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Invigorated Austin Community Foundation gala
New faces air-kissed old at the Tuesday gala for the venerable Austin Community Foundation. The charitable group, which manages numerous funds, has opened up its leadership in recent years. Not unlike the similarly esteemed Austin Area Research Organization, whose leadership I met earlier in the day.
ACF bigwigs: JoLynn Free, Max Sherman, MariBen Ramsey, Ken Gladish
Civic do-gooders of all stripes streamed into the Four Seasons banquet rooms. I talked briefly with developer and philanthropist Dick Rathgeber about his book on maximizing one’s giving (it’s undergoing a title change). Community leader Lynn Meredith told me about a flight out of Cuba during the first days of the Iraq War and how a few hours in an airport sparked a discussion about “changing the world.” (Also about her writer/editor daughter.) Classy Nancy Scanlan reported on the multiple weddings of her eccentric Houston kin (one between two hunters with a shotgun-shell-shaped cake).
Lynn Meredith, Linda Benge
The group just seemed reinvigorated by the collision of ages, backgrounds and interests in the room. The event proved a sterling example of a trend I heartily endorse: Old Austin socializing with New Austin for the greater good.
Sam Bryant, Carol Burdette, Milo Burdette
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