Hope for Depression Research Foundation (HDRF) marked its tenth anniversary with a lavish dinner in The Gold Room at the Breakers Hotel honoring high-level donors.
HDRF Founder and Chair Audrey Gruss, who created the organization in 2006 in memory of her mother Hope who struggled with clinical depression, hosted the event along with co-chairs Scott Snyder, William Flaherty and Susan Lloyd.
The night featured keynote speaker David Payne, the New York Times notable author who read from his recent best seller Barefoot to Avalon, a gripping memoir about his brother who struggled with bipolar disorder.
Members of the Chairman’s Council who attended were: James Borynack, George and Jane Bunn, Janet and JJ Cafaro, Denis and Annabelle Coleman, Luce Churchill, Mary and Marvin Davidson, Jackie Drake, Mark and Mary Frietas, Sarah Gates and Alexander Ives, Mai Hallingby Harrison, Eleanora Kennedy, Carole and John Moran, Barbara and Randall Smith, Robert Nederlander and Susan Keenan, and Lis Waterman.