Gifts in Honor and Memory

Every day, Breast Cancer Action receives gifts honoring those who are living with or affected by breast cancer. We also receive contributions to honor the passionate advocates, volunteers, medical professionals and leaders of the breast cancer movement.

Many more donations memorialize those who have died of this disease. Each gift made in honor and memory will be used wisely by Breast Cancer Action to end the epidemic.

Donations in Honor

September 25, 2008–February 20, 2009

Alison, Hope, Jane, Lynanne
from Jill C. Israel

Shelley Alpern
from Alexis Lieberman and Ilene Burak

All the Women in My Life and the Lives of My Friends and Family
from Paula Siddens

All The Women Who Are Brave To Fight Breast Cancer
from Brenda Munks

Nicole Arakawa
from Michele and Jim Andrew

Patricia C. Arango
from Patricia Cosmos Arango and Robert Arango

Marge Athey,
Sharon Cloghessy, and All The Athey Grandchildren

from Coral J. Fry

Pauline Attard
from Theresa Attard

Babasusie (Barbara and Susie)
from Ronnie Caplane

BCA Staff
from Mira Fabian

The Wonderful BCA Staff Members!
from Tori Freeman

Joyce Beachy
from Janice Richter

Kathy Beebe
from Robin Germain

Deborah Behrakis
from Carole L. Mendelsohn

Alice Benet, My Sister In-Law
from Lynn Kersey

The Board, Staff and Volunteers
from Belle Shayer

Janine Braak Peregrine and Cindy Ward
from Douglas Braak

Judy Brady
from Pat Hoover

Victoria Brady and Susan Thompson
from Margo McFedries

Alison Braverman
from Vicki Green and Bob Curry

Barbara Brenner
from Anonymous (2)
from Martha Fay Africa
from Carl and Gay Grunfeld
from M. Anne Jennings
from Jane Kahn and Michael Bien
from Deborah J. Marx
from Elizabeth Plapinger and John Berger
from Carole Poyourow
from Noreen Vera Purcell
from Ellen W. Reath
from J. David Sams
from Norman and Adrienne Schlossberg
from Sandra Sohcot
from Linda Wardlaw

Barbara Brenner and Susie Lampert
from Irma D. Herrera and Mark D. Levine
from Sara Markel and Lloyd Altman
from Charlotte E. Burchard Bahman and Sheikh-Ol-Eslami

Suzanne Bria
from Tracey Lynn Brown and Allison C. Smith

Doris Brown
from Nicole Brown

Patricia Stocking Brown
from Bonnie Spanier

Suzie Buse
from Nancy Schuepbach

Alice Buttler
from Joan H. Patten

Daun Calvert
from Anonymous

Diane Carr
from Mary Anne McGuire-Hickey

Liz and Ells Chase
from Lisa Westerback

Margo Choukrane
from Marcia Wexler Kerwit

Margi Clarke, Liza Tredway, and Anne Kasper
from Eve Borenstein and Candace Falk

Lanie Cohen
from Deborah Cohen

Gail Cohen and Ginny Dorris
from Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon

Ruth Colker and Delly Musen
from Fran Danoff

Jeannine Collins
from Barbara Thomason and Anna Crawford

Nancy Colton
from Evelyn Gray

Natalie Compagni Portis
from Beverly Portis

Bonnie Crandle
from Maer Ben-Yisrael

Glenda Cudaback
from Dale Kern

Mary C. Cullen
from Nikki Nahmens Gage and John Gage

Frances Suey Dener’s Birthday
from David and Adele Dener

Jody Docken
from Gregory Barsness and Stephanie Willson Barsness

Nancy Dyson
from Patricia and Laurence Sheldon

Barbara Ehrenreich
from AFGE Local 12, AFL-CIO

May Elinson
from Elaine Elinson and Rene CiriaCruz

May Elinson and Karen Jo Koonan
from Eileen Goldman and Robert Gabriner

Cristina Emanuel and Merril Kolovson
from Nora Roman

Bobbie Erlichman
from Marianne Erlichman

Ellen Fey and Kate Dyer
from Audrey Paxson

Debi Fidler
from Lynda and Michael Gilgun

Rosette Fischer
from Cathy R. Fischer

Cathy Fischer
from Melissa Howden

Sonia Flores
from Varya Simpson

Tori Freeman
from Karen Andersen
from Wendy Brummer-Kocks
from Melissa White

Friends Who Are Survivors
from Nan Strauss

Marisa Fuentes
from Barbara Wunsch and The Faison Kids

Kristal Germroth
from Ann Rasmussen

Lori Leigh Gieleghem
from Karen Merritt

The Girls
from Sharon Fry

Julie Gordon
from Elizabeth Merck

Mimi Gray
from Victoria Gray

Kelly Green
from Anonymous

Vicki Green, My Mother
from Alison and Phil Braverman

Laurie Greenbaum Beitch
from Elise LaPaix

JaJa Greenberg
from Eve Biddle

Sandra Hagen and Nancy Zweifel
from Sandra Hagen and Nancy Goldstucker

Mary Harms
from Kathleen and Ralph Harms

Amy Harris
from Kima Hayuk

Linda Hiller
from Sandi and Davis Riggs

Barbara Hoffer
from Jonee Levy

Marika Holmgren
from Karen Topakian

Cathy Howard
from Caitlin Stanton

Carla B. Howery
from Susan J. Ferguson

Marilyn Jacobowitz
from Alice Hoch and Melvin A. Hoch, MD

Lisa James
from Joel Anderson
from Amy Harris

Terry Klock and Lois Rose
from Terry Klock

Kathy Klos
from Anonymous

Karen Jo Koonan
from Marci B. Seville and Lisa Riordan-Seville

Ms. Laura Kwok
from Myra and Peter Shostak

Ortha Lebrosky
from Nancy L. Russell

Clayton Lee
from James Cheung

Mary Lievore
from Jennifer R. and Roderick K. Macleod

Carly H. Little
from Mari Osuna and Adam DeBoor

JoAnn Loulan
from Diana and Dan Bergeson

Jennie Moore Lowe
from Teri Moore

Jenny Lowood
from Edith Lowood

Laura Lundahl
from Joyce E. Beachy

Jennifer Machi
from Amalia Modena

Judy Macks
from Joan Lefkowitz and Stacey Shuster

Shirley McCarthy
from Margot and Valentine Chmel

Meredith McCormack
from Anonymous

Linda McElvery and Monty Cook
from Carolyn Parks

Mary Melinda McLean
from Sandra H. Pinyard

Me
from Debra Fidler

Me, A Breast Cancer Survivor
from Dorothy Washington

Me, 17 Year Survivor
from Linda Handschu

Uen Meei-Fen
from Anonymous

Stephanie Mermin
from Claudia Polsky and Ted Mermin

Cathy Merschel and Joan MacQuarrie
from Lenore Dale Ralston

Hester Meyers
from Anonymous

My Daughter, Carolyn
from June R. Finis

My Sister, Muggins
from Holly McGuiness

My Mom
from Anonymous

My Mother, Patricia
from Chanel DeLaney

My Ninth Year of Surviving BC
from Martha M. Flint

Myself
from Anonymous

Myself
from Loretta Scott

Rachel Morello-Frosch
from Martha Morello-Frosch

Lori Morton
from Robert D. Morton

Judy Muhlenberg
from Allyson Johnson

Charlotte Neil
from Norma and Jeffrey Young

Annette Nelson-Wright
from Lindsey Collins

Meredith Norton
from Rochelle and William A. Lester

Of Your Great Work
from Marjorie Parsons Wazeka

Evelyn Oltman
from Roxanne Fiscella

The Oncology Support Program
from Barbara Sarah

Nancy Oster
from David L. Oster

Rosemary Packard
from Judith Coyote

Fay Parrish
from Anonymous

Lauren Patterson and Natalie Long
from Deanna Dawson

Leslie Pearlman
from Lise A. Pearlman

Carol Pepper
from Anonymous

Rosemary Peracchio
from Lorraine Wilbur

To Protect Women
from Anonymous

Padma S. Rao
from Bhavna Shamasunder and Patrick Koppula

JoAnne Rice
from JoAnne Rice

Rosemary Richard
from Susan Moe

Laurel Rosen
from Susan E. Rosen and Lance S. Raynor

Brenda Salgado
from Jane Sprague Zones and Stacey Zones

Annette Schutz
from Knack Design and Production
from Teresa Marrow

Connie Sherak
from Ruth Koizim

Marcia Siegel
from Kyra Subbotin and Henry Siegel

Lois Silverstein
from Eve and Daniel Langton

Joy Simha
from Bella D. August

Tillie Sohigian
from Judith Norsigian

Christine Storm
from Dorothy E. Meier

Karen Strauss and Ruth Borenstein
from Sheldon and Muriel Strauss

Kyra Subbotin
from Laura Enriquez

Cheryl Swift
from Susan Gotsch

Alice Tabencki
from JT Tabencki

Think Before You Pink
from Melanie Goodman Dante

Those Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer
from Ellen Moskowitz

Adrienne Torf
from Patricia Dunn and Eileen Blumenthal

Debra Travis
from Kellea Miller

Deborah Waksman
from Steve Waksman

Julia Kay Wathen Fox, Miranda C. Wathen, Alayne Leigh Shields, and Elizabeth Anne Shields
from G. Lynn Huber

Sharon Watson
from Mary Jean Hayden

Denise Wells
from Connie Herrick

Denise Wells and Barbara Brenner
from Joan MacQuarrie and Ellen Slack

Jennifer Willman
from Mary C. Hunt

Laurie Wood
from Deborah and PJ Behrakis

Elle Wright
from Jennifer Drayton and Michael W. Wright

Bobbie Wunsch, For Her Amazing Work On Behalf Of Women's Health
from Phyllis Schoenwald

Beverly Ziegler
from Julia Tower

Donations in Memory

September 25, 2008–February 20, 2009

Susannah Abrams
from Lori Berlin

In Memory and Honor of All Those Who Support and Have Been Impacted By Breast Cancer
from Linda L. Gustafson

Katie Allen
from Margaret Rossoff

Joyce Ambrosini
from Margaret Geneva Langston

Alice Arndt
from Anonymous

Pat Arnesi
from Robin Mackey

Anthony J. Attard
from Pauline Attard

Mrs. W.C. Atwater Jr.
from Doris Bouwensch

Phyllis Blaney
from Ferol Blaney

Sandra Gardiner Blevins
from Louise Galindo and Jeffrey Gardiner

Patricia Brennan
from Catherine Anne Brennan and Albert Gasser

Marilyn Brown
from Phil Brown

Dorothy Bruggeman, Beloved Mother of Kenneth Bruggeman
from Linda Louise McMahan

Selma Butter and Hannah Wilkie
from Marsie Scharlatt

Carol Cabell
from Noemi Levine

Toni Carson
from Anonymous

Susan Claymon
from Elizabeth Merck

Suzy Cox Carter
from Eloise Barnett
from Nancy J. Bauerle
from Janet and Jan Berlin
from Beverly Waters

Ann Dashe
from Julia Dashe

Jean S. Davis and Karen J. Ennis
from Nancy Davis and Donna Hitchens

Linda M. Day
from Ellen and David Harris

Virginia DeFreitas
from Diane and Richard Stein

Juanita Deness
from Diana Hickson

Susan Detjens
from Karen Caruso
from Shelly Hook
from Anne Lees

Lynette Doyle Betty and Sue Ferguson
from Ramona L. Doyle

Madelyn Dunham, Barak Obama's Grandmother
from Jill Jakes

Linda Dyer
from Anonymous
from Mily Trabing and Susan Thomas

Debi Effron
from Zoë Christopher

Oscar A. Eisbrenner
from Cathy and John Bair

Miriam Engelberg
from Ellen E. Hamingson

Betsy Ervin
from Don Bushman

My Mother, Esther Levene Friedland, Who Died of Breast Cancer
from Joan M. Friedland

Marilyn Galatis, Nancy Leventhal, and Nan Lieberman
from Patricia Campbell

Nina Gleekman
from Adena Cohen-Bearak and Arnold Bearak

Alix Graves
from Shane Snowdon

Estelle Gribetz
from Myra Hogan

Ruti Hafsadi and Catherine Laroche
from Miriam Moussaioff and Andrew Greenberg

Jennifer L. Hamm
from Angela Bottum and Marjorie Hamm
from EMET Assoc. Women's Giving Circle
from Margaret Newell

Connie Harms and Judee Harms King
from Dona and Joseph Santo

Edna Toto Hartley
from Tess Hoover and Claudia Hartley

Janis Harvey
from Anna Saenz

Nancy Hill
from Anonymous

Carlie Hofemann
from Eleanor Barrett

Jan Holden
from Barbara S. Bryant

My Cousin, Mary Mooney Holland
from Margaret Lowery Walsh

Karen Hopfinger
from Anthony Hopfinger

Nancy Hopson
from Margaret Taylor

Molly Ivins
from Anonymous
from Evelyn Jo Wilson and Carol Bennett

Lee Johnson
from Emily Charles and Alex Hatch

Tammy Johnson
from Anonymous

Martina Johnson-Kent
from Sadja Greenwood

June Jordan
from Frances Gleitman and Marilyn Trager

Nanette Kelley
from Anonymous

Gloria Kelman
from Maye Thompson

Stephanie Kennedy
from Anonymous

Judee King Harms and Connie Harms
from Daisy Fernando

Chris Kitchel Hirabayashi
from Jill Gallagher and Alicia Hasper
from Sadako and Hiroshi Kashiwagi
from Meredith Owens

Nancy Kitt Mills
from Heather and Kitt Sawitsky

Jackie Kohl
from Dora C. Weaver

Esta Kornfield and Christina Middlebrook
from Millie Fortier

Maree Lambe
from Anonymous

Jodi Lent Beldotti
from Martha Crusius and Tom Lent

D. Lidowsky
from Staci Selinger

Loved Ones
from Anonymous

Mary Jo Luck
from Jim Luck

Lorette Lyall
from Sandra Blair

Lynnly, Patricia, Marsha
from Ellen Kugler

Kay Lyou
from Russell G. Worden and Janette R. Lawrence

Mary Jennine Majeski
from John Majeski

Del Martin
from Phyllis Lyon

Esther Mayer
from Alice Hoch and Melvin A. Hoch, MD

Debra Mayo
from Sharon and Eugene Sullivan

Ann McAllister
from Donna Brogan

Suzanne McGuinn
from Brian McGuinn

Gail Minsky
from Sara Jane Moss

Sylvia Mogos
from Lucretia Nistor

Deb Mosley
from Laurie J. Earp

Our Daughter, Rebecca Nataloni
from Frances and John Nataloni

Narcisa Nazario
from Danisha Nazario

Tanya Neiman
from Brett Mangels
from Marci B. Seville and Lisa Riordan-Seville

Marti Nelson, MD
from Patricia Jordan-Grinslade
from Sylvia Mitchell

Penny Nichols
from Richard Leiter and Pam Nichols

Barbara Novack
from Linda Novack

Terrence L. O'Brien
from JoAnn O'Brien

Norma Peterson
from Cynthia Dorfman

Mary Ponton Hoaglund
from Rhoda Rudd Prall

Elenore Pred
from Dena F. and Ralph Lowenbach
from Linda Rowe and Dennis Kellett
from Roslyn Schwartz
from Linda D. Taggart, Her Sister
from Julia Tower

Melissa Quan
from Margo L. Arcanin

Josephine Renzi and Marie Thompson
from Susan Thompson French

Mary Jane Richards, My Mother
from Victoria Sue Lantz

Melody Rines
from Melita Rines

Ilene Rockman
from Fred Gertler

Anne Rosenbaum
from Neshama Franklin

Brenda Roth
from Barbara and James Kautz

Anne Sachs
from Marilyn and Morris Sachs

Carol L. Scott, My Sister and Best Friend
from Sherri D. Webb

Pat Singer
from Cathy R. Kornblith

Ruth C. Soltanoff-Jacobs
from Rochelle Galat and Bruce Jacobs

Pamela J. Stage
from Clifford P. Stage

Irving Stein
from Arthur Holden

Ruth Stephenson
from Heather Stephenson

Susan Stone
from Diana EtsHokin
from Linda G. Marks

Stella Szterenfeld
from Helen Szterenfeld

Christine Tamblyn
from Rebecca Tamblyn Pence and Emily Pence
from Ruth and James Tamblyn

Evelyn Telsey
from Nadia Telsey

Katheryn Tichenor
from Henry Greeley
from Patricia Taylor Greer
from La Salle High School
from North Falmouth School Sunshine Fund
from Patricia Kearney-McCarty and Ernest McCarty

Helen Tonegato
from Theresa Attard

Peggy Trask
from Fred W. Trask

Marla Turskey
from Charlotte and Arthur Zitrin Foundation

Susan Tygel
from Anonymous

Judith Wachs
from Rita Arditti

Jane Walker Milburn
from Martha Ward Evans

Elizabeth Leary Walsh
from Ned Walsh

Don Wanzor
from Sarah Marxer and Lisa Wanzor

Mary Winter
from Catharine E. Kibira

Constance Wofsy, M.D. and Maire McAuliffe, M.D.
from James Budke

Micky Wolfe
from Virginia Wolfe

Noah Wolfson and and Barbara Seaman
from Alice J. Wolfson


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