Let’s get this new year started by naming some names.
First up, some new officers: Sally Newcomb is the new president of The Guild of The Children’s Diabetes Foundation at Denver, taking office Monday at a brunch held at the Four Points Sheraton. Installed with her: president- elect Gail Johnson, secretaries Susan Squyer and Kathy Crapo, treasurer Cheri Meagher and treasurer-elect Sharon Kamen. Debbie Gradishar is the immediate past president, Bonnie Neiheisel and Sandy Alpert chaired the event that also featured an address by Stephanie Bender, founder of Full Circle Women’s Health in Boulder.
Debi Tepper is to be the next president of AWARE (Alzheimer’s Women’s Auxiliary for Research and Education), succeeding Terrie Fontenot. She’ll take the oath of office Jan. 17 at a brunch that begins at 9:45 a.m. at the Denver Country Club. Vice presidents to be installed with her are Barbara Flowers and Betty Phillips (membership), Cathey Herren and Tracey Welch (ways and means), Cinnie Auer and Cheryl Tensfeldt (development), Diane Fatheree and Diane Steen (education), and Michelle Chaffin (communications). Prospective members are welcome (call Carol Haycock, 303-722-7464) and the speaker is Dr. Victoria Pelak, an AWARE grant recipient and neurology researcher at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Under the leadership of president Sandee Walling, the HomeSteaders, a guild supporting Family HomeStead in its efforts to help homeless families put a permanent roof over their heads, is taking a look at possible new directions for the group’s signature fundraiser, For the Love of Family. It’s usually scheduled around Valentine’s Day and has been held at venues ranging from SingSing nightclub to Lakewood Country Club. Walling’s fellow officers are vice presidents Ann Heyler and Mary Ann Wadas, plus Lynda Fox, Shannon Jones, Sanchia Anderson and Joanie Butler.
Six new members have been added to the Colorado I Have A Dream Foundation: Tomago Collins, a graduate of Yale University who worked at CNN before joining Altitude Sports and Entertainment in Denver; Oscar Olivas Jr., a CIHAD alum who went on to join the Navy, graduate magna cum laude from Limestone College and land a job with InterTech Plastics; Eric Sondermann, a partner in the public policy public relations group SE2; Loan Vo, also a CIHAD alum who received an MBA from the University of Denver and works as a financial analyst; Montbello High School principal Antwan Wilson; and Leslie Ginsburg, co-sponsor of the Ginsburg Family Class of “dreamers” and co-chair of CIHAD’s 20th anniversary fundraising committee.
Chancellor Robert Coombe was honored when the University of Denver’s Holocaust Awareness Institute staged its annual Remembrance & Hope Dinner. Yvonne Englard Zuber also was recognized at the event chaired by Jay and Joyce Moskowitz and Joanne and Dr. Larry Fisher. Honorary chairmen were Michael Opatowski, Ruth Malman and Sandra Vinnik.
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