BOCA RATON — Local business owner and philanthropist Yvonne S. Boice will dance in Boca’s Ballroom Battle Friday, August 19 at 6 p.m. at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. The competition raises funds for the George Snow Scholarship Fund.
Boice, owner of The Shoppes at Village Pointe and Fugazy International Travel, has been training for the competition for months at Fred Astaire Dance Studios in Royal Palm Place.
Other community leaders who’ll trip the light fantastic include Rafael Cabrera, Jay DiPietro, Ingrid Fulmer, Ralph Mesa, Jackie Reeves, Pat Thomas and Bryan Tindell. The winner will take home the “Mirror Ball” trophy.
“I’m excited to be dancing in Boca’s Ballroom Battle. It raises money for a great cause and it will be a really fun evening!” Boice said.
For more information or to reserve a seat to attend Boca’s Ballroom Battle, visit www.scholarship.org.
Boice currently serves as a board member of the Trust of the National Endowment of the Humanities. In addition, she has given of her time and talents to such organizations as the Palm Beach State College Foundation Board, the Lynn University Board, the Palm Beach International Film Festival Board, the Boca Raton Historical Society Board, the World Trade Center and YMCA of South Palm Beach County. She is also an appointee to the Palm Beach County Film and Television Commission and the Convention and Visitors Bureau.
She has also amassed a number of other honors locally and worldwide.
Boice is married to attorney and World Trade Center founder, Al Zucaro. Her daughter, Lauren, is an attorney living in the Boston area with her husband, astrophysicist, Dr. Randall Knowles Smith.