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St. John's Foundation To Honor Michael
and Gretchen Wayne
Saint John's Health Center Foundation has announced
that Michael and Gretchen Wayne will receive the 1999 Caritas Award
at its seventh annual Award gala on Saturday, October 30, at the
Regent Beverly Wilshire.
The Waynes are being honored for their commitment to
Saint John's and the community as a whole. Their involvement with
Saint John's is multi-faceted. Not only is the hospital's Cancer
Institute named for Michael Wayne's late father, the legendary actor
John Wayne, but their youngest son, Christopher, spent the first
eleven months of his life in a pediatric critical care unit at the
hospital. Today, Christopher Wayne is a healthy 32-year-old. This
year's gala is a fund-raiser for Saint John's Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit. All proceeds from the evening will benefit the unit which
cares for premature and critically ill new born babies.
Michael Wayne is chairman of the board of the Cancer
Institute and is active in all aspects of the Institute's
development, especially its research studies. His wife is a member
of the Institute's Auxiliary Board of Directors and co-chairs the
Institute's Annual Benefactors' Dinner.
The younger Wayne is chairman and president of Batjac
Productions, which was started by his late father, and CEO and COO
of Wayne Enterprises. He's on the boards of Mutual of Omaha
Insurance, the Motion Picture and Television Fund, the Industry
Health Network and the Orange County Sheriff''s Advisory Council.
Gretchen Wayne is a past president of the Social
Service Auxiliary, a member of the board of the American Ireland
Fund, the Development Committee for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the
Angels and a member of the Costume Council of the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art.
The Caritas Award Gala, a black tie event, is being
coordinated by the Foundation's Irene Dunne Guild, which was created
kin 1987 to honor the late actress Irene Dunne, "the First Lady
of Saint John's," and now has a membership of 90 women. In
addition to raising funds, members of the Guild give hands-on
service at the hospital.
Previous recipients of the Caritas Award include Jimmy
Stewart, Nancy Reagan, the W.M. Keck Foundation, Angela Lansbury,
Robert Wagner and Sister Marie Madeleine, president of Saint John's.
(c) Santa Monica
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