Clearwater.....Bob Dillinger, Sixth
Circuit public defender, is president of
the Public Defenders Association of
Florida.....Ann McKeel Ross of Tampa
received the 2017 Lifetime Achievement
Award and Debbie Nye Sembler of
St. Petersburg received the 2017
Community Leadership Award from the
University of South Florida Women in
Leadership and Philanthropy during
the group’s 12th annual Fall Symposium
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Joyce and Walter Larson again generously
hosted a holiday buffet dinner at their home
in St. Petersburg to benefit Infinity, the
League to Aid Abused Children and Adults.
University of Central Florida during
graduation ceremonies, where he
received an honorary doctorate degree.....
Cindy Gorshe Collman of Dunedin is
the chair and Michael Francis,
conductor and music director of The
Florida Orchestra, will be the keynote
speaker for “The Power of Music,” the
11th annual Founders Luncheon of the
Sterling Society to benefit the Dunedin
Fine Art Center.....Sandy Harris is the
Chiseler’s Preview Party chair, and the
Honorable Dick Greco, former mayor
of Tampa, and his wife Dr. Linda
McClintock of Age-Less Medicine in
Tampa have been selected as the
honorees of the party and Chiseler’s
Market, which is in its 55th year to help
fund the preservation of Plant Hall at
the University of Tampa….The
Honorable Jim Coates, former Pinellas
County sheriff, and his wife Cat of
Clearwater have been named chairs of
Charity Works’ “Monopoly Night”
benefit in Belleair.....Margaret Word
Burnside and Aaron Fodiman of
Dunedin, publishers/editors of Tampa
Bay Magazine, have been selected as the
honorary chairs for the Community
Dental Clinic’s second annual Reds,
Whites and Bites fundraiser in
Kristen Shepherd, executive director of
the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg,
welcomed members to “Designing Force:
A Conversation with Star Wars Production
Designer Doug Chiang.” He spoke as
Lucasfilm vice president and executive
creative director during a conversation
moderated by St. Petersburg College’s Dr.
Brandy Stark about the museum’s “Star Wars
and the Power of Costume” exhibit.
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Joan Dragon of Wildflower Café in
Clearwater, the Suncoast Jazz Festival’s
board chair and director, welcomed music
lovers to the 27th annual Suncoast Jazz
Classic on Clearwater Beach.
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