Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children’s 20th annual Treasure Street moved across the street to the new section of Old Parkland Campus for its annual Treasure Street fundraiser and the weather was delightful. Talk about being neighborly. This was the first official fundraiser on the grounds of the remarkable undertaking. Another neighbor pitched in with the talent and that was The Rustic’s Pat Green.
Pete and Caren Kline
Don Glendenning and Ruben Esquivel
Barbara and Stan Levenson
Brent and Kay Franks
North of town the art lovers Kay and Brent Franks, Barbara Daseke, Charlene Howell, Pete and Caren Kline, Wanda Gierhart, Kevin Hurst, Barbara and Stan Levenson and past Silver Cup recipients Don Glendenning, Joyce Mitchell, Lucilo Pena and Ruben Esquivel flocked to Jennifer and John Eagle’s home for the announcement of the 2016 TACA Silver Cup recipients. With John flying in from a business visit to California, Jennifer started off the evening doing solo hosting. No problem. This certainly wasn’t her first TACA Silver Cup reveal.
Jeff Woodward
But it was the first for the Dallas Theater Center’s relatively new Managing Director Jeff Woodward. And he had very good reason for being there. Not only did he get to meet some of the performing art leadership, one of the DTC’s favs was named the 2016 Silver Cup recipient — recent past DTC Board of Trustees Chair Rebecca Fletcher.
Bit of trivia: When Rebecca’s inducted into the Silver Cup Club, it will be only the third time that a mother and daughter have received the award. Rebecca’s mother Bess Enloe was awarded the Silver Cup in 1993. Other mother-daughter Silver Cuppers included Margaret McDermott and daughter Mary McDermott Cook and Deedie Rose and daughter-in-law Catherine Marcus Rose.
Bess Enloe, Donna Wilhelm, Rebecca Fletcher, James E. Wiley Jr. and Joyce Mitchell
Tara Lewis
Plus, her fellow recipient James E. Wiley Jr. has been heavily involved and supportive of the DTC by serving on its Executive Committee and chairing the Individual Giving and Trustee Development Committee. But that’s just a smidgen of his involvements in the Dallas arts community. There’s also the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, the Dallas Black Dance Theatre and the AT&T Performing Arts Center.
But you already knew all of that. Still, you might not know that the luncheon is scheduled for Friday, February 19, at the Hilton Anatole.
Hopefully, the streets and skies will be clear, so folks can safely celebrate the newest Silver Cup twosome. Luncheon Co-Chairs Pilar Henry and Tara Lewis are presently negotiating with Mother Nature to behave herself.