Held at Li Greci's Staaten, all three rooms were filled to capacity. Video monitors had to be brought into the other rooms to make sure that all the guests were able to view the evenings activities from the main room.

Celebrity guests and award recipients from this year are featured below.

The Celebrity guests that attended the 2000 Dinner were: Click on a photo to enlarge it, and use your browser's "back" button to return to this page Stephen Baldwin Actor Bill Parcells Legendary NFL Coach/Executive Mark Breland Welterweight Olympic Champion Brian Kenny ESPN Boxing, Baseball & Sports Center personality Max Kellerman ESPN Friday Night Boxing Emile Griffith Six-time Welterweight Champion, embracing Father Mychal Greg Buttle Legendary NY Jets Linebacker Lou Duva Boxing Trainer/Promoter/ Manager/Legend Dereck Whittenberg Wagner College Football Coach, with Bill Parcells

Award Recipients and Friends of the Foundation: Click on a photo to enlarge it, and use your browser's "back" button to return to this page Father Mychal Judge Franciscan Friar, Head of NYC Bread Line & Chaplain to NYC Fire Department Teddy Embracing Gary Tropiano, Recipient of Foundation Grant Teddy with Conor McDonald, Son of NYPD Detective Steven McDonald Claire Guerriero Mitchell Daughter Helped by Foundation

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