Lido Isle's Nancy Levy will welcome a host of community support
tonight at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club in Corona del Mar. The 2001
Volvo Leukemia Cup Regatta Committee will throw its annual charity dinner
at the yacht club, featuring a grand silent and live auction meant to
benefit children with leukemia and lymphoma.
"Our goal is to raise $300,000 to help fight children's cancer,"
offered Levy. "We've got a ways to go, but we know that every dollar is
important and every person that gets involved is bringing scientists
closer to a cure. We couldn't be more proud of our efforts to help raise
money and awareness for this wonderful event sponsored by Volvo and the
Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club and other generous donors."
The dinner committee is putting final touches on tonight's affair. For
last minute reservations, please call (949) 644-9530. The dinner tickets
are $50 per person, $35 of which is a charitable donation benefiting
leukemia research.
Levy reports that she will put dining room tables out on the
oceanfront deck to raise more money to help the children.
Helping children is also the mantra of the Fashionables, a charitable
group co-founded by the late Mary Lou Hopkins Hornsby and her dear friend
Mary Ann Wells. The conference of high-minded and high-styled women
joined forces recently for its annual late spring membership reception to
greet new friends and cherish the old.
The setting was the exquisite Harbor Island home of Judie and George
Argyros. Mrs. A, resplendent in lavender, with her hair cut short and
colored auburn, welcomed the crush at her colonial front door.
She had just jetted into town from the Argyros' mountain retreat to
host the reception and was jetting back out of town to Washington, D.C.,
to attend an intense course given by the federal government for potential
ambassadors and their families to learn the ins and outs of international
protocol. George Argyros is awaiting confirmation as U.S. ambassador to
Spain.
Judie reports, "My plan is to spend two weeks a month in Spain and two
weeks a month in Newport Beach. I don't want to lose touch with the
community, and of course my children and grandchildren are here as well."
Her frequent-flier account is going to be overflowing with bonus
points.
Many of the women attending the Fashionables luncheon remarked on how
impressed they were that Judie managed to be so gracious in the middle of
a most demanding schedule. And gracious was certainly the most
appropriate word.
