Special Events

Paula Jageman Wins 2005 Most Appreciated VIP Waiter Award!
Community Leaders Raise $27,000 at Annual VIPs at Your Service Fundraiser!

Volunteer Frederick held its sixth annual "VIPs at Your Service” fundraising dinner at Lynfield Event Complex on November 18th.

Thirty “very important people” served as VIP Waiters for this lively event, and helped raise more than $27,000 to sustain Volunteer Frederick’s programs that inspire, strengthen and support volunteerism throughout the County. The VIP Waiters decorated their table and themselves with a theme and competed among each other to see who could earn the most tips (donations) from their guests and be awarded Most Appreciated Waiter.

“This year’s event served up a wide variety of entertaining table themes including gambling, law enforcement, a murder mystery, the 50’s, and much more,” said Lisa Orr executive director of Volunteer Frederick. “Where ever I turned, somebody was up to something unusual – roller skating, locking people up, tricycle riding, playing twister, resuscitating manikins – these VIP Waiters will do just about anything for tips! ”

Paula Jageman, serenading her guests as U2’s Bono, won the Most Appreciated Waiter Award. Together with auction items that included an iPod fully loaded with every U2 album and signed memorabilia from U2 and Roger Staubach, Ms. Jageman raised a total of $4,014.

Volunteer Frederick's Board members

Michael Planz and Ike Wilson won the Funniest Table Award with cigar smoking Planz as Show White serving a very nonconformist crew of dwarfs. Harem members

Cindy Burdette, Lynette Culbertson, Pat Rosensteel and Janet Wells, winners of the Most Creative Table, treated three tables of guests to “A Night of a Thousand Wishes.”

ML Carroll of Canapés, served her guests in an elegant woodlands environment and captured the Most Beautiful Table Award

While

Dan Schiffman (Northwestern Mutual Financial Network) continued his “Bad to the Bone” theme and alternately rode around on his mini-chopper and tricycle,

Jodi Stiles was leading her band of the Pirates of the Carribean.

Law and order was not far away, however.

Sandy Dalton (Clerk of the District Court) was locking guests up in Jail as she affirmed that Justice Rocks! and nearby lawyers

Chris Remsburg and Kelly McGill were also policing their guests with their Cops & Robbers Theme.

Angela Dredden (Mercantile Mortgage, LLC) leveraged tips from her guests with her Monopoly theme while

Delegate Patrick Hogan entertained friends and family with a Hawaiian Luau.

Kathy Davis and Barb Walker (McLean, Koehler, Sparks & Hammond) played detective after one of their dinner guests turned up “dead,” while the guests of

Katie Bowersox (JB Interiors) and Rob Bowersox (Drees Homes) gambled their money away at their Vegas, Baby! casino. Dusty Rood (Rodgers Consulting) and his guests came decked out for a wild Disco Party while Leslie Schultz and Beverly Stone kept their guests hopping to The 50’s!

Samantha Servey (The Corporate Gift Source) reminded her guests that “It’s all about the Giving” while a crew of eclectically dressed

Future Professionals to Go from The Temple Paul Mitchell Partner School served up a wide variety of entertainment including a lovely operatic solo from Madame Butterfly. Members of the Maryland Ensemble Theatre, got into the VIP Waiter act as well. Lorrie Tripp delivered questionable service as (im)-Patience Punk;

Amy Easton and Matt Baughman, brought out their guests’ “inner children” with their “Playtime with Sam and Rosie” them. Meanwhile, the worlds most incompatible couple

Lisa Burl, as Joan Crawford, and Mikael Johnson, as Saddam Hussein, were at least civil enough to entertain and serve their guests.