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For the past several years, one of the cornerstone events for Super Bowl weekend is the Legends for Charity Dinner. Each year, it honors a sports broadcaster with the coveted Pat Summerall Award. While the broadcasters get the credit, it’s actually a cheerleader who helps keep the event running.

Cheryl Deleonardis is a former Dolphins Cheerleader who worked with the team in three Super Bowls when the franchise was on top of the football world in the 1970’s. “As a matter of fact, they haven’t won a Super Bowl since Don Shula and I stood on the sidelines,” Cheryl said. “So you need to get back out there. Put on the uniform. I don’t know about that, but I’ll stand with them.”

While Cheryl may not be cheering, she is still involved with the NFL. She created the Legends for Charity Dinner. In 2005, the award went to Pat Summerall, just six months after his life was saved from a liver transplant in Jacksonville.

The response to her award was overwhelming and spurred Cheryl on to continue honoring sports broadcasters with the award, which would be called the Pat Summerall Award. Each year, Cheryl works hand in hand with Pat to pick the honoree.

“I know more about the honoree then they know about themselves,” Cheryl said.

Past recipients of the award include: Greg Gumbel, Chris Berman, and Jim Nantz. “I have this saying in Augusta, a tradition unlike any other,” Nantz said. “She is an event organizer, charity planner, unlike any other. She really knows how to get things done.”

Cheryl draws inspiration for the contest from her father. “He had a dream for this (community) center. He worked tirelessly for six years while holding a full-time job to make this happen,” Cheryl revealed.

Her father passed away before Cheryl started the Legends for Charity events, but she says he would be proud. “I do stand back at end of event and go ‘wow,’” Cheryl said. “Look at this. It’s all going for such a great cause.”

The money raised from the event goes to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. At Cheryl’s home office, there are pictures and letters from the kids at St. Jude telling her thanks. “It’s very, very heartwarming to get something like this from these kids who don’t know me. Makes it all worthwhile,” Cheryl said.

By Melissa Farenish
For The Daily Item
January 28, 2010

WILLIAMSPORT — How does a girl go from NFL cheerleader to National Geographic explorer? Mireya Mayor made the transition more than 10 years ago when she took an anthropology course at the University of Miami.

“I fell in love with it,” she said.

Mayor, an English and philosophy double major, joined the Miami Dolphins cheering squad because she liked to dance. Her Cuban mother, who Mayor calls “my role model,” expected her to become a teacher or nurse after college.

Instead, Mayor chose to chase monkeys and gorillas in the jungle.

“My anthropology professor talked about her experiences chasing monkeys in the jungle, and that fascinated me,” Mayor said.

Soon, she was reading about primatologists like Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. Once Mayor watched the Fossey biography “Gorillas in the Mist,” there was no turning back — she wanted be the next Fossey or Goodall.

“They were my role models,” Mayor said. “I wanted to be biggest achievement is the discovery of the world’s smallest primate.

Like most discoveries, “it was completely by accident,” Mayor said. The creatures she caught in Madagascar didn’t fit the description of lemurs in her reference books. After a series of genetic testing, she announced the discovery in 2004 and earned her place as a top anthropologist.

Last summer, Mayor was on the History Channel show “Expedition Africa: Stanley & Livingstone” The show stars four explorers who follow in the footsteps of journalist Henry Morton Stanley’s 1871 trek through Tanzania wilderness to find world-renowned explorer Dr. David Livingstone. That meant they had no GPS, no maps, and no tents.

The “essence of that place is still the same,” according to Mayor. The danger of predators such as lions and crocodiles and diseases like malaria is still there. Each of the explorers was sick at least once. One explorer, Benedict Allen of England, contracted malaria.

The rest of the group had to decide whether to leave him to die or continue their trek with him. Thankfully, Allen pulled through and was able to finish the exploration.

Mayor will speak about her experiences at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31 at the Community Arts Center, 220 W. Fourth St., as part of the National Geographic speaker series. Tickets cost $5 for students,range from $20 to $25 for the general public and are available by calling (800) 432-9382. Bring this article to the box office the day of the show for an adult ticket for $10.

New Jersey author and mother of three, Miranda Lobs, M.A., reveals the truth along with a few dozen laughs in “What No One Ever Told Me about Motherhood.”

With quotes from over 100 moms, Lobs provides new and quirky insight into the world of motherhood, including such topics as delivery and recovery, the difference between girls and boys, your kid becoming “that kid,” dealing with other mothers, and what really happens to your marriage after children.

“This book is meant to let you in on the many things that happen in the daily life of a mom but for some reason don’t get discussed,” Lobs writes. “It’s meant to reassure you that you are normal, and most of the things you think you’re the only person going through happen to most of us as well.”

Lobs earned a B.A. in psychology with a minor in communications and an M.A. in psychology, and she currently serves as a psychometrician of a neuromedical institute, conducting psychological testing. A former Miami Dolphins Cheerleader, dance instructor, and choreographer, she lives in Hackettstown, with her family.

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The Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders representative to the 2010 Pro Bowl is Tiffany.

Tiffany is a four-year veteran of the squad and works as a fashion designer.

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