Blair Carty and Sheryl Pearl
On May 3, members of the Rick Rackers Auxiliary of Assistance League of Long Beach dressed in pearls to install the 2016-2017 governing body officers led by incoming chair, Sheryl Pearl.
Assistance League president Suzanne Powell was on hand to present Sheryl with the Winifred Campbell white orchid corsage, a 74-year tradition for Rick Rackers chairmen.
Blair Carty, outgoing chair, presented the annual report to the attendees before presenting chapter liaison Bonnie Dorrans with a Rick Rackers pendant and announcing that Bonnie would continue as chapter liaison in the coming year. Advisers Suzanne Nosworthy and Kathy Wade were introduced, along with honorary advisers, Jane Jackson, Melva Miller, Ellie Schaffner and Vickie Sullos. Honoring new members, membership chair Pam Karam presented flowers to Valerie Beu and Michelle Wimbish.
Rick Rackers social chairman Wendy Corzine and her committee styled the event in glamorous black and white to highlight the luncheon theme “Pearls of Wisdom.”
The theme was carried into the announcement of the new board whose members were decked out in pearls representing their positions in the coming year: Valerie Beu, Holly Reinhard, Karin Jenkins, Katy Wade, Press and Elizabeth Borsting, Jennifer Peterson.
Chair-elect Sheryl Pearl shared her motivation to join Rick Rackers and the breakthrough moment when she understood just how instrumental Operation School Bell is to children in need attending Long Beach Unified School District schools. Pearl’s husband, Doug Pearl, her children, Scott and Chloe and her close friends, Suzy Tebbetts and Dawn Waller, were among the 65 attending.
Seen at the scene: Rick Rackers Women of the Year recipients Melva Miller, Suzanne Nosworthy, Shirley Wild, Jill Rosenberg, Mary Alice Braly and Annemarie Forster; also, Suzanne Powell, Vickie Sullos, Patti Brown, Kathy Wade, Jane Jackson, Ellie Schaffner, Cindy Summers, Bonnie Dorrans, Dianne Gleason, Valerie Hayward, Cynthia Terry, Beth Wohlgezogen, Catherine Vandenberg Smith, Nancy Smith, Mary Lee Freeman, Michelle Ward, Karen Sprague, Katey Conley and Annette Kashiwabara.
Assistance League of Long Beach’s Operation School Bell provides approximately 10,000 school uniforms to students of the Long Beach Unified School District annually. For more information please call: 562-627-5650.
