Spinsters and Bachelors Get Yule Spirit

Poufs and fluff, satin and velvet are being groomed for the Los Angeles Spinsters Christmas Dansant on Friday evening at the Valley Hunt Club. Davon Anderson is organizing the black-tie affair.

Spinsters president Pamela Kerns recently welcomed new members at a brunch at the Annandale Country Club, praising Teresa Hoffman and her assistants Angelica Kusar and Allison Ream for the arrangements.

New Spinsters from the Los Angeles area include Mary Allen, Kim Bringgold, Ashley Brittingham, Elizabeth Guerin, Mollie Shea; from the Pasadena area, Kathryn Barger, Katherine Farrand, Carolyn Terry, Kathryn Richer, Frances Harvey and Colleen Kettenhofen. More include Lorraine Bonneau of Huntington Beach and Mary Legallet of Manhattan Beach.

AND BACHELORS: Los Solteros (“the bachelors”) and their dates dance to the Greg Elliott Orchestra at their 39th annual Christmas Ball on Dec. 12 in the Crystal Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Los Solteros is the Southern California organization of business and professional men who, in addition to their social interests, provide financial assistance to Boys Republic, which is celebrating its 80th anniversary of education and counseling.

Michael R. Fergoda is ball chairman. Assisting are John C. Burke, president, and Ivan Eskanezie, Michael Burchieri, Mathew Sullivan, Mathew Shannon, Robert Seifert, John Krummell Jr., Don Dalis, Spencer Smith, Alan Burks, Bill Scott and Mark Madden.

ANTIQUES ALIVE: Would you believe Ken Kercheval, star of “Dallas,” collects early American pressed glass? It’s earned him the lofty title of honorary chairman of the Junior League of Los Angeles eighth annual Los Angeles Antiques Show on Dec. 11-14 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Part of his extensive collection--more than 600 pieces--will be exhibited during the show’s run. The show will feature 50 antiques dealers from around the country for all tastes and budgets.

Show chairman Carol Mancino and assistants Gwen Hatten Baker and Libby Conner have also booked Kercheval (who plays J. R. Ewing’s chief antagonist, Cliff Barnes) as a panelist for the show’s lecture series, “The Art of Collecting,” at 11 a.m. Dec. 13. Other panelists will include Getty Museum docent Judith Mathey; William Ezelle Jones, former curator of decorative arts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Tobi Rose, editor of Antiques West.

Kercheval says he began his collection as a teen-ager, in self-defense, after being “dragged through every antique shop in the State of Indiana,” by his father, a country doctor. Over lunch at the Parkway Grill, Andi Anderson bubbled with enthusiasm over the premiere black-tie party she’s chairing on Dec. 10 to launch the show.

STANFORD BELLS: Stanford University president Dr. Donald Kennedy and his new bride, attorney Robin Hamill, will be at home at the president’s campus residence, Hoover House, today or Friday after their honeymoon. They were married last Friday in a small private ceremony at Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills. A reception followed at the Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto.

According to the president’s office, Hamill graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford in 1968, has a master’s in political science from UC Berkeley and received a Stanford law degree in 1978. She was an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles for two years, and in 1980 became director of Stanford’s University Housing Programs. She also served as director of Stanford’s office of real estate and land management before joining the office of general counsel in July.

Kennedy has been a member of the Stanford faculty since 1960 and was appointed university president in 1980. Each has two childen by a previous marriage.

THE SEASON: The setting was classical--white columns draped with a Grecian swag framing a gazebo, created by Richard Trimble of Valley Floral. The ballroom twinkled with tiny lights on the ficus trees. Through these portals at the Beverly Wilshire stepped the debutantes, wearing white moire muffs decorated with roses and pink dendrobium orchids, at the National Charity League of San Fernando Valley 22nd annual Debutante Ball.

The 14: Tracie Agens, Kimberly Belgum, Amy Cameron, Barbara Dodson, Jennifer Heathwood, Greta Joy Anna Hirschmann, Heidi Kitti Hopper, Lisa Laritson, Erin O’Neill, Kym Piekunka, Melinda Porter, Andrea Pressman, Jannica Ramsden and Diane Weldon.

The ball committee celebrated at the party hosted by ball director Juel Love and her husband Richard in their hotel suite. Diana Hawthorne, president, escorted by her husband Frederick, had the pleasure of announcing that proceeds will benefit National Charity League of San Fernando Valley Center of Rancho del Valle, Crippled Children’s Society.

SELECT 100: The humanitarians who contribute $1,000 each year to the V.I.P. President’s Club of Friends of Reconstructive Surgery Research to fund research at Stanford University Medical Center (by Dr. Lars M. Vistnes and his team) shine Tuesday evening. President Emeritus Sybil Brand and Friends founder Bernice Gershon are sparking the dinner dance in the Pavilion Room of the Bistro Garden. Sybil has asked songstress Grace (Mrs. Harold) Robbins to sing.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS: What a happy way to launch Christmas--Marcia and Stan Hayden’s festive dinner and dancing party Tuesday evening at the Jonathan Town Club. Marcia was decked out in Estevez black with bright red double-tiered hem ruffles; Stan wore a green silk Christmas tie. Were there green bracers?

Whatever, the Art Deco band brought nearly 180 to the dance floor--Dick and Maude Ferry, Hank and Cynthia Yost, John and Pam King, Dorothy and John Shea, Roger and Patty Burschinger, Diane and Peter Vogelsang, Steve and Jane Ackerman, Eileen and Bill Zimmerman, Julie and Art Pizzinat.

Earlier a crowd including Rube and Virginia Hayden (Stan’s parents) and Cyril and Edith Nigg nestled under one of the two fabulous Jack Wilkinson Smith seascapes in the parlor, and also crowding round the Christmas tree were Dr. Cornelius and Marjorie Pings (gloating over USC’s going to the Rose Bowl), Rose Mary Mitchell, Gerald Lynch, Stafford and Roberta Grady, Sally and Paul Conn, Melinda Winston and David Coquillard, Claire and Gil Shea, Jane and Don Quinn, Deedee and Ted McCarthy.

CHEER: Descanso Gardens Guild hosts its preview party Friday evening for “Christmas at Rancho Del Descanso.” There’ll be holiday boutiques, too, says Mary Ann Arnett, guild president. The show of floral tributes is open to the public Saturday through Dec. 13 . . .

The Wilshire Community Partnership for the Homeless sponsors a benefit “Concert for the Homeless” this evening at the Wilshire-Ebell Theater. The Los Angeles Doctors Symphony will play. The Partnership includes Wilshire Rotary, Los Angeles Beautiful, Perino’s Restaurant, Los Angeles Police Department (Rampart and Wilshire divisions), the Wilshire Korean business community and the Southern California Psychiatric Society.

CIRCLE WITH HOLLY: She’s been in her hospital bed after quadruple bypass heart surgery, but Betty Ford is still the honorary chairman, along with former President Ford, for the Anne Banning Auxiliary of the Assistance League of Southern California “Babes in Toyland” Neiman-Marcus children’s fashion show and holiday luncheon Sunday in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton. Susan Cooper and Janis Burroughs are co-chairs . . .

Parchment invites proclaim a “Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Dickens Pageant” Saturday by the USC School of Music in the Annenberg School of Communication lobby. USC Associates and Roberta and Carl Hartnack (he’s national chairman for the Campaign for USC) co-host a Victorian feast. The world-traveled USC Chamber Singers will sing for the black-tie affair designed to emulate an English dickens of an evening.

FETES: The Ebell of Los Angeles members sparkle with the President’s Red Ribbon Ball and an 18-foot Christmas tree Dec. 18. Victoria Swackenberg chairs the event. President Helen Weigel will lead the traditional grand march . . .