A Night at Nemours, the fourth annual black-tie gala to benefit the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, will take place on Friday, June 19, 2009 on the hospital grounds in the shadow of the historic Carillon.
Net proceeds from this year’s event will help to establish an endowed Chair in Orthopedics, making possible an annual income to advance orthopedic research and highly specialized clinical care for children with problems such as cerebral palsy, spinal deformities, club foot and other disabling conditions of the musculoskeletal system.
The Department of Orthopedics is the oldest and largest service of the hospital, with a 70-year legacy dating back to the opening of the Alfred I. duPont Institute in 1940. Internationally known, the Department has trained scores of surgeons now leading orthopedic departments at hospitals across the country and around the world, as well as training 180 research fellows from 50 countries.
A Night at Nemours will feature a cocktail hour, sit-down dinner catered by the Wilmington Club and dance music by The Quake. In previous years, the event has raised funds to support the hospital’s Newborn Intensive Care Unit, Nemours Cardiac Center and the Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research.
For information about A Night at Nemours, call the Nemours Partnership for Children’s Health at 302-651-4828.