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TBBCA Impact Awards
The Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture and the Arts held its annual Impact Awards to celebrate and recognize extraordinary
contributions supporting arts and culture. The proceeds of the event benefit the organization’s programs, such as the Charlie
Hounchell Art Stars Scholarships. Fox 13’s Good Day Tampa Bay Anchor Russell Rhodes was the evening’s master of ceremonies,
and Lorna Taylor and Stephen Gay were the event co-chairs. Natalie Cottrill, a voice student of Mary K Wilson, entertained.
Cindy Francis was honored that her husband
Michael Francis, music director of
The Florida Orchestra, was selected to
receive the International Artistic
Achievement Impact Award.
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 159
Aaron Fodiman and Margaret Word Burnside,
publishers/editors of Tampa Bay Magazine,
were proud that Tampa Bay Businesses
for Culture and the Arts named them the
honorary chairs of this year’s Impact Awards.
Folk artist Ruby C. Williams, the winner of
the Lifetime Artistic Achievement Impact
Award, thanked event co-chair and TBBCA
board member Lorna Taylor, whose Premier
Eye Care was the benefit’s title sponsor, for
her award.
Katharine Weymouth, a sponsor of the
awards, came from Washington, D.C., to
attend with her father, world-famous architect
Yann Weymouth, who is the husband of
TBBCA Executive Director Susana Weymouth.
Stephen Gay, TBBCA’s board vice president,
who co-chaired and helped sponsor the
event, thanked Bob Glaser, president
and CEO of Smith & Associates Real Estate,
for also being a sponsor.
Attorney Peter Zinober was congratulated
on being chosen to receive the Individual
Impact Award by his wife Cynthia Gandee
Zinober, the executive director of the
Plant Museum in Tampa.
J.HARRISON SMITH