BOCA RATON — More than 400 attendees in a sea of pink gathered at the 5th Annual Pink Ribbon Luncheon to benefit the South Florida Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Oct. 20 at Woodfield Country Club in Boca Raton.
Keynote speaker, Liz Thompson—who was recently named president of the Global Komen for the Cure organization— shared new breast cancer information and discoveries with the audience.
Rori Clark, left, with Mayde Wiener, Dina Roth Port, Fern Duberman, Lisa Marton, Bob Marton, Amy Rosenthal and Suzanne Citere
“I, and the entire Pink Ribbon Committee, am so pleased with the success of this year’s luncheon,” said Fern Duberman, who chaired the luncheon for the fifth year. “The luncheon is a wonderfully inspiring and educational forum that raises much-needed funds for the Komen South Florida Affiliate in our mission to eradicate breast cancer forever.”
In addition to Duberman, this year’s committee members were: event Co-Chair Kathleen Bocek, Barbara Shashoua, Haddassah Yuster, Gary Pyott, Penni Fromm, Nina Greenfield, Eileen Gerstel, Francine Miller, Hermaine Raimi, Joanne Applebaum and Marc Zum Tobel.
Lisa and Bob Marton, residents of Woodfield, were honorary chairs of this year’s luncheon and breast cancer education seminar. Lisa is one of five subjects of the book, Previvors, written by Dina Roth Port, also a Woodfield resident. In Lisa’s case, the book documents the decisions and struggles she faced in her attempt to pre-empt breast cancer, a disease that claimed her mother and grandfather. The Martons shared their moving story with luncheon guests as a family affected by breast cancer.
Event sponsors included Braman Motorcars Palm Beach (Presenting Sponsor), The Continental Group, Titan International Security Services, Inc., Event Studio Productions, Lisa and Mark Delevie, Lisa and Robert Marton, The Marton Bute Marcus Wealth Management Group of Merrill Lynch, The Regency Collection and Life Publications.
Seventy-five percent of the event proceeds will stay in Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties while the remaining 25 percent will go to cutting edge national breast cancer research. Funds are used for outreach and education, mammograms, diagnostic tests and treatment for the medically underserved.
Komen for the Cure was named the No. 1 most valuable non-profit brand and the charity people are most likely to donate to, according to the recent 2010 rankings of non-profit organizations from global market research firm Harris Interactive. Komen also ranked second among the most trusted non-profit organizations in America, behind St. Jude Research Hospital. The rankings examined 1,151 organizations.
Bob and Lisa Marton, event chairs
Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure and launched the global breast cancer movement.
The South Florida Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure is working to better the lives of those facing breast cancer in the local community. They join more than a million breast cancer survivors and activists around the globe as part of the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting breast cancer.
Through events like the Komen South Florida Race for the Cure®, the Komen South Florida Affiliate has invested $10 million in community breast health programs in our service area of Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties.
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