When: Saturday, June 13, 2009
Time: 6:30pm-11:00pm
Where: Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field
6911 Lemmon Ave, Dallas, TX – just north of Mockingbird
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Laurie Phillips wins Top Hat & Tails 2009!

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Top Hat & Tails, the annual fundraiser for Paws in the City, was held June 13th at the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field. Once again, we had a full house! The Flight Museum was transformed through the sounds of the Big Bands and the look of the dance halls of the 1940's. We featured a celebrity dance contest along with a sit down dinner, cocktails, live and silent auction. The dance floor was open to all both before dinner and after the dance competition.

The dance competition paired celebrities with Arthur Murray dance instructors. One dance routine was performed by each couple and judged by a panel of judges. The judges: Claudia Marshall, Kellie Rasberry and Tony Dorsett had some witty and interesting critiques of the dancers and gave each couple a score from 1-10. Judge's scores were combined with our gala guests votes to determine the winner of the Lucy Award: Laurie Phillips.

Paws in the City is delighted that Preston Pearson, Dallas Cowboy Great and emcee Scott Murray were our hosts.

The female contestants wore costumes that were actually worn on the Dancing With the Star's TV Show and they looked fantastic.

Dancers for 2009 where:

  • Angie Barrett, TV personality, Philanthropisdancing the Rumba with Daneil Dellucci
  • Laurie Phillips, wife of Dallas Cowboy head coach, Wade Phillips, dancing the Cha Cha with    James Gonzales
  • Becky Nguyen, wife of former Dallas Cowboy Dat Nguyen, dancing a Rhythm Medley with    Justin Brown
  • Gina Miller, Sports Anchor for CBS 11, dancing Swing with Ian Kelley
  • Jack Lindstrom, Sports Radio personality dancing the Foxtrot with Nikki Holland
  • Timm Matthews, Sports TV and Radio Personality dancing the Swing with Lara Sandler
  • Jeremy Anderson, contestant on "The Bachelorette" TV show dancing the Samba with Gilda    Taylor
  • Dr. Erwin Cruz MD...one of the top neurologists in Dallas dancing the Tango with Sarah    Dantes
  • George Riba, Senior Sports Reporter and Sports Anchor WFAA Channel 8 dancing the    Hustle/Michael Jackson's Thriller with Bailey Kenzington

    • Judges:

  • Tony Dorsett, Dallas Cowboy Great
  • Kellie Rasberry, Radio host of Kidd Kraddick morning show
  • Claudia Marshall, owner of Arthur Murray Dance Studios

    • The St. Francis of Assisi Award:

    Rebecca Poling, for her dedication and service to animals

    Man's Best Friend Award was presented to:

    Arthur Benjamin, for his commitment to rescuing dogs and finding them loving homes

    Honorees:
    Barking Hound Village, Needless Necessities, Toothacres and Canine Dimensions were presented awards for their dedication to Paws In The City.

    Honorary Chairs:

  • Phyllis Comu

  • Holly Forsythe

  • Debi Michaelis


    • Event Chair, Becky Haisma
  • Vice Chair, Tina Fairbanks

    Please see the films shown at the fundraiser on the Media Gallery page of www.pawsinthecity.org

    Paws in the City raised lots of money to save more dogs and cats from the streets as strays and from being euthanized at the Dallas city shelter. We want to thank everyone for attending and being so generous!

    Please be on the lookout for information about next year's event. This was such a successful event, we're doing it again! Hope you will join us next year! If you are interested in sponsoring or know of a celebrity who might want to participate, please
    contact Becky at bhaisma@gmail.com