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Curry Senior Center’s Annual Gala Thursday, May 7, 2015 A g i n g w i t h h e a l t h, h o p e a n d d i g n i t y The Board of Directors of Curry Senior Center cordially invites you to a festive evening celebrating over 42 years of providing nourishing meals, housing, case management, socialization programs and personalized primary and behavioral healthcare with home visits for low-income and homeless seniors in the heart of the City. This year inaugurates the new, annual Vera Haile Dalenberg Award in memory of Vera Haile — a San Francisco icon of determined advocacy for the underprivileged and Curry Executive Director from 1983–1996. In honor of Vera Haile’s passing on July 9, 2014, the gala this year will celebrate and honor those women in our community who fight for what makes our city famous for benevolence and goodwill towards all those who need a supportive hand. Curry Senior Center’s Annual Gala Thursday, May 7, 2015 5:30pm–8:30pm InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel 999 California Street San Francisco, CA 94108 Reception & Silent Auction 5:30pm Dinner and Live Auction 7:00pm Festive attire The gala will feature delicious food and libations, live music, an exhilarating live auction presented by Curry Board Member and Bay Area news personality, Diane Dwyer, along with many wonderful silent auction items and other special guests. We are also thrilled to welcome again, Baseball Hall of Famer, Orlando “The Baby Bull” Cepeda, and his wife, Mirian, as our special VIP guests from the San Francisco Giants. 2015 Awardees Francis J. Curry Award Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and Saint Francis Foundation for leading the Tenderloin Health Improvement Partnership’s (Tenderloin HIP) community vision into reality. Joseph Mignola, Jr. Award Aisha Ahmad for her leadership as the Founding President of the Curry PALS (Professionals, Advocates and Leadership Society) and her leadership with the Association of Auxiliaries for Children that raises funds for Stanford Children’s Health. Vera Haile Dalenberg Award Marie Jobling, Executive Director of the Community Living Campaign, for her many years of experience in long-term care public policy and planning and advocacy for seniors’ issues of health, technology and economic security. Honorary Gala Committee As of April 1, 2015 Caroline Barlerin • Bryan Breckenridge • Honorable Willie L. Brown, Jr. • Captain Jason Cherniss Assembly Member David Chiu • Mrs. Francis J. Curry • Catherine Dodd • Bevan Dufty • Michael Dunne Barbara Edwards • Don Falk • The Honorable Dianne Feinstein • Barbara Garcia • John Gressman, MSW, MA Kristen Growney Yamamoto • Sally Hatchett • Chief of SFFD Joanne Hayes-White • E. Anne Hinton • Jim Illig David Ishida • The Jobling-Fazio Family • Gay Kaplan • Supervisor Jane Kim • Vernon Michael Kirton The Honorable Ed Lee • Senator Mark Leno • Rae H. Mignola • Sandy Mori • Peter Neuendorff Connie Perez-Wong • Simon Pitchford, Ph.D. • Helen B. Ripple • Mark Ryle, LCSW Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi • Jacqueline Sax • Joan Scott • Katherine & Bob Sharp • Rita Shimmin Barry Stenger • Chief of Police Greg Suhr • Mikkel Svane • David & Kay Werdegar • Anne Wilson Linda C. Winn • Abbie Yant RN, MA Board of Directors Jeffrey Alan Beane, MD, President • Jonrie Dávila, Vice President • Zachary Schiller, CFP, Treasurer Aisha Ahmad • J. David Bickham • Beverly Brumfield • Cynthia K. Ceres • Walter DeVaughn Diane Dwyer • Phil Marechal • Shirley Quitugua • Robert A. Razzo • Lara Sallee, MPH Richard Sax • Richard Sullivan • Amy Whalen • Alice Zhang Executive Leadership David Knego, Executive Director • Richard Zercher, MD, Medical Director Gala Committee Shirley Quitugua, Gala Chair • Beverly Brumfield, Auction Chair Mick Aguilera • Arlo Bushnell • Jonrie Dávila • Yvette DeAndreis • Amy Garant • John McKinnon Michelle Noble • Robert Razzo • Jackie & Richard Sax • Zack Schiller • Gina Secchi • Pat Swan • Tod Thorpe Sabra Wagner • Amy Whalen • Sam Vitkoski • Alice Zhang Thank you to our sponsors As of April 3, 2015 Justice Independence Dignity St. Francis Foundation Hope Health Jeffrey Beane, MD and David Wingate • The William and Hope Curry Family Rae H. Mignola and Family • Helen B. Ripple • SalesX - Joe Khoei Home Robert and Katherine Sharp • David and Kay Werdegar • John Wiley Publishers Family City National Bank • Dan and Kirsten Guill • Sally Hatchett • Elizabeth Kantor, MD Gay and Harvey Kaplan • Michelle and Gary Noble • Alisa Oberschelp, MD Shirley and John Quitugua Family • Rainbow Grocery Cooperative • Lara Sallee and Shadow Moyer Joyce Tinsley • Amy Whalen • Alice Zhang and Calvin Wong Ag i n g w i t h h e a l t h, h o p e a n d d i g n i t y 333 Turk Street • San Francisco, California 94102 Curry is an oasis of care for over 2,000 seniors annually in their own neighborhood, providing: nutritious meals, housing, case management, primary healthcare, mental and behavioral healthcare, socialization programs and much more. All proceeds go directly to these programs and ensure Curry will be able to respond to the number of low-income seniors seeking Curry’s comprehensive services, which increasingly becomes greater than what our resources can manage. For more information, please call: 415-292-1040 Email: [email protected]