Celebrate
Spring
New York
Young
New
Yorkers
for the
Fight
Against
Parkinson’s
Committee
and
the
Parkinson’s
Disease
Foundation
Wednesday,
April 1,
2015
Over 330
supporters
joined
the Young
New
Yorkers
for the
Fight
Against
Parkinson’s committee of
the Parkinson’s
Disease
Foundation
(PDF) in
celebrating
the
eighth
annual Celebrate
Spring
New York at
TAO
Downtown
located
at 92
Ninth
Avenue
in New
York
City on
Wednesday,
April 1,
2015.
The
evening
raised
$91,000
with
proceeds
from the
evening
will benefit PDF’s
Postdoctoral
Fellowships
Program,
which
prepares
future
leaders
in
Parkinson’s
disease
research
and
care.
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, Josh
and
Melissa
Raskin, 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 over
$650,000
since
its
inception.
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
$105
million
in the
research
of
leading
scientists
around
the
world
and has
committed
an
additional
$44
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