The 2020 CDA Fall Benefit was held virtually on Friday, October 16th.
Celebrate the 130th anniversary of the Society’s Gilded Age founding with a talk by Shelby Carr on her new book, The Queen of Denver: Louise Sneed Hill and the Emergence of Modern High Society.
Proceeds will go to fund the initiatives of the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum (built in 1799), which is wholly owned and operated by The Colonial Dames of America.
PROGRAM:
Click here to view or print the event program.
LOCATION:
Zoom Conference
SCHEDULE:
Friday, October 16, 2020
7 pm ET: Cocktails and musical performance by renowned pianist and Colonial Dame Adryn Sumner
7:30 pm ET: Author and Colonial Dame Shelby Carr
RESERVATION LEVELS:
About Shelby Carr:
Shelby Carr has a background in history, historic preservation, genealogy, and museum work. Her new book is The Queen of Denver: Louise Sneed Hill and the Emergence of Modern High Society. She is a member of the Parent Chapter of CDA.
More about Shelby and her book.
Order a personalized copy of the book by emailing shelbyncarr@gmail.com.
Watch the official book trailer here.
About Adryn Sumner:
Adryn Sumner is a classical pianist and founder of Lit Classical. She is also First Vice President of CDA Chapter XXXI – South Carolina.
Benefit Chairmen
Anna Rich
Lauren Rose
Benefit Committee
Laurie Aldinger
Sumner Anderson
Catherine Brawer
Chapter XXIV – Atlanta
Kathi Chulick
John Chulick
Jennifer Wallace Dobbs
Robin Dougherty
Ashley Ganz
Sharon Hare
Pegi Ivancevich
Suzanne Boone Katz
Brantley Knowles
Peter Knowles
Jocelyn Lance
Carolyn Levin
Carol M. Lynch
Rebecca Madsen
Steven Madsen
Angela Parks Masand
Caroline McLain
Pamela Pate
Sandra Pearl
Erwin Pearl
Melanie Peterson
Laura Ramsay
Anna Rich
Dianne Robinson
Lauren Rose
Christine Rother
Virginia Hurtes Rouse
Beverley Sherrid
Susan Somerville-Hawes
Kathleen Springhorn
Jane Told
William Told, Jr.
Christine Tredway
Sharon Vaino
Jaan Vaino
Douglas Reid Weimer
Toni K. Wirth
Patrons
Evelyn Aucoin
Chapter II – Philadelphia
Chapter XXIII – Virginia
Deborah Kopinski
Christy Morris
Anne Nemetz
Susan Whitfield
Friends
Jane Campbell
Connie Grund
Margaret Gunn
Cathy Hedlund
Sharon Holt
Peggy Parker Johnson
Melissa Levesque
Ann Robinson King
Margaret MacKenzie
Lucy Patricola
Vicki Smith
Karen M. Stetler
Barbara Suhay
Adina Taylor
Julia D. Thieriot
Miller Gaffney Thomas
Chapter XXII – Michigan, in memory of Eva Lomerson Collins, Founding Chapter President