Farewell,

Louise Aird
BRIGHT LIGHTS

WENTY-FOUR ladies

gathered at the

Georgia Club for the
June 10 goodbye luncheon
for West Van's Shesh Aan-
dahl.

Our hostess, Aline Dobrzensky,
provided a lovely party, inviting
Shesh’s best friends and decora-
ting the table with ribbons, hand-
painted papier mache boxes, silver
platters heaped with strawberries,
pink-budded rose bush branches
and Irish crystal baubles.

Among the guests were North
Van's Marjorie Dolan, West Van‘s
Suzanna MacKenna and Heidi
von Pfetten, plus Joan Carlisle-
Irving (who's single again, guys)
and Aline and her sister Patricia’s
sister-in-law-to-be Jane Kenneally,
a Texan who met Mark Galvin in
Ireland. They will marry at ‘a
huge wedding,” according to
Patricia, at the family seat in
treland’s County Wicklow in fuly.

Across from me was Black and
White Ball founder Lele Mathisen,
who's taking a break from the
board of the Vancotiver Museum
— she expects a baby in

friend

September. (She and husband
Chris, who have three girls, hope
for a boy and have the name
choices down to “Hugh’’ and
“Joachim.” | vote for “Hugh.”

To my left was Cartier’s Ani
Feuermann, who was on her way
to New Orleans to get ideas for
her next themed fundraiser. And
to my right was the charming
Mercedes Marquez, daughter of
the Philippines’ former am-
bassador to Japan — where she
met Shesh — and niece of a
former Philippines vice-president
— whose name no one could
quite recall at the moment...

As for Shesh ... she was born
here and raised in Japan — her fa-
ther moved the family there to
work with Second World War or-
phans. After getting her MBA from
UBC, Shesh married Loren Aan-
dahl, a planner for Canadian
Airlines (and a Norwegian raised
in Taiwan). And Loren recently
became head of planning at
Northwest Airlines and its head of-
fice is in Minneapolis, so there
they go.

Too bad. Shesh is a true role
model. Aside from the looks and
the wardrobe, she’s a warm, car-
ing person, a generous (and
discreet) philanthropist, an eager
volunteer, a fabutous mother to
three perfect children, she has a
great marriage — and she’s one of
B.C.'s most successful
businesswomen (she’s a devel-
oper). Enough to make you sick,
huh?

She never brags about anything,
however — all that’s obvious
about Shesh is her energy, integri-
ty and her eternally optimistic
spirit. She’s a great friend, and we

will all miss her.

This sounds like a eulogy. Shesh
will visit often, for business and to
keep up socially — plus her fami-
ly’s here.

Although the Aandahl home in
Minneapolis sounds lovely, there’s
one thing Shesh simply will not go
without — the view from her Brit-
ish Properties home.

Ever the pragmatist, Shesh
commissioned West Van artist
Daniel Izzard to paint her view,
and the 40’'x 50°’ painting wilt
hang on her new living room wall
until she comes back to the real
thing.

kk«*

June 13 marked the first time in
my life — but I'm only 19 — that}
had io rent something to wear to a
party. That party was ‘‘Art Deco
Revisited,” a fundraiser for the
Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs organized
by dynamic duo Carmela and

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A GATHERING of 24 women bid farewell to West Vancouver's
gracious Shesh Aandahil (right) at the Georgia Club. Pictured wtih
Shesh is hostess Aline Dobrzensky (left) who laid a favizh table
with papier mache boxes and Irish crystal baubies.

Christina Mazzone.

i wasn’t the only one who did
some research before dressing.
There were major ’20s dresses
there — sequins and tassels, beads
and rhinestones and bangles ev-
erywhere — and not all rented.

Some of us went for the ‘20s
makeup (powder-white faces,
black eye-shadow, tons of red
lipstick) and severai women wore
pin-curls and gel-flattened bobs.
The men? Tuxedos.

The Pacific Palisades Hotel gen-
erously gave the Mazzone sisters
its whole ground floor, to the
disappointment of passers-by who’
wanted to come in and hear
Renee Doruyter and the Jazzma-
nian Devils — the music was ex-
cellent.

So was the food — buffet hors
d'oeuvres “designed” by North
Van fashion designer Fyzal Virani,
who did art direction for the
event, which included a Funny
Money Prohibition Era-type Casi-.
no. : -

This was the Mazzone sisters’
first fundraiser, and it was an ex-
cellent party. | would make two
suggestions — the tap dance per-
formances were good, but they
broke the paity’s flow, and!"
would, if ! were them, expand the
guest list. - ‘

Next year, the Mazzones will do ”

_ 4 party featuring another era —

perhaps they'll go for Baroque?- .
(Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

IN CELEBRATION OF
CANADA'S 125 BIRTHDAY

Porto RALPH LAUREN —

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photos Louise Aird

THE PACIFIC Palisade Hotel came alive with the Art Deco
Revisited party organized by Carmeia and Christina Mazzone (left
and right). People dressed up in 20s dresses with sequins ard
rhinestones for the Boys’ and Girls’ Club fundraiser. North Van
fashion designer Fyzal Virani ‘‘designed” the hors d'oeuvres.

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