PETER CRISS To Receive The Beauty Foundation For Cancer Care's Man Of Courage Award
March 11, 2013, 11 years ago
The Beauty Foundation For Cancer Care, a non-profit organization that serves to alleviate the physical, financial and emotional burdens patients and their families face while coping with cancer, will honor four people for their courage, devotion and philanthropy in the fight against cancer.
Cara Schoner and Denise Gantz will jointly receive the 2013 Woman Of Courage award. Cara, a 30-year-old resident of Lakehurst, N.J., is bravely fighting Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after receiving her diagnosis in her fifth month of pregnancy. Denise, formerly of Keyport, N.J., will be honored posthumously, as she lost her battle with pancreatic cancer last year. Her sister, Donna Muniz, who is helping to raise Denise’s two children, will accept the award on her behalf.
PETER CRISS, co-founder and drummer of the rock supergroup KISS, will receive the Beauty Foundation’s first Man Of Courage award. The new honor will be named The Peter Criss Man Of Courage Award after this year.
“I think it’s wonderful that The Beauty Foundation is giving exposure to male breast cancer,” Mr. Criss said. “The more aware that men become that this is not just a woman’s disease, the more lives that will be saved.”Read more at Fort Mill Times.
On October 23rd 2012, Criss published his memoir, titled Makeup To Breakup, via Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner. The first chapter of the book is now online here.
Criss wrote the book with the help of Larry "Ratso" Sloman. Scribner's press release promises, "From sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll to multiple brushes with death, Makeup To Breakup will be Peter Criss' unvarnished and eye-opening life story."
In an Artisan News report, Criss talks about the memoir. Check out the footage below:
