The Ravens Stadium's North Club Level Lounge was filled with sweet talk at the 11th annual Sugar Ball, a black-tie fund-raiser for the American Diabetes Association, Maryland Area.

Executive director Cinda Showalter and event chair Dr. David Miller made the rounds through a crowd of 400, sprinkled with the likes of Sonya and Bruce Goodman, national and regional ADA board member; Dr. Christopher Saudek, director of the Johns Hopkins Diabetes Center; Donna Vaughn, area business man-ager for Parke-Davis; Dr. Alan Shuldiner, director of the Joslin Center for Diabetes at the University of Maryland Medical Center; Dr. Elizabeth Streeten, a Joslin Center endocrinologist; and Edwin Hale, CEO of First Mariner Bank.

As if the Ravens mascot and cheerleaders and the dulcet tones of dance band Full Circle weren't entertaining enough, Dr. Neil Scheffler, ADA's mid-Atlantic health and education president, performed card tricks for fellow guests.

The Sugar Ball sweetened the ADA's pot by $115,000.

Pub Date: 03/14/99