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2008 Good Mourning Breakfast - standing room only!
Over 400 people attended the 3rd annual Good Mourning Breakfast at Brooklake Country Club in Florham Park, NJ on June 5, 2008.
Thanks to our very generous sponsors, all the money raised at the breakfast will go directly to providing FREE year round grief support for children and their families. The event video was created by Thinc. Thank you to Patrick Sullivan, Jr. for his exceptional piano playing, Margaret Anne Gates Voice Studio and her students for their beautiful singing, and to event photographer Joy Yagid for donating your time and talent! Thank you to all the volunteers, table captains, guests and speakers for making this such a special and successful event.
With gratitude to our sponsors:
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Amerihealth New Jersey
Cafe Serene, Livingston
Investor Savings Bank
Jersey Central Power & Light
Merrill Lynch, Paramus
Wachovia Securities, Short Hills
Allstate Insurance, Summit
The Ascher Group, Roseland
Bank of America, Cranford
Bodnar Financial Advisors, Inc.
Bradley & Son Funeral Homes
Calandra Development Corp.
Hilltop Community Bank, Summit
Lindabury, McCormack, Estabrook & Cooper,P.C.
Lois Schneider Realtors
Morristown Financial Group
True and Associates
XO Athletic
Breakfast guests included L-R Mayor Jordan Glatt, Good Grief Honorary Board; Terry Blagdon, new HOPE League member; Mary Robinson; Lois Schneider, Lois Schneider Realtors, Breakfast Sponsor and Honorary Board member; RonnieLynn Smith, Allstate Insurance, Breakfast Sponsor; Lezli Salz-Bradley owner of Willow Street in Summit, new HOPE League member; and James Fitzsimmons, Allstate Insurance in Summit, Breakfast Sponsor.
Opening the breakfast were students from the Margaret Anne Gates Voice Studio singing "Seasons of Love" from Rent.
Mayor Jordan Glatt of Summit, Good Grief Honorary Board member, HOPE League member and Table Host, greets Mayor Bart Fraenkel of Springfield.
Wonderful and gracious Volunteers from Summit High School and Kent Place School greeted guests at the breakfast.
Board of Trustee members Patrick Sullivan, Treasurer, Bill Hector, Vice-Chair, Robin Bogan, Esq., Chair.
Youth Advisory Board members Ryan Gale of Whippany and Aakash Ahamed of Berkeley Heights provided the Invocation.
Rob Gallant, breakfast event speaker and dad of Ethan, both of whom
are featured in our Good Grief video, arrives escorted by Good Grief
Center Director, Joe Primo, M.Div.
Youth Advisory Board member, breakfast volunteer, and Night of Service volunteer Rena Ostry with her mom Randi.
Melinda Allen-Grote and Ann Garvey, Breakfast Event Project Manager. Both women are HOPE League members and volunteer facilitators.
Breakfast volunteers Britta and Colleen Andrews greeted guests at the front door.
Table Captain, HOPE League member, Board of Trustees member, Breakfast Committee member and volunteer extraordinaire, Fran Travisano with her husband Ron, who also joined the HOPE League at the breakfast.
Molly Stranahan, a member of the Good Grief Honorary Board of Trustees and HOPE League meets new HOPE League member Alan Campell.
Fran Monteleone and her daughter Kim Charlesworth welcome their guest Maureen Mulligan.
Fran Travisano with fellow Table Captain, breakfast committee member, videographer, and Night of Service volunteer, Merle Benny of Thinc.
Pictured are guests of Irene Weinberg, Board Member.
Mary Robinson, President and Founder.
Arriving together are Lisa Firsker (Board member,) Melinda Allen-Grote and Pam Sullivan. All three were Table Captains at the breakfast, serve as Volunteer Facilitators at the Good Grief Center and are members of the HOPE League. Pam also made and donated the ...
table centerpieces!!! And her son Patrick, Jr. .....
played piano for the guests as they arrived!
HOPE League member, Table Captain and Volunteer Facilitator, Leigh Rosoff of Summit arrives at the event.
Pictured L-R are: Irene Weinberg, Board Member; Terry Blagdon, volunteer facilitator and HOPE League member; Mary Robinson, Executive Director; and Andrew Nurkin, volunteer.
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