Posts Tagged ‘Susan Kilo’

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.

Lester Miller, owner of Lester’s restaurants and other business interests, bought the first item at the auction of Ponzi schemer Bernard L Madoff’s ill-gotten spoils at the New York Sheraton Hotel.  Miller reportedly spent $100,000 on items and $3,500 for a bracelet. Money raised at the auction will go to the victims’ fund, according to federal marshals.  Miller told The New York Times he spent the money to help victims – some of whom are his friends in Palm Beach, Fla. Miller told the Times, “I think it’s a nice thing, the more you can bid, the better off you are.”. The newspaper further reported, “On a cruise from Los Angeles to Mexico this week, he said he plans to give his daughters and granddaughters (14 in all) the bracelets he bought and present them with a lesson: “If it’s too good to be true, it’s not right”… More than 100 employees  have been pink-slipped at Plaza Motors in the last year and 50 more will be laid off after Thanksgiving,” said, Rick Keeler, with his wife Cathy at Il Bel Lago.  Keeler retired from Plaza after having been one of the original salespersons in 1974.  Nearby, Susan and attorney John Kilo said that his brother, Dr. Charles Kilo, will conduct a symposium over the weekend at the downtown Hyatt Hotel before 400 doctors, nurses and dieticians. Dr. Kilo, an endocrinologist, and will present updates on diabetes and the newest discoveries, according to John Kilo…