[dba-VB] use a font in a class

I am defining a system for displaying a status on a form.  We have a listview object, in which we 
create three columns, then push stuff into the list using the following coed:

private void UpdateStage1Status(StatusEventArgs stEvArgs)
{
      Font bold = new Font(Font, FontStyle.Bold);     //to make the font bold
      ListViewItem item;
      item = lstvStatus.Items.Add("",stEvArgs.pImageIndex);       //The image to display for the row
      //item.BackColor = stEvArgs.pColor;
      item.UseItemStyleForSubItems = false;       //need to set this to allow changing font color
      item.SubItems.Add(stEvArgs.pDte.ToString());        //date
      item.SubItems.Add(stEvArgs.pObjectPath);            //object path
      item.SubItems.Add(stEvArgs.pStatus, Color.Black, Color.White, bold);  //status text
         }

Now I want to wrap the list and this code in a class so that I do not have to have all this (and 
other) stuff in the form.

The problem is that the line

     Font bold = new Font(Font, FontStyle.Bold);     //to make the font bold

won't compile in a class.  It complains that

Font bold = new Font(Font

That last class is bad (can't be inherited).  AFAICT (just a guess) that Font reference only works 
in a form.

Is there any way other than passing the font in to this method to us the code as written (in a class)?

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John W. Colby
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