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Gardens woman is chair of Scripps fundraiser luncheon series

The Palm Beach Post ~ Jan. 28, 2016  Dianna Smith, Special to The Palm Beach Post MEET YOUR NEIGHBOR: Nancy Hart, 71 Nancy Hart is not a scientist, but she’s working hard to ensure that life-changing things like cures for cancer will be found. Nancy Hart with her husband Joel. She is the chairwoman of Scripps Research […]

Former exec of Paramount Studios inspiring others to overcome adversity

BY LYNDA FIGUEREDO TUESDAY, JANUARY 26TH 2016 Sherry Lansing is the Keynote Speaker at the HOW luncheon. PALM BEACH (CBS12) — Cancer touches everyone in some way. That is why the former Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures is in town to speak to others on why she became an advocate and how she is […]

Former film executive of Paramount Studios to speak at Mar-A-Lago

Sherry Lansing wants to cure cancer, redefine retirement ENTERTAINMENT By Leslie Gray Streeter – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Posted: 9:51 a.m. Friday, Jan. 22, 2016 In her time in Hollywood, as a producer and as the first female head of a major film studio, Sherry Lansing was responsible for developing and distributing more than […]

Howie Mandel Opens Up Ahead Of His Performance At The Mar-a-Lago Club In Palm Beach

Ike Crumpler & Staff Jupiter Magazine  December  2015 Emmy award-winning comedian Howie Mandel will entertain audiences at LIFE’s 22nd Annual “Lady in Red” Gala on Dec. 5 at The Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach. We caught up with the host of “Deal or No Deal” and judge on “America’s Got Talent” to find out what makes him laugh, where he gets his material […]

Manalapan’s Lois Pope underwrites documentary on disabled veterans

By Barbara Marshall – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Photo of Lois Pope by Damon Higgons/Palm Beach Post November 8, 2015   “War is not over when the shooting stops,” says Lois Pope. “For disabled veterans, the sacrifice goes on.” On Tuesday night, the day before Veterans Day, a Ric Burns documentary underwritten by Pope […]

Lois Pope donates 10th ambulance to mobile intensive care unit in Israel

Florida Weekly November 5, 2015 Lois Pope has donated a mobile intensive care unit for Israel. The philanthropist, American Friends of Magen David Adom’s 2014 Humanitarian Award recipient, dedicated her 10th ambulance on Oct 26. The Mobile Intensive Care Unit ambulance is headed to Israel, where it will join MDA’s lifesaving fleet, responding to terror […]

Local philanthropist funds disabled vet documentary

WPBF 25 News By Whitney Burbank October 28, 2015 Lois Pope hopes film ‘Debt of Honor’ will raise awareness MANALAPAN, Fla. —Two weeks from its national television premiere, local philanthropist Lois Pope said she found inspiration for documentary “Debt of Honor” on a New York City stage in the 1960s. Pope, seated in her sprawling […]

Disabled veterans documentary airs on PBS

Marisa Gottesman Contact Reporter Sun Sentinel November 10, 2015 A Manalapan philanthropist is making good on her promise to herself to share the story of the nation’s disabled veterans with as many people possible. At 9 p.m. Tuesday, the documentary “Debt of Honor: Disabled Veterans in American History” is set to premiere nationwide on PBS. The hourlong […]

Scripps Florida scientists tackling HIV, cancer, effects of old age

October 16, 2015 The Palm Beach Post by: Sarah Peters   It was hard to imagine there wasn’t at least one future Nobel Prize winner among the Scripps Florida scientists who described their work diseases such as cancer, HIV and Alzheimer’s Tuesday. About a half dozen researchers briefed a room full of elected officials at […]