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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 1, 2015
The Young
New Yorkers for the Fight Against Parkinson’s committee of
the Parkinson’s
Disease Foundation (PDF) will
hold its eighth annual Celebrate
Spring New York at
TAO Downtown located at 92 Ninth Avenue in New York City on
Wednesday, April 1, 2015. 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 are
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 are
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 $575,000
since its inception.
The event will begin at 8:00 PM with cocktails, hors
d’oeuvres, a live auction and dancing, with music provided
by DJ
Brenda Black. Support levels are as follows:
sponsorships at $5,000, $2,500, $1,250, $500, $475 and $250
and individual tickets at $165. The $475 ticket level offers
admittance to Celebrate
Spring New York and
the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation annual gala, Bal
du Printemps, on
Tuesday, May 19 at The Metropolitan Club. Sponsorships and
tickets may be purchased in advance at
www.pdf.org/csny
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, PDFwas
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 |