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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022 | TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE 83
Sandy Schwartz and Julian
Hartzog invited guests to a Celticthemed
evening, complete with
entertainment by internationally
acclaimed Irish dancers Isabel
Kaiser and Sarah Dacey at the
Hartzog home in Tarpon Springs.....
Judy and Allan Davis invited
family and friends to their home in
St. Petersburg for appetizers and
the lighting of their collection of
Hanukkah menorahs.....Andrea and
Paul Jarvis held multiple limited
mini-outdoor social distancing
holiday gatherings at their home
in Dunedin.....Julian and Molly
Waits hosted a holiday potluck
dinner party at their home in
Dunedin.....Louise Collins and
Al Wiseman held a holiday party
at their home in Tarpon Springs.....
Jane Sweeney of Dunedin, former
owner of MJ Fashions & Gifts there,
was given a birthday party by her
sister Ann Karagines of Sand Key
in Clearwater; Rosemary Windsor,
CEO of Clearwater Jolley Trolley;
and Wendy Barmore, an artist
from Dunedin at the Windsor home
in Belleair.....Betsy Schweitzer of
St. Petersburg was surprised on her
birthday by her daughter Karley
of St. Petersburg and her son Eric,
when he sent 10 boxes from his home
in Colorado that were filled with 100
pieces of glass, which he had helped
an artist blow, plus flew the artist to
Tampa Bay to put the pieces together
Arts, St. Petersburg’s senior curator
of Collections and Exhibitions,
Dr. Stanton Thomas, were the
guest speakers at the museum’s
Collectors Circle, where they
highlighted the mid-20th century
art of Hughie Lee-Smith and
Carroll Cloar, which was featured
in the museum.....Karol Bullard
of Clearwater chaired Operation
PAR’s 50th anniversary gala, which
despite completed plans, was
changed to an online silent auction
and video to celebrate the nonprofit’s
“Hope Through Recovery”
celebration.....Sara Kessinger
spearheaded Cocktails and Candy
Canes, the Sterling Society of the
Dunedin Fine Art Center’s holiday
benefit of peppermint cocktails and
easy listening at the Dunedin Golf
Club…..Jason Dunkel, president
and CEO of the AdventHealth
North Pinellas hospital in Tarpon
Springs, and Sofia Zaronias,
executive director of Foundation
AdventHealth North Pinellas,
thanked Shon Craig for opening
his home in Holiday for a celebration
of the hospital’s new lobby, which
features artist Christopher Still’s
latest masterpiece, a 96-inch by 96-
inch oil on canvas painting titled
Beautiful Historic Tarpon Springs…..
Alessandro “Alvin” Alvino of The
Greatest Show productions invited
guests to dress in white for holiday
cocktails and goodies at The White
to create a Chihuly-like chandelier…..
First-time grandparents Todd and
Deborah Pratt of Lutz announced
the birth of Colin Joseph, son
of Sandra and Jason Musial of
Tampa, whose other grandparents
are Stan and Arlette Musial of
Tampa….. Kathy and Dan Carlson
of Dunedin visited their daughters
Veronica “Ronnie” in St. George,
Utah and Olivia “Livvy” in Denver,
Colorado…..Dr. Leslie King
Hammond and the Museum of Fine