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News Release

November 4, 2008

Contact: Chris DeFrancesco, 860-679-3914
e-mail: cdefrancesco@uchc.edu

Photos: 2008 Imagine Gala

Fundraiser at Bushnell for the Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center

FARMINGTON, CONN. – The Imagine Gala, a fundraising event to benefit the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center, took place Oct. 18 at the Bushnell. More than 250 people attended. Two-time Tony winner James Naughton entertained with his one-man cabaret.

This annual fundraising effort started last year with the Imagine Ball, a masquerade gala with the theme “Imagine… unmasking a world without cancer.” This year’s proceeds are for two Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center programs: the Lea’s Foundation Center for Hematologic Disorders and a new program for cancer survivors.

This year’s honorees were: Peter J. Deckers, M.D., who recently retired as the Health Center’s executive vice president for health affairs and dean of the UConn School of Medicine, Michael Economos, founder of the Hartford nonprofit Lea’s Foundation for Leukemia Research, and former UConn men’s basketball coach Donald “Dee” Rowe, a longtime university ambassador and cancer survivor.

Photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/imaginegala1.jpg
Caption: From left: Imagine Gala committee chair Carla Schwartz, entertainer James Naughton, committee member Debra Rostowsky, and Dr. Carolyn D. Runowicz of the UConn Health Center at the 2008 Imagine Gala at the Bushnell in Hartford. Naughton performed his one-man cabaret act at this year’s annual fundraiser for the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at the UConn Health Center. 

Photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/imaginegala2.jpg
Caption: From left: Drs. Carolyn D. Runowicz and Peter J. Deckers of the UConn Health Center, Lea’s Foundation for Leukemia Research founder Michael Economos, former UConn men’s basketball coach Dee Rowe, and Imagine Gala committee chair Carla Schwartz at the 2008 Imagine Gala at the Bushnell in Hartford. Deckers, Economos and Rowe were this year’s honorees at the annual fundraiser for the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at the UConn Health Center.

Photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/imaginegala3.jpg
Caption: From left: Drs. Peter J. Deckers, Cato T. Laurencin and Carolyn D. Runowicz of the UConn Health Center, Lea’s Foundation for Leukemia Research founder Michael Economos, UConn President Michael J. Hogan, and former UConn men’s basketball coach Dee Rowe at the 2008 Imagine Gala at the Bushnell in Hartford. Deckers, Economos and Rowe were this year’s honorees at the annual fundraiser for the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at the UConn Health Center.

Additional high-resolution photos are available by request; see the complete photo gallery at http://cancer.uchc.edu/photogallery/imagine_gala/index.html.

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