3. (From right) Ron Shaw, president and chief executive officer of the Pilot Pen Corporation of America, and WTNH anchor Jocelyn Maminta presented Goldstein with a signed photograph, Sunrise on the Sound, donated by photographer Harold Shapiro. 4. Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) was in attendance.

October 12: WTNH meteorologist “Dr. Mel” Goldstein celebrated his 10th year as a cancer survivor with friends and colleagues at THE WONDER OF IT ALL, a reception and concert held at the New Haven Lawn Club. The event helped double the Dr. Mel Goldstein Multiple Myeloma Research Fund at Yale Cancer Center (YCC), pushing the fund above $200,000. Goldstein established the fund in 1999, three years after being diagnosed with multiple myeloma.

1. (From left) Richard L. Edelson, M.D., professor of dermatology and director of YCC, with Goldstein. 2. An avid jazz fan and pianist, Goldstein performed “The Circle,” a song he composed for the occasion, accompanied by the John Pizzarelli and John Oddo Quartet featuring the Legends of Jazz.

November 18: The Commons at Yale’s Woolsey Hall was the setting for the third annual DISCOVERY TO CURE GALA, which raised over $345,000 to support research on early detection of and new treatments for ovarian, cervical and uterine cancers. Peter E. Schwartz, M.D., the John Slade Ely Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, was honored with the announcement of an endowment established in his name by friends, colleagues, patients and family. 1. (From left) Kenneth Schwartz and Michelle Fantaci; Andrew Schwartz and Kelly Arnett, Ph.D.; Peter Schwartz and Arlene Schwartz; Anne and Bruce Schwartz. 2. José Costa, M.D., professor of pathology and medicine and vice chair of the Department of Pathology, (left) with Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. 3. (From left) Honorary Discovery to Cure Chair Rosanne Malouf, Donna Malouf, and Thomas J. Rutherford, Ph.D., M.D., associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences. 4. (From left) Richard L. Edelson, M.D., professor of dermatology and director of Yale Cancer Center, Ruth Edelson, Discovery to Cure Chair Debra Levin and Marshall Levin.

December 12: 1. The Yale Cancer Center (YCC) hosted Christian McEvoy, cofounder of COAST TO COAST: A RUN FOR SURVIVORSHIP, when he arrived in New Haven on a five-month, 3,500-mile run across the country to raise awareness and funds for cancer survivors. 2. McEvoy (center in white shirt) joined Richard L. Edelson, M.D., director of the YCC (on McEvoy’s left) and Kenneth D. Miller, M.D., director of the Connecticut Challenge Survivorship Clinic (on McEvoy’s right), along with YCC staff and cancer survivors before the group took a ceremonial 1.5 mile run through the city.

Jan 25: At the New Haven Lawn Club, Robert J. Alpern, M.D., dean and Ensign Professor of Medicine, hosted a LUNCHEON FOR RETIRED AND EMERITUS FACULTY who reside in the New Haven area. 1. Arthur Ebbert Jr., M.D., professor emeritus of medicine and former deputy dean of the medical school (left), with Wayne O. Southwick, M.D., former chair and professor emeritus of orthopaedics and rehabilitation. 2. (From left) Arthur B. DuBois, M.D., professor emeritus of epidemiology, Brenda Ritchie, G. Eric Schonewald, development officer for the medical school, and J. Murdoch Ritchie, Ph.D., professor emeritus of pharmacology. 3. (From left) Jack R. Cooper, Ph.D., professor emeritus of pharmacology, David Seligson, M.D., Sc.D., professor emeritus of laboratory medicine, Charles M. Radding, M.D., professor emeritus of genetics, Robert E. Handschumacher, Ph.D., professor emeritus of pharmacology and Peter Lengyel, Ph.D., professor emeritus and senior research scientist in molecular biophysics and biochemistry. 4. Robert H. Gifford, M.D., professor emeritus of medicine and former deputy dean for education.