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Joel E. Smilow and his wife, Joan, have made a transformational gift
supporting a new $467 million cancer hospital, now under construction.

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Jeannette Young
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FEATURES
COVER STORY
For Patients, Research… and for Yale
Joel E. Smilow and his wife, Joan,
have made a transformational gift
Principal Photographer
Robert Lisak
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Jim Emerling
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VOLUNTEERING AT YNHH
Diagnosing a Life
Doctors and nurses use “living histories”
to connect with patients
Design and Production
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HOSPITAL GREEN DESIGN
Sustainable Medicine
Smilow Cancer Hospital leads the way
in making medical buildings green
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PROFILES
8 UI: Giving Together
12 Jillian Deitch: Tradition of Charity
13 Geraldine Foster: Why I Gave
15 Millicent Sullivan: Generous Legacy
NEWS FROM YALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL
3 A Signature Event, By the Numbers
7 The View from Above
11 Evolving Standards
13 Organ Donors and Recipients Honored, Hackers for Hearts
14 Letter from Marna Borgstrom
14 Bequests: The Simplest Planned Gifts
16 Honoring Joel E. Smilow

A Signature Event
On September 27, more than 100 friends
and donors gathered to sign a steel
beam and then watch while the crane
lifted it over the construction site for
installation in the lobby. Representatives
from Turner Construction were on hand
Signature beam is raised in the Smilow
Cancer Hospital lobby.
to answer questions about the project.
Speakers included YNHH President and
CEO Marna Borgstrom, YNHH Senior
VP of Administration Norm Roth, and
Patrick Sclafani, a cancer survivor.
Tom Beirne of People’s United Bank
signs the beam.
Patrick Sclafani
SMILOW CANCER HOSPITAL
BY THE NUMBERS
497,000
Square feet of space, to be
completed in 2009.
112
Inpatient beds, with space
to add another 56 beds.
14
Floors.
12
Operating rooms.
12
Top MDs already recruited
to Yale-New Haven Hospital
in expectation of the Smilow
Cancer Hospital.
400
New jobs.
4,000
Patients diagnosed with
cancer in 2006 at Yale-New
Haven Hospital.
1 billion
Increase in the gross regional
product, in dollars, from
2005 to 2012 as a result of
Smilow Cancer Hospital,
estimates the Connecticut
Economic Resource Center.
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COVER STORY
For Patients,
Research
… and for Yale
Joel E. Smilow, a 1954 BA graduate of Yale College, has done a great deal for his alma mater.
In the 1980s he made a seven-figure gift to endow the head football coach position, a post
held at the time by the legendary Carm Cozza. He was the lead donor to the renovation and
expansion of the Lapham Field House, now called the Smilow Field Center, and over the
years he endowed five other coaching positions.
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Yale alumnus, benefactor
underwrites construction
of new cancer hospital
He stewarded the major gifts component
of the university’s “… and for Yale”
capital campaign in the 1990s and
received the university’s highest honor,
the Yale Medal, in 1993 for these and
numerous other efforts.
A decade later, after serving as treasurer
and then secretary of the Yale College
Class of 1954, he played a key role in
the implementation of that class’s $120
million gift to Yale, the largest class gift
in the university’s history.
Now Smilow, with his wife, Joan, has
gone a big step further. On October 31,
before some 200 guests gathered in the
East Pavilion of Yale-New Haven Hospital
(YNHH), the former CEO, chairman
and president of Playtex was thanked for
his transformational gift supporting a
new $467 million cancer hospital, now
under construction. When it opens in
2009, the comprehensive patient care
facility will be known as the Smilow
Cancer Hospital.
“We are building one of the finest
patient-focused, cancer care facilities in
the country,” said Marna P. Borgstrom,
MPH, president and CEO of YNHH.
“We are very grateful for Joel and Joan
Smilow’s overwhelmingly generous gift to
the cancer hospital, and for sharing our
vision of creating a place of hope and
compassion for cancer patients.”
The new hospital will integrate all
oncology patient services at YNHH and
the School of Medicine in one building
specifically designed to deliver multidisciplinary
cancer care, and will provide specialized
facilities for faculty physicians
and community-based providers to provide
multidisciplinary care to cancer
patients. The 14-story facility will add
nearly 500,000 square feet of new space
and 112 inpatient beds, along with
expanded outpatient treatment facilities,
operating rooms and infusion suites, a
specialized women’s cancer center focused
on breast cancer and gynecologic oncology,
and a dedicated floor each for diagnostic
and therapeutic radiology.
Yale University President Richard C.
Levin also expressed gratitude for the
Smilows’ donation. “This generous gift
will have a lasting impact on the lives of
countless patients who will benefit from
the state-of-the-art clinical care,” he said.
“We are deeply thankful for Joel and
Joan’s dedicated support.”
According to Robert J. Alpern, MD,
dean of the School of Medicine and
Ensign Professor of Medicine, the new
cancer hospital will transform cancer care
at Yale for both doctors and patients.
“Medical school faculty members will be
able to offer the latest, cutting-edge therapies,
integrating improved care—which
will be much more comfortable for our
patients—with clinical research,” Alpern
said. “Joel and Joan Smilow are assuring
the future of a very important aspect of
patient care at Yale.”
Smilow has been an active philanthropist
since his retirement from Playtex in
1995. He made a generous naming gift to
New York University Medical Center,
which dedicated the $175 million Joan
and Joel Smilow Research Center in
2006. He is a trustee of the medical center,
a member of its operating committee
and the chair of its board development
committee. The Smilows also support
research at Johns Hopkins, through the
William S. Smilow Center for Marfan
Syndrome Research. In addition to supporting
his alma mater, Smilow has been
involved as a participant and major donor
to a wide variety of causes: three medical
institutions in addition to Johns Hopkins,
NYU and Yale; the New York Philharmonic,
of which he is a director emeritus;
and the Boys & Girls Clubs movement.
For 36 years, he has been associated with
the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club
in New York; this organization’s largest
clubhouse is named for him. He also
served as a vice chair and a member of
the executive committee of the Boys &
Girls Clubs of America, which recognized
him in 2003 with its President’s
Award. A new Smilow clubhouse under
the aegis of the Boys & Girls Club of
Lower Naugatuck Valley is now under
construction in Ansonia, Conn.
A native of Washington, D.C.,
Smilow was the presiding officer, from
1999 to 2004, of his Yale College Class
of 1954, which in the early 1970s started
a fund that grew to $60 million and ultimately
totaled $120 million with additional
contributions by class members
and credits from the university (an all-
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time Yale record for any class). The class
was recognized before the Yale-Harvard
game on November 17 for its major contribution
of roughly half the total of the
Phase I renovation expenses at the Yale
Bowl. Smilow also served as a member of
both the Yale Development Board and
the Board of Governors of the Association
of Yale Alumni, and he chaired the
Class of 1954’s 50th reunion.
Of the cancer hospital donation, he
says, “This opportunity responded to my
interests both in medical care and,
because of the close involvement of the
hospital with Yale School of Medicine,
medical research. The third factor was
supporting Yale. This confluence of positive
things made it something I was
delighted to be able to do.”
After his graduation from Yale College,
Smilow served in the Navy as a lieutenant
JG, primarily serving as a line officer on an
Atlantic Fleet destroyer. From 1956 to
1958 he earned an MBA degree with distinction
from Harvard Business School,
where he was elected a George F. Baker
Scholar. He began his business career in
1958 in the marketing department of
Procter and Gamble, which he calls “the
best graduate school you could ever go to,
if you’re interested in marketing or business
in general.” In 1965 he moved from
P&G to Glendinning Associates, a marketing
consulting firm in Westport, Conn.
In 1969 he was tapped, at age 36, to
become the youngest president in Playtex’s
“Great facilities help you
attract and motivate outstanding
people and make it
easier from them to interrelate
with one another.”
history. In an era when growth in the garment
industry was slow, Playtex thrived,
demonstrating enormous increases in sales
and operating profits under Smilow’s leadership.
He led a billion dollar management
buyout of the company in 1986 and eventually
became the majority owner of
Playtex Products Inc.
The Smilows have lived in Fairfield
County, Conn., since 1965, when they
settled in the coastal town of Westport.
Residents now of nearby Southport,
Conn., they have three children, one of
whom still resides in Westport with three
of their four grandchildren. Two grandchildren
are students at the Hopkins
School in New Haven.
Smilow is chairman of Dinex Group
LLC, a company he formed in 1992 with
esteemed chef Daniel Boulud. The company
owns the celebrated New York
restaurants Daniel, Café Boulud, DB
Bistro Moderne and Bar Boulud, as well
as others in Palm Beach and Las Vegas.
Smilow says the same partner/backer
spirit that permeates his relationship with
Boulud also applies to his involvements
in the not-for-profit world: “My goal is
to make a difference whenever I can. I
hope I can be cerebrally helpful to Yale-
New Haven Hospital, as I have been and
will continue to be to Yale.”
Smilow says that he also hopes the
gift will free up other funds “that can be
used for the medical school, to enable
Dean Alpern to aggressively recruit more
of the world-class scientists that are
needed to move research ahead.”
“Great facilities,” he says, “help you
attract and motivate outstanding people
and make it easier from them to interrelate
with one another. That’s where the
longer-term payoff comes. The immediate
benefits—providing a better place for
healing and helping tens of thousands of
victims of cancer—are obvious. We can
only dream about the day when the
building isn’t needed because we’ve found
a cure for cancer.” =
This article originally appeared in Medicine@Yale, a
bimonthly publication of the Yale School of Medicine
(on the web at medicineatyale.org).
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HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION
The View
from Above
The only company at 16 stories high is an occasional hawk.
From the cramped cab of a tower crane,
220 feet up, Nick Emerling peers down
at the foundation of the Smilow Cancer
Hospital. A steel beam hangs from the
crane’s jib like fishing bait.
Over his headset, Emerling listens to
his “man on the ground,” who’s counting
off distances. He grips a lever in each
hand and swings the beam across the
construction site, stopping the instant it
reaches the mark.
Emerling has moved steel and concrete
at the hospital since February, and
he’ll be in the cab for a year longer. During
lunch, he watches tankers sail
through the Long Island Sound.
“Most of the birds fly underneath me,
but a couple of red-tailed hawks were
hanging out with me for a while,” Emerling
says. “It gets kind of lonely up there,
and sometimes during lunch I would talk
to them.”
Before he started working the controls
10 years ago, he apprenticed as an “oiler”
for his father. The job called for a lot of
climbing, as he maintained each part of
the crane. “It’s sink or swim up there. You
find out real fast if you’re going to make
it in this business,” he says.
And in this business, a 220-foot tower
is a baby. Jim Emerling, Nick’s father, has
operated cranes as high as 485 feet during
his two decades of work. He handled
the night shift at the cancer hospital until
October, and took a series of photos (at
right).
“It’s gorgeous up there, especially
when the leaves were changing,” he says.
“My philosophy is that if it looks good, I
take a picture.”
However many buildings they’ve
assembled, though, the Emerlings say
working on the cancer hospital is particularly
fulfilling.
“My grandfather passed away from
cancer, so there’s a little more meaning
behind this,” the younger Emerling says.
“This building’s going to save lives.” =
(from left) Nick Emerling,
full time crane
operator; his sister,
Samantha Emerling,
a nurse at YNHH; his
mother, Gerri Emerling,
who works at the Yale
School of Medicine;
and his father, Jim
Emerling, the off-shift
crane operator
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CORPORATE CARING
Giving Together
(from left)
Richard Nicholas,
Susan Allen,
Shelly Saczynski
UI is a company that cares about its employees and its community.
The UI Foundation, since its founding in
1990, has demonstrated the company’s
compassion through the contribution of
millions of dollars in gifts to the community.
The Foundation recently pledged
$100,000 to the Smilow Cancer Hospital.
The philanthropic foundation allows
the 108-year-old power company to
maintain a dedicated pool of funds for
giving, independent of company operations.
It allows UI to support long-term
priorities, such as community development,
the arts, youth programs or health
care, says Richard J. Nicholas, a foundation
board member and UI’s chief financial
officer.
“We have to make some tough decisions,
but we try to make a significant
impact on the communities we serve,”
Nicholas says. “As CFO, I’m the numbers
guy. I bring that to the table, but I also
try to step out of that role and consider
all aspects of a funding request. Everybody
brings their life experience to the
decision making process.
The key isn’t the size of UI or of its
gifts; its leadership says Shelly Saczynski,
director of economic and community
development. Other businesses may not
be able to give money, she says, but they
can give time and expertise. “Businesses
have the opportunity and the responsibility
to step forward in supporting the
community. You have to lead by example.”
“Hospitals care for our employees and
their families, and our employees are
important to us. It’s more than just being
a good corporate citizen; it’s not only that
our corporate philanthropy is focused on
increasing the economic vitality of this
region; it’s also about our employees,”
says Saczynski.
Susan E. Allen, vice president of
investor relations, treasurer and assistant
corporate secretary at The United Illuminating
Company is one of those employees.
In the winter of 2002, Allen was first
diagnosed with cancer and battled with it
for three years, receiving her course of
chemotherapy, dealing with subsequent
recurrences and having many surgeries.
She is thankful for the great team of coworkers
at UI who helped her through
this difficult time.
“When I first found a lump, my
immediate thought was, ‘I’m going to
die.’ But we had a big event scheduled for
the next day, so I came to work. I wanted
to keep going with my life,” says Allen.
Allen did miss work during that
period, but not much. Her commitment
to life as usual ensured her survival, she
says, and also changed UI. By sharing at
each stage of the treatment, Allen’s coworkers
became as close as family.
“I work with a lot of guys,” she says.
“At first, I didn’t want to talk about having
cancer, but I needed their support.
Because I was open about it, they’ve said
I made them more compassionate.”
At UI, employees share collective values
of giving, surviving and supporting
one another in difficult times. “Sue’s
courage in facing her illness and her
openness with those around her in the
workplace helped us all understand that
everyone can be touched by cancer,”
Saczynski says, “and that everyone can
play a role in helping a colleague become
a survivor.
“We all saw how much courage Sue
had not only in undergoing treatment,
but in telling us what she was experiencing
and what she needed at work. We
became a more compassionate workplace,
and that has been a lasting change for the
better.” =
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VOLUNTEERING AT YNHH
Diagnosing
a Life
Doctors and nurses use “living histories” to connect with
patients, which has been shown to improve healing.
Eleanor Volpe was puzzled. During her
stay at Yale-New Haven Hospital’s East
Pavilion, room 9-726, she had seen several
specialists. But this new visitor, wearing
a bright red lab coat, was different.
After tidying the room, she sat in a chair
beside Volpe.
“I’m not really here to find out why
you’re in the hospital,” JoAnn Kupiec
said in a faintly Southern accent. “I’m
here to learn about your life, the stories
of your life.”
Fifteen minutes and 20 questions
later, Kupiec had pieced together the
basics of Volpe’s history: Born at home in
New Haven, September 1930; her first
job was at Kresge’s Dollar Store, followed
by Malley’s department store; her favorite
hobbies are bridge and word puzzles.
The details, once organized in a onepage
“living history,” will stay in Volpe’s
day chart and medical history. A couple
of hundred other patients also have living
histories. Doctors and nurses use them as
a way to connect with patients.
“When patients arrive at the hospital,
we do a really good job of taking their
medical information, but we haven’t traditionally
done a great job of learning
about the person,” said Jeannette Hodge,
YNHH director of patient relations, volunteer
and guest services.
The hospital began the program a year
and a half ago, following a model that has
emerged at hospitals in the Midwest.
Beyond helping medical staff relate better
with patients, such practices improve
healing, Hodge said. “A lot of research
shows that when caregivers make a connection
with the patient, the patient
trusts them more and believes more in
their care.”
Kupiec, a retired nurse and IBM systems
engineer, prepares two interviews a
week as a volunteer. She has profiled an
Olympic skier, a man who traveled the
country riding roller coasters, and her
own mother.
“I just love hearing people’s stories.
You can see that for many it’s very meaningful
to reflect on their lives,” JoAnn
says. “Some say, ‘I don’t have a history.’
And then you talk to them and you—and
they—see they do.”
The interview with Eleanor was interrupted
briefly as a nurse brought her
medication. By the time they started
again, her husband, Leo C. Volpe, had
quietly entered into the room. Kupiec
seized the opportunity.
“Then you married this devilish fellow,”
she said, pointing to Leo.
“We met at a Valentine’s party,”
Eleanor said.
“When she came down the stairs her
blouse was decorated with three hearts,”
Leo said, eyes on Eleanor as he spoke. “I
said to her, ‘Now you’ve got four hearts.’
We fell in love.”
“You have a good story,” Kupiec said.
“I’ve been very lucky,” Eleanor replied.
“There’s a lot to be thankful for.” =
Volunteer JoAnn Kupiec, right, learns
about Eleanor Volpe’s life story.
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HOSPITAL GREEN DESIGN
Sustainable
Medicine
Over the next decade, $20 billion a year will be spent on new medical buildings in the U.S.,
the largest boom in 50 years. The Smilow Cancer Hospital is leading the way in the mission
to make them green.
Terra cotta—the baked earth used for
thousands of years to make bowls and
roof tiles—will be a primary building
material in the Smilow Cancer Hospital.
The steel-girded 14-story building will
be clad in high-grade terra cotta tiles,
giving the hospital a distinctive natural
red color, and exemplifying a guiding
philosophy of the architecture.
“It started all the way back in the
design phase. We asked ourselves, how
can we create a green building? Then we
started searching for appropriate solutions,”
says Norman G. Roth, YNHH’s
senior vice president of administration.
Besides terra cotta, sustainable materials
such as bamboo, cork, natural
linoleum and farm-grown maple will be
used wherever possible in the cancer
hospital. Other green practices include
recycling 90 percent of old materials,
water and energy efficiency systems, a
smart air circulation system and roof
insulation. Special glass will allow in natural
light (reducing lighting costs) but
block out the sun’s heat (saving summer
cooling costs).
Although green building has quickly
become one of the most accepted trends
in architecture, it was new in early 2004,
when the cancer hospital was just an idea.
At that time, no medical buildings met
the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED
certification (Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design®). Today, 18
health care buildings have been LEED
certified, with another 155 in application,
including the Smilow Cancer Hospital.
“This trend has been growing rapidly
over the last few years. But for many hospitals
it’s a real stretch to make it work,”
said Gail Vittori, chair of the LEED for
Health Care Committee, who monitors
such projects nationwide.
Part of the challenge is that LEED
was originally designed for office buildings,
which use much less energy and
water than a hospital. Standards tailored
to medical buildings won’t take effect
until mid-2008, when the 497,000-
square-foot cancer hospital will be half
finished.
“For a building of this size, LEED
certification is a huge achievement. It
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Sustainable materials such as
bamboo, cork, natural linoleum
and farm-grown maple will be
used wherever possible in the
cancer hospital.
requires commitment of the owner,” says
Angela E. Watson, the hospital’s principal
designer with Boston architects Shepley,
Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott.
“Where else do you find buildings
that operate 24 hours a day, seven days a
week?” Roth adds.
But the stakes are also higher for
health care, Vittori argues. Because of a
hospital’s mission of healing and community
stewardship, the mandate to follow a
sustainable plan in design is greater than
in private buildings.
“Many people felt they couldn’t do
this in hospitals, and it took a while to
get started. But now a few projects have
shown they can. Eventually, I believe
hospitals will set the standard for sustainability,”
Vittori says.
Such industrywide changes are coming
at just the right time, as the country
faces a medical building boom not seen
since the 1950s and 1960s. Over the
next decade, analysts expect $20 billion a
year to be spent on new medical buildings.
Yale-New Haven Hospital is leading
the way in green methods and building
materials.
“All of this comes at some additional
initial cost. A lot of these materials are
slightly more expensive. But in the long
run, the consumption savings will more
than pay for our investment in innovative
and environmentally responsible materials,”
Roth says. “We view this as an
investment in our future.” =
EVOLVING STANDARDS:
RUNNING THE GREEN GAMUT
For years, guidelines for building
“green” didn’t address hospitals,
which by necessity use more
resources than other buildings. But
as this edition of Impact goes to
press, a fundamental industry shift
is occurring.
In November and December, the
U.S. Green Building Council sought
comments about its proposed
green rating system for healthcare.
From micro to macro, the 118-
page document seeks to improve
every aspect of hospital design.
Not surprisingly, each topic was
already addressed in the design of
the Smilow Cancer Hospital. They
include:
• Bicycle storage
• Open space
• Habitat restoration
• Community connectivity
• Light pollution
• “Heat island effect”
• Water reuse
• Water efficient landscaping
• Design for flexibility
• Exterior noise
• Furniture
• Air quality and release
• Low-emitting materials
• Daylight quality
• Thermal comfort
• Tobacco smoke control
• Green power and
energy efficiency
• Outdoor places of respite
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(from left) Maxine Weinstein,
Jaime Weinstein, Jillian Deitch
PROFILE
Tradition
of Charity
A young woman’s gift to honor her grandmother inspired an
act of generosity no one anticipated.
Maxine Weinstein was so tired, she could
barely move. At the front of the West
Hartford synagogue, her 13-year-old
granddaughter, Jillian Deitch, was reading
a Hebrew passage about the importance
of charity. Five hundred other
guests at Jillian’s bat mitzvah listened
intently, but Mrs. Weinstein struggled
to hear. Many months of dialysis were
taking their toll.
“I was at my lowest point of energy,”
she recalls. “I was getting dialysis three
days a week, and I almost didn’t make it.
But I came and basically spent the whole
night in that one chair.”
The ceremony, which signified Jillian’s
passage into adulthood, also provided her
first chance to perform a truly generous
act. Foregoing the usual bounty of bat
mitzvah gifts, Jillian asked guests to
donate money to the Yale-New Haven
Transplantation Center, where her grandmother
was receiving treatment. She collected
$25,000 for the hospital and 10
boxes of food for a women’s shelter in
Hartford.
“Mostly kids will ask for presents or
money,” Jillian Deitch says. “I feel like I
have a lot in life, so I wanted to help others.
My grandmother was really happy
with her care at the hospital, so it was the
perfect opportunity.”
Remarkably, the ceremony spurred
another gift, which no one saw coming.
Kellyanne Jones, who catered the event,
approached Mrs. Weinstein’s daughter,
Jaime Weinstein, the following day and
asked her mother’s blood type. A few
days later, Jones, a 34-year-old mother of
three from Wethersfield, decided to contact
Maxine Weinstein. “She sent me
flowers out of the blue with a note that
said, ‘We’re a match. Love Kellyanne,’”
Mrs. Weinstein recalled.
Although relatives had offered to
donate a kidney to Mrs. Weinstein, they
all shared a condition which prevented it.
But Jones stepped forward giving Mrs.
Weinstein new hope. “Now we speak
every day. She was incredibly generous,”
says Mrs. Weinstein.
Such an unexpected gift fits in the
context of the Jewish community, says
Mrs. Weinstein’s daughter, Jaime Weinstein.
“In our community you give back,
and it can take many forms,” she says.
But it also reflects the cycle of generosity
returning to a family. Mrs. Weinstein’s
parents made a practice of philanthropy.
Like other traditions, the spirit of
giving passed to Mrs. Weinstein, who in
turn passed it down the family tree.
“It’s in my soul and I want it to be in
my children’s and grandchildren’s souls,”
she says. “When you’re blessed in life it’s
the right thing to do.” =
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THANK YOU
ORGAN DONORS AND RECIPIENTS HONORED
Kidney and liver donors and recipients were invited to the Peabody Museum on October
20 to acknowledge and celebrate their life-changing experiences. Roche Pharmaceuticals
and U.S. Surgical sponsored the event, and Marna Borgstrom, President and
CEO of YNHH, offered the welcoming remarks. State Representative James Amann
and Mrs. Terri Amann served as the event co-chairs. Mrs. Amann, a kidney recipient,
was joined by her brother and donor, Daniel Falaguerra. Speakers included Sukru
Emre, MD, Director, Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center and Section Chief, Transplant
Surgery and Immunology, Richard Formica, MD, and Sanjay Kulkarni, MD.
Sanjay Kulkarni, MD, and Sukru Emre, MD
Richard Formica, MD
Marna Borgstrom, Terri Amann and Speaker
of the House James Amann
Terri Amann and her donor brother,
Daniel Falaguerra
HACKERS FOR HEARTS
This year’s golf tournament and fundraiser
for the Yale-New Haven Heart
Center took place on October 1 at the
Oak Lane Country Club. Co-chair Patsy
Twohill, a YNHH employee and heart
transplant recipient, started the tournament
from her hospital bed 8 years ago.
Co-chair Karen Petrini was treated at
YNHH after suffering a heart attack
almost two years ago. The 78 golfers
also enjoyed dinner, a raffle and a silent
auction.
Why I Gave Geraldine Foster
“
From the time I was a young girl, growing
up near Pittsburgh, my mother
expected me to be a teacher. Even now,
she wants me to come home, leave
retirement and get a teaching job. When
I was 17, I worked for a summer at my
father’s factory. But I was bound and
determined to strike out on my own,
and not work for the family business.
“So I worked in banking in Connecticut
and Boston, and eventually at a
pharmaceutical company. Drug companies
get a bad rap, but that’s where I
realized how important medical
research is. I think we did a lot of good
in developing new drugs. We improved
people’s health and their lives.
“I firmly believe that the most significant
medical innovations come from
research organizations, like Yale School
of Medicine or Yale-New Haven Hospital.
The work being done here is
essential. That’s why I support the cancer
hospital and give something each
year for operations.
“I’m not wealthy, but I still give what
I can. That’s one lesson my parents
taught me well. My father was on the
board of a small hospital near Pittsburgh,
and he always gave something.
Could I give my money to other hospitals?
Yes, but there’s something different
here. Everyone is so helpful—taking
care of all these people and putting
smiles on children’s faces. I want to be
sure that continues far into the future.”
=
Patsy Twohill, Jessica Scheps, Karen Petrini
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PLANNED GIVING
Dear Friends,
This is an extraordinary time at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Before our
eyes, steel beams are rising from the ground as the new cancer hospital
takes shape. Meanwhile, the Smilow family has stepped forward with a
magnificent gift—the largest in our 181-year history—to help make
the dream a reality.
All of us at Yale-New Haven Hospital are filled with immense appreciation
for Joel and Joan Smilow’s generosity, which will touch thousands
of lives in the years to come. The Smilow Cancer Hospital will be a
place where scientific breakthroughs will be applied at the bedside. As
we planned five years ago, this building will allow us to integrate inpatient
and outpatient cancer services under the very same roof.
This issue of Impact includes a profile of the Smilows as well as stories
about several other hospital benefactors who have demonstrated, each
in their own unique way, the incredible influence that philanthropy can
have on the lives of so many people.
I am privileged to work for an organization dedicated—as each of our
more than 7,000 committed employees will attest—to helping each
and every person who comes to us in need. We are forever grateful for
the generosity of our supporters which helps provide the resources
for us to meet the ever-changing healthcare needs of the patients and
families we serve.
Warmest regards,
Marna P. Borgstrom
President and Chief Executive Officer
BEQUESTS: THE SIMPLEST
PLANNED GIFTS
America’s unique charitable impulse
has long been expressed through
legacy gifts planned by individuals of
both great and modest means to
support an institution or ideal that is
meaningful to them. Throughout
Yale-New Haven Hospital’s history,
bequests and other forms of planned
gifts have had a significant impact
on the hospital’s development.
A charitable bequest is among
the simplest and most effective giving
tools you can use in your estate
planning. Bequests are:
• Simple—a few sentences in
your will.
• Versatile—you can designate a
specific amount or a percentage of
the remainder of your estate. You
can also designate that the gift be
used for a specific purpose that is
most meaningful to you.
The following wording can be
used to create a bequest for the
hospital:
“I give and bequeath to Yale-New
Haven Hospital the sum of $_________;
or _________ percent of my estate.”
To recognize those individuals
who have established a planned gift
to benefit the hospital, we created
the Dr. Jonathan Knight Society, our
honorary legacy society. Dr. Knight
was one of the original incorporators
of the hospital. Membership
conveys several benefits including
invitations to special events, a
recognition pin and copies of hospital’s
publications.
To learn more about how a
planned gift best meets both your
financial and philanthropic needs,
please call John W. Dixon at
203-688-5902 or e-mail
john.dixon@ynhh.org.
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MAKING AN IMPACT AT YALE-NEW HAVEN

Millicent Sullivan
(left) and sister
Rita Foley (inset)
PROFILE
Generous Legacy
Humility defined Rita Foley’s life and what she left behind
Once every week during the mid-1950s,
Rita S. Foley would unpack a box of her
sister’s laundry. She washed the clothes—
which had made the trip from Boston to
New Haven—and then sent them back to
her kid sister, in college 140 miles away.
“I sent it to her on a Friday, and she
had it back to me by Tuesday,” Millicent
Sullivan recalls of her devoted sibling.
“She wanted me to study and not spend
the day doing laundry.”
While young Sullivan was freed up for
assignments at Harvard Business School,
Foley was taking night classes in accounting
at the University of New Haven. Her
willingness to dedicate weekends to laundry,
so her sister wouldn’t have to, was
just one example of Foley’s generosity. “If
you needed $5, she wouldn’t say anything,
she would just quietly put it in your
hands,” says Sullivan.
With the same silent spirit, Rita Foley
has given a remarkable gift to YNHH.
In spring 2005, Sullivan and financial
planner Thomas Beirne began examining
the estate of Foley, who had just died.
Her final wishes were simple and direct:
create a $250,000 trust for the Child Life
program at Yale-New Haven Children’s
Hospital. A similar gift was given to
three other institutions.
“It’s a big responsibility to fulfill the
wishes of our clients without their being
present,” says Beirne, vice president of
wealth management and trust at People’s
United Bank in New Haven. “You have
to put yourself into their shoes, to make
sure you understand the full intent of the
estate.”
While most people draft trusts to preserve
wealth, avoid taxes and create a
legacy for future generations, Foley’s
motivation was strictly philanthropic.
“That’s unusual. But she knew exactly
what she wanted to do, and she led by
example,” Beirne says.
The two sisters grew up in trying
conditions, as their mother died in their
teens, and their father became extremely
ill soon after. Foley assumed responsibility
for the household. In 1950, she married
Laurence R. Foley, and the two
became accountants. When Larry had a
stroke in the mid-1980s, he was treated
at YNHH. The family was grateful for
the compassionate care he received,
Sullivan says, which is why she believes
Foley wanted to support the hospital.
While touring the children’s hospital
in 2007, Sullivan saw another reason.
Walking from room to room with Beirne
and Michael Apkon, MD, PhD, vice
president and executive director of the
children’s hospital, she saw the many
faces of the children who will benefit
from her sister’s generosity.
“I’m so proud of her—what she did for
the children. I saw for myself what her
gift will do. The look in their eyes and the
hope in their faces was a very touching
and moving experience,” Sullivan says.
“I’ve been a lucky kid sister.” =
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Honoring Joel E. Smilow
A press conference and reception were held on October 31 at the Yale-New Haven
Hospital East Pavilion Special Events Area to acknowledge Joel and Joan Smilow’s
transformational naming gift to the cancer hospital. Speakers included Marna
Borgstrom, Yale President Richard Levin, Dean of the Yale School of Medicine
Robert Alpern, MD, cancer survivor Patrick Sclafani, and Mr. Smilow.
Marna Borgstrom, Joel Smilow, Joan Smilow,
and Robert Alpern, MD
Robert Alpern, MD, Patrick Sclafani, and Marna Borgstrom
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