Party People - Summer 2018

Pat and Kevin Mitchell at ‘Mercury’
Pat and Kevin Mitchell at ‘Mercury’

Joanna and Brad Marks at ‘Bo’s’ Events benefitting Bo's Place and Children's Assessment Center


Sara Beth and Pierce Bush at ‘Project’ Catastrophic Theatre Gala and Project 88's Jean & Jerseys Party

David Lee Roth with California Girls Opera Ball

Off the Wall Astro's Bash Off the Wall Astro's Bash

Austin Trainor, Ana Barron Strouse and Eric Turner at Sweat 1000 The openings of Sweat 1000, Catalyst, Cottonmouth Club and Paris Texas Apparel Co.

Steve Wyatt and Joyce Echols at ‘Alley’ TUTS and Alley Theatre Galas

Balinese dancers at ‘Symphony’ Mercury’s 10th annual gala and the Symphony Ball

Phoebe and Bobby Tudor Hermann Park Conservancy's Evening in the Park gala

Dustin Windham and Bun B at ‘Tastemakers’ CultureMap’s Tastemakers event and Sugar Land Wine & Food Affair

IW Marks and Maison-de-Mode.com boutique

Roz Pactor with Jim and Jo Furr at ‘Music’ Welcome Wilson's Birthday and Music with Friends

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Fall Philanthropy Report: March of Dimes’ ‘Signature Chefs’ Event Coming in November

What year was your organization launched? 1938

What is your mission? March of Dimes was founded in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, to combat polio. The name “March of Dimes” was suggested by entertainer Eddie Cantor as a way to encourage people to donate even a small amount, like a dime, to help fight polio.

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Derrick Shore, Tom Mays and Owen Conflenti (photo by Daniel Ortiz)

THE ALWAYS MEMORABLE Alley Theatre ball took on special significance this year, becoming not just a sexy Post Oak Hotel soiree — with “A Buenos Aires Affair” as the theme, nodding to the company’s production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives — but also an emotional sendoff to retiring longtime Managing Director Dean Gladden. It raised $1.3 million to boot.

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