By Town Crier Staff Report
Hidden Villa, the Peninsula’s historic educational farm and 1,600-acre wilderness preserve in Los Altos Hills, will present three Duveneck Humanitarian Awards at a dinner under the stars Sept. 22.
The public is invited to celebrate the contributions of this year’s award winners, who share the humanitarian values that are the legacy of Josephine and Frank Duveneck, Hidden Villa’s founders.
The honorees include:
Mary Curtis Davey, of Los Altos Hills, executive director of the Palo Alto Endowment Fund, former Hidden Villa board president and a founder of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District and Midpeninsula Citizens for Fair Housing;
Marthelia Hargrove, principal of Costano School (grades K-8) in the Ravenswood School District, East Palo Alto, who was named the National Principal of the Year for 2000-01 by the National Alliance of Black School Educators;
Internationally renowned architect William McDonough of Charlottesville, Va., designer of revolutionary buildings, Time magazine “Hero for the Planet” in 1999, and one of the primary proponents and shapers of what he and his partners call “The Next Industrial Revolution.”
Brief tours of Hidden Villa’s two new sustainable buildings, the Wolken Education Center and the Hidden Villa Hostel, will precede the sixth annual Duveneck Humanitarian Awards dinner.
Steve Jurvetson, managing director of the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, will present the awards. Honorary chairperson of the event is Rosemary B. Hewlett and the chairperson is Jan Fenwick of Los Altos Hills.
Corporate sponsors for the evening include Hewlett-Packard Company, Pequot Capital, Bain & Company, WaferNet, Inc., Bank of Los Altos, Bon Appetit, Comerica Bank-California, Financial Clarity, Inc., Mayfield Mortgage and Mid-Peninsula Bank.
Individual sponsors include Jim and Becky Morgan, Pitch and Cathie Johnson, and the Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation.
Tickets cost $150, of which $75 is a tax-deductible contribution to Hidden Villa. All proceeds benefit Hidden Villa’s programs.
For more information or to make a reservation, call 949-9702.
Information is also available at www.hiddenvilla.org.
