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Ruth Eckerd Hall’s Gala Celebration
Ruth Eckerd Hall’s President and CEO Zev Buffman and Board Chair
Marcus Greene thanked Sandra Nesbit and Greg Willsey for co-chairing, Jason
Alpert for serving as emcee and auctioneer, and supporters for attending the
10th Anniversary of the Hall’s Gala Celebration, ”You Should Be Dancing.”
The “Friday Night Fever” theme was inspired by the Broadway show Saturday
Night Fever, which is scheduled to be performed at Ruth Eckerd Hall
in Clearwater on March 18th. The elegant, yet fun-filled evening benefitted
the Hall’s Marcia P. Hoffman School of the Arts, which last year provided
a dynamic resource for lifelong experience, exploration, discovery and
mastery of the performing arts to over 28,000 students from all segments of
the community.
Committee member
Vilma Buffman
in vintage
Oscar de la Renta
and her husband,
Hall President and
CEO Zev Buffman,
thanked attendees
for their ongoing
commitment to the
performing arts
and arts education.
Last year’s chairs, Nancy and
Alan Bomstein, a former board member,
served on the committee and helped
sponsor this year’s fun-filled evening of
dining, bidding and dancing through his
Creative Contractors.
Gala chairs and sponsors Greg Willsey and his wife
Sandra Nesbit, principals of GFS Private Wealth,
embraced the evening’s theme by changing from
formal to disco wear and their “Boogie Shoes”
for after dinner dancing.
Ruth Eckerd Hall board and Gala committee member
Steve Sika, whose platform shoes showed beneath
his bell-bottom pants, and Ed Halleran supported the
benefit as table sponsors.
Media personality John Wilson and
his wife, voice instructor Mary K., who
are vocal performers themselves, were
impressed with the high quality of the
evening’s entertainment by Marcia P.
Hoffman School of the Arts students.
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