A Beautiful Evening

Social gridlock reigned at the Music Academy when Santa Barbara Beautiful staged its 58th annual award celebration with 200 guests at the Kuehn Court reception with wandering musical troubadours Ted Hoagland, Chris Judge, and Collin Richardson.

The awards celebration was staged in the Lehman Ballroom, emceed by ubiquitous KEYT-TV reporter John Palminteri, with a welcome from SBB President Deborah Schwartz.

The president’s award went to the newly restored Cabrillo Pavilion, the Jacaranda Award for Outstanding Community Service to Sue Adams, the Playa de SB Award for Environmental Stewardship to Foothills Forever, the Griswold Award for Philanthropy to John Woodward, and the Hugh and Marjorie Petersen Award for Art in Public Places to the Plaza Granada Mural.

Among the bevy of beautiful people turning out for the fun fête, co-chaired by Mark Whitehurst and Kerry Methner, were Gretchen Lieff and Miles Hartfeld, Kate Kurlas, Robert Adams, George and Laurie Leis, Peter and Gerd Jordano, former mayor Helene Schneider, Peter Schuyler, Frank Tabar, Fritz and Gretchen Olenberger, Buddy Gottlieb, Geoff Green, Nina Dunbar, and Caren Rager.