Alzheimer's Arkansas celebrated three of its most pivotal caretakers -- "advocates" -- at an Easter week celebration late last month at the Clinton Presidential Center's Great Hall with about 250 people in attendance.
The Advocates of the Year dinner helped raise more than $90,000 for the charity while it honored the following:
• DR. MARK PIPPENGER: The Jonesboro native is a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences neurologist who works in the Memory Disorders Clinic at the Institute on Aging and the neurology clinic at the Jackson Stephens Spine Institute.
• SISSY CLINTON is a past Alzheimer's Arkansas board president and is a board member at the Donald W. Reynolds Center on Aging, as well as the Mount Holly Cemetery Association.
• AMY THOMASON is the community liaison of a five-county area for Arkansas Hospice and facilitator for the Hot Springs Village Alzheimer's Support Group, as well as three other area support groups for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and cancer. (She also sits on boards of directors for many other causes too numerous to name.)
Along with advocacy and service, the charity's abiding vision is "to provide those persons with Alzheimer's and dementia with a safe, healthy environment while engaging them with activities they can participate in," director Elise Siegler said. To that end, the three honorees have given more than 87 years of service to the organization.
Platinum sponsor for the event, along with former Baldwin Shell president Bob Shell, Sharon Heflin and Legacy Termite and Pest Control, was the Clinton family, including Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky, who will be visiting the Edgehill home of mainstay High Profile couple Tiffany and Daniel Robinson on Wednesday for a fundraiser for her mom, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
High Profile on 04/03/2016