B.W. COOK -- The Crowd

The Daily Pilot “crowd cam” captures the local scene as citizens rally

for a variety of social, civic, cultural and scientific causes on the

coast.

1. Two local ladies, Michelle Rohe, left, and Mary Roosevelt, flank

Gary Babick, chairman of the Philharmonic Society Board, at a reception

honoring celebrated Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin at the Philharmonic

Society’s 47th annual season opening recently. More than 250 local guests

attended.

2. Christmas Company 2000 opened this week with great style at the

Orange County Fairgrounds. Activities will continue through the week.

Pictured from left are Chairwoman Kim Henderson; Kay Matherly, president

of the Junior League; and Melinda Pigors, Christmas Company

chairwoman-elect. Christmas Company, a Junior League project, raises

funds to reduce the risks of child abuse and teen pregnancy.

3. Opera Pacific recently honored Marybelle and Paul Musco for their

valiant support. The couple was photographed at Festa Italiana, a

preconcert dinner held in Laguna Beach and chaired by Joan Simonoff and

Meredith Gratz.

4. The Roundtable for Women in Foodservice raised $18,000 recently for

scholarships to benefit Orange Coast College culinary students. Pictured

from left are Becky Black, Jenny Rosoff, Kay Rosoff, Penny Poorman and

Jeanne Mosgrove, National Roundtable for Women in Foodservice president.

5. At the opening of The Bridge of Gardens at South Coast Plaza,

Elizabeth Segerstrom joins her husband, Henry Segerstrom, managing

partner of South Coast Plaza, and Jeremiah Sullivan, chairman and chief

executive of Macy’s West. The trio attended an elegant preview luncheon

hosted by Macy’s in the new Macy’s Home Store.

6. Penny Newman, designer salon manager at Nordstrom South Coast

Plaza, held a soiree in her store featuring the fall and winter ball

gowns for the social set, specifically with the upcoming Candlelight

Concert for the Orange County Performing Arts Center in mind. We’ll

feature the gowns from the show Oct. 27, in the Daily Pilot’s fashion

Friday section called “The Look.” For now, here’s the stylish Penny

Newman, left, with Newport’s best-dressed couple, Byron and Ronnie

Allumbaugh, and equally fashion-forward friend Sandi Simon.