Ear to Tampa Bay
Things Heard by The Ear
DAVID WRIGHT
The Ear is wearing one of a pair of oval
dangle earrings with 2.23 carats of diamonds
set in 18-karat white gold from Harold
Freeman Jewelers in Belleair Bluffs.
82 TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019
Terri T, Janelle Sadler, keyboardist
Ronnie Reinhardt and singer Bertie
Higgins, who took turns joining
O’Brien onstage.....Betty and Allen
Arnold celebrated their 60th wedding
anniversary by renewing their vows
during a reception at First Presbyterian
Church in Dunedin and by hosting a
party at their home in Clearwater.....
Lenda and Vince Naimoli of Tampa
attended a football game in South
Bend, Indiana, where he received the
2018 Harvey G. Foster Award from the
University of Notre Dame and was
presented with a Rays baseball-themed
cake to celebrate his birthday…..Miami
residents Caren and Dick Lobo,
former International Broadcasting
Bureau director and former WEDUTV
president and CEO of Tampa
Bay’s PBS television station, spent
the holidays in New York City.....Pat
Rawlings of Clearwater, her daughter
Tara Broadus of Palm Harbor and
their friend Louise Collins of Odessa
visited the 18th century farm where the
Rawlings family lived when Tara was a
girl outside Libertytown, Maryland.....
Rachael and Don Worthington of
Sarasota hosted friends at their Vermont
vacation home to see the fall leaves…..
Phyllis and Bob Procida of Tampa
celebrated their anniversary with a trip
to Rhode Island.....Deborah Nader and
Dr. Allen and Judith Haimes, all of
Clearwater Beach, cruised the Caribbean
with Paul Anka and 20 other rock and
roll music legends.....Rosy and Steve
Gurba of Belleair visited members
of her family in Germany.....Susan
Cyndi Simmons and her husband,
artist Ernest C. “Ernie” Simmons,
invited friends to join them for holiday
cheer at their home and Florida
Wildlife Art Studio and Gallery in
Dunedin during the 24th annual Studio
Waltz.....Dr. Ron Vaughn, president
of the University of Tampa, and his
wife Renée had their annual Holiday
Open House at their home in Tampa…..
Dr. Zena Lansky and her husband
Warren Rodgers of Clearwater filled
the Belleair Country Club for their
14th annual Holiday Brunch, where
guests were entertained by a harpist,
magicians, the Patel Conservatory Vocal
Arts Chorale, plus Opera Tampa and
guest singers.....Bob Schmidt, mayor
of Belleair Shore and head of Schmidt
Investments South LLC, hosted his
annual party to “Celebrate the Season”
at the Belleair Country Club…..Liz and
Joe O’Connell, who relocated from
Avila in Tampa to Villemoustaussou,
France, where they have O’Vineyards,
a winery and a bed and breakfast,
recently visited the Tampa Bay area,
where they stayed with Eugenie
Bonderant and Paul Wilborn, then
with Mary K and John Wilson, both
of St. Petersburg, and were given dinner
parties by Kathy Unruh and Tom
Sansone and the Wilsons in their St.
Petersburg homes and by Margaret
Word Burnside and Aaron Fodiman
at Seaweed Steaks Seafood & Sushi in
Belleair Bluffs..... Sandra Nesbit and
Greg Willsey of GFS Private Wealth
and Mercer Advisors hosted their 13th
annual Christmas Eve Open House at
their Clearwater home.....Carlos and
Beverly Yepes celebrated his birthday
with a dinner party in their St. Petersburg
home…..Kelley Wiseman and his wife
Edie held his birthday party, complete
with a bowling-themed cake at their
home in Dunedin.....Dan O’Brien of
Dunedin partied on his birthday at
Miss Vicky’s on the (Anclote) River in
Tarpon Springs, where he entertained
his guests by singing and playing the
guitar along with a mix of friends
that included music notables singer