Good deeds done here

July 1, 2008

Two notable examples of philanthropy last week from the Maryland legal community:

  • Golf Fore Heart 2008 raised more than $51,000 for the Society for Heart Attack and Prevention Education (SHAPE) on Wednesday. JoAnne Zawitoski, the event’s co-chair, said more than 100 golfers teed it up at Mountain Branch Golf Club in Joppa. Zawitoski, a principal at Semmes, Bowen & Semmes in Baltimore, started the event last year in honor of her late husband, Guy Fernandez, an avid golfer who passed away suddenly of a heart attack in four years ago. Zawitoski is also a board member of SHAPE.
  • The Baltimore County Bar Association donated $10,000 to the Family Crisis Center of Baltimore County Inc. during its Stated Meeting on Thursday. The donation came out of funds remaining from a settlement in Taylor v. Savings First Mortgage LLC, a predatory-lending class action that originated in Baltimore. Savings First repaid $1.1 million to approximately 2,400 customers; as part of the settlement agreement, the crisis center was one of several charities designated to receive money not claimed by consumers. Richard S. Gordon, Kieron F. Quinn of Quinn Gordon & Wolf Chtd. in Towson and Benjamin H. Carney of the Holland Law Firm P.C. in Annapolis were lead counsel in the case.

DANNY JACOBS, Legal Affairs Writer

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Local leaders to perform fancy footwork at charity gala

March 12, 2008

If you’ve ever hoped to see a CEO attempt the cha cha, you’ll have your chance a few Saturdays from now.

And don’t worry, it’s all for a good cause - beyond entertainment.

The Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel will host the Alzheimer’s Association’s Dancing with the Stars-themed gala on April 5.

Here are a few of the Baltimore-area businesspeople, chosen for their community leadership, who are scheduled to compete:

  • Dr. Majid Fotuhi of Life Bridge Health, Brain & Spine Institute, and wife Bita
  • Heather Keller, nurse, yoga instructor and one of Baltimore magazine’s 2008 top singles
  • Samuel Ross, M.D., CEO of Bon Secours Health System, and wife Carolyn
  • Diane Lyn, co-host of 101.9 Lite FM’s Baltimore’s Morning Show

The dancers will take lessons prior to the event, and will have the choice of performing a Latin or ballroom number.

They can win trophies, of course, but the most prized reward: online votes from friends, family and colleagues, which cost one dollar each and benefit the association. Last year online votes totaled $88,000. At the time of this post, just over $2,600 was raised.

If you’d like to see the spectacle up close, tickets are $300 per person and corporate sponsorships are available.

JACKIE SAUTER, Web Editor

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Local breast cancer charity gets second nod from Oprah

January 3, 2008

A story about a Baltimore nonprofit is included in a newly published collection of Oprah Winfrey’s favorite articles from her magazine.

The nonprofit, named The Red Devils, borrowed its name from “The Red Devil to Hell with Cancer - and Back,” a book by breast cancer survivor Katherine Russell Rich, who got her title from the cancer drug Adriamycin, which is bright red and nicknamed “red devil.”

Rich’s book caught Winfrey’s eye, and she featured the group in the October 2006 issue of O magazine. Now, the story is included in “O’s Guide to Life: The Best of O, The Oprah Magazine” which retails for $29.95.

The Red Devils provides transportation to and from medical appointments, housecleaning, delivering meals and drug co-payment help for breast cancer patients and their families.

If you’re interested in supporting the group:

-Registration for the group’s biggest fundraiser, the annual Red Devils Heart and Sole Stroll, has begun. The walk is scheduled for the morning of Sunday, June 8 at Centennial Park in Howard County.

-February 9 from 11a.m. - 6p.m. is the group’s “Sweet Shopping” fundraiser at Belvedere Square, located at York Road and Belvedere Ave. Merchants will donate a portion of the day’s proceeds to The Red Devils.

JACKIE SAUTER, Multimedia Editor

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Do you have an obligation to help others?

December 18, 2007

Did you read Marc Fisher’s column in Sunday’s Washington Post, “Helping Those You Can, Because You Can“?

I did, and I have to say, I found it moving. For those of you who didn’t, Fisher writes about two successful businessmen who each sponsored a class of poor schoolchildren in D.C., providing them with emotional and financial support through college.

Here’s a short excerpt:

Twenty years ago, [George] Kettle had stood before sixth-graders at a Southeast Washington school and announced that “I’m the whitey from Virginia” who promised to pay whatever it took to send every child in the room to college.

Many kids at Winston Educational Center that day had little idea what Kettle’s commitment really meant, but two decades later, the students to whom Kettle devoted hundreds of hours and $600,000 are more successful than not. A few ended up on the streets, but most are managers, teachers, police officers.

Is piece uplifting? Definitely. But that’s not what struck me.

Ed Wilczynski (who took up the practice after Kettle) told Fisher that “people who know how to get things done have an obligation to step in when the system isn’t working.”

Do you agree? Do successful businesspeople who can “get things done” need to take control of a floundering educational system?

JACKIE SAUTER, Multimedia Editor 

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