12 - Sunday, June 24, 1990 - North Shore News LAST FRIDAY night’s soiree at the Shaughnessy home of American Con. Gen. Sam Fromowitz and his pixie-like wife, Joan, had to be one of the nicest Parties of the week! Joy Metcaife COCKTAILS West Van's popular Denese and Daniel Izzard, looking tanned and rested, were just back from sepa- rate trips to the continent. Daniel was in Florence, Italy, while ebullient Denese went to Yemen and chatted with Queea Naor. Ev- identally they are really on an en- vironment kick in that country, and are actually vacuuming the streets daily!... Mingling with the guests were North Van’s attractive Sally and her hotelier husband, Lyall Markham, general manager of the New World Harbourside where so many of the 3,000 delegates to the Royal Canadian Legion conven- tion stayed... Vivacious Darlyne Pozer, who had successfully raised the neces- sary funds for North Shore stu- dents to attend the annual Olym- pics of the Mind school competi- tion down in the U.S., looked kp CAVIAR BARBARA AISENSTAT brought her son David and his bride Karen of West Vancouver to the Canadian Cancer Society’s fundraising dinner at the Shaughnessy home of American Consul-General Sam Fromowitz and his wife Joan. very summery in her full-skirted floral dress. She was accompanied by her Gamesman husband, John telis ail ... It was the $150 per person fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society, which was well organized by Debbie Altow and e SEAN POZER, co-chair of the Corporate Cancer Campaign, ac- companied his parents Darlyne and John to the Shaughnessy home of the American consul- generai. and their handsome son, Sean. Sean is the co-chair of the Cor- porate Cancer Campaign, along with another of the party’s guests from West Van, Strand Develop- ments’ John Evans... Also spotted lawyer Steve Sobolew;ki of West Van digging into the nummies with tanned blonde Joyce Adam and pretty Joanne Houssain and her In- trawest developer husband Joe Housssin... James Kerap, the new manager of Birks, was being introduced around to people like Dr. David Klaassen of the B.C. Cancer Agency and his wife, Eileen, and Rebecca and John MacKay and Trudy and Dan Pekarsky. Dan is the managing director of Rothschild Canada... Great to see a very old friend, Kerry Dix and his wife, Lynn. They’ve just moved into their huge West Van waterfront man- NEWS photos Paul McGrath DANIEL AND DENESE Izzard of West Vancouver enjoy the company of Milton Wong (right), chairman of sion and can’t wait to begin truly the International Dragon Boat Festival, during the Canadian Cancer Society fundraiser at the Shaughnessy her crew and which turned out to be a super name-dropping event! Speaker of the House, Hon. Joho Fraser and his wife, Kate, who had arrived for Frank Grif- fiths’ Variety Club tribute dinner on Saturday night, were there chatting with B.C.’s Minister of Health, the Hon. John Jansen while Count and Countess Dobrezhensky, Aline and Enrico, were enjoying themselves with their friend, Julie Cowan, who was one of the organizers of the recent and so-successful Van- couver Museum’s Black & White ball... Legal beagle, the outrageous Peter Butler held court with Milton Wong, of M.K. Wong & Associates and the chairman of this weekend’s International Dragon Boat Festival, and his wife, Fei... Other guests were Mayor Gor- don Campbell and his wife Nancy, businessman Joe Segal and his chic Rosalee, West Van newlyweds Karen and David Aisenstat happi- ly socializing along with David's mom, Barbara Aisenstat, widow of the late Hy Aisenstat... WHEN ALL DIETS enjoying it. 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