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Celebrate
Spring New
York
Young New
Yorkers for
the Fight
Against
Parkinson’s
Committee
and
the
Parkinson’s
Disease
Foundation
Wednesday,
April 2,
2014
The Young
New Yorkers
for the
Fight
Against
Parkinson’s committee of
the Parkinson’s
Disease
Foundation
(PDF) held
its seventh
annual Celebrate
Spring New
York at
LAVO located
at 39 East
58th Street
in New York
City on
Wednesday,
April 2,
2014. Over
300
supporters
of the Parkinson’s
Disease
Foundation and Young
New Yorkers raised
more than
$90,000.
Proceeds
from the
evening will benefit PDF’s
Côté
Clinical
Genetics
Initiative,
which
supports
research to
identify and
understand
the role of
genetic
markers in
Parkinson’s
disease.
G.
Pennington
Egbert III, Gregory
and Barbara
Romero, Jonathan
E. Romero,
Jr., and Missy
Egbert
Sheehan and William
B. Sheehan were
the Co-Chairs. W.
Alexander
Budney, Andrew
S. Gustin, George
and Peggy
Hebard, Adam
and Kim
Wolfberg,
and Darren
and Michele
Wolfberg were
the Vice-Chairs.
Celebrate
Spring New
York was
founded by G.
Pennington
Egbert III,
his sister Missy
Egbert
Sheehan and
their close
friend Georgina
B. Schaeffer whose
fathers both
lived with
Parkinson’s
disease.
They joined
together to
create the Young
New Yorkers
for the
Fight
Against
Parkinson’s committee,
a group of
nearly 100
New Yorkers
dedicated to
advancing a
cure for
Parkinson’s.
Each year
the
committee
hosts Celebrate
Spring New
York,
which has
raised nearly
$600,000
since its
inception.
The event
began at
8:00 PM with
cocktails,
hors
d’oeuvres,
and dancing
with music
provided by DJ
Brenda Black.
The
Parkinson’s
Disease
Foundation supports
research and
ideas that
will improve
the lives
and futures
of people
touched by
Parkinson’s.
Created by William
Black,
the founder
of Chock
full o’Nuts,
a successful
New York
coffee and
restaurant
business, PDF was
the first
national
not-for-profit
organization
to focus on
Parkinson’s
disease.
Since its
founding in
1957, PDF has
invested
$100 million
in the
research of
leading
scientists
around the
world and
has
committed an
additional
$42 million
to support
education
and advocacy
programs.
For more
information
on the Parkinson’s
Disease
Foundation,
call (800)
457-6676 or
visit
www.pdf.org/csny
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