A nice lunch, followed by to-die-for clothing from the world’s top designers, is why the Ebony Fashion Fair has sold out in Denver every year since 1963. But as veteran attendees know, you need to hit the benefit’s champagne social if you want the inside skinny on some interesting stuff.
Guest Mary Washington’s news that her husband, Warren, a senior scientist and head of the Climate Change Research Section at Boulder’s National Center for Atmospheric Research, recently had been elected president of the National Science Board, which funds the $5.6 billion National Science Foundation. Membership on the NSB is by presidential appointment.
Chapter journalist Jennifer Wade was celebrating her appointment as the Faculty Fellow for Inclusion at the University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center (where she had been an associate professor), and her election as president of Mu Omega Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Not even hip replacement surgery performed April 18 could keep Elenora Crichlow from the festivities hosted by Denver chapter of the Links, Inc. She just laced up the tennis shoes that matched her salmon-colored suit, and with the aid of crutches didn’t miss a beat. Crichlow is the organization’s western-area chairwoman for national trends and services.
Chapter president Sherry Jackson, whose term concludes in May, has been appointed to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s Denver affiliate board. She also leaves big shoes for the new leader, Ida Daniel, to fill. Last Friday, she accepted the Shaka Franklin Foundation Service to Community Award on behalf of Denver chapter; in January, the members were honored by the Martin Luther King Jr. Commission.
The 800 guests included Jeweldine Blair, widow of former school board president Omar Blair. She was accompanied by
daughters Patricia Wetmore and Deborah Blair-Minter.
Others attending this event chaired by Denver’s former first lady, Wilma Webb, included state Rep. Rosemary Marshall; Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and Denver City Council President Elbra Wedgworth; Urban League CEO Sharon Alexander Holt; former City Attorney Wally Wortham and his wife, Gladys; Denver School Board member Kevin Patterson; Terry Nelson; Jane Pigford; Ernestine Gipson; Sandra Roberts; Jim, Kathryn and Lauren Kaiser; Esther Nelson; Sylvia Jackson; Rosemary Berry; Arlene Rhodes; Dianne Briscoe; Letitia Williams and daughter Rhetta Shead; Carol Leder and daughter-in-law Brita, who manages husband Dr. Eric Leder’s internal medicine practice; Bettye Reed and daughter LaDonica, a consultant for the information technology firm Bearing Point; Verna Jackson; Debbie Staten; Shawnee Anderson; Freda Gold; Mickie Smith; Juanita Walls; Vickie Minor; Esther Luben and Menola Upshaw.
Society editor Joanne Davidson can be reached at 303-820-1314 or jmdpost@aol.com.More online: Additional pictures from the Ebony Fashion Fair www.denverpost.com.
