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Ear to Tampa Bay Betty Lang, formerly of Palm Harbor, Louise Collins of Odessa and Mary K Wilson of St. Petersburg entertained friends during a dinner party at Betty’s new home in Largo.....Andrea Graham and her husband Geoff Simon invited guests for dinner at their home in Tampa before Stageworks Theatre’s The Great Gatsby show.....Rachael and Don Worthington of Palm Harbor had a holiday dinner party at the Belleair Country Club.....Dr. Randy Feldman and his wife Kelly invited family, friends and new neighbors to a Christmas open house at their new home in Tampa.....Linda and Ed Oelschlaeger invited friends to a dessert party at Ovation to watch St. Petersburg’s New Year’s Eve fireworks..... Martha and Jay Margolis had a New Year’s Day brunch at their home in Safety Harbor.....Merrille and Jeff Gerew hosted their annual New Year’s Day party at their home in St. Petersburg.....Dr. Harry Barrish and Pat Rawlings held a postholiday dinner party at their home in Clearwater.....Liz and Jim Smith held a Mardi Gras “Betwixt and Between” party at their home in Clearwater, complete with a pianist and authentic New Orleans King Cakes.....Susan and Jim Myers of St. Pete Beach hosted a reception at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his retirement..... Dr. Jeffrey L. Tedder, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, encouraged guests to don creative swashbuckler attire for his annual Gasparilla Pirate Extravaganza held along the parade side of his Bayshore Boulevard home in Tampa.....Sally Walker Guthrie of Clearwater was surprised on her birthday by her daughters Sarah Helen Guthrie of Belleair and Catherine Bailey of Stuart with a book of sentimental memories on notes that they collected from her friends, family and colleagues.....Terry McHarg of Palm Harbor was given a birthday Things Heard by The Ear The Ear is wearing Raspberry Ombré Diamond Flame Drop Earrings by Plevé containing raspberry, yellow, cognac, pink and white diamonds set in 18K yellow gold from the International Diamond Center in Clearwater and Tampa. luncheon by Charlene Gordon of Crystal Beach at a restaurant in Oldsmar.....Hallie Maxon and her daughter Debbie Maxon Geffrard of Seattle hosted a motherdaughter 82 TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE | MARCH/APRIL 2017 luncheon at the Maxon home in Belleair to celebrate Hallie’s upcoming birthday.....Gail Dietrich and Larry Aaronson of Belleair Bluffs are planning an April sunset wedding on the beach..... Anna Laing and Marc Mencher of Largo announced their engagement..... Sylvia and Artie Tzekas, owners of Sea Sea Riders in Dunedin, celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in Dillard, Georgia..... Judith Alpert of North Redington Beach was surprised by her husband Barry with a 47th anniversary party while they were cruising in the Bay of Bengal between Sri Lanka and Myanmar (Burma).....Amanda and Donnie Villanova of Tampa are the proud parents and Marilyn McPhail, also of Tampa, is the proud grandmother of twins Valentina and Vincent, who were born on November 15th.....Laura and Travis Pearce and big brother Gavin of Spring Hill and grandparents Peggy and Jerry Paradise of Tarpon Springs were excited to welcome twin daughters Madeline “Maddie” Grace and Emerson “Emmie” Rose to their family on December 31st.....Dee Erb of Tampa visited her new great-grandson Charlie Gregory White, son of Alexandra and Hunter White and grandson of her daughter Tammy Dee White and her husband Gregory in Birmingham, Alabama..... Betsy Scherzer and her husband Peter Gombeski, who live in San Francisco, had their first child, son Felix Miles Gombeski, the first grandchild of her parents, Dr. Rob and Amy Scherzer of Tampa, on January 24th.....Proud grandmother Sarah Kessinger of Dunedin announced that her daughter-inlaw Sarah and son James Kessinger and their two sons Harlan Bland and Landon Paul welcomed their new baby daughter Frances Kealey Kessinger to their home in Greenbrae, California.....Gemmy Brown of Dunedin proudly announced the birth of Emma, her great-granddaughter, who was named for her and lives in Orlando..... Austi Critchfield, 2016 Miss St. Petersburg, who is studying engineering at Vanderbilt University, visited with William Sheppard Rose III while dining with her parents Mary and Jack Critchfield of Clearwater in Charleston, South Carolina, where Shep’s television show Southern Charm is filmed.....Mary K and John Wilson of St. Petersburg met Liz and Joe O’Connell and their son Ryan, formerly of Tampa, and daughter-in-law Olga in New Orleans, where the O’Connells were visiting from France and California respectively.....Noreen and Steve Hodges of Clearwater met Angela and Conferlete


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