Yuletide Ball Raises Over $160,000 for Winthrop

Yuletide Ball Raises Over $160,000
for Winthrop-University Hospital
PHOTOS BY RICHARD SLATTERY
Each year during the holiday season, friends and supporters of Winthrop-University Hospital gather for the Yuletide Ball, an evening of dining, dancing and fundraising to benefit
the Hospital’s Child Life Program. The 2010 Yuletide Ball, hosted by Garden City residents
John and Liz Durand was a success, raising over $160,000 for the Hospital’s Child Life Program.
The Yuletide Ball is a pivotal annual event that garners the community’s support for
Winthrop’s Child Life Program through which specially trained child life specialists help
children understand and cope with hospitalization. The staff use therapeutic play, arts and
crafts, entertainment and other diversions to ensure that the hospital experience is as stress-free as
possible for children and their families. Child life
specialists are available in the Pediatric Emergency
Unit, the Cancer Center for Kids, Pediatric Specialty Center and the Hospital’s Hagedorn Pediatric Inpatient Center.
A vital program across the full spectrum of inpatient, outpatient and emergency services at
Winthrop, Child Life is supported in its entirety by
philanthropic contributions. ■
John F. Collins, president, CEO, WinthropUniversity Hospital, wife Cathy and
Liz Durand, host, Yuletide Ball
At left: J. Edmund Keating, vice president,
Marketing and Advertising,Winthrop;
John Durand, host,Yuletide Ball and
Matthew Heslin, Morgan Stanley
Charles M. Strain, Esq., managing partner,
Farrell Fritz, PC, chairman, Board of Directors
with wife Denise
Shepard T. Poole, president, COO, The Hallen
Construction Co., Inc., member, Winthrop
Board of Directors and wife Anne
Winthrop board members Joan Cox and Soraya Gage, also member,
2010 Yuletide Ball committee, join Liz Westermann and Clare
Petropoulos, members, 2010 Yuletide Ball Committee
Vincent DiGregorio, MD, Winthrop associated plastic surgeon
and Jennifer DiGregorio, Yuletide Ball committee member with
Hector Murphy, Yuletide Ball committee member
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Nicholas J. Rosato, Jr., managing director,
Equity Research Product Management, J.P.
Morgan Securities, member, Winthrop’s
Board of Directors and wife Johanna Rosato,
co-chair, Yuletide Ball committee
Josephine Broder, Matthew Heslin, Morgan Stanley; John P. Broder, vice president of
External Affairs & Development, Winthrop and Sheila Heslin,
member, Yuletide Ball committee
Peter Menger, MD, ophthalmologist associated with Winthrop and wife Virginia
with Terrance and Margaret Kelleher
Warren Rosenfeld, MD, chairman of Pediatrics, Winthrop and wife Helene with
Vera Aloia and John F. Aloia, MD, CAO, Winthrop, director of Bone Mineral
Research Center, Winthrop