Neil Bogart Lab Raises $1 Million in Auction

Neil Bogart Memorial Laboratories raised about $1 million at a Nov. 7 benefit gala at the Barker Hangar, Santa Monica Airport. Among the items auctioned were autographed guitars from Eric Clapton, Les Paul, Bonnie Raitt and Jon Bon Jovi. Proceeds will provide research for pediatric leukemia, cancer and AIDS.

Permanent Charities Committee held a benefit party at Tripp’s Club of Clubs, Century City, on Nov. 9. The event featured the recently published “Actors as Artists” limited edition book of autographed works of Katherine Hepburn, Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Robert Redford, Jonathan Winters, Jane Seymour and other actors. Book sales, at $1,000 each, totaled $54,000. Artist Hiro Yamagata donated an additional $4,000. Permanent Charities Committee, founded in 1944, has raised more than $87 million for service organizations in and around Los Angeles.

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles Guild’s Men’s Dinner XIII, held Nov. 8 at Wolfgang Puck’s Granita Restaurant in Malibu, raised more than $100,000. Attorney Donald Petroni and 19 other amateur chefs prepared the dinner under the direction of Puck, who was honored for his support over the last nine years. Proceeds will provide education, clinical services and advocacy. Adria Cowitt and Carolyn Gold co-chaired the gala. Barbara Rosenstein is guild president.

Alzheimer Assn., Los Angeles chapter, received more than $35,000, raised Nov. 2 at the MountainGate Country Club. “The Crooked Divot Golf Tournament,” an annual benefit, was sponsored by Home Savings of America and co-chaired by Peter and Laurie Burrows Grad. Proceeds will provide patient care and research.

Diabetes Center Associates of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center kicked off their Monty Hall Diabetes Tournament Sept. 18 to 20 with a gala at 20th Century Fox Studios. The three-day event raised $325,000 for patient care, education and research. Helma Bloomberg chaired the event.

LA’s Best, an after-school enrichment program, received $111,823 from Kaiser Permanente in support of activities for elementary schoolchildren throughout the city. Kaiser Senior Vice President Hugh Jonas presented the check to Mayor Tom Bradley, creator of LA’s Best, on Oct. 29 as final payment of Kaiser’s $500,000 challenge grant, making a total donation of more than $936,000 over three years.

Tripod will receive about $30,000, proceeds raised at a black-tie Casablanca Night gala at City Club on Bunker Hill. The Oct. 24 benefit was hosted by S. Craig Tompkins, a partner at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a Tripod board member. Proceeds will provide educational opportunities to hearing-impaired children. Tripod also sponsors a national toll-free hot line, the Grapevine, to provide parents with information on childhood deafness.

The John Wayne Cancer Institute Auxiliary drew more than 600 to its annual membership luncheon Oct. 28 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire. Sue Neuman, president, presented a $437,500 check to Dr. Donald Morton, director of the institute at the Saint John’s Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica. An additional $55,000 was raised at the event, chaired by Elaine Lerman, Ina Lewis and Maddy Gordon.