza Athénée.

In 2010, Gray launched his namesake brand, Gray Malin. Forging his work into a larger lifestyle with the philosophy to Make Every Day a Getaway®, Gray’s photography has since expanded into a line of luxury products for home and travel. Gray has collaborated with global brands including Disney, Google and Don Julio engaging diverse audiences to experience his work in new and exciting ways.

You can shop Gray Malin’s photography and accessories at Saint Michael’s Women’s exchange in Highland Park Village.

Dear Friends, We welcome you to the 29th year of Kappa Tablescapes!

Kappa Tablescapes was founded to help raise critically needed funds for our selected beneficiaries. For the past 29 years, Kappa Tablescapes has been able to have a profound impact in the Dallas Fort-Worth community by pledging annual grants to many different charities.

The Philanthropy Committee selected four outstanding 2023 beneficiaries: Crossroads Community Services, Community Partners of Dallas, New Friends New Life and the North Texas Food Bank. Funds raised from table and ticket sales, sponsorships, donations and raffle sales go towards their programs including - providing needs to abused women and children, and providing hunger relief throughout Dallas Fort-Worth. We thank our beneficiaries for their commitment and focus in protecting the most vulnerable in our population. And we thank you for your generous support of today’s Luncheon which allows us to partner in their mission to serve others in our community.

We are delighted to have an incredible group of talented designers who have imagined, produced and executed truly one-of-a-kind tablescapes.

MORGAN HOBBS PIEPER & KRYSTAL SCHLEGEL DAVIS CO-CHAIRMEN 2023

This year, we honor two very special Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae: Ellen Benson Merriman as our 2023 Platinum Key Honoree and Kay Scholberg Weeks as our 2023 Honorary Chair. Their service and commitment to our community and to the Dallas Alumnae Association of Kappa Kappa Gamma are an inspiration to all.

Our Kappa Tablescapes committee members have helped make this event possible, along with our incredible underwriters and sponsors, especially Central Market, Highland Park Village and Sewell Automotive Group. Thank you for being a vital part of Kappa Tablescapes!

We would also like to thank the immensely talented aerial photographer Gray Malin for serving as our featured speaker. Gray says it best in the introduction to his new book Coastal, “Each destination has its own unique idiosyncrasies but the beach itself is a symbol of happiness that is universally joyful, nostalgic, and calming… Capturing this feeling in my images is the best part of my work and what I’ve built my brand upon.” We are filled with gratitude that such an artist, who spends half his time hanging out of a doorless helicopter to shoot the photos people cherish in their homes, is here with us today to swoop us away into his point of view.

It is a privilege for us to co-chair this event together, as we have been friends since we were Kappa Kappa Gamma sisters at SMU. We hope you enjoy this year’s Kappa Tablescapes!

With sincere gratitude and appreciation, Morgan Hobbs Pieper and Krystal Schlegel Davis Kappa Tablescapes Co-Chairmen 2023

KAY WEEKS

2023 HONORARY CHAIRMAN The Dallas Alumnae Association is pleased to honor Kay Weeks as its Kappa Tablescapes Honorary Chairman for 2023. Kay pledged Kappa at Bucknell University where she developed her strong bond with and appreciation for the Fraternity and its members. She moved to Dallas in 1980 and has built a successful career as a Realtor and became involved in community service and the Dallas Kappa Alumnae Association. Kay has held numerous leadership roles with KKG having served on the National Council and as a Trustee of the KKG Foundation. She is also a proud recipient of the Louise Barbeck Award for her contributions to the Association and the Fraternity. Her many community activities have included leadership positions with the Women's Council of The Dallas Arboretum, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra League, Preston Hollow Women's Club and the MetroTex Association of Realtors. She is currently an active member of the Dallas Woman's Club, Dallas Garden Club, Crystal Charity Ball and a sustaining member of the Junior League of Dallas. Kay has been married to her husband, Peter, for 40 years and are the proud parents of their Kappa daughter, Lizzie Weeks Bumpas, who is carrying on her mother's tradition of serving Kappa and the community. This year Kay is celebrating her 50th anniversary as a Kappa. Throughout those 50 years, she has embodied the Fraternity motto, “Kappa is truly for a lifetime”.

ELLEN MERRIMAN 2023 KEY HONOREE

Ellen Benson Merriman born on January 23, 1963, was raised in Kansas City, Missouri and Mission Hills, Kansas, and lives in Palm Beach. She attended Southern Methodist University and graduated with a business degree. Ellen and Michael have four children and 13 grandchildren.

Ellen is a stay at home mother and an active community volunteer. She is past president of Belles of the American Royal and Children Mercy Hospital board. Past Chairman of The Jewel Ball. Ellen serves/served on the following boards: the American Red Cross, Kappa Kappa Gamma, University of Kansas Hospital, Children Mercy Hospital, American Royal, Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault, past chairman of Hats off to Mothers and past president of Committee of 100 which supports the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art and the Symphony. Ellen has chaired numerous fundraising events in Kansas City. She is a member of the Junior League of Kansas City, Missouri and The Garden Club of Palm Beach. Her hobbies are being a grandmother, horse back riding,

bridge, investment club, book club, gardening, floral arrangements, party planning, painting, tennis, and running Brush Creek Ranch.

TABLESCAPES 2023 UNDERWRITERS GOLDEN FLEUR-DE-LIS Louise Spence Griffeth, Sheri Shelby Krause & Shelby Krause Goff, Ellen Benson Merriman, Pauline Seay Neuhoff SILVER FLEUR-DE-LIS Margaux Merriman Blackwell & Mattie Merriman McGee, Pat Cooper & Mary Virginia Reid, Becky McCamey, Debbie Oates & Ruth Kupchynsky, The Robert Schlegel Family Foundation, Kay Sim & Stacey Walker, Kiki Busby Simpson, Lisa Troutt FLEUR-DE-LIS Community Partners of Dallas, Kathy Crow & Amy Ware, Elizabeth Fronterhouse, Sheilon King, Jill Powell Goldberg, Sarah Hancock/A Place to Love, LLC, Carol Huckin, Joan Blaffer Johnson, Cathy & Carol McEachern, Betty Sanders, The Tyler Foundation, Kay Weeks GOLDEN KEY Barbara Barton, Cynthia H. Beaird & Marcia Shannon, Beverly Bogel & Dare Gillette, Elizabeth Phillips, Frances Mitchell & Katherine Sundby, Morgan Pieper & Gray Malin, Nan Self, SMU ‘90s Kappas, True Blue Friends, Elle Cole/Elle Cole Interiors CANDLELIGHT KEY Jenny Jeter, Karen Sargent KEY FRIEND St. Micheal’s Woman’s Exchange

BENEFICIARIES For over two decades, Crossroads has been compassionately serving the residents of Dallas and surrounding communities by building longterm relationships with clients and community partners to alleviate food insecurity. ​ Feeding Texas reports that in the years between 2018 and 2020, 1 in 8 Texans were food insecure–that is, nearly four million of our fellow Texans had limited access to sufficient nutritious food and/or experienced hunger as a result of economic hardship.

Here in Dallas County, Feeding America estimates that 1 in 5 children are food insecure, and 28% of these children are ineligible for federal nutrition assistance.

Crossroads is meeting the desperate need in our community for quality, nutritious food by distributing meal essentials to an average of 26,598 people every month. In 2020, we distributed over 11.8 million pounds of food–enough for 9,841,236 meals! ​ We are first and foremost a food pantry. But we are also so much more than that. By compassionately serving individual households through food equity research, innovation, and distribution partnerships, Crossroads is revolutionizing food pantry services and building nutrition-stable communities.

Child abuse and neglect are dire and widespread problems in our community. They traumatize children and can overwhelm even those with the resources and best intentions to help them. This is why Community Partners of Dallas was created. Our mission is to provide what abused children urgently need today to thrive tomorrow. ​ Community Partners is where anyone who cares about these precious children can make a meaningful difference in their lives. We were founded as a nonprofit in 1989 as a way for the community to support the work of Child Protective Services (CPS) in Dallas County. Since then, thousands of caring individuals, companies and organizations have joined with us to meet the needs of 15,000 abused and neglected children annually. Community Partners remains the first and only nonprofit to address these specific needs in Dallas County, and our programs have been replicated by more than 155 cities across Texas.

We are here, every day, with what these children need for the first steps to healing. Seemingly small things can make a big difference for a child recovering from abuse and neglect – a car seat for a ride to safety, a bed in a home they can trust, or the first holiday celebrated in years. By providing for their basic and individualized needs, we can send the message someone cares and open the door to healing.

Equally important to our mission is our role in encouraging and equipping CPS caseworkers. A child’s chances of finding a safe and loving forever home significantly increase when caseworker turnover is reduced. Supporting caseworkers in their critical and ceaseless work is not only right but essential to bringing healing to our community’s most vulnerable children.

New Friends New Life restores and empowers trafficked and sexually exploited teen girls, women and their children, and drives awareness of the issue and its prevalence.

By providing access to education, job training, interim financial assistance, mental health and spiritual support, New Friends New Life helps women and their children overcome backgrounds of abuse, addiction, poverty and limited opportunities.

Founded in 1982, the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) is a nonprofit hunger relief organization that distributes donated and purchased foods through a network of more than 400 Partner Agencies and Organizations in 13 counties.

In 1982, four Dallas women pledged to fight hunger in North Texas. These visionary leaders – Jo Curtis, Kathryn Hall, Lorraine Griffin Kircher, and Liz Minyard – began collecting and distributing donations of surplus food and grocery products through a network of charitable organizations across North Texas, establishing the North Texas Food Bank (NTFB).

This network covered 13 counties that comprise the current NTFB service area: Dallas, Denton, Collin, Fannin, Rockwall, Hunt, Grayson, Kaufman, Ellis, Navarro, Lamar, Delta, and Hopkins.

Through persistence and generous community support, in its first year, the NTFB distributed more than 400,000 pounds of food to our neighbors experiencing hunger. In 1983, members of NTFB’s organizing committee joined members of the Texas Legislature to help pass the Good Faith Donor Act, which protected donors from liability of donations or donated product. After this, many more North Texans were inspired to donate.

Today, nearly 40 years later, the NTFB is still supported by a generous and compassionate community that cares deeply about helping North Texans achieve food security. As the hunger crisis has grown over the years, NTFB has expanded from distributing 400,000 pounds of food a year to distributing 125 million meals in its last fiscal year – more annual meals than ever in our history – through its Feeding Network of more than 400 Partner Agencies.

As we commemorate our 40th anniversary of serving our neighbors facing hunger, we know the need is greater than it has ever been. The COVID-19 pandemic has both caused and exposed an unprecedented level of food insecurity in our community. According to Feeding America, approximately 800,000 North Texans do not know where their next healthy meal will come from – including 1 in 5 children. North Texas the 6th most food insecure region in the nation.

The NTFB is committed to providing Food for Today and Hope for Tomorrow as we continue to work toward our vision of creating a hunger-free and healthy North Texas.

RAFFLE PRIZES $2,000 value The lucky Gray Malin raffle winner will head home with two of his fabulous large framed prints, both limited editions of 150.

“Ocean Beach Waves, San Francisco” “Two Cowboys II, Prada Marfa”

$1,500 value Filled with beautiful and unique finds, MADISON is the perfect place to shop for luxurious home accessories. This table linen package includes 12 custom monogrammed dinner napkins, 12 custom cocktail napkins and two hand towels.

$1,000 value Really into food? Shop Central Market’s unmatched selection of produce, wine, floral and specialty foods.

$2,000 value One of the world’s most sought-after aesthetic doctors, treat yourself to youthful, healthy skin at Dr. Barbara Sturm’s Highland Park Village spa. Indulge in a spa facial and pamper yourself with an abundance of products.

$1,000 value Shop and dine at Dallas’ Premier Open-Air Shopping and Dining Destination, Highland Park Village. Enjoy a $1,000 gift card to be used at any one of Highland Park Village’s 60+ luxury boutiques and acclaimed restaurants.

$5,000 value Custom diamond handwriting pendant necklace. Cherish your child, grandchild or loved one forever by engraving their name, in their handwriting, on this beautiful family heirloom piece.

CORPORATE SPONSORS PRESENTING SPONSOR Central Market

PRINTING SPONSOR Ellis Hill

CANDLELIGHT SPONSOR Highland Park Village

CANDLELIGHT DECOR SPONSOR Perch Event Décor

VALET SPONSOR Peggy & Carl Sewell/ Sewell Automatic Companies

MEDIA SPONSOR Paper City

Exclusive Luxury Print & Digital Media Sponsor

ENTRYWAY & CANDLELIGHT FLORAL SPONSOR The Garden Gate

MEDIA PARTNER My Sweet Chairty

GRAPHIC DESIGN SPONSOR Tara Berg Design

EVENT COORDINATOR SPONSOR Jacqueline Events & Design

2023 TABLESCAPES DESIGNERS A Place to Love, LLC/Sarah H. Hancock A Well Dressed Home/Emily Hewett Annie Griffeth Art Audrey Defforey Avant Garden/Todd Events Barrington + Fenwick Fields Blue Print Branching Out Events Caitlin Wilson Cathy Kincaid Interiors Central Market Chambers Interiors and Tour Décor Charlotte Comer Interiors and Collectibles, Inc. Christie’s Auction House Collins & Sweezey Don Lino Elle Cole Interiors Ellis Hill Gray Malin Gro Designs by Nathan Houses & Parties/Rebecca Gardner Krane Home/Sharon Lee Clark Lele Sadoughi Lucky Dog Barkery Lynda Piepgras Misette Nardos Neiman Marcus Noel Pittman Olivia G + Ivy House Paige Rippey Locke, ASID Philip Thomas Vanderford/Studio Thomas James Pierce Hardware & Cherryl Bittner Design Rosanne Beck Collections and Madeleine Creative Sand and Lavender Floral Designs + Nest Interiors The Garden Gate Traci White TRUNK by Kimberly Schlegel Whitman Williams Sonoma

KEY HONOREE TRIBUTES Anonymous, in honor of Megan Parks Beckner Anonymous, in honor of Becky Guillot Anonymous, in honor of Julie Parks Seale Sandy Ammons, in memory of Anne Bunten Sandy Ammons, in memory of Susan Cooper Sandy Ammons, in honor of Kay Weeks Sandy Ammons, in honor of Carol Nichols, 2023 Louise Little Barbeck Golden Key Award Winner Sandy Ammons, in honor of Ann Lawrence Sandy Ammons, in memory of Robin Brown Sandy Ammons, in honor of Elizabeth Mills Melinda Ball, in honor of Morgan Pieper Cynthia Beaird, in honor of My sisters: Sandy Saalfield, Chris Anderson, Debby Smith Cynthia Beaird, in honor of My Daughter, Jane Louise Beaird Teresa Bristol, in honor of Ellen Benson Merriman Monika Burdett, in honor of Ellen Merriman Linda Caldwell, in honor of Ellen Merriman Shannon Wilson Callewart, in honor of Kay Weeks Kathryn Carrere, in honor of Elizabeth Carlock Phillips Nancy Carter, in honor of Louise Griffeth Cheryl Chantilis, in honor of Morgan Pieper Elise DeCleva, in honor of Cathy McEachern Elise DeCleva, in honor of Kay Weeks Nicole Devlin, in honor of The 2023 Kappa Tablescapes Beneficiaries Nicole Devlin, in honor of Kay Weeks Allison Doherty, in honor of Annie Doherty Marsella Fults, in honor of Kay Weeks Susan Glassmoyer, in honor of Louise Griffeth Susan Glassmoyer, in honor of Victoria Snee Susan Glassmoyer, in honor of Morgan Pieper & Krystal Davis Susan Glassmoyer, in honor of Kay Weeks Louise Griffeth, in honor of Kay Weeks Louise Griffeth, in honor of Barbara Barton Louise Griffeth, in honor of Morgan Pieper Louise Griffeth, in memory of Mary John Spence Louise Griffeth, in honor of Krystal Schlegel Davis Louise Griffeth, in honor of Julie Halley-Wallace Julie Halley-Wallace, in honor of Kay Weeks Betty Harlan, in honor of Lisa Garvey Betty Harlan, in honor of Mary Van Armistead Betty Harlan, in honor of Marcia Shannon Jan Hegi, in memory of Belle Drye Shaffer Petkas Adrienne Higginbotham, in memory of Jane B Higginbotham Adrienne Higginbotham, in memory of Ann W Higginbotham

KEY HONOREE TRIBUTES Mary Joy Hinton, in honor of Betty Sanders Morgan Hobbs Pieper, in honor of Krystal Schlegel Davis Morgan Hobbs Pieper, in honor of Susan Sessions Hobbs Sally Holmes, in honor of Ellen Merriman Harrison Hoskins, in honor of Ellen Benson Merriman Carol Huckin, in honor of Kay Weeks Holly Hartwell Huffines, in honor of Community Partners of Dallas Holly Hartwell Huffines, in honor of Kay Weeks Traci Hummel, in honor of Kay Weeks Caroline Hundley, in honor of Kay Weeks Catharine Recht & Jennifer Cheek, in honor of Elise DeCleva Kristin Kaufman, in memory of Gretta Dameron Kaufman Kristin Kaufman, in memory of Leslie Squair Baker Kristin Kaufman, in honor of Pat McGinnis Cooper Kristin Kaufman, in honor of Gretchen Lee Kaufman Kristin Kaufman, in honor of Kay Weeks Melanie Lake, in honor of Cathy McEachern Kay Lawson, in honor of Miss McKinley Ann Lawson Beth Lee, in honor of Ellen Merriman Lauris Massa, in memory of Roberta Whitfield Brown Pat McCall, in memory of Sally Kay Davis Cathy McEachern, in honor of Krystal Davis & Morgan Pieper Cathy McEachern, in honor of Elise DeCleva Cathy McEachern, in honor of Kay Weeks Jennifer McIlyar, in honor of Cathy McEachern Ellen McStay, in honor of Nan Self Ellen McStay, in honor of Barbara Barton Patti Mitchell, in honor of Kay Weeks Michelle Moody, in honor of Ellen Merriman Benson Jennie Nance, in honor of Kay Weeks Karen Sargent, in honor of Kay Weeks Christie Schmitt, in honor of Ellen Merrriman Julie Seale, in memory of my Mother, Gretta Y. Parks Victoria Snee, in honor of Krystal Davis and Morgan Pieper Tricia Stewart, in memory of Priscilla Rettger Bell Susie Taylor, in honor of Cathy McEachern Kris Terry, in honor of Sandy Ammons Kris Terry, in honor of Kay Weeks Kris Terry, in honor of Peggy Meyer Janice Walsh, in honor of Kay Weeks Wynne Wideman, in honor of Louise Griffeth Wynne Wideman, in honor of Becky McCamey Sherry Wilson, in honor of Jan Hegi

2023 TABLESCAPES & PHILANTHROPY COMMITTEES TABLESCAPES COMMITTEE

PHILANTHROPY COMMITTEE

CO-CHAIRMEN Krystal Schlegel Davis Morgan Hobbs Pieper

PHILANTHROPY CHAIR Becky White

DALLAS ALUMNAE PRESIDENT Elise DeCleva FOUNDING CHAIRMEN Barbara Barton Louise Griffeth COMMITTEE Sandy Ammons Cynthia Beaird Amy Burgher Beverly Burk Tracy Davy Marsella Fults Robin Galloway Sid Gray Meg Henderson Kristin Levoyer Becky McCamey Cathy McEachern Jennifer McIlyar Tinsley Merrill Paul Kim Purnell Kim Ridley Annie Tucker Billye Turner Carolyn Tobin Becky White Emily Wiebe Catherine Wilson

PHILANTHROPY CHAIR-ELECT Catherine Wilson RESEARCH COMMITTEE Sandy Ammons Elise DeCleva Nicole Devlin Susan Glassmoyer Sid Gray Laura Heatherly Jenny Hedges Adrienne Higginbotham Kim Webb Horton Lynn Johnson Mary Kardell Sheilon King Becky McCamey Toni Meier Amie Moyer Claire Rathbun Robin Seckel Page Tucker Louanne Weeks FINANCIAL REVIEW COMMITTEE Laura Onsgard Ellen Smith Dana Turner

Kappa Spirit

Blooms Bright Central Market has proudly supported Kappa Tablescapes since we joined the Dallas community more than 20 years ago.

Just like Kappa friendships, flowers make everything brighter—they make meals magical and celebrations special. And at Central Market you’ll always find the season’s freshest flowers, delivered directly from our farmers every day.

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