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Two galas, Red Hat fun and a NCC benefit
(Morning Call, The (Allentown, PA) (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Mar. 26--LEHIGH VALLEY CHILDCARE
TO HOLD GALA AUCTION
"I got a horse right here/ his name is Paul Revere/And there's a guy that says if the weather's clear/ Can do/ Can do/ This guy says the horse can do."
OK, so maybe Scene's memory of exactly what the words are to this little ditty from "Guys and Dolls" are clouded by too many mint juleps. But with Lehigh Valley Child Care using the theme "Run for the Roses -- Kentucky Derby Preview" for its 12th annual gala auction event it just started running in Scene's head.
The event will be held 7-10:30 p.m. Friday, April 21, at the Holiday Inn Conference Center, Fogelsville. Tickets are $110 per person and corporate sponsorships are still available. Guests are invited to wear their Derby Day finery, so break out those big-brimmed hats and ladies or business casual attire.
The atmosphere will be horsey-set grand. The planners are tenting the ballroom and decorating it to give the look and feel of the Derby track. Juleps, hors d'oeuvre and Southern cuisine will highlight the menu.
Guests will have a chance to bid on getaways, theater tickets and dining packages, golf outings gift baskets, collectibles and certificates of professional services.
The gala committee members are Susan Williams, Debra Lamb, Colleen Mooney McGee, Nohelia Cruz, Donna Giardina, Rita Koller, Beverly Korechko, Vicki Mayk, Lori Novak, Janice Osborne, Deborah Price, Fran Taylor and Karen Wassa.
This year's top sponsors, as they were last year, are Linny and Beall Fowler and the Sovereign Bank Foundation. Additional sponsors are Air Products & Chemicals.; Brown & Brown of the Lehigh Valley, CTSI, LLC; East Penn Bank; Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce; Highmark Blue Shield; Hospital Central Services; Lehigh Carbon Community College; Lehigh Valley Jaycees; National Penn Bank; Scott Chevrolet Hummer Saab Chrysler; Specialty Minerals; the Express-Times, and W2A Design Group.
For information or to make a reservation, contact McGee at 610-820-5333, ext. 224, or cmmcgee@ptd.net.
HIGH SCHOOL FOR PERFORMING ARTS
PLANS THIRD SPRING GALA
As of 1:26 p.m. March 20, spring, so the weather folks tell us, arrived. So stop shivering and get ready for the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts' third Spring Gala.
The time is 7-10 p.m. Saturday, April 8, at the school at 675 E. Broad St., Bethlehem, in the Old Laros Building. A champagne reception for sponsors and financial supporters of the school will be held at 6 p.m. The event is black tie and tickets are $100 per person. Reservation deadline is April 3.
The Spring Gala, the school's major fundraiser, showcases the talent of the students as well as the faculty who participate in dance, instrumental music, theatre vocal music, visual arts and figure-skating disciplines. The events will take place throughout the school. Specific performances will be held in the Second Stage, Coffee House and Commons areas and the Black Box Theatre.
An exhibit of works from the visual arts students will be displayed and the figure skaters will be featured on a DVD in the dessert rooms. Karen Hunter Catering will offer butlered and staged hors d'oeuvre, a carving station, beverages and desserts.
Since its opening in September 2003, the school has grown to 384 students attending from 32 different school districts and 11 counties in eastern Pennsylvania. Proceeds will be used to renovate space needed for an expanding visual arts program and a second stage for dance and theater programs.
For reservations and information, call the school at 610-868-2971.
RED HAT LADIES GET READY
The Red Hat Society ladies are at it again! As Scene readers know, these women are part of a national movement based on the idea that getting older means getting better and having more fun.
"When I am old, I shall wear purple with a red hat which doesn't suit me … and make up for the sobriety of my youth," says the poem "Warning" by Jenny Joseph that is the group's Declaration of Independence. It was seen by Red Hat group founder Susan Ellen Cooper of Fullerton, Calif., aka The Exalted Queen Mother. She ascribes the group's beginning to the date April 25, now known to Red Hatters nationwide as the Birthday Bash.
Recently invitations were sent electronically to the "queens" of 82 local chapters of the Red Hat Society in the Lehigh Valley to celebrate the upcoming event in fine style. Last year was the first time the Lehigh Valley groups held this event and 500 Red Hatters turned out.
This year's event, titled the "DaCelegance 2006 Birthday Bash" will be held with two luncheon sessions 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-4 p.m and a five-course dinner for 400 starting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 25 at the Best Western Lehigh Valley Hotel & Conference Center at Routes 512 and 22. Prices for the luncheon are $20 per person and $40 per person for the dinner. For information contact event chairman Marge Kunkel at 610-366-1213.
NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
PLANS SOUTH SIDE CELEBRATION
It was said that when the late Eugene Gifford Grace, CEO of Bethlehem Steel Corp. in its early to mid-20th-century heyday, was about to arrive at his office at the company's headquarters on Third Street word would be flashed to the rest of the building from a company police officer on the roof.
Elevators stopped at the nearest floor and their passengers were ordered off. When Grace walked in he would select whichever of the now-empty elevators his whim fancied and, with its operator, rise in lordly isolation to his office.
That said, if anybody had suggested to Grace that one day a black-tie party might be held in his office building at the Bethlehem plant, he might have raised his eyebrows. But a lot has changed in south Bethlehem since Grace passed from the scene in 1960.
"The Steel" is gone and its office building has become the Northampton Community College's Fowler Family Southside Center. At 6 p.m. Friday, May 12, NCC will hold a unique event at the center. The space can accommodate 550 guests. Tickets are $125 per person and more than one quarter have already been sold.
Called "Forging the Future," it is expected to draw hundreds of community leaders to the Art Deco lobby of the late steel titan's empire. Imagine Fred and Ginger, tail-coated and evening gowned in the 1936 classic "Swing Time" dancing cheek to check in that beautiful space, and you've got the mood.
Planning for "Forging the Future" began last fall under the direction of NCC's Laraine Demshock. Working with her have been Tom Doluisio, Marianne Gregory, Silvia Hoffman, Lynne Paul, Donna Taggart and Tom Tengas. They have been assisted by NCC staff members.
Following the cocktails and hors d'oeuvre, prepared by NCC culinary arts students, a sit-down dinner will be served on the third floor.
To judge from the menu created by chef Duncan Howden, who has the directed the culinary arts program at NCC and provided it to Scene, the meal will be a repast fit for a steel baron.
Appetizers will include smoked salmon, pickled cucumber relish, tuna tartar, foie gras torchou with rhubarb jam, asiago chicken with tomato beurre blanc, duck and pineapple spring rolls, quail eggs with braised beef brisket, phyllo cups and creamy Vermont goat cheese, strawberries and mozzarella pinwheels with Parmesan crouton.
Dinner will feature lobster, scallop and crab timbales, baby lettuces dressed in lime cilantro vinaigrette and smoked tomato coulis, port wine and rosemary grilled beef tenderloin, potato gallette with port wine glaze and warm julienne vegetable salad topped off with raspberry canoli mousse in an edible chocolate bowl. Scene would like to observe that if you go away hungry from this event it's your own darn fault.
For tickets, call NCC at 610-861-5519.
frank.whelan@mcall.com
610-820-6751
Make the Scene: Mail your information to "Scene," Features Department, The Morning Call, Box 1260, Allentown, PA 18105, fax to: "Scene" at 610-820-6693 or e-mail to
scene@mcall.com. Deadline: Two weeks before the event or registration date.
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