The Jefferson Awards Foundation: TIME HONORED
When and where: Saturday night at Nova Place, North Side.
#ItsTime: Each year, the TIME-HONORED event has a different time-based theme for this costumes-optional (but encouraged!) fundraiser. For 2018, the theme was: The Future — Where Anything Is Possible. This celebrated that public service can positively impact any tomorrow.
Many guests wore futuristic costumes from silver mylar skirts to light-up shoes including Carol Luckner’s and Troy Cady’s glowing silver swirls, Dr. Kevin Kraemer’s “space cowboy” and David Esch’s dazzling silver silk suit. No matter what era you came from, all the guests were treated to custom designs from Beanie’s Face Painting. Partygoers also reveled in the out-of-this-world sounds by Clint Hoover’s Theremin, lifting their gazes skyward for two dazzling performances by the Iron City Aerialists, and danced to DJ Zombo while huge screens glowed and cosmic lights swirled courtesy of Gray Phoenix Productions. But this party with a purpose was more than just a galactic getdown.
The Jefferson Awards Foundation’s mission is to power others to have maximum impact on the things they care about most. This fundraiser helped raise more than $15,000 to the Students In Action service learning program that trains and empowers young people to develop into confident individuals with tremendous leadership skills, well equipped to positively impact the lives of those around them through volunteer service. Kate Dewey presented the 2018 Honoree for the Jefferson Awards Foundation’s Kate Dewey Award for Lifetime Achievement in Public Service to Magdeline Jensen, CEO of the YWCA Greater Pittsburgh. She has recently retired and the award honored her many years of service to helping eliminate racism and sexism in our communities.
#SEEN: Emcees DeWitt Walton, Christian Sesek and Kelsey Wolfe. Also attending were the foundation’s regional executive director Jodi S. Klebick, Evelyn Castillo, John Mahood, David Esch, Julia Gleason, Connie Mabin, Maria Anderson, Jerry DeNucci, Myla Templonuevo-Granadino, Megan Livingston, board chair Amanda Fisher and Nick Fisk, Fayezeh Haji Hassan, Gisele Fetterman, and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald.