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APRIL 2022
SECTION ONE
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At the luncheon, 11 Las Madrinas members were honored for their extraordinary generosity to the organization and the hospital, including Ann Dobson Barrett, Hilary Esketh Crahan, Diane Trasky Hawley, Alison Shea Knoll, Annabel Darling Montgomery, Jaclyn Allison Hill Quinlan, Alison Lynch Reilly, Anne Milias Ryan, Alison Holland Thompson, Megan Lynch Webber and Shannon Seiter Williamson. Their names will be added to the Las Madrinas Plaque displayed in the lobby of CHLA. An additional six members were honored with the newly created Las Madrinas Butterfly Plaque, which is designed to recognize existing Plaque Honorees for their continued beneficence. The Las Madrinas Butterfly Honorees are Sarah Keller Cox, the late Michele McGarry Crahan, Megan McLeod Hernandez, Sarah
NEW MEMBERS of Las Madrinas include (left to right) Sujie Ha Min, Mary Catherine Kribs Loureiro and Neville Wallis Anderson. Not pictured is new member Elaine Paul Seidel.
LAS MADRINAS’ newly honored members include, from left to right, Hilary Esketh Crahan, Ann Dobson Barrett, Diane Trasky Hawley, Alison Shea Knoll, Annabel Darling Montgomery, Jaclyn Allison Hill Quinlan, Megan Lynch Webber, Alison Lynch Reilly, Anne Milias Ryan, Alison Holland Thompson and Shannon Seiter Williamson.
Mage Keller, Kathleen Leavey McCarthy and Elayne Griffin Techentin. The new board of directors
for 2022 was elected, and three new Las Madrinas members — Sujie Ha Min, Mary Catherine Kribs Loureiro and Neville
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Wallis Anderson (of Hancock Park) — were introduced. The crowds continued to gather in mid-March, albeit outdoors in the case of Big Sunday. The organization’s seventh annual gala welcomed 300 people and honored Larchmont locals Charlie Hess and Aliza Lesser. The event was held March 13 on the playground of Baldwin Hills Elementary School, where Big Sunday has painted many murals over past years. The Blue Breeze Band performed, and Bludso’s Bar & Que catered. Local
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photographer Joel Lipton directed Big Sunday’s signature “Something in Common” photo project, and local artist Cathy Weiss oversaw her sun mosaic project. The gala had 50 generous sponsors and featured its first online auction. Kendis Wilbourne and Wells Fargo Bank also were honored. Many Assistance League of Los Angeles volunteers and beneficiaries were out and about in nearby Hollywood on March 16. “Not one, not two but three dresses!” was just the start of what girls who attended carried away from the 12th annual Prom Day! The happy event took place at the League’s new chapter house after a two-year hiatus because of COVID-19. Prom Day! is a pop-up boutique (organized by the Assistance League’s Operation School Bell) that helps more than 200 at-risk, homeless and foster students of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) each year. (Please turn to page 8)
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BIG SUNDAY honoree Aliza Lesser, right, with Stephanie Berenbaum, Big Sunday board member.
HONOREE Charlie Hess (left) with Big Sunday executive director David Levinson. Photos by Erlinda Olvera
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