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 Make-A-Wish Foundation donors Ernesto Ancira and Dick Tips
This week I broke bread with powerful figures, politicians and people of great influence. It began with the inaugural Make-A-Wish for St. Patrick’s Day party that drew an impressive crowd of powerful personas including Sen. Jeff and Karla Wentworth, San Antonio City Manager Sheryl and Mike Sculley, San Antonio Police Chief Bill McManus, Ernesto and Robin Ancira, John and Cindy Clampp and Kevin and Sandy Wolff.  Kathleen Quiroz with Harriet and David Oppenheimer This wonderful event was held at San Antonio’s premier private dining club, Club Giraud and was hosted by former King Antonio Rick Shaw and co-hosted by Whitestone Financial Group Founder Steve Markey who planned to grant the wishes of three seriously ill children. But when the New York Shields Pipes and Drums (a bagpipe band made up of New York police officers) found out that there was a boy in Temple, Texas, whose wish was to be a police officer, they made a few calls that very evening and made his wish come true, too, bringing the count to four wishes granted that evening!  Mary Jonas, Marla Barrett, Gini Garcia, Suzanne Peterson and Paula Owen all participated in ''Beyond the Glass Ceiling: The Creative Vision of Women.'' Among this politically connected crowd were Judge Preston Dial, Marcia Harris, Dean of St. Mary’s School of Law Dr. Charles Cantu, Virginia Van Cleave, Patsy Noll, Susan Monsalvo, June McManus, Susan Hall, Melissa Richard, Janet  Mayor Phil Hardberger and ''Beyond the Glass Ceiling'' Chair Diana Geis Then local law firm Oppenheimer, Blend, Harrison and Tate sponsored their annual “Beyond the Glass Ceiling” dinner to celebrate local female artists. This wonderful evening featured an open discussion of art with Toni Sikes, Gini Garcia and Paula Owen and posthumously honored Linda Pace. Local author Jan Jarboe Russell accepted for her friend Linda and there was not a dry eye in the house when she finished.  Patrick Lynch and Jill Markey along with Make-A-Wish for St. Patrick’s Day Party Co-Chair Steve Markey and Chair Rick Shaw As George Orwell once said, “Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.” Ditto.  San Antonio City Manager Sheryl Sculley and her husband Mike came out to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation.  District Attorney Susan Reed and St. Mary’s School of Law Dean Dr. Charles Cantu awarded scholarships at the Bar Auxiliary Fiesta Luncheon. |
