Good Deeds
• When Don Rowe experienced severe and sudden hemorrhaging last February and needed immediate care, he was rushed to Sarasota Memorial’s Emergency Care Center (ECC). Because of the expedient treatment he received from Dean Hautamaki, M.D., and Sarasota Memorial Health Care System (SMHCS) staff, he was able to achieve a speedy and complete recovery.
• Don and Joy Rowe’s gratitude was the reason for their surprise announcement February 25, 2006 at Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation’s 30th Anniversary Corinthian Gala. The couple announced their $100,000 pledge to benefit the Foundation’s ongoing EMERGENCY CARE 24/7 We’re Always Here $15 million capital campaign. Their gift was made in honor of their close friend, Gala Chair and Foundation Trustee Margaret Wise, for her kindness and support.
In recognition of their generous support, a room in the new ECC facility will be named in their honor. Information about the Foundation’s ongoing EMERGENCY CARE 24/7 We’re Always Here campaign to assist in the funding of the Emergency Care Center can be obtained by contacting the Foundation office at (941) 917-1286 or visiting the Web site at www.smhf.org.
Business News
• Lyn Cassan has opened Cassan & Company, LLC, a full-service communications company. The firm focuses on strategic marketing and business development activities for business-to-business, health care, and other companies with a consumer customer base. The former manager of marketing communications for Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Cassan has 12 years of health care marketing experience in the Tampa Bay regional market. Cassan also was a vice president at Clarke Advertising & Public Relations where she provided account management and business development expertise for business and health care clients. For more information contact Lyn at 941-323-9560 or email lc@cassanco.com.
• Michael P. Melnick recently attended the American Gem Society's annual membership meeting, Conclave, featuring four days of 50 educational sessions led by industry experts and a fashion show produced by Vogue magazine, a Conde Nast publication. Showcasing jewelry, glamorous Vogue models, and cutting-edge fashion design, the Vogue-produced show captured the imagination and attention of nearly 700 American Gem Society member attendees, including Melnick. Armel Jewelers is located at 22 N. Boulevard of Presidents in Sarasota.
| • Chloe Lee and her partners, Pam Wall and Fran Jensen have opened Chloe’s Bead Shop in Bradenton. The shop is Bradenton’s first full service bead shop.
Chloe’s features eclectic trade beads, semiprecious beads, organics, Bali silver, Czech glass, Swarovski crystals, tools and findings and more. A variety of classes are being taught for beginner, intermediate and advanced beaders. Also, available are the popular Girls Night Out private parties and birthday parties.
The store is at 2406 Manatee Ave., E and is open Tuesday through Saturday. (747-7759).
Appointments
• Senior Friendship Centers announced that Director of Communications & Public Education Erin McLeod, will assume additional responsibilities as Chief Operations Officer for the nonprofit that serves more than 20,000 older adults in Sarasota, Charlotte, Collier, Desoto and Lee counties annually. In addition to leading communications efforts, she will assume corporate-wide oversight responsibility for all program service operations as well as human resources.
• Director of Healthy Aging Services Jane Icely is now Vice President of Programs for Sarasota County, adding oversight responsibilities for Sarasota County Friendship-at-Home and Nutrition programs.
• Drector of Corporate & Foundation Development Debra Sandberg, will assume the title of Vice President of Development, continuing to expand Senior Friendship Centers’ fundraising and endowment efforts on corporate-wide basis, in Sarasota, Lee, Collier, DeSoto, and Charlotte counties.
• The Gulfshore division of CurtCo Media announces Clarke Dvoskin as Account Executive of Sarasota Magazine. As Account Executive, Dvoskin will concentrate on advertising sales for Sarasota Magazine and a select number of the division’s other publications. Dvoskin has 15 years of experience in print advertising sales.
• Clear Channel Radio of Sarasota welcomed Judy Bailey as the new Director of Sales. She comes from the Tallahassee Clear Channel Cluster. The last 5 years Judy was the Market Manager in Tallahassee and received the 2003 Market Manager of the Year award from Radio and Records. Prior to her Market Manager’s role Judy was the Director of Sales for the Clear Channel Cluster in Tallahassee.
| • InterContinental Hotels Group announced the appointments of Leslie Power, general manager, Hotel Indigo Sarasota and Rene Hampton, director of sales, Hotel Indigo Sarasota. Hotel Indigo Sarasota will be the brand’s seventh property to open, planned for later this year. A veteran of the hospitality industry, Power most recently served as regional director, Sales & Marketing, Hilton Hotel Corporation.
As director of sales, Hampton will lead the sales team in developing group, individual and weekend leisure business travel for the new hotel. Prior to joining Hotel Indigo Sarasota, Hampton held management positions in sales with Thayer Lodging, Bank of America and Wet Seal, Inc.
Hotel Indigo Sarasota will be located at 1223 Boulevard of the Arts near the Van Wezel. In addition to 95 guest rooms, the hotel will also offer complimentary wireless access in all guest rooms and public spaces.
• The Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society named Sherren Baughman president at its annual meeting. Before moving to Sarasota, Baughman lived in Boca Grande where for many years she was director or the Boca Grande Art Alliance and was responsible for much of the organization's development.
• The Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society is a nonprofit organization with over 100 exhibiting members who reside in the counties of Sarasota, Pasco, Hillsborough. Pinellas, Manatee, Charlotte, and Lee. All watercolorist from these counties are invited to join and exhibit in the juried shows. Call 941-953-9538. Sandy Swan, who is licensed in both Colorado and Florida, has joined Capital Properties and Services office in the Landings Shopping Center.
• Bradenton resident Christy A. Trotter is the new Agency Manager/Fidelity Commercial Accounts for southwest Florida, which includes a good portion of the Gulf Coast.
Trotter, a title insurance professional with six+ years experience in the St. Louis and Bradenton/Sarasota markets, will be responsible for overseeing and servicing FNTIC's commercial real estate accounts throughout an eight-county market that includes portions of Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, as well as Charlotte, Glades, DeSoto, Highlands, Hardee and Polk counties.
| • Sarah Daily is the new Marketing Manager for Sarasota Magazine. Daily will oversee all marketing for Sarasota Magazine, Sarasota/Manatee Business, and the Sarasota division’s other publications. She most recently worked at AE Design Group as a Brand Strategy Consultant.
• Gloria Musicae chose June LeBell to be its new Executive Director, succeeding long-time leader Bernard Hahnke, who announced his desire to retire from the post after nine years of service to the choral group. Both Hahnke and LeBell continue as singers with the ensemble.
LeBell has delighted Sarasota’s music lovers with her classical music reviews in the Longboat, Osprey and Siesta Observer publications and pens the program notes for Gloria Musicae's repertoire.
An award winning radio broadcaster, host, writer and producer of numerous programs, LeBell has the distinction of being the first female announcer in the USA for classical music and was staff announcer for New York’s prestigious commercial classical radio station of the New York times, WQXR FM & AM from 1973 -2002.
In addition to her position on the Gloria Musicae Board of Directors, LeBell also serves on the boards of the Sarasota Concert Assoc., SILL, and the West Coast Children’s Chorus, as well as on the advisory boards for the Berkshire Choral Festival, Curtis Institute, the New York Philharmonic and the Marilyn Horne Foundation. She is the author of “Kitchen Classics from the Philharmonic,” with illustrations by Al Hirschfeld, and a contributor to Opera News, Gourmet, and Stage Bill.
LeBell, an accomplished soprano, has had extensive performing experience with a number of choruses and orchestras. Most recently, she was the Manager for the Glenridge Performing Arts Center before leaving and taking the reins for Gloria Musicae.
• Before joining FNTIC she was with Stewart Title Guaranty and Commonwealth Title in St. Louis. The Board of Directors of Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida, Inc. was rededicated at its annual meeting at the Gulf Coast Event and Conference on the new, regional Girl Scout campus. The officers of the Board of Directors are: President; Jenny L. Ronk, Sarasota First Vice President; Linda Getzen, Sarasota Second Vice President; Ann Carrasquillo, North Fort Myers, Treasurer; Susan Welch, Sarasota, Secretary; Frances Robine, Cape Coral.
• Joan Tufts has also joined Capital Properties and Services. She has a background in real estate sales, recruiting, training and management. She is Premier and Quality Service Certified (QSC) and member of Women's Council of Realtors (WCR).
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