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LEUKEMIA
AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY
Cancer
Survivors Honored
For Personal Triumphs
Story
by Tim Boxer
Photos by Gandalf Riecks/PMc
 DGAR
BRONFMAN JR.
readily admitted that Wall Street Journal writer Laura
Landro was no great fan of his. In fact, when Bronfman led
his liquor company Seagram to buy Universal Studios in 1995,
Landro actually called him “stupid.”
Yet
here he is, serving as dinner co-chairman of the New York City
chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society benefit at The
Plaza – introducing Landro as guest of honor!
“She
is still a working journalist,” Bronfman explained, “and I am
not stupid!”
“What
a temperamental journalist I was!” Landro remarked.
Landro,
WSJ assistant managing editor, successfully battled leukemia as
recounted in her book, Survivor: Taking Charge of Your Fight
Against Cancer (Simon & Schuster, 1998).
“It
was the research that this organization funds that helped me,”
Landro said.
Keith
Reinhard,
chairman of DDB Worldwide, one of the world’s largest
advertising networks, and a survivor of prostate cancer, also was
honored.
The
annual dinner is dedicated to the memory of Bill Bernbach,
a founder of DDB who died of leukemia in 1982. His great grandson Andrew
Bernbach was recently diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia.
Violaine
Bernbach, Alexandra Mayes Birnbaum
and Jacqueline Weld Drake served as gala chairs. Charles
de Gunzburg, John B. Hess, Dan W. Lufkin and Steven
Schwarzman were vice chairs.
Dinner
co-chairman John L. Bernbach proudly announced that the
evening was the most successful in the chapter’s history: “We
surpassed our goal.” |
