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On Monday, April 27, 2015, National Meningitis Association
will hold its annual Give
Kids a Shot Gala at
The Pierre, 2 East 61 st Street
at Fifth Avenue, New York, 10065.. Cocktails & Silent
Auction begin at 6:30 PM followed by dinner & the NMA
Awards. Master of Ceremonies is Paul
A. Offit, M.D., Chief of Infectious Diseases, Director
of the Vaccine Education Center, Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia.
2015 Honorees are: Health Achievement Award to Carol
J. Baker, M.D., Professor
of Pediatrics, Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor
College of Medicine, Executive Director, Center for Vaccine
Awareness and Research, Texas Children’s Hospital: T.E.A.M.
Outstanding Service Award to Samantha
Bennett, Artist,
Mother, Advocate, Survivor and the Nancy Ford Springer Award
to Kevin
Carroll, MC, CP, FAAOP, Vice President of Prosthetics,
Hanger Clinic.
Honorary Chairs are Ambassador
John. L. Loeb, Jr and Mrs.
Sharon Handler Loeb, Liv Ullman and Donald
Saunders and Para-Olympic Gold Medalist Nick
Springer; Vice Chairs are Barry
J. Klarberg and Heike
M. Vogel, Esq. Chairs are Lenore
Cooney, Cooney/Waters Group, Sara
Herbert-Galloway and Gary
Springer, Springer
Associates PR. Auction Chairs are Matt
Klarberg, Monarch Wealth & Business Management and Errol Rappaport.
Honorary Committee includes Michael
Badalucco, Susan & Hon. James A. Baker III, Lynn Grossman &
Bob Balaban, Deion
Branch, Steve Buscemi, Victor Calis, Commissioner
Disabilities, Mayor’s
Office, City of New York,
U.S, Senator Susan Collins, Judy & Rod Gilbert, Adam Graves,
Amy Madigan & Ed Harris, State Senator Jack Hart,(ret.)
Lainie Kazan, Felicity Huffman William H. Macy, Congressman
Michael M. Michaud, James Naughton, Heather Randall, Susan
Sarandon and Richard
Thomas.
Benefit Committee includes: Jeri
Acosta, Lynn & Alan Bozof, Lori & Curt Buher, Elizabeth Cier,
Rita Cosby, Nicole & Jeff Fratarcangeli, Jeri Brooks,
Greenwell, Jonathan Hadaya, Laurie & Ken Hartwig, Charlotte
& Harvey Hodges, Lucia Hwong Gordon, Susan James, Marcie L.
Kammel, Allison & Matt Klarberg, Nikki Klarberg, Ryan
Klarberg, Donna & Michael La Forgia,, Marian Koltai-Levine &
Daniel Levine, Lucy J. Lang, Leslie Maier, Sherri
Michelstein, Jennifer Mocbeichel, Jan & Michael Planit,
Susan & Peter Purdy, Heather Randall, Cassandra Seidenfeld,
Lorraine Cancro Silvetz, Joe Sirola, Joe Trentacosta and
Patti & John Wukovits III,
Medical Committee includes Richard
Besser, Chief Health & and Medical Editor, ABC
News; Paul
Offit M.D., Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia; William
Schaffner, M.D., Department Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt
University Nancy
Snyderman, M.D. ; James
C. Turner, M.D., National
Social Norms Institute, University of Virginia and Dr.
Roger W. Yurt, NY
Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Obie Award winning actor singer Darius
de Haas who
has been seen in such films as Anastasia, Chicago and Larry
Flynt: The Right to Be Left Alone will
perform.This signature fundraising event will help NMA
continue and expand its vital work in the fight against
meningitis.
During the 1990’s, there was a significant increase in the
number of adolescents and young adults killed or disabled by
meningococcal meningitis; young people who were seemingly
healthy, vibrant and often athletic. Most
of the families were unaware of a vaccine that could have
saved their children’s lives or anguish. The National
Meningitis Association (NMA), a non-profit organization, was
formed in 2002 by parents whose children were killed or
disabled by meningitis. Since then, NMA has created
educational programs that reach millions of people each year
with information about available immunizations and disease
symptoms and thoughtful, comprehensive support programs for
families devastated by the ravages of the disease.
Leadership Packages: Heroes
for Tomorrow: Forty
Top VIP Tickets & Listing in Scroll Honor $100,000; Life
Ambassadors: Thirty
Top VIP Tickets & Listing in Scroll of Honor $75,000; Children’s
Champions: Twenty
Top VIP Tickets & Listing in Scroll of Honor $50,000; Guardians
of Life: Ten
Top VIP Tickets & Listing in Scroll of Honor $25,000; Patrons
of Hope: Ten
Tickets & Listing in Scroll of Honor $15,000; Youth
Benefactors: Ten
Tickets & Premier Listing in Scroll of Honor $10,000; Humanitarians
for Health: 4 Tickets & Premier Listing in Scroll of
Honor, $5,000; Wellness
Sponsors: 2
Tickets & Premier Listing in Scroll of Honor;
$2,500; Ticket
& Friend
Listing in Scroll of Honor $1,000 & One
Ticket, $500
For Leadership Packages, Sponsorships and tickets contact Bell
Events at 212-874-5457
or email Heather
Prochorchik at
heatherprochorchik@bellevents.com
For more information about NMA’s life-saving work please
visit www.nmaus.org
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