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
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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