FROM THE FAIRwAYS - The Jimmy Fund

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Families
The 4th annual Friends of Brantwood Road Jimmy Fund Golf Tournament reached new
heights in 2012. Tournament organizers celebrated their success after raising more than
$61,000 and having a great day at Pine Hills Golf Course in Plymouth, Mass.
Penelope Kavalieros (second from left) and her kindergarten classmates cheered on the golfers at
the second annual Golf Fights Cancer— Ellie Kavalieros Good Guys, Good Gals Invitational, created
as a tribute to her sister. The tournament, held at the Deerwood Country Club in Jacksonville,
Fla., raised $130,000 to support DIPG brain tumor research at Dana-Farber.
With $97,000 raised at the 4th annual Tom Cosenzi Charity Golf Tournament to support
the brain tumor research of Dana-Farber’s Patrick Wen, MD, tournament committee
members (left to right) Michael Hyder, Carla Cosenzi, Gayle Bover, Tommy Cosenzi,
and Shannon Allen gathered to celebrate the memory of Carla and Tommy’s father.
Sarah and Rick Hamilton organized the 5th annual Chickaroo Classic at Hickory Hill Golf
Course in Methuen, Mass., in honor of their daughter Caroline (center). The event raised more
than $30,000 to help fund PGLA brain tumor research at Dana-Farber.
Catherine Drouin started the Green Mountain Communications Wireless Open in
memory of her father and in honor of her mother, a Dana-Farber patient and Stage IV
throat cancer survivor. Her family (left to right) Kyle, Victor, and Nate joined her on the
course in Wolfeboro, N.H., where the event raised more than $39,000.
The Svenson Family continued their tradition of playing golf to fund cancer genetics fellowships
at Dana-Farber by raising nearly $215,000 at the 5th annual John R. Svenson Classic,
hosted at The Golf Club of Cape Cod in Falmouth, Mass.