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YWCA Women of the Year Awards at the MACC
Some Austin groups fade somewhat from public view. Then they stampede back. That was the case with Camp Fire Girls. Now it’s happening with YWCA.
Nimisha Patel and Shobhna Kotecha
Last year I attended a small, lovely YWCA Women of the Year Awards luncheon at St. Edward’s University. It was decorous, high-minded. I was impressed with the keynote speaker and the winners, but not with the production values or the public impact.
Hilary Montez and Hilda Ygueravide
Friday, amid all the rumbling of the Republic of Texas Biker Rally, in a quieter corner of downtown, the YWCA showed it could entertain as well as educate. At the Emma Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center, a cocktail mixer and silent auction gave way to a buffet dinner and an upbeat, well-packaged ceremony for its Women of the Year Awards.
Quana Green and Ebony Jackson
Teresa Carbajal Ravet and Armando Rayo served as emcees. Winners included recent high school graduate and future Brown University student Abigail Cain, previous Out & About profile subject Sonia Kotecha, IBM executive Rebecca Austin and Mercury Mambo’s Becky Arreaga.
The lifetime achievement award went to lawyer Maria Luisa “Lulu” Flores, an all-star on the 2010 Out & About 500 list of Austin’s most social citizens.
Then Emma S. Barrientos’s daughters devoted a heartfelt and fitting tribute to the center’s champion and namesake. We were reminded of the achievements, public and private, of former State Sen. Gozalo Barrientos’s late wife.
Hard to beat that for a reemerging YWCA.
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By Steve ravet
June 14, 2011 12:03 AM | Link to this
Yay Teresa! Yer the best!