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ROCKIN FOR THE GOLD 2013 DINNER/Auction and Danielle Boyko Memorial Golf Outing for Make Some Noise:Cure Kids Cancer Foundation

ROCKIN’ FOR THE GOLD TO BENEFIT KIDS’ CANCER RESEARCH

 Tinton Falls, NJ – October 10, 2013 -- Make Some Noise: 
Cure Kids Cancer Foundation will be hosting the Danielle Boyko Memorial Golf Outing and 4th annual Rockin’ for the Golddinner/auction 
events on Friday, October 18, 2013.   All 
proceeds to benefit vital cure research for childhood cancers.

 

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The Golf Outing 
is named in memory of beautiful 13-year-old Danielle Boyko of Middletown, who 
passed away this past June after a courageous battle with childhood 
leukemia.  The Danielle Boyko Memorial Golf Outing is Chaired by Danielle’s uncle, 
Robert DiGenova of Red Bank, and will be held at Sun Eagles Golf Club in Tinton 
Falls.  Make Some Noise is truly honored 
to be able to help perpetuate Danielle’s memory and hopes more golfers will 
come out and support Danielle’s family as they help raise awareness and 
critical cure research funding for childhood cancers in her name.



The evening’s Rockin’ for the Gold 
dinner/auction, to be held at Gibbs Hall in Tinton Falls, is Chaired by 
Michelle Borriello of West Long Branch, Gerri Grena-Daneman of Little Silver, 
and Paul Buerck of Wayside.  The 
evening’s guest speaker is an inspiring college student, Navid Attayan, who 
started ProJeKT 3000 to cycle across the United States this past summer to 
raise awareness for pediatric cancer.  He 
lost a friend to cancer and felt compelled to step up and help make a 
difference.  The event features dinner, 
auction, cocktail hour entertainment by the Liam Boyce Jazz Ensemble, and the 
evening’s featured live entertainment by local talent: Goldenseal, (www.goldensealtheband.com), who have generously donated their talents to 
help make some noise for kids cancer.

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Last year’s Rockin’ event sold out at 350 guests, and was a fabulous 
success.  Help make some noise for kids’ 
cancer; it is rampant among our kids in Monmouth County and we need to find the 
cures.  Grab a foursome and hit the 
links, or put on your comfy shoes and dance the night away for a very important 
cause… our children.  Get your tickets 
now!

 

In the United 
States, a child is diagnosed with cancer every 40 minutes.  1 in every 320 children is diagnosed with 
childhood cancer before their 21st birthday.  To put it into perspective, we lose as many 
children to cancer each year as the number of people we lost on 9-11; that is 
30,000 US children lost since that fateful day.  
Yet pediatric cancer only receives a meager 3% of all funding directed 
to cancer research, and that 3% has to be divided among more than a dozen 
different childhood cancers.

Tickets and Info:  

Click here to Purchase 
tickets on-line
 or  http://shop.makenoise4kids.org/main.sc

pay by check:
 Contact Michelle Borriello: rockin@makenoise4kids.org (732) 921-5643



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Danielle Boyko Memorial Golf Outing:  


$100/person Check-In 10:00 am; Lunch 11:00 am; 
Shot-gun Start 12:00 pm 

Registration fee includes greens fees, cart rental, and lunch

Sun Eagles Golf Club  240 Tinton Ave, 
Tinton Falls, NJ-- (the old Fort Monmouth)

Contact Golf Outing Chair: Bob DiGenova rdgroyal87@icloud.com (201) 988-5021



Rockin’ for the Gold Dinner/Auction:
 

6:30 pm – 11:00 pm, Casual Attire, tickets starting at $100/person, dinner 
auction, live entertainment

Gibbs Hall 240 Tinton Ave, Tinton Falls, NJ-- (the old Fort Monmouth)

Contact Rockin’ Event Chair: Michelle Borriello rocking@makenoise4kids.org Cell (732) 921-5643



About Danielle Boyko- in her parent’s words:

It was a summer 
like every other summer...playing with friends and family, trips to the beach, 
arts and crafts, sporting activities and quality family time, and then back to 
school to begin 7th grade. Several weeks later our world turned upside down as 
Dani was diagnosed with ALL Leukemia. We soon learned more about this cancer 
then we ever thought possible. With the help of family and friends we were 
forced to make some important decisions and have some very difficult 
conversations, none more difficult then explaining to Danielle, (and her 
brother Richie), that she had cancer and that we were going to help her fight 
this. With the support of our family, friends, community and "Team 
Dani" we aggressively attacked the cancer with rounds of chemo and 
eventually a bone marrow transplant over a year later.

Through it all, 
Danielle showed a grace and determination that never wavered. There were many 
days that she did not feel well because of the treatments that she was 
receiving but anytime we would ask her how she was feeling her response was always 
the same, "I'm good."  We 
quickly learned that she never wanted us or her family and friends to feel bad. 
As difficult as this experience is for parents, family and friends, if you 
spent any time with Dani you would always leave inspired by her strength, 
determination, and courage. She was truly an inspiration to all.  Shortly before Mother's Day this year, our 
worst fears were imagined, the cancer had returned. We discussed our options 
and decided with Dani to fight this in spite of the long odds and the likely 
side effects. If anyone can beat this we believed that our Dani Girl would be 
able to. Sadly, on June 21st Dani passed away in our arms, but not before 
finding the strength to have one last night of talking, story-telling, 
snuggling, and laughter with our family.

 

About the Make 
Some Noise Foundation

An 11-year-old NJ 
child with cancer established the Make Some Noise: Cure Kids Cancer Foundation 
in the fall of 2009 with one purpose in mind: to fund pediatric cancer 
research. The foundation secures private funding to distribute to research 
facilities and promotes awareness of pediatric cancers. The foundation has 
raised $1.1M and funded research labs across the country including Harvard’s 
Dana-Farber Institute, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Seattle Children’s 
Research Center, Baylor Texas Children’s Cancer Center, Children’s Medical 
Center of Dallas, Children’s Hospital of Colorado, Weill-Cornell, and Lombardi 
Cancer Institute at Georgetown. Make Some Noise was selected as a Top 3 
Finalist for “Best New Charity” in the 2011 Classy Awards in San Diego in 
September 2011, and recognized in 2012 as Top Rated Non-Profit by Great 
Non-Profits.   Make Some Noise has 
welcomed a rapidly growing family, and now boasts additional chapters in 
Colorado, Washington, Massachusetts, and Western New York State.  This summer, Make Some Noise took to the 
highways, travelling 4,000 miles through the heartland, and reaching over 4M 
with the story of childhood cancer through their 2013 Summer Tour of the 
National Angel Quilt for Childhood Cancer.  
To learn more, please visit the Make Some Noise Foundation:MakeNoise4Kids.org

About the 
Child-Founder

14-year-old 
Malcolm Sutherland-Foggio has been battling pediatric cancer and the subsequent 
side effects since the late fall of 2008. At the age of 10, he was officially 
diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a highly aggressive and malignant bone tumor. 
While enduring 14 rounds of chemotherapy, surgery to remove his hip, 
rehabilitation, and keeping up with his schoolwork, Malcolm realized that he 
saw no awareness for pediatric cancer, and learned that only 3% of cancer 
research funds are directed to childhood cancers. He began publicly speaking 
out and raising funds through the sale of wristbands.  He quickly decided that to really "make 
some noise," he needed to expand and his dream to incorporate a national 
foundation was born. To learn about Malcolm's journey in his own words, please 
click here to view a short video.
   He has corporate headquarters in New 
Jersey, chapters in Boston, Denver, Upstate NY, and Washington State, with more 
in the works.  Malcolm was recognized as 
a “NJ Hero” by NJ’s First Lady, Mary Pat Christie, in January 2012. He has a 
book coming out this winter.

 

Childhood Cancer Facts:

- A child in the US has a 1 in 320 chance of being diagnosed with 
cancer before their 21st birthday.    

 -80% of kids’ cancers have 
already metastasized by the time of diagnosis.

 -Every school day, two 
classrooms full of children are diagnosed with cancer, seven of them will die.

 -Over a 10 year period, we lose 
20-30,000 to cancer in this country alone-- a million worldwide.

 -Many pediatric cancers have 
treatment protocols which are 20 - 30 years old.

 -Just 3% of cancer research 
funding goes to pediatric cancer.

 -75% of children who survive 
face long term side effects from the treatments they received as growing 
kids.    We are not supposed to amputate, 
poison, and radiate growing kids!

 -Unlike many adult cancers, 
there is no early detection or screening for childhood cancer.

 

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Contacts:

Gerri Grena-Daneman

Vice President/Head Monmouth County group

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