While the harvest moon was a shade slimmer, the season’s earliest cold front had dropped temperatures from the low 90s to the lows 70s on Wednesday, October 11.
And in Preston Hollow, it was dreamy at Caren and Pete Kline’s estate for the Crystal Charity Ball’s picnic salute to the committee member husbands. There was no check-in at the front door. Instead guests like Tanya and Pete Foster, Leslie and Bryan Diers, Lisa and Clay Cooley, Vinnie and Malcolm Reuben, Janelle Walker and Patty and Mark Leyendecker left their cars, like Rich Enthoven’s snazzy blue vintage Corvette, in the circular driveway and took the brick pathway to the backyard with its covered terrace adorned with buffet, the pool, bars along the wall and candle-lit lanterns.
It was a bravo project for the Klines. Just a month before, Caren’s 91-year-old father, Robert Whiteman, had died.
In one part of the grounds, Shelle Sills reported that after supporting Michal Powell’s chairing The Salvation Army’s “Doing The Most Good Luncheon” on Thursday, November 16, she would be the underwriting chair for the 2018 Celebrating Women Luncheon.
Husband Michael Sills was concerned over the fires blazing in California. While his favorite vineyards were pretty safe from the fires, he indicated that until the final flicker was out, the state’s economic health was still to be determined.
Speaking of California, Neiman’s NorthPark GM/VP Malcolm Reuben told friends that the day after Christmas, he and wife Vinnie Reuben were starting his retirement by heading to California.
Mary Clare Finney reported that she was redecorating her two Park Cities homes. While she claimed that she initially had planned to redo only two rooms in one of the houses, she hinted that Chris Branscun had been the one who encouraged her to expand her plans to include the entire place. Chris protested that he shouldn’t be blamed for the bigger picture.
And speaking of re-doing, 2017 CCB Chair Pam Perella has already started planning for post-CCB life. Taking a couple of months off following the Saturday, December 2nd fundraiser at the Anatole, she’ll start the redecoration of the Perella homestead. But Pam added that the year had flown by and she had loved it.
At 7:45 p.m. BB&T North Texas Region President Rob Bowlby addressed the group. Unlike previous event sponsors, like Comerica’s Ralph Babb’s simply congratulating CCB for their efforts, Rob with notes in hand told of the company’s involvement in the area and thanking CCB ladies.
But as the sun set, so did the lighting. One guest, upon being greeted by “a friend” and told she looked terrific, admitted that she couldn’t see who had given her the hug and good words.
Still another guest giggled, “The lighting is perfect. It makes the wrinkles disappear.”
Claire Emanuelson in stilettos and Richard Dix in tie admitted this was not their normal picnic garb. Due to previous commitments, they had to go high-brow.