DHL executive Scott Rabinowitz with wife Tenny, Google executive Peter Wilson and artist Robbie Firestone.
Out & About
Spring Happenings
Opera galas, gallery parties, runway shows—the spring was full of charitable events as well as art-filled ones

Seattle Opera’s fourth annual opera gala, Springtime Serenade, was held at McCaw Hall to benefit educational programs for students and adults.


Seattle Opera general director Speight Jenkins and Janet Ketchum, board member, art patron and philanthropist.
Seattle Opera administrative director Kelly Tweeddale and Seattle Center director Robert Nellams.

Gala chairman JJ McKay and socialite Kim Richter.
League incoming president Joanne Petitto and Frank Artale, group vice-president for Citrix Systems.


Kirkland Arts Center hosted its Spring Gallery Party at a private Kirkland home, featuring sculptures by local artist Scott Fife from his current exhibition “Heads (dis)Embodied.”



Scott Fife with Stephen Lyons from Platform Gallery, Kirkland Arts Center exhibitions director Cable Griffith, board president Carol Belval and curator Jim McDonald.

Fife with his creation Wer Wulf.
Two of Fife’s creations: Johnny Cash in the foreground and Pablo Picasso in the background.


The Interior Design Coalition of Washington hosted Product Runway, May 2. The event featured couture garments crafted by interior design firms and students from interior materials and finishes.


Left to right on the runway: team caption Lindsey McBride, first place team GGLO and Atlas Carpet; Tina Witherspoon and model Monica Werber. Below are juror Angela Adams  and host Christina Stewart.


The 2008 Celebrity Waiters Luncheon and Auction, held at the Fairmont Hotel in May and chaired by Allen Shoup, raised more than $450,000 to benefit The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and its researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the University of Washington Medical Center and Puget Sound Blood Center.

 

SH&L publisher Jill Mogen with local luminary JJ McKay, who served as Celebrity Waiters sponsored by CTI and its CEO, James Fong.

 


Seattle’s Go Red For Women luncheon, May 7, raised more than $275,000 for the American Heart Association: heart disease survivor Trisha Cohen, emcee Jean Enerson, Elya Braden, Monica Romero Wright, stroke survivor Catherine Romero and Dr. Delilah Warrick.

 


Siematic CEO Rolf Willers with local owner Elaine Pagones, Mid-Atlantic account manager Doreen Shelley of Architectural Digest and SH&L publisher Jill Mogen at the opening of Belltown’s exclusive Siematic showroom.



The Seattle Foundation’s 62nd annual meeting was held May 22 at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel and attended by more than 450 Foundation donors, past year grantees, professional advisors, elected officials and many others. At the meeting, The Seattle Foundation announced that grants given back to the community through the Foundation’s Grantmaking Program and by fundholders in 2007 totaled nearly $58 million, an increase of more than 20 percent since 2006. Assets of The Seattle Foundation now total an all-time high of $677 million.


Michael Brown, vice president of community leadership at The Seattle Foundation, with George Staggers, executive director of the Central Area Development Association.

The Seattle Foundation Board Chair Bill Lewis and President/CEO Phyllis Campbell with keynote speaker, Gerald Chertavian, trustee of the Boston Foundation and founder and CEO of Year Up—a successful youth development program operating in six cities across the USA.
The Seattle Foundation President/CEO Phyllis Campbell (center) with members of The Seattle Foundation Youth Grantmaking Board (pictured left to right: Kim Chi Ngo, Matt Reneris, Kate Schoenfeld, Sam Thomsen, Sherika Brooks, and Greg Reneris), who collectively recommended The Seattle Foundation award of $20,000 to a series of local nonprofit organizations.

Sensible Shoes, an ensemble of the Seattle Women’s Chorus, perform classic a cappella at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Seattle Foundation.
Senior Vice President of The Seattle Foundation Molly Stearns with Program and Donor Services Officer Savitha Reddy Pathi, KING 5 TV’s, Jean Enersen, Bob Whitsitt and Evelyn Rozner.