Best Friends Foundation Gala
Bobbie Socks and Leather Jackets

Mayor Williams, Colin and Alma Powell and Bill and Elayne Bennett all remembered “When Rock was Young” as they danced to the sounds of Little Anthony and the Imperials, The Chiffons, Bobby Vee and Al Wilson at the Best Friends Foundation Gala on April 2. As usual, guests brought out their blue jeans, black and pink poodle skirts, letter jackets and thickrimmed glasses for the 50s and 60s-themed event at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. Guests dined on lobster, steak and onion rings while The Chicago Boyz did acrobatics courtesy of circus-meister Ken Feld, the Simon Elementary School and Brown Middle School students’ danced, and the Best Friends Choir sang. In addition, Cindy Blair became the proud owner of an extremely rare red Corvette after the live auction. Event proceeds will benefit Make Music not Madness, a program for Washington, D.C., schools that creates music curriculums.

Susan Allen and Sen. George Allen	Jack Evans and Alma Powell

Tom Quinn, Rima Al Sabah and Jim Kimsey

Norman Minetta, Frank Carlucci and Sandy Brock	Bill Bennett, Jack Kemp and Juan Williams

Jill Robert and Susan Hurley Bennett

Photos by Kyle Samperton