A Commitment to Care
Business and civic leaders play an essential role in the success of Treads & Threads. We thank our event chairs and honorary chairs – past and present – and our steering committee members for their efforts to make Treads & Threads one of Kansas City’s most memorable philanthropic events.
Doug and Rozanne Gaston, Event Chairs
Joe and Jean Brandmeyer, Honorary Chairs
About our chairs
To the 2010 chairs of Treads & Threads, cancer isn’t something that happens to other people’s families: It’s personal.
Cancer has touched event chairs Doug and Roznne Gaston. They praised the care family members received at the Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Care Pavilion. He is regional managing partner with BKD, stage sponsor for this year’s gala.
Honorary chairs Joe and Jean Brandmeyer have lost several close relatives to the disease. Their grandson, Joe Jr., a cancer survivor and law student at 24, was only 12 when diagnosed with a form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Past Event Chairs
- 2009: Mark and Holly Faber
- 2008: Greg and Deanna Graves
- 2007: Mark and Valerie Brandmeyer
- 2006: Frank and Barclay Ross
- 2005: Stu and Nancy Lang
- 2004: Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius and Gary Sebelius, John and Nancy Payne
- 2003: Senator Pat Roberts and Franki Roberts, Lieutenant Governor Mark Parkinson and Stacy Parkinson
- 2002: Kansas Governor Bill Graves and Linda Graves, Frank and Barclay Ross
Past Honorary Chairs
- 2009: U.S. Senator Bob Dole
- 2008: Clark and Tavia Hunt
- 2007: Annette Bloch
- 2006: Cheryl Lockton Williams
- 2005: James and Virginia Stowers
- 2004: Clay and Janet Blair
- 2003: Larry Moore
- 2002: Stephen and Susan Miller
Emcee
Larry Moore, KMBC-TV News anchor and cancer survivor, returns in 2010 for his ninth year as emcee.
2010 Steering Committee
- Doug & Rozanne Gaston, Chairs
- Joe & Jean Brandmeyer, Honorary Chairs
- Mitch Anderson
- Marty & Cherona Bicknell
- Annette Bloch
- Kenneth & Lisa Block
- Jeff Boerger
- Mark & Valerie Brandmeyer
- Scott & Betsy Coons
- Edward & Charlotte Crumm
- Bert & Ellen Darling
- Jeremy Dixon
- Dr. Gary Doolittle
- Terry Dunn & Mayor Peggy Dunn
- Mark & Holly Faber
- David & Linda Gentile
- Greg & Deanna Graves
- Dave & Linda Hall
- Edwin J. Holland
- Clark & Tavia Hunt
- Mark & Mary Jorgenson
- Betty Keim
- Ron & Kelly Lockton
- Steve & Susan Miller
- Larry Moore
- Joerg & Anita Ohle
- Bob Page
- Governor Mark Parkinson & Stacy Parkinson
- Robert D. Regnier
- Frank Ross Jr. & Barclay Ross
- Jim & Joy Snyder
- Stuart Stram
- Joel & Marsha Voran
- Dan Wright
- Jeff Wright