30 Years of Leadership Honored at Past Chairs’ Tea
The 2016 Dinner on the Desert, scheduled for April 30, will be the 30th dinner to support Desert Botanical Garden. Past chairs – several who have served more than one time – of the fundraising soiree, were honored for their leadership Jan. 26 at an afternoon tea. The event was held at Northern Trust Company.
In 1986, Nancy White and Elizabeth Alpert co-hosted the first dinner, which was held in the arena at Tom Chauncey’s ranch in north Scottsdale. Since that first event, where guests enjoyed a beautiful Arabian horse show generously donated by Tom Chauncey, the dinner has been held at the Garden. The only year in which no dinner was held was 1989. Mary Heiss and Harold Dorenbecher will co-chair the 2016 dinner.
The afternoon tea was hosted by the Past Chair Committee of Dinner on the Desert and coordinated by sub-committee chairs Lee Cohn, Amy Flood and Carolyn O’Malley.
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PAST CHAIRS
2015 Carole Kraemer
2014 Martha Hunter Henderson
2013 Jan & Tom Lewis
2012 Kathy and Chuck Munson
2011 Dr. William Huizingh, Honorary Chair
2010 Barbara Ottosen
2009 Rebecca Ailes-Fine and David Bauer
2008 Amy Flood and Scott Schaefer
2007 Sue Melton
2006 Faye Kitchell
2005 Rebecca Ailes-Fine and Peter Fine
2004 Rebecca Ailes-Fine and Sue Melton
2003 Meredeth Moss and Joann Petz
2002 Tahnia McKeever and William T. Smith
2001 Jacquie Dorrance, Craig Pearson, Carol Waldrop and Linda Whitney
2000 Tahnia McKeever and Craig Pearson
1999 Rosellen Papp
1998 Martha Hunter and Mary K. Sterling
1997 Stephen Roman
1996 Mary Nesset
1995 Jeffrey Anderson and Edmund G. Zito
1994 Sam Campana, Scott Jacobson and William Shover
1993 Ann Denk and Jon Kitchell
1992 Jean Harris and Gai Williams
1991 Jean Harris and Marilyn Papp
1990 Betty Kitchell
1988 Betty Mitchem
1987 Donna Fleischer and Betty Mitchem
1986 Elizabeth Alpert and Nancy White
Dennis Mitchen holds a portrait of his late wife Betty Mitchem, who co-chaired the 1987 dinner with Donna Fleischer and chaired the 1988 dinner; Nancy Swanson, trustee emeritus, Desert Botanical Garden
