NancyAnn and Ray Hunt will host a benefit for the Point on Oct. 18 at the Hunt Headquarters Building downtown.
The Point, a center for arts and education, is on the campus of the nonprofit C.C. Young retirement home at at 4829 Lawther Drive. It provides opportunities for personal growth and creativity, and offers programs in art, music, literature, creative writing, photography and other cultural pursuits to residents at C.C. Young and other seniors over 55 in surrounding communities.
It collaborates with community agencies to provide programs, including fitness training and spiritual offerings, that seek to help the aged flourish in mind, body and spirit.
The larger programs at C.C. Young offer continuing care, including independent and assisted living options, a health center, Alzheimer's and dementia care, home and community-based services and hospice.
Attendees will enjoy dinner from Wolfang Puck Catering and music.Individual tickets are $150, with tables of eight available at the $1,500, $2,500 and $5,000 levels. For reservations and information, call 214-841-2802 or e-mail swingo@ccyoung.org.
Dedman award
The Texas General Counsel Forum will present the eighth Robert H. Dedman Award for Ethics and Law to Robert D. Graham, vice president of Contran Corp. and Valhi Inc., this evening at the Belo Mansion.
The award honors a corporate attorney who has demonstrated the highest ethical standards during his career.
The award was established by the forum and the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University in 2001 in honor of Robert H. Dedman, who died in 2002.
Mr. Graham, a graduate of the University of Iowa and the University of Illinois law school, was a partner in the law firm Locke Purnell Rain Harrell PC (a predecessor to Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP) from 1985 to 1997 and then served as a top officer in a succession of corporations prior to assuming his duties at Contran in 2002.
Tickets are $75. A portion of the dinner's proceeds goes toward a Texas General Counsel Forum scholarship for a student at SMU's Dedman School of Law to promote ethics in pursuit of law.
Call 214-999-4317, fax 214-999-4348 or e-mail rsvp@txgcf.org.
Architecture Forum
Award-winning New York architecture partners Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi will launch the Dallas Architecture Forum's2008-2009 lecture series at 7 p.m. Oct. 15 at the Magnolia Theatre, 3699 McKinney Ave., in the West Village.
A reception begins at 6:15 p.m. Tickets, available only at the door, are $20 each. Students with ID pay $5. Forum members are admitted free.
Call 214-764-2406 for information or visit www.dallasarchitectureforum .org.
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