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Find out morePhotography by Rebecca Baxter April 2, 2018
Barbara Gibbs
Edie and David Chaifetz
Peppi Elona and Wendy Surkis
Jill Anderson, Eva Slane, Alan Anderson
Beatriz Paniego-Bejan, Josephine Eisenberg, Veronica Miller, Kim Davis, Sharon Kunkel
Nelle Miller, Patricia Caswell, Roxie Jerde, Audrey Robbins
Julie Leach, Marian Moss
Christine Jennings, George and Edna Sherrell, Judy Cuppy, Cornelle Maxfield
Karen and Randall Morgan
Donna Koffman, Ashley Kozel, Marko Radisic, Charlie Ann Syprett
Nicole Kingman, Louise Kingman
Sheldon Rhoden, Debra Flynt-Garrett, Michael Mendez, Nate Jacobs
Tomasa Mendes, Louella Phillips, Shirley Michaud
Bernice and Gary Giscombe
Doris Johnson, Lynne Ross (Chairs)
Lois and Bernard Watson
Pauline Parish, Barbara Zdravecky
Amaya Sunders, Amaya Glover
Lee and Caroline Wetherington
The evening also celebrated the completion of renovations to the Binz Building on WBTT's 10th Street/Orange Avenue campus.
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