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November 15, 2007
JTHF held its second annual Play Ball Dinner and Auction over the
weekend on Saturday, November 3, 2007 to help raise money and more
importantly awareness for pediatric brain tumors. The Annual Play Ball
Dinner and Auction is the biggest event and fundraiser of the year for
JTHF. Close to 200 people were in attendance and approximately $45,000
was raised on behalf of the organization.
This year’s event was hosted by Tom Gamble, of the sports talk radio
show, Two Angry Guys. Main contributors to the event, Yelton’s Fine
Jewelry, Wellington Orthopaedic and Grant Thornton all helped make the
auction items a big success. Some of the live auction items even made it
up to and over $2,000.
Thanks to all the generous support from hundreds of donors, two large
contributions were made on Saturday night. The first check was in the
amount of $15,000 to the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. The money
provided to the Children’s Hospital was a direct effort of an event
earlier in the year, the Annual Robert Jackson Golf Classic. The second
check was for $75,000 to the Ohio State University, a partnership JTHF
has been cultivating for the past few years resulting in a fellowship
fund for pediatric brain tumor research that will eventually total
$250,000.
“If we can get people involved to raise awareness about [pediatric
brain tumors] that will lead to the money, the money will lead to the
research and the research will lead to the cure,” said JTHF President
Tim Hayden. “This event is always about raising awareness first, and the
money will come second.”
A big thank you is deserved by the dinner and auction chairwoman,
Denis Siegel and her great team of volunteers and supporters. They spent
months preparing for the event and all their hard work cannot go
unaccounted for.
The Annual Play Ball Dinner and Auction was held at the Manor House
Banquet and Conference Center at 7 p.m. The cost was $100 per person.
A $75,000 check is presented to support the funding commitment for
the
JTHF Research Fellowship at The Ohio State University.
(l-r) Thomas Hayden Executive Director JTHF, Dr. E.
Antonio Chiocca, Department of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State
University Medical Center and Murley Miller, Director of Development,
Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research
Institute, The Ohio State University Medical Center
A $15,000 check is presented to Cincinnati Children's Hospital for
clinical research.
(l-r) Dr. James Geller, Assistant Professor of
Clinical Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Dr. Lars Wagner,
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and
Thomas Hayden, Executive Director, JTHF
The Jeffrey Thomas Hayden Foundation is a registered 501c(3) non profit organization that was created to Make a Difference in
the fight against pediatric brain tumors. For more information visit our
web site at
www.jthf.org
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