MARCH/APRIL 2017 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 87
Gobo and Louise Fischer are co-chairing
the Arc Tampa Bay Foundation’s second
annual Wings, Wheels and Wine evening
benefit in Clearwater.....Theodora and
Philip Carroll and Lesley and Fred
Dobbins are the co-chairs, while Penny
and Jeff Vinik are the honorary chairs for
“The Wizard of Oz,” Tampa General
Hospital Foundation’s 20th annual gala
benefit in Tampa.....Travis Finchum of
Oldsmar is the new board president of
the Arc Tampa Bay Foundation in
Clearwater.....Daniel Lehan of Largo is
the president of the Suncoast Performing
Arts Foundation, which supports the
newly remodeled and renamed Central
Park Performing Arts Center in Largo.....
Amanda and Mike Bowman were the
recipients of the 2016 Beatrice Donoghue
Delightful Dunedin award.....Paul and
Mark Wilson of St. Petersburg and their
brother, actor Patrick of New Jersey,
known as the Wilson Van band, will
present a concert at the Capitol Theatre
in Clearwater to benefit the Wilson Family
Foundation. 9
Ear to Tampa Bay
Randy and
Ellen Crisorio
of Tarpon
Springs met
and had lunch
at the Shriners
Hospitals for
Children in
Chicago with
aspiring sports
broadcaster Alec
Cabacungan,
who is featured
in a national
Shriners
Hospitals ad
campaign.
Betsy Byrd, center,
thanked her sisters
Mary Jane Becotte,
left, and Laura Katz
for helping her
transform the front
of Safety Harbor’s
Stuffed Mushroom,
the full-service
catering company
she’s had since 1981,
into a unique kitchen
and entertainment
accessories boutique.
GRAM
Linda Reece, domestic
violence committee chair,
and Christine Bonaventura,
president of the GFWC
(General Federation of
Woman’s Clubs)––Tampa
Woman’s Club thanked
Mary K Wilson for her
keynote talk at the group’s
pirate-themed benefit in
Tampa for the Helen Gordon
Davis Centre for Women.
CATHLEEN HIMES
GRAM