WANADA Bulletin #26-07 *Special Issue* July 13, 2007 2007 BOBBY MITCHELL TOYOTA HALL OF FAME GOLF CLASSIC BMC Again Tops $700,000 for Leukemia & Lymphoma Research Dynamic Event Spotlights Auto Dealer/Industry Support
Co-chairs Todd Heavner of Enterprise Rent-a-Car and Tamara Darvish kick off Saturday night’s grand banquet, attended by 600, who among others, raised over $700,000 for blood cancer research.
he 17th annual Bobby Mitchell/ T Toyota Hall of Fame Classic sponsored by the Washington Area Auto Dealers was another smashing success raising over $700,000 to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. That brings total BMC fundraising in the battle against these deadly cancers to over $5 million since the event’s inception in 1990, with nearly $4 million coming in the Clockwise from top, left: past seven years. WANADA, with Bobby Mitchell; Jim Koons re- Tamara Darvish’s leadership, is jus- ceiving his Community Leader- tifiably proud of the fundraising ship Hall of Fame Award from MC Paul Berry; “Patient Hero” spike that has occurred since the Ramon Hilliard with his $10,000 dealer group at large became in- autographed football; and Berry volved in 2000. with “Patient Escorts” (from left) Despite the direct competition Katherine Kennedy, 11, Leah with the Tiger Woods AT&T Na- Holdcraft, 7, Andrew Lucka- baugh, 8, and Andrew Hughes, 6, tional Golf Tournament at Congres- who escorted the Hall of Famers sional Country Club, capacity to their seats. crowds showed up at Lansdowne Sunday. The winning foursome on and T. DeGeorge. (Rumor has it Resort July 7-8 for both Saturday’s Sunday, by the way, with a that Charlie is a “ringer,” having banquet and the golf tournament on “scramble” score of 57, was led by played for several years on the pro Inside… Hall of Famer Charlie Joiner and golf circuit.) his Costco teammates Bob Abbey, Redskins legend Sonny Classic Highlights…………p.2 & 3 Jim DeGeorge, Roger Campbell Jurgensen and his team from Hall of Fame Sponso..….…p.4 Page 2 July 13, 2007 WANADA Bulletin #26-07 2007 BOBBY MITCHELLTOYOTA HALL OF FAME GOLF CLASSIC
WANADA leadership (front row, above) joins with Hall of Fame greats for annual photo. WANADA Executive Vice President John O’Donnell (above, right), with LLS Executive Director Donna McKelvey, welcome attendees to Saturday night’s reception (below, left), which also featured an extensive and extraordinary silent auction (center, below).
(Continued from page 1) Above, from left, Rory Schick, Manas- sas Chrysler, with Hall of Famers Mike Toyota followed in second place also with a score of 57, and Hall of Famer McCormack, Anthony Munoz and Sam Billy Shaw and his team from Autotrader.com took home third place with a Huff. score of 58. At the post-tournament awards banquet, Honorary Chairman and Red- skins legend Bobby Mitchell announced that this year’s event cleared a re- cord $705,000 for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Mitchell credited this remarkable success to his fellow Hall of Famers, “who donate 100% of their time and support year after year.” Mitchell also praised the tournament sponsors and countless volunteers who together with their appreciable re- sources and “sweat equity,” brought about a major fundraising event. He had particular praise for the leadership and hard work contributed by event co-chairs, Tamara Darvish, DARCARS, and Todd Heavner, Enterprise Rent-a-Car. He then recognized BMC founder and chairman emeritus, Dick Patterson. A special presentation was then made to Jim Koons, Koons Auto- motive Companies, who became the event’s inaugural inductee into the Community Leadership Hall of Fame. Smokin’ Al Koken from SportsTalk 980 The more than 600 guests at this year’s banquet were again treated to the was on hand again to kick off this free-wheeling, high energy repartee of veteran broadcast newsman and em- year’s Classic at the annual media day. cee, Paul Berry, who noted the tremendous strides made in finding cures for these dreaded diseases. “The five-year survival rate has more than tripled in the past 40 years for patients with leu- kemia, thanks to research funding generated through events like this tournament,” said Berry. “Eighty-six percent of kids with the most common form of leukemia survive today, and that’s huge,” he said.
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Sonny Jurgensen (above, on the right) hits a long ball for the DARCARS team, which finished second at Sunday’s tournament. Dave Tartaglia, CareFirst (above, right) putts for par for the WANADA team. At right, Charlie Joiner (center) and the Costco winning team, pictured with event co-chairs Tamara Darvish and Todd Heavner in the back row.
(Continued from page 2) This year’s tournament honoree and “Patient Hero” was Ramon Hilliard, a 15-year-old from Hyattsville, MD, who was celebrating a one year anniversary of a successful bone marrow transplant. He and his mother, Denae Hilliard, gave heartfelt thanks to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for all the services they provided, and to Bobby Mitchell, the Hall of Famers and all those in attendance who “contributed so much.” Ramon was the happy recipient of the evening’s prized live auction item – a football signed by all 46 Hall of Famers. The ball was won by Todd Heavener and his wife with a bid of $10,000 and donated to Ramon on behalf of Enter- prise Rent-a-Car. The live auction also included a trip to Bourdeaux, France, contributed by Total Wine & More; golf at Pebble Beach and first class tickets, contributed by American Airlines; and a 6-day vacation in Iceland contrib- uted by Comcast Spotlight. A wide range of silent auction items brought in thousands of additional dollars, as did a 2007 FJ Cruiser SUV raffled off thanks to Toyota. Bobby Mitchell and his wife, Gwen, again starred in a video tribute to Toyota, WANADA and other major tournament sponsors, including Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation, DARCARS, Easterns Automotive, Costco, American Airlines, PhRMA, Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge, Koons Automotive, Toyota of Bowie, Provident Bank, Pepsi Cola Inc, SportsTalk 980 and Comcast Spotlight. Above left, Leroy Kelly lofts his trophy for winning the Hall of Fame attendees included: Bobby Mitchell, Lem putting contest at media day, and NBA Hall of Famer Barney, Bobby Bell, Elvin Bethea, Mel Blount, Lou Creek- Oscar Robertson (right) shows basketball is not his mur, Joe DeLamielleure, Bill Dudley, Wayne Embry, Hal only sport. Greer, Marques Haynes, Ted Hendricks, Ken Houston, Sam Huff, Charlie Joiner, Sam Jones, Sonny Jurgensen, Leroy Kelly, Paul Krause, Willie Lanier, Steve Largent, Yale Lary, Dante Lavelli, Meadowlark Lemon, Larry Little, Tom Mack, Gino Marchetti, Mike McCormack, Tommy McDonald, Lenny Moore, Anthony Munoz, Joe Perry, Mel Renfro, Oscar Robertson, Charlie Sanders, Billy Shaw, Bob St. Clair, John Stallworth, Jan Stenerud, Charley Taylor, Charley Trippi, Paul Warfield, Roger Wehrli, Dave Wilcox, Kellen Winslow and Rayfield Wright. More tournament details on this year’s Classic will be available at www.bobbymitchell.com. Page 4 July 13, 2007 WANADA Bulletin #26-07 2007 BOBBY MITCHELL TOYOTA HALL OF FAME GOLF CLASSIC WANADA Salutes Over 100 2007 Bobby Mitchell Classic Sponsors
As the presenting sponsor, WANADA joins the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in recognizing Toyota for its title role in the Bobby Mitchell Classic along with the following generous individuals and organizations: 355 Toyota Fitzgerald Auto Malls Paramount Vending A&A Athletics Friends of St. Jude’s PhRMA Alexandria Hyundai Ken Milvid / Frito-Lay Pepsi Cola Alexandria Toyota Andrew & Tracy Friedlander Pivec Advertising, LTD American Airlines Gannett Pro Football Hall of Fame American Service Center Lisa W. Gill Trust Provident Bank Apple Ford Hamilton and Hamilton Reebok International Ltd. Auto Collision Specialists, Inc. Hasler Inc. Resource Automotive Atlantic Dealer Services Hilb, Rogal & Hobbs Michael & Kathi Rose AutoTrader Glenn Harris & Terry Cornwell Rosenthal Automotive Baja Fresh Mexican Grill Greg Norman Collection Charles Sanford Jr. Beers & Cutler, PLLC Herb Gordon Auto Group, Inc. Sheehy Auto Stores Beltway Toyota Hisaoka Public Relations Signs West Adam Bernstein Jim Moran & Associates, Inc. Dr. Denise Perry Simmons Paul Berry Smokin’ Al Koken Robin & Suzanne Sparrow BG Products & Services Koons Automotive Companies, Inc. Spielman Studio Bierman, Geesing & Ward, LLC Koons of Manassas Sport Automotive Scott & Amy Brody Koons Tysons Toyota Springfield Toyota Caddies on Cordell KYK-OTT Doug & Julie Stotlar CARFAX Lansdowne Resort Studley Chesapeake Petroleum/Castrol Leesburg Toyota SunDun Vending Costco Wholesale Michael & Ilene Lerner SunTrust Bank Ron Carter Rebecca Lestner Superior Auto Paints/BASF Skeet & Deb Cato LEXUS Superior Paving Corporation Chesapeake Petroleum/Castrol Sandy & Gail Lipstein Tischer Acura Nissan Chuck Bills LoJack Toyota Comcast Sports/Net Lustine Toyota Toyota of Bowie Comcast Spotlight Matan Corporation Toyota Financial Services Community Foundation for NCR Metal Pro, Inc. triVIN Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell Miller Toyota/Scion UBS Financial Services COSTCO Wholesale/Leesburg National Mailing Systems Rick “Doc” Walker Marshall Cropper NBA Entertainment Washington Area Chrysler, Jeep Curtis Chevrolet-Kia News Channel 8 & Dodge Dealers DARCARS NFL Alumni Washington Area Lexus Dealers Dogfish Head Alehouse NFL Films Washington Area New Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats NFL Properties Automobile Dealers Association Easterns Automotive Nissan Mid-Atlantic Region Washington Post Media & Enterprise Rent-a-Car Jerry Olsen/UTZ Cars.com EuroMotorcars, Inc. Ourisman Automotive WTEM SportsTalk 980 EuroMotorcars Germantown Ourisman Toyota of Chantilly WTOP Events Management Overlook Systems Technologies Fairfax Hyundai
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