CHARITY SCORECARD

Former basketball superstar Michael Jordan and Houston Rocket Charles Barkley made their debuts in the 40th Bob Hope Chrysler Classic held Jan. 18-24 at golf courses in the Palm Springs area. The tournament attracted 512 golfers (128 pros, 384 amateurs). Other celebrity golfers included tennis great Pete Sampras, pro football star receiver Jerry Rice, baseball Cy Young Award-winners Roger Clemens and Tom Glavine, actors Joe Pesci and Samuel L. Jackson, rocker Alice Cooper, singers Michael Bolton, Glenn Frey and Vince Gill, and former President Gerald Ford. The tournament raised about $1.5 million, of which about $1 million will be donated to the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage and $500,000 to various charities in the Coachella Valley.

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* Four days of basketball in Santa Monica and New York netted $250,000 for the Cure for Lymphoma Foundation. More than 1,500 men, women and children participated in “Play Hoops for Lymphoma” Jan. 16 and 17 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, and Jan. 23 and 24 at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in New York. The Santa Monica event included a celebrity game with one team coached by former L.A. Laker Jamaal Wilkes and another by WNBA Washington Mystic Heidi Burge. Celebrity players included Daryl Mitchell from “Veronica’s Closet,” Donald Faison from “Clueless,” Bart Johnson from “Hyperion Bay,” Cirroc Lofton from “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” Deon Richmond from “Sister, Sister,” and actors Cylk Cozart, Dwayne Adway and Jack Scalia. Co-chairs of the event were Fred Hantman, a lymphoma survivor, and Jennifer Stevens, whose father, Lee Stevens, former president and chief executive of the William Morris Agency, died of lymphoma 10 years ago. The Cure for Lymphoma Foundation is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to funding research and providing education and support for those whose lives have been affected by Hodgkin’s disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

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* The Computer Access Center raised $24,000 at its gala reception for the exhibition “Man Ray Revisited” at the Robert Berman Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica on Jan. 15. About 110 guests attended the reception and viewed the photographs, paintings and personal belongings of Man Ray in the exhibit. The proceeds will support the center, which serves disabled people at no cost by helping them find the technological devices needed to enable them to better function.

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