Women can make a lot of noise when they want to. Often, for good reason.
One of the best examples is Women & Wine. For the past several years this boisterous – in the best sense of the word – dinner planned by Ellen Robinson and a host of her high-powered pals has filled The Palm, Denver’s headquarters for power lunches and dinners, with women well-versed in the art of emphasizing the “fun” in fundraising.
Robinson and co-chairs Sylvia Atencio, Cathy Cooney, Kathleen Kortz, Nancy Levine, Devany McNeill and Laura Thiret give the money raised to a different charity each year; this time around, the funds went to Dress for Success Denver and the Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers Foundation.
Guests pay a premium $250 to attend, but sure get their money’s worth: Top-shelf wines flow all night, and The Palm serves a yummy steak and lobster dinner.
Cara Mia Medical Day Spa was the presenting sponsor, and owner/medical director Leslie Capin reserved a table for 16, filling it with such friends and associates as Jayne Eshelman, Brooke Hale, Patricia Ritter and Carol Goldstein. Dr. Deborah Shaw, a radiologist and dinner committee member, invited one of her Kaiser Permanente colleagues, neonatologist Liz Kincannon, who is a senior executive vice president in the HMO’s Colorado practice.
Realtors Jan Nelsen, Barbara Henderson, Carol Levine, Debra Zucker and Joanne Kleinstein were there, too, along with Kit Leventhal; National Multiple Sclerosis Society board member Joanie Hartman; sisters Denise Snyder, owner of the Mariel boutique, and Kathleen Kenny, co-owner of Gateaux Bakery; Bonnie Mandarich, an honorary chair for the Colorado Neurological Institute’s Costumes for a Cause benefit on Oct. 6; Dr. Adrienne Stewart; Christina Brickley, marketing director for Cherry Creek North; and such dinner committee members as Nancy Sagar (Neiman Marcus), Nancy Sevo, Shana Broback, Elyse Shofner and Kalleen Malone.
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Elizabeth Byrnes Crony, late of Blacktie-Colorado and Dovetail Solutions, has enjoyed being a full- time mom for the past couple of months (she and husband Ed Crony of CBS4 welcomed their first child, a daughter named Peyton, on July 3) but now it’s time to go back to work as the new marketing VP at Brooks International Speakers & Entertainment Bureau … Steve Rosdal set out to see the world following his retirement from Hyde Park Jewelers, a company he and pal Michael Pollack founded in 1976. So far his travels have taken him to China and Israel … Darrel and Kathy Schmidt have returned from Texas, where they helped her parents celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary.
Joanne Davidson: 303-809-1314 or jdavidson@denverpost.com. Davidson also contributes at denver .
