From left: Sandeep Kapoor, M.D.; Mike Carden; Danny Zelisko; Gloria Butler; Wendy Dio; Eddie Trunk; Terry "Geezer" Butler; and Rita Haney at the First Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund Awards Gala at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles on November 1, 2001 (Photo Credit: Gene Kirkland) |
Dio Cancer Fund Hosts First Awards Gala At Playboy Mansion In Los Angeles
Funds Raised for Gastric Cancer Research and Education as Seven Distinguished Supporters Receive Awards
The Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund hosted its first Awards Gala on Tuesday evening (November 1) at the famed Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles to raise funds for its commitment to cancer prevention, research and education. Founded in memory of Ronnie James Dio, the world-renowned voice of Dio, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Heaven & Hell who died of gastric cancer last year, the Dio Cancer Fund has already raised more than $500,000 in its short history.
Wendy Dio, widow of the late singer and Fund Founder/President, and Gloria Butler, Chairman of the Board of the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund, will present the Dio Cancer Fund's latest pledge to the T. J. Martell Foundation for Cancer, AIDS and Leukemia Research at their annual dinner in New York this week. Additionally, the Fund has committed monies to the gastric cancer research unit of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where Ronnie was treated during the last six months of his life.
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