PARTIES EXTRA: May 18, 2007- Dancing with Star Members

BEST OF THE BEST…Lotus Club members and guests dined upstairs at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club before taking to the dance floor.

Tables were filled with beautiful flowers and the lively group of club members drew table numbers for their seating arrangements. Men (some wearing white dinner jackets) wore their Lotus Club pins in their lapels of their formal attire.

Johnson Hightower is club president and Susan Hoffman, Lisa Pierce and Lela Sullivan are on the arrangements committee.

At the dance were Barbara and Jay Quillian, Candy and Chuck Ainsworth, Kathy and John Griffin, Millie and Johnson Hightower, Linda and Ron James, Jane and David Thompson, Lela and Dr. Mark Sullivan, Mary and Mike Mahaffey, Lynn and Dr. Mike Kelly, Jane and Paul Austin, Barbara and Bud Beeler, Holly and Clay Healey, Sharon and Dr. John Bozalis, Lyn and Ted Elam, Mary Ann and Dr. Don Haskins and Jill and Tom King.

HOWDY Y’ALL…It was a western evening at the Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa when members of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation had the spring board meeting and awards banquet.

The menu included all Oklahoman grown foods featuring buffalo, pork and chicken. The western swing band “Asleep At the Wheel “ entertained.

200 people were at the meeting which honored OMRF scientists Linda Thompson, Ph.D; Dr. Fletcher Taylor jr. and OMRF board member W. Lance Benham III. Thompson received the Edward L. and Thelma Gaylord Prize for Scientific Achievement; Taylor was recognized as an OMRF Distinguished Career Scientist and Benham received the Board of Director’s Distinguished Service Award.

Guests included Betsy Thorpe, Jim Bass, Sharon Bell, Len Cason, Mark Collins, Judge Claire Eagan, Ken (cq)Fergeson, Malinda Berry Fischer, John Green, Martha Griffin, Jacqui Haglund, Holly Healey, Randy Hill, Harrison Levy jr., James Mueller, Tom Parrish, Justice Steven Taylor and Dr. John Saxon III.

CONGRATULATIONS…Kate Stanton and Flo Stanton check out the dessert…a beautiful chocolate cake with a “K.”

CONGRATULATIONS…Kate Stanton was honored at a luncheon May 12 after commencement ceremonies at the University of Oklahoma where she received her Master’s Degree in Human Relations.

Lunch was at “Fancy That” Restaurant in Norman and hostess was her mother Flo Stanton. There were monogrammed, pink- iced cookies and a large pink cake with the letter “K”. Cookies were party favors for the guests and big bouquets of pink roses were on all the tables.

Among the guests were Clarke Stroud, Kari Jacobson, Kami Gantt, Bill Wallace, Amy Bodwell, Stacy and Rennie Cook, Sara and Dr. Michael Daves, Cindy Post, Lori Crawford, Becky Post, Samantha Suchala, Kim and David Bowe and Kristin Partridge.