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