
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
