Hello, Branchburg, and welcome to our presentation of the 2025 Ladies' Night Out, Pearls and Prosecoes
the theme this year. This year's Ladies' Event is sponsored by the Megan Rose Bradley Foundation,
which was established in December of 2004 in honor of the memory of Megan Bradley, who
passed away on November 7th of 2004 due to pediatric brain cancer. In preserving her memory, the
Megan Rose Bradley Foundation aims to raise public awareness and sponsor research for the
cure for pediatric brain cancer. As you watch this video, please consider how you may volunteer
to help this worthy cause in support of other families who face the same challenges as
Megan and her family. Hi, I'm Eileen Bradley, and this is my husband, Bob. Hello. We're here
from the Megan Rose Bradley Foundation. We're here tonight at our second biggest fundraiser
of the year, Ladies' Night Out, at the Elks in Bridgewater. The Megan Rose Bradley Foundation
is named after my daughter Megan, who at 16 on October 1st was diagnosed with a massive
brain tumor that we did not know she had, but she was living her life that she always did,
and we lost her 38 days later, November 7th, 2004. We were reeling from the diagnosis
when we were figuring out what we were going to do, and when this all happened we decided
that we did not want Megan's passing to go in vain. We wanted to make a difference for
young people because pediatric brain cancer is much more prevalent than people realize.
It ranges between the number one and your number two, cancer cause of death for children.
It competes with leukemia and the blood cancers, but whether it's number one or
number two, it's not acceptable, and there's very little research that is dedicated to it
because it's so low on the totem pole, but the children are our future, and we need to make
a difference. So far we've raised $673,000 for pediatric brain cancer research to
prestige organizations such as New York Presbyterians and Columbia University, Pennsylvania State
University College of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, and we're
working very hard to make a difference. We also try to educate the public about
pediatric brain cancer, and we provide scholarships to high school seniors who
emulate Megan's characteristics which had to do with leadership, compassion,
kindness, and just being a good person and good grace. We also give out
humanitarian service awards to eighth grade graduating students for doing things
based on acts of kindness. Being kind to each other means much more to us than
being the best student academically in a class because what matters is humanity,
and if there was anything anybody needs to know about Megan, she was a very
caring, loving individual, whether it was somebody who was her best friend,
whether it was her teacher, whether it was somebody walking down the street
or her family. So we work very hard at trying to make a difference. We could not
save Megan, but we are working very hard to save
everyone else's children because there is no room in our world
for children to be stricken down with a brain tumor,
or to be so compromised because the current treatments are so difficult
for them to undergo, and then the residual effects they have later on.
So I hope you'll join us in our fight against pediatric brain cancer,
and you too can make a difference for a child to have a brighter future
tomorrow. Thank you.
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