Event to honor Cape Region orthopaedic surgeon Dr. James Marvel

The Arthritis Foundation will host its third annual Halloween Bone Bash on Friday, Oct. 26 at the DuPont Country Club in Wilmington. The event includes all of the spookiest things Halloween has to offer. Special guest this year will be Tubby Raymond, former University of Delaware head football coach, who was enshrined into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003.

The Bone Bash is semiformal dinner party and auction with a Halloween theme. It is a major funding source for the Arthritis Foundation. Guests will enjoy hors d’ oeuvres, seated dinner, cocktails, silent auction, live music by Smyrna’s own Best Kept Secret and more. The 2011 Bone Bash was attended by nearly 200 guests and raised $40,000 for the foundation.

Event emcee Catey Hill of 99.5 WJBR will oversee the festivities, which includes a silent auction and performance by the Delaware Diamond Dancers. The party kicks off at 6:30 p.m. and goes until the bewitching hour of 11 p.m. Partygoers are encouraged to dress in costume. Costumes are not required.

The 2012 Bone Bash recognizes two special honorees:

• Dr. James P. Marvel Jr. of Cape Orthopaedics and Beebe Medical Center Orthopaedic Team

• Diane Turnbull, owner, Nutrition Stoppe at Louviers and president, Delaware Referral Group

Reservations are required to attend the Bone Bash. To reserve tickets, go to www.bonebashde.com. Questions about the event may be directed to the Arthritis Foundation at 302-332-0047 or mmarsilii@arthritis.org.

About the honorees

Dr. Marvel joined Beebe Medical Center in 1980 as its first orthopaedic surgeon. He has been credited with setting the standard for the hospital and called the father of the orthopaedic program. In 2009, the newly remodeled Orthopaedic Wing was named after him and a formal dedication ceremony followed. Marvel is the grandson of James Beebe, one of the medical center’s cofounders.

After earning his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1962, he interned at Memorial Hospital in Wilmington and started a residency in orthopaedic surgery at Jefferson. He has an impressive career history, including serving as orthopaedic surgeon in the U.S. Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and in Viet Nam. For ten years, before coming to Beebe Medical Center, he was associated with Dr. Richard Rothman at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia.

Since joining Beebe Medical Center, Marvel has served as chief of staff, chief of surgery and trauma medical director. He has twice been president of the Medical Society of Delaware and served as a delegate to the American Medical Association from the Medical Society of Delaware.

Diane Turnbull has over eight years as a banking executive with WSFS Bank and Bank of America. She is currently owner of the Nutrition Stoppe at Louviers in Newark. She has dedicated her time to numerous philanthropic causes and attended the grand opening ribbon cutting of the Arthritis Foundation's new office in 2010. Since then, Turnbull has helped the Arthritis Foundation connect with businesses through referrals and the newly created networking organization, the Delaware Referral Group.

She is an experienced leader specializing in maximizing and optimizing the development of others. In addition to the Arthritis Foundation, she is active with Prevent Child Abuse Delaware, Girl Scouts of the USA and recently served as an ambassador for the New Castle County Chamber of Commerce, committee member for Women's Expo and Vice President of Young Professionals Network, NCC DE.

Her goal through the Delaware Referral group is to allow businesses to connect and provide direct referrals, while also contributing to philanthropic causes and bridging nonprofits and businesses.

About arthritis

More than 50 million people in the United States have arthritis, including nearly 300,000 children. In Delaware, approximately 170,000 people of all ages are affected. Arthritis can be debilitating and significantly affect quality of life. Events like the Bone Bash help fund research, provide professional and public education programs, train instructors for aquatics and exercise programs and provide resources for men, women and children living with arthritis. The Arthritis Foundation helps to better the lives of those in chronic pain from this disease.