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INSIDE: Sally Schule shares her fashion and beauty must-haves/ PAGES 24-25 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012
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BY Loren Mayo | Black tie Editor
The all-female receiving line of six dazzling ladies was enough to make any man weak at the knees. The cochairwomen of the fifth annual Palm Ball — Cornelia Matson, Amie Swan, Margaret Wise, Ariane Dart, Pauline Joerger and Nora Johnson — greeted each guest Saturday night with a hug, kiss on the cheek or handshake and sent them outside to congregate in the perfect evening air. In attendance at the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast’s “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”-themed event was Jacque-
line Morton in her lovely Dolce and Gabbana blouse with its giant flower decoration; Bruce Lesser wearing one of his favorite tuxedo jackets from Singapore; B.J. Creighton donning a fabulous strapless black evening gown adorned with beautiful red satin roses down her back from top to bottom; and Barbara Staton and Bob Cutler in a matching purple orchid corsage and boutonnière.
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Crystal and Dr. William Lahners
Photos by Loren Mayo
Krista Toomre and Heather Oneill
Judge Thomas Krug and Sherri Vitale with Rimi and Arun Khazanchi
Co-Chairwomen Cornelia Matson, Amie Swan, Margaret Wise, Ariane Dart, Pauline Joerger and Nora Johnson
Cori Tietsort and Eric Baird
One couple wore a matching corsage and boutonnière.
Sharon Black Floyd and Bill Harrison
Chrissy Hays, Jenni Hudson and Bernice Hebda
Geoffrey and Brenda Michel