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Stony Brook Wine Tasting Benefit
July 14, 2013
More than 130 supporters came together on July 14 to enjoy the annual Stony Brook Wine Tasting Benefit, which helped Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic raise $67,000 for reproductive and sexual health care. The event, held at the Old Field Club in Setauket, featured French wines in celebration of Bastille Day. Rose Brown, former Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Suffolk County and former Executive Vice President of PPHP, was honored for her work as a reproductive rights advocate. A service auction, led by auctioneer Marsha Laufer, raised $8,795 for the purchase of 586 HIV rapid test kits that can be offered free of charge to patients.
Rally for Women’s Equality
June 4, 2013
Rockland Benefit
June 6, 2013
More than 150 supporters helped Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic (PPHP) raise $28,000 for reproductive and sexual health care at the Rockland Benefit at Nyack Beach State Park on June 6. The Benefit, which celebrated PPHP’s 80th anniversary, included Mediterranean wines, hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction and raffle. Held at the park’s Historic Bath House, the fundraiser honored Rockland residents Dr. Sonya and Milton Shapiro and Susan Hito-Shapiro.
Rockland residents Carol Fleischmann, Karen Shovers Goldsmith, Denise Lipson, and Johanna Alter Wilson co-chaired the event. Hors d’oeuvres were provided by Nyack Gourmet. Committee member Adam Lipson led a service auction that raised $5,900 to continue Teen Information and Peer Services (TIPS), a teen leadership program that trains local high school students as peer educators.
Guests included Congresswoman Nita Lowey -- who gave a brief political update and spoke passionately about the need to support women’s health care -- and more than a dozen state and municipal officials.
East End Benefit
May 26, 2013
About 170 guests made a Memorial Day weekend appearance in Bridgehampton to support Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic (PPHP) and its essential reproductive and sexual health services on the East End.
The 26th annual East End Benefit, celebrating PPHP’s 80th anniversary, was hosted by Molly and Walter Channing in the Channing Family Sculpture Garden. The event raised $165,000 to fund health care and education programs.
Artists April Gornik and Eric Fischl, writer Loraine Boyle, and Edwina von Gal were in attendance, and the benefit was co-chaired by Rima Mardoyan; Jill Scheuer, chair of PPHP; Iris Abrons; and Dorothy Lichtenstein. Many artists and photographers donated their works for a silent auction, including Steve Miller, Priscilla Heine, Perry Burns, Toni Ross, Terry Elkins, and Lucy Winton.
Securing the Promise of Roe
PPHP Board President Jill Scheuer, keynote speaker Jessica Arons, New York State Senator Andrea Stewart Cousins, and PPHP President/CEO Reina Schiffrin.
Reproductive health and rights advocate Jessica Arons gave Planned Parenthood supporters on Long Island and in Westchester County a primer on abortion case law as the keynote speaker for Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic and Planned Parenthood of Nassau County’s Roe v. Wade anniversary celebrations.
Arons, director of the Women’s Health and Rights Program at the Center for American Progress, gave her talk, "Securing the Promise of Roe," on January 23 in Cold Spring Harbor and on January 24 in White Plains. The events were attended by many state representatives, county legislators, and board members.
Arons spoke about other significant Supreme Court cases that have resulted in abortion restrictions over the years (i.e. Harris v. McCray, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and Maher v. Doe) and noted the many obstacles that the federal and state governments put in the way of women, from funding restrictions to mandatory ultrasounds.
