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From Trumpets To A Burst Of “Jet Trails,” Jim Keyes Flew High At 2024’s Folsom Award Dinner

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Thanks to a blocks-long lineup of cars, it seemingly took forever to get into the Hilton Anatole Hotel on Friday, May 17, for the 2024 Robert S. Folsom Leadership Award Dinner. The backup was a tribute to the popularity of James W. "Jim" Keyes, the person picked by the Methodist Health System Foundation to be this year's Folsom honoree. Checking in, the buzz was all … [Read more...] about From Trumpets To A Burst Of “Jet Trails,” Jim Keyes Flew High At 2024’s Folsom Award Dinner

JUST IN: Multi-Talented Jim Keyes To Receive the 2024 Robert S. Folsom Leadership Award

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The 2024 Folsom Leadership Award will be presented to multi-talented business and civic leader, philanthropist, author, artist, musician and commercial pilot Jim Keyes. According to Folsom Award Co-Chairs Nancy Ann and Ray Hunt, Lottye and Bobby Lyle and Carolyn and David Miller, the event will take place at a fun and elegant dinner on Friday, May 17, in the Hilton Anatole's … [Read more...] about JUST IN: Multi-Talented Jim Keyes To Receive the 2024 Robert S. Folsom Leadership Award

Mark Cuban, Valerie Freeman and Roland Parrish To Be 2021 JAD Business Hall Of Fame Honorees

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Like so many the Junior Achievement of Dallas team has had to “re-imagine” its annual Dallas Business Hall of Fame from in-person pressing the flesh with area leaders to virtually getting together at a distance. As always the big draw besides raising funds for JAD is the newest class members of the Hall of Fame’s laureates. And even a nasty old thing like COVID-19 couldn’t … [Read more...] about Mark Cuban, Valerie Freeman and Roland Parrish To Be 2021 JAD Business Hall Of Fame Honorees

Junior Achievement Of Dallas Business Hall of Fame Dinner Stars Warren, Reiff And Scovell

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Who knew Kelcy Warren was such a cut-up? The roughly 600 people who attended the 22nd Annual Junior Achievement of Dallas Business Hall of Fame dinner on Saturday, February 29, at the Omni Dallas Hotel, for starters. Warren, one of three 2020 Laureates inducted into the Hall of Fame that night along with Melissa Reiff and John Scovell, warned the crowd that his … [Read more...] about Junior Achievement Of Dallas Business Hall of Fame Dinner Stars Warren, Reiff And Scovell

Junior Achievement’s Dallas Business Hall Of Fame Reception Features A Roomful Of Laureates

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For more than two decades, Junior Achievement of Dallas' Dallas Business Hall of Fame has been honoring local business and civic leaders who've inspire greatness in the next generation. The collective impact of those honorees — or Laureates, as they're called — was on fully display on Thursday, January 30, when Junior Achievement President Jan Murfield hosted the 2020 JA Hall … [Read more...] about Junior Achievement’s Dallas Business Hall Of Fame Reception Features A Roomful Of Laureates

Fashions Fluttered In The Season’s First Black-Tie Gala For The Dallas Symphony Orchestra

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While the corny-dog crowd strolled the Midway and the exhibitions on the second day of the 2019 State Fair of Texas, the beautiful butterfly people clustered at the Meyerson Symphony Center on Saturday, September 14. The gathering of the North Texas black-tie set was for the 2019 Dallas Symphony Orchestra Gala, with cool-guy violinist Joshua Bell on stage with the Dallas … [Read more...] about Fashions Fluttered In The Season’s First Black-Tie Gala For The Dallas Symphony Orchestra

MySweetCharity Photo Gallery Alert: 2019 Dallas Symphony Gala

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Using Dallas Symphony Gala Co-Chair Barbara Daseke as his muse, event producer Todd Ficus filled the Meyerson with fluttering faux butterflies and whimsical wonder for the fall season's first black-tie gala on Saturday, September 28. Adding to the occasion the guests arose to the occasion with ladies in fabulous gowns and the gents stealing a bit of the … [Read more...] about MySweetCharity Photo Gallery Alert: 2019 Dallas Symphony Gala

Lisa Troutt Put Brook Hollow In The Winner’s Circle For The 2019 Sweetheart Ball

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While the British may boast of the Royal Ascot’s stiff-upper-lip finery and class, 2019 Sweetheart Ball Chairman Lisa Troutt transformed Brook Hollow Golf Club into an homage to the Sport of Kings benefiting the cardiology research and programs at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas on Saturday, April 6. It made such perfect sense. Lisa's … [Read more...] about Lisa Troutt Put Brook Hollow In The Winner’s Circle For The 2019 Sweetheart Ball