Photos by George Mendel
1 fêtes
spotlight on Mt. Lebanon
people who are enjoying
themselves while supporting
worthy causes throughout the
Pittsburgh region.

1. Teeing off at the St. Clair Hospital
Foundation’s annual outing at St. Clair
Country Club is the hospital’s executive vice
president Tom Ague, flanked by Bob Bodnar
of Valentour English Bodnar & Howell archi-
tects and Dave Kalina, husband of St. Clair’s
HR Vice President Andrea Kalina. 2. Dr.

Robert Shogry, pictured with Development
Coordinator Vicki Vicomi, co-chaired the
event. 3. Also on the links were St. Clair’s
administrative Vice President and CNO,
Joan Massella, and Harry Brown of MBM
Contracting. Pet lovers trekked to the North Hills for the
Animal Friends’ Summer Soiree. 4. Among
them were (from left) Gina Carlos, an Animal
Friends board member, her sister, Joni
McDonald, her mother, Jeanne D’Ascenzo,
and her sister Cissy Bowman. Representing
Uptown Mt. Lebanon while enjoying
wine and hors d’oeuvres from the Fluted
Mushroom were Mt. Lebanon Dermatology’s
Scott and Jackie Funt (left) and Outreach
Teen and Family Services’ Special Events
Coordinator Diane Langton and her hus-
band, Jim.

4 5
Photos by George Mendel
A 3
2 6
7 Experience LEBO’s ULTRAparty raised
$23,507 for the Autism Center of Pittsburgh
and provided a chance for several thousand
people to party in the street. 6. ULTRA revel-
ers Genna Kicinski, Erin Superior and Jen
Gilarski loved the funnel cakes. 7. Thanks
to Autism Center volunteers Nancy Hood,
Anna and Nicole Pappa, Josh Vender, Cindy
Waeltermann and Amy and Jake Dembosky.

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T
homas Doyle, Kenilworth Drive, has been named
Emergency Physician of the Year by the Pennsylvania
Emergency Health Services Council. Dr. Doyle, a board-
certified emergency medicine physician with the University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center, also serves as the associate medical
director for the STAT MedEvac Air Medical Program. He is a 1997
graduate of Hahnemann University School of Medicine and com-
pleted his Emergency Medicine Residency in 2000 at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. arlier this year.

M arjie Wilson got a call from a woman in her 80s who needed help. The
woman, widowed for some time, had lived in her house for nearly 30 years
and was all set to burn the mortgage when she received a letter from her mort-
gage company telling her she owes for another year.

After trying in vain to penetrate the mortgage company’s dense voicemail
forest, the woman was almost ready to give up and give them 31 years worth
of money for a 30-year contract, when she called Asbury Heights Senior
Information and Referral Service (SIRS). Wilson took the
woman’s information, then went to work on her behalf,
beginning by completely bypassing the infuriating cus-
tomer service voicemail system and getting in direct
touch with the president of the company. Eventually, it
turned out that the company had made a mistake and
the woman’s mortgage got the retirement it deserved.

Wilson has made her way through any number of
bureaucratic mazes in the seven years since she has
been the voice on the other end of the SIRS hotline. In
2001 Wilson, who had been Asbury’s director of social
services, took some time off for maternity leave and
then wanted to spend more time with her young family.

Asbury was launching SIRS and thought Wilson would
Gene Puskar
The Junior League of Pittsburgh is hosting five American Girl Fashion Shows 10:30 a . m .,
1:30 p . m . and 4:30 p . m ., Saturday, November 1, and 1 and 4 p . m ., Sunday, November
2, at the Pittsburgh Field Club. Bring your daughter, granddaughter or niece (and her favorite
doll) for a colorful presentation of historical and contemporary fashions. Refreshments and
prizes are included in the $45 ticket price. All Junior League projects benefit the community.

Order tickets at www.jlpgh.org. Looking forward to the event are: (front) Olivia Railsback,
Maddie Milone, Angie Townsend, (back) Dana Railsback, Kathy Ciorra and Michelle Coss.

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