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Ball at the Birmingham Museum of Art May 5. The 2012 theme, Masterpieces in Our Midst, was a nod to the evening’s debut of the museum’s newest exhibition, Future Perfect: The Birmingham Dr. Ruth Penton Hayes Dr. Michael McCracken Museum of Art at 60. The exhibition features more than 150 works given Now available to serve you to the museum by members of the more conveniently and more completely. community in honor of its diamond anniversary. Ball co-chairmen Penny Page and Katharine Patton worked alongside Men’s Committee chairmen Jim Priester and Will Legg to head the largest fundraising event in the museum’s 60-year history, raising more than $400,000 to support educational programs and outreach efforts. Sybil Sylvester of Wildflower Dr. Alexander Designs transformed the galleries and Over The Mountain Journal, 205-823-9646 ph., cafe with a large gilded frame serving 205-824-1246, fax as the threshold to the dance floor. June 2012 For the first part of the evening, guests This is your AD prOOF from the Over The MOunTAin JOurnAl forwere theinvited to have cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in the museum’s June 14, 2012 issue. please fax approval or changes to 824-1246. Red Mountain Garden Club Memorial Garden, which debuted its newly please make sure all information is correct, renovated, state-of-the-art lighting including address and phone number!design at sunset. Guests went to the second floor galleries for dinner with a special
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performance by A Bunch of Guys, a boys’ choir from Mountain Brook High School. Frank and Pardis Stitt’s dinner began with crawfish, lobster and gulf shrimp salad with celery root, asparagus and basil vinaigrette. Guests then enjoyed guinea hen Fernand Point with truffle jus and spring vegetables followed by bittersweet chocolate terrine with golden raisins and pistachios. Simply Irresistible’s team of musi-
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cians and entertainers included a brass band and performed popular current and legendary hits. Those attending included: Birmingham Mayor William Bell and wife Sharon, Emily and Bill Bowron, Dell and Dixon Brooke, Elizabeth and Tom Broughton, Beth and Tom Bruhn, Catherine and Bill Cabaniss, Vicki and Jay Crenshaw, Caroline and Patrick Darby, Corbin Day and Kim Jemison, Carolyn and Bill Featheringill, Carol Garrison and Julian Banton, Braxton and Mary Goodrich; Margie and Sam Gray, Joy and Beau Grenier, Kathryn and Raymond Harbert, David Hezlep, Nyya and John Hudson, Millie and Billy Hulsey, Ellen Jackson, Kim Jemison, Elizabeth and Tom Jernigan, Nancy Dunlap and Johnny Johns, Bobbie Knight and Gary Burley, Tom Lowder and Susan Carrington, Danny and Eileen Markstein, Heather and Phillip McWane; Bill Mudd, Alison Nichols, Penny and Ruffner Page, Katharine and Donald Patton, Murray and Jim Priester, Kate and Charles Simpson, Kelly and Lee Styslinger Jr., Kate Walthall and Ellen and Jim Walker. ❖