Posts Tagged ‘Harriet Baron’

Anne Stupp, Charlene Prost, Bill Shswacker and Robert Stupp

At the apex of her powers as a museum founder and benefactor, Emily Pulitzer, whose largesse helped propel The Beacon into a viral success, was front and center Monday at the online newspaper’s brunch.  The fundraising soiree took place on the grounds of Andy and Peasy Love’s Westmoreland Place manse.  The savoir faire was quickly established with Lawrence Barton serving as  tapmaster. “He’s with the good Racquet Club on Kingshighway,” pointed out a guest. SallyAltman and Richard Weiss were on hand and he introed us to his and partners’ new online product. Richard with Laszlo Domjan, Tim Rowden and Kristina Sauerwein - all former Post-Dispatch employees – have launched http://weisswrite.com/services/ to help provide professionals with “high-quality, same-day editing” on most documents. Under

Sandy and Cynthia Peters

the banner of WeissWrite LLC, a client may upload documents and request the sort of editing desired.  Former WashU Chancellor William Danforth arrived on crutches and could barely stand erect. He said, “When I was chancellor, I thought I had good advice, but nothing for this.” He complained of back problems, while Carol Walker motioned behind his back that he had fallen. As for the time spent in Hungary, Carol said, “We have had good friends there. If we stick around long enough, they’ll be coming here any minute.”  Her husband, former Ambassador to Hungary and diehard Republican Bert Walker told The Beacon’s Dick Weil that he has spoken with former U.S. Sen. George Voinovich, (R, Ohio), who revealed to Walker, “I

Andy Love, Emily Pulitzer and Maggie Stearns

like Claire McCaskill.” Following the columnist’s sneezes, 45-year vet at SLU Dr. Ray Slavin pointed out, “We now have antihistamines that don’t make you sleepy.  People don’t have to live with their allergies anymore.”John McPheeters, whose dad Tom was a partner in yesteryear’s Bryan Cave, said, “I’m a farmer,” which broke up Andy Love. McPheeters explained that he owns Bowood Nursery and the Osage Restaurant, 4605 Olive St. “Why did they name Olive Street Road?,”argued Love. “Don’t they have enough streets?” Love ponted out that his Heartland Banks are now providing leasing of needs for small businesses that wouldn’t have bank credit.

Joe Losos, Richard Weiss, Carolyn Losos

The banks are an offshoot of his family’s first mortgage business, Love & Sons. “My grandfather was in the Confederate cavalry and came to St. Louis in the 1850s,” he hailed. Industrial developer Joe Carpenter introduced his fiancee and Chicagoan and marketer of the Admiral on the Lake, Rita Winters, after which he explained how he first spotted the dormant Fox Theatre as a ripe candidate for renovation. “I took Leon Strauss to breakfast,” he explained. “Then I showed him the Fox and told him of the possibilities to turn it into a showplace.” Harriet Baron, ex-wife of urban planner Richard Baron, offered that she’s now heading WashU’s January Program for freshmen classes.

Theresa, Jack and Henry Biggs with Andy Love

Her daughter Emily is studying at the University of Illinois-Chicago, majoring in – what else? – urban planning.  On hand were: co-chairs of the benefitTheresa and Henry Biggs; Cynthia and Sandy Peters; The Beacon office manager and planner of the party theme Martin Kaplin; national press rep of Opera Theatre of St. Louis (OTSL) Maggie Stearns; OTSL general director Tim O’Leary with wife Kara and daughter Rose; Circus Flora’s Laura Carpenter Balding and David Balding, who brought Billy the Pony and a miniature piano-playing Romany the rooster and The Beacon family of gm Nicole Hudson Holloway with her husbandCameron Hollway and their kids Hudson and Hugh; editor Margaret Wolf Freivogel

Dr. Royal and Donna Eaton, Nancy and Dr. Robert Taxman

and her husband Bill, The Beacon board member and director of the School of Journalism at SIU-Carbondale; Weil, board chair of The Beacon, with his wife,Josephine and Robert Duffy, mastermind of the entire do.

Jim, Judy and Joe Glik

Glik Department Stores is on a spree and will begin opening more spinoffs to add to its chain of 53 – this time in North Dakota, according to Jim and Judy Glik and the company’s patriarch, Joe Glik.  Bumped into the affable family in the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where they were partaking potables. Nearby was the gregarious twosome of Sue and Pierce Powers, the insurance icon.  Susan and John Kilo were headed for the Orchid Ball in another space.  That’s where the auction -dinner raised about $150,000 for the St. Louis Chapter of The Asthma & Allergy Foundation to further its educational and medical assistance programs.  Highlight of the event was honors for Drs. Michael R. Borts, Philip E. Korenblat and Raymond G. Slavin.  Slavin accompanied his ever lovin’ Harriet Baron, who directs a program at WashU to support incoming students.  Dr. James Wedner,

Dr. James Wedner and friends

department chair of allergy and immunology at WashU, was there with his best friend, Pat Scannell, retired WashU director of the human study comittee, which overlooks all research.  Dr. Wedner tipped that a new pollen from a weed – hysteropherous – has been identified in Texas, the Gulf Coast and here.  Attorney Dick Hughes and his wife, Pat, SLU associate dean Stuart Slavin and his wife-artist Helene and Arleen Korenblat were among the faces in the crowd.