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Howard and Alison Lutnick
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Senator and Mrs. Frank Lautenberg
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HEBREW UNIVERSITY
Cancer On Their Mind
At Fundraising Event
Story and Photos by Tim Boxer
 HE loss of loved ones was on the minds
of some of the 200 guests at an American Friends of Hebrew
University dinner at Cipriani 42nd St. in Manhattan.
Executive director Peter Wilner announced that $600,000 had
been raised for the university’s Lautenberg Research Center.
Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) visited
Israel for the first time in 1968 when he helped establish the
center as a new department of immunology at the Hebrew
University-Hadassah Medical School.
He was motivated by the searing memory of his
father, who succumbed to colon cancer at 43.
The guest of honor, Howard Lutnick,
chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald whose offices were wiped out
in the 9/11 attack on the World Grade Center, said: "Cancer
has been a part of my life since I was a teenager – when I lost
my parents." His mother died in her 40s; his father in his
50s.
Michael Kurtz, Lautenberg Center co-chair,
said that in 1999 he had an early detection of myeloma.
"I know that the Lautenberg Research Center
will help find a way to destroy the cancer cells that are in my
body," he said.
His co-chair, Eitan Yefenof, delivered an
update on the center’s scientific progress.
Lautenberg said, "I always enjoy listening to
Professor Yefenof, though I don’t always get it."
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