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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Legacy of Giving at the Meredith Residence
First a word about the house: Dang! Lynn and Tom Meredith live in West Austin with a view from a precipice that must be worth a million bucks, leave aside the handsome house. After racing from party to party, I glimpsed only a fraction of the manse as we headed down to the cliffside “boat house” to attend a short reception for Legacy of Giving.
Christine Gonzalez, Meria Carstarphen and Jessica Esparza
This group, you may remember, encourages philanthropy in youngsters. It has been extravagantly successful in Austin, recruiting both comfortable and needy children in the practice of helping others. Food drives. Coat collections. A dozen different varieties of donor events. Pretty impressive.
Connor Brucker and Linda Brucker
Linda Brucker, whose son, Connor, drew her into the program, led the thanks to the board, volunteers and student representatives. Various grown-up philanthropists were present. In a very short time, you understand, Austin students have raised something on the order of $300,000, making it one of the most effective such programs.
Peter Frumkin and Lynn Meredith
In fact, Brucker tipped her hand about news, which will break soon, on just how ASID fared compared to other districts around the country. Hint: It did well.
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Austin Monthly Issue Launch at Urbanspace
May I admit that I attended for Colt McCoy? Yes, I was curious about the other articles in the current issues of Austin Monthly and Austin Monthly Home. And I had already congratulated editor Helen Thompson on the innovative color scheme in the Home edition.
Candace Carlisle and Amanda Garcia
But I attended the AM issue launch at Urbanspace on West Fifth Street to pop a social columnist’s question to a famous quarterback. The usual cocktail-hour crowd showed up. Also American-Statesman humor columnist John Kelso, which made the event doubly interesting. (Which angle would he take, I wondered, if he wrote about this modish tribe?)
Bo Harvel and Soumya Ramakrishnan
The grub supply was generous, and the party, which spilled into the Threshold interior furnishing showroom, grew steadily as the first hour of the party progressed. Then I found out: McCoy, who flashes his baby blues on the cover of the June issue, would not be attending. Nor fiancee Rachel Glandorf.
Sandy Weatherford and Monica Brown
Darn. I was going to ask whether they planned to keep a place in Austin, like other former Longhorns. Well, best of luck to him in Cleveland. We’ll miss his steady leadership of the football team. And congratulations on the July 17 wedding, both of you.
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