KUDOS April 2019 Travel Issue

PLAUDITS
noun | plau·dit
1 : an act or round of applause
2 : enthusiastic approval
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A Beloved Tradition
Continues
The 58th Annual Adoption Guild Patroness Luncheon and Fashion
Show drew 200 guests to the Balboa Bay Resort in support of HFS
Adoption and Foster Care. Grayse owners Marie and Kelly Gray, along
with Susan Stein and William Squire, spoke on the evolution of fashion
through a runway show featuring vintage looks to today’s styles.
Models included women from the patroness membership.
Photography Ann Chatillon
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1. Adoption Guild of Southern California President Chris
Garber, event co-chairs Michelle Swift and Christine
Johnson | 2. Grayse owners Kelly and Marie Gray,
center, with Patroness members Sue Podany and Laurie
Rounds, right, modeling Grayse fashions | 3. Co-Chair
Michelle Swift, Patrice Werschmidt, event committee
member Nancy Collins | 4. Patroness member Sue
Podany, center, with guests Jeannie Mullin, left and
Cathy O'Neil, right | 5. Guests Terri DeLong, Nancy
Cahill, Julie Shwewin, Joanne Sarria | 6. Guests Carol
Lee and Heidi Miller with committee member and event
underwriter Pam Selber
Art Auction Draws
Art-Loving Guests
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Laguna Art Museum’s 37th annual benefit art auction, touted
“California Cool,” featured more than 100 important California
artists and netted more than $268,000 for its exhibitions and
education programs while pleasing more than 250 art lovers.
Eighteen works were featured in the live auction, with an additional
97 works of art offered in the silent auction.
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1. Kirsten Whalen, Sara Warner, LAM Board Chair Lou Rohl, Laguna
Beach Mayor Bob Whalen | 2. Trustee Emil Monda, center, with Rich
and Stacie Immesberger (1) | 3. Sue and Gary Grant | 4. Michelle and
David Fisher, Wendy Aird | 5. Kevin Sperry, Catherine Kaleel, Evan Senn
| 6. Matt Lawson, LAM Executive Director Malcolm Warner, Betsy and
Gary Jenkins
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