Couture for a Cure: Westchester Ladies Who Lunched Dined and Shopped to Benefit Children with Cancer

Photo: Amy Hirschhorn, PCF Vice President, Lunch Co-Chair, Scarsdale, NY; Bonnie Boilen, PCF Vice President, Lunch Co-Chair, Chappaqua, NY; Wendy Schimel, PCF Board Member, Lunch Co-Chair, Armonk, NY; Lucy Amicucci, PCF Board Member, Lunch Co-Chair, Harrison, NY, and Denise Warshauer, PCF Vice President, Lunch Co-Chair, West Harrison, NY

Pediatric Cancer Foundation (PCF) celebrated its 44th year at their Opening Fall Luncheon on Thursday, October 2, 2014 at Trump National Golf Club, Briarcliff Manor, NY.

Highlights of the Luncheon included:

· Keynote speaker, Dr. Andrew Kung, one of Pediatric Cancer Foundation’s heroes because of his extraordinary efforts to combat pediatric cancer through his research and development of the power of comprehensive genetic sequencing.

· Two pediatric cancer survivors (Amanda Luiso and Toni Ann Marraccini) told their stories of hope and courage

· Intermix featured their Fall 2014 Fashion Presentation

Pediatric Cancer Foundation Luncheon Chairs, Lucy Amicucci, Bonnie Boilen, Pam Goldstein, Amy Hirschhorn, Wendy Schimel, and Denise Warshauer remark “We were thrilled to welcome speakers Dr. Andrew Kung, Amanda Luiso, Toni Ann Marraccini and Intermix to our Annual Luncheon. We thank our speakers, and Intermix, for their heartfelt community involvement and commitment to helping us in our mission to...hold the hand of a child. ”

Pediatric Cancer Foundation (PCF) is a non-profit charity whose mission is to find a cure for childhood cancer. We raise money for research, treatment, state of the art equipment and instruments and parent/patient care. We support world renowned doctors at five leading tri-state hospitals including: New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; LIJ Children’s Hospital of New York; Stephen D. Hassenfeld Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at NYU Langone Medical Center; Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester Medical Center, and University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital.

To find out more about Pediatric Cancer Foundation, please call Administrative Director, Nancy Joselson at:

914-777-3127. Visit our website: www.pcfweb.org