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MARCH/APRIL 2018 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 83
Newcomers of Hillsborough County,
thanked Norma Puglisi, program chair,
and guest speaker Margaret Word
Burnside of Tampa Bay Magazine at
the group’s January lunch meeting in
Tampa.....Ronnie Bottalico of Seminole,
president of the Beta Pi Chapter of the
non-academic Phi Beta Psi Sorority in
Clearwater, welcomed attendees to
“Look for the Silver Lining,” the group’s
25th annual luncheon and fashion show
benefit for cancer research that was held
in Palm Harbor.....Brenda Sproat and
Heidi Gonzmart were the co-chairs
and Kelly Ring of Fox 13 was emcee
for Georgette’s Boutique of Tampa’s 29th
annual Celebrity Holiday Fashion Show
benefit for St. Joseph’s Women’s
Hospital, which was produced by
Georgette Diaz, Tashia Diaz-Walker
and Bentley Garcia and held in
Tampa.....Marsha Uhler coordinated
“Spring into Summer,” the third annual
Fashions of Belleair luncheon and
fashion show benefit for the Abilities
Guild/Veterans Mall for local homeless
and wounded veterans, which was held
at the Belleair Country Club and
included fashions from her own Cassi
and Company Fashions, Wanda
Matuska’s Nicole Boutique, Laura
Bush’s Suzettes on the Rocks, Janine
Lane’s Suzettes Too and other stores
located in Belleair Bluffs that were
Dr. A.K. Desai of St. Petersburg was given
a “Bolly-Hollywood Star’s Night” themed
dinner dance at the Mahaffey Theater by his
wife Seema to celebrate his birthday.
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LEFT: Georgia O’Keeffe, Poppy (detail), 1927 CENTER: Photo courtesy of City of St. Petersburg RIGHT: P. BRUCKMANN & SÖHNE, German, founded 1805, JUGENDSTIL CENTERPIECE, c. 1910
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