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civic
The Houston Area Women’s Center has named attorney Shawn Raymond as its board chairman for the next two years. He has been on the panel since 2005. New board member are Mary E. Ainslie, Sandra Ramirez Alutman, Geonor Kendrick Boykins, Rebecca Aizpuru Huddle, Carrie G. Potter, Kay Henze and Elaine Williams.
Area resident Ken Macpherson has been honored by the Museum District Business Alliance with a Community Improvement Award for his work in seeing that Wharton Elementary School remained open.
The school, located at 900 W. Gray St., which promotes multilingual, multicultural curriculum had been on an HISD closure list prior to community efforts to save it.
Macpherson was cited as a leader of the Friends of Wharton effort.
Gracie Cavnar, who founded the Recipe for Success Foundation to combat childhood obesity, was one of ten honorees recognized by L’Oréal Paris’ third annual Women of Worth program.
Representing a variety of causes, including education, children’s advocacy, health initiatives, special needs and female empowerment, each honoree received $5,000 from L’Oréal Paris for their charitable organizations, plus a $5,000 matching donation made in their name to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, the 11-year charitable partner of L’Oréal Paris.
Philanthropic
The five children of Judge James Noel have endowed Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law with $4 million for a deanship in their father’s name.
Noel’s offspring, Carol Noel King, Robert C. Noel, Edmund O. Noel and William D. Noel, and their families all live in the River Oaks area.
“Only a small number of law schools in the country have endowed deanships, and even fewer are endowed at the $5 million (total) level,” John B. Attanasio, dean of the Dedman School.
Advocacy
Nancy Thorington was the honoree at the recent Angels of Hope luncheon, a Child Advocates Inc. fundraiser.
Child Advocates mobilizes court appointed volunteers to break the vicious cycle of child abuse.
Thorington, a former commercial real estate banker, trained as a court appointed advocate volunteer in 1996, and served in that capacity for seven years.
Since 2003 she has been doing committee work for the organization. She served as chairman of the Friends of Child Advocates and was its board chairman. Currently, she is on the Friends’ governance council and nominating committee.
The Houston Area Women’s Center has named attorney Shawn Raymond as its board chairman for the next two years. He has been on the panel since 2005. New board member are Mary E. Ainslie, Sandra Ramirez Alutman, Geonor Kendrick Boykins, Rebecca Aizpuru Huddle, Carrie G. Potter, Kay Henze and Elaine Williams.
Area resident Ken Macpherson has been honored by the Museum District Business Alliance with a Community Improvement Award for his work in seeing that Wharton Elementary School remained open.
The school, located at 900 W. Gray St., which promotes multilingual, multicultural curriculum had been on an HISD closure list prior to community efforts to save it.
Macpherson was cited as a leader of the Friends of Wharton effort.
Gracie Cavnar, who founded the Recipe for Success Foundation to combat childhood obesity, was one of ten honorees recognized by L’Oréal Paris’ third annual Women of Worth program.
Representing a variety of causes, including education, children’s advocacy, health initiatives, special needs and female empowerment, each honoree received $5,000 from L’Oréal Paris for their charitable organizations, plus a $5,000 matching donation made in their name to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, the 11-year charitable partner of L’Oréal Paris.
Philanthropic
The five children of Judge James Noel have endowed Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law with $4 million for a deanship in their father’s name.
Noel’s offspring, Carol Noel King, Robert C. Noel, Edmund O. Noel and William D. Noel, and their families all live in the River Oaks area.
“Only a small number of law schools in the country have endowed deanships, and even fewer are endowed at the $5 million (total) level,” John B. Attanasio, dean of the Dedman School.
Advocacy
Nancy Thorington was the honoree at the recent Angels of Hope luncheon, a Child Advocates Inc. fundraiser.
Child Advocates mobilizes court appointed volunteers to break the vicious cycle of child abuse.
Thorington, a former commercial real estate banker, trained as a court appointed advocate volunteer in 1996, and served in that capacity for seven years.
Since 2003 she has been doing committee work for the organization. She served as chairman of the Friends of Child Advocates and was its board chairman. Currently, she is on the Friends’ governance council and nominating committee.
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