E A R T O TA M P A B AY
Brandon......A m i F o r t e of Tarpon
Springs, managing director and wealth
advisor for The Forte Group at Morgan
Stanley, hosted the Outback Bowl Tampa
Bay “Feast on the Fifty” party at Raymond
James Stadium in Tampa......Hank,
Suzanne, Sara Katherine and Margo
Ennis and the Henry B. Plant board
of trustees hosted the opening of
“Gasparilla: A Tampa Tradition,” complete
with entertainment by the Cutthroat
Chorus and a celebrity panel of John
Timmel, Arthur Savage, Pete Lackman
and George Howell at the Henry B.
Plant Museum in Tampa......Kathy
Rabon, executive director of Suncoast
Hospice Foundation, and Ernestine
Bean, president and CEO of Morton
Plant Mease Foundation, who were
among the founders of the Clearwater
Regional Chamber’s AchieveHERs
Women Sharing Wisdom group, led
an evening of conversations at Empath
Health in Clearwater about nonprofit
board memberships’ influences on
professional success......Gam Calderon,
head stylist for The House of Gam in
Brandon, presented the Spring/Summer
2015 collection during an evening of
lights, music and style at The Regent in
Riverview, where guests were asked to
bring gently used clothing for Metropolitan
Ministries......Roxanne Wilder, WTSPTV
Studio 10 co-host, and Dave Reynolds,
Visit Tampa Bay’s international media
relations director, were the co-emcees for
Habitat for Humanity’s “Blueprint:
Afrika” evening benefit in St. Petersburg......
S h e r y l a nd Ho y t Hami l t o n of
Marie Bard, Sherrie Morton and Lois O’Donnell
helped organize the Belleair Beach Ladies
Luncheon Club’s January meeting at The Living
Room in Dunedin, which featured guest speaker
Margaret Word Burnside of Tampa Bay Magazine.
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