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Staff -- Interior Design, 6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Good Works

A nonprofit that trains and employs artisans living with HIV and AIDS, then markets their work to designers, Alpha Workshops hosts an annual awards ceremony to recognize individuals and groups who've championed the cause. The 2006 honorees were Steelcase marketing manager Jeannie Bochette, Lifetime Television, and Common Ground Community, which houses the homeless. Common Ground also helped Alpha Workshops and Interior Design Hall of Fame member Jamie Drake renovate the ballroom at New York's Prince George hotel, where the benefit took place.

1.Ruth Lynford, president of Lynford Limited, observing Alpha Workshops staff artist Richard Zimmer's weaving demonstration.

2. Executive director Kenneth Wampler.3. Alpha Award recipient Jeannie Bochette, Steelcase's marketing manager.

4. Interior Design editor in chief Cindy Allen presenting Bochette with her award.

5. Common Ground Community president Rosanne Haggerty getting her award from Linda Gibbs, New York's deputy mayor for health and human services.

Parsons on Parade

Last year, Parsons the New School for Design honored Albert Hadley with its first Centurion Award for Design Excellence. So what to do for an encore? Choose Betty Sherrill, the equally legendary CEO of McMillen. The lunch also celebrated 100 years of the Parsons interiors program—but that's par for the course: Retired McMillen senior decorator Ethel Smith, who sat at Sherrill's table, is a spry 100, too.

6. Parsons board members Tess Dempsey and Denise Seegal flanking New School president Bob Kerrey.7. Honoree Betty Sherrill and James Borynack, Wally Findlay Galleries CEO and Parsons class of 1967.

8. Interior Design Hall of Famers Jamie Drake, class of 1978, and Victoria Hagan, class of 1984.

9. Parsons dean Paul Goldberger presenting the award to Sherrill.

10. Alum Scott Sanders, principal of his namesake firm, greeting Sherrill's daughter, Ann Pyne, a decorator at McMillen.