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The Guidance Center
marks its
50th
Anniversary in 2008
Agency to hold gala
fund-raising dinner
on Saturday, October 11,
2008
at The Henry Ford Museum in
Dearborn
The Guidance
Center,
an agency that over the last five decades has
become a recognized leader that has
transformed mental health and human services to meet the
changing needs of the community, will
celebrate its 50th anniversary later this
year.
The Southgate-based non-profit
organization, which
last year served more
than 17,000 children and adults, will hold a
Gala Fund-raising Dinner on Saturday, October
11, 2008 at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. Funds
raised from the event will benefit the agency’s under-funded
programs at 22 locations in southeast Michigan – spanning from
literacy and mentoring to substance abuse and developmental
disabilities.
The
October 11
festivities will begin with a 6:30 p.m. cocktail reception in the
museum’s Prechter Promenade featuring the smooth jazz sound of the
Colton Weatherston Trio, which will be followed by dinner and
dancing in the world-famous museum’s collection of all things
Americana including transportation, decorative arts and more. The
popular band, Fifty Amp Fuse, will rock the house as the
after-dinner entertainment.
Honorary chairs for the 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner
include:
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Congressman John and Debbie Dingell
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Governor Jennifer M. Granholm and
First Gentleman Daniel G. Mulhern
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Denise Ilitch and Jim Scalici
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Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano
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U.S. Senator Carl Levin
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Devin and Corey Scillian
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John and Nancy Colina
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Waltraud Prechter
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Budd Lynch
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Nancy Tuinier
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Southgate Mayor Norma Wurmlinger
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News-Herald Publisher Jim Williams
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Terry and Dawn Riddle
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Richard and Kathleen Genthe
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Rosalind Meyer
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Michael and Barbara Lott
Sponsorship
opportunities for the Gala, as well as ticket
information, can be found by choosing one of the links at the left.
Interested parties also may contact either
Victoria Cornwell or Fran Waszkiewicz at The Guidance Center at
734-785-7700.
Additional events and activities,
which will be announced throughout the year, also will be held to
commemorate this 50th Anniversary.
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