O n May 7th, President Meghann McKale, Vice
President Christina Cohen, Event Chair
Scott Chabina, and members of the Junior
Committee (JC) welcomed over 300 young professionals,
activists, and philanthropists to our 7th Annual Spring Gala,
Collective Consciousness.
We were joined by Elisabeth Hasselbeck, one of the
hosts of ABC’s popular talk show The View and a longtime
Alzheimer’s advocate, who took time out of her
busy schedule to serve as the Gala’s Honorary Chair. Ms.
Hasselbeck presided over a
festive evening that featured
music by DJ Berrie, a resident
DJ at major clubs around
the country, a Consciousness cocktail, and memorial fl ower
arrangements that guests
had purchased in memory
of loved ones. Author Lisa
Genova also attended the
gala and signed copies of
her bestselling book Still
Alice. All proceeds from the
gala will go to benefi t the
NYC Chapter. For more
information and pictures of the event,
please visit www.alznycjc.org.
 Members of the JC, including Meghann McKale,
former Community Service Chair Kim Rossi, Jeff
LeBlanc and Kristen Czenszak, also attended the 21st
annual Alzheimer’s Association Public Policy Forum,
which was held in Washington, D.C. They joined
advocates from across the country to attend a Senate
Special Committee on Aging hearing, where former
Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor, whose husband suff ers from
Alzheimer’s, Maria Shriver, whose father Sargent Shriver
also suff ers from the disease, and former Senator Bob
Kerrey presented a special report on Alzheimer’s disease
and its varied costs to Congress. The JC members also
met with their local representatives to discuss how Alzheimer’s disease can affect young people and to
advocate for greater funding for research.
 Finally, the JC is maintaining our active volunteer
schedule. Under the direction JC Community Service
Chair Jessica Meksavan, the JC has been making regular visits to the Jewish Home Lifecare in Manhattan, playing
games and working on puzzles with the residents who
suff er from Alzheimer’s. We decided that the residents
might enjoy some more activity and, on April 26th, we
presented them with a Wii console that was purchased
with funds raised at the JC’s Winter Wii Happy Hour.
We hope that this is the fi rst of many Wiis we are able to
donate to nursing homes around the city.
— Hannah Major-Monfried
Junior Committee Chapter Liaison
The Junior Committee meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:45 pm at the NYC Chapter office. For more information on
what we do or to join our mailing list, please visit www.alznycjc.org or e-mail info@alznycjc.org.
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