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Fall Friendship Tea hostesses Kay Lee Benoit and Lisa O’Brien, from left, greet Darla McKitrick, Michelle Richardson and Becky Hensley as the crowd begins arriving at South Shore Harbour Country Club for the popular event. Kathryn Vernau, Corinne McVay and Sue Broughton, from left, sample the refreshments at the Clear Lake Panhellenic Fall Friendship Tea. Peggy Clause, Lisa O’Brien, Kelsey McNeil and Jenny Frantz, from left, are happy to see one another at the Clear Lake Area Panhellenic Fall Friendship Tea

Clear Lake Panhellenic Fall Fashion Show Chairman Wendy Shaw, second from left, gets right to work lining up Sue Ellen Jennings, Kay Lee Benoit and Emmeline Dodd, from left, to work on Panhellenic’s Nov. 4 style show. CLEAR LAKE PANHELLENIC members kicked off the Bay Area’s fall social season Sept. 11, as they usually do with their annual Fall Friendship Tea, at South Shore Harbour Country Club where hosts Kay Lee Benoit and Lisa O’Brien unveiled plans for Panhellenic’s 36th annual Fall Fashion Show and Luncheon, which will have the theme, “Birds of a Feather.”

It will be held Friday, Nov. 4, at 10:30 a.m. at South Shore Harbour Resort, featuring fashions from Dillard’s with Lenny Matuszewski back as producer.

This popular event is being chaired by Wendy Shaw and is open to the public. Details for purchasing tickets, advertising in the program, underwriting and sponsorship opportunities, and auction item or cash donations, may be found on the website at clearlakepanhellenic.org.

Meanwhile, Wendy, Lisa and Kay Lee aren’t the only ones making plans to attend; so are Kelsey

McNeil, Sue Ellen Jennings, Emmeline Dodd, Michelle Richardson, Sue Broughton, Sheryl Williams, Macy Ann Williams, Darla McKitrick, Becky Hensley, Karen Moon, Kathryn Vernau, Peggy Clause, Corinne McVay, and Jenny

Frantz, to name a few.

RNASA says thank you to its many gala volunteers

ONE OF THE biggest Bay Area events of the year is the annual Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA) Gala, which requires a lot of work all year around. So much work that officers decided years ago to thank those who work to put it together with an appreciation dinner each year.

This year’s dinner was held at Lakewood Yacht Club in Seabrook with RNASA Chairman Rodolfo Gonzalez and his wife, Anangela, and many of the board members and their spouses joining in the fun and enjoying the delicious dinner. RNASA also awarded $5,000 scholarships to three area students during the evening. They are:

Clear Lake High grad Tatiana Vassiliev, daughter of Nickolai and Olga Vassiliev and an intern at the Johnson Space Center who was in the top 1 percent of her class and plans to attend MIT; Aaron “Bryce” Wilfert, Air Force Academy cadet and son of Aaron and Whitney Wilfert who plans to serve in the Air Force or Space Force and support NASA; Rajiv Iyer, son of Bala and Anitha Iyer of The Woodlands who plans to attend Northwestern University and major in computer science.

Photos by Mary Alys Cherry

RNASA Chairman Rodolfo Gonzalez and his wife, Anangela, look over the crowd as they arrive at the RNASA Appreciation Dinner.

Early arrivals for the RNASA Appreciation Dinner at Lakewood Yacht Club included Bob Wren and his wife, Jordis, left, shown here enjoying the event with Alan Wylie. SAIC Business Director Charles Stegemoeller and his wife, Annette, from left, stop to say hello to Space Center Houston execs -- CEO William Harris and Director of Business Enterprises Tommy Wright as they arrive at Lakewood Yacht Club for the RNASA Appreciation Dinner. Cindy Porterfield, right, wife of former Rotary President Mike Porterfield, shares a laugh with attorney and longtime Rotarian Delia Stephens, who had congressional candidate Jon Haire as her guest.