It was a changing of guards, or rather chairs for Cattle Baron’s Ball on Thursday, November 16, at Truluck’s. Just ten days earlier the CBB newbies had had their orientation cocktail party across the street at ZaZa’s Art House and Social Gallery.
As the valets were swamped by the Range Rovers, Mercedes and Bentleys, the ladies who are as comfortable in stilettos as Saint Laurent over-the-knee boots arrived en masse for the fall luncheon .
Inside 2017 CBB Co-Chair Anne Stodghill was reporting on her after-life following the Saturday, October 21, fundraiser at Gilley’s. Seems she’s taken up jewelry designing and preparing for the holidays.
A few minutes later 2017 CBB Co-Chair Sunie Solomon arrived in the valet line. But before leaving her car, she had to get something. Inside her purse was her daughter’s lunch for drop off.
While Anne and Sunie scooted upstairs for a sneak peek photo with the mega check that would be presented to the American Cancer Society during the lunch, 2018 CBB Co-Chairs Katy Bock and Jonika Nix were welcoming the overflow crowd and preparing to kick off the year-long journey in fundraising for cancer research and treatments.
Thanks to Truluck’s special events coordinator Rebecca Wright and CBB committee members Amanda Shufeldt, Paige Westhoff, Megan Flanagan and Samantha Wortley, the group including Nancy Gopez, Kristi Bare and Lee McDonald,eventually took their places in the party room for a lunch of delicious meal including a Sonoma greens salad, an entrée (choice of beef tenderloin filet, simply prepared salmon and linguini primavera) and a Truluck’s signature variety platters of desserts.
In addition to the official reveal of the $4M check, CBB Deidre Bacala told the group of the various opportunities available for CBB members regarding Hope Lodge and the other opportunities for people to support Cattle Barons.