Retired Plainfield teacher continuing fight against breast cancer

Tiffany Corbett also is doing all she can to raise awareness about the disease.

- by plainfiled in jersey.com

Retired Plainfield teacher continuing fight against breast cancer

PLAINFIELD - As she continues her own personal fight against breast cancer, retired Plainfield High School teacher Tiffany Corbett also is doing all she can to raise awareness about the disease.

Corbett last week chaired the annual Rally For the Cure at Canoe Brook Country Club in Summit, part of a worldwide golf tournament fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation. The local event raised more than $32,000, and her guest speaker was 1984 Plainfield High graduate La-Rome Talley, the vice president of finance and corporate controller of Wacoal America Inc., a clothing designer and supplier based in Lyndhurst.

"My pride overflowed," Corbett said.

Corbett also was joined by family and friends at the event, at which club members and anyone with a USGA handicap was invited to play. Rally For the Cure is a national program that works to spread awareness about breast health and breast cancer through golf, tennis and dining events; its mission is to empower people to join the fight against breast cancer by educating their friends, family and community about the importance of early detection.

The program has drawn more than 1.65 million supporters since its launch in 1996, and in addition to its primary goal of spreading awareness, rally participants have raised more than $50 million for Susan G. Komen For the Cure.

Last week marked Canoe Brook's 13th year as a host course for a rally event, with 100 golfers participating. Awareness materials from Komen for the Cure were distributed to every entrant, and the foundation's symbolic pink ribbon pin was wrapped around a golf club for each golfer.

Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Today it is the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. For more information about Susan G. Komen for the Cure, breast health or breast cancer, visit  http://www.komen.org or call 1-800-I’M AWARE (1-800-462/9273).