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Citystep Director Sabrina T. Peck '84 said the gala affair will help defray costs for the organization, which eight times weekly sends undergraduates out to teach dance to 250 under privileged children at four public schools...
This year's benefit was the most successful so far for the alumni club. The gala raised $42,000 in 1981 and $72,000 in 1983, the last time it was held, said organizer Herbert D. Tobin...
...Sanders Theatre gala will be as open as Stone Wall Jackson's innaugural party compared to other weekend gatherings. Over the three days, Joan Kennedy, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. '36 and other celebrities will host their own private dinners. Even the biggest names will lay out $125 per person Saturday night for a ball at the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger and Sackler museums Saturday night...
...lines of stretch limousines and crowds of celebrity gawkers at Los Angeles' glassy Westin Bonaventure Hotel last Thursday signaled a Hollywood gala in progress. The collective star power of those in attendance would have done Oscar or Emmy proud. Elizabeth Taylor served as hostess and co- chairperson. Carol Burnett and Sammy Davis Jr. belted out a medley of show tunes. Fast-footed Hinton Battle strutted his stuff from the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid, and Rockers Cyndi Lauper and Rod Stewart teamed up to sing a pounding version of Time After Time. The audience was even treated...
...this particular gala also had its grim side. Alternating with the show- biz stars were people like Helen Kushnick, a Beverly Hills mother who lost her three-year-old son Sammy in 1983 to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, the deadly disease known as AIDS, and the Rev. Stephen Pieters, a minister with the North Hollywood Metropolitan Community Church, who has suffered from AIDS since 1984. The message from President Reagan, who had made his first public mention of the widely feared and often stigmatizing illness at a press conference two evenings earlier, also concerned the scourge of AIDS. Read by Actor...