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246 Newton Residents To Ride In 2020 Pan-Mass Challenge
Locals will participate with the goal of raising funds for cancer research and patient care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
NEWTON, MA– More than 10,000 participants, including 246 participants from Newton, will take part in the 2020 Pan-Mass Challenge, a bike-a-thon that raises millions of dollars each year for cancer research and patient care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The organization’s traditional annual ride usually includes 12 routes spanning 25 to 192 miles throughout the first weekend of August. This year, rather than having participants ride the same routes, the challenge has no set route Saturday, August 1.
And the Opening Ceremony will be held virtually, broadcast on WBZ to kick things off on Friday, July 31.
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Each year people participate to honor a family member or friend who has battled cancer, while more than 940 riders and volunteers are cancer survivors or current patients themselves—considered "Living Proof" of the progress made in cancer research and treatment, according to the organization.
Every rider-raised dollar is donated directly to Dana-Farber through its fundraising arm, the Jimmy Fund, accounting for more than 57 percent of the Jimmy Fund’s annual revenue In 2019, the PMC donated a record-breaking $63 million to Dana-Farber, bringing its 40-year contribution to more than $717 million.
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"It is thanks to the unwavering passion and commitment of our riders, volunteers, donors and sponsors that the PMC can continue to make tangible impact on advancements in cancer research and treatment, even through this difficult time," said Billy Starr, founder and executive director of the challenge.
The organization released a list of Newton's 246 participants:
- Frank Aronson
- Melany Duval
- Allison O’Neill
- Ellen Segal
- David Bagnani
- Laurence Bailen
- Peter Barkan
- Barry Benjamin
- Bruce Cedar
- William Curley
- Khalil Dagher
- Sue Farrell
- Michael Frieze
- David Frieze
- Tom Gallitano
- Thomas Garnitz
- Wolfram Goessling
- Gregory Grobstein
- Barbara Gutman
- James Hirsch
- Zoe Hirsch
- John Hussey
- Bernard Lebow
- Michael Levy
- Ronald Lubin
- Eric Nadel
- Carrie Neff
- Alexander Packard
- John Plotz
- Henry Pynchon
- David Rontal
- Helle Sachse
- Steven Segal
- Russell Stein
- Andrew Subach
- Dan Thiffault
- Craig Underwood
- Veronica Vedensky
- David Zug
- David Southiere
- Taylor Welch
- David Wilson
- Eileen Adler
- Gideon Argov
- Jeffrey Bussgang
- Daniel Harris
- Kathy Kelleher
- Oved Lourie
- Ann Murray
- Beth Reardon
- Warren Green
- Dave Grossman
- Benjamin Raby
- Michele Rosenthal
- Paul Samson
- Eman Ansari
- Roy Barr
- Mike Cantor
- Nava Cretu-Kessel
- Eva Guinan
- Ira Hart
- Laurie Mitchell
- Pamela Rosenberg
- Amy Greene
- Daniel Lewin
- Michael Manzella
- Susanne Muehlschlegel
- Amy Silber
- Darren Abrahamson
- Ilana Amrani-Cohen
- Jessica Aronoff
- Karen Axelrod
- Steve Bader
- Loren Balsam
- Joel Bard
- Jay Baronowski
- Benjamin Bates
- Liz Baum
- Michael Berger
- Rachelle Bernacki
- Joshua Bowman
- Steven Branfman
- Ellen Branfman
- Douglas Brayley
- Bruce Brumberg
- Jackson Bunis
- David Bunis
- Michael Busnach
- Krista Busnach
- Joshua Cameron
- Karen Chinitz
- Daniella Chinitz
- Ates Civitci
- Marc Cohen
- Jeffrey Cook
- David Crowe
- Aram Elovic
- Peter Ezrin
- Charles Feinberg
- Mark Feldman
- Joshua Fine
- Mark Fitzpatrick
- Lauren Gallagher
- Paul Gershkowitz
- Bernard Gitlin
- Drew Goldstein
- Charles Grant
- Chip Greer
- Marc Gundersheim
- William Hahn
- Avery Hanlon
- David Harlow
- Michael Harlow
- Doug Haslam
- Dafna Hayman
- Girard Healy
- Deborah Hicks
- Philip Hirshberg
- Kyle Hunter
- Robert Insoft
- Adin Insoft
- Kathryn Jenkins
- Ben Josephson
- Benjamin Kaplan
- Christine Klaehn
- Toby Kumin
- Bruce Landon
- Ronald Lanoue
- Mikhail Levit
- Joshua Levy
- Madison LiDonni
- Jeffrey Lieb
- Jonathan Lilienfeld
- Jinlei Liu
- Kathie Lyons
- Stephen Maimone
- Ted Marple
- Sonya Marquez
- Suzanne Masterson
- Stephen McCreary
- Sean McDonald
- Jennifer McGarry
- Mike McKay
- Michael McKee
- Amy McMahon
- Dennis McNicholl
- Robert Mechanic
- Steven Meyer
- Kevin Mitchell
- Gig Moineau
- Catherine Monoxelos
- Jeremy Munn
- Lee Nadler
- Barry Nelson
- Bryan Nguyen
- Dan Norton
- Adam Nussenbaum
- Paul O'Connell
- Barbara Oppenheimer
- Emer O'Shea
- Debra Overland
- Alan Paret
- Matt Pawa
- Butch Pemstein
- Alex Peselman
- Leo Polk
- Stacey Pollack
- Phil Pratt
- Andrew Pratt
- Ken Pucker
- David Reardon
- Karen Rednor
- Larry Ring
- Rachel Rock
- Elyse Rosenblum
- Ben Saada
- Jaka Saarony
- Robin Saitz
- Sumner Saitz
- Brian Schoenbeck
- Michele Shin
- Barry Slosberg
- Jonathan Smith
- Ethan Solomon
- John Speyer
- Roger Spingarn
- Denise Staubach
- Peter Staubach
- Timothy Tobin
- Stephen Tocci
- Harold Tubman
- Setti Warren
- Jake Weinberg
- Scott Weiss
- Andrew Welch
- Jeffrey West
- Walter Wickersham
- Tom Wilder
- Richard Wilk
- Loie Williams
- Fuller Winton
- Jonathan Zaff
- Joyce Zakim
- Tony Zelle
- Gary Belowich
- Bill Berman
- Ellen Cohen-Kaplan
- Barb Epstein
- Michael Epstein
- Dan Epstein
- Susan Farris
- Tricia Glynn
- Jeffrey Golden
- Julia Golden
- Howard Gray
- Michael Johnstone
- Jeff Kaplan
- Daniel Mekler
- David Mekler
- Vincent Montavon
- Danny Muehlschlegel
- Duncan Richardson
- Paul Rose
- Steven Siegel
- Steven Smith
- Ed Sonier
- Adam Suttin
- Christopher Sweeney
- Michael Wolfson
- Marty Wolin
- Michael Chinitz
- Doug Cornelius
- Thomas Engel
- Joel Feinberg
- Nitai Gur
- Masha Levit
- David Pemstein
- John Reichenbach
- Christopher Ryan
- Lisa Schwartz
- Alexa Shabecoff
- James Shulman
- Scott Steele
- Hadley Stern
- Andy Sucoff
- Jeff Zabel
To make a financial contribution to a rider from your town or to become a virtual rider, visit www.pmc.org, or call (800) WE-CYCLE.
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