Sharon Albert Brier

Rumor Has It – May 2012

May 2012
The Annedale Wine and Dinner Club is named after Anne and Hilldale streets, where these neighbors live, wine and dine together. Pictured from left (standing) are Sonia Greiner, Tina Litton, Lory Margraves, Laura and Jerry Kent, and Jennifer and Steve Bass and (sitting) Gene Litton and Scott Margraves.

Wine and dine, progressively. Nine years ago, Laura and Jerry Kent settled in Spring Valley after leaving Katy. Three years ago, they put together a dinner group of a few nearby neighbors. They wanted to keep it small so that everyone would fit around a dining table. Steve and Jennifer Bass, Tina and Gene Litton, Lory and Scott Margraves, Terry

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Rumor Has It – April 2012

April 2012
Tall, dark and handsome Brendan Gilbert marries gorgeous, petite, blonde Jenna Jackson in a Texas-style wedding.

Government agent meets mystery-show producer. Jenna Jackson, a former producer of 48 Hours Mystery, met Brendan Gilbert at a mutual friend’s wedding in the northern hills of Italy in the summer of 2010. In less than 48 hours they pronounced themselves guilty of falling in love. They recently married in the Texas Hill Country at the Red Corral …

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Rumor Has It – March 2012

March 2012
The UT tower burned orange with a Longhorn victory when Melissa Dyan Joachim and Justin Adam Krost  started the new year Jan. 1 with a Hook ‘em Horns wedding. (Photo: Ashley Garmon)

From beach to lake romance. Melissa Joachim suspected nothing when her boyfriend Justin Krost called her to come outside while they were on a Florida beach trip with the Joachims. He had strewn a walkway of rose petals on the sand to two chairs and a bottle of champagne with wine glasses to pop the question at sunset. Fast forward …

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Rumor Has It – February 2012

February 2012
Cynthia Bigelow, Rosemary Schatzman, Anne Siller and Gina Gaston Elie (from left) shoe-watch at a high-heeled party.

Step carefully. “I wish shoe will attend this High Heeled event” is how the invitation read for Rosemary Schatzman’s celebration for her friends from schools, charities and life. She mingled in Jimmy Choo golden-glittery shoes while guests savored the shoe-tini drinks made with Godiva white chocolate and ate other delicacies. Fancy shoes were in sight everywhere. Striking and hairy were …

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Rumor Has It – January 2012

January 2012
The first Crystal Awards Fashion Event to support Spring Branch ISD’s upcoming March 2 gala was attended by 348 enthusiastic friends. Moms of SBISD students are (from left) Cathy Derrick, Patty Busmire, Wendy Moreland, Kathy Wiggins and Kristie Stewart.

It was an Oscar-worthy affair. The inaugural fashion event to raise money for the upcoming Crystal Awards Gala, to be held March 2, was sponsored by the Spring Branch Education Foundation. The fashions from Dimensions were sparkling, and the moms of SBISD students had fun on the fashion runway. Some of those beauties were event chair Wendy Moreland and Cathy

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Rumor Has It – December 2011

December 2011
High on life in Peru, friends taste alpaca carpaccio on the way to Machu Picchu. In the front row (from left) are Emma Cohen, Sonia Smith and Dollie O’Day. In the back row (from left) are Nora Ackerley, Mary Powell, Liz LaPorte and Lisa Kline.

Girls trip to Peru
Mary Powell
and friends Dollie O’Day, Liz LaPorte, Lisa Kline, Nora Ackerley, Sonia Smith and Emma Cohen journeyed 3,100 miles to Peru for a week. High on the agenda was Cusco, which is 11,300 feet in elevation, and Urubamba (Sacred) Valley. Their guide, Fernando, invited them to his home for “tea” and a surprise dish of …

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Rumor Has It – November 2011

November 2011
Harriet and Ed Reitman pose with some of the native dancers on their once in a lifetime trip to Papua New Guinea.

Adventure Island
Harriet and Ed Reitman
knew they had an adventure ahead of them on their trip to Papua New Guinea, but they still weren’t expecting their dug-out log boat to leak for the entire three-hour ride. They were headed down a river to the annual Mount Hagen Sing-Sing festival, a gathering of local tribes to exhibit and celebrate their …

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Rumor Has It – October 2011

October 2011
Jerry and Karlyn Greenberg have fun in the sun with grandchildren Olive and Ezra.

Beach babies
There were more than enough sand pies and sand pizzas to go around for the group of eight enjoying a Destin beach vacation. Three-year-old Ezra Terk and his 5-month old sister and sous chef, Olive Simone Bebe Terk, prepared a gritty meal for grandparents K-Ma and Pops Greenberg, aka Karlyn and Jerry Greenberg. Their daughter Camille

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Rumor Has It – September 2011

September 2011
Blaire Alexrod and Scott Hocking happily make their post-vows exit with the snowcapped Colorado mountains in the background.

Her life in France
Rachel Kusin
and 21 students from the University of Georgia attended the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity in France to learn how creativity affects consumer behavior. It’s billed as the world’s largest gathering of communication experts and advertising and marketing gurus. Rachel heard quite a few impressive speakers, including Robert Redford and Martha Stewart. Other …

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Rumor Has It – August 2011

August 2011
Dylan Betts and Rob Hogan may have gone to China for school credit, but they took some time off to walk the Great Wall of China – but not all 5,500 miles of it.

Donkey sub sandwiches, oh my
Rhonda and Richard Brown
and their two sons, Preston, 14, and Hughes, 16, tried Chinese delicacies such as sea cucumber and shredded pig ears on their journey to Asia and caught up with Wendy Ping Wu, her son Kevin Wang and school mate Jackson Nacol while in Beijing. Preston, Kevin and Jackson …

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Rumor Has It – July 2011

July 2011
Tag band members J.D. Phillips, Austin Baker, Alex Gerome, Chase Hudson and Theo Gerome (from left) played a backyard concert for friends and family who came from as far as Washington D.C. to celebrate their graduation from Memorial High.

Let the parties begin…  Austin Baker’s Aunt Chris and Uncle Reese started Austin’s high school graduation celebrations with a catfish fry and pool party for relatives at their home. A second party the next night was at Austin’s house, where a group of family and high school senior friends came to hear the music of Tag, the band that Austin …

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Rumor Has It – June 2011

June 2011
Michele Tura, Ann Bruin, Karen Peck and Kristi Rowland (from left) gather at Kristi’s “royal” tea party.

A commoner crashed the party… Decked out in a hat and plastic rain poncho like a “commoner” in England, Tami Smith sat in a folding lawn chair. She was on the driveway at Kristi Rowland’s house with a sign that read, “Waiting to see Will and Kate.” Kristi’s 30 uncommon guests got a chuckle as they arrived to celebrate the …

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Rumor Has It – May 2011

May 2011
The Costa Rica Beach and Tennis Club is just one of the many outings enjoyed by (from left) Greg and Caroline Tyson, Chris and Sheri Beggins, Maureen and Jay Manning, and Molly and Ross Vaughan during their stay in Costa Rica.

Extreme vacationing… The Beggins, Manning, Vaughan and Tyson families barely had time to nap on their busy spring break trip at Los Sueños Resort in Costa Rica. They zip-lined through the trees, drove ATVs in the rainforest and surfed the waves together. Some of the Do Not Miss splashy excursions a few gravitated to were deep-sea fishing and white-water rafting …

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Rumor Has It – April 2011

April 2011
Hummus and other Mediterranean delights keep the party humming as hostesses (from left) Lisa Kline, Martha Blecher, Barbara Crandell, Liz LaPorte, Hilary Purcell, Nora Ackerley and (in front) Mary Van Grindle prepare some exotic cuisine for Memorial Drive Garden Club’s dinner party.

Feta, olives and tabbouleh, oh my… Mediterranean madness was in the air at Memorial Drive Garden Club’s dinner party in February. The get-together included friends of club members as well as members’ husbands. It was held at the home of Liz and Steve LaPorte, which offered two bars and plenty of room for mingling. Guests feasted on exotic fare, …

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Rumor Has It – March 2011

March 2011
Longhorn fanatic Rick Frachtman enjoys blowing out the candles atop his Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium-inspired birthday cake while his wife and biggest fan, Anne Frachtman, looks on.

Feeling like No. 1 on 1-1-11… Fun, food and a football fiesta awaited more than 100 friends who came to celebrate Rick Frachtman’s 60th birthday. Party hostess Anne Frachtman awed everyone with an enormous cake, a dead-on replica of the Texas Longhorns’ football stadium in Austin, complete with scoreboard and football fans. But Rick says his favorite treat was having …

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