St. Charles Avenue September 2021

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Let te r f ro m t h e Ed i to r

A Note from Bev We’re Back! We’re back with our new redesign for St. Charles Avenue magazine celebrating our 25th Anniversary and it’s over the top! Thanks to Ali Sullivan and Morgan Griffith for all their hard work! We’re featuring new columns and have reworked everything – content, fonts, colors and more! Thanks also to our fearless leader Todd Matherne for all his support through the pandemic! As I look back to our first year, when Terri Havens was publisher and I was Editor, we had a job to do to sell this brand-new magazine that was the brainchild of Bill Metcalf. Terri and I would walk into stores and of course buy something, so we could tell them about Avenue, the magazine spotlighting the A-List, the movers and shakers who put on the fabulous fundraisers for which New Orleans is known! This new magazine spotlighted New Orleans society, celebration and

style, and we still do that today. We are so excited to be back and to spotlight on our cover the 43rd “Hancock Whitney Zoo-To-Do” September 17 and “Zoo-To-Do for Kids sponsored by Children’s Hospital New Orleans” September 10! Thanks to our cover models: 2021 “Hancock Whitney Zoo-To-Do” Chair Leslie P. Gottsegen; 2021 “Zoo-To-Do for Kids sponsored by Children’s Hospital New Orleans” Chair Betsy T. Laborde; Surgeon-inChief of Children’s Hospital Ellis Arjmand M.D., MMM, Ph.D.; Vice President of Corporate Banking of Hancock Whitney Lindsey Wands; and Audubon Commission President J. Kelly Duncan! Put on your mask and enjoy a night under the stars, complete with fabulous food and drinks and entertainment, all to support conservation, our zoo and the whooping cranes! Visit ZooToDo.org and KidsZooToDo. org for tickets and information. We can’t wait for you to see

our new features showcasing designers, Philanthropic Faces, fashion and hosting tips, our new arts calendar, the return of Diane Sustendal’s social column, our 25th Anniversary feature, the “Registry of Charitable Events: September-December,” What’s Hot for our 25th Anniversary and so much more! Again, my sincere thanks to Morgan Packard Griffith who's one of a kind! She's smart, stylish, funny and one of my best friends. She makes this magazine work! And thanks to all of you who read Avenue! If you’ve received this magazine, you’re on our A-List and are a positive New Orleanian who’s making our city a better place! Keep it up and please get your vaccination and wear your mask; we’ll get through this! Bev Church

The 1997 editorial staff of St. Charles Avenue working hard shooting photos for the article “Fridays at Galatoire’s.” Shown here are photographer Chris Granger, then-Managing Editor Sue Strachan, Bev (me) and Alexis Swanson who wrote the Nostalgia column.

Terri Havens, Avenue’s first publisher, with her son, Prentiss, in 1997.

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How to Host The Pre-Party

5min
pages 72-77

premiere issue highlighted the 1995 New Orleans Museum of Art's “Odyssey Ball”

5min
pages 70-71

Celebrations

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pages 78-80

With This Ring Green–Rusovich

3min
pages 68-69

and Down to Earth

2min
pages 66-67

Junior League of New Orleans' Lagniappe

14min
pages 57-65

“Hannah G. Solomon Award Ceremony”

2min
pages 30-31

Snapshots Quick looks at nonprofit events around town

11min
pages 38-43

“Home for the Holidays”

1min
pages 32-33

Conservative Congregation’s “60 Years of Support, Service & Song”

2min
pages 34-35

Park’s “Lark Picnic in the Park”

2min
pages 28-29

President & CEO of Greater New Orleans Foundation

5min
pages 26-27

dishes news of the society set

3min
pages 24-25

Changemakers Sarah Andert, Owner of Vintage Green Review

2min
pages 22-23

Arts Calendar

1min
pages 14-15

Bev's Note A letter from Executive Editor Bev Church

2min
pages 10-11

Morgan's Note A letter from Editor Morgan Packard Griffith

2min
pages 12-13

What to Wear Dr. Dierdre Hooper suggests outfits to wear to the “2021 Hancock Whitney Zoo-To-Do”

1min
pages 20-21

What's Hot Silver Anniversary

1min
pages 16-17

Hagenbring, Artist & Designer

2min
pages 18-19
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