Newport Beach : Cancer Center Fund Drive Tops $16 Million

The fund to build a cancer treatment center at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has topped $16 million, well along the way toward the $21-million goal, according to Walter B. Gerken, chairman of the fund-raising campaign.

Construction of the three-story, 65,000-square-foot center near Coast Highway and Newport Avenue is expected to begin early next year. The center will specialize in outpatient care.

Gerken listed as the most recent contributors of $100,000 or more the Auxiliary of Hoag Hospital, Zella Baker, Joan F. and Donald R. Beall and family, the Curci family, Mrs. Newell Fait, the Charles W. Hester Family Foundation, Hoag Hospital employees, the Irvine Co.

Also, Mr. and Mrs. James Knapp, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Livingston, Newport Harbor Radiology Associates, Frank and Donna O’Bryan, Michael E. and Cindy Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sewell, Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Shaw, the Walden W. and Jean Young Shaw Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Steele and Mr. and Mrs. Don Yoder.