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Dickie Weaver, right, with friends Bill Nelson, Terry Tebedo and Mike Anglin skiing in Breckinridge in 1980. (Photo courtesy of Mike Anglin) Dickie Weaver helped create Razzle Dazzle Dallas, Resource Center and more DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com Black Tie Dinner founder Dick Weaver, 84, died on Saturday, Nov.

19, after an extended illness. Weaver, known affectionately to his friends as Dickie, also was among the creators of Razzle Dazzle Dallas and, although his name wasn’t on the incorporation paper of Resource Center, attorney Mike Anglin, who filed those papers for the organization in 1983, said Weaver served on its first board and became an early president of what was then known as the Foundation for Human Understanding.

FHU was created by members of the Dallas Gay Alliance board, where Weaver also served at the time. He and the original board came up with the awkward name for the new organization, also then known as the AIDS Resource Center because they believed people in Highland Park would donate to human understanding but not to AIDS.

Dickie Weaver While Weaver served on the board, the organization lost its original offices on Cedar Springs Road to an arson fire, and he helped purchase its first permanent home on Reagan at Brown streets.

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