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Curry Senior Center’s Annual Gala
Thursday, May 7, 2015
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The Board of Directors of Curry Senior Center cordially invites you to a festive evening celebrating over 42 years
of providing nourishing meals, housing, case management, socialization programs and personalized primary and
behavioral healthcare with home visits for low-income and homeless seniors in the heart of the City.
This year inaugurates the new, annual Vera Haile Dalenberg Award in memory of Vera Haile — a San Francisco icon of
determined advocacy for the underprivileged and Curry Executive Director from 1983–1996.
In honor of Vera Haile’s passing on July 9, 2014, the gala this year will celebrate and honor those women in our community
who fight for what makes our city famous for benevolence and goodwill towards all those who need a supportive hand.
Curry Senior Center’s Annual Gala
Thursday, May 7, 2015
5:30pm–8:30pm
InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel
999 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Reception & Silent Auction
5:30pm
Dinner and Live Auction
7:00pm
Festive attire
The gala will feature delicious food and libations, live music, an exhilarating
live auction presented by Curry Board Member and Bay Area news personality, Diane Dwyer,
along with many wonderful silent auction items and other special guests.
We are also thrilled to welcome again, Baseball Hall of Famer, Orlando “The Baby Bull” Cepeda,
and his wife, Mirian, as our special VIP guests from the San Francisco Giants.
2015 Awardees 
Francis J. Curry Award
Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and Saint Francis Foundation for leading the Tenderloin Health
Improvement Partnership’s (Tenderloin HIP) community vision into reality.
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Joseph Mignola, Jr. Award
Aisha Ahmad for her leadership as the Founding President of the Curry PALS
(Professionals, Advocates and Leadership Society) and her leadership with the Association of
Auxiliaries for Children that raises funds for Stanford Children’s Health.
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Vera Haile Dalenberg Award
Marie Jobling, Executive Director of the Community Living Campaign, for her
many years of experience in long-term care public policy and planning and advocacy for
seniors’ issues of health, technology and economic security.
Honorary Gala Committee As of April 1, 2015
Caroline Barlerin • Bryan Breckenridge • Honorable Willie L. Brown, Jr. • Captain Jason Cherniss
Assembly Member David Chiu • Mrs. Francis J. Curry • Catherine Dodd • Bevan Dufty • Michael Dunne
Barbara Edwards • Don Falk • The Honorable Dianne Feinstein • Barbara Garcia • John Gressman, MSW, MA
Kristen Growney Yamamoto • Sally Hatchett • Chief of SFFD Joanne Hayes-White • E. Anne Hinton • Jim Illig
David Ishida • The Jobling-Fazio Family • Gay Kaplan • Supervisor Jane Kim • Vernon Michael Kirton
The Honorable Ed Lee • Senator Mark Leno • Rae H. Mignola • Sandy Mori • Peter Neuendorff
Connie Perez-Wong • Simon Pitchford, Ph.D. • Helen B. Ripple • Mark Ryle, LCSW
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi • Jacqueline Sax • Joan Scott • Katherine & Bob Sharp • Rita Shimmin
Barry Stenger • Chief of Police Greg Suhr • Mikkel Svane • David & Kay Werdegar • Anne Wilson
Linda C. Winn • Abbie Yant RN, MA
Board of Directors
Jeffrey Alan Beane, MD, President • Jonrie Dávila, Vice President • Zachary Schiller, CFP, Treasurer
Aisha Ahmad • J. David Bickham • Beverly Brumfield • Cynthia K. Ceres • Walter DeVaughn
Diane Dwyer • Phil Marechal • Shirley Quitugua • Robert A. Razzo • Lara Sallee, MPH
Richard Sax • Richard Sullivan • Amy Whalen • Alice Zhang
Executive Leadership
David Knego, Executive Director • Richard Zercher, MD, Medical Director
Gala Committee
Shirley Quitugua, Gala Chair • Beverly Brumfield, Auction Chair
Mick Aguilera • Arlo Bushnell • Jonrie Dávila • Yvette DeAndreis • Amy Garant • John McKinnon
Michelle Noble • Robert Razzo • Jackie & Richard Sax • Zack Schiller • Gina Secchi • Pat Swan • Tod Thorpe
Sabra Wagner • Amy Whalen • Sam Vitkoski • Alice Zhang
Thank you to our sponsors
As of April 3, 2015
Justice
Independence
Dignity
St. Francis
Foundation
Hope
Health
Jeffrey Beane, MD and David Wingate • The William and Hope Curry Family
Rae H. Mignola and Family • Helen B. Ripple • SalesX - Joe Khoei
Home
Robert and Katherine Sharp • David and Kay Werdegar • John Wiley Publishers
Family
City National Bank • Dan and Kirsten Guill • Sally Hatchett • Elizabeth Kantor, MD
Gay and Harvey Kaplan • Michelle and Gary Noble • Alisa Oberschelp, MD
Shirley and John Quitugua Family • Rainbow Grocery Cooperative • Lara Sallee and Shadow Moyer
Joyce Tinsley • Amy Whalen • Alice Zhang and Calvin Wong
Ag i n g w i t h h e a l t h, h o p e a n d d i g n i t y
333 Turk Street • San Francisco, California 94102
Curry is an oasis of care for over 2,000 seniors annually in their own neighborhood,
providing: nutritious meals, housing, case management, primary healthcare, mental and
behavioral healthcare, socialization programs and much more.
All proceeds go directly to these programs and ensure Curry will
be able to respond to the number of low-income seniors seeking Curry’s comprehensive
services, which increasingly becomes greater than what our resources can manage.
For more information, please call: 415-292-1040
Email: [email protected]