Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 115

DETROIT FREE PRESSSUNDAY, JUNE 7. 1987 3K Furniture man does date line Golf, tennis for good cause his in Pontiac 7os for Utile iSviv Workers New York City Mayor Ed Koch, left. New York Knick Bernard King and Grosse Pointe Farms toy collector Lawrence Scripps Wilkinson, holding Head Start's Melissa Mendoza, help celebrate a day for Friends of the Union Settlement in New York's Central Park. The settlement, the largest in New York City, established in 1895, serves more than 8,000 people of all ages. More than 500 kids received a stuffed bear and other gifts.

Bernie Moray is at it again. Last year, the president of Gorman's Furni -'w -A -v I Si i i 1 A -'S 1 1 ture stores threw a big glitzy benefit for Children's Hospital. Now, he's celebrating the 10th anniversary of Gorman's Troy store by doing something for HAVEN, a Pontiac shelter for victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. Moray had his 1- AMmMMWJU Chailotte W. Craig people design a new living room for the shelter and, on Tuesday, a truck will deliver the last pieces of furniture to complete the TALU CHEWSpecial to the Free Press former UN Ambassador Jeane Kirk-patrick as the speaker.

Detroit jazzman J.C. Heard is doing much better at Beaumont, where he underwent successful colon cancer surgery redecorating job, all gratis, of course. The truck will be led into Pontiac by a team of volunteer runners most of them current or former Detroit Lions, including Dexter Bussey, Jeff Chad-wick, Horace of Lansing but still lives in Detroit. Payne and Hood are on-again-off-again daters and "per-manent good friends," according to Payne, who said the buffet supper would be just "some legisla and we understand what they are going through," says Phil Glebe, of Brighton, past president of SEMBA and a professional balloonist who flies all over the country for Pontiac Division of GM. Tough job, Phil.

"Hey, somebody's got to do it," he says. UNSURPRISE PARTY: Beverly Payne, former Channel 2 newswoman, threw a surprise birthday party last night for state Rep. Morris Hood D-Detroit, if everything went as planned. Seems Hood spoiled his own surprise "by being too nosy," according to Payne, now a consultant with the Michigan Department of Commerce, specializing in small businesses owned by minorities or women. She works out little public consciousness about HAVEN" (Help Against Violent Encounters Now).

UP IN THE AIR: Other people doing neat things this week include members of the Southeastern Michigan Balloon Association (SEMBA), who are dedicating the state's first Balloonport today at Island Lake Recreation Area, near 1-96 and Kensington Road. As part of the dedication, each of the 25 or so participating balloonists (and several more who won't be there) are kicking in $100 to $200 each to help financially strapped farmers through a lottery being conducted by the national Balloon Federation of America. "We're very much dependent on the understanding of farmers for our sport, about five weeks ago. They've finally got his plumbing working right again, and he expects to be out in a couple of weeks just in time to prepare for a statewide tour with his band Moray iff I Monday: NutraSweel Classic golf-tennis outing benefits Juvenile Diabetes Foundation at Washtenaw Country Club, Ypsilanti. Brunch 10:30 a.m., celebrity autograph session, shotgun tee-off 1 p.m., round-robin tennis 2 p.m., cocktail party 5 p.m., followed by dinner.

Entry $500; call 569-6171, weekdays 9 to 5. Thursday: Hawaiian cocktail reception benefits Oakland Parks Foundation at new Red Oaks Waterpark, Madison Heights. Synchronized swimmers from Clawson and Troy High, hors d'oeuvres, roast suckling pig. Polynesian and Kiki dancers. Reception 6:30 to tickets $100 per couple at the door.

Call 335-2771, weekdays 9 to 5. Thursday: New Metro Detroit Club of the National Association of Negro Business Professional Women's Clubs has its Las Vegas Night aboard the Boblo Boat, departing 8.30 p.m., Clark Street dock. Proceeds go to community proiects. Tickets $13. 836-1392 or 341-6035 evenings.

Friday: Try your luck In Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's "Celebrity Casino Night." Honorary chairman Charlie Sanders and pals act as Vegas dealers. Tickets $25. 552-9616, weekdays 8:30 to 5. Saturday: salutes Michigan Magic and the Miracle of Hope in spring fund-raiser, 8 p.m., Scarab Club of Detroit, Farnsworth at John R. Tickets $15 for members; $20 non-members.

Call 642-6960, weekdays 9 to 6. Saturday: President's Ball, Women's Association of the Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony, celebrates finale of orchestra's 12th season, 7 p.m. at Pine Lake Country Club. Cash bar, dinner, dance, silent auction. Tickets $50; call 643-7288, weekdays 9 to 5.

Saturday: Annual Navy League Ball starts at 6:30 p.m. at Lochmoor Club, 1018 Sun-ningdale Drive, Grosse Pointe Woods. Black tie optional; tickets $40; call 881-3836 anytime. Saturday: Actress Samantha Eggar headlines Michigan Cancer Foundation Circle of Fellows Great Gatsby party, 6:30 p.m. at Grosse Pointe Shores home of Leonard and Sybil Jaques.

Cocktails, dinner, live music, attire of the period suggested. Membership $500 per couple; for information, call 833-0710, ext. 225, weekdays 8:30 to 5. Saturday-Sunday: See more than 150 prize winning works of art when "Art on the Pointe" comes to Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores, to benefit Northeast Guidance Center. Hours 10 to 5 Saturday and Sunday.

Tickets $1 at the door. Special Saturday night art auction, buffet and dance party, 7 p.m., on the grounds. Casual dress; entry advance tickets required. Call 824-8000, weekdays 8:30 to 5. June 14: Join the fight against birth defects in March of Dimes-CMI Health Tennis Club Swimathon.

Action 8 to 5. Swimmers seek pledges for every length they swim. To register, call 423-3200, weekdays 8:30 to 4:30. June 15: Christ Child Society of Detroit holds 7th annual mixed golf tournament, Lochmoor Club, Grosse Pointe Woods. Proceeds aid abused and neglected children.

Buffet lunch, dinner, golf, tennis, awards, and a chance to win a 1 7-foot motorboat for a hole-in-one Featured speaker, WDIV news anchor Carmen Harlan. Tickets $145 per person; call 642-1342, weekdays 9 to 9. June 15: First U.S. induction dinner for international Hockey Hall of Fame pays tribute to current inductees and the Detroit Red Wings, who have contributed 40 of the Hall's 256 members. Tickets $150; proceeds to Hockey Hall of Fame.

Call Red Wings office, 567-7444, weekdays 9 to 5. Linda Meachum km i Hood Heard King and Luther Blue. Sparky Anderson will be on hand at the noon send-bff but he won't run. "We wanted to do something in the community on our own not a fundraiser with other people just a genuine goodwill gesture on our part," Moray. "We also hope to raise a tors, a few media folks, a few union folks and old friends having fun." CHARLOTTE'S WEB: Bunkie Knudsen showed up, lookin' good, at the Beaumont (Hospital) Foundation dinner Wednesday night that featured scheduled to start July 26.

"This has been a drag," says J.C, "and it scared the hell out of me. But I'm on the mend now!" high profile LEM BARNEY: Former Lion still carries the ball for good causes oat 4" iV church in Mississippi, where his dad, Lem and mom, Berdell, still live in Gulfport. He's a member of Springhill Missionary Baptist Church now, and takes it seriously. He's a lay minister there; he's on the advisory board of Joy of Jesus a youth-oriented ministry; he's chairman of the Detroit Metro Prison Fellowship Care Committee. The message on his office telephone answering machine concludes with the wish, "May you have a God-filled day." This doesn't mean Barney goes around wearing a hair shirt or muttering about eternal damnation.

He can yuck it up with the best of them. But underlying everything he does is a sense of human responsibility. "I've gotten into a pattern of involvement. I'm stuck on the word Sure, you get tired sometimes, but it's part of your responsibility. Like the Scriptures say, much has been given and much is required." Charlotte W.

Craig morning and, if caught in traffic, cools out with classical music on WQRS. DISLIKES: "I get myself cranked up if things don't work out the way I plan them. I'm a perfectionist, a typical Virgo personality." PROFILE: Lem Barney runs harder now than he did on the playing field, driving himself from school speech to office to interview to committee meeting to church activity, far beyond the demands of his civic affairs job. It's a long time since he was a Lion and, in a way, he wishes people would stop thinking of him in those terms. He's a mid-level corporate executive now.

But, he shrugs, he's happy for all the good things life has brought him, on and off the field. A sign on his desk reads, "Never forget to remember where all of your blessings come from." And that doesn't mean the Lions or MichCon. Barney was brought up in the Methodist Association, Easter Seals, cancer research, Travelers Aid Society, United Negro College Fund, Special Olympics and dozens of other causes. AGE: 41. EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree in health and science from Jackson State University in Mississippi.

FAMILY: Wife of 20 years, Martha; daughter, LaTrece, "13 going on 47," and son, Lem III, graduating this month from Southfield Lathrup High School and headed for Mom and Dad's alma mater, Jackson State. HOME: A tri-level in Southfield with a pool, garden and landscaping. LIKES: Growing flowers, building cabinets, playing tennis with Dave Bing, Charles Allen and Mel Farr at Farr's house, "the best country club in town;" golf (says his handicap is a "traveling golfer's travel (anywhere on the West Coast), and all kinds of music. He jogs five miles every WHO HE IS: Former star Detroit Lions defensive back, manager of civic affairs for Michigan Consolidated Gas where he has worked since 1979, college football broadcaster since 1980 with the Black Entertainment Television network, and broadcaster since 1 982 of Detroit Lions pre-season games on Channel 2. ACTIVITIES: Member of the board of directors or trustees of the Detroit Adult Service Center, United Way, Metro Detroit Youth Foundation, Franklin Wright Settlements, Children's Hospital, Omni Arts in Education, Neighborhood Renaissance, Boy Scouts of America-Michigan, Michigan Film, Television Recording Arts Commission; co-sponsor, with former Pistons star Dave Bing, of annual golf-tennis outing to benefit Southwest Detroit Hospital.

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SOME PARTIES are more equal, of course, than others. In Washington, invitations to the French, British, Italian, Canadian and Soviet embassies are the most sought after, according to the Washington Post. At the French Embassy, where Catherine Deneuve is often a house-guest, invitees are entertained in the Salon Empire, which overlooks Rock Creek Park, and feast on French delicacies in a well-appointed dining room decorated with Sevres figurines and paintings that served as sketches for tapestries made for the Trianon in Versailles. British dinners are presided over by new British Ambassador Sir Antony Acland, who has been called the city's most eligible bachelor. And while the Russians no longer serve vodka at their affairs (as part of Mikhail Gorbachev's anti-alcoholism campaign), they do serve Georgian wines and champagne and, of course, caviar.

More important, say Kremlin watchers, guests are charmed by the new Soviet ambassador, Yuri Dubinin. In the past, countries sent royalty to represent their nations abroad a real draw on the party circuit. Nowadays, royalty is scarce and diplomats are more likely to be bankers or industrialists than knights or counts. Count Wilhelm Wachtmeister and his wife, Ulla (he is the Swedish ambassador and dean of the diplomatic corps), are exceptions, although the count claims that in socialist Sweden blue blood does not count for anything anymore. Still, their parties, held at their Mexican-style residence where you can find yourself seated next to Scandinavian royalty or tennis champion Ujorn Borg, are coveted.

By MARGO HAMMOND Suicial to the Free Press "In Washington, D.C., the action is at parties," says gossip maven Diana McLellan, who for years dropped in on the capital's most lavish affairs for her syndicated "Ear" column. "Parties are glamorous parties are nourishing parties are educational." For diplomats, though, parties are work, worth more than the sum of their canapes. From power breakfasts to sit-down dinners (with receptions, cocktail parties and national-day celebrations in between), social life is official life for the ambassador and spouse. Between the caviar and the petit ours, the diplomat can make the informal contact that is the warp and woof of diplomacy, introduce an important businessperson to compatriots or lend prestige to a nation's name. FOR MOST DIPLOMATS the social pace is deadening.

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