Living Well Luncheon 2025

Each year the Living Well Luncheon—hosted by the A.G. Rhodes Board of Advisors—brings together business leaders, partners, the A.G. Rhodes community of care partners and families, and supporters to learn about critical aging-related issues that impact our community and to raise funds for important initiatives that greatly enhance the quality of life for our residents. In February 2025, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of this signature event, with record-breaking attendance!

Event proceeds will support our A.G. Rhodes Music Therapy program and the Margaret Boyd Perdue Fund of the A.G. Rhodes Endowment. Funds will support the wellbeing of our elders and strengthen A.G. Rhodes, both now and into the future. Read more about A.G. Rhodes’ Music Therapy program.

Speaker

Living Well Annual Fundraiser 2025, A.G. Rhodes

Our speaker was Allan Levey, MD, PhD, the esteemed Director of Emory’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and a professor in the Department of Neurology at Emory University’s School of Medicine. He has secondary faculty appointments in the Departments of Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Read his bio.

Tribute to Harve Bauguess

Harve Bauguess spent almost his entire career at A.G. Rhodes, starting as Administrator of the A.G. Rhodes Atlanta home in 1976. A native of Winston Salem, North Carolina, he graduated from Furman University in 1969 where he attended on a football scholarship and was in the ROTC program. He served in Korea as an Army First Lieutenant from 1970-1971. He and his wife Susan were married in 1973 and moved to Atlanta in 1974 where he received his master’s degree from Georgia State University. They have one daughter, Heather who has also worked at A.G. Rhodes, and two grandchildren.

In 1985, Rhodes Perdue asked Harve to oversee the management of A.G. Rhodes. He formed Bauguess Management Company to fill this role and the eventual expansion of the organization to include A.G. Rhodes Cobb (1992) and A.G. Rhodes Wesley Woods (1997), serving as Contract Manager until his retirement in 2012. He credits an outstanding Board of Directors and Board of Managers (what is now the Board of Advisors) for their vision and role in charting the path of A.G. Rhodes to what it is today.

We were delighted to honor Harve Bauguess with a tribute video at this year’s Living Well Luncheon, recognizing him as a pioneer in the long-term services sector and thanking him for his decades of service to the A.G. Rhodes community.

Hosted By

The Living Well Luncheon is hosted by the A.G. Rhodes Board of Advisors, and this year’s event co-chairs were Frances Kerr and Hyde Desloge. Click here to see the list of the 2025 Board of Advisors.