16 THE CHARBONNEAU VILLAGER
August 2019
STANDING
TOGETHER
motorcycle in pink for that month so
I support it all the way.”
— Cheryl Barnum
Niners share personal stories
about cancer, Pink Ball
By CLARA HOWELL
F
or thousands of years, hu-
mans have battled cancer.
And nearly everyone alive
today has personally been
affected by cancer or knows some-
one who has. With the annual Pink
Ball Tournament that supports
OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute,
right around the corner, The Villag-
er asked members of the Niners
what their personal connections
with cancer have been and why they
support the September golf tourna-
ment. Below are their answers:
“My Dad graduated from the Naval
Academy during WWII and served in
the Navy until he retired to Florida. He
was an active tennis player, runner and
hiker. When he was 80, he was diag-
nosed with Stage Four multiple myelo-
ma, a blood cancer. Our whole family re-
searched this horrible cancer, finding
very little hope. I contacted OHSU to see
if they had information and they invited
us to a multiple myeloma support group.
We listened to doctors and others with
blood cancer. One man, about 45 years
old, told about being near death, on dial-
ysis because of kidney failure. He en-
tered into a trial of a new drug, Velcade,
and was now cancer free. I immediately
called my family in Florida to tell them
PMG PHOTO: CLARA HOWELL
— Sandy McCallister
Members of the Niners talk about why they support the Pink Ball Tournament.
“My mother had breast cancer, my
brother had stomach cancer, my dad
had colon cancer and I had skin can-
cer, so we’ve been touched with cancer
in our family. I believe in the Pink Ball
because I want cancer to be cured.” “My first bout with cancer was
when I was 21 years old. I got mar-
ried in March and was operated on in
July so that was my first brush. Then
my mother died of lung cancer, my
sister is a breast cancer survivor and
other than that I don’t know what the
people died of in my family, but
they’re all dead. I’d been working on
the Pink Ball from I think the second
year. ... I’m so proud of this communi-
ty because they rise up whenever
you need anything.”
— Dianne Reiter — Cherie Sanville
about Velcade, but too much damage
had been done to my Dad’s body and he
died weeks later. I give money with
hope that research in cancer continues
until a cure is found.”
— Jane Teunon
“I am a 25-year breast cancer survi-
vor, Stage Two, and I lost both my
younger brothers to cancer, lung can-
cer, and I believe in supporting the
Pink Ball because of the wonderful re-
search OHSU is doing at the Knight
Cancer Institute.”
— Mary Fieweger
“I’m one of those lucky people that
has not had cancer in my family so it
was a shock to me when I was diag-
nosed two years ago with bladder
cancer. I didn’t even have to have
chemo but I do have to go in and be
checked every four months. Pink Ball
I’ve been involved with ever since I
moved to Charbonneau and it’s just
such a wonderful group of ladies in
the Niners that sponsor this — all
their hard work — and I’m glad the
money is now going to research be-
cause that’s very important.”
“I am a breast cancer survivor for
17 years and everybody in my family
has died of cancer except my mom. I
also belong to a group, another
group, that supports cancer (re-
search) at OHSU and I have a team
that we walk with in the Susan Ko-
men called Pinking of You ... and my
son always decorates his police
“I’m a 30-year survivor of breast
cancer. Didn’t have it in my family
besides my maternal grandmother
who had stomach cancer and died of
that. Many advances have been
made in cancer through research and
I absolutely support Pink Ball and in-
tend to continue doing that.”
— Cherri Cannon
“Been really fortunate. Family is
all OK, but I lost my husband to can-
cer five years ago — five years, four
months and seven hours — horrific,
horrific disease. I support Pink Ball,
any opportunity I have to support re-
search on this horrible, deadly dis-
ease that seems to be crawling at a
snail’s pace as far as making prog-
ress. I do whatever I can. Every little
penny helps.”
— Sylvia Morrison
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