Snapshots

Sweet Dupuy and Dan Falstad attended the New Orleans Ballet Theater “After Party.” The night featured champagne, dancing, a live painting by Artists Heather Hansen and Diogo de Lima and a silent auction. The focal point of the auction was the 26 pointe shoes that had been decorated by well-known artists.

Rob Barnett and Lisa Barnett, Children’s Museum of St. Tammany President of the Board, attend the Children Museum’s primary fundraising celebration, “Soaring Beyond Imagination.” The event was held at the Castine Center in Mandeville and was sponsored by Ochsner Health System, St. Tammany Parish Hospital, McMath Construction and LeBlanc Pediatrics.

Gala Chair Couple Sally and Bobby Bourgeois spoke at the Harry Tompson Center Gala. This year’s gala was fais do-do-themed, held at the Jesuit High School Commons, included food from local restaurants and a silent auction featuring 200 items.

Berengher Brechtel, Honorary Chair Couple Sheriff Newell Normand and Shawn Bridgewater-Normand, Anna Pepper Tompson and Richard Tompson attended the “2017 Harry Tompson Center Gala, Pass a Good Time with Father Harry.” The event’s proceeds benefited The Harry Tompson Center, a nonprofit organization founded to serve homeless persons in New Orleans.

Master of Ceremonies Lyons Yellin, Board of Directors Awardees Doug and Denise Thornton, Prep Awardee Coach Hank Tierney, Clarence Verdin receiving for Bobby Beathard the Pete Rozelle Awardee, Collegiate Awardee Coach Tommy Bowden, Roesler Media Awardee Larry Holder and President of the Touchdown Club Terry Lowe attended the annual “Touchdown Club of New Orleans Awards Banquet” honoring excellence in football at the professional, collegiate and high school levels at the Windsor Court Hotel in March.

Youth Ballet Members perform a can-can by Ballet Master Richard Rholdon at the Delta Festival Ballet’s annual fundraising gala. Over 150 guests attended “A NOLA Night in Paris” at Eiffel Society, which featured an auction and desserts donated by Lagniappe Catering, Tableau, Acosta and Affinity Group Paramount.

Emcees WVUE’s Shelley Brown and WWL’s Doug Mouton are pictured at The Children Museum of St. Tammany’s “Soaring Beyond Imagination.” The night featured music by the Bucktown Allstars, a silent auction and food from local restaurants.

William and Jane Davis and Marjorie and Gregory Schramel celebrate the opening of the new home of the Schramel Conservatory of Dance at the New Orleans Ballet Theater “After Party.” Guests were given neon markers to cover the walls with quotes and doodles, and to dance with DJ Ann Glaviano, while she spun vinyl records 1957-1973

Delta Festival Ballet graduating Seniors Maria Walter, Emily Licata, Maddie Abbott and Caroline Kavanaugh are honored with plaques for their years in the youth ballet at Delta Festival Ballet’s annual fundraising gala in March.

Historic French Quarter Easter Parade President Amy Carbonette and Janice Foulks welcomed new members at Foulks’ French Quarter Home for a coffee social.

Historic French Quarter Easter Parade member Penny Baumer posed with Hali Unger and Skylar Bryant of the Haute Dames Couture Millinery. Haute Dames attended the Easter Parade’s coffee social to exhibit their exotic hats that members could purchase for the parade.