On June 4, 2013, 450 guests gathered in
support of Calvary Hospital’s 30th
Annual Awards Gala which took place at The Pierre in New
York City. The evening raised over $1,000,000 to benefit
Calvary Hospital.
The Calvary Medal was presented to Frank A.
D’Amelio, Executive Vice President, Business Operations
& Chief Financial Officer of Pfizer Inc., in recognition of
his distinguished corporate and civic leadership and
Pfizer’s longstanding philanthropic commitment to the
Calvary mission.
Frank J. Bisignano, Chief
Executive Officer, First Data Corporation; Louis
J. Cappelli, Chairman, Sterling National Bank;
John P. Casaly; Dan DiFilippo, Partner, PwC;
Thomas J. Fahey, Jr. M.D., Senior Vice President,
Emeritus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Chairman
of the Board, Calvary Hospital; Terence J. Gallagher,
Chief Executive Officer, Corporate Governance Associates
LLC; Steven J. Golub, Chairman of the Board, Calvary
Fund; Charles J. Groppe, Esq., Putney, Twombly,
Hall & Hirson, LLP; Carlos M. Hernandez,
Managing Director, Head of Investor Services, JPMorgan Chase
& Co.; Henry J. Humphreys; William A.
McKenna, Jr., Chairman Emeritus, Ridgewood Savings Bank;
JPMorgan Chase & Co., Joseph J. Morrow,
Chief Executive Officer, Morrow & Co., LLC; Fares D.
Noujaim, Executive Vice Chairman, Bank of America;
Eileen T. Nugent, Esq., Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP; Louise M. Parent, Esq., Executive
Vice President & General Counsel, America Express Company;
Sally Susman, Executive Vice President, Policy,
External Affairs & Communications, Pfizer Inc.;
Gerald C. Tobin, Esq., Chairman, Calvary Professional
Advisors Council and Dennis Wallin, Vice President,
Business and Retail Development, Alpha 1Marketing, Past
President, Catholic Institute of the Food Industry were the
Dinner Co-Chairs.
Mary and William Buckley,
Diahn W. and Thomas McGrath, and Kathleen and
Stratford Wallace were the Gala Co-Chairs.
John A. Decina, AIA, Chairman, Barr & Barr,
Inc. and Dennis M. Schneider, President, Transervice
Lease Corp. were the Journal Co-Chairs.
The festivities for this black-tie gala
began at 6:30 PM. Michael Amante gave an inspiring
performance and the Master of Ceremonies was John R.
Gambling, Host of WOR’s The John Gambling Show.
From its inception in 1899, Calvary
Hospital has been faithfully devoted to providing
palliative care to adult patients in the advanced stages of
cancer, addressing the symptoms of the disease, not its
cure. Operated in connection with the Archdiocese of New
York, Calvary is a voluntary, not-for-profit hospital,
embodying a tradition of caring through its many programs
and services. The cornerstone of Calvary’s program of
service is its philosophy of compassionate care to meet the
emerging physical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of both
patients and families through the provision of acute
inpatient, outpatient, home and hospice services (through
Calvary@Home), wound care services and satellite services.
Through the Palliative Care Institute the Hospital transmits
to other health care professionals, through research and
education, the knowledge and competence which it has
developed in the care of the advanced cancer patient. The
National Cancer Institute designated Calvary as the
International Standard of Excellence for Palliative Care.
www.calvaryhospital.org.