The American Cancer Society’s 2017 Miami Annual Gala
Raising over $865,000 for cancer research


Lilliam Machado, Paul DiMare, Swanee DiMare
and Gus Machado
This year’s Gala honored Miami philanthropists Paul & Swanee DiMare. Its Committee was led by: Ana Ortega and Ana Mari Ortega, event chairs; Vivian Williams and Amy Licea, co-chairs; and Pepe Freixas, honorary chair. Key supporters included: Miami Cancer Institute-Baptist Health South Florida; Gus Machado Family Foundation; Remedios and Fausto Diaz Oliver; Cantera & Associates; Lourdes and Felipe Valls; Munilla Family Foundation; Ana and Pepe Ortega; Goya Foods; John Moriarty & Associates; Christy and David Martin; Maria and Jose “Pepe” Sanchez; Pepe Freixas; The Hand Institute; Lukacs & Lukacs, P.A.; The Hernandez Family Foundation; DLA Piper; Douglas Elliman; Ryder System, Inc.; The Miami City Ballet; Northern Trust; Steel Resources, LLC.; Fred Astaire Dance Studio Coral Gables, and All American Containers.
From its beginning, the American Cancer Society has been the leading force in the fight against cancer. After over 100 years, they can envision the end of cancer as we know it – from deadly to treatable, from curable to preventable. One hundred years ago, we began the fight of a lifetime. Now it’s time to finish it!
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Ana Ortega and Ana Mari Ortega, Event Chairs with Family
James and Vivian Williams, Event Co-Chair, with Amy Licea, Event Co-Chair, and Frank Licea
Pepe Freixas and Gisela Thomas
Remedios & Fausto Diaz-Oliver
Dance Performance by Heide Dans
Felipe & Lourdes Valls
Marile & Jorge Luis Lopez
Mercy & Rodolfo Hernandez
Trish & Dan Bell
Ronald & Raquel Kaufer and Ani & Arturo Hernandez
Event Performance
Bronwyn Miller, Elysze Held and Lesli Brown
Eugenia Legorburu, Silvia Trinidad and Nora Bulnes
Dance performance by William Valdes
Dance Floor
Dance performance by Gloria Ordaz