On Saturday night at the Regency Ballroom the GLIDE Legacy Committee hosted a loosely black tie affair to celebrate several prominent San Franciscans who represent Glide Memorial Church's "legacy of love, leadership and community." Hundreds of guests, some of whom purchased their tickets at a discount through a group buying website, indulged in the opportunity to support Glide's charitable efforts by drinking sponsored Ketel One in the general vicinity of celebrity Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom.
Newsom's wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, was honored with this year's Janice Mirikitani Legacy Award for her work as director, writer and producer of the critically acclaimed documentary Miss Representation. Lite Gov. Newsom, on the other hand, was honored for his carefully styled coif with an endless barrage of cellphone-snapped photo opportunities.
San Francisco Forty-Niners star and all-around class act Vernon Davis was honored with the Cecil Williams Legacy Award for his many philanthropic efforts. So busy is Mr. Davis with his various projects including the Vernon and Vontae Davis Family Foundation, the Starkey Hearing Foundation, Pros for Africa and his own interior design agency, that he was unable to be honored in person at the event. For his efforts working to end child poverty and human trafficking, Giants pitcher Jeremy Affeldt was honored with the foundation's Community Hero award.
After all the awards were handed out and graciously accepted, Glide co-founders Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani made a short speech before shuffling offstage to make room for acclaimed (we're told) DJ King Most. The older attendees departed the scant few tables in the center of the ballroom in favor of an early bedtime, but the well-dressed twentysomethings at whom the party was aimed came to life under a striking picture of the second lady of California. DJ King Most played a set of Adele remixes and Montel Jordan tracks that most of the attendees last enjoyed at their eighth grade dance.
The night carried on until Midnight, when the more-sauced attendees who had carried on Glide's longstanding tradition of philanthropy-through-celebration by making quick work of all those gallons of free Ketel, spilled out on to Van Ness Avenue and slipped in to taxis and Uber Cabs ready to take them to their afterparty of choice.