Casita Maria Center For Arts And Education Honors Rosaura Henkel, Elizabeth T. Peabody, And Julia Salvi

It was a “touching moment,” for Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education as they celebrated Fiesta 2017 in the wake of two leveling natural disasters, said Jacqueline Weld Drake, who chairs their uber elegant galas with Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia. “We have primarily been a Puerto Rican organization started by two schoolteachers… And now, again, we have this immigration from Puerto Rico and we, again, have many, many Puerto Rican clients whom we are helping … as well as a great many Mexican clients who come for our programs and the safe haven that we provide.”