At the Red Cross in Pasadena
Pasadena Red Cross head honcho Ben Green likes to open up a visit to the group's Craven Estate HQ like this: "Back in 1926, when my dad built this place ..."
Ben's Midwest boyhood was actually far from Madeleine Drive, but the estate has never looked better since its heyday, thanks to its being the Showcase House last year. So it was a pleasant place to gather for a breakfast this morning honoring RC national President and CEO Gail McGovern, pictured above, a most impressive executive who has turned around the organization over the last several years, taking one of the nation's favorite charities from deep in the red, as it were, into the black at the same time it dealt with earthquakes in Haiti and Japan and disasters across our land.
Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard and Green announced at the breakfast the formation of a local Leadership Cabinet including the heads of Huntington Hospital, Parsons, Caltech, the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership and Avery Dennison; some of the organizations are represented in the photo below.
