Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
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Mission and History

The Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Women’s Board was founded to provide for the comfort and care of Jefferson patients and to further the mission of the hospital in the surrounding community. Through its fundraising and volunteer activities, the Board contributes on an ongoing basis to worthwhile causes.

Over the last century, the Women’s Board has been actively involved at the hospital. We have raised millions of dollars to fund diverse projects through our fundraising and volunteer activities.

A group known as the Board of Lady Managers was active within the Jefferson Medical College from 1892-1897. By 1907, the group had become the Women’s Auxiliary and, in 1925, the name was officially changed to the Women’s Board. We celebrated our Centennial Anniversary in 2007.

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Learn more about getting involved with the Women’s Board at our events or through membership.

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Programs We Support

We are proud to support programs that help patients and their families with an array of services, including screenings, medical equipment, education, and financial assistance in the Philadelphia area and Jefferson community.

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Penny Wise Thrift Shop

Our non-profit thrift shop, located in Ardmore, PA, provides a venue for the resale of donated and consigned household goods and clothing. This cherished shop has raised $3M in support of TJUH!

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Evelyn Bennett
President

Cynthia Breen
Financial Secretary

Megan Russell
Vice President

Karen Truman Downing
Membership

Loring Grove
Treasurer

Lisa Hale
Corresponding Secretary

Terri McDevitt
Recording Secretary

Megan Russell
Chair, Penny Wise Governing Board

Vibha Agrawal
Lillie Allen
Rosana Anchondo-Isaack
Deborah August
Evelyn Bennett
Olga Blyweiss
Ronnie Bradley
Cynthia Breen
Carmhiel Brown
Joan Brucker
Martha Buccino
Janet Burnham
Stacy Cann
Sherry Cohn
Lori Coppersmith
Harriet Disston
Lisa Dolling
Karen Truman Downing
Stacy Enoch
Mary Anne Fellman

Julia Forbes
Cynthia Drahomira Fry
Barbara Gilbert
Susan Goldberg
Lisa Goldstein
Loring Grove
Lisa Hale
Mary Harper
Farah Hassanbhai-Kapoor
Janet Hollingshead
Linda Hunt
Regina Hunt
Deborah Jacobs
Randee Janiszewski
Shailu Jaswal
Madelyn Karasick
Tracey King
Carol Levin

Terri McDevitt
Rosemary McNulty
Tanya Moses
Jean Nasca
Linda Penrod
Megan Russell*
Donna Salvo
Patricia Schley
Miriam Schwartz
Debra Gene Sergott
Susan Silver
Alice Lea Tasman
Stephanie Turzanski
Patricia Wagner
Vanessa Weisman
Sandy Whitman
Theresa Yeo
 

* Immediate past president

In Memory of Past Women’s Board Members

2024
Arlene Sukonik

2023
Florence Cotler (Mrs. Jerome)
Audrey Knowles
Tae-Ock Kauh

2021
Kathleen McCoy (Mrs. John)

2020
Elaine Landau (Mrs. Emanuel)

2017
Dorrance Hamilton (Mrs. Samuel M.V.)

2016
Margaret Casey O’Donoghue (Mrs. Colton)
Olga Mitchell (Mrs. Charles)

2015
Harriette Tabas (Mrs. Charles)

2014
Barbara Marks (Mrs. Gerald)

2013
Eloise Bowers (Mrs. Paul) (Past President)
Natalie Cohn (Mrs. Herbert)
Seena Copeland (Mrs. Robert)
Tee Dee Klein (Mrs. Gilbert)
Kathy Fields (Mrs. Martin)
Caroline Murray (Mrs. William Bruce) (Past President)
Betty Salvo (Mrs. John)
Barbara Weitz (Mrs. Howard)

2012
Joan Gourkas (Mrs. Matthew)
Rosalie Levin (Mrs. Russell)
Elinor Medoff (Mrs. Joseph)

2011
Valla Amsterdam (Mrs. Gustave)
Ruth Perelman (Mrs. Raymond)

2010
Elaine Abruzzo (Mrs. John) (Past President)
Priscilla Foley (Mrs. Robert)
Marion Hayes (Miss)

2009
Jean Wagner (Mrs. Frederick)

2007
Elinor Gordon (Mrs. Horace)

Contact Us

1101 Market Street, 22nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107

tjuh.womensboard@jefferson.edu