During Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, McAuley High School raised $3,495 in three school activities.

Students and teachers participated in National Lee Denim Day on Oct. 8 and raised $556. For a $2 donation, students and teachers were allowed to wear jeans that day.

On Oct. 24, 86 students, teachers and parents participated in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk in downtown Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. They sold T-shirts, pink ribbons and pins at the school; $2,083 was collected.

Also, donations were accepted during home room, netting $856.

The money was given to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Passport to Romance

Passport to Romance, a fund-raiser involving four French master chefs, raised more than $100,000 for the March of Dimes at Coconut Grove in Newport on Oct. 22.

More than 400 guests were served a five-course meal prepared by the four chefs.

Chef Jean-Robert de Cavel, owner of Jean-Robert at Pigall's, downtown Cincinnati, assisted.

Passport to Romance is a partnership among March of Dimes, Maitres Cuisiniers de France and Delta Air Lines.

Major sponsors were Cinergy Foundation, JTM, Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Clear Channel Communications, Delta Air Lines, Western and Southern Financial Group and Provident Bank.

New executive director

Sister Sally Duffy, a vice president of Sisters of Charity Ministry Foundation, became president and executive director of the organization Nov. 1

She had served as vice president the last four years. She will succeed Sister Maryanna Coyle, who is retiring from the foundation.

The Sisters of Charity Ministry Foundation is a public grant-making organization. It promotes the mission of ministry of Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati by awarding grants to organizations that address social justice, healthy communities and the development of alternative services and programs that help the needy.

Planned Parenthood leader

Barbara H. Rabkin, director of development at Yavneh Day School, has been appointed chief development officer at Planned Parenthood Cincinnati Region.

Rabkin was founding publisher of The Source magazine, a guide to Cincinnati's Jewish community.

"Advancing the important work of Planned Parenthood was an enormous opportunity that I could not resist," Rabkin said.

Her job at Planned Parenthood will involve fund raising and community relations.